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Posted by Maggie on April 29, 2022 in From the editors

Taking the weekend, again (hopefully). Hope you have a great weekend too.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?

O’Brien: Of course, he exists.

Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?

O’Brien: You do not exist.

― George Orwell, “1984”

Sarah Lee: The Ministry of Truth Is Real

Natalie Winters, Raheem J. Kassam: THE NEW ‘EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’ OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S PROPAGANDA UNIT ALSO SCARCELY HAS ANY JOURNALISTIC EXPERIENCE – Ministry of Truth: Joe Biden’s New ‘Disinformation Board’ Director is a Ukrainian Govt Advisor Who Was ‘Pleased’ By The Censorship Of Hunter Biden’s Hard Drive.

Monica Showalter: Twitter’s top censor donated $18,000 to Democrats before shutting down the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop revelations

Facts the Biden Ministry of Truth Would Stamp “Disinformation”:

Here’s the “emergency”…

Robert Spencer: Biden’s New Disinformation Governance Board Is ALREADY Expanding Its Scope

Victor Davis Hanson: Tearing Down the Silicon Valley Wall: The country is ready for a revolution. And Musk believes he can lead it with his Silicon-Valley sledgehammer.

Timothy H.J. Nerozzi: Mayorkas won’t name 1 domestic terror, White supremacy case referred to DOJ: Mayorkas has called White supremacy the top terrorism-related threat to the homeland, but declined to name a case referred to DOJ

Meanwhile…

Dustin Volz: FBI Conducted Potentially Millions of Searches of Americans’ Data Last Year, Report Says: Searches in national-security investigations came without warrants, could stoke privacy concerns in Congress

Stealing Our Children Means Stealing Our Future:

Follow Luke Rosiak’s full Twitter tweet thread on this. Luke is the one who busted wide open the Loudoun County schools’ cover-up of rape “trans-sexual” male student’s raping of two students (different schools) and the resulting public outrage of the father of one of the girls when he confronted the school board who denied the truth.

Luke Rosiak: ‘This Is A Cult’: How Wealthy Santa Barbara Foreshadowed The Fight Against Crackpot Curriculum

In the fight to protect school children from radical curricula, the canary in the coal mine was a California coastal community once home to former President Ronald Reagan’s personal ranch and now home to ultra-wealthy white liberals as well as a large underclass of poor Hispanics.

Critical Race Theory (CRT), which holds that American institutions and culture are systemically racist and categorizes people as either victims or oppressors based on skin color, has generated a backlash in recent years from parents. But a parents group called Fair Education Santa Barbara began fighting four years ago, filing what is believed to be the nation’s first lawsuit against CRT and related pedagogy, which critics say poison the minds of young children.

Although a federal judge ruled in 2019 that the group lacked standing to assert its claims of intentional discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, and sex, the suit foreshadowed a national fight for curriculum transparency…

Drew Holden: The corporate press has gone from reporting on Florida’s parental rights legislation to advocating against it in the blink of an eye.

Drew Holden: How The Media Built The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Narrative

Alex Parker: Democrat Legislators Want Children Taught Sex, Specifically ‘Pleasure-Based Sexual Relations’

Robert Spencer: More Secret ‘Transition Closets’ Found in Public Schools

Amy Nelson: Chicago parents demand accountability from school after son’s suicide: Bullying ‘was kept from us’: Robert and Rosallene Bronstein are suing the Latin School of Chicago for $100 million in damages

Joshua Nelson: Biden admin was ‘actively encouraging’ states to use COVID money to push CRT, says One Nation president

Laura J. Wellington: Parents, Health Care, and Children’s Privacy … If this doesn’t tell you where all of this is going…

#WOKE Poke:

Kevin Downey, Jr: Women vs. Wokeness: It’s Time to Pick a Side

Larry Keane: Corporations Waking Up to the Damage ‘Woke’ Capitalism Has Done to Their Businesses

Vic Hughes: This Scary Experiment Explains Two Years of COVID Hell

Melissa Fine: ‘There’s something going on’: Joe Rogan admits reports of impending food shortages are ‘freaking’ him out

#FFS:

Joshua Rhett Miller: Joe Biden used alias of KGB spy from Tom Clancy novels, emails from Hunter’s laptop show

Terresa Monroe-Hamilton: Tyra Banks to launch ‘coming of age’ series featuring teen drag queens, and folks have thoughts

Jon Brown: Kenosha meeting discussing memorial for man shot by Rittenhouse gets heated: ‘Like a lunatic’: An opponent of the proposal worries the city will pass it quietly in the future

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~~Many thanks to Maggie and The Universal Spectator for reprint permission.

Posted by Maggie on April 29, 2022 in From the editors Taking the weekend, again (hopefully). Hope you have a great weekend too. Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O’Brien: Of course, he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O’Brien: You do not exist. ― George Orwell, “1984” It’s actually really concerning me how many people don’t realize…

Posted by Maggie on April 29, 2022 in From the editors Taking the weekend, again (hopefully). Hope you have a great weekend too. Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O’Brien: Of course, he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O’Brien: You do not exist. ― George Orwell, “1984” It’s actually really concerning me how many people don’t realize…