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Washington Free Beacon (free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-29 11:30 pm
free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-29 11:30 pmBiden Energy Loan Czar Awarded $1.6B Government Loan to Company Advised By His Current Business Part
Biden energy loan czar Jigar Shah signed off on a $1.6 billion taxpayer-funded loan last year that now appears to have directly benefited his current business partner, Jonathan Silver. Previously unreported corporate filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show that Silver worked as a consultant for the project's developer after spending years on its board of directors.
The Department of Energy's loan office, which Shah led between early 2021 and 2025, awarded the lucrative loan to New York-based Plug Power in May 2024 to help finance six of the company's planned green hydrogen production facilities. In one of his final moves before departing the office, Shah's team closed on the loan on Jan. 16, 2025.
The timing of the loan disbursement means Silver served on Plug Power's board when the company negotiated with Shah's team and worked as a consultant when the loan was announced. In a disclosure Plug Power filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2023, the company said Silver had resigned from its board of directors and entered into a 12-month consulting agreement with it that would be in effect until July 2024.
Silver first joined the board of Plug Power in 2018. In that role, Silver earned a cash salary, stocks, and options totaling as much as $143,645 per year, additional filings showed.
The revelation that Silver worked for Plug Power while the company engaged directly with Shah and his team at the Biden DOE raises key ethics questions in light of the pair's announcement last month that they would launch a green energy advisory firm together. In a LinkedIn post, Shah said he and Silver would help accelerate the growth of green energy startups in exchange for "modest equity stakes."
In response to questions about how much they discussed Plug Power's loan with each other in their former positions, Shah and Silver denied having any interactions. Shah said he never worked directly on loans and that Plug Power applied for the loan before he joined, though records suggest his team encouraged the company to pursue the loan and he personally met with the company's CEO.
"I didn’t work on the loans directly. I focused on building our team and getting folks to apply for loans," Shah told the Free Beacon. "Plug had already applied before I even joined LPO."
Plug Power did submit the first part of its loan application with the DOE before Shah joined the loan office, but was invited to submit the second part of its application in April 2021, a month after Shah joined the office. And, one month after that, Shah personally met with Plug Power executives, according to a copy of his calendar obtained by the Free Beacon.
"I had no involvement with Plug Power’s loan application and no interaction with either Jigar or the Loan Programs Office about the loan," Silver told the Free Beacon. "Our boutique advisory services firm does not interact with the loan program."
The situation adds to questions about possible impropriety surrounding Plug Power's loan—the company has already faced scrutiny over its relationship to Shah. The Free Beacon reported last year that Shah invested $100 million in Plug Power through his former green energy-focused private equity firm prior to joining the Biden administration and Plug Power once described Shah's former firm as its "longstanding partner."
"This is yet another glaring example of the revolving door between government power and green energy profiteering," Jason Isaac, the CEO of the American Energy Institute, told the Free Beacon. "The American people are footing the bill for an elite climate cartel that cycles in and out of Washington, doling out billions in taxpayer-backed loans to their future business partners."
"The $1.6 billion Biden DOE loan to Plug Power reeks of the same Solyndra-style cronyism that defined the Obama era," he continued. "These backroom deals masquerading as ‘climate action’ should outrage every American who believes in accountability and fair markets."
Silver served as the director of the DOE's Loan Programs Office during the Obama administration. In one of his first moves, Silver signed off on a $535 million loan to solar panel maker Solyndra, which then filed for bankruptcy just two years later. Solyndra has since become synonymous with wasteful federal spending.
Michael Chamberlain, the director of conservative watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust, added that Shah and Silver's relationship appears "very swampy." "This appears to be just the latest incident demonstrating why the American public’s trust in its government virtually disappeared during Shah's tenure," he said.
Plug Power CEO Andy Marsh echoed Silver's comments, telling the Free Beacon, "Plug Power is not aware of any interactions Mr. Silver has had with the DOE related to Plug, either during his board tenure or under any subsequent consulting agreement."
It's a precarious time for Marsh and Plug Power: The company continues to report less-than-stellar earnings and recently announced a fresh round of layoffs in a desperate attempt to save money. In 2024, Plug Power reported losses in excess of $2 billion, a year-over-year increase of 50 percent, and reported losses of nearly $197 million in the first quarter of 2025.
Plug Power's poor financial performance means it would likely be unable to receive a $1.6 billion loan from private investors and highlights how the green energy industry is largely dependent on government grants, loans, and subsidies.
As part of President Donald Trump's effort to cut spending and weed out waste from government, meanwhile, Energy Secretary Chris Wright is conducting a broad review of all of his agency's spending, including loans Shah's office doled out. Some reporting suggests hydrogen projects like Plug Power's are on the chopping block, though the DOE has downplayed those reports.
Overall, the Biden DOE closed on 25 loans worth $61 billion and issued conditional commitments on loans for 27 projects worth $47 billion, according to a Free Beacon analysis of federal filings.
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vak) wrote2025-05-29 02:53 pm
vak) wrote2025-05-29 02:53 pmEntry tags:
Жуковский про невыразимое
Что наш язык земной пред дивною природой?
С какой небрежною и легкою свободой
Она рассыпала повсюду красоту
И разновидное с единством согласила!
Но где, какая кисть ее изобразила?
Едва-едва одну ее черту
С усилием поймать удастся вдохновенью...
Но льзя ли в мертвое живое передать?
Кто мог создание в словах пересоздать?
Невыразимое подвластно ль выраженью?..
Святые таинства, лишь сердце знает вас.
Не часто ли в величественный час
Вечернего земли преображенья,
Когда душа смятенная полна
Пророчеством великого виденья
И в беспредельное унесена, —
Спирается в груди болезненное чувство,
Хотим прекрасное в полете удержать,
Ненареченному хотим названье дать —
И обессиленно безмолвствует искусство?
Что видимо очам — сей пламень облаков,
По небу тихому летящих,
Сие дрожанье вод блестящих,
Сии картины берегов
В пожаре пышного заката —
Сии столь яркие черты —
Легко их ловит мысль крылата,
И есть слова для их блестящей красоты.
Но то, что слито с сей блестящей красотою —
Сие столь смутное, волнующее нас,
Сей внемлемый одной душою
Обворожающего глас,
Сие к далекому стремленье,
Сей миновавшего привет
(Как прилетевшее незапно дуновенье
От луга родины, где был когда-то цвет,
Святая молодость, где жило упованье),
Сие шепнувшее душе воспоминанье
О милом радостном и скорбном старины,
Сия сходящая святыня с вышины,
Сие присутствие создателя в созданье —
Какой для них язык?.. Горе́ душа летит,
Все необъятное в единый вздох теснится,
И лишь молчание понятно говорит.
(1819)
С какой небрежною и легкою свободой
Она рассыпала повсюду красоту
И разновидное с единством согласила!
Но где, какая кисть ее изобразила?
Едва-едва одну ее черту
С усилием поймать удастся вдохновенью...
Но льзя ли в мертвое живое передать?
Кто мог создание в словах пересоздать?
Невыразимое подвластно ль выраженью?..
Святые таинства, лишь сердце знает вас.
Не часто ли в величественный час
Вечернего земли преображенья,
Когда душа смятенная полна
Пророчеством великого виденья
И в беспредельное унесена, —
Спирается в груди болезненное чувство,
Хотим прекрасное в полете удержать,
Ненареченному хотим названье дать —
И обессиленно безмолвствует искусство?
Что видимо очам — сей пламень облаков,
По небу тихому летящих,
Сие дрожанье вод блестящих,
Сии картины берегов
В пожаре пышного заката —
Сии столь яркие черты —
Легко их ловит мысль крылата,
И есть слова для их блестящей красоты.
Но то, что слито с сей блестящей красотою —
Сие столь смутное, волнующее нас,
Сей внемлемый одной душою
Обворожающего глас,
Сие к далекому стремленье,
Сей миновавшего привет
(Как прилетевшее незапно дуновенье
От луга родины, где был когда-то цвет,
Святая молодость, где жило упованье),
Сие шепнувшее душе воспоминанье
О милом радостном и скорбном старины,
Сия сходящая святыня с вышины,
Сие присутствие создателя в созданье —
Какой для них язык?.. Горе́ душа летит,
Все необъятное в единый вздох теснится,
И лишь молчание понятно говорит.
(1819)
Washington Free Beacon (free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-29 07:00 pm
free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-29 07:00 pmJudge Rules Pulitzer Board Can’t Tell Trump How To Manage Schedule
A Florida appeals court on Wednesday rejected the Pulitzer Prize Board’s argument that President Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against the board should be delayed until after Trump leaves office in order to avoid distracting him from his presidential duties.
A three-judge panel shot down the argument in its ruling on Wednesday, saying it is Trump’s "prerogative" to continue the lawsuit, which centers around the board's awards to the New York Times and Washington Post in 2018 for stories that promoted the debunked Russiagate conspiracy theory.
"The President—by virtue of his exceptional position—is uniquely equipped to determine how to use his time, to assess the attention a lawsuit will require, and to decide whether the lawsuit will divert him from his official business," Fourth District Appeals Court Judge Mark W. Klingensmith wrote in the ruling.
Klingensmith rejected the board’s argument—which was touted by CNN and other news outlets—that because Trump cited his presidential duties to delay civil lawsuits filed against him in the state of New York, his lawsuit against the Pulitzer Board should be delayed as well. But Klingensmith noted that, in contrast to that litigation, Trump is a plaintiff rather than a defendant in the Pulitzer lawsuit.
"Respondent is a willing participant in the underlying proceedings and has thus far declined to assert a privilege to cease this action," Klingensmith said.
Wednesday’s ruling marks yet another legal victory for Trump, who has sued several media organizations for defamation. ABC News settled with Trump in December over an interview in which George Stephanopoulos called him a rapist. CBS News parent Paramount is reportedly in talks with Trump to settle a lawsuit over a deceptively edited interview with Kamala Harris last year. Trump is considering another lawsuit against CBS News, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Trump cheered the decision in a Truth Social post on Thursday, calling it a "major WIN in our powerful lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board." He said the appeals court "viciously rejected" the board’s efforts to halt the lawsuit.
The ruling marks yet another setback for the Pulitzer Board in the Trump lawsuit.
The appeals court rejected the board’s motion in February to dismiss the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds. District Judge Robert Pegg, who is presiding over the Pulitzer lawsuit, rejected the board’s request to shield internal communications regarding the award. Pegg ruled against the board in March when it requested a delay because of Trump’s workload.
Trump sued the Pulitzer Board in 2022 over the board’s awards to the New York Times and Washington Post for stories that, according to the board, "dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections." Trump alleges that the 19-member board "rewarded" the newspapers "for lying to the American public" about the "now-debunked theory" of collusion with Russia.
Many of the stories detail undisputed facts about the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into potential Trump-Russia ties. But other stories made contentious claims that have since been debunked.
A May 23, 2017, report from the Post said that Trump pressured his intelligence chiefs, including National Security Agency director Mike Rogers, to publicly dispute collusion claims. Democrats seized on the story to suggest that Trump was improperly interfering in the FBI’s investigation. But Rogers has publicly disputed the story, saying Trump never asked him to publicly refute the collusion narrative.
Several board members have expressed hostility to Trump over the years. New Yorker editor David Remnick and Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum have for years promoted the claim that Trump conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
Marjorie Miller, who serves as a board member and administrator, touted Kamala Harris after the 2020 election, posting a viral image of Harris casting a shadow of a young black girl during the civil rights era. Miller also posted a doctored photo in 2016 captioned "Trump redecorates," which shows the White House adorned in gold, the Free Beacon reported.
Miller, a former Associated Press vice president, spearheaded the Pulitzer Board’s efforts to shut down inquiries into the board’s prize this year to Hamas apologist Mosab Abu Toha in the "Commentary" category. Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson, who was selected as a Pulitzer Prize juror for the "National Reporting" category, posed questions to board members about the award, citing Toha’s praise for the terrorist group. Miller alleged that Johnson’s emails violated a confidentiality agreement she signed when accepting the juror role.
Johnson noted that the confidentiality agreement only barred her from discussing the "National Reporting" category, and does not prohibit making inquiries about a separate category.
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Washington Free Beacon (free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-29 04:20 pm
free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-29 04:20 pmMAGA Muriel? DC Mayor Bowser Flip-Flops on Immigration, Moves To Repeal Sanctuary City Law: Report
Amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, Washington, D.C., mayor Muriel Bowser (D.) is doing an abrupt about-face from her previous views on enforcement, working to repeal a law that bars local police from assisting ICE.
Bowser is quietly proposing to overturn the sanctuary city law, which prohibits D.C. officials from inquiring about a detainee's immigration status, transferring individuals to ICE, or allowing ICE to interview suspects in local custody without a judicial order, Axios reported.
"The mayor is asking for the repeal without fanfare, via a tucked-away provision as part of her newly released 2026 budget proposal," according to Axios, which noted that "the D.C. Council has final say over what makes it into the budget, and some progressive members may thwart Bowser's push."
Bowser's hawkishness on immigration marks a sharp change from the positions she's held since becoming mayor in 2015.
During Trump's first term, she tweeted that D.C. is a "proud sanctuary city" and that she is "committed to protecting the rights of all our immigrant families" in the face of what she called Trump's "disturbing" immigration crackdown.
"The President should understand that not only are these threats cruel and antithetical to our American values, they are actually making our communities less safe by sending more residents into hiding, cut off from resources, support, and opportunity," she said in a June 21, 2019, statement that was posted on the city's website.
That statement has now been removed.
During Trump's second term, his administration has ramped up deportations of illegal immigrants and crackdown on sanctuary cities nationwide.
Under border czar Tom Homan, ICE has arrested over 158,000 illegal aliens, including 189 in D.C. earlier this month. Around 75 percent of all detainees have criminal convictions or pending charges, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Attorney General Pam Bondi in February issued a directive to halt federal funding to sanctuary cities. The Department of Justice has also sued Illinois and New York, arguing that the states' sanctuary laws "interfere" with the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies.
Bowser, meanwhile, has signaled a growing willingness to work with Trump's second administration on other issues.
The city under her leadership cleared a homeless encampment near the State Department following Trump's call for a citywide cleanup and removed "Black Lives Matter Plaza" ahead of the nation's 250th anniversary next year.
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Deeplinks (eff_feed) wrote2025-05-29 04:25 pm
eff_feed) wrote2025-05-29 04:25 pmCalifornia’s Cities and Counties Must Step Up Their Privacy Game. A.B. 1337 Can Do That.
“The right to privacy is being threatened by the indiscriminate collection, maintenance, and dissemination of personal information and the lack of effective laws and legal remedies,” some astute California lawmakers once wrote. “The increasing use of computers and other sophisticated information technology has greatly magnified the potential risk to individual privacy that can occur from the maintenance of personal information.”
Sound familiar? These words may sound like a recent push back on programs that want to slurp up the information sitting in ever-swelling government databases. But they’re not. They come from a nearly 50-year-old California law.
The “Information Practices Act of 1977”—or the IPA for short—is a foundational state privacy law and one of several privacy laws directly responding to the Watergate scandal, such the federal Privacy Act of 1974 and California’s own state constitutional right to privacy.
Now, as we confront a new era of digital surveillance and face our own wave of concern about government demands for data, it's time to revisit and update the IPA.
The IPA puts a check on government use of personal information by establishing guardrails for how state agencies maintain, collect, and disseminate data. It also gives people the right to access and correct their information.
While the need for the law has not changed, the rest of the world has. Particularly, since the IPA passed in 1977, far more data collection is now done at the county and city level. Yet local and county government entities have no standard protections in the state of California. And those entities have troves of data, whether it’s the health data collected from vaccine programs or held by county-administered food programs.
As demand for this type of local data grows, we need to tap back into the energy of the ‘70s. It’s time to update the IPA so it can respond to the world we live in today. That’s why EFF is proud to co-sponsor A.B. 1337, authored by Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego), with our close friends at Oakland Privacy.
Specifically, A.B. 1337, also known as the IPA Reform Act:
- Expands the definition of covered entities in the IPA to include local agencies, offices, departments and divisions.
- Prevents information collected from being used for unintended or secondary purposes without consent.
- Makes harmful negligent and improper release of personal information punishable as a misdemeanor.
- Requires that IPA disclosure records be kept for three years and cannot be destroyed prior to that period.
- Aligns the definition of personal information and sensitive personal information with the California Privacy Rights Act to include location data, online browsing records, IP addresses, citizenship status, and genetic information.
Privacy is foundational to trust in government. That’s part of the lesson we learned from the 1970s. (And trust in government is lower today than it was then.)
We need to be confident that the government is respecting our personal information and our privacy. More than ever, California residents face imminent danger of being targeted, persecuted, or prosecuted for seeking reproductive healthcare, their immigration status, practicing a particular religion, being of a particular race, gender identity, or sexual orientation—or simply for exercising their First Amendment rights.
California is a national leader on consumer privacy protections, having passed a landmark comprehensive privacy law and established the nation’s first state privacy agency. Now, its local governments must catch up.
We cannot afford to wait for these protections any longer. Passing A.B. 1337 is good governance, good policy, and just good sense. If you’re a California resident, tell your Assemblymember to support the bill today.
International Liberty (daniel_mitchell_feed) wrote2025-05-29 12:58 pm
daniel_mitchell_feed) wrote2025-05-29 12:58 pmA Great Libertarian Legal Victory
Trump’s “Liberation Day” tax increase on trade has been very bad news for the economy, causing considerable havoc in financial markets and imposing big costs on American businesses.
The president claimed he had the power to unilaterally impose those tax increases (and others) by citing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
That law was designed for economic emergencies, 
presumably involving national security. Needless to say, the existence of a trade deficit is not an emergency, notwithstanding Trump’s economic illiteracy on the issue.
That’s the bad news.
The good news is that some top-notch libertarians launched a legal challenge against Trump.
The great news is that they won yesterday in a case decided by the US Court of International Trade.
The top lawyer in the effort has been Ilya Somin, a libertarian law professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law.
He summarized what he did and how he won in a column for Reason. Here are some excerpts.
The US Court of International Trade just issued a unanimous ruling in the case against Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs filed by Liberty Justice Center and myself on behalf of five US businesses harmed by the tariffs. …All of Trump’s tariffs adopted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) are invalidated as beyond the scope of executive power, and their implementation blocked by a permanent injunction.
In addition to striking down the “Liberation Day” tariffs challenged in our case (what the opinion refers to as the “Worldwide and Retaliatory Tariffs”), the court also ruled against the fentanyl-related tariffs imposed on Canada, Mexico, and China. …the panel include judges appointed by both Republican and Democratic presidents, including one (Judge Reif) appointed by Trump, one appointed by Reagan (Judge Restani), and one by Obama (Judge Katzmann). …From the very beginning, I have contended that the virtually limitless nature of the authority claimed by Trump is a key reason why courts must strike down the tariffs. …The Court also rejected the government’s claim that president has unreviewable authority to determine whether there is a “national emergency” and “unusual and extraordinary threat” justifying the invocation of IEEPA. …the bottom line is a major victory in the legal battle against these harmful and illegal tariffs.
The Liberty Justice Center released a statement about the victory.
Here are some of the key passages.
…a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) declared the Trump administration’s so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs unlawful. The Liberty Justice Center welcomes the CIT’s decision in V.O.S. Selections, Inc. v. Trump, its lawsuit challenging the Liberation Day tariffs on behalf of five small businesses.
The CIT’s decision held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, does not confer to the President unlimited unilateral authority to impose tariffs and sets aside the challenged tariffs imposed thereunder. The CIT held that if IEEPA did give the President the unilateral authority to impose tariffs on any country, at any rate, at any time, as the President claims, then it would likely violate the Constitution’s separation of powers, which gives the tariff authority to Congress. Although Congress can delegate some limited authority to impose tariffs to the President, it must do so clearly and with some limitations.
I’ll add two comments.
First, all principled conservatives and Republicans should be cheering the decision.
After all, if you opposed Obama’s misuse of executive power or Biden’s misuse of executive power, then you should feel the same way when a GOP president engages in similar misbehavior.
That’s why I created the Ninth Theorem of Government.
Second, higher taxes are not a good idea if we care about the economy.
And just in case you doubt that free trade is good for growth, this tweet from Dominic Pino of National Review is worth examining.
P.S. For more information on why a president should not have the ability to impose unilateral tax increases on trade, click here and here.
Washington Free Beacon (free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-29 11:00 am
free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-29 11:00 amColumbia Library Stormers Stay on the Hook (For Now). Plus, Has Jake Tapper Seen the Light?
Kicking the can down the road: A group of keffiyeh-clad students "descended on Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday to face formal arraignment for their roles in a violent takeover of Columbia University’s Butler Library," our Jon Levine reports from the scene. Though their lawyer asked the court to consider dismissal (and accused Israel of genocide), they aren't off the hook yet and are due back in court in July.
"A total of 56 defendants were arraigned at the courthouse, with a few joined by their nervous parents," writes Levine. "Among the defendants present were Ramona Sarsgaard, the nepobaby daughter of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard. Dima Aboukasm—whom Mayor Eric Adams once hailed as a peace activist—also had her day in court. They were represented by Matthew W. Daloisio, the same attorney who represented those arrested for storming Columbia's Hamilton Hall in 2024."
"Daloisio defended his clients' conduct, saying they 'set up a teach-in in a library.' He asked the court 'to consider dismissal in the interest of justice' before requesting and receiving an 'adjournment for supporting depositions' from Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg's office, which requires law enforcement to produce documents 'signing off on the criminal allegations [and] saying the charges are true,' local defense attorney Jason Goldman told the Washington Free Beacon. Goldman speculated that Daloisio 'wants this adjournment to see in fact whether Bragg's office upholds the arrests and moves the case forward in a criminal prosecution.'"
If last summer is anything to go off of, Bragg will do the opposite. Stay tuned for more.
READ MORE: Dismiss Our Cases, Keffiyeh-Clad Columbia Radicals Tell NYC Court
Mugged by reality: Jake Tapper, the CNN host best known for ignoring the Biden cover-up before writing a best-selling book about it, is starting to learn a thing or two about the Democratic Party—mainly that it's full of "a bunch of woke scolds who are obsessed with racism and routinely denigrate normal men," writes our Andrew Stiles.
Tapper "discussed his belated epiphany—many years after the Democratic Party started hating men and denouncing everything as racist—on a podcast with tech baron Scott Galloway." He recounted an appearance on a different, "left-leaning" podcast in which the cohost—since identified as Jason Stewart of How Long Gone—suggested Tapper's football-playing teenage son could be racist because he wants to be a police officer.
"That was the big laugh, and then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff, and I thought to myself, 'This is why you fuckers are losing elections,'" Tapper said.
"Alas, Tapper is unlikely to reflect on the media's role in perpetuating the Democratic Party's radically antagonistic attitudes toward police officers and young men who enjoy football and war," Stiles writes. "CNN in particular has been one of the party's most reliable allies in promoting the woke views that Tapper finally claims to realize are obnoxious and condescending. Cool epiphany, bro. Thanks for noticing."
Rotten apple: Donald Trump and his allies have long accused New York AG Letitia James of abusing her office. Now, a former high-ranking official in her office is saying the same.
Former assistant New York solicitor general Brian Ginsberg, our Andrew Kerr reports, "warned the Supreme Court in a May 12 filing that James is abusing her prosecutorial powers in an ongoing Title IX case against a western New York school district over four disparate sexual misconduct allegations between its students." He took issue with legal maneuverings James used to interfere in the case, given that a state attorney general like James is typically "barred from intervening in legal disagreements between individuals or small groups of people."
"The same New York State Attorney General who initiated this action against the School District has been judicially chastised for abusing her power to initiate representative actions to launch 'predatory lawsuits that seek to impose punishment while searching for a crime,'" Ginsberg wrote in his filing. Sounds familiar.
READ MORE: Letitia James’s Former Colleague Says ‘Opportunistic’ NY AG Abused Her Power
In other news:
- Muhammed Sinwar, the de facto leader of Hamas and younger brother of slain October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, is dead, Bibi Netanyahu announced Wednesday. The IDF took him out in a strike targeting a Hamas control center beneath a hospital.
- DEI is not dead in San Francisco, where the public school system is rolling out a "Grading for Equity" program that will "reportedly exclude homework or weekly tests from final grades and allow students to pass with scores as low as 21 out of 100."
- The FBI apprehended yet another suspect in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud scheme following a fresh raid on a nonprofit implicated in the scheme. The individual, Hibo Daar, attempted to flee to Dubai after news of the raid surfaced. Read the Free Beacon report about the country's largest COVID fraud scheme here.
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Washington Free Beacon (free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-29 09:00 am
free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-29 09:00 amLetitia James’s Former Colleague Says ‘Opportunistic’ NY AG Abused Her Power
President Donald Trump and his allies aren’t alone in accusing New York attorney general Letitia James of abusing her prosecutorial powers. A former high-ranking official in her office is now on the record saying the same.
Former assistant New York solicitor general Brian Ginsberg, who reported to James from 2019 through 2022, warned the Supreme Court in a May 12 filing that James is abusing her prosecutorial powers in an ongoing Title IX case against a western New York school district over four disparate sexual misconduct allegations between its students. Ginsberg minced no words about his former boss, urging the Supreme Court in his writ of certiorari to take up the case to "disabuse opportunistic attorneys general" like James from the notion they can misuse their parens patriae powers—the doctrine she used to justify her involvement in the case which enables the government in limited instances to prosecute lawsuits on behalf of individual citizens.
Ginsberg reminded the Supreme Court that James has a history of allegedly abusing her powers, citing comments from a justice of the New York supreme court in November 2024 reprimanding James for bringing forward a politically charged environmental case against Pepsi, which the court tossed.
"The same New York State Attorney General who initiated this action against the School District has been judicially chastised for abusing her power to initiate representative actions to launch 'predatory lawsuits that seek to impose punishment while searching for a crime,'" Ginsberg wrote in his Supreme Court filing, citing comments from New York supreme court justice Emilio Colaiacovo in the Pepsi case.
Ginsberg’s allegations of prosecutorial abuse against James echo similar statements made by Trump attorney Clifford Robert, who admonished the attorney general in January 2024 for her "shameless abuse of power" in her efforts to prosecute Trump.
Ginsberg, who declined to comment, is no stranger to the rules governing James’s prosecutorial powers. As one of her assistant solicitor generals, Ginsberg was part of an elite team of attorneys that pursued appellate cases at the state and federal levels on behalf of James. Ginsberg helped litigate more than a dozen cases in the Supreme Court, including a 2021 case against the National Rifle Association and a 2020 case where he unsuccessfully defended New York’s coronavirus restrictions on places of worship.
Ginsberg left James’s office in 2022 to work in the private sector, and now the former assistant solicitor general is defending the Niagara Wheatfield Central School District against a 2021 lawsuit from James alleging it systematically failed to protect its students from sexual assault and bullying by their classmates. James seeks to force the school district to "stop its unlawful practices."
The attorney general cited four disparate examples of student-on-student sexual assault and bullying at various schools. Typically a state attorney general is barred from intervening in legal disagreements between individuals or small groups of people, but James invoked the parens patriae doctrine, arguing that she has standing to pursue the matter because the school’s conduct impacted "the health and well-being of the People of the State of New York as a whole."
A federal district court said James was wrong and dismissed the suit in 2022. But the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s ruling in October 2024 and allowed the case to proceed.
That’s where Ginsberg came in. He wrote in his May 12 writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court that the Second Circuit improperly gave James the green light to proceed in the case "on the basis of unrelated incidents involving individual students" that didn’t justify the use of the "extraordinary mechanism of parens patriae litigation by the State of New York."
Ginsberg said it was high time the Supreme Court clarified the rules governing parens patriae powers, a tool he said is often wielded liberally and improperly by aggressive state attorneys general such as his former boss. Parens patriae lawsuits, Ginsberg wrote, withhold procedural protections from defendants in individual disputes because the plaintiff is backed by the full weight of the government.
Ginsberg's unflattering description of his former boss is just the latest black eye for James. The Department of Justice this month launched an investigation into allegations that she falsified documents to obtain favorable loans on her properties in New York and Virginia.
Prominent Republicans noted the irony of the mortgage fraud allegations against James, who said "everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank to get a mortgage to buy a home" in February 2024 after she secured a $486 million judgment against Trump for allegedly falsifying his business records.
"The hypocrisy is staggering: Tish James allegedly committed the same crime that she falsely and illegally prosecuted President Donald Trump for," Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) said in a statement highlighting her efforts to oppose James’s "political weaponization and abuse of her office."
James did not return a request for comment.
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eugenegp (eugenegp) wrote2025-05-29 11:27 am
eugenegp) wrote2025-05-29 11:27 amискусственный неотбор
На прошлой неделе стали известны грустные подробности вспышки генетического заболевания раком в Европе. Сначала две семьи, использовавшие донорскую сперму, независимо обратились в свои клиники репродукции из-за того, что их дети заболели редкой, генетически обусловленной формой рака. В итоге расследование показало, что в 2008 году донор сдал биоматериал в Европейский банк спермы. С 2008 по 2015 год от его спермы родилось не менее 67 детей в 48 семьях. 23 ребенка из них получили по наследству от донора редкую генетическую мутацию в гене TP53, которая приводит к частому развитию онкологических заболеваний (синдром Ли-Фраумени). 10 детей _уже_ заболели различными формами рака (лейкемия, неходжкинская лимфома, и тд.). На момент сдачи спермы донор был совершенно здоров. Те проверки, которые стандартно используют, выяснить наличие этой редкой мутации не могли. Более того, не во всех сперматозоидах была эта мутация.
Что это за ген? TP53 кодирует производство белка p53, и в случае изменений в гене TP53 происходит частичное или полное снижение активности этого белка. Открыли p53 так - в 70-е годы активно изучали обезьяний вирус SV-40, тот самый, которым заразили многие миллионы людей в составе прививки от полиомиелита. У лабораторных грызунов SV-40 неизменно вызывает рак. При изучении такого экспериментального рака у хомячков в 1979 году обнаружилось, что клетки вокруг опухоли и внутри нее содержат ненормальное количество ранее неизвестного белка, этого самого p53. Согласно известному научному принципу ("если над дохлой лошадью вьются мухи, значит, они ее и убили"), белок p53 провозгласили вызывающим рак.
Однако через каких-то 10 лет открылось, что белок p53 вовсе наоборот - один из главных инструментов подавления раковых клеток. Он активирует починку бракованных ДНК, запускает процесс клеточной смерти ненормальных клеток, не дает им делиться, включает самопожирание и вообще регулирует столько процессов, что их до сих пор не разъяснили. p53 теперь называют "страж ДНК", никак иначе. Сразу после уточнения роли p53 выяснилась и генетическая основа синдрома Ли-Фраумени - мутации в этот самом гене TP53. Но и у генетически нормальных людей заболевания раком связаны с нарушенной функцией белка p53. Соответственно, идут поиски лекарств, которые могут возвращать этому белку нарушенную активность.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/23/sperm-donor-cancer-risk-children-europe
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-023-01347-1
Что это за ген? TP53 кодирует производство белка p53, и в случае изменений в гене TP53 происходит частичное или полное снижение активности этого белка. Открыли p53 так - в 70-е годы активно изучали обезьяний вирус SV-40, тот самый, которым заразили многие миллионы людей в составе прививки от полиомиелита. У лабораторных грызунов SV-40 неизменно вызывает рак. При изучении такого экспериментального рака у хомячков в 1979 году обнаружилось, что клетки вокруг опухоли и внутри нее содержат ненормальное количество ранее неизвестного белка, этого самого p53. Согласно известному научному принципу ("если над дохлой лошадью вьются мухи, значит, они ее и убили"), белок p53 провозгласили вызывающим рак.
Однако через каких-то 10 лет открылось, что белок p53 вовсе наоборот - один из главных инструментов подавления раковых клеток. Он активирует починку бракованных ДНК, запускает процесс клеточной смерти ненормальных клеток, не дает им делиться, включает самопожирание и вообще регулирует столько процессов, что их до сих пор не разъяснили. p53 теперь называют "страж ДНК", никак иначе. Сразу после уточнения роли p53 выяснилась и генетическая основа синдрома Ли-Фраумени - мутации в этот самом гене TP53. Но и у генетически нормальных людей заболевания раком связаны с нарушенной функцией белка p53. Соответственно, идут поиски лекарств, которые могут возвращать этому белку нарушенную активность.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/23/sperm-donor-cancer-risk-children-europe
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-023-01347-1
Serge Vakulenko (vak) wrote2025-05-28 11:22 pm
vak) wrote2025-05-28 11:22 pmEntry tags:
Элвин Тоффлер про три основные потребности
Из книги «Третья волна» Элвина Тоффлера. Отрывок из главы №25 «Новая Психо-Сфера».
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Атака на одиночество
Чтобы создать полноценную эмоциональную жизнь и здоровую психо-сферу для зарождающейся цивилизации завтрашнего дня, мы должны признать три основных требования любого человека: потребности в сообществе, структуре и смысле. Понимание того, как крах общества Второй волны подрывает все три, подсказывает, как мы можем начать проектировать более здоровую психологическую среду для себя и наших детей в будущем.( длинно )
Serge Vakulenko (vak) wrote2025-05-28 10:00 pm
vak) wrote2025-05-28 10:00 pmEntry tags:
Проблема невыразимости: о чем мы никогда не сможем говорить
(гуглоперевод фрагмента из книжки Томаса Метцингера "The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self")
Представьте, что я держу перед собой образцы цвета двух похожих оттенков зеленого. Между этими двумя оттенками есть разница, но она едва заметна. (Технический термин, который иногда используют специалисты по психофизике, — JND, или «едва заметная разница». JND — это статистическое различие, а не точная величина.) Два оттенка (я буду называть их Зеленый № 24 и Зеленый № 25) — ближайшие возможные соседи на цветовой шкале; между ними нет оттенка зеленого, который вы могли бы различить. Теперь я закладываю руки за спину, смешиваю образцы и держу один из них. Это Зеленый № 24 или Зеленый № 25? Интересное открытие заключается в том, что осознанное восприятие само по себе не позволяет вам заметить разницу. Это означает, что понимание сознания может также включать понимание тонкого и сверхтонкого, а не только целого.
Теперь нам нужно перейти от глобальных к более тонким аспектам сознания. Если это действительно правда, что некоторые аспекты содержания сознания невыразимы — а многие философы, включая меня, считают, что это так — как мы собираемся проводить серьезные научные исследования по ним? Как мы можем редуктивно объяснить то, о чем мы даже не можем говорить должным образом?
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Представьте, что я держу перед собой образцы цвета двух похожих оттенков зеленого. Между этими двумя оттенками есть разница, но она едва заметна. (Технический термин, который иногда используют специалисты по психофизике, — JND, или «едва заметная разница». JND — это статистическое различие, а не точная величина.) Два оттенка (я буду называть их Зеленый № 24 и Зеленый № 25) — ближайшие возможные соседи на цветовой шкале; между ними нет оттенка зеленого, который вы могли бы различить. Теперь я закладываю руки за спину, смешиваю образцы и держу один из них. Это Зеленый № 24 или Зеленый № 25? Интересное открытие заключается в том, что осознанное восприятие само по себе не позволяет вам заметить разницу. Это означает, что понимание сознания может также включать понимание тонкого и сверхтонкого, а не только целого.
Теперь нам нужно перейти от глобальных к более тонким аспектам сознания. Если это действительно правда, что некоторые аспекты содержания сознания невыразимы — а многие философы, включая меня, считают, что это так — как мы собираемся проводить серьезные научные исследования по ним? Как мы можем редуктивно объяснить то, о чем мы даже не можем говорить должным образом?
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Washington Free Beacon (free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-29 01:40 am
free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-29 01:40 amDismiss Our Cases, Keffiyeh-Clad Columbia Radicals Tell NYC Court
MANHATTAN—A parade of keffiyeh-clad students descended on Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday to face formal arraignment for their roles in a violent takeover of Columbia University’s Butler Library. Their lawyer accused Israel of "genocide," asked the court to consider dismissal, and ultimately secured adjournments for procedural documents that will delay the cases for more than a month.
A total of 56 defendants were arraigned at the courthouse, with a few joined by their nervous parents. Among the defendants present were Ramona Sarsgaard, the nepo baby daughter of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard. Dima Aboukasm—whom Mayor Eric Adams once hailed as a peace activist—also had her day in court. They were represented by Matthew W. Daloisio, the same attorney who represented those arrested for storming Columbia's Hamilton Hall in 2024.
Daloisio defended his clients' conduct, saying they "set up a teach-in in a library." He asked the court "to consider dismissal in the interest of justice" before requesting and receiving an "adjournment for supporting depositions" from Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg's office, which requires law enforcement to produce documents "signing off on the criminal allegations [and] saying the charges are true," local defense attorney Jason Goldman told the Washington Free Beacon. Goldman speculated that Daloisio "wants this adjournment to see in fact whether Bragg's office upholds the arrests and moves the case forward in a criminal prosecution."
"It's a good strategy" meant to "avoid the public scrutiny" and "see if they can get the case dismissed," Goldman said. "Bragg dropped charges in 2024, and I think he'll do it again."
Goldman was referring to Bragg's decision to dismiss dozens of cases for the Columbia rabble rousers who stormed Hamilton Hall during a similar explosion of campus violence last spring. The decision earned him widespread criticism from Jewish and good-government groups at the time.
Rioters in the more recent Butler Library melee injured two security officers and distributed pro-Hamas literature to students who had been studying quietly for final exams, resulting in 81 arrests. Some of the defendants were testy as they paraded into court.
"You are a loser, go away," one said. "Piece of shit," a second added later. A frazzled mom of one of the arrestees, meanwhile, told the Free Beacon: "I’ve been waiting here an hour and you’re not going in before me."
Most of the defendants wore masks and other articles of clothing in support of Hamas. Their appearance created a circus-like atmosphere in the courthouse as more run-of-the-mill arrestees in handcuffs walked past with bemusement.
On several occasions the New York Police Department asked the Free Beacon not to engage with any of the defendants.
"Please don’t do anything uppity around them. All it takes is one fart for them to fly off the handle," said one cop.
One prominent defendant, ex-Bloomberg journalist Jason Kao, was not there. His arraignment is scheduled for July 23 along with 20 other defendants, the Manhattan DA's office said.
All of the student miscreants were charged with third-degree trespassing and arraigned on desk appearance tickets. Many of the defendants treated the charges with open contempt in the courtroom, using the time to text with friends, write in journals, and read. The Assassination of Lumumba and Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of The Earth were among several titles on display.
Some used the court appearance to vogue hot NYC looks. Nadia Schwingle appeared in court with high top boots, a designer bag, and an haute couture keffiyeh.
Though Bragg did not immediately drop the charges, Goldman, the New York City defense attorney, argued that the defendants will eventually walk free.
"They’re going to resolve in dismissal or something very close to it. I don’t think these people will be left with criminal records. I just don’t think these charges will be pressed aggressively," he said.
"For the same reason it was dismissed last time, Bragg doesn't think this is worth criminal prosecution in the same way other cases are."
One of the students, Dalia Darazim, had her charges dismissed on a technicality after she was sent a desk appearance ticket which incorrectly instructed her to appear in Staten Island.
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стриш-ш-ш (ш-ш-ш!) (lxe) wrote2025-05-28 07:52 pm
lxe) wrote2025-05-28 07:52 pm(no subject)
До меня дошло, что значит "живым — это лишь остановка в пути, мертвым — дом".
Всем готов рассказать.
Всем готов рассказать.
Washington Free Beacon (free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-28 09:45 pm
free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-28 09:45 pmRespected Middle-Aged Journalist Who Accused Biden of 'Genocide' Slams Pete Buttigieg for Supporting
Taylor Lorenz, a widely respected journalist who has worked for the New York Times and the Washington Post, and who recently appeared in an Emmy-nominated documentary series on CNN, has accused former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg of supporting mass murder and "embrac[ing] far-right eugenics." Lorenz, 40, previously accused former president Joe Biden of committing "war crimes" in Gaza and "genocide" in the United States (by failing to reinstate COVID-era masking policies). On Wednesday, she lashed out at Buttigieg on social media after the failed presidential candidate argued Democrats should not have been so averse to reopening schools during the 2020 pandemic.
"Pete saying he would have 'opened the schools sooner' in 2020 aka killing MORE vulnerable ppl faster, sacrificing teachers and educators (and kids!) lives to force them back into unventilated buildings [with] no protections," Lorenz wrote on X, the immigrant-owned social media platform. "Disgusting how Dems have fully embraced far right eugenics."
Lorenz's view appears to be more in line with the one expressed by Pete's husband, Chasten Buttigieg, in a July 2020 interview with Time magazine. "There's already a flight risk of teachers fleeing the profession," he said. "I don’t want to see teachers leaving the profession on gurneys." Democrats, teachers' unions, and their media allies routinely accused Republicans of wanting to murder children by opening schools too soon. They claimed to be on the side of "science," even though they were not.
It's worth noting that the esteemed journalist has a somewhat nuanced view when it comes to murder. Lorenz has described Luigi Mangione, the liberal heartthrob who gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year, as a "morally good man, which is hard to find." She admitted feeling "joy" upon learning of Thompson's death because, in her view, the health care executive was responsible for the deaths of "tens of thousands of Americans."
Lorenz also has a history of attending children's birthday parties. She reportedly "left" the New York Times in 2022 after colleagues complained about her creepy and obsessive coverage of Claudia Conway, the 15-year-old daughter of then-White House adviser Kellyanne Conway. In recent years, Lorenz has been a recurring guest at the annual Pornhub Awards. At this year's ceremony in Hollywood, the revered reporter wore a mask while partying with Girthmasterr, winner of the "Best Dick" award.
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Washington Free Beacon (free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-28 08:01 pm
free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-28 08:01 pmCal Poly Hit with Anti-Semitism Investigation Amid Allegations That It Told Students To 'Hide Their
The Trump administration opened an investigation into anti-Semitism at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, after anti-Israel activists allegedly pelted their Jewish classmates with fake blood, and administrators encouraged the students to "hide their Jewish identity to avoid being targeted."
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) launched the investigation in response to a civil rights complaint from the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under the Law, the legal advocacy group said on Tuesday.
Jewish students at Cal Poly have accused administrators of ignoring anti-Jewish attacks and allowing an atmosphere of anti-Semitism to spread on campus, the Washington Free Beacon reported in March.
According to the Brandeis Center complaint, pro-Hamas protesters disrupted a vigil for victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks by drawing a "Zio Corner" chalk circle around attendees and throwing red paint at Jewish students meant to represent the "blood of martyrs."
Activists also held a demonstration adjacent to a religious ceremony for the Jewish High Holiday of Sukkot and wrote chalk messages directed at the Jewish students that said, "Go Away Nazis."
After a Jewish religious object was stolen from the Sukkot celebration one night, administrators reportedly advised Jewish students to limit their religious observance to the daytime to avoid being targeted.
"By telling Jewish students who complained of anti-Semitism to hide evidence of their Jewish identity, the university not only dismissed the Jewish students’ concerns, it also shirked its responsibility to take prompt and effective action to address anti-Semitic incidents on its campus," the Brandeis Center complaint reads.
The probe is part of a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on campus anti-Semitism and racial discrimination. The General Services Administration on Tuesday instructed federal agencies to cut all remaining funding to Harvard University, noting the school’s allegedly "discriminatory" practices, including "anti-Semitic action that suggests the institution has a disturbing lack of concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students."
The Department of Education’s OCR announced in March that it would also open investigations into anti-Semitism at American University, Yale University, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Brandeis Center chairman Kenneth L. Marcus, the former head of the Department of Education’s OCR, welcomed the investigation.
"Not only did the Cal Poly administration refuse to prosecute brazen, violent acts of anti-Semitism, but they allowed their students to be victimized over and over, offering them nothing but a callous disregard for their continued harassment," Marcus told the Free Beacon. "We hope this investigation will force Cal Poly to stop sweeping anti-Semitism under the rug, and it will serve as a sign to all universities: Indifference to bigotry and hatred will not be tolerated."
Cal Poly interim president Michael Spagna disclosed that the Department of Education's OCR had "formally opened an investigation" in an email to students and staff last Friday.
"We are working closely with The California State University to respond to OCR’s investigation and ensure we are compliant with all federal requirements," he wrote. "We also recognize that this may be an especially difficult and painful time for our Jewish students, faculty, and staff, and we are committed to doing everything in our power to ensure our entire campus community can feel safe."
A spokesman for Cal Poly declined to comment further.
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Washington Free Beacon (free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-28 07:30 pm
free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-28 07:30 pmJake Tapper Finally Notices His Beloved Democrats Are Woke Scolds Who Hate Men and Think Everything
Jake Tapper, the CNN host who promoted false Democratic talking points about Joe Biden's mental acuity before writing a best-selling book about the "cover-up," slammed his beloved political party this week for behaving like a bunch of woke scolds who are obsessed with racism and routinely denigrate normal men. Tapper discussed his belated epiphany—many years after the Democratic Party started hating men and denouncing everything as racist—on a podcast with tech baron Scott Galloway, recounting his appearance on a "left-leaning podcast" where one the hosts made a "joke" about how his teenage son might be racist because he wants to be a police officer.
"They asked me about my son, and I said he's a football player and he wants to be a policeman, and their joke was, about my 15-year-old son, 'Oh, how does he feel about minorities?' Like the idea that he wants to be a policeman, therefore he's racist, my son," Tapper recalled. "That was the big laugh, and then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff, and I thought to myself, 'This is why you fuckers are losing elections.'"
Tapper argued that the liberal podcaster who joked about his son being a racist—since identified as Jason Stewart, a semi-professional DJ and cohost of the How Long Gone podcast—had exemplified "how the Democratic Party talks to men." Indeed, they have been doing this for quite some time before Tapper decided to notice. "Like, my football playing son, who has no political views, he's 15, he thinks about World War II and gaming and playing linebacker. That's his world. You're deciding he's a racist because he wants to be a cop," the journalist said. "And why does he want to be a cop? He wants to be a cop because he wants to help people."
Stewart's cohost, fashion consultant Chris Black, praised the "really fucking funny" quip about Tapper's son hating minorities, and accused the CNN host of having no sense of humor. "Him willfully choosing to take a joke wrong, that he definitely knew what it was in the moment, I would say is only a pro move," Black said. "He spun it for his own gain, and it's working."
It's true that Tapper's book tour has involved a significant amount of spin, largely in an effort to absolve the mainstream media for playing an active role in the cover-up of Biden's decline. Prior to the launch of Original Sin, the notoriously thin-skinned journalist enlisted the help of crisis communications expert Risa Heller, who has advised an array of notable perverts including Zoom masturbator Jeffrey Toobin and dick-pic freak Anthony Weiner. Tapper's coauthor, Alex Thompson of Axios, recently said that even the White House aides orchestrating the Biden cover-up were shocked by the media's willingness to play along. "We were sort of amazed at some of the stuff we were able to spin reporters on," a source told Thompson at the time. The quote does not appear in Original Sin, which does not make a serious effort to examine the media's crucial role in the scandal.
Alas, Tapper is unlikely to reflect on the media's role in perpetuating the Democratic Party's radically antagonistic attitudes toward police officers and young men who enjoy football and war. CNN in particular has been one of the party's most reliable allies in promoting the woke views that Tapper finally claims to realize are obnoxious and condescending. Cool epiphany, bro. Thanks for noticing.
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free_beacon_feed) wrote2025-05-28 07:30 pmNPR CEO Refuses To Negotiate With Trump as Network Sues President Over Defunding
NPR will not negotiate with President Donald Trump, CEO Katherine Maher said Tuesday as the network sued Trump over his executive order stripping NPR of all federal funding.
"As an independent media organization, we wouldn't go ahead and have that conversation because that would be negotiating on editorial principle," Maher told journalist Oliver Darcy.
Hours earlier, NPR and three of its member stations filed a lawsuit against the president over his May 1 executive order, accusing Trump of violating their First Amendment rights and seeking to "punish NPR for the content of news and other programming the President dislikes." Trump's order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cut off all direct federal funding for NPR and PBS—America's two largest public broadcasters—to the "maximum extent allowed by law" and "decline to provide future funding."
Maher acknowledged during a March congressional hearing that NPR poorly covered the Hunter Biden laptop and the origins of COVID-19. She provoked laughter when she said she has "never seen … political bias" at NPR.
NPR and PBS have long faced public scrutiny over left-wing political bias in their coverage—even as the networks have received federal funding for decades. In an essay explaining the reasons for his resignation, former NPR senior editor Uri Berliner blasted "devastating" bias at the broadcaster and singled out Maher's "divisive views." Among other accusations, Berliner found that 87 Democrats fill NPR editorial positions in the Washington, D.C., area, compared with 0 Republicans.
In the 2025 fiscal year alone, NPR and PBS received around $535 million from the federal government.
Maher has her own history of controversy. In May 2020, she tweeted that Trump is a "deranged racist sociopath." Later that year, Maher dismissed widespread looting and property damage during the Black Lives Matter riots, saying it was "hard to be mad" about the destruction.
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