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PBS Reporter Calls Rioting “Almost Festival Like”

The legacy media is still at it. 

Everyone knows that for four days unhinged leftists and criminal opportunists caused anarchy in LA, rioting, attacking police and looting stores. Yet the media is still proclaiming everything is not only peaceful, but happy and joyful.

They’ve had reporters on the ground standing in front of burning cars with explosions going off around them while claiming it’s all ‘mostly peaceful’, ‘fun’, ‘joyful’, ‘pretty quiet’, ‘relatively mellow’, ‘celebratory’ and all about ‘hope and community’.

Now here’s the latest from PBS. It’s “almost festival like” while flashbangs explode right next to this moron.

Note how they always say “almost.” 

It’s almost festival like, but not quite because of all the burning cars, assaults and looting.

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Media Coverage of ICE Operations: Disconnect Between Headlines and Facts, The Cary López Alvarado Incident

On June 8, 2025, multiple news outlets reported the arrest of Cary López Alvarado, a nine-month pregnant U.S. citizen, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Hawthorne, California. The mainstream media portrayed the ICE raid as either inhumane or a mistake, or both. However, the reality is that López Alvarado was arrested for attempting to prevent ICE officers from arresting her undocumented husband. She was held temporarily and then released with no charges filed.

The takeaway most people received from the headlines and superficial news coverage was that ICE had accidentally or maliciously arrested an American citizen and held her for hours. The media reports implied she was detained on suspicion of being an illegal alien, rather than being held for obstructing federal law enforcement officers. News coverage also concentrated heavily on the fact that she required hospital treatment for stomach pains, while ignoring the fact that a nine-month pregnant woman should not have attempted to physically interfere with federal agents conducting a lawful arrest.

This case provides a clear example of how media framing can obscure the factual circumstances of immigration enforcement operations. Major news outlets characterized the incident with headlines emphasizing López Alvarado’s pregnancy and citizenship status, including Rolling Stone’s “Masked ICE Agents Detain 9-Month-Pregnant U.S. Citizen in L.A. Crackdown,” Newsweek’s “ICE Detains Heavily Pregnant US Citizen, ‘Shield My Stomach’,” and NBC’s “Pregnant US citizen detained by ICE.”

However, according to Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, López Alvarado “was arrested because she obstructed federal law enforcement by blocking access to a car that had two Guatemalan illegal aliens in it.” The DHS statement provided additional operational context that was often absent from initial media reporting: ICE agents were conducting a targeted operation following a vehicle with two undocumented Guatemalan nationals. During the incident, federal agents were reportedly assaulted, and a third individual was arrested after allegedly pushing an officer. Projectiles including wrenches and batteries were thrown at the agents during the confrontation.

This case represents part of a recurring pattern in immigration enforcement coverage, with headlines and reports designed to portray ICE as jackbooted Nazi thugs while omitting important details, such as the fact that the operation was legal, planned, and warranted, and that during the course of the operation, officers were attacked. All persons arrested or detained were done so with proper justification. Furthermore, it is important to note that the media consistently tries to portray ICE as having made mistakes, whether through accidentally raiding the wrong location, detaining or deporting citizens, or wrongfully detaining citizens or legal immigrants and then only releasing them when pressured to do so.

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71st Bilderberg Meeting Agenda and Attendees REVEALED

The clandestine Bilderberg Group’s 71st annual meeting kicks off on Thursday, where 120-140 heads of state, industry, media, finance and technology will convene to plot global policy behind closed doors.

Bilderberg’s 2025 confab will be held June 12-15 in Stockholm, Sweden, at the Grand Hotel.

While the organization on its face appears powerless, the secretive group – whose discussions are held under Chatham House rules – has been accused of steering world events, including the creation of the European Union and its euro single currency. It’s even rumored to have helped install heads of state like former US Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, all of whom reportedly attended Bilderberg prior to their rise.

Other attendees have included top media figures from outlets like The New York Times, Politico, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Guardian and more, making it all the more bizarre that the convention receives little to no press coverage each year.

Via The Nordic Times:

The public denied for a long time that the meeting was organized, or even existed, and was dismissed in the mainstream media for many years as a “conspiracy theory”. In the 21st century, as a result of independent media coverage, it has since been recognized that the meeting has actually been taking place since 1954, with high-profile lists of participants typically ranging from 120-150 specially invited participants.

Check out the full list of attendees and key discussion topics below, via BilderbergMeetings.org. This year’s conference includes such key figures as Palantir’s Alex Karp, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, CNN’s Fareked Zakaria, and Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, to name a few.

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Kash Patel Sues MSNBC Hack Frank Figliuzzi for Spreading Wild, Unverified Claim That FBI Director Spent More Time in Nightclubs Than His Office

FBI Director Kash Patel has filed a defamation lawsuit in Texas against MSNBC’s resident deep state mouthpiece Frank Figliuzzi, accusing him of fabricating a vicious lie designed to smear Patel’s reputation and sabotage his leadership at the Bureau.

Figliuzzi, a disgraced former FBI official-turned-leftist propagandist, claimed on live television that Patel had “been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover Building,” the New York Post reported.

Figliuzzi continued, “There are reports that daily briefings to him have been changed from every day to maybe twice weekly. So this is both a blessing and a curse, because if he’s really trying to run things without any experience level, things could be bad.”

According to Patel’s legal team, that claim is not only false—it was knowingly made up out of thin air.

“Defendant knew that this was a lie when he said it,” the lawsuit reads. “Since becoming Director of the FBI, Director Patel has not spent a single minute inside of a nightclub.”

The complaint further blasts Figliuzzi’s pathetic attempt to shield himself with the classic fake news escape hatch—saying “reportedly”—when there was never a single report, source, or shred of evidence.

Patel’s attorneys made it clear:  “Defendant made up the story out of whole cloth, and by using the word ‘reportedly,’ attempts to distance himself from what is a maliciously false and defamatory statement.”

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What the giddy reaction to Ukraine’s surprise attacks says about us

A little over forty years ago, while preparing for a weekly radio address, President Ronald Reagan famously cracked wise about the possibility of attacking the Soviet Union. “I have signed legislation that outlaws Russia forever,” he said. “We begin bombing in five minutes.”

Reagan had not realized that the studio microphone was recording his joke and that technical personnel preparing for the broadcast in stations across the country were already listening. His facetious remarks were leaked. The public reaction was immediate, strong, and negative. Democratic candidate Walter Mondale admonished his election opponent for ill-considered humor, and Reagan’s polling numbers took a temporary hit.

For many, the possibility of thermonuclear annihilation was no joking matter.

Within a few short years, history veered in a much more positive direction, and concerns about either superpower pressing “the button” by accident or by design began to recede. A reelected Reagan and his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev launched a set of historic accords that greatly reduced the risk of superpower war. The Berlin Wall fell, the Cold War ended, and the USSR dissolved. For many Americans, the threat of nuclear conflict faded into distant memory.

Today, we encounter those Cold War fears primarily through history books. Fewer and fewer people recall nail-biting over the Cuban Missile Crisis or sheltering under desks in elementary schools. Many have not heard about the controversy over Reagan’s radio gaffe. Millennials and Generation Z wonder why their parents and grandparents worried about a nuclear Armageddon that never, in fact, materialized.

There may be no better illustration of our much-relaxed contemporary attitudes than the public reaction to Ukraine’s surprise attacks last week on dozens of Russian strategic bombers located at bases thousands of kilometers from Ukraine. On June 1, Ukraine used swarms of drones hidden in trucks smuggled across Russia’s border to attack one leg of its nuclear triad of missiles, submarines, and aircraft.

This time, the bombing was no joke. But the Western reaction hardly took the prospect of nuclear escalation seriously.

The operation was “a brilliant technical performance” that showed “why Ukraine will win this war,” according to French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy writing in the Wall Street Journal. Rebecca Grant, vice president of the Lexington Institute, posted on the Fox News site that Americans should “savor Ukraine’s brilliant strike on Putin’s terror bombers. Too bad Ukraine can’t do it again. Or can they?”

The Washington Post editorialized that the operation showed that Ukrainians are “tough, determined – and right. Theirs is a fight the United States should be proud to support.” Legions of online armchair warriors praised Ukraine’s “bad-ass operation” that will “go down in history” and be “studied for years to come.”

Such reactions largely ignored the impact that such attacks might have on nuclear stability between the United States and Russia, which together hold more than 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons.

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CNN Proudly Brags That The Mexican flag Has Become “A Defining Symbol” Of LA Riots

CNN declared Tuesday that the Mexican flag is now “a defining symbol” of what it continues to describe as “peaceful protests” across Los Angeles.

The propaganda piece asserts that those involved are using the flag to “express solidarity with immigrants and denounce the Trump administration’s raids.”

It also proclaims that “the waving of foreign flags speaks to the generations of people from Mexico and other Latin American countries who have called the US, and particularly California, home.”

The piece quotes a UCLA professor claiming 

“The flags mean their families. The flags mean their communities. It’s not about having an international invasion.”

Yeah. It kinda looked a lot like an invasion.

CNN potato Brian Stelter repeated this guff about it being a “community” thing.

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New Leftist Talking Point: Don’t Believe Riot Videos, It’s The Algorithms!

A new leftist directive has dropped. It’s essentially this… You might see some rioty looty kind of videos out of LA and now other cities across the US, but that’s doesn’t mean there’s lawlessness, because it’s the algorithms… or something.

So far from the legacy media we’ve been told what look like chaotic anarchic riots are actually ‘mostly peaceful’, ‘fun’, ‘joyful’, ‘pretty quiet’, ‘relatively mellow’, ‘celebratory’ and all about ‘hope and community’.

We’ve also been told that the riots, sorry, relatively mellow gatherings don’t really matter because they’re concentrated on areas where metropolitan elites don’t ever visit.

Now, NBC News Correspondent Gadi Schwartz has claimed that what people are actually seeing “depends on what your feed is putting in front of your face, a lot of it is algorithmically-controlled.”

Oh. We thought we saw mass looting, but maybe that’s just the algorithm?

Schwartz further suggested that “people are seeing what looks like lawlessness around places in Los Angeles.”

Yes. Yes it does. 

Is it not that then?

Schwartz continued, “Here we saw protests that were sizable, yesterday. Today, there’s almost no one here, and yet, on the 101, we just saw some protesters shut things down.”

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MSNBC Reporter Says Riots Are “Relatively Mellow” As Cars Burn, Explosions Go Off Around Him

This is it. This is the most ridiculous one yet. An MSNBC reporter went to downtown LA to report on the anarchy and chaos that rages on, and declared that it was “relatively mellow” while standing in front of a burning car with explosions going off around him.

With his gas mask hanging from his shoulder, the reporter proclaimed “it’s not chaotic, you know other than what you see behind me, it’s actually relatively mellow.”

The moment he said that, a flashbang went off on cue. He then claimed that the riot is “almost like a celebratory atmosphere, as much as like a confrontational one.”

Stand aside ‘fiery but peaceful’, we have a new king of riot memes.

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New York Times’ Hypocritical ‘Tale Of Two Flags’ Coverage Encapsulates Media’s Seething Bias

As riots raged in Los Angeles on Sunday, The New York Times rushed to reassure readers that Mexican flags being waved by protesters were symbols not of insurrection or lawlessness, but of “pride in their heritage.” The Times’ sympathetic view of anti-law-and-order rioters is hardly notable, but comparing its glowing review of the symbolism and meaning of the Mexican flag’s use in the L.A. upheaval to its screeching hysteria over the Alito flags a year ago is a sharp reminder of just how biased the paper is.

Unlike many of the rioters in Los Angeles, Samuel and Martha-Ann Alito didn’t foment social unrest, throw rocks at police cars, hurl incendiaries, burn cars, or generally embroil themselves in more or less serious dust-ups with law enforcement. (Maybe they would have drawn a more favorable review from the Times if they had.) But the Times used Martha-Ann’s flying of an upside-down American flag (an age-old distress signal) in Jan. 2021 and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag (a banner with roots in the Revolutionary War) in mid-2023 as the launching pad for manufactured controversy aimed at destroying Justice Alito’s credibility — and the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

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Why is the New Yorker sucking up to Latin American tyrants?

How does a judge ban one of the world’s biggest social-media platforms, nakedly target political opponents and repress reporting on his involvement in the biggest corruption scandal in his country’s history, and still get to be portrayed as a champion of democracy? Only, it seems, if the journalist is working for the New Yorker.

In April, the leading American magazine hailed Alexandre de Moraes as ‘The Brazilian judge taking on the digital far right’. Moraes, whose most notorious achievements to date include banning X and driving political opponents into exile, was presented as the only thing standing between his country and autocracy. According to journalist John Lee Anderson, Moraes is a ‘pugnacious jurist’ who has repeatedly saved his country from ‘digital militias’. The article even described the judge as ‘conspicuously fit’ and praised his ‘sharp cheekbones’.

It’s a good thing this terrible article was published in America, rather than Brazil, which remains in a well of authoritarianism that Moraes is in no small part responsible for. For many Brazilians, Moraes’s unprecedented assault on free speech is a fresh and depressing memory.

Most Brazilians received their first taste of his authoritarian streak in 2022, the year current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Jair Bolsonaro. Many Brazilians took to the streets to protest the result, centering on the capital, Brasilia. While the protests had an uncomfortable whiff of America’s ‘January 6’ riots the previous year, ordinary voters were right to feel a little aggrieved. ‘Lula’ had served just over 18 months of a 12-year prison term after he was convicted of corruption, before his charges were overturned by a Supreme Court that now included Moraes, a longstanding political ally.

The riots that occurred in Brasilia in January 2023 were serious, but hardly the threat to democracy and national security they were made out to be. For example, it occurred on a Sunday, meaning government buildings were largely empty. Critically, Bolsonaro wasn’t even in the country – he was in Florida, where he had been since losing the election.

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