The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly reporting that Traitor 47 “blocked states from passing AI laws” withContinue Reading
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The BBC is now voluntarily suppressing criticism of Traitor 47 before it airs—and the reason is obvious: The Traitor threatened to sue them into oblivion, and they blinked. Historian Rutger Bregman revealed this week that the BBC commissioned a public lecture from him last month, recorded it, then quietly cutContinue Reading