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8 YEARS: Jail term for comic over his jokes

Brazil's Leo Lins 'is being treated like a drug
trafficker'

A Brazilian comedian has been jailed for cight years and
three months for making offensive jokes in a stand-up
special.

A federal court in São Paulo said Leo Lins's work
contributed to "the spread of verbal violence in society
and promotion of intolerance.

The Brazilian government brought the case, saying the
comedian's material targetted black people, the obese.
elderly people, those living with HIV, LGBT people,
evangelicals, Indigenous communities, people from the
impoverished northeast of Brazil, Jews and people with
disabilitics.

His lawyers criticised the ruling, saying in a statement: a
"This is a sad chapter for freedom of expression in Brasil.

Bilderberg 2025 Elites Quietly Discuss 'Depopulation' Behind Closed Doors in Stockholm

Bilderberg's press release webpage refuses to be archived by Wayback Machine or archive.ph. ...

Bilderberg claims the public’s concerns about the group’s aims are nothing but “wild allegations” with “no merit.”

It laments that these so-called “conspiracies” keep gaining traction online, signaling the elites’ frustration that too many people are taking notice. ...

This year, Bilderberg elites are explicitly gathering to discuss “Depopulation and Migration,” according to a press release, whose webpage cannot be archived by Wayback Machine or archive.ph.

(Why block public archiving of a press release about private discussions on reducing population?)

Not just migration, but depopulation, a term that by definition refers to a reduction in population.

71st Bilderberg Meeting to take place 12 - 15 June in Stockholm, Sweden

STOCKHOLM, 12 June 2025 – The 71st Bilderberg Meeting will take place from 12 – 15 June 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media has been invited. The list of participants is available on bilderbergmeetings.org.

The topics for discussion this year are:

Transatlantic Relationship
Ukraine
US Economy
Europe
Middle East
Authoritarian Axis
Defence Innovation and Resilience
AI, Deterrence and National Security
Proliferation
Geopolitics of Energy and Critical Minerals
Depopulation and Migration

Vice President JD Vance was suspended from the left-leaning social media platform Bluesky on Wednesday, just minutes after joining and sharing his first post.

“Hello Bluesky, I’ve been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis,” Vance wrote in his first post on the X competitor. “So I’m thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.”

The vice president went on to weigh in on the Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld Tennessee’s restrictions on transgender medical treatments for minors.

“To that end, I found Justice [Clarence] Thomas’s concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating,” Vance wrote, including a screenshot of the conservative justice’s statement agreeing with the 6-3 ruling.

“He argues that many of our so-called ‘experts’ have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth,” the vice president continued. “I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids.”

“What do you think?”

Within 12 minutes of the post, and Vance announcing on X that he had joined the platform, his Bluesky account was suspended, according to Axios journalist Marc Caputo.

“Not found. Account has been suspended,” read a message on Vance’s Bluesky page.

The ban was brief, as the vice president’s account was reinstated just minutes later.

It does not appear that the vice president’s post ran afoul of any of Bluesky’s community guidelines.

Belgian conservative-nationalist Dries Van Langenhove has again been sentenced on appeal to one year in prison as a suspended sentence for what the judge said were violations of the Racism and Negationism Act.

The sentence stems from racist memes that were not even posted by him, but by members of a group chat he administrated seven years ago.

The sentence was delivered today by the Court of Appeal in Ghent, although Van Langenhove does not accept the sentence, and the case now goes into cassation.

On X, Van Langenhove simply wrote, “Guilty. 12 months in jail. Madness.”

https://x.com/DVanLangenhove/status/1935958654127411699

@grok
Dries Van Langenhove was convicted on June 20, 2025, by the Ghent Court of Appeal for violating Belgium’s racism and negationism laws. Charges include promoting hate speech, Holocaust denial, and incitement to discrimination through his far-right group, Schild & Vrienden. Additional charges involve illegal possession and sale of pepper spray. He received a one-year suspended sentence and a €1,600 fine, with an appeal planned. The case has sparked debate over free speech versus hate speech laws.

He later clarified upon receipt of the written verdict that the custodial sentence “appears to be a suspended sentence,” which he suspects is “most likely because the prisons in Belgium are literally full of illegal migrants.”

“Most people don’t realize that the end result of such a sentence is the same. One politically incorrect tweet can now put me in jail. One meme sent by someone else in a group chat I am in can turn the suspended sentence into an effective one. This suspended sentence is the gravest form of censorship they could pursue and an effective way to kill activism,” he added. ...

“It is a black day for free speech, for Flanders, and for Europe,” said Van Langenhove when he came out. “Me, my family, and my environment have been terrorized for humor in a private chat group for seven years. Unfortunately, the court never wanted to listen to me, even now.”

A Norwegian tourist claims he was harassed and refused entry to the US after immigration officers found a meme of JD Vance on his phone.

Mads Mikkelsen, 21, arrived at New Jersey's Newark Airport on June 11, excited about his holiday.

But, his plans were thrown into disarray when he was reportedly pulled aside by border control and put in a cell.

The tourist was then subjected to what he described to Norwegian outlet Nordlys as an 'abuse, of power and harassment'.

'They asked questions about drug trafficking, terrorist plots and right-wing extremism totally without reason,' he told the outlet.

Mr Mikkelsen, claimed the officers then threatened him with a $5,000 fine or five years in prison if he refused to give the password to his mobile phone.

The guards reportedly found a meme on the device's camera roll showing US vice president JD Vance with a bald, egg-shaped head.

Mikkelsen said after discovering the image the authorities sent him home to Norway the same day.

If true,

Murthy v. Missouri (2024), originally filed as Missouri v. Biden, was a case in the Supreme Court of the United States involving the First Amendment, the federal government, and social media. The states of Missouri and Louisiana, led by Missouri's then Attorney General Eric Schmitt, filed suit against the U.S. government in the Western District of Louisiana. They claimed that the federal government pressured social media companies to censor conservative views and criticism of the Biden administration in violation of the right to freedom of expression. The government said it had only made requests, not demands, that social media operators remove misinformation.

On July 4, 2023, Judge Terry A. Doughty issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting several agencies and members of the Biden administration from contacting social media services to request the blocking of material, with exceptions for material involving illegal activity. On appeal, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that there had been some coercion in the government's contact with social media companies in violation of the First Amendment, but narrowed the extent of Doughty's injunction to block any attempts by the government to threaten or coerce moderation on social media. The U.S. Supreme Court initially stayed the Fifth Circuit's order, then granted review of the case by writ of certiorari. On June 26, 2024, the Court ruled 6–3 that the states lacked standing to bring suit.

The U.S. Supreme Court today denied Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) petition to hear its case against Meta over the company’s collusion with government officials to censor CHD content on Facebook. ...

CHD sued Meta in August 2020 and filed an amended complaint in November 2020, alleging that government actors partnered with Facebook to censor CHD’s speech — particularly speech related to vaccines and COVID-19 — that should have been protected under the First Amendment.

The company deplatformed CHD from Facebook and Instagram in August 2022 and has not reinstated the accounts.

The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in August 2024 sided with Facebook, ruling that Meta’s censorship was the result of the company’s policy rather than government coercion. ...

CHD CEO Mary Holland, who said CHD is “deeply disappointed” that the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, told The Defender:

“It has been obvious since the time the case was filed in August 2020 that Facebook and its allied media worked hand in glove with the federal public health authorities to censor CHD and to promote government-sponsored false information on COVID and other vaccine issues.”

CHD General Counsel Kim Mack Rosenberg echoed Holland’s disappointment. She said:

“We at CHD believe strongly that consumers of media have a right to hear a variety of viewpoints and sources and that those like CHD that communicate information that may challenge the prevailing narrative have a right to be heard.

“These are fundamental hallmarks of democracy, and it is deeply disheartening that the Supreme Court chose not to address this critical issue.”

Un colloque international au Palais Brongniart, à Paris, a été annulé à la dernière minute. Des scientifiques voulaient dénoncer la corruption et les pressions qu’ils subissent lorsqu’ils remettent en cause la parole officielle.

Décidément, il est difficile de faire entendre une autre voix que la voix officielle sur les questions de santé publique. À preuve, ce colloque international organisé par des personnalités du monde scientifiques ou des affaires telles de Joseph Tritto, David Anderson ou Andrew Marsh, qui devait se tenir au Palais Brongniart à Paris du 27 au 29 juin 2025. Avec des invités de renom comme le Pr Robert Malone, ce célèbre biologiste moléculaire à l’origine des vaccins ARN messager ou encore Jean-Marc Sabatier, Docteur en biologie cellulaire et microbiologie, HDR en biochimie, directeur de recherche au CNRS que connaissent bien les lecteurs d’infodujour.

Il s’agissait de dénoncer la corruption insupportable qui règne dans l’industrie du médicament qui prospère grâce à la complaisance, pour ne pas dire la complicité, des organismes officiels, nationaux ou internationaux, comme l’OMS. Or, au dernier moment, ce colloque a été annulé.

An international conference at the Palais Brongniart in Paris was canceled at the last minute. Scientists had intended to denounce the corruption and pressure they face when challenging official narratives.

It seems increasingly difficult to voice perspectives that diverge from official positions on public health matters. Case in point: this international symposium organized by prominent figures from the scientific and business communities—including Joseph Tritto, David Anderson, and Andrew Marsh—which was scheduled to take place at the Palais Brongniart in Paris from June 27 to 29, 2025. The event was to feature distinguished guests like Dr. Robert Malone, the renowned molecular biologist pivotal to developing mRNA vaccines, and Jean-Marc Sabatier, a PhD in cell biology and microbiology with accreditation to supervise research (HDR) in biochemistry and a CNRS research director, well-known to readers of Info du Jour.

The aim was to expose the intolerable corruption plaguing the pharmaceutical industry, which thrives thanks to the indulgence—if not outright complicity—of national and international regulatory bodies like the WHO. Yet, at the eleventh hour, the conference was canceled.