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What the Hales? Florida Judge Attacks Free Speech of YouTubers and Journalists​

Regardless of the matters of fact between the neighbors, the real issue has become Judge Craig DeThomasis, who treats his courtroom like a star chamber. He has repeatedly chastised and berated Jeremy and his attorneys. He has refused to turn over public hearing recordings, claiming that they are private and can’t be disseminated. He has refused to recuse himself two times and is now facing a third motion to recuse.

One of the worst things the judge has done to Jeremy and his girlfriend is to restrict Jeremy’s movements on his own property without hearing the facts of the case. It has been months since the neighbor filed the protection order, and no evidentiary hearing has been held. Jeremy cannot drive on his public road because it abuts the neighbor’s property, and he must stay 500 feet away from her property at all times. Further, he cannot use a large portion of his own front yard because of the injunction.

Worse, his Second Amendment rights have been removed with no evidentiary hearing to decide if he is actually a threat. Meanwhile, he says he’s been threatened by the neighbor and her associates with all manner of bodily harm. He is also prohibited from hiring security due to the injunction, as he cannot be around anyone with guns.

Larry Forman, the DUI Guy, a lawyer with a YouTube channel, and I went over the recent motion to dismiss the judge on a stream yesterday. Forman has a recap of the events leading up to this situation in the video below. This will be an important and interesting case to watch.

Can a judge show aggression and hostility toward a respondent in his court—because the respondent is a YouTuber and the judge doesn’t like public attention—and stay on the case? The law says no. Will he follow it? So far, he hasn’t, and it doesn’t look like he will suddenly reform.

Jeremy’s evidentiary hearing is finally scheduled for March 1, but DeThomasis has put restrictions on his witnesses who don’t appear to be on the plaintiff's witnesses list, which raises serious questions about how the trial can possibly be called fair. The judge has also forced the removal of one of Jeremy’s lawyers due to the judge’s naked hostility toward the lawyer, which is written in black and white all over his court orders.

It’s one of the worst cases of “black robe-itis” I’ve seen in some years. DeThomasis truly believes he is the law and that everything he says becomes the law, even though his job is only to listen and interpret the law. Instead, DeThomasis spends inordinate amounts of time in every hearing listening to the sound of his own voice, complaining about YouTube, Jeremy’s attorneys, and anything else he can think of to avoid hearing the evidence.

When Forman began covering this story, his law firm received a hostile phone call, which some close to the story believe could be connected to the court system in Levy County. The individual said he is planning on filing a Bar complaint against Forman for covering this case. Retaliation against media trying to cover a public hearing creates a chilling effect on free speech. What is going on in that court? The American public should want to know.

 

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Why Do Authoritarians Do So Little To Combat Crime?​

 

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Biden Admin Uses ‘Sue And Settle’ Lawfare To Enact Radical Climate Policies Voters Reject​

Administration critics say these moves reflect the resurgence of a practice embraced by the Obama administration and rejected during Donald Trump’s presidency: “sue and settle.” The tactic is simple: An advocacy group sues a federal agency for failing to enforce laws or regulations. Agency officials and the plaintiffs then come to a private agreement, and that deal is ratified by the courts via a binding consent decree.

The practice is common at every level of government. New York City, for example, is obligated to house and feed tens of thousands of migrants because of a consent decree it entered into to settle a 1979 lawsuit brought by advocates for the homeless. But it is most prevalent in the environmental field, where well-funded groups commonly sue the Environmental Protection Agency or the Bureau of Land Management within the Department of the Interior, alleging failure to enforce provisions of the Clean Air Act or regulations regarding federal leases for energy production.

Although such consent decrees do not have the force of laws passed by Congress or regulations issued by the government that have gone through formal review and allow for public comment, they set the rules of the road. Critics say it has allowed government to advance policy goals that cannot be achieved through normal democratic channels.

“It’s not really an adversarial lawsuit, and with a settlement agreement and consent decree the case is never really over,” said Dave Tryon, director of litigation at the free-market Buckeye Institute. “The EPA is anxious to increase its power and control; it’s always happy to expand that.”

The legal maneuver represents, according to this view, a return to the proverbial smoked-filled backrooms of politics. Huddled privately, without input from citizens or businesses that may be adversely affected by the decisions — let alone the public at large — lawsuits that often involve parties more simpatico than adversarial are settled. The plaintiffs and defendants are familiar to one another from years in the environmental lobbying and litigation world — and because of the “revolving door” between environmental groups and Democratic administrations. These like-minded players approach the issue seeking similar goals, a process that has only intensified with the Biden administration and leftist environmental groups sharing the belief that global warming is an existential threat.

 

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In win for Paxton, court declares $1.7 trillion federal omnibus was passed unconstitutionally​

"Like many constitutional challenges, Texas asserts that this provision is unenforceable against it because Congress violated the Constitution in passing the law. In response, the defendants claim, among other things, that this Court has no power to address the issue because it cannot look to extrinsic evidence to question whether a bill became law," the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Lubbock Division wrote. "But because the Court is interpreting and enforcing the Constitution—rather than second-guessing a vote count—the Court disagrees. The Court concludes that, by including members who were indisputably absent in the quorum count, the Act at issue passed in violation of the Constitution's Quorum Clause."


Quorum Clause opinion
Article I, Section 5 of the U.S. Constitution states:

Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

Paxton, for his part, celebrated the decision, saying that "Congress acted egregiously by passing the largest spending bill in U.S. history with fewer than half the members of the House bothering to do their jobs, show up, and vote in person."

"Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi abused proxy voting under the pretext of COVID-19 to pass this law, then Biden signed it, knowing they violated the Constitution. This was a stunning violation of the rule of law. I am relieved the Court upheld the Constitution," he concluded.

 

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This particular bill in fact included the poison pill to end all poison pills—the Senate bill all but guaranteed that no one who is opposed to unlimited illegal immigration, the destruction of our social safety net, the importation of the world’s poorest, the scourge of human trafficking, the flooding of our communities with illegal and deadly drugs, and the non-stop invasion of military-age men from malign countries around the world, would get a fair hearing to challenge it in court. How did the drafters in the Senate accomplish what would be nothing short of abolishing the First Amendment’s guarantee that we may “petition our government for redress”? By making sure that only the most liberal two courts in the Country would have jurisdiction to hear any such cases.

Even though Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California are bearing the brunt of the Biden/Mayorkas border disaster, the courts in those states would never have any say as to how this new law would be interpreted, applied, or enforced. Even though Governors Abbott and DeSantis have been at the forefront of exposing and challenging Biden and Mayorkas’s refusal to comply with existing immigration law, this bill would prohibit them from filing a lawsuit in Texas or Florida in order to protect the citizens of their respective states. Even though our border communities have been overrun with illegals, forcing them to dedicate their limited human and financial resources towards taking care of them, this bill would prohibit them from seeking relief from judges who have a better understanding of the on-the-ground situation, instead forcing them to file their cases in Washington, D.C.

Now, why would the Democrats (and useful Senate Republicans) seek to so severely constrain a state, a community, or a citizen from pursuing legal redress in those courts that are closest to them? Why would a “border bill” include a provision designed to strip American states, cities, and citizens from seeking judicial relief in the forum, venue and jurisdiction that is the most convenient, the most knowledgeable, and with the most skin in the game on the issue at hand?

Very simply, the D.C. District Court and D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals are two of the most notoriously liberal courts in the entire United States of America. They consistently side with liberal Democrats on every radical policy that they seek to pursue, endorsing and legitimizing agency decisions and actions that could never make it through the legislative process. They have made an absolute mockery of “the rule of law” and equal protection in their handling of the J6 proceedings, the unlawful actions of Black Lives Matter, and the anarchy of Antifa. They have become so politicized when it comes to implementing the progressive agenda, that no one who seeks a fair trial, application of the law to the facts, or relief from government overreach would ever file a lawsuit in either the D.C. District Court or Court of Appeals. They have largely become simply an arm of the Democratic Party, especially in relation to any issue that involves matters of political import.

But that isn’t even the worst part. Because these courts would have “sole and original jurisdiction over any challenge arising from the Secretary’s authority to exercise the border emergency authority” to decide all matters related to the Senate bill, there would never be a “split in the circuits” allowing for review of the decisions they made. What does that mean? Under our judicial system, the United States Supreme Court takes only approximately 100–150 cases per year—less than 2% of all cases for which the litigants seek Supreme Court review. One of the most important determining factors controlling whether the Supreme Court will accept an appeal or “grant cert” is if there is a “split in the circuits,” meaning that two or more of the Circuit Courts of Appeals disagree on a defining question of law when deciding similar cases that have come before them. The Circuits, in other words, must disagree as to what the law is.

In practical terms, we may have a circumstance whereby the Fifth, Eighth, Sixth, and Eleventh Circuits decide one way on a particular question of law, and the Second, Ninth, and Fourth Circuits may decide another way. Once the issue has percolated sufficiently, the Supreme Court may take up the question to pronounce how the law will be applied.

Stop Playing Legislative Games

A single clause can ruin an entire bill, and this is killing the legislative process.

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Town Says Burger Joint's Mural Can't Show Any Burgers​

Back in November, Howard commissioned a local artist to decorate the side of The Cozy Inn with a large burger mural, some smaller slider-shaped UFOs, and a caption reading, "Don't fear the smell! The fun is inside!!"

Within a few days, a Salina official was telling Howard to halt the paint job. The city reasoned that because Howard's wall art would depict a product his restaurant also sold, it was not a mural (which the city doesn't regulate), but rather a sign (for which it has extensive rules).

Under Salina's sign code, Howard's business could only post signs totaling 62 square feet in size and he'd already used up 52 of those feet with existing signage. His planned burger wall art would take up 528 square feet. Downtown businesses' signs also need approval from the city's Design Review Board.

 

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What the actual F@$&.
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As Slay News reported, 14 major American cities have set a “target” to comply with the WEF’s green agenda goals by banning meat and dairy products by 2030.

The agreement also seeks to ban private car ownership and place other restrictions on public freedoms to meet the WEF’s “Net Zero” goals.

The U.S. cities have formed a coalition called the “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group” (C40) which has established an “ambitious target” to meet the WEF’s goals by the year 2030.

To fulfill the “target,” the C40 Cities have pledged that their residents will comply with the following list of mandatory rules:

• “0 kg [of] meat consumption”
• “0 kg [of] dairy consumption”
• “3 new clothing items per person per year”
• “0 private vehicles” owned
• “1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person”

WEF Pushes Ban on Home-Grown Food to 'Fight Climate Change' - Slay News

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is calling on governments to ban the general public from growing their own food at home by arguing that they are causing "climate change."

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As Slay News reported, 14 major American cities have set a “target” to comply with the WEF’s green agenda goals by banning meat and dairy products by 2030.

Well let the climate nutters step up and give up their 1st world life style

NO Computer, Smartphone, Appliances ... modern clothes

they can walk to the market and buy bug paste or flour to cook with each day

 

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In the Shadow of Mockingbird​

Once upon a time, there lived a brave senator from Idaho who went by the name of Frank Forrester Church III. In 1975, Senator Church chaired a committee which quizzed the CIA, NSA, FBI, and IRS about their crimes against the people. It was called the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, or simply ‘The Church Committee’, for short.

The testimony and evidence—often the conspicuous lack of it—and the conclusions that the Church Committee came to, are truly astounding. Along with a congressional equivalent, The Pike Committee, and a presidential investigation, The Rockefeller Commission, it was formally discovered that the ‘deep state’ was/is involved in some of the most terrifying and vile practices possible for them to engage in. And, further, there is apparently no limit to the depth of their mendacity; their capacity to lie about it; their willingness to cover it up at all costs—at the cost of the Republic itself; at the cost of civilisation, if need be. Certainly the rule of law, common decency, or any sense of sane proprietary do not even register on their radar.

Among other things, the Church Committee revealed the existence of the MKULTRA programme, a project in experimental brainwashing and psychological torture carried out by the CIA against often unwitting American citizens. Also, an FBI counterintelligence programme called COINTELPRO, which aimed to infiltrate, surveil, and subvert any domestic political organisations they deemed fit. Also Project SHAMROCK and MINARET, an NSA espionage exercise to essentially collect endless data on everyone in a type of signals intelligence effort conducted against the entire world. Finally, Operation Mockingbird, the CIA’s various and myriad attempts to manipulate and control domestic American news and media organisations for their own evil and degenerate ends.

The Church, Pike and Rockefeller investigations picked at a scab that revealed an infection so deep and exhaustive, that even in the mid-seventies, it seemed like the host organism—the United States of America—was being eaten from within by some kind of nightmarish parasite. Beneath the stones they overturned were more than mere insects. There were fully grown monsters of biblical proportions.

Yet more disturbing is the fact that Mockingbird probably only represented the tip of the iceberg. We know that from the very beginning, from the OSS and Dulles years, the CIA has engaged in media manipulation. Indeed that was/is their stock-in-trade. Frank Wisner—among the earliest and most amoral founders of the CIA—likened their media manipulation to playing a “great Wurlitzer”; a type of jukebox. In other words, the intelligence services pick the tune to which we are all obliged to dance.

Media organisations which are known as a matter of record to have been CIA fronts from inception, or to have at least been working hand-in-hand or at the direct behest of the intelligence services at various points, include The New York Times, The New York Post, The Washington Post, CBS, Time Magazine, Newsweek. The list goes on and on and on.

 

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How the Government Used ‘Track F’ to Fund Censorship Tools: Report​

“In the name of combatting alleged misinformation regarding COVID-19 and the 2020 election, NSF has been issuing multimillion-dollar grants to university and nonprofit research teams,” states the report by the House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

“The purpose of these taxpayer-funded projects is to develop AI-powered censorship and propaganda tools that can be used by governments and Big Tech to shape public opinion by restricting certain viewpoints or promoting others.”

The report also described, based on previously unknown documents, elaborate efforts by NSF officials to cover up the true purposes of the research.

The efforts included tracking public criticism of the foundation’s work by conservative journalists and legal scholars.

The NSF also developed a media strategy “that considered blacklisting certain American media outlets because they were scrutinizing NSF’s funding of censorship and propaganda tools,” the report said.

 

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ATF Lead Expert Struggles With Glock​

 

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Immigration judges ‘muzzled’ from speaking publicly by DOJ amid historic 3 million-case backlog​

Immigration judges have been put under a gag order by the Department of Justice (DOJ), stopping them from talking publicly amid an unprecedented 3 million cases waiting to be heard in courts.

The National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) said its members need to get prior approval from the DOJ to speak, per orders from the department’s manager, Chief Immigration Judge Sheila McNulty.

The union had previously been outspoken amid record numbers of migrants arriving at the border and filing claims in immigration courts, overwhelming the already strained system.

Matt Biggs, president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, an umbrella organization supporting the NAIJ, told The Post the order is unprecedented.

 

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THE FEDS ARE COMING FOR “EXTREMIST” GAMERS​

The exact nature of the cooperation between federal agencies and video game companies, which has not been previously reported, is detailed in a new Government Accountability Office report. The report draws on interviews conducted with five gaming and social media companies including Roblox, an online gaming platform; Discord, a social media app commonly used by gamers; Reddit; as well as a game publisher and social media company that asked the GAO to remain anonymous.

The Intercept reached out to the companies identified in the GAO report for comment, but none responded on the record at time of publication.

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have mechanisms to share and receive domestic violent extremism threat-related information with social media and gaming companies,” the GAO says. The report reveals that the DHS intelligence office meets with gaming companies and that the companies can use these meetings to “share information with I&A [DHS’s intelligence office] about online activities promoting domestic violent extremism,” or even simply “activities that violate the companies’ terms of service.” Through its 56 field offices and hundreds of resident agencies subordinate field offices, the FBI receives tips from gaming companies of potential law-breaking and extremist views for further investigation. The FBI also conducts briefings to gaming companies on purported threats.

The GAO warns that FBI and DHS lack an overarching strategy to bring its work with gaming companies in line with broader agency missions. “Without a strategy or goals, the agencies may not be fully aware of how effective their communications are with companies, or how effective their information-sharing mechanisms serve the agencies’ overall missions,” the GAO says. The report ends with a recommendation that both agencies develop such a strategy — a recommendation that DHS concurred with, providing an estimated completion date of June 28 this year.

“All I can think of is the awful track record of the FBI when it comes to identifying extremism,” Hasan Piker, a popular Twitch streamer who often streams while playing video games under the handle HasanAbi, says of the mechanisms. “They’re much better at finding vulnerable teenagers with mental disabilities to take advantage of.”



Coming Soon to your World of Warcraft or Call Of Duty Discord Server Feeds looking to


1. Generate Thought Crimes for calling each other ' fags ' over an in game kill or for shite talking Gamer Gate 2.0, The Biden Administration, Supporting Trump, on any other social issue pushed by the Administrative State
2. Repeat Michigan Militia Entrapment Methods

 

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Tennessee Government Council Urges Legislature To Give Illegal Immigrant Kids ‘Legal’ Status At 18




A Tennessee government council is asking the state legislature to give certain illegal immigrants taxpayer-funded college tuition payments, vehicle repairs, and legal representation.

The Tennessee Youth Transitions Advisory Council, created by the legislature to help the state with foster care, called in its annual report for the Tennessee General Assembly to consider giving legal status to illegal immigrant children so that they could be qualified for extended foster care services. This means that illegal immigrants 18 or older would be given access to taxpayer-funded legal, educational, and health benefits currently only available to state citizens.

“Currently, youth who were undocumented upon being brought into foster care are granted special immigrant juvenile status while in care but are not permitted to receive [extended foster care services],” the council wrote in its 2023 report. “The Tennessee General Assembly should explore options to rectify this discrepancy in treatment, including reclassification of these youth as qualified legal aliens.”



WHAT ABOUT AMERICANS

 

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This is really about Florida, but I wanted to call back to this Authoritarian Nut Job from the Plandemic


Leana Wen Writes About Florida's Devastating and Tragic Measles Outbreak

Biden Presidency - Authoritarian Nightmare Incoming

Google has deemed this thread to be: The articles linked to or someones comments ?

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“We are overcounting covid deaths and hospitalizations. That’s a problem.”

🔥 In breaking news from 2020, The Washington Post ran an op-ed penned by TV covid expert, reliable narrative mouthpiece, and contributing editor Leana Wen yesterday, headlined “We are overcounting covid deaths and hospitalizations. That’s a problem.” Oh, she noticed! Wen immediately asked...

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Politics of Covid 19 Vaccines

The comments, it's ALWAYS the comments...Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Pfizer! https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/college-basketball-star-says-balls-exploded-suddenly/

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Biden Hides Public Records Showing How Much Taxpayers Are Paying Unions​

For decades, the government has tracked and reported those figures, but the Biden administration has removed the reports.

Under the policy known as “official time,” hundreds of nominal government employees haven’t done anything but full-time union work in years, yet remain on the federal payroll. Not only is the policy expensive to taxpayers, but it also props up the power of unions by subsidizing their activities, giving them resources even if employees don’t support them enough to pay dues. Those unions fight against the firing of employees accused of misconduct, and advocate for policies that sometimes pit the interests of employees over the interests of taxpayers, such as resisting a return to in-person work.

The Office of Personnel Management has historically kept track of and published how the program is being used, including during the Obama administration. But the data has not been updated since 2019 — when the government shelled out for 2.6 million hours, or nearly 300 years’ worth, of employee time that was actually spent on union business.

The Biden administration has even been secretive about its secrecy. In December, The Daily Wire asked OPM why the page listing the reports was missing, along with all historical reports except 2019, which can only be located via the search function. A spokesperson said, “Previous reports on official time are not currently available because OPM is reorganizing our website to improve navigation and customer experience.”

 

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Feds Are Now Targeting Gamers for Spreading Disinformation​

White supremacy was the number one domestic terrorist threat in America until it was toppled by parents at school board meetings, Catholics praying in front of abortion clinics, and now Christian nationalism. We've already seen from the Twitter files how heavy a thumb the federal government had on social media platforms like Twitter. But now the feds are going after sites frequented by gamers, who are the next domestic terrorist threat.








This "Disinformation Primer" from the GAO warns that "problematic information" regularly originates from networks of alternative sites and anonymous individuals who have created their own "alt-media" online spaces: Reddit, 4Chan, Discord, and "gaming sites." To users, these spaces "enable them to collaborate and validate their own interpretations of the world that differ from "mainstream" sources.

 

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Feds Are Now Targeting Gamers for Spreading Disinformation​

White supremacy was the number one domestic terrorist threat in America until it was toppled by parents at school board meetings, Catholics praying in front of abortion clinics, and now Christian nationalism. We've already seen from the Twitter files how heavy a thumb the federal government had on social media platforms like Twitter. But now the feds are going after sites frequented by gamers, who are the next domestic terrorist threat.

The Daily Wire and Matt Walsh DECLARES WAR ON GAMERS?!! - Sweet baby inc Gamergate 2 take a turn​

 

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