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Democrat’s Censorship Bill Would Punish ‘Civic Misinformation’ With Up to Five Years in Prison

“imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.”

That is the maximum prison penalty in Democrat Jim McGovern’s Big Tech Accountability Act for knowingly disseminating qualifying “fraudulent civic misinformation,” with the purpose or reasonable expectation that others will believe and rely or act on it.

The definition reaches materially false, fraudulent, or misleading information about government services and processes—including elections, public health, civil rights, and education.

The censorship mechanism is direct: federal prosecution of qualifying speech, backed by separate provisions increasing publishers’ and platforms’ exposure to civil lawsuits. Free Speech For People, the organization now demanding President Trump’s impeachment, says the legislation was developed with the group.

The bill’s definition of “publishing entity”includes print publishers, radio licensees, television stations, online services, and advertising agencies. Its separate publisher offense carries the same five-year maximum for knowingly publishing or targeting information in aid of a qualifying violation.

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CNN’s Van Jones Explains the Secret Network Democrats Used in the 2026 Midterms

CNN’s Van Jones recently explained to Kaitlan Collins how Democrats swamped the polls in the 2026 midterms, winning key races in red states.

He describes a network called the ‘American Accountability Network’ which pushed the narrative of affordability and kitchen table issues. It does not even matter that Democrats will be unlikely to deliver on those issues, all that matters to them is that it worked.

Republicans are going to face losses until they can figure out how to compete in this arena.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

KAITLAN COLLINS: Joining me now is my Democratic source tonight to weigh in on what’s going on with his party. Van Jones is a former Obama administration official. Van, you’ve been smiling a lot since Tuesday night.

VAN JONES: I’m still happy.

COLLINS: But a big question, you know, now that we are getting into it.

JONES: Whoop them. Whoop them.

COLLINS: I mean, the Texas races alone are pretty crazy.

JONES: Look, I mean, look, if we were sitting here talking about California being run by Republicans, that would be shocking. That’s how shocking this is. And listen, you know, Georgia, every statewide office held by an African-American woman. I mean, it’s just we’re in a different planet somehow.

COLLINS: So what do you want Democrats to do with this? Because it is a big question.

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‘The Clock Is Ticking’: Chilling Bomb Threats Force Evacuations at Europe’s Top Television Stations

Television stations across Europe were evacuated Friday after receiving a series of bomb threats warning that “the clock is ticking.”

Ireland’s national broadcaster RTE, Britain’s Sky News and Bulgaria’s Nova TV were among the targeted outlets.

No explosives were ultimately discovered.

The threatening emails claimed that an explosive device had been planted inside the relevant buildings and would detonate within 45 minutes.

“We want the whole world to know about us, which is why one of our operatives has planted an explosive device in your building,” one message read.

“It will detonate in 45 minutes. The clock is ticking.”

Dublin-based RTE was forced to suspend normal programming for several hours while police conducted an extensive search of its Dublin headquarters.

Employees were eventually permitted to return after the building was declared safe.

Nova’s newsroom in Sofia was similarly evacuated and searched, although its broadcasts remained on air.

The threats come after a wave of apparent hoax bomb warnings targeting passenger flights across Europe in recent days.

This has resulted in diversions, emergency landings and security operations. Authorities have so far reported finding no explosives.

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CBC executive ran encrypted chat with prank-show producers as scandal broke

A CBC executive managed the fallout from the Northland Tales prank-show scandal in an encrypted group chat with the show’s producers. Messages in the chat discussed leaving information off production call sheets after learning CBC had received an access to information request. That’s according to access to information records obtained by Rebel News.

The chat, titled “Nlt,” was created on May 12, the day Lindsay Shepherd and Frances Widdowson went public about being deceived by the CBC-APTN production. It includes Yasmine Abbasakoor, CBC’s executive in charge of development for unscripted programming, and members of the production whose names are redacted. A notice at the top says the chat was end-to-end encrypted.

“Hi All- the media requests keep rolling in. The latest from The Toronto Sun,” Abbasakoor wrote that evening. She asked how the producers planned to respond.

“We have had requests, at the moment we are just sitting on it,” a production member replied. “Do you have any requests for how we respond?”

The production side later promised to send a list of the media requests “over this channel of course,” and sent a “secured link” that night.

Earlier that afternoon, CBC communications staff had settled on their own response. In an email to CBC executives, CBC PR director Katherine Wolfgang said CBC would “respond with the comment that we have already discussed” and was waiting to brief APTN’s communications team.

On May 13, a chat participant wrote that “hearing that the CBC has been atipped” had them thinking about something. The rest of that message is blacked out. The next morning, a message said call sheets “will have all our info,” followed by: “For the next two eps we will leave this info off.” The sender’s name on that message is redacted, and the records don’t show whether that was done.

On May 15, after CBC paused the production, Abbasakoor told the producers to “stop editing and get us all the dailies.” A production member sent passwords for episode dailies and outlines requested by Jennifer Dettman, CBC’s executive director of unscripted content, and CBC executive Sally Catto. “We are being extra protective,” the producer wrote.

On May 25, Abbasakoor asked the producers for the video they originally pitched at the Banff World Media Festival. “I know it’s not on YouTube anymore,” she wrote. “I’ll call you later and tell you why. All good reasons.” The records don’t say what those reasons were.

A separate chat exported from Dettman’s phone shows she used a default disappearing-message timer. New messages in her chats “will disappear from this chat 7 days after they’re sent, except when kept,” the notice reads. It is dated April 21, three weeks before the show became public. The records do not show which of her messages, if any, were deleted.

The access to information request that produced these records was filed on May 26 and asked for texts, WhatsApp, Signal and Slack messages about the show. CBC answered on October 8, after taking an extension.

Thirty-nine pages were withheld in full under section 23 of the Access to Information Act, which covers solicitor-client privilege. CBC also excluded other material under section 68.1, which shields its “journalistic, creative or programming activities.”

The release also includes 41 complaints sent to the CBC about the show.

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CBC asked prank-show producers for their ‘duty of care’ document. It was ‘lost in the drive shuffle’

A week after the National Police Federation accused the CBC-APTN prank series Northland Tales of deceiving RCMP veterans, a senior CBC executive went looking for the production’s duty-of-care document. She was told it had been lost when files were moved between drives. That’s according to access to information records obtained by Rebel News.

On May 26, Jennifer Dettman, CBC English Services’ executive director of unscripted content, emailed about a “Duty of care info request.” A person whose name is blacked out replied, “RIGHT – will find it now.”

Later that afternoon, the same correspondent wrote: “I think that the document itself got lost in the drive shuffle – it is this one on the clipboard in this picture! I will find it – the migration of the drives has caused me to lose a few links.”

Nine minutes later, Dettman answered: “That is it, thank you.”

The photo isn’t in the release, and the records don’t say what the duty-of-care document contained, who wrote it or when. Most of the thread is blacked out under exemptions for personal information, third-party business information and CBC programming.

The request came one week after National Police Federation president Brian Sauve wrote to Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller on May 19. Sauve said RCMP veterans and serving members were invited to Vancouver for what they believed was a production honouring their service. He said they arrived in uniform, had their phones taken and were then ambushed on camera.

Sauve asked that the footage never air, warning that broadcasting it “would compound that harm and constitute an ongoing breach of duty of care.” CBC president Marie-Philippe Bouchard forwarded the letter to her senior staff the same evening.

CBC paused production in mid-May. A draft CBC reply to Conservative MP Aaron Gunn in the release says the corporation was pausing the show “while we assess the existing footage.”

On May 25, Gunn raised the RCMP veterans in Question Period and asked whether it was acceptable for the public broadcaster to use taxpayer money to deceive Canadians. Liberal MP David Myles answered that CBC is independent, that production had been paused and that the show had never aired.

CBC public affairs head Chuck Thompson later told someone who had written to Bouchard that CBC was “conducting a comprehensive review of this production.” The records do not say whether that review looked at the duty-of-care document, or what it found.

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Scott Galloway’s Unhinged Tirade Against Elon Musk Takes A Very Dark Turn…

Marketing professor and anti-MAGA podcaster Scott Galloway launched an unhinged attack on Elon Musk, branding the billionaire a “traitor to the West” before invoking the infamous Rosenberg espionage case, which ended with the execution of two Americans during the Cold War.

Galloway spewed the incendiary comments during a discussion with former technology journalist Kara Swisher about Silicon Valley’s growing influence, arguing that the United States’ obsession with billionaire innovators has created a dangerous double standard.

However, what began as a familiar critique of Silicon Valley’s billionaire class quickly took a darker turn. Galloway compared Musk to aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, whose sympathies toward Nazi Germany before America’s entry into World War II remain a controversial chapter in U.S. history. Galloway then invoked Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the American couple executed in 1953 after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

“We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall,” Galloway said, before insisting Musk should be held to the same standards as other traitors.

Galloway stopped short of explicitly calling for Musk’s execution, but bringing up two spies who were put to death while calling him a traitor was a striking comparison.

Here are Galloway’s remarks in full:

Okay, so I’ll go fail first. I think the idolatry of innovators has gotten so out of control. I was talking to the secretary before this. If you go up and down the West Coast, you’re going to see literally companies. The West Coast is littered with multi-trillion dollar companies, and you get to the Canadian border, it stops. You get to the Mexican border, it stops. And yet these individuals are quick to credit their grit and their character for their success and blame the government for their failures.

And what is so disappointing, that’s not my fail, because if you tell a 30-year-old male who’s Jesus Christ, he’s inclined to believe you. The fail is that we have begun believing through this ridiculous, unhealthy, and dangerous idolatry of innovators that they get to live by an entirely different standard. Elon Musk is a traitor to the West.

[crowd applause]

In the 30s, we had this incredible hero, Charles Lindbergh, an innovator, and he felt that we should be on the side of Germany. And a lot of people felt that way. We had spent tremendous capital, a lot of loss of young men in World War I, and we thought, you can understand, we don’t want to go back, right? And his view was we should partner with Germany and Hitler.

What if, and this could have very easily happened, he was a hero. What if he’d raised the capital to buy Boeing? He probably could have done it. And then when we lent B-17s to run bombing runs over Germany to the RAF, what if he had figured out a guidance for a flight system and then mid-1940, before we were involved in the war, decided to throttle back those guidance systems and the blitzkrieg in London got worse, and more homes and more civilians were destroyed and killed respectively. What would we have done to Charles Lindbergh?

But it’s uncomfortable and weird because we’ve decided someone who’s a trillionaire, makes a great EV and can land a rocket on scissors is held to a different standard. We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall. This is a traitor to the West, and you should be held to the same standards as every other traitor in the West.

The Rosenbergs were convicted in 1951 of conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union and executed at New York’s Sing Sing prison two years later. Their case remains one of the most controversial espionage prosecutions in American history, particularly because of the severity of the punishment.

Galloway’s remarks come amid an increasingly hostile climate surrounding Musk, with the billionaire facing criticism over his political activities and his role in the Trump administration.

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Ana Navarro of ‘The View’ Says You Should Vote Democrat Because Ground Beef is $6.30 a Gallon

Ana Navarro of ‘The View’ is encouraging her social media followers to vote for Democrats, which is no surprise at all, even though the show touts her as a Republican.

In a recent video, Navarro must have been a little nervous because she says that ground beef is now $6.30 a gallon.

Ground beef comes in a gallon now? Who knew?

From Twitchy:

The View’s Ana Navarro took to social media on Monday with a USDA ‘Grade F’ get-out-the-vote message. She’s urging her fellow idiots to vote Democrat, of course. She sounds more sauced than usual. Apparently, she’s a fool when it comes to fuel. She says it’s getting expensive to put ground beef in our cars and trucks or pick up a few jugs of meat at the grocery store. Wut?

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First Doomsday Warnings, Then Poland Crisis, Iran’s “No Limits” Threat, & Now “Mass Casualty” Risk In Moscow

Emergency preparedness warnings across the US, Europe, and Japan have been amplified in corporate media and turned into hysteria for the general public. One big question we have is whether these advisories are coming from an intelligence briefing or deep state globalists doing what they’re best at: manipulating the public through headlines.

It’s hard to say what’s fueling the panic, but mentions of “stockpile food” in corporate media headlines jumped on October 23 to their highest level since the Covid-19 panic era of 2021.

What’s indisputable is what has happened since those warnings were blasted around corporate media: a political crisis began unfolding in Poland on Friday evening, Iran warned that any renewed conflict with the US would have “no geographical limitation” in retaliation, and by late Saturday morning, the US Embassy in Moscow had warned of a “credible threat of a mass casualty event” in the Russian capital.

All of those developments come just a week after an attempted communist revolution in France that led to days of riots, looting, chaos, and embarrassment for the Macron government.

It remains to be seen whether the preparedness warnings across the West and among US allies are just fearmongering or whether the threats are credible and were part of some intelligence bulletin sent to allied countries. Notably, this is all happening just days before the US midterm elections next week.

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NPR Reveals Democrat Scheme To Rig AIs Into Deceiving Voters

Democrats love to decry misinformation, and they do so for a very specific reason: to distract from the fact that misinformation and Narrative™ control are the most powerful tools in their toolbox.

Don’t get me wrong; everybody wants to control The Narrative™. That is why everybody has a PR agent of some kind and uses rhetoric to persuade people. It’s just that the Democrats have a vice grip on the cultural means of production and the bureaucracies and institutions that provide “reliable” information, so Republicans have a tough time competing on this battleground, and their voters tend to be a lot more skeptical of narratives in the first place.

One of the brilliant things about decrying “misinformation” or “money in politics” is that you are telling people what they want to hear – that deceiving people is bad and that buying elections is wrong – and that makes people less likely to notice that you are deceiving people and buying elections.

After all, you are the people against that, right?

Yeah, well, no. Not in the least. The Left is all about both. Obama ran against both, for instance, but he ran the most expensive campaign in history, by far, when he ran and won, and one of the tools his campaign used was manipulating Google results to create a playing field that favored him.

Life in 2026 is far more complicated and sophisticated, and Democrats have adapted well to the landscape. And they have deep connections in Big Tech and own the PR landscape, so it shouldn’t surprise us that their geniuses have figured out how to poison AI to feed sophisticated misinformation to voters.

Ahead of the midterms, some voters are turning to ChatGPT to help them decide who to vote for. When asked for information about candidates in some highly competitive races, NPR found that OpenAI’s AI chatbot cited a set of websites that are thinly veiled political ads made to look like reporting from local news outlets.

Less than two weeks before Election Day, when asked “Which House candidates in [Michigan’s 4th Congressional District] care about affordability?,” the chatbot said Democrat Sean McCann had the “Most detailed published affordability plan” at the very top of its answer. The stakes in this race are high – it’s one of the competitive U.S. House races that could determine control of the chamber.

ChatGPT’s response when NPR asked “Which House candidates in [Michigan’s 4th Congressional District] care about affordability?”

As a citation, ChatGPT linked to a website called the Kalamazoo Beacon. The Beacon labels its articles as “news articles” in the website’s source code. The outlet also describes itself in the site’s source code as “Reporting on Kalamazoo, southwest Michigan, and the issues shaping lakeshore communities.”

But the Kalamazoo Beacon has only published 16 stories, all about McCann, his policy positions and his record as a state legislator, NPR’s review shows.

The Beacon is one of 10 “local news” websites that promote one Democrat apiece in competitive U.S. House races. The 10 sites are part of a larger group of 37 websites identified by the digital security firm VisionHeight that promote many more candidates, mostly Democrats, for a slew of federal, state and local offices, as well as some nonpartisan posts like judges.

ChatGPT’s citation of these websites highlights how AI-generated answers can become yet another avenue for stealthy political advertising as more voters consult chatbots before they head to the polls.

This is a far more sophisticated version of a tactic Democrats have used in the past: creating fake newspapers delivered to people’s homes, presented as “news” but really PR packages for candidates or parties.

But those were fairly transparent; seeding fake news into AI is not, because AI presents information as if it comes from neutral “news” sources, when in fact it is just laundered propaganda not identified as such.

In much the same way that Google will launder Wikipedia answers as authoritative in its AI summaries, making the left-leaning “editors” at the site extremely powerful in creating a Truman Show reality, the fake “news” sites provide another layer of credibility to campaign propaganda.

The set of 37 websites presents candidates in different, overlapping groups. Each of the 10 Democrats covered by a site purporting to cover local news is also the sole subject of a site that offers opinion articles about why voters should support them. The various candidates, who are running in different states, also show up in roundup-style articles on five more websites that have names such as “Public Safety Democrats” and “Democratic Women in the House.”

The volume of websites and articles may also help the network’s operator boost their preferred narratives, DiResta said.

Another 12 websites, each focusing on a state, covered the House candidates in those states as well as other state and local candidates running for office. The state and national websites also boosted an 11th House candidate that did not have her own dedicated site purporting to be local news.

While most of the sites are openly partisan, the articles published by the network link out to sources for the claims they make, such as congressional voting records, mainstream news articles and partisan news sources, such as the pro-Democrat Courier network.

The genius of these sites is that they are not meant to be read by humans at all. They are designed to optimize for web crawlers and cross-link so the network appears far larger and more credible than it actually is. It’s the same principle used in academic journals, where citations serve as a form of credibility checking (“peers take this work seriously”), which has led to junk papers actually getting more citations because they create a web of cites that make them appear influential.

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PBS Lays the Groundwork for the Midterms by Saying We May Not Know Results on Election Night and That’s ‘Normal’

The liberal media thinks the American people are so stupid.

PBS has a new report out today explaining how it will be completely ‘normal’ if we don’t know the results of the midterms on election night.

That is not normal, but the left wants to make it the new normal.

Just look at one race as an example, say the Los Angeles mayoral race. On election night, far left nutjob Nithya Raman was in a distant third place, but over the course of a few days and then a couple of weeks, they completely flipped the race. Nithya Raman bumped conservative alternative Spencer Pratt of the ballot and now it’s a contest between Karen Bass and Raman. Far left vs. really far left.

That is what PBS wants you to think of as normal.

Take a look at their report:

When will we know 2026 midterm election results? It may take some time, but that’s normal

If you go to bed on election night and don’t know who won a midterm congressional race, that’s normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that’s normal, too.

That won’t stop some politicians and their allies from spreading misinformation during vote counting.

In past elections, elected leaders, candidates and social media users have spread falsehoods that “late night” arrivals of “ballot dumps” or “suitcases” of ballots are signs of fraud, or that only Democratic-led cities take days to count votes.

Some states such as Florida often complete the majority of their unofficial counts in fewer hours or days than elsewhere. But it is not a sign of fraud if other places need more time.

“States are neither fast or slow, they all count and certify the results in accordance with the laws passed by their state legislature,” said Ryan Macias, an election technology and cybersecurity expert. “What is fast or slow is how quickly the media can collect sufficient evidence to confidently predict the winner, which is typically based on the margin of victory.”…

No state is required to complete the official count on election night. State laws set deadlines to certify final results, often weeks later.

We all know what this is.

It’s PBS trying to plant a seed in the minds of voters, to explain away the abnormalities that are sure to follow.

This is how the left wins elections.

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