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Critics Hit With ‘Woman Card’ After USA Today Argues Against Crowdfunding for Capitol Riot Defendants

Posted by Stacey Matthews on March 31, 2021 20 Comments

Reporters at USA Today landed themselves in hot water earlier this week after writing a piece that seemed to argue against crowdfunding sites allowing Capitol riot defendants to raise money to pay for their defense attorneys.

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Leftists Rush To Delete Tweets Blaming “Whites” For Boulder Shooting Once Identity Of Perp Revealed

Posted by Stacey Matthews on March 23, 2021 35 Comments

Anytime America has a mass shooting, Democrats and their allies in the MSM will rush to assign blame to Republicans before the name of a single victim is known and well before the public has been informed about who the alleged perp or perpetrators are in these heinous crimes.

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Trump Reportedly Launching Social Media Platform in Two to Three Months

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 22, 2021 24 Comments

Former President Donald Trump's senior advisor Jason Miller told Fox News Trump will return to social media in two to three months on his own platform:

"I do think that we’re going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here, with his own platform," Trump senior adviser Jason Miller told Fox News' "#MediaBuzz" on Sunday. "And this is something that I think will be the hottest ticket in social media, it’s going to completely redefine the game, and everybody is going to be waiting and watching to see what exactly President Trump does."

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U.S. Military Twitter Accounts And Officials Attack Tucker Carlson For Questioning Woke Agenda

Posted by Stacey Matthews on March 13, 2021 33 Comments

If you didn't think the whole "controversy" surrounding Tucker Carlson's commentary earlier this week on how the Department of Defense is busy politicizing and feminizing the U.S. military as China makes their military more masculine could get any more absurd, you were wrong.

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Hyatt Hotels Pushes Back on Leftist Boycott Calls Over Hosting CPAC

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 28, 2021 24 Comments

In response to a campaign started by disgraced "grim reaper" lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder, Loews Hotels announced last month that they would no longer be hosting a scheduled fundraiser for Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) in Florida on grounds that the chain was “opposed” to anyone who “supported and incited” the actions of the Capitol rioters.

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Still More DOJ Charging Documents Show Facebook — Not Parler — Most Used By Capitol Hill Rioters

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on February 24, 2021 44 Comments

The big lie foisted on the public to excuse Apple and Google removing the Parler app and then later for Amazon booting Parler off its website hosting platform continues to unravel.

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Parler is Back!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2021 62 Comments

Despite the attempts of the cabal of Amazon Web Services, Google, Apple, and many other high tech monsters to take it down, Parler has been brought back to life. It's unclear if Parler is completely back, but I just logged in and the Legal Insurrection page is up and running and we still have almost 400,000 followers. Our prior "parleys" have not populated yet, but I assume that will take time.

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Twitter Permanently Suspends Project Veritas, Locked James O’Keefe’s Account

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 12, 2021 47 Comments

Twitter kicked off Project Veritas from the platform for breaking its "private information policy." It also locked founder James O'Keefe out from his personal account.

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The Mandalorian Star Gina Carano Fired, Dropped by Talent Agency for Social Media Posts

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 11, 2021 100 Comments

The mob has gone after Gina Carano, who plated Cara Dune in The Mandalorian, for months over her social media posts. They won after she compared being a Republican today to Jews during the Holocaust. Lucasfilm said Carano is "not currently employed" by them, "and there are no plans for her to be in the future."

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Parler Vindicated: Study Finds Facebook ‘Far and Away’ Most Used Social Media By Capitol Hill Rioters

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on February 10, 2021 52 Comments

The coordinated Big Tech deplatforming of Parler is looking more and more suspect. Last month, I reviewed every arrest report the DOJ had made available at that time, and the overwhelming number of social media posts cited in these reports were those posted on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. There was barely any mention of Parler.

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1619 Project Brainchild Hannah-Jones Doxxed Free Beacon Reporter

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 09, 2021 31 Comments

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times magazine reporter and the brainchild behind the controversial 1619 Project, doxxed Washington Free Beacon associate editor Aaron Sibarium. She posted a screenshot of his email, which included his phone number.

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New App Allows Twitter Users to Block All NY Times Reporters With One Click

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 08, 2021 15 Comments

Someone has developed a new app called "Block The New York Times," which allows Twitter users to block "New York Times-linked accounts" to help "control the flood of corporate disinformation online."

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Biased NYU Study Claims ‘No Reliable Evidence’ of Big Tech Bias Against Conservatives

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 03, 2021 11 Comments

Any doubts a conservative might have had about persistent claims from Republicans that Big Tech actively worked to censor conservative voices likely vanished after several tech giants took drastic actions in the aftermath of the Capitol riots.

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San Francisco Teacher: Bernie’s Mittens Oozed ‘White Privilege, Male Privilege, and Class Privilege’

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 01, 2021 55 Comments

Former Berkeley professor and current San Francisco teacher Ingrid Seyer-Ochi provided proof that no male is off-limits when it comes to the privilege label.

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Is the GameStop Saga Really an Army of Investing “Davids” vs Hedge Fund “Goliaths”?

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 01, 2021 25 Comments

In 2007, Glenn Reynolds wrote An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths.

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The Purge Deepens, Literary Agent Fired Merely For Having Parler and Gab Accounts

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2021 33 Comments

We have covered a gazillion cases since last spring of people 'cancelled' for social media posting or public statements that offend the dominant leftist orthodoxy on campus and elsewhere. It's very personal combat, almost always left cancelling right, and it's setting the nation against itself.

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Capitol Hill Riot: DOJ Arrest Reports Focus On Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Barely Mention Parler

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on January 28, 2021 15 Comments

The takedown of Parler was purportedly based on its unique role in fomenting hate online relating to its alleged outsize role in the events at the Capitol on January 6th.  Having spent a couple days weeding through the DOJ's published arrest reports, I found little mention of Parler, but plenty of alleged criminal conduct referencing Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, in the charging document.

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Revenge of the Nerds: Reddit “WallStreetBets” Short Squeezes Hedge Fund on GameStop Stock

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 28, 2021 65 Comments

The last time I headed into GameStop, a chain store selling a wide variety of games (software, board, role-playing), was about four years ago when my son participated in a "Magic the Gathering" tournament.

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