For nearly an hour, [Atlantic monthly writer] Ann Applebaum had effused about how important it is to fight disinformation. So I asked her if she thinks the media acted inappropriately in immediately dismissing the New York Post’s reporting on the Hunter Files as Russian disinformation — a claim we now know to be completely false.
… Applebaum gave a stupefyingly arrogant (and borderline incoherent) answer: “My problem with Hunter Biden’s laptop,” she said, “is I think [it’s] totally irrelevant. I [mean], it’s not whether it’s disinformation, or I mean, I don’t think the — Hunter Biden’s business relationships have anything to do with who should be president of the United States. So, I didn’t — I don’t find it to be interesting. I mean, that would be my problem with that as a major news story.”
Nonsense. Back when the Hunter Files were a live crisis for the Biden camp, Applebaum published a lengthy essay in The Atlantic that aimed to discredit the reporter who broke the laptop story. So if she doesn’t find the story interesting, why did she—along with the entirety of the corporate media apparatus—dedicate so much time and effort to trying to legitimate censorship of the Post’s reporting?
The Question Anne Applebaum Refused to Answer | Compact Mag
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Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on the April 4 referendum to amend the constitution to
Reform bail
A constitutional amendment on bail reform bail reform allows courts to consider more relevant factors when setting bail for violent criminals. It strikes a balance between presuming innocence, public safety, and ensuring our judges have the appropriate tools to deal with repeat violent offenders.
The city of Milwaukee broke its homicide record for the third year in a row in 2022 and according to a 2021 news investigation, 1 out of every 5 homicide suspects was already out on bail or signature bond for another felony crime.
That means 20% of violent criminals in Milwaukee are reoffending! This amendment creates a two-tier system for bail between violent crimes and all other crimes. It does not eliminate a right to bail and does not interfere with the American principle of setting reasonable bail.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 48 states allow courts to consider “dangerousness.”
Bail reform had bipartisan support in both the Assembly and the Senate. Both chambers in the Wisconsin State Legislature have approved this constitutional amendment for two consecutive legislative sessions, the amendment will now be proposed to the voters on the April ballot.
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The local power struggle mirrors the divide over the national chairman
Ronna McDaniel has done the very best she could do under circumstances that are not favorable to the RNC and has managed to build up trust between the non-Trump and pro-Trump factions within the GOP in a way very few others could thread the needle and build the relationships.” …
The problem is not really Ronna and the RNC but at the state level. They point to the problems at the state GOP level in Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. One committeewoman, who is not a Trump fan at this point, told me, “Ronna can’t fix Kelli Ward, but Ronna is fantastic at mitigating those types.”
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Madison mayoral forumCandidates Satya Rhodes-Conway, Gloria Reyes, and Scott Kerr.
7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Monday, January 30
Sequoya Library Conference Room, 4340 Tokay Blvd
Join Zoom Meeting Link: https://cuwaa.zoom.us/j/91242996181
Meeting ID: 912 4299 6181
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Blaska Policy Werkes 
The MSM censored the NY Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop because they are morally bankrupt. At the very least, I will write a letter to NPR, and to my member of Congress, to say that NPR should no longer feel welcome to tax funding.
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Good luck trying to distract NPR from its latest crusade: defending the “rights” of the transgendered freaks who are destroying women’s sports–to say nothing of common sense gender distinctions, i.e., those based on Science.
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Correction Gary, it is called “the science” . Lol
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51 Intelligence Experts REFUSE TO APOLOGIZE For Smearing Hunter Biden Story
Notice anything out of the ordinary with the NY Post Front Page?
Rather a complete lack of melanin, there, am I right?
The Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion people may want a word…
The Gotch
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Gotch,
You make a really good point here. I wonder just how many of the top reporters and the top brass of media companies are as diverse, equitable and strive to include all people of all races, colors and creeds. Males, females, transgenders, questioning, asexual, bisexual and so on.
That group makes the statement that media companies want Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for thee but not for me.
Oh, and someone else made the excellent point that if you took the first initials of Brian Stelters first and last name you would come up with the initials of B.S. How appropriate.
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She’s right of course. Compared to Trump’s mean tweets the laptop is irrelevant.
/s
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Watch the video of Appelbaum swatting away the question about Hunter’s laptop. That woman is the embodiment of arrogant, supercilious liberal elitism–to say nothing of hypocrisy though those two qualities usually go hand-in-hand. Take a stroll through the UW-Madison campus and you’ll see countless Appelbaum clones, most of whom have tenure in Gender Studies or some other bogus academic department.
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Folks, I watched this in horror. It is from Tucker Carlson titled: Our leaders are defending what China is doing to it’s people in regard to the latest strain of covid.
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-our-leaders-are-defending-what-china-is-doing/
Chinese authorities dragging people out of their apartments; putting them in covid jails so they are locked away from their families. Killing the pets of those taken away. Beating dogs with a shovel until they die. Killing cats by putting them in garbage bags and letting them die. (If someone even tried to do that to my pets, they would be mailed home to mama in a pine box.) People screaming out that they are starving and that they will die if they don’t get food. People not being allowed to leave their apartments to get food or medicine.
But what will we hear from our government or our press about what is going on in China?
Nothing!
Is this what our leaders want for us?
Since the Biden family has had extensive dealings with Communist China, what did Hunter and more importantly Joe Biden know about covid before it became a pandemic?
Are we as Americans willing to give up our freedoms in order to prevent a pandemic that may or not come upon us?
Are we as Americans willing to give up our second amendment rights in order to defend ourselves against the tyrannical excess of government control over us?
To those in leadership positions all over the world. The book of Mark says the following:
“For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?”
Mark 8:36
When you die, you will stand before Almighty God, with the souls of those you put to death accusing you of being the one that put them to death, you will have to ask God for His mercy.
Good luck with that.
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I wonder how many progressives in this country use video of the Shanghai lockdown as a masturbatory aide?
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National Peoples Radio
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