[BLAZE] Media Matters has solely existed to be a watchdog against the right for years, often seeking to ruin the lives of conservatives via cancel culture.
Now, the media company is having massive layoffs after Elon Musk brought it to court in November — and Lauren Chen is not above celebrating.
"They are a leftist watchdog organization that basically just exists to smear right-wing figures. And to be clear, the problem here is not that Media Matters advances, like, leftist talking points kind of, like, the Young Turks. No, Media Matters is really in a totally separate category," Chen says.
"It seems like all they do is sit around consuming right-wing content, looking for sound bites or unflattering quotes to take out of context in the hopes of canceling right-wing figures," she continues, adding, "and I therefore hate them."
[PJ] Following the guilty verdicts against Trump in the sham trial in New York City, radio host Mark Levin, who served as chief of staff to former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, has sound legal advice for Trump: get the case out of New York and to the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as possible.
Trump will most certainly appeal his conviction, but an appeal within the New York court system likely won't happen before the election. There's always the possibility that Judge Juan Merchan, a Biden donor who basically was a puppet of the prosecution, may, in fact, sentence Trump to prison before the election.
"The issue is how to get out of the New York system and bring the case to the Supreme Court, which may or may not take it up," explains Levin in a post on X. "That is why I look to Bush v Gore, where the [Supreme Court] decided to step in BECAUSE it was a presidential election. There was another court involved, the Florida Supreme Court. And it was that court that the Supreme Court believed was violating the Equal Protection Clause. That was the doctrine it settled on, given the unequal treatment of voters."
Levin continued, "In New York, you would file the notice of appeal, ask for a stay of the trial court, and seek expedited review. You need to protect your ability to timely appeal and not abandon it. You might then file applications for common law writs with the US Supreme Court, where the [Supreme Court] can take action if it chooses, and legitimately claim the harm is immediate and ongoing not just to a presidential candidate, but to the federal electoral system, federal campaign jurisdiction (reverse federalism), and the precedent that might otherwise be set and spread throughout the country. The denial of due process infected every aspect of the case."
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[Regnum] The foundation of American actor George Clooney will seek the issuance of sealed arrest warrants for Russian journalists in Europe. This was stated by Anna Neistat, Director of Legal Affairs of the Docket project, in an interview with Voice of America radio (a media outlet recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation).
Playing at statesmanship, but really its only another cancellation game.
According to her, some countries have an article on “war propaganda” in their criminal codes. Where this provision is present, the organization will draw up a request to initiate criminal proceedings. If a warrant is issued, journalists could be detained throughout Europe at Europol level.
“That is, in any European country, journalists can be arrested and extradited to a country that is investigating a criminal case against them,” Neistat said.
She added that no appeals had yet been sent and refused to name the journalists who were planned to be persecuted. According to her, we are talking about “the most obvious Russian propagandists, the most visible of them.”
She also said that the project asks prosecutors to write closed arrest warrants so that people do not know about it and travel to other countries where they can be arrested.
As reported by IA Regnum, on May 17, the Council of the EU banned the broadcasting of three Russian media in the territory of the European Union: RIA Novosti, Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta. The sanctioned media must completely stop distributing any content through electronic media.
The Russian Foreign Ministry called the ban on broadcasting of three Russian media in the EU a purge of the information space. The department added that this decision was based solely on political motives.
The media reported on May 15 that this decision was agreed upon by the ambassadors of European countries.
The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said that Russia will respond to the West with lightning speed and pain if the work of Russian journalists is limited.
[Breitbart] Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is finally pulling the trigger. The West Virginia senator announced Friday he will leave the Democrat party, a long-speculated move for the retiring senator.
“My commitment to do everything I can to bring our country together has led me to register as an independent with no party affiliation,” Manchin posted on X:
[Fox Bus via Gateway] Real estate investor Grant Cardone appeared on the fox Business Network this week following the Trump verdict and said that it is going to have far reaching effects on the city’s economy.
He suggested that nobody (including him) wants to do business in New York City anymore because they no longer trust the political and legal system there.
Cardone says that the people who are invested in his company wouldn’t even allow him to do business there.
From FOX Business:
"If they can do this to Donald Trump, a former president, regardless of how you feel about the politics, if they can do this to a former president, what can they do to Grant Cardone? What can they do to any other businessman?," the Cardone Capital founder also chimed in Friday on "Varney & Co."
Cardone recently pulled his business out of the Empire State and cautioned that Trump’s legal troubles — including a previous $355 million fine in a New York civil fraud case in February — would "wreak financial havoc" on the city.
"I have 15,000 investors with me at Cardone Capital. We’ve raised $1.3 billion. If I went to them today and said, ’I want to invest in New York City,’ they would not give me money to do that," the investor argued.
"That’s one of the greatest cities on planet Earth. And nobody wants to go there and do business," Cardone continued. "I blame the legal system. Clearly, the political system has been weaponized."
May 29 (Reuters) - Palantir (PLTR.N), opens new tab has won a $480 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense for a prototype known as the Maven Smart System, the department said, opens new tab on Wednesday, deepening the data analytics provider's work with the Pentagon.
The contract has an expected May 2029 completion date and follows the Defense Department's solicitation of a sole bid, it said.
Maven takes in data from various sources to identify military points of interest and to speed up intelligence analysts' work, according to one brigade's description, opens new tab of the system earlier this year.
AI-assisted target identification has drawn controversy in the technology sector from some workers who did not want to build systems for war, and from critics who fear lethal strike decisions could have minimal human oversight.
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This should make young intelligence analysts very happy. Palantir was a fantastic intelligence community analytic tool in 2006. Hopefully, after nearly 20 years of denial and resistance, the Army is now on board.
The Maven Smart System is part of Project Maven, the Pentagon’s marquis artificial intelligence program, which ingests and processes data from multiple sources, like satellite imagery and geolocation data, and uses it to automatically detect potential targets.
Palantir, a Denver-based software and data analytics company, has been developing and experimenting with the prototype with a limited number of operators. The five-year contract, announced May 29, will allow the Defense Department to expand its use to thousands of users at five combatant commands: U.S. Central Command, European Command, Indo-Pacific Command, Northern Command and Transportation Command. The system will also be available to members of the Joint Staff.
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[Regnum] After the ejection of a coronal mass on the Sun on May 29, a magnetic storm began on Earth, which will continue for almost a day. This was reported on the website of the Heliogeophysical Service of the Institute of Applied Geophysics (FSBI IPG) on May 31.
“At the end of the day on May 30, a disturbance in the magnetic field was registered,” the report says.
According to scientists, so far the degree of magnetic field disturbance on Earth has not increased even to the minimum level of G1 (weak), however, in the period from May 31 to June 1, a magnetic storm with a power of G3 (strong) is predicted on a scale in which the power of G5 is extreme.
As Regnum reported, on May 30, the head of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sergei Bogachev, said that a solar flare of the X1.4/2B class on May 29 will affect the Earth. The scientist clarified that during it there was a large ejection of coronal mass towards the Earth.
A flare of the highest class X occurred on the Sun on May 15 at 05:09 Moscow time. It was accompanied by disruption of HF radio communications, and the danger level at that time was S2 (moderate) on a scale of five indicators.
On May 10, a magnetic storm of the fifth, highest level was observed on Earth for the first time in the last 20 years. Between May 7 and May 9, the Sun ejected four clouds of plasma of exceptional size toward the planet.
Experts recorded four outbreaks during the day on May 10. On the night of May 11, the second strongest flare in seven years was recorded on the Sun, which was classified as an X5.8 level event.
Director of the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation named after. Pushkova RAS (IZMIRAN) Vladimir Kuznetsov, in a conversation with IA Regnum, said that the Sun is now at the peak of its activity. At the same time, according to him, there is no need to be afraid of magnetic storms.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
