Biden's own treatment of White House staff members is now making headlines following a report from Axios, wherein officials and aides outlined the president's alleged short temper and profanity-laden rants.
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Biden vow to crack down on disrespectful workplace behavior resurfaces amid reported F-bombs directed at staff | Fox News
Biden vow to crack down on disrespectful workplace behavior resurfaces amid reported F-bombs directed at staff | Fox News:
The appalling media campaign to bow to government censors | Fox News
The appalling media campaign to bow to government censors | Fox News
The appalling media campaign to bow to government censors
It's shocking and depressing to me that major media figures are defending government censorship
By Jonathan Turley | Fox News
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Editor's note: This essay first appeared on the author's blog Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks.
As a long-standing free speech advocate, the last few years have been alarming and, frankly, depressing.
The censorship efforts of the government are, unfortunately, not new. However, what is new is the support of the media and the Democratic Party in such censorship. That was on display on various channels after the recent opinion finding that the Biden administration had violated the First Amendment in "the most massive attack against free speech in United States history."
However, the New York Times immediately warned that the outbreak of free speech could "curtail efforts to combat disinformation." Yet, no one expressed it more simply and chillingly than CNN Chief White House Correspondent Phil Mattingly who stated that it "makes sense" for tech companies to go along with government censorship demands.
BIDEN LIKELY VIOLATED FIRST AMENDMENT DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC, FEDERAL JUDGE SAYS
Mattingly admitted that social media platforms "more often than not" gave in to the censorship demands by the Biden administration. However, he insisted that it "makes sense," and is "probably what we should do on public health grounds."
"[T]he Biden administration would regularly reach out to Twitter and Facebook and other companies in kind of the early stages of their COVID response and say, this person is spreading lies about vaccines, this account is spreading misinformation that is inhibiting — not just our efforts, the administration’s efforts to address COVID — but also public health, do something about it. And often, I think more often than not, the companies would respond and say, okay. And there are emails that came out during the course of this case that that was something that I think — when it was explained to me at the time, I thought, alright, that makes sense, that’s probably what we should do on public health grounds."
What is striking is not just the blind acceptance that the government should be protecting us from harmless thoughts. It is also the failure to recognize that the government was wrong on many of these points while experts were being banned and blacklisted.
Many people were routinely censored on Twitter and other platforms for daring to challenge the official position on masks.
Video
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initially rejected the use of a mask mandate. However, the issue became a political weapon as politicians and the press claimed that questioning masks was anti-science and even unhinged. In April 2020, the CDC reversed its position and called for the masking of the entire population, including children as young as 2 years old. The mask mandate and other pandemic measures like the closing of schools are now cited as fueling emotional and developmental problems in children.
The closing of schools and businesses was also challenged by some critics as unnecessary. Many of those critics were also censored. It now appears that they may have been right. Many countries did not close schools and did not experience increases in COVID. However, we are now facing alarming drops in testing scores and alarming rises in medical illness among the young.
BIDEN TO APPEAL BIG TECH COLLUSION RULING BANNING ADMIN OFFICIALS MEETING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA FIRMS: REPORT
Masks became a major social and political dividing line in politics and the media. Maskless people were chased from stores and denounced in Congress. Then-CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said during a Senate hearing that "face masks are the most important powerful health tool we have."
Video
However, there are now ample studies stating that "a new scientific review suggests that widespread masking may have done little to nothing to curb the transmission of COVID." It added that "wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness/COVID-like illness (nine studies; 276,917 people); and probably makes little or no difference in how many people have flu/COVID confirmed by a laboratory test (six studies; 13,919 people)."
JUDGE PRAISED FOR ‘STUNNING’ JULY 4 REBUKE OF BIDEN ADMIN ON BIG TECH CENSORSHIP: ‘FINALLY’
It also found little evidence of a difference from wearing better masks and that "wearing N95/P2 respirators probably makes little to no difference in how many people have confirmed flu (five studies; 8407 people); and may make little to no difference in how many people catch a flu-like illness (five studies; 8407 people), or respiratory illness (three studies; 7799 people)."
Again, I expect that these studies will be debated for years. That is a good thing. There are questions raised over the types of studies used and whether randomized studies are sufficient. The point is only that there were countervailing indicators on mask efficacy and a basis to question the mandates. Yet, there was no real debate because of the censorship supported by many Democratic leaders in social media. To question such mandates was declared a public health threat.
The head of the World Health Organization even supported censorship to combat what he called an "infodemic."
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Bhattacharya previously objected to the suspension of Dr. Clare Craig after she raised concerns about Pfizer trial documents. Those doctors were the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated for a more focused COVID response that targeted the most vulnerable population rather than widespread lockdowns and mandates. Many are now questioning the efficacy and cost of the massive lockdown as well as the real value of masks or the rejection of natural immunities as an alternative to vaccination. Yet, these experts and others were attacked for such views just a year ago. Some found themselves censored on social media for challenging claims of Dr. Anthony Fauci and others.
Video
The media has quietly acknowledged the science questioning mask efficacy and school closures without addressing its own role in attacking those who raised these objections. Even raising the lab theory on the origin of COVID-19 (a theory now treated as plausible) was denounced as a conspiracy theory. The science and health reporter for the New York Times, Apoorva Mandavilli, even denounced the theory as "racist."
Yet, Mattingly and others are now defending censorship by repeating a tautology: the government must seek the censorship of ideas because some ideas must be censored. Governments have always claimed that censorship of critics and dissenters is for the public’s best interest. They have always defined certain views as harmful or false.
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Now, however, major media figures are shrugging off free speech concerns and supporting censorship as what former CNN media host and correspondent Brian Stelter called a "harm reduction model." While once fiercely opposed to censorship and government-supported blacklisting, many in the media are echoing Mattingly's view that the natural default should be to obey the government and its directions on permitted speech.
After all, this is all for our own protection. Censorship just "makes sense."
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The appalling media campaign to bow to government censors
It's shocking and depressing to me that major media figures are defending government censorship
By Jonathan Turley | Fox News
Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley explains why Democrats’ criticisms of the Supreme Court are ‘ironic.'
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!
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0:00 / 6:07
1XBeyondWords
Editor's note: This essay first appeared on the author's blog Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks.
As a long-standing free speech advocate, the last few years have been alarming and, frankly, depressing.
The censorship efforts of the government are, unfortunately, not new. However, what is new is the support of the media and the Democratic Party in such censorship. That was on display on various channels after the recent opinion finding that the Biden administration had violated the First Amendment in "the most massive attack against free speech in United States history."
However, the New York Times immediately warned that the outbreak of free speech could "curtail efforts to combat disinformation." Yet, no one expressed it more simply and chillingly than CNN Chief White House Correspondent Phil Mattingly who stated that it "makes sense" for tech companies to go along with government censorship demands.
BIDEN LIKELY VIOLATED FIRST AMENDMENT DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC, FEDERAL JUDGE SAYS
Mattingly admitted that social media platforms "more often than not" gave in to the censorship demands by the Biden administration. However, he insisted that it "makes sense," and is "probably what we should do on public health grounds."
"[T]he Biden administration would regularly reach out to Twitter and Facebook and other companies in kind of the early stages of their COVID response and say, this person is spreading lies about vaccines, this account is spreading misinformation that is inhibiting — not just our efforts, the administration’s efforts to address COVID — but also public health, do something about it. And often, I think more often than not, the companies would respond and say, okay. And there are emails that came out during the course of this case that that was something that I think — when it was explained to me at the time, I thought, alright, that makes sense, that’s probably what we should do on public health grounds."
What is striking is not just the blind acceptance that the government should be protecting us from harmless thoughts. It is also the failure to recognize that the government was wrong on many of these points while experts were being banned and blacklisted.
Many people were routinely censored on Twitter and other platforms for daring to challenge the official position on masks.
VideoThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initially rejected the use of a mask mandate. However, the issue became a political weapon as politicians and the press claimed that questioning masks was anti-science and even unhinged. In April 2020, the CDC reversed its position and called for the masking of the entire population, including children as young as 2 years old. The mask mandate and other pandemic measures like the closing of schools are now cited as fueling emotional and developmental problems in children.
The closing of schools and businesses was also challenged by some critics as unnecessary. Many of those critics were also censored. It now appears that they may have been right. Many countries did not close schools and did not experience increases in COVID. However, we are now facing alarming drops in testing scores and alarming rises in medical illness among the young.
BIDEN TO APPEAL BIG TECH COLLUSION RULING BANNING ADMIN OFFICIALS MEETING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA FIRMS: REPORT
Masks became a major social and political dividing line in politics and the media. Maskless people were chased from stores and denounced in Congress. Then-CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said during a Senate hearing that "face masks are the most important powerful health tool we have."
VideoHowever, there are now ample studies stating that "a new scientific review suggests that widespread masking may have done little to nothing to curb the transmission of COVID." It added that "wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness/COVID-like illness (nine studies; 276,917 people); and probably makes little or no difference in how many people have flu/COVID confirmed by a laboratory test (six studies; 13,919 people)."
JUDGE PRAISED FOR ‘STUNNING’ JULY 4 REBUKE OF BIDEN ADMIN ON BIG TECH CENSORSHIP: ‘FINALLY’
It also found little evidence of a difference from wearing better masks and that "wearing N95/P2 respirators probably makes little to no difference in how many people have confirmed flu (five studies; 8407 people); and may make little to no difference in how many people catch a flu-like illness (five studies; 8407 people), or respiratory illness (three studies; 7799 people)."
Again, I expect that these studies will be debated for years. That is a good thing. There are questions raised over the types of studies used and whether randomized studies are sufficient. The point is only that there were countervailing indicators on mask efficacy and a basis to question the mandates. Yet, there was no real debate because of the censorship supported by many Democratic leaders in social media. To question such mandates was declared a public health threat.
The head of the World Health Organization even supported censorship to combat what he called an "infodemic."
CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER
Bhattacharya previously objected to the suspension of Dr. Clare Craig after she raised concerns about Pfizer trial documents. Those doctors were the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated for a more focused COVID response that targeted the most vulnerable population rather than widespread lockdowns and mandates. Many are now questioning the efficacy and cost of the massive lockdown as well as the real value of masks or the rejection of natural immunities as an alternative to vaccination. Yet, these experts and others were attacked for such views just a year ago. Some found themselves censored on social media for challenging claims of Dr. Anthony Fauci and others.
VideoThe media has quietly acknowledged the science questioning mask efficacy and school closures without addressing its own role in attacking those who raised these objections. Even raising the lab theory on the origin of COVID-19 (a theory now treated as plausible) was denounced as a conspiracy theory. The science and health reporter for the New York Times, Apoorva Mandavilli, even denounced the theory as "racist."
Yet, Mattingly and others are now defending censorship by repeating a tautology: the government must seek the censorship of ideas because some ideas must be censored. Governments have always claimed that censorship of critics and dissenters is for the public’s best interest. They have always defined certain views as harmful or false.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Now, however, major media figures are shrugging off free speech concerns and supporting censorship as what former CNN media host and correspondent Brian Stelter called a "harm reduction model." While once fiercely opposed to censorship and government-supported blacklisting, many in the media are echoing Mattingly's view that the natural default should be to obey the government and its directions on permitted speech.
After all, this is all for our own protection. Censorship just "makes sense."
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM JONATHAN TURLEY
Unmasking the DEI Paradox - Minding The Campus
Unmasking the DEI Paradox - Minding The Campus"...A recent Boston Globe editorial titled “DEI Denial is the modern day lynching” by Ya’Ke Smith engages in this kind of sophistry....
But in the same article, Smith slips in the claim that any disagreement with DEI policies is an act of violence, writing that “modern day attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies in higher education institutions are the equivalent of the tightened rope, and just as suffocating.”...
Indeed, obfuscation is often the point.
Indeed, obfuscation is often the point.
- This can be introduced by using words that are so ambiguous or abstract that they fail to describe anything we can even recognize. By replacing words like ‘torture’ with ‘enhanced interrogation techniques,’ by calling someone in prison “a person experiencing the criminal-justice system,” or by changing ‘sex changes for children’ to ‘gender-affirming care for minors,’ proponents of these tactics often obsess over semantics.
- Such abstractions might even be embedded in a vaguely worded slogan, such as ‘Protect Trans Kids.’ Does that mean allowing eight-year-old boys who self-identify as female to have surgery and start taking puberty blockers, or does it mean making sure they are protected from these often irreversible decisions until they are older? As usual, the devil is in the details.
Orwell wrote that “The worst thing one can do with words is to surrender to them,” and none of this verbal gymnastics makes torture, prison, or surgical mutilation less brutal...
Indeed, many view reality itself as nothing more than a language game...
Indeed, many view reality itself as nothing more than a language game...
The Daily Chart: College Bloat After the Loan Decision | Power Line
The Daily Chart: College Bloat After the Loan Decision | Power Line - STEVEN HAYWARD 
"Harvey Mansfield once quipped that the Democratic Party is a coalition of college professors and morons, which prompted “Lucretia” to remark on a podcast that it is impossible to tell the difference.
- But if higher education wasn’t an adjunct of the Democratic Party, surely the left would be charging the industry with consumer fraud and price gouging...
EXCLUSIVE: The Chinese Military Is Training Kindergarteners For War In Bootcamps Across The Country | The Daily Caller
EXCLUSIVE: The Chinese Military Is Training Kindergarteners For War In Bootcamps Across The Country | The Daily Caller:
The Chinese military is training kindergarteners to handle firearms and fight like soldiers in boot camps across China this summer, according to dozens of school social media accounts reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The boot camps feature combat training for boys and girls with a wide variety of toy weapons including knives, grenades, rifles and shoulder-fired missiles, and require the children to adopt military behavior, such as saluting, the schools’ social media posts show.
History for July 12
History for July 12 - On-This-Day.com 
Milton Berle 1908 - Actor
- 1862 - The U.S. Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.
- 1870 - The first rotary can opener with a cutting wheel was patented by William W. Lyman.
- 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a highway modernization program, with costs to be shared by federal and state governments.
- 1957 - The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reported that there was a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
- 1982 - The last of the distinctive-looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, MI.
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Anti-child-trafficker whose story is told in 'Sound of Freedom' explains that the trans agenda and Biden administration's border policies benefit pedophiles - TheBlaze
Anti-child-trafficker whose story is told in 'Sound of Freedom' explains that the trans agenda and Biden administration's border policies benefit pedophiles - TheBlaze:
According to Ballard, the so-called pedophile network doctrines — not strictly specific to the PNVD — are:
The California Homeless Problem Is a Bear
The California Homeless Problem Is a Bear - VIRGINIA POSTREL
In one of the most hyper-regulated places this side of Singapore, the level of public disorder is disturbing.
- But pretending it's just about housing misses its most salient features.
The city missed a few promised pickups.
- Before we knew it, a group of vagrants had made themselves at home and were eating, drinking, and littering....
In one of the most hyper-regulated places this side of Singapore, the level of public disorder is disturbing.
Everyone complains about it....
"Could be..."?!!-----‘Bed rotting’ is self-care, some insist, but mental health expert shares warnings about social media trend
‘Bed rotting’ is self-care, some insist, but mental health expert shares warnings about social media trend"Some lounging can be beneficial, but doctors warn too much could be ‘sign of depression'...
- Lounging in bed all day might seem lazy — but some Gen Z trend followers are now embracing it as a form of self-care.
About That Claim That July 3-4 Were the 'Hottest Days on Record'...
About That Claim That July 3-4 Were the 'Hottest Days on Record'... - BY RICK MORAN
- The headlines were stark and specific. Reuters claimed, “World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 3.”
- Well, “ever recorded” is misleading since the records have only been “recorded” since 1979. But what kind of a headline would that have been?
- At least the BBC was honest about their scare headline: “World’s hottest day since records began.”...
...supposedly the hottest in 125,000 years. The claimed temperature was derived from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which relies on a mix of satellite temperature data and computer-model guesstimation to calculate estimates of temperature.
One obvious problem with the updated narrative is that there are no satellite data from 125,000 years ago. Calculated estimates of current temperatures can’t be fairly compared with guesses of global temperature from thousands of years ago...
A more likely alternative to the 62.6-degree estimate is something around 57.5 degrees. The latter is an average of actual surface temperature measurements taken around the world and processed on a minute-by-minute basis by a website called temperature.global. The numbers have been steady this year, with no spike in July.
Moreover, the notion of “average global temperature” is meaningless. Average global temperature is a concept invented by and for the global-warming hypothesis. It is more a political concept than a scientific one. The Earth and its atmosphere is large and diverse, and no place is meaningfully average...
Principal who quit to homeschool her kids sounds alarm over states altering teacher reqs to combat shortages | Fox News
Principal who quit to homeschool her kids sounds alarm over states altering teacher reqs to combat shortages | Fox News:
"I talk a lot about the current teacher shortages because it affects so much. It's causing larger class sizes. With the rise of discipline and behavioral issues in the classroom and the shortage of teachers, that's not the type of balance we want to see," she added.
Instapundit - Blog Archive - JUST NBC THE SCHIZOPHRENIA!
JUST NBC THE SCHIZOPHRENIA! Click link, much more!
- Shot: COVID-19 and obesity: Doctors studying link between excess weight and severe disease. —NBC News, September 8th, 2020.
Lunch video-----Just Stop Oil activist SLAMMED by physicist over eco claims | 'A lot war...
"‘It’s not the hottest week it has ever been, it was a lot warmer every summer during the Egyptian and Roman periods.’
‘Have you published any accredited papers since your career started!?’
Physicist Brian Catt clashes with Sean Irish from Just Stop Oil over Shell’s CEO warning against cutting oil and gas production.
Secret Service now facing an investigation over White House cocaine scandal: 'Unacceptable and a shameful moment' - TheBlaze
Secret Service now facing an investigation over White House cocaine scandal: 'Unacceptable and a shameful moment' - TheBlaze:
To assist with a congressional investigation, Comer requested Cheatle provide Congress with a briefing by next Friday.
"The presence of illegal drugs in the White House is unacceptable and a shameful moment in the White House's history," Comer said. "Congress funds White House security procedures, and the Secret Service has a responsibility to maintain effective safety protocols."
When moron criminals run our country!-----Becerra’s Blunder: Did the Administration Allow Fauci and Other Officials to Operate Illegally? - Jonathan Turley
Becerra’s Blunder: Did the Administration Allow Fauci and Other Officials to Operate Illegally? - Jonathan Turley
"...However, the most serious question now may be whether Fauci was who he said he was in those hearings: the then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
On Friday, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce issued a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra that raises the disturbing question of whether Fauci and 13 other National Institutes of Health (NIH) institute and center directors were unlawfully holding their offices for some period.
On Friday, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce issued a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra that raises the disturbing question of whether Fauci and 13 other National Institutes of Health (NIH) institute and center directors were unlawfully holding their offices for some period.
- Not only did these directors make sweeping policy changes for the nation but, in 2022 alone, they awarded more than $25 billion in federal biomedical grants.
It turns out she might have been more accurate than she thought -- because Fauci legally may have been just a "regular guy" giving out billions without authority...
No, books are NOT being banned!-----From Bad to Verse - Taki's Magazine
From Bad to Verse - Taki's Magazine - Steven Tucker"Are all modern-day popular poems really secretly written by Oprah Winfrey?
It may well be so.
Amanda Gorman, the unbearable young black American “poet” catapulted to undeserved stardom after she performed her shitty little ditty of leftist doggerel “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of President Joe Biden in January 2021, last month gave her first interview reacting to the terrible recent news that her poem has allegedly been banned (sadly it hasn’t) by a single Florida school.
Amanda Gorman, the unbearable young black American “poet” catapulted to undeserved stardom after she performed her shitty little ditty of leftist doggerel “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of President Joe Biden in January 2021, last month gave her first interview reacting to the terrible recent news that her poem has allegedly been banned (sadly it hasn’t) by a single Florida school.
- Speaking to CBS News in June, Gorman complained how “All it takes is one person, one quickly written complaint, to render that book inaccessible for everyone in the community,” a reaction that rather suggests that left-wingers don’t like it when their own cancel-culture tactics are turned around and used against them by persons on the conservative right.
- “Gorman ended up gracing the cover of Time magazine, performing at the Super Bowl, and signing a modeling deal with top firm IMG Models, just like Dame Edith Sitwell.”..
Forty percent of Brown University students say they are LGBT, suggesting social contagion
Forty percent of Brown University students say they are LGBT, suggesting social contagion
- Matt Lamb
"New survey data from Brown University’s student newspaper provides further evidence that the increase in LGBT identification is driven by social pressures.
The latest data show that between 2010 and 2023, identification as LGBTQ+ has almost tripled among the student body at Brown (from 14% in 2010 saying they were not heterosexual to 38% now).
- Matt Lamb
"New survey data from Brown University’s student newspaper provides further evidence that the increase in LGBT identification is driven by social pressures.
The latest data show that between 2010 and 2023, identification as LGBTQ+ has almost tripled among the student body at Brown (from 14% in 2010 saying they were not heterosexual to 38% now).
"The Herald’s Spring 2023 poll found that 38% of students do not identify as straight — over five times the national rate ," The Brown Daily Herald reported...
Other sexual orientations have seen massive increases...
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