House Majority Leader McCarthy Demands Jack Dorsey Publicly Testify on Twitter Shadowbans


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On Thursday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter to the Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Greg Walden demanding Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey be called in to publicly testify on the social media’s shadowbanning of conservatives.

Axios reported:

“Any solution to this problem must start with accountability from companies like Twitter, whose platforms have enormous potential to impact the national conversation — and unfortunately, enormous potential for abuse,” McCarthy said in the letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden. “In particular, I would like to request a hearing with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey so that the American people can learn more about the filtering and censorship practices on his platform.”

  • “Even well-intentioned algorithms can have unintended consequences. I look forward to welcoming Mr. Dorsey to testify before the Energy and Commerce Committee at a date and time to be agreed upon,” said Walden in a statement. A committee source said that a formal invitation to the company would be forthcoming.
  • Twitter declined to comment.
  • Dorsey is already planning to testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee in September, a source told Axioslast month, at a hearing on disinformation and elections.

Last week, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) filed a complaint against Twitter with the Federal Election Commission after it was revealed that his own account was being shadowbanned by Twitter.

Rep. Gaetz argued earlier this week that he believes that Twitter may have illegally donated to the campaigns of his opponents by prejudicing against his content and limiting his social media visibility. An investigation from the far-left Vice Magazine found that only conservatives users were being subjected to the Twitter search limiting that impacted Gaetz.

“The evidence is piling up that I am being treated differently on Twitter than people on the political Left and I don’t like that because I enjoy the Twitter platform, I enjoy the engagement, I enjoy the candor,” Representative Gaetz told the Daily Caller prior to filing his complaint. “I would think that having won my election with 69 percent of the vote to serve in the Congress that the marketplace of ideas could accommodate my views.”

“So I believe that Twitter may have illegally donated to the campaigns of my opponents by prejudicing against my content,” he added.

Twitter is also censoring prominent pro-Trump accounts including: Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, Paul Joseph Watson, TGP’s Jim Hoft, TGP’s Cassandra Fairbanks, TGP’s Cristina Laila, TGP’s Lucian Wintrich and Laura Loomer among others.

Twitter released a disingenuous statement last Thursday night in response to a recent study by the leftist website VICE News which found that Twitter is censoring top pro-Trump lawmakers.

Twitter released an Orwellian statement denying they shadowban by narrowly defining what shadowbanning really is.

Then Twitter actually admitted they do shadowban users by blocking tweets from accounts users choose to follow from showing up in their feeds. ‘You have to go directly to their profile to see their posts,’ Twitter admitted in their blog post.

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Betrayal: Labor Leader Trumka Turns Against Trump’s Popular Tariffs


AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has turned against President Trump’s tariffs on imported foreign-made goods just as their popularity surges among American workers and business owners.

In an interview with CBS News, Trumka says he no longer supports the direction of President Trump’s tariffs — specifically those imposed on imported steel and aluminum — designed to protect American industries and jobs from unfair, foreign competition.

“There were far too many countries, and so it lessens the effectiveness of tariffs as a way to enforce trade agreements,” Trumka told CBS News of Trump’s tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. “Trade and tariffs – those type of corrective actions – should be taken with a rifle shot and not a shotgun.”

“When he does something right, we’ll support him, and when he does something wrong, we’ll oppose him. And unfortunately, we have to oppose him right now more than we support him,” Trumka continued.

The labor leader’s sudden opposition to Trump’s tariffs comes after he has supported the president’s fair trade agenda, most famously writing an op-ed in the Washington Post where he blasted free trade absolutists as “beholden to Wall Street.”

Trumka wrote in support of the tariffs in March:

What working families really need is a wholesale rewrite of global trade rules. We need new rules that will help build a fair and sustainable economy — rules that don’t put more importance on profits than on our communities. We’re working to create those new rules in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In the meantime, in the context of years of inaction by the U.S. government and our trading partners, these tariffs are a necessary first step and we are proud to support them.

Trumka’s decrying of Trump’s tariffs also comes as the president’s agenda to protect American jobs and industry is increasingly supported by American voters and U.S. business owners.

As Breitbart News’s Financial Editor John Carney noted, the latest survey of business owners by the UBS Wealth Management Americas revealed that:

  • 69 percent of business owners support additional tariffs on imports from China
  • 88 percent of business owners said China engages in unfair trade practices
  • 66 percent of business owners support additional tariffs on Mexico
  • 64 percent of business owners support tariffs on goods imported from Europe
  • 44 percent of business owners say Trump’s tariffs will be good for their business

Meanwhile, American workers have continuously praised Trump’s protective tariffs despite constant opposition from the free trade absolutists at the Chamber of Commerce.

Though Trumka has betrayed Trump on tariffs, the United Steelworkers Union continues to support the administration’s fair trade agenda, writing in a statement last month:

“Opponents of the tariffs must stop deliberately misleading the public about national security,” officials with the workers union said in a statement. “What does pose a threat to national security is continual diminishment of U.S. steel and aluminum-making capacity caused by unfair trade practices, mostly by China. The tariffs are intended to shore up U.S. capacity to ensure its availability for defense and our critical infrastructure.”

Researchers with the Coalition for a Prosperous America say for every billion dollars of net imports to the U.S., 6,000 American jobs are eliminated in the economy.

After the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was implemented, American manufacturing employment plummeted with more than 5.5 million manufacturing jobs being eliminated since 2000.

Since 2001, free trade with China has eliminated at least 3.4 million American jobs for U.S. workers, as Breitbart News reported.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.

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Police: Teen Ripped Out 74-Year-Old Relative’s Eyes, Teeth, with Bare Hands


A Minnesota teen allegedly used his bare hands to rip out a 74-year-old relative’s eyes and teeth with his bare hands on Friday.

Rochester police arrested Mahad Aziz, 18, after officers discovered him on top of the severely beaten man, who appeared to have both eyes and most of his teeth missing, Southern Minnesota Today reported.

The Post Bulletin reported that police responded to the scene at Rochester Square Apartments after receiving a noise complaint of “fighting sounds” within the complex.

Officers believe Aziz did not use a weapon to gouge the elderly man’s eyes out. The responding officers said they have not been able to locate the eyes in the apartment.

“You lose your eyes … there’s no replacement,” Rochester Police Captain John Sherwin told KTTC. “Obviously this is an injury that is going to change this man’s life.”

The 74-year-old victim was transported to a local hospital, where his injuries are considered to be non-life-threatening.

Police handcuffed the suspect, who was reportedly nonverbal and combative at the time of his arrest and transported him to a local hospital for a mental health evaluation.

Once mental health officials cleared Aziz, police transported him to the Olmsted County Adult Detention Center.

Aziz was charged Monday with first-degree assault and is in jail awaiting arraignment on the charge. There is no mugshot available for Aziz and he is not listed on the detention center’s website as an inmate because he was taken to a secure mental health facility after arriving at the jail, KIMT reported.

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Surprise! Ontario Forced To Pull Plug On Universal Basic Income Program

How many times do they have to try this before they understand it makes no sense? Via Daily Wire: Ontario is pulling the plug early on a universal basic income pilot project intended to last three years. The program, which was launched in April of 2017 was, shockingly, found to be far too expensive and […]

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NY Democrat Escalates ‘Abolish ICE!’ Wants to ‘Prosecute ICE!’


The ICE immigration-enforcement agency must be abolished and prosecuted, says the far-left progressive running for Attorney General of New York state.

“ICE has to be abolished, and I say that as somebody who is running for one of the top law-enforcement jobs in the country,” said Zephyr Teachout, a law professor and an ally of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic candidate for a House seat in New York who jump-started the Abolish ICE! campaign.

Teachout is using the issue to win votes from progressive groups and from immigrant and migrant communities:

ICE was born in xenophobia, in a time after 9/11 and has grown up to become a tool of fear and illegality. And as Attorney General, I will continue to speak out against ICE, I will prosecute ICE for their criminal acts.

“In the race for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James has the support of 25 percent of likely voters, compared to 16 percent for Representative Sean Patrick Maloney [and] 13 percent for Zephyr Teachout,” says a July 31 poll and statement from Siena College.

The poll shows she has 27 percent favorability among Democrats, while 61 percent say they are undecided about her.

Her call for the prosecution and abolishment of ICE comes just seventeen years after 3,000 Americans were murdered by terrorists who smashed the Twin Towers in Teachout’s home city of New York. The 19 terrorists included several who eluded deportation because of very weak immigration-law enforcement.

Teachout is a law lecturer at Fordham Law School in New York, where the huge population of illegal-immigrant service-workers has forced down wages for the ordinary Americans who make her takeout coffee and bus her restaurant tables. 

White House officials are touting ICE’s accomplishments amid the “Abolish ICE” push by open-borders advocates.

Teachout echoes the open-borders claims, saying “the idea that we should see people as illegal, the idea that we should see immigrants as a national security threat … just does not make any sense.”

“Abolishing ICE Would Mean Abolishing America’s Borders— and Opening the Floodgates to Crime, Drugs, and Terrorism,” says a July 16 statement from the White House.

The campaign-style statement echoes the White House’s political push to persuade voters that Democrats are pro-migration extremists. That task is fairly straightforward because multiple polls show that a large slice of the party’s base strongly supports the exemption of most migrants from the nation’s popular immigration laws.

Democrats are using videos and sympathetic media coverage of migrant children to persuade suburban voters — especially among women — to cast voters against President Donald Trump in the November election. The strategy makes sense, partly because many well-off suburban voters are squeamish about the immigration policies which protect blue-collar neighborhoods from cheap-labor migration, MS-13 recruits, and a flood of children who require expensive specialized help in schools.

However, the White House has not championed immigration enforcement as an economic benefit to white-collar suburbanites, despite the widespread use of cheap-labor, white-collar foreign workers.

 

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This isn’t culture war. It’s worse.


Progressives continue to astonish normal people with their complete incomprehension of normals as human beings.  Perhaps that’s because they don’t see us as human beings.  They call us unsavory names – deplorables, bitter clingers, toothless, plus every dirty word they can think of.  They throw nasty, biological things.  They spit on people.  They shove people, break windows, start fights, and go out of their way to ensure that everybody has a bad day.


Today’s normal was a fifties liberal and, in many cases, a sixties liberal.  In those days, you could be a conservative Democrat or a liberal Republican, and it raised no eyebrows.  Today’s prog, or extremist lefty, thinks all normals are extras from the movie Deliverance.  Yet most of the time we dress about as they do, take the same public transportation, shop in the same supermarkets, and live in the same neighborhoods.  If we really were toothless and illiterate, it would immediately stand out.  It doesn’t.



In the almost 70 years since 1950, normals haven’t changed much.  We still believe in God, pay taxes, get up and go to work, and keep to ourselves.  We’re raising families, after all, and that matters more than anything else.  Unlike the prog caricature of us, we’re responsible people.  When we gather in large numbers, you almost can’t tell we were ever there because we clean up behind ourselves.  We speak quietly and respectfully, treat our women like ladies, and control our kids.  Nobody fears normals because nobody has any reason to.


This contrasts starkly with progs, who gather in large numbers to riot, scream obscenities, carry signs, and trash the place.  They get up in others’ faces and scream and rage as if out of control, sometimes putting a normal person in fear for his life.  All this is intended to communicate public unhappiness over this issue or that, but all it really puts across is that a bunch of wilding lunatics are loose again.


Liberals, similar to but reputedly more reasonable than progs, always notice the single MAGA hat in a crowd but never the destructive prog behavior raging all around them.  And it’s liberals who write the columns and tweets next day, dripping venom about the hateful normals.  Yet any objective, disinterested observer would notice that it’s progressives who regularly run out of control in angry, violent spasms of incivility and ugliness.


This isn’t “culture war.”  Culture has nothing to do with it.  It’s war on normality by Brownshirts, paid for by the likes of George Soros and Tom Steyer.  It has now graduated from street-fighting to trying to take down the U.S. government.


I will never understand these people’s hatred of America.  They are unreachable by reason.  It seems clear that they are trying to provoke a heavy, violent reaction from us so they can then haul out the artillery.  They missed their big chance with Barama in the saddle but had been biding their time right along.  They’ll just continue that until their next big chance.  They need to be able to declare martial law.


Be ready.


Progressives continue to astonish normal people with their complete incomprehension of normals as human beings.  Perhaps that’s because they don’t see us as human beings.  They call us unsavory names – deplorables, bitter clingers, toothless, plus every dirty word they can think of.  They throw nasty, biological things.  They spit on people.  They shove people, break windows, start fights, and go out of their way to ensure that everybody has a bad day.


Today’s normal was a fifties liberal and, in many cases, a sixties liberal.  In those days, you could be a conservative Democrat or a liberal Republican, and it raised no eyebrows.  Today’s prog, or extremist lefty, thinks all normals are extras from the movie Deliverance.  Yet most of the time we dress about as they do, take the same public transportation, shop in the same supermarkets, and live in the same neighborhoods.  If we really were toothless and illiterate, it would immediately stand out.  It doesn’t.


In the almost 70 years since 1950, normals haven’t changed much.  We still believe in God, pay taxes, get up and go to work, and keep to ourselves.  We’re raising families, after all, and that matters more than anything else.  Unlike the prog caricature of us, we’re responsible people.  When we gather in large numbers, you almost can’t tell we were ever there because we clean up behind ourselves.  We speak quietly and respectfully, treat our women like ladies, and control our kids.  Nobody fears normals because nobody has any reason to.


This contrasts starkly with progs, who gather in large numbers to riot, scream obscenities, carry signs, and trash the place.  They get up in others’ faces and scream and rage as if out of control, sometimes putting a normal person in fear for his life.  All this is intended to communicate public unhappiness over this issue or that, but all it really puts across is that a bunch of wilding lunatics are loose again.


Liberals, similar to but reputedly more reasonable than progs, always notice the single MAGA hat in a crowd but never the destructive prog behavior raging all around them.  And it’s liberals who write the columns and tweets next day, dripping venom about the hateful normals.  Yet any objective, disinterested observer would notice that it’s progressives who regularly run out of control in angry, violent spasms of incivility and ugliness.


This isn’t “culture war.”  Culture has nothing to do with it.  It’s war on normality by Brownshirts, paid for by the likes of George Soros and Tom Steyer.  It has now graduated from street-fighting to trying to take down the U.S. government.


I will never understand these people’s hatred of America.  They are unreachable by reason.  It seems clear that they are trying to provoke a heavy, violent reaction from us so they can then haul out the artillery.  They missed their big chance with Barama in the saddle but had been biding their time right along.  They’ll just continue that until their next big chance.  They need to be able to declare martial law.


Be ready.




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Trump Approval Surges, Blows Past Obama’s

Amid the constant storm of bad press, controversy and #resistance outrage, President Trump has seen his approval numbers climb — in fact, according to Rasmussen, he’s outpacing President Obama at the same stage in his presidency.
Rasmussen’s latest numbers from its daily tracking poll are the best Trump’s seen in a while. As of August 2, 50% of U.S. Voters approve of Trump’s job performance, while 49% disapprove.

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Democratic New York Attorney General Candidate Vows to ‘Prosecute ICE’

A Democratic candidate for Attorney General of New York promised in a video message to prosecute U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if elected.

In an interview with NowThis, former Democratic congressional candidate and Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout outlined her support for the "Abolish ICE" movement, citing what she characterized as unconstitutional and cruel actions taken by the federal agency.

"ICE has to be abolished, " Teachout said. "And I say that as somebody who is running for one of the top law enforcement jobs in the country."

"There is so much wrong with ICE that goes to it’s very structure," she continued. "The idea that people are ‘illegal,’ the idea that we should see immigrants as a national security threat, and that ICE should be placed under the Department of Homeland Security – by the way, the area where the president has the greatest authority to do the most damage – just doesn’t make any sense."

Teachout promised that if elected, "I’ll continue to speak out against ICE, I will prosecute ICE for the criminal acts."

The constitutional law professor’s promise comes despite the fact that the U.S. Constitution makes federal law "the supreme Law of the Land" over state laws and judges. Supreme Court precedent dating back a century holds that federal law officers cannot be prosecuted by states for conduct carried out in the course of their official duties. That immunity was later codified by Congress.

In 2012 for example, California criminal charges against an ICE agent accused of running a stop sign and killing three people were dismissed in federal court. "U.S. District Judge Anthony Battaglia said long-standing federal law gives immunity from state prosecution to federal law enforcement officers accused of crimes committed in the course of their duties," noted The San Diego Union-Tribune.

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