Journalists cry First Amendment foul over Trump’s press ban while shrugging at government-imposed oversight of CNN and CBS.

The State’s Assault on Press Freedom the Fourth Estate Ignored | The American Spectator

   . . . "What it’s not? Unconstitutional. Trifling? Sure. Spiteful? Yes. Petty? Definitely. It does not amount to a law abridging the freedom of the press. Not every outlet gets a seat in the White House press room. Conservative outlets understand this better than liberal ones who offered no protest when the Biden, Obama, and Clinton administrations avoided interactions with reporters from conservative outlets." . . .

Trump tells CNN 'You should not be here' as White House ban persists | AP News   . . . "In any case, the tense moment was a stark reminder of how dramatically the bitter conflict between Trump and news outlets whose coverage he objects to as “fake news” has escalated in just a few days." . . .

Abdul El-Sayed Called on Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood To 'Purge the Media and Police' Shortly Before Islamic Government Arrested Reporters for 'Insulting Islam'    "Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed demanded in 2012 that the repressive Muslim Brotherhood "purge" media and police in Egypt after the radical Islamic group seized control of the country. A brutal religious crackdown on the press was soon to follow." . . . What say you, CNN and MSNOW?

Fox News Pulls The Plug As Trump’s Media Ban Takes Unexpected Turn  . . . "The presidential television pool consists of five networks — CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox News. Each network takes turns serving as “pool chair,” meaning it provides video coverage of presidential events designated as pool events. The networks share the same video feed to conserve resources while maintaining television coverage to all five outlets.

"On Monday morning, Fox News D.C. Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton, who currently serves as the rotating chair of the presidential television pool, informed pool members that coverage 

would be suspended, writing in an email: “This is to advise that, effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President.”

“This follows the White House’s position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be no replacement pool put in place,” Boughton said." . . . 

AF Branco

Give Us a Monopoly or Everyone Dies!

Ann Coulter  

"The fact that a former Anthropic employee, Jacob Coxon, is all over the airwaves claiming AI could “kill us all” suggests that the incumbents are losing the AI arms race and desperately need regulation to slow the growth of emerging competitors."

AF Branco

"Does unregulated AI pose a threat to humanity? Absolutely! But only assuming humanity is defined as “the billionaire owners of AI companies intent on crushing their competition.” [Ed.: I don’t think that’s the definition.]

"You don’t need to be a super-smart AI machine to know that large corporations love government regulation. Compliance is a fixed cost for them, but often an insuperable barrier to new entrants. Regulations allow the incumbents to maintain their market dominance by blocking up-and-coming rivals.

"University of Chicago Economist George Stigler won a Nobel Prize in part for pointing this out 50 years ago. It wasn’t just a theory. Stigler’s argument has been demonstrated over and over again. In fact, it seems so obvious, I’m not sure he even deserved a prize. But people probably think the same thing about gravity, our heliocentric world, or selling books over the internet. Today, those seem obvious, too.

"As Stigler said, regulation is fantastic for oligopolists, and also great for the politicians they buy. It’s only a disaster for consumers. That is precisely why these unwarranted gifts to greedy companies are always preceded by florid scaremongering.

"From 1938 to 1978, existing airlines warned that allowing others to compete with them would cause planes to fall out of the sky. The industry would be under so much pressure to offer low prices, they would sacrifice safety to cost-cutting. In fact, since deregulation, not only is flying a lot cheaper, but fatal plane crashes have declined exponentially.

"Licensed taxi drivers predicted that ride-share companies like Uber would be a “sexual haven for predators.” Getting into an Uber would be like “swimming in a sea full of sharks—one day you are going to get bitten.” They lost, which is why today it’s possible to ride in a car that doesn’t reek of curry and body odor and to end up with a driver capable of finding Grand Central Station.

"At least those demands were direct: Don’t let anyone compete with us. But all regulation imposes costs that are going to be harder for startups to bear." . . . More.

Clancy holdout juror gets doxxed, and subsequently harassed

Olivia Murray - American Thinker

"One of the jurors reportedly identified in the Lindsay Clancy trial is a supporter of Karen Read, the woman acquitted last year in the death of her boyfriend, Boston police Officer John O'Keefe."

"Well, the name of the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial is out there because he had the audacity to buck the “white savior” feminists and form his own opinions (based on evidence) while black. They hate when white men rebuff their politics, but when a black man does it? How dare he—doesn’t he know his place?

"Last week, a Boston NBC outlet figured out who the juror was, and while it didn’t name him specifically, it did publish very personal and private details about his life, running the article under this headline: “Domestic violence allegations raise questions about holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy trial.”

"First of all, the irony is just astounding: The same people vindictively skewering a man who was simply accused of domestic violence want a woman who freely admitted that she strangled her three children to death to go free. That’s the dispute at the center of the doxxing debacle.

"Secondly, though, it was only a matter of time before the internet was able to figure out exactly who he was based on the NBC “investigation.” He’s now being harassed and excoriated across the web, all because he simply showed up to do his civic duty and refused to budge on his conviction: The woman who “viciously killed” her own young children deserves to be convicted for her crimes." . . .

. . . "If your information is available anywhere in electronic form, data brokers and people-search sites compile your name, home address, phone number, and the names of your relatives, then sell the package legally to anyone with a credit card, police departments and private operators included." . . .

Expect to see this woman soon to be before a crowd with a bullhorn. TD 

Forget About Affordability, Dems Plan An Impeachment Bonanza Next Year

Democrats to the murderers in Iran and Hamas: stay strong and resist America under Trump; we're coming to the rescue! TD

Issues & Insights 

"But the pent-up desire among the radicals who control the Democratic Party to exact revenge on Trump and destroy his administration is so all-consuming that affordability will be the last thing on their minds."

"After spending months harping on the nation’s affordability “crisis,” Democrats have recently let slip that their real goal, if they get a majority in Congress, will be to impeach as many Trump administration officials as time allows over the next two years.

"They will market it as “holding the administration accountable,” but the goal is far more sinister – to purposefully cripple the administration, regardless of the danger it poses to the nation.

"In the past few days, articles in the Atlantic and MS NOW – two eminently reliable mouthpieces of the Democratic Party – said the party is considering a raft of impeachments of Trump Cabinet officials, if not Donald Trump himself.

"The latter, they point out, is politically difficult. No matter how much Trump haters would love to see him impeached for a third time, it almost certainly won’t lead to his conviction and removal, and could serve only to reenergize Republicans just before a presidential election. (Rep. Al Green, for one, doesn’t care, and has already introduced another impeachment resolution.)

"But why not go after Cabinet officials? Among those already on the list are War Secretary Pete Hegseth (Republican Rep. Thomas Massie decided to help Democrats on his way out by filing articles of impeachment against Hegseth), Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The left has also been calling to impeach Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for more than a year.

"In other words, Democrats are going to target any Cabinet official who has been effectively defying the left’s policy agenda. And they intend to weaponize impeachment to settle policy differences.

"The thinking is that, at the very least, these impeachments will effectively stop work at those agencies. Or they will lead to the departures of these officials. (Democrats point to the fact that the mere threat of impeachment – which would have gone nowhere in the Republican-controlled House – pushed Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi out of their roles.)

"But if Democrats gain control of the House, which looks likely, they can – and likely will – proceed full bore to start a raft of impeachment proceedings." . . .  More.

Justly sickened by the mass slaughter of a generation, the college generation of England swore not to go to war again for anyone. History records that evil nations took heart at the British position and were emboldened to act as they did. Churchill wrote later that many of these same rebels, when seeing the evil of Naziism became gallant soldiers against Hitler. 

One must only hope today's keffiyeh-clad useful idiots will lose their ignorance before any more babies in Israeli cribs will be burned alive. The Tunnel Dweller.

The Gathering Storm

King and Country debate  "The King and Country debate refers to a contentious session of the Oxford Union Society on 9 February 1933, during which the motion "That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country" was proposed, debated, and carried by a majority vote of 275 to 153.[1][2] This event, occurring mere days after Adolf Hitler's appointment as German Chancellor on 30 January 1933, encapsulated the pervasive pacifist sentiments among many British students scarred by the First World War's devastation, yet it ignited fierce backlash for appearing to repudiate national loyalty amid rising European threats.[3][2]

. . . "In Nazi Germany, the outcome of the 1933 Oxford Union debate was exploited in propaganda to depict Britain as decadent and unwilling to defend itself, thereby bolstering perceptions of German superiority and encouraging aggressive policies. A prominent Nazi youth leader referenced the vote in a conversation with British MP Robert Bernays later that year, expressing satisfaction at what he interpreted as evidence of British pacifism and moral decline.[2][22] This usage aligned with broader Nazi efforts to undermine Allied resolve, though direct influence on Adolf Hitler's strategic decisions remains a matter of historical interpretation rather than documented causation.[3]" . . .

Karoline Leavitt Is Actually Leaving the White House To Fight Socialism

Annie Holmquist - Intellectual Takeout  

"Because the woman who orders well her household, loving her husband and training her children to recognize common sense, produces far more arrows to fight insidious ideology than any time spent at a podium will ever do."    (Proverbs 31:10)

People Magazine photo from TD

"White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Wednesday that she is leaving her position as the public face of the Trump administration.

"The announcement was a bit surprising, not only because Leavitt just returned from maternity leave, but also because of her comments in recent months indicating that women can indeed have it all and raise a family while balancing a high-profile career. Now it seems the addition of another child has changed her perspective.

"'Being a mother and welcoming a new baby while working in one of the most demanding jobs in the world has been the most rewarding yet challenging season of my life, to say the least,” Leavitt wrote on X. “The truth is since returning to the White House after the birth of my daughter, I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom my two young children deserve while devoting the constant time, energy, and attention required of the White House Press Secretary….”

"Leavitt’s departure is coming at an inopportune time for the Trump administration, for as she acknowledges in her post, “Our country is facing an existential threat from an increasingly extremist Democrat Party that seeks to destroy everything great about America.” As recent primary elections indicate, that threat is the growing popularity of socialist-minded candidates."...   More.

This article was made possible by The Fred & Rheta Skelton Center for Cultural Renewal, a project of 1819 News. 

The DSA Just Picked a Man Who Called Israel a Terror State to Replace Chuck Schumer

 Deplorable Daily   

"The DSA hasn't been this close to controlling a major American political party since Eugene Debs was drawing a million votes."

"At Zohran Mamdani's victory party, Hakeem Jeffries appeared on the video screen and the crowd turned toward it chanting "You're next."

"Now the socialists have a Senate target and they just told us his name.

"The man the DSA wants in Chuck Schumer's seat called Israel a terror state.

"The Blueprint Takes Shape

"Chi Ossé is 28 years old, represents Brooklyn in the City Council, and is on a tour of upstate New York that looks exactly like a Senate campaign.

"He appeared at Kingston's Unicorn Bar Tuesday night at a "Take Our Power Back" DSA event.

"He pushed for government-run electricity." . . .

McGuffey Maxims: How Character Was Central in the Past's Curriculum

 Intellectual Takeout

"May we all have the wisdom and discernment to determine whether the schoolbooks used by our children today are training them to grow in courage and character … or grovel and creep for the rest of their days."

"I was online the other day when I stumbled upon a little maxim from “The New England Primer,” the first textbook used by thousands of children in the early days of the American colonies. The lines ran as follows:

Have communion with few,

Be intimate with one,

Deal justly with all,

Speak evil of none.

"That’s some great wisdom for life, and considering that its concise and versified nature was instilled in young children whose minds are sponges at that stage, it’s likely they remembered the advice long into adulthood.

"I began wondering what other life wisdom was imparted to America’s children through their textbooks in the early years of our nation, so I dug up the first three volumes of McGuffey readers, some of the most well-known reading textbooks used in America’s one-room schools. Looking solely at the few “script” sections scattered throughout the readers – which were likely portions of text the students were supposed to copy out in order to practice their handwriting – I found the following pieces.

From the First Reader:

When the stars at set of sun

Watch you from on high,

When the morning has begun,

Think the Lord is nigh.

All you do and all you say,

He can see and hear:

When you work and when you play,

Think the Lord is near.

All your joys and griefs He knows,

Counts each falling tear,

When to Him you tell your woes,

Know the Lord will hear.

"What kind of lessons does this simple verse drill into the hearts and minds of the children who read it? First, it establishes the fact that God is a real being, showing personal care toward those He has created. It demonstrates that He is ever present, rather than aloof, seeing all that His creatures do and say and think and experience. And finally, it recognizes the value of human life and the special role each of us plays on earth." . . . More.

Annie Holmquist served as the editor of Intellectual Takeout from 2018 to 2022. When not writing or editing, she enjoys reading, gardening, and time with family and friends.

How the Left’s ‘White Adjacent’ Tactic Was Manufactured: Creating a political weapon

 American Free News Network  

"The real inflection point came in 2020. The protests following George Floyd’s death produced a surge in demand for anti-racism training and literature. Books by DiAngelo and Kendi topped bestseller lists, and “white adjacent” migrated from internal training material into op-ed and cable news vocabulary as convenient shorthand."

"In the summer of 2021, as the fight over Harvard’s admission practices moved toward the Supreme Court, a peculiar new term began surfacing in op-eds, DEI training decks, and cable news panels: “white adjacent.”

"The phrase sounded almost clinical, like a term of art borrowed from sociology. In practice, it did something far more consequential; it gave the progressive racial justice apparatus a way to explain away an inconvenient fact. Asian Americans, by nearly every measure of educational and economic development, were outperforming the racial group that critical race theory holds up as the chief beneficiary of American structure power, i.e., white people themselves. Rather than treat that data as a complication for the theory, “white adjacent” absorbed it. Success itself was blithely recoded for political reasons as evidence of racial complicity.

"The below analysis traces where the term came from, what ideological work it is built to perform, how it moved from law school seminar rooms into the Democrat-media-academia mainstream, and – most useful to constitutional conservatives – how it can be effectively countered by anyone unwilling to let identity categories be assigned to them by people with a political agenda.

Origination and Ideological Heritage

“'White adjacent” has no single author and no known clean coining event. It is better understood as a derivative of Marxist critical race theory (CRT), the legal-academic movement that took shape in the mid-1970s among scholars such as Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Richard Delgado, who argue that civil rights-era legislation had failed to dislodge racists embedded in American law and institutions. The theoretical scaffolding most directly beneath “white adjacent” is law professor Cheryl Harris’s 1993 Harvard Law Review article “Whiteness as Property,” which argued that whiteness itself functions as a legal protected asset – something one can possess, and something that confers material advantage on those who hold it.

"From that foundation, “white adjacency” as a specific phrase emerged gradually across three overlapping channels through the 2010s: academic CRT writing on race and privilege, corporate and university DEI training curricula, and – perhaps most importantly – online Black community discourse, where the phrase was used to distinguish Black Americans from the broader “person of color” umbrella, on the theory that non-Black minorities were nominally “of color” but functionally shielded by proximity to whiteness." . . .  More.

‘Unassimilated Immigrants Will Make a Failed State in the United States’

Victor Davis Hanson:  "Islamic Socialism is Headed for the US"

"Democrats are elevating fears over artificial intelligence just before the midterms to attack Trump’s push for American technological dominance. Victor Davis Hanson warns that binding the U.S. to international AI controls could amount to unilateral disarmament if China and Russia refuse to play by the same rules. "Victor argues that the problem with importing immigrants from failed states who lack a desire to assimilate is that they often recreate conditions for their original country’s decline. "He examines Abdul El-Sayed’s supporters in Dearborn, who mourned the death of Ayatollah Khomeini as a case study for this phenomenon. Victor also critiques the true legacy of Obama, the race divisions that led to the rise of wokeness and lack of value for personal accountability in the zeitgeist.

Reading between the lines; An irreverent view of leftspeak.

J.A. Frascino 

"Fascism: Conservative leadership. Democracy: Government of the people, by the Democrat party, for the Democrat party."

"Insurgent leftists disingenuously use language to sway public opinion in support of their narrative, so as to gain populist support for the overthrow of the social order.  It is important that one look beyond the intended impact of their inflammatory rhetoric and unmask the true meaning of their verbal malfeasance.

"Reparations: Virtue-signaling with other people’s money.

"Going green: Growing moldy from inadequate electrical energy.

"Feminist: A female who rejects femininity.

"Socialism: A socioeconomic model incompatible with human nature.

"Misogyny: How women treat other women.

"White supremacy: The history of mankind.

"Death by A.I.: Fear-mongering for a new apocalypse that needs big government regulation.

"Freedom of speech: The right to censor opposing opinion.

"Freedom of the press: “All the news that’s fit to spin.”

"Racism: Herd instinct." . . . More.

Paramount’s Hollywood Exit Could Trigger an Avalanche in Los Angeles

The American Spectator 

"White House dreaming Governor Gavin Newsom has run the state since 2019 — into the ground, with the help of big city mayors." 

See the mountain in the middle of the city?

. . . Jesus said faith can move a mountain. But so can leftism. And the combination of California-Los Angeles-Hollywood Democratic ineptitude seems about to move the famous Paramount Pictures mountain out of the town and state where it has been for 100 years. Two weeks ago, I wrote an article here on how the imminent Paramount-Warner Bros. company might leave LA after the merger and desolate the entertainment industry. Now it appears Paramount will bolt if the merger is delayed.

"Last month, Paramount CEO David Ellison told his senior staff, LA Mayor Bass’s office, and state officials that he will transplant the studio to another (red) state if the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger is not settled by October 1st. California Attorney General Rob Bonta — who has worked to block the merger under liberal pressure — called the threat blackmail. Even though his maneuverings would force Paramount to start paying Warner Bros. $7 million per day beginning October 1st until the merger closes.

"Why the California AG is even involved in trying to block a corporate merger would make a great Hollywood picture — which will never be produced because it makes Hollywood and the Democratic city-state regime look like the left-wing clowns they are. As I wrote in my piece, the opposition to the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger has little to do with the stated objection — economics and jobs. Democratic control of the government and the Industry has resulted in total disaster for both.

"White House dreaming Governor Gavin Newsom has run the state since 2019 — into the ground, with the help of big city mayors. They spent $37 billion to reduce housing costs, yet fewer people can afford homes today, 44 percent, than six years ago, 57 percent. Of that sum, $28 billion supposedly went to alleviate homelessness, which increased 20 percent in five years from 151,000 vagrants (2019) to more than 187,000.

"Why the California AG is even involved in trying to block a corporate merger would make a great Hollywood picture — which will never be produced because it makes Hollywood and the Democratic city-state regime look like the left-wing clowns they are." . . .

Bonanza's True Filming Location & Paramount Studios Tour

"The Bonanza TV series was not truly shot at the Ponderosa Ranch nor Virginia City, Nevada but inside studios and Western Street of Paramount Studios in Hollywood. To check out that location Jeff and his son Bret visited Paramount Studios in Hollywood and learned much more about the movies and TV shows shot here. It was like drinking from a firehose!"

A Second Whistleblower Said Children Cried and Refused to Get in the Car After Xavier Becerra Sent Them to Strangers

Renewed Right   

"Whistleblowers have informed California governor candidate Steve Hilton (R) that his opponent Xavier Becerra (D) DISMANTLED policies that would've saved thousands of little kids from being trafficked and sexually exploited at the border."

"Former Biden secretary of health and human services Xavier Becerra called it an assembly line.

"Now a second whistleblower is confirming what that assembly line actually produced.

"And a whistleblower just revealed what Xavier Becerra did to unaccompanied migrant children who cried and refused to get in the car with strangers.

Children Cried While Agents Felt Like "Accomplices"

"Kadourah was a site supervisor for MVM in the summer of 2021, working directly with Health and Human Services and the White House as a liaison overseeing the transfer of unaccompanied migrant children to sponsors.

"What he saw didn't look like a rescue operation.

"'The children always seemed to look like they were scared and uncomfortable and vulnerable, when they were supposed to be safe," Kadourah said. "To me, those kids looked like, there's no other way to say it, they were still being trafficked."

The agents working the transfers felt it too.

"'They were worried. Because, I mean, they felt like they were accomplices in a human trafficking operation," Kadourah said." . . .More.

It's OK since Trump's people didn't do it.   

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="es" dir="ltr">KTLA just ended Xavier Becerra  https://t.co/oMuWmbdm8n</p>&mdash; Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) <a href="https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/2054252885983260724?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2026</a></blockquote>

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