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As you read, ask yourself how Bai illustrates each claim that he makes. What evidence does he provide for the things he tells you? Go read, and decide for yourself, then come back.

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Ohio’s junior senator, you might have seen, turned up at the criminal courthouse in Manhattan this week, with his ultra-trendy woodsman’s beard and blood-red tie, to viciously attack the prosecutors and witnesses in the trial of Donald Trump.

Bai is telling you about a vicious attack, something horrible and frightening. How much of the vicious attack does he tell you about? What portion of it does he quote? Really notice and internalize what this sleazy reptilian motherfucker just did: He doesn’t provide the slightest description of anything Vance actually said. There’s no direct quote — zero, not a single word. He hangs amygdala-hammering trigger words around an event, but he doesn’t describe the event in any way. He tells you to be afraid of something without telling what it was.

Yesterday, Iowa ABC affiliate KCRG-9 ran a viral story headlined, “Satanic display at Iowa Capitol vandalized ‘beyond repair’; arrest made.” ...

Mr. Cassidy’s vandalism was widely reported in U.S. media. But left completely out of the clearly-coordinated mainstream stories were: Cassidy’s military background, any photos of the pushed-over statue, any quotes from Cassidy — a public figure who’s run for Congress twice — explaining his motives, nor even any picture of Cassidy! Not even his mugshot!

Nor did the U.S. stories mention anything about all his online support, which proves the story has clear public interest.

And, if they still ran Twitter, we’d be watching a metric ton of censorship landing on everybody. Of course, for safety (of papier maché dolls). And to stop misinformation — about the Satanic Temple. (Cue painfully-extreme eye roll.)

Iowa drops felony hate crime charges against Michael Cassidy for destroying satanic statue

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The FBI just admitted in court that Hunter Biden's laptop is real.

Here are 20 minutes of Joe Biden, U.S. intelligence officials, and the American media claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop was "Russian disinformation."

The FBI has had possession of Hunter's laptop since December 2019.

Leading up to the 2020 election, Twitter and Facebook censored the Biden laptop story because the FBI warned them of a potential hack-and-leak operation targeting Hunter Biden.

The FBI knew that Hunter's laptop was real the entire time.

In October 2022, @MarcoPolo501c3 published a 640-page Report on the Biden Laptop that meticulously documents 459 crimes involving the Biden family and their associates.

The report provides evidence of Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations, money laundering, and tax fraud found on Hunter's laptop.

It also exposes how federal law enforcement agencies, influenced by politics, protect the Biden family from prosecution while targeting President Biden's primary election opponent, Donald Trump.

Shame on all of these people for lying to the American people, rigging our elections, and destroying the integrity of our nation.

The FBI just admitted in court that Hunter Biden's laptop is real.

With his team in the NBA Finals, the league expects Mazzulla to give a press conference on every "off-day" between games. It was at Saturday's conference that Vince Goodwill of Yahoo decided to pipe up with a question only progressive media writers seem to care about these days. Mazzulla's response was an instant classic:

Goodwill: Hey Joe, Vince Goodwill, Yahoo Sports. For the first time since 1975, this is the NBA Finals where you have two black head coaches. Uh, given the plight sometimes of black coaches in the NBA, do you think this is a significant moment? Do you take pride in this? How do you view this or do you not see it at all?

Mazzulla: Wonder how many of those are, or have been Christian coaches?

(awkward silence)

Voice off camera: David Alrich (next reporter in line for question)? ...

But let's go back to Mazzulla's response. The coach himself never specified or clarified precisely the meaning or implications of his words. And in fairness, given that they could mean a couple of different things, that might explain the awkward silence after his response.

But the simplest explanation is that Mazzulla was pointing out the arbitrary nature of Goodwill's question. Why ask about race? A coach's race has no bearing whatsoever on the athletic abilities of the players or their preparation for the finals. So Mazzulla's point might easily have been, "Why ask about race rather than say, a different arbitrary category like faith?"

If Goodwill (or anyone) responded by saying to Mazzulla, "It doesn't matter if a coach is Christian or not," the point is made: "it also doesn't matter if a coach is black or not, so why are we wasting time talking about this?"

Of course, it's also possible that Mazzulla was pointing out that the media has its own narrative that they are interested in talking about - racial politics. It has long been observed that many in sports media are either washed up, or wannabe political journos who haven't made it in that competitive field. Sports writing became the fallback plan, and many are still desperate to make the transition. That desperation has led to an epidemic of "woke sports" hot takes by political activists hoping to make a big enough splash that CNN, MSNBC, or the Washington Post notices them.

If that seems unlikely to you, just note that even after Mazzulla's dismissive rebuke, Goodwill proceeded to write a 1,500 word article on the struggle of black coaches. In other words, this was never an article about Mazzulla, it was never an article about the NBA Finals, it was never an article aimed at those who care about the Celtics, Mavericks, or sports at all.

In case you were tempted to start wondering about it all, BBC’s analyst labeled all doubts about the Hunter Trial as “bizarre.” Bizarre, even though Joe Biden’s son was only charged with the least criminal conduct that the trial evidence proved, eliding right over the millions Hunter raked in from U.S. enemies. Bizarre, even though Trump was charged with the most criminal conduct prosecutors could dream up, using tortured, novel legal theories.

But the BBC can’t see any difference between the two trials...