CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech @UAustinOrg :: Dao Prize Winner :: Author, "The Left's War On Reality," "San Fransicko," "Apocalypse Never"
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Advocates of censorship are, to a person, pathological, liars, thieves or all three.
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Tu t'appelles Charlotte. 23 ans. Tu étudies à Sciences Po Paris. Tu milites à La France insoumise et tu vas à la techno-parade contre la vie chère ce weekend.
Ton père, Philippe, est ingénieur chez Total, à côté de Bizanos.
Il travaille depuis 36 ans dans l'énergie, a commencé foreur et dirige maintenant le projet "Exploration puits 2035" avant de partir à la retraite.
Philippe te fait un virement tous les mois pour financer ton 2 pièces à 1350€ dans le quartier latin et tes cours de pilates reformer.
Tu as un tote bag « taxez les riches », un iPhone 17 Pro et un abonnement à Mediapart.
Tu considères que les grandes entreprises sont "une catastrophe sociale et écologique". Tu as d'ailleurs écrit un mémoire de 42 pages sur les violences symboliques du capitalisme.
Philippe qui se lève à 6h depuis 1987, te paye tes études grâce ses à anciennes stocks-options chez Shell.
À Sciences Po, tu as enfin rencontré des jeunes qui partagent tes convictions. Leurs parents sont avocats, médecins, hauts fonctionnaires ou dirigeants.
Vous avez fondé un collectif de "house music" en résistance au néolibéralisme.
Vous vous réunissez chaque jeudi dans un café du 11e pour discuter de la lutte des classes autour d'une bouteille de vin naturel orange à 38€.
Tu n'as jamais travaillé dans une usine, mais tu connais parfaitement les conditions de vie du prolétariat grâce à tes stages à l'ONU et au PNUD trouvés par les contacts de ta mère Christine à L'Oréal.
Tu expliques à ton père que les grandes entreprises exploitent les travailleurs.
Il te propose de venir rencontrer les techniciens de son usine pendant les vacances. Tu peux pas car t'as anniversaire de Julie à Santorin.
À Noël, tu rentres au "pays".
Ton père vient te chercher à la gare de Dax avec sa nouvelle Tesla.
Pendant le trajet, tu lui expliques que les cadres supérieurs sont complètement déconnectés des réalités populaires et que Elon Musk est la lie de l'humanité.
Philippe sourit nerveusement.
De retour dans ta maisonnée de famille, Philippe demande si ta recherche de stage en cinéma militant avance en te proposant du foie gras et du serrano-manchego.
Tu lui dis que tu es vegan depuis cette année et qu'il est insensible à la cruauté animale.
Philippe se sert un verre de Jurançon, s'asseoit sur son fauteuil Roche Bobois et te demande si tu es pour la taxation de l'héritage à 100%.
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President @LulaOficial is linked to a drug cartel the U.S. has designated a "Foreign Terrorist Organization," and yet Brazil's election court has prevented his presidential rival, @FlavioBolsonaro from saying so. Censorship of the Lula-PCC link began under Alexandre de Moraes.
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🚨NEWS: Top Dems are heading to a conference with a shadowy billionaire front group @MajorityDems - and the group is now barring access to @LeverNews reporters as punishment for our investigative series exposing the group's funders.
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Few comprehend the sheer dimwittedness of the new DSA mayor of LA, as it’s been overshadowed by the actions & inactions of the mayor she defeated, which led directly to large swaths of LA burning down. Below she boasts of getting a crosswalk painted. It took her 9 months.
Ramen is an anti-leader. She chaired LA's homelessness committee. She then sat on a staff report about the need to pull the $300 million a year out of the corrupt city-county homeless agency for 10 months. Finally the county pulled its own $300 million from the crooked agency.
“It's been sitting [for] 280 days, a report in your committee that you won't hear,” said Rodriguez at a January meeting. “So let's stop playing this false notion of the arsonists showing up as the firefighters.”
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Moraes fez uma reunião de emergência com Lula depois da nossa reportagem.
The economy and Iran were behind the Democrats' victory. But now, many of the elected leaders are seeking to go against the will of the people on trans, race, migration, and the weaponization of government. Behind them is a radicalized base & ideological dream worlds.
Voters rejected President Donald Trump and Republicans on Tuesday for reasons having to do with the war in Iran and affordability. Six out of ten said they were very concerned about grocery prices, while two-thirds said Trump’s policies had made the economy worse. Three out of four voters called the war a crucial or major reason for their vote. Sixty-three percent said it was the wrong decision. And when it came time to vote on core cultural issues for the Left, they often voted against it. In Washington and Colorado, for example, voters banned males from female sports, while in California, they voted against a billionaire wealth tax.
And yet many Democrats are acting as though they were elected to do something else. Colorado’s governor-elect, Phil Weiser, said the day after the vote that he would “take a look at these anti-trans measures and what adjustments are necessary and appropriate.” Washington’s Democratic Party chair said she would fight to overturn the ban in court. “DEI is back!” wrote Rep. Ro Khanna on election night. “We will rip ICE apart,” said Minnesota Senator-elect Peggy Flanagan. Maine Senator-elect Troy Jackson promised to “fight to abolish ICE.” Tech executives “are going to need to plant new forests for all of the subpoenas we’ll be printing,” wrote Sen. Ed Markey. Senate Democrats are weighing bills to vet AI models before release, which opens the door to government censorship of content....
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You've avoided nearly all of my questions, Norah, because you're literally incapable of answering them. Your mind is firmly closed to any evidence or facts that undermine your preferred narrative. You consider it immoral for anyone to even question you, even though you voluntarily and confidently entered this discussion. You're like a flat-earther. Nothing I or anyone else says to you will permeate your stubborn quasi-religious beliefs, because to change your mind would take away a core part of your self image, which is as somebody who is kinder and better and more righteous than the nasty people still advocating for the safety of women and girls.
You repeat your thought-terminating clichés and unevidenced assertions, which I assume sound clever inside your echo chamber, but which, outside it, make you appear not only dim, but a total moral vacuum. Increased risk to females? Who cares. Women threatened by violence? Of course those poor trans-identified men lash out when they meet resistance! What is a gender identity? You can't really say, but like the flat-earther, you're sure it exists, because your tribe is held together by belief in it, and pride themselves on their blind faith in it.
I keep waiting for a single gender ideologue or trans activist to truly engage with the facts, but all of you sheer away from them like horses from fireworks. It truly is like talking to cult members who're incapable of engaging in rational debate and just keep chanting the mantras, consigning all serious questions to the 'evil' bin.
I've been told I'm on the wrong side of history thousands of times. By debating people like you, I've come to realise that your ilk's idea of the 'right side of history' means stripping women and girls' of their rights, excusing male violence against women, siding with those issuing death and rape threats and attempting to suppress critical thought and freedom of speech.
Maybe, like the flat-earthers, you genuinely think history will vindicate you. I believe people will look back on this period and analyse your arguments, not because they admire them, but because they're trying to fathom how so many supposedly intelligent people fell, hook, line and sinker for a bunch of vacuous, post-modern, pseudo-intellectual cobblers, while being completely indifferent to the real world harm they were enabling.
Michael Shellenberger retweeted
Urgent : signez et RT maintenant contre la censure de CNEWS, pour défendre la liberté d'expression ! damocles.co/non-censure-cnew… #JeSoutiensCNEWS
It's pretty much a 100% perfect record at this point that the creepy/spooky people who raise the alarm about election interference, bots, disinformation, doxxing, etc, are the ones interfering in elections, using bots, spreading disinformation, and doxxing.
An underground activist group says it plans to start openly doxing billionaires as part of a phased campaign against what it calls the American oligarchy—starting with Elon Musk and Tesla’s board. wired.com/story/anti-oligarc…
All of these have been just in the last few weeks. There's dozens of cases of the creeps accusing their political enemies of doing what they are in fact doing:
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Conspiracy theories for election interference:
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Foreign election interference:
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Censorship to protect corrupt politicians:
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DARVO as core CIC strategy
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If you're curious why the media is spreading so much false information about the riots, consider:
— The French Culture Ministry paid €204.7 million in direct aid to the news media in 2023, of which Le Monde received €8.3 million, L’Humanité €6.5 million and Libération €6.3 million
— The @afpfr runs "fact-checks" in 26 languages, received €120 million from the French state in 2025, against €200.3 million in commercial revenue. @AFP is French government propaganda and disinformation
— European governments are committed through a UN agreement to spread pro-mass migration propaganda by funding it directly. The “migration compact,” which 152 governments voted for in the UN General Assembly in 2018, commits them to “stopping allocation of public funding... to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants," which is broadly interpreted to cover criticism of mass migration policies
— To maintain control over news media, the European Commission funds a network of 15 fact-checking hubs with tens of millions of euros, and its rules require platforms to give priority to notices from “trusted flaggers.”
— Governments fund think tanks to produce reports, including ones demanding censorship, that the news media cover sympathetically and editorialize in support of.
— The @ISDglobal in London — which demands censorship of people it disagrees with on climate change, gender, and migration, refuses to speak with journalists, and lists a phony address — lists among its funders the British Foreign Office, the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, the German Foreign Office and the European Commission, along with Google and Microsoft.
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— Public reported in 2024 that ISD and the German fact-checker Correctiv, both government-funded, had spread false claims about German farmers and opposition politicians.
Whether Democrats take one or two houses of Congress, they and the media are about to pull off one of the most brilliant psychological operations in recent memory: convincing millions of swing voters they had moderated on trans.
Talarico made national headlines when he went on Fox to say he would oppose trans athletes in girls’ sports “if it risks safety or fairness.” Four days later, a woman posing as a supporter secretly recorded him saying, “my position hasn’t changed,” after she asked him to defend her trans-identified nephew's ability to compete in girls' sports. The media buried or ignored it.
On “60 Minutes,” El-Sayed called concerns over boys in girls’ sports a manufactured culture war issue meant to distract from high prices and said he was “not running to govern sports,” without ever saying he opposed it.
Every Senate Democrat present, including Ossoff, voted in March 2025, and again in March 2026, to block legislation that would have banned males from female sports. Sherrod Brown cast the same vote in 2021 and 2024. Peltola cast it in the House in 2023. None since have promised to vote differently in the future.
Meanwhile, Roy Cooper vetoed a bill that would have banned males in female sports, Josh Turek voted against Iowa’s 2025 health budget, which barred Medicaid from paying for surgeries or cross-sex hormones, and then ran an ad saying he is “against taxpayers paying for sex changes,” and Ed Markey made his support for transgenderism central to his campaign and defeated his moderate opponent Seth Moulton by 65% to 35% in the Massachusetts Senate primary.
One can only appreciate how brilliant the Democrats/media psyop was when you consider that 71% of the public opposes trans medical procedures for minors and 79% oppose males in female sports.
Even the share of Democrats who favor getting males out of female sports rose from 37% in 2022 to 45% in 2025, while the percentage of Democrats who believe changing one’s gender is morally acceptable declined 11 points between 2025 and 2026.
Republicans spent at least $183 million on ads attacking the Democrats on trans, which is at least $30 million more than they spent at the same point in 2024.
It wasn’t enough to overcome one of the Democrats’ most successful deception operations after over a decade of hugely consequential ones (e.g., Russiagate hoax, Charlottesville, BLM, Hunter Biden laptop, climate, Covid, etc.)
The Democratic candidates who could win back the Senate for their party appear to be abandoning transgenderism in sports and medicine. Democratic Senate nominee for Texas, James Talarico, said “Absolutely” when asked in September if he would ban gender surgery for minors. He added, “I will oppose trans athletes playing in girls’ sports if it risks safety or fairness…There are not six sexes. There are two.” Democratic Senate nominee for Ohio, Sherrod Brown, noted that, “In Ohio, it’s against the law to perform transgender surgeries on kids. That’s right, it’s illegal.” Iowa Democratic Senate candidate Josh Turek ran an ad last month where he noted that he is against males in female sports and that the state already bans them. “I’m against taxpayers paying for sex changes, too. Anyone who tells you any different is lying,” he said in the same ad. Democratic Senate candidate Amy Acton said in June, “I do not support boys playing in girls' sports. This is already settled law in Ohio, and as governor, I will enforce and uphold the law.” And Democratic Senate candidate for Alaska, Mary Peltola, said in 2024, “No, I don’t think that we should have men competing in women’s sports.”
But there is less to these shifts than meets the eye. In September, a woman asked Talarico if he would defend her trans-identified nephew’s ability to compete against females in women’s sports, and Talarico said, “Always. The way I fought for trans kids in the legislature is how I will fight for them in the U.S. Senate… I think I have the most inclusive policy of any candidate who’s running.” CBS’s “60 Minutes” last night released an interview with Democratic Senate candidate for Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. Correspondent Ross Douthat asked him about trans-identified males playing in female sports. El-Sayed was dismissive. “A lot of the culture war issues that get fought right now are about trying to distract us from the fact that we can’t afford our gas, can’t afford our groceries, can’t see a doctor, are worried about whether or not our kids are gonna have a good life. And instead, we’re out here talking about who gets to play what sport, which, you know, should be the question of the people who govern sports.”
Others have similarly dodged the issue. Democratic Senate candidate for North Carolina, Roy Cooper, in 2023 vetoed a bill that would have banned males in female sports, Peltola voted against a House sports bill in that same year that would have banned males from female sports, called it “bullying” and “federal overreach,” and Democratic Senate candidate for Georgia, Jon Ossoff, has repeatedly voted against federal legislation to ban males from female sports....
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