💪✝ Sound of Freedom has now earned more then 45 million dollars

 

Source: https://www.dailywire.com/news/sound-of-freedom-dominates-box-office-in-florida-texas-and-arizona

“Sound of Freedom” has been dominating box offices across the country in places like Florida and Texas its first weekend out after taking the number one spot across the country on its release day July 4.

The film — which deals with the horrors of human trafficking — has done incredibly well in the middle of the country and the southern portion of the United- States, becoming number one movie over the July 7-9 weekend at multiplexes in Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Phoenix, and Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, and Salt Lake City, according to Comscore data.

It ended up beating Disney’s highly-anticipated Harrison Ford sequel “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” along with “Insidious: Red Door” its opening weekend in these places, the outlet noted.

The Jim Caviezel-lead film has earned — over its 8 days run — a total of more than $45 million at the domestic box office, according to Box Office Mojo. It also earned a coveted A+ CinemaScore, which generally guarantees strong word of mouth, THR noted.

“Sound of Freedom” comes from AngelStudios movie — the same company responsible for the popular faith-based television series, “The Chosen.”

Angel Studios CEO Neal Harmon said in a statement that their movie has taken on a “life of its own.”

“This movie has now taken on a life of its own to become something more than that, a grassroots movement,” Harmon said. “The world needs to see ‘Sound of Freedom’ and we know that our biggest competitive advantage — our incredible fans and investors — are going to make sure that happens.”

Following the film’s success over the weekend, the “Passion of the Christ” star shared a video with followers thanking them for “not letting the media silence” this movie.

“I’ve always said do you want to be liked by many, the world, Hollywood, or do you want to be loved by one, which is God,” Caviezel said in the clip. “Because love don’t come from man it comes from above.”

“So, I’m sitting here thinking about all you amazing Americans that are fighting the battle and helping us in this war against the greatest evil that has ever been,” he added. “Because you know that God’s children are not for sale.”

In the movie, Caviezel portrays Tim Ballard in the true story of a federal agent who quits his job and embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue a young girl from sex slavery in South America.

The Biden Administration Is Not Serious About Deterring Xi and We Are Running Out of Time

by James E. Fannel & Bradley A. Thayer for American Greatness 

British Prime Minister Harold Wilson said that a week is a long time in politics. Last week revealed Wilson’s prescience once again. Just when the country had seemingly recovered from the unctuous and foolish visit to China by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s visit demonstrates just how much worse things can get.

Yellen’s repeated bowing to a subordinate of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Vice Premier He Lifeng, was a singular combination of truly bizarre behavior, a masterclass of what not to do, and symbolic of how unserious the Biden Administration is in confronting the threat from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Yellen went out of her way to allay China’s fears regarding any U.S. effort to “decouple” from China, which seems to have been the point of the trip. Yellen’s visit only could have been worse if she had placed the lampshade on her head and spilled her drink on Xi.

By contrast, in the same week Xi was warning his Eastern Theater Command to prepare for war. Far from a concern about “decoupling,” Xi warned that the world had entered a new period of turmoil and change, and China’s security had become more unstable and uncertain. Xi charged the military with “deepening war and combat planning to increase our chances of actual victory in actual combat.” The disaster of Yellen’s visit and the bellicose statements by Xi permit us to recognize that while China is preparing for war, the Biden Administration is obsessed with returning to the policy of engagement with the PRC—the very same policy that has put America at risk.

This week, the annual NATO summit in Vilnius discussed important matters relevant to the alliance and the war in Ukraine. But before the leaders met it is evident that there is a major division in the alliance, first, over the Biden administration’s determination to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine. Second, over whether and when Ukraine might be brought into NATO. Third, there is a divide over the deeper issue considered by the alliance whether to bring pressure to bear to end the attritional war or continue it until Ukraine’s nebulous war aims are achieved or Russia is denied victory. Here the alliance is split with the Germans advocating for the war’s termination and the Biden administration supporting its continuation, exemplified with Biden’s approval of sending cluster munitions to Ukraine.

As important as those issues are, the world this week is closer to the brink of war in Asia, one that will be started by Xi and his determination for the PRC to achieve the China Dream of global domination. This will be a war to conquer Taiwan, an event that directly impacts the national security of the United States and its allies. That war is made even more likely by the Biden administration’s fundamental absence of determination to deter the war. Unlike what has transpired over the past 500 days with the war in Ukraine, the Biden administration has not provided Taiwan with the requisite military equipment, training, maintenance, and stores to deter the attack or provide for the island’s defense in the event deterrence fails.

Beijing understands the upcoming 2024 presidential elections in Taiwan and the United States could very well result in a reversal of Biden’s return to the policy of engagement and appeasement. The more the Biden administration seeks to engage with their Chinese Communist Party (CCP) counterparts, the more emboldened and aggressive we can expect Xi to be. He will be ever bolder in his employment of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) against Taiwan, our allies in the East and South China Sea, and increasingly into the waters of the Second Island Chain. All of which is aligned to Xi’s directives to the PLA to “enhancing the planning of war and combat … and stepping up training under real combat conditions to raise the forces’ capabilities to fight and win.”

Two things must occur to avoid this conflict.

The first is that the Biden administration must not be allowed to resume the failed policies of unaccountable engagement. The Congress has a role to play in preventing this return and like the Congress did with the 2000 National Defense Authorization Act. The 2000 NDAA for the first time placed very specific prohibitions on the Defense Department’s interactions with the PLA, the same kinds of legislation must be passed regarding economic and diplomatic engagement with the PRC.

Second, the Congress must demand the administration begin to arm Taiwan to the same levels as Ukraine, either in terms of dollars spent or in military measures of effectiveness. In that regard, the Commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command should be dispatched to Taiwan to meet his counterpart and begin the process of sustaining the status quo in the cross-strait environment.

The images of Blinken and Yellen kowtowing to Beijing are shameful and humiliating for the United States. They will not age well and are well noted by U.S. allies and adversaries. They are exactly the wrong signals to be sending to the CCP. This behavior has only emboldened their desire to achieve what Xi terms the Great Rejuvenation, a synonym for the conquest of Taiwan. The strategic trend line of the CCP’s words and actions are unmistakable, time is not on our side. No more buffoonish demonstrations of an adolescent infatuation for the enemy of the U.S. can be tolerated.

🌲 Chad Michael Murray's new GAF movie is announced

 

Source: https://itsawonderfulmovie.blogspot.com/2023/07/Great-American-Family-Announces-Christmas-on-Windmill-Way-Chad-Michael-Murray.html

Great American Family kicks off their Christmas movie season 100 days from today on October 20th! Every Saturday night during the Christmas season they will have a new Christmas movie premiere, including one officially announced today via PEOPLE, Christmas on Windmill Way.

Christmas on Windmill Way stars Chad Michael Murray (One Tree Hill, An Autumn Romance, Sullivan's Crossing) and Christa Taylor Brown (Dream Wedding, Wynonna Earp).

image: Great American Media

According to PEOPLE, "the movie follows Mia Meijer (Christa Taylor Brown) as she gets ready for the Christmas Market Dutch Bake-Off and suspects that her grandmother, Ann, will walk away with the cherished Golden Rolling Pin thanks to her Kerststol, a traditional Dutch fruited Christmas bread. But Mia's world is rocked when she learns that Ann was having financial troubles and had to sell the land deed to the Windmill Way property in her family for generations. Making matters worse, the buyer is Mia's former boyfriend, property developer Brady Schaltz (Chad Michael Murray), who must let Mia and Ann know the Meijer family-owned heritage Dutch sawmill, renowned for the past 90 years for its fine millwork and beautiful wooden furniture, will be torn down to put up a luxurious resort."

Originally, it was announced that Great American Family would have 21 all-new Christmas movie premieres this upcoming 2023 Christmas season, but lately, I've noticed a couple articles, including this one at PEOPLE, mention the network would have, and I quote, "at least 21 new holiday movie debuts throughout the season." Hmmm??? This makes me wonder if Great American Family is anticipating a few more. Anyway, it's an interesting possibility.

Also starring with Chad Michael Murray and Christa Taylor Brown in this movie are Erin Agostino (Cider and Sunsets) and Jon McLaren (The Great Christmas Switch, Sappy Holiday). The previous working title for this movie was Christmas on Windmill Lane.

Be sure to look for Christmas on Windmill Way this Christmas season on Great American Family!

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Solidarity doesn't involve forcing every person you work with to walk out on their job to strike alongside you at some stupid picket line. Anyone who thinks that is a massive idiot who is brainwashed into believing that anyone who refuses to walk out on good work is automatically your enemy.

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Republicans Must Prepare for MSM Praetorian Guard and Democratic Trickery

by Paul Gottfried for American Greatness 

In “Blueprint for Collapse of Joe Biden’s White House,” Michael Goodwin offers an engrossing sketch of the imminent breakdown of Biden’s presidency. Biden’s sagging poll numbers, his widely perceived mishandling of the economy, and his signs of dementia would all seem to indicate that his presidency is collapsing. Biden’s other “predicament,” according to Goodwin, is the “gathering storm related to his son.”

“The obvious fact that Hunter is getting favored treatment from his father’s Department of Justice has broken through the media’s Praetorian Guard and the public doesn’t like the smell of it,” he wrote.

Goodwin believes the congressional testimony of Devon Archer, Hunter’s former business partner, who was involved in the Burisma scam, will prove Joe’s undoing. By proving the president’s illegal entanglement in these dealings, according to Goodwin, Archer will help lay the groundwork for the “big guy’s” impeachment. At the very least, Biden’s reelection campaign will be ended after Archer’s testimony. Although Biden may hang on to his office for the remainder of his term, this disgraced president will be in no position to run again: “If the Democrats stick with Biden under those circumstances, they’ll be inviting the second coming of Trump.”

As much as I would like to believe what Goodwin is saying, unfortunately I can’t. For one thing, I don’t think the “media’s Praetorian Guard” has been broken, nor am I sure that most Americans will notice the scandal that Goodwin and I do. In fact, I doubt that our MSM will be reporting Archer’s testimony, as opposed to ranting against Trump’s supposed violation of the Espionage Act. We should also continue hearing about how our president, a caring father, is helping his son who has been dealing with an addiction problem. And let’s not go bonkers over a two-tiered system of justice and utterly corrupt Attorney General!  The media will show us what lies behind this apparent crisis, namely, Republican partisanship and Congressman Comer’s vindictiveness.

Since 47% of Democrats in a recent Gallop poll believe that white nationalism is America’s “greatest threat,” and since most Americans favor stricter gun control laws, the media Praetorian Guard stills seem to carry weight. Despite his patently disastrous presidency, Biden is still at 42% in his approval ratings. That is quite an accomplishment for which the MSM and secure Democratic constituencies should be given credit. If a majority of those polled think Biden has become mentally unfit for his office, that doesn’t mean that none of them would vote for him against a Republican opponent. In hypothetical matchups with Republican contenders, our generally unpopular president either wins or trails by very little.

Moreover, from conversations with my Democratic acquaintances and relatives, I wouldn’t even know that Goodwin’s “predicaments” are a problem for Biden. For these Democrats the major dangers we face are Ron DeSantis’s censorship of books in his state, Republican attempts to set up a Christian theocracy, antiblack bigotry and the “gun lobby” causing crime to explode in our major cities. These same fellow citizens insist that Clarence Thomas should be removed from the Supreme Court for accepting bribes and for having a spouse who is an “election denier.” I suspect that Democrats of my acquaintance would consider Devon Archer, if they learned who he is, to be a Republican plant working for theocrats and racists. We may like to think of such people as inhabiting what philosopher of history Eric Voegelin described as a “second reality,” one that in no way communicates with our own. But I wouldn’t underestimate the number inhabiting that second reality as we plan for next year’s presidential race.

This brings me to my last point in responding to what may be Goodwin’s excessively optimistic message. Why should I believe Biden will be a one-term president, just because his poll numbers are presently underwater? He is an asset to those who are pulling his strings, and neither his senile dementia nor his venality will lessen his value to those who want a malleable puppet. By next year the media should be able to invent a scandal about whoever the GOP nominee is which will lower his poll numbers. If Trump is the nominee, moreover, then our media Praetorian Guard will push him into a blunder, perhaps saying something that will hurt him among independent and especially among his inevitable bane, suburban women. Through a combination of media distortion and Democratic trickery the next election may well turn out like the one last year.

Finally, if presidential candidate Biden is running somewhere in a tight race against his Republican opponent, Democratic state administrations will pull out all stops for their candidate. Of course, the MSM will then attack anyone who complains about these practices as a crackpot Q Anon member. If 2020 taught the Dems anything, it was that they could get away with any scandal that the media and Deep State would allow them to. I also wouldn’t rule out seeing more planning sessions among tech giants and the surveillance state of the kind Molly Hemingway discusses in Rigged. This too should help the Dems cover the blunders of their grossly unfit candidate. Contrary to what Goodwin suggests, the Republicans must be prepared for war, not easy victories.

Weiss Letter Undermines Facade Of Independent Hunter Biden Investigation

In a letter to Congress, Weiss was still not clear about whether he sought certain authority to adequately prosecute Hunter Biden.

Tristan Justice reporting for The Federalist

A letter from Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss to a Republican lawmaker is raising more questions than answers.

In a Monday letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., obtained by The Federalist, Weiss was still not clear about whether he sought certain authority under a federal statute to adequately prosecute Hunter Biden. Weiss’s communication came in response to a June 28 letter Graham sent the Delaware U.S. attorney seeking clarity on whether Weiss has been denied special counsel authority and shot down in his attempts to bring charges against the Biden son in D.C. and California — allegations made by Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblowers that were substantiated by a contemporaneous email.

Weiss’s letter also came one day after Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent an inquiry to the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office to probe whistleblower allegations made against one of Weiss’s deputies. Whistleblowers from the IRS claimed Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf repeatedly obstructed the federal investigation into Hunter Biden.

“As you are aware, IRS whistleblowers have affirmed that AUSA Wolf prevented investigators from seeking information about Joe Biden’s involvement in Hunter Biden’s criminal business arrangements,” Grassley wrote, adding that Wolf “frustrated investigative efforts.”

According to IRS whistleblowers, Delaware federal prosecutors concealed the FD-1023 form housed by the FBI, which alleged a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme between the president and foreign businessmen, from the federal tax agency. Former Attorney General Bill Barr confirmed that his Justice Department had referred the document to the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office.

“On October 23, 2020, Justice Department and FBI Special Agents from the Pittsburgh Field Office briefed Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf, one of your top prosecutors, and FBI Special Agents from the Baltimore Field Office with respect to the contents of the FBI-generated FD-1023,” Grassley wrote to Weiss. “The meeting did not include any IRS agents.” 

Grassley specifically asked whether Weiss had ever sought federal authority under U.S. Code Section 515 to independently bring charges against Hunter Biden outside his own Delaware district.

“When were you assured that you would be granted § 515 Authority in the District of Columbia, the Central District of California, or any other district where charges could be brought in the Hunter Biden manner?” Grassley asked. “Have you requested that specific authority yet? If not, why not? If so, when, where and was the request satisfied?”

In a letter to Graham on Monday, however, Weiss was ambiguous.

“To clarify an apparent misperception and to avoid future confusion, I wish to make one point clear: in this case, I have not requested Special Counsel designation pursuant to 28 CFR § 600 et seq,” says the letter obtained by The Federalist. “Rather, I had discussions with Departmental officials regarding potential appointment under 28 U.S.C. § 515, which would have allowed me to file charges in a district outside my own without the partnership of the local U.S. Attorney. I was assured that I would be granted this authority if it proved necessary.” 

But who decided whether it was necessary? Weiss didn’t say. Nor did Weiss answer whether he actually requested 515 authority. If that was up to someone else, such as Attorney General Merrick Garland, for example, that would contradict the Biden DOJ’s claim that the Hunter Biden probe is an independent investigation.

Weiss also did not address whether he told supervisors in the case that he was not the final decision maker, as the whistleblowers alleged. Weiss also left answered whether he sought assistance from U.S. attorneys in California or New York. The fact that Weiss still has not denied making statements attributed to him by the whistleblowers speaks volumes and suggests he is wordsmithing his answers.

Did Weiss lie to staff throughout the process? Was it Weiss’s decision to avoid filing felony charges?

A letter from Weiss to the House Judiciary Committee earlier this month suggests Garland lied to Congress when claiming the Delaware U.S. attorney “has full authority” to charge Hunter Biden wherever appropriate. 

“If venue for a case lies elsewhere, common Departmental practice is to contact the United States Attorney’s Office for the district in question and determine whether it wants to partner on the case,” Weiss wrote. “If not, I may request Special Attorney status from the Attorney General pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 51.”

His letter finished by stating he was “assured that, if necessary after the above process,” such authority would be granted “in the District of Columbia, the Central District of California, or any other district where charges could be brought in this manner.” 

But why didn’t Weiss file charges in D.C. or California?

In June, news broke that Hunter Biden accepted a plea deal with federal prosecutors limited to two misdemeanor tax crimes and a felony count of illegal firearm possession. The latter charge will be dropped following 24 months of sobriety. IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley claims, however, that “the most substantive felony charges were left off the table.”

“We weren’t allowed to ask questions about ‘dad,'” Shapley added in an interview with Fox News. “We weren’t allowed to ask about ‘the big guy.'”

Given that the extremely weak plea deal was struck based on evidence gathered by the IRS, whose investigation was repeatedly hampered by DOJ officials, the former head of the DOJ tax division called on the presiding judge to strike the agreement. 

“The Justice Department’s alleged foot-dragging and refusal to permit IRS special agents to follow the evidence allowed the statutes of limitations for 2014 and 2015 to expire, notwithstanding that Mr. Biden’s defense counsel had, according to [whistleblower Gary] Shapley, agreed to more than one extension,” wrote Eileen O’Connor in The Wall Street Journal. “Far worse, Mr. Garland’s failure to designate Mr. Weiss a special counsel essentially guaranteed that Mr. Biden wouldn’t be prosecuted for any of his alleged tax crimes.”

IRS whistleblowers have reportedly faced agency retaliation for their testimony to congressional lawmakers. Grassley wrote a letter with GOP lawmakers from both chambers to the Office of Special Counsel last week demanding a probe into whistleblower claims of retribution over lawfully protected testimony.

“The importance of protecting whistleblowers from unlawful retaliation and informing whistleblowers about their rights under the law cannot be understated,” Republicans wrote. “After all, it is the law. Accordingly, we request that you immediately investigate all allegations of retaliation against these IRS whistleblowers.”

Modelo Tops Bud Light in Latest Sales Report – Bud Light Sales Down 28.5%

Sundance reporting for Conservative Treehouse 

Anheuser Busch continues to lose market share according to the latest statistics shared by Bump Williams consulting firm. In the key period just before the July 4th holiday, sales of Bud Light dropped another 28.5% compared to the prior year.

The initial sales decline which began in April continues.  The ongoing boycott against Bud Light appears to be holding firm.

CNN – […] For the four weeks ending on July 1, Modelo Especial captured 8.7% of overall beer sales, compared to Bud Light’s 7% share, according to NIQ data given to consulting firm Bump Williams. Dollar sales for the pre-July 4 period continued to be grim for Bud Light, with sales falling 28.5%, while Modelo’s grew 8.5% during the same time period. (more)

Latest Clarence Thomas Corruption Shocker: He Belongs To Group That Helps Poor Kids Go To College

How deep does the conspiracy go?

David Harsanyi reporting for The Federalist

In the latest smear of Clarence Thomas, The New York Times reports that the justice has been a longtime member of an “elite circle” known as the Horatio Alger Association.

This dubious syndicate of wealthy Americans, named after “the Gilded Age author whose rags-to-riches novels represented an aspirational version of Justice Thomas’ own bootstraps origin story,” has handed out around $245 million in college scholarships to approximately 35,000 students. It doesn’t stop there, I’m afraid. The Times reports that Thomas — and you may want to sit down for this — was “meeting with and mentoring the recipients of millions of dollars a year in Horatio Alger college scholarships, many of whom come from backgrounds that mirror his own.”

Now, I don’t even feign to grasp the journalistic virtuosity needed to be a New York Times reporter, but my amateur guess is that the Horatio Alger Association really blew Thomas’ cover when publicly giving him an award and then listing his, and every members’, name on its website. As Star Chambers go, this has to be one of the sloppiest.

Indeed, the piece begins with a grainy picture of Thomas, almost always depicted as a puppet, at an event receiving an award from three rich white dudes. The Horatio Alger Association, the subhead tells us, “brought the justice access to wealthy members and unreported V.I.P. treatment,” and in turn, Thomas “offered another kind of access.”

Another kind of access? The Times wants you to imagine a gaggle of QAnoners sneaking into SCOTUS chambers and editing majority opinions, but Thomas’ big favor to these alleged benefactors is hosting a small ceremony for the winners of the Horatio Alger award for charitable giving at the Supreme Court. You can read all about it right there on the website, along with the names of the award winners, who are largely apolitical former CEOs and generous donors to numerous charities.

One of the keys to convincing credulous leftists that a conspiracy is afoot is to frame the Horatio Alger Association as a “conservative” cabal where corrupt schemes to steal democracy are hatched. And while the Horatio Alger Association has boasted members such as Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, it has also welcomed Hank Aaron, Maya Angelou, Michael Bloomberg, Tom Brokaw, Carol Burnett, George Foreman, Leo DiCaprio, Dr. J, Wayne Gretzky, and Oprah Winfrey, among scores of other household names. So, not exactly the John Birch Society. Not even the Federalist Society. 

Yet, the Times points out that the group also “included major donors to conservative causes with broad policy and political interests and much at stake in Supreme Court decisions, even if they were not directly involved in the cases.” (Irritated italics mine.)

What this really means is that the Times combed through the records of every member of the Horatio Alger Association — and ex-wives and brothers-in-law and so on — to investigate if they, or any company they invested in, had even a tenuous connection to a case that found its way in front of the Supreme Court. Apparently, they couldn’t ferret out one. This didn’t stop some unethical NYT editor from moving forward with a story that was almost surely pitched to them by an anti-court activist group.

Is it now considered corrupt for justices to join philanthropic efforts because wealthy donors to those causes might have a stake — not directly, mind you — in the court’s decisions? That would be a fascinating new standard. Do benefactors of the charitable organizations that Elena Kagan supports not have a stake in Supreme Court decisions? Because it seems to me that while most wealthy people are affected by commerce cases, they are also generally the only ones who can afford to give millions to charitable organizations.

It takes a special, perverse talent to depict membership to a philanthropic organization as a devious venture, but the Times feigns to do so in 4,000-plus words of bogus journalism. And, as transparently nonsensical as the hit pieces from ProPublica and Politico were, the Times’ effort makes them seem Pulitzer-worthy. The objective is not to enlighten, of course, but to destroy trust in the Supreme Court, the least partisan branch of our government. 

What the left has not done is provide a single example — not for Thomas or Alito or Gorsuch — in which a justice has strayed from his judicial philosophy to help anyone, much less himself. Being an originalist or a “conservative” on the court is the real crime. The rest just needs to be figured out.

FBI Colluded With Russian-Infiltrated Agency In Ukraine To Censor Americans

Tristan Justice reporting for The Federalist 

The FBI colluded with a Russian-infiltrated intelligence agency in Ukraine to censor American speech, according to a new document out Monday.

In an interim report published by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, House investigators exposed the FBI’s cooperation with foreign agents to orchestrate online censorship.

“The Committee’s analysis of these ‘disinformation’ registries revealed that the FBI, at the request of the [Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)], flagged for social media companies the authentic accounts of Americans, including a verified U.S. State Department account and those belonging to American journalists,” the report reads. “At times, the FBI would even follow up with the relevant platform to ensure that ‘these accounts were taken down.'”

The SBU was notoriously infiltrated by the Kremlin’s Federal Security Service (FSB), whose agents were instrumental in President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. In March last year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired the head of the SBU’s Crimean branch, who is accused of being a double agent. Ivan Bakanov, who ran the entire SBU, was let go in July last year over the service’s status as a compromised agency.

The FBI, lawmakers added, “had no legal justification for facilitating the censorship of Americans’ protected speech on social media.”

House investigators compiled the report based on subpoenas to Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, and Alphabet, which oversees Google and YouTube.

“The inclusion of American accounts on the SBU’s lists indicates that the FBI either did not properly vet the SBU’s requests or was aware of their domestic nature, and nonetheless carried them out,” lawmakers concluded.

At the heart of the operation was FBI Agent Elvis Chan in the San Francisco field office, who served as the “primary liaison” between the FBI and Silicon Valley. Chan also coordinated meetings between the FBI and social media companies during both the 2020 and 2022 elections. House investigators reported the SBU wasn’t purged of Russian agents until months after the Ukrainian security service began colluding with the FBI to censor U.S. citizens.

The FBI and SBU reportedly sent “massive spreadsheets” that contained “thousands of accounts” for censorship to Meta. The FBI also “facilitated” the SBU’s requests for censorship on Alphabet platforms. Posts flagged for removal were often supportive of Ukraine and critical of Putin.

One episode of censorship on Instagram included the suspension of a verified account run by the State Department with the username “@usaporusski.”

“Neither the FBI nor the SBU provides an explanation as to how the U.S. State Department account was ‘involved in disinformation,'” lawmakers noted. 

One censorship request also included an American journalist whose name has been redacted.

The government coordination with Silicon Valley ran so deep that Meta even proposed a “24/7 channel” with foreign agents to facilitate censorship. The operation continued at least into May, even after Twitter’s Yoel Roth warned U.S. officials about the SBU’s targeting of American accounts.

“The full extent of the FBI’s collaboration with the SBU to censor American speech is unknown,” investigators wrote, but added, “To be clear, the FBI’s participation in the SBU’s censorship enterprise was a willing and intentional choice by the FBI, involving no fewer than seven agents across the Bureau.”

CNN Holds Struggle Session Over Biden Temper Tantrum News, Zings Him in the Process

Sister Toldjah reporting for RedState 

As RedState reported Monday, it would appear the knives are out for President Joe Biden in certain Democratic circles with fresh reporting from Axios painting a picture of Biden which is at odds with the public persona he, his handlers, and his enablers in the mainstream press have helped craft over his 50+ years in public office.

In it, we learned that in private, Biden’s “admonitions include: ‘God d*mmit, how the f**k don’t you know this?!,’ ‘Don’t f**king bullsh*t me!’ and ‘Get the f**k out of here!'” and that “Biden has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him. Some take a colleague, almost as a shield against a solo blast.”

Though there are likely additional reasons why some staffers do their best to “avoid meeting alone” with Biden, the report solidified much of what Biden’s critics have been observing about him and his history of nasty behavior for decades.

(READ: About That Whole ‘Joe Biden Is a Decent Guy’ Myth…)

After the news broke, CNN fill-in anchor Laura Coates held what amounted to a struggle session with Alex Thompson, the Axios reporter who broke the news. During their back-and-forth exchange, Coates repeatedly expressed her surprise tha the Biden “we know” isn’t who Biden really is behind closed doors:

COATES: This runs really counter to the image that most people I think would have of President Biden. How are we knowing this? I mean, how do you get the reporting? Who is complaining about this? Is it current, former staff? Who?

THOMPSON: Both. Current, former, and by former I mean former White House staff, current White House and administration staff. Plus, you even have people going back, you know, we had a headline today, we called it old yeller. But I can confirm to you that Joe Biden was a young yeller, too. And so, we even talked to staff that went back to the early 2000s. And the fact is that this is a guy that has been professionally staffed for more than half of his life, and he’s had a long life. So, it’s been over 50 years where he’s had people staffing him. And as a result, there’s a generational difference, too. Yup, he’s really, really tough on staff.

And he already had that, as he calls, you know, get his Irish up. He already had that Irish temper, you know, really lay into people and in some cases, you know, make them feel humiliated, make them feel embarrassed, and really feel like and truly be cussed out.

Watch:

Next, Coates pointed to the video of Biden on the first day of his administration promising in the name of supposedly restoring civility to fire “on the spot” any staffers who treated another person with disrespect, and contrasted it with the Axios news:

COATES: Many might be surprised by this because you might recall when he spoke about respect and dignity and the idea that if you’re working with him, if you act in that way, you get fired. Well, listen to what he had to say.

[…]

COATES: Okay, so there has been different sides we have certainly seen. Why are we just hearing this now though? If you’re talking about this reputation or the idea of more than 50 years worth of staffing. Has this been known throughout Washington and it’s just not been covered, or this is something that’s now become an issue?

THOMPSON: So, there’s a few different pieces to this. One is that Joe Biden, because he’s been in the public life 50 years, he knows the difference between a public persona and a private persona. And he’s a very, you know, he didn’t become president by accident, right? I mean, that requires a level of public persona skill that sometimes is different than your private persona.

In this case, why it’s so interesting is that his public persona leans so much on him being civil, on his civility. And that clip you just showed about, you know, the standard he was setting for his White House, I can tell you some former Biden administration aides don’t think that he’s lived up even to his own standard.

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It should be noted that the only known time Biden did end up taking action towards someone for showing disrespect it was his then-deputy press secretary T.J. Ducklo in early 2021, who it was discovered threatened to “destroy” then-Politico reporter Tara Palmeri for working on a story about his relationship Axios reporter Alexi McCammond and how it raised conflict of interest questions. But Biden initially gave Ducklo a mere one-week suspension, only forcing him into “resigning” after he was reminded of what he pledged on inauguration day.

Ducklo, I should point out, is now back with the Biden team, in a senior comms adviser role for Biden’s reelection campaign.

In any event, while it’s good to see CNN of all places acknowledge the story about Biden’s legendary Angry Man outbursts (both the public and private ones), discerning readers should note that CNN maybe could have figured all of this out during Biden’s 2020 presidential run had they been busy actually covering Biden and not covering for him.

Just sayin’.