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NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham was interviewed by the popular Daily Wire podcast "Morning Wire" about immigration and the state of the debate over defunding PBS and NPR.  The host, Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley, began with the Geoffrey Dickens study showing a dramatic disparity in recent ABC, CBS, and NBC coverage of “Maryland father” Kilmar Abrego Garcia versus the trial of the illegal alien who raped and murdered Maryland mother of five Rachel Morin.   “The definition of news is, if it’s negative about Trump, it’s a big story. If it’s a Trump talking point, it is forgotten,” Graham said. He noted the networks can’t say they don’t cover violent crimes like rape and murder, but “It’s a matter of who is the rapist and the murderer that somehow turns into into a zero-seconds story.” He said Rachel Morin’s murder “is not just a Trump talking point, it’s an anti-Biden talking point.” He said this is how media bias compounds upon itself. "Because is The Washington Post going to ask Sen. Van Hollen a question about this? Are any of the local media here in the DC area, the DC NPR station, [going to ask] about what he has done or has he been in contact with the Morin family?" No.  Tim found a Nexis search of NPR coverage of found no mention of Rachel Morin now, or when she was killed in 2023.    From there, Bickley asked if defunding PBS and NPR was a "healthy step for the country," and Graham noted that the MRC was there (and Brent Bozell testified before Congress) when Newt Gingrich proposed zeroing out public broadcasting when Republicans took over the House in 1995. "It is so long overdue. It is an outrageous that conservative taxpayers should have to send money to Washington so they can be smeared as little Hitlers," Graham said. "We are long past time for the federal money to dry up for public radio and TV -- and if they want to make this outrageous liberal content, they should get more outrageous liberal donors like George Soros to pay for it."  Sign the petition to help defund PBS and NPR at defundpbsnpr.org.

Klaus Schwab indicated in an April 1 letter to the World Economic Forum's board of trustees and staff that he was stepping down as chairman of the technocratic globalist organization. The 87-year-old economist did not, however, appear to be in a rush. The WEF told the Financial Times earlier this month that Schwab — who pushed vigorously in recent years for a "great reset" of capitalism — would complete his departure by January 2027. His exit has, however, come early. Schwab announced Monday that he was stepping down immediately. "Following my recent announcement, and as I enter my 88th year, I have decided to step down from the position of Chair and as a member of the Board of Trustees, with immediate effect," the technocrat said in a statement to the WEF's board. The board unanimously appointed WEF Vice Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe as the interim chairman and established a search committee for the selection of a future chair. Brabeck-Letmathe is the Austrian business executive who led the Nestlé Group as CEO from 1997 to 2008 and Formula One until 2016. A notable shareholder in the vaccine manufacturer Moderna at least as of 2023, Brabeck-Letmathe has served as a member of the WEF's foundation board as well as on its board of trustees. "At a time when the world is undergoing rapid transformation, the need for inclusive dialogue to navigate complexity and shape the future has never been more critical," the WEF stated. "The Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum underlines the importance of remaining steadfast in its mission and values as a facilitator of progress. Building on its trusted role, the Forum will continue to bring together leaders from all sectors and regions to exchange insights and foster collaboration." 'The world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies.' Blaze News previously noted that Schwab's exit, apparently announced on the 55th anniversary of the day he began working on the borrowed concept of a "global village," followed in the wake of a probe into allegations of discrimination at the WEF. The Wall Street Journal published a damning report alleging — on the basis of internal complaints, email exchanges, and interviews with current and past WEF employees — that "under Schwab's decades-long oversight, the forum has allowed to fester an atmosphere hostile to women and black people in its own workplace." The report contained allegations that: multiple female employees were "pushed out or otherwise saw their careers suffer" when pregnant or coming back from maternity leave; some women were sexually harassed by senior WEF managers; Schwab "made suggestive comments to [former staffers] that made them uncomfortable"; and some black employees were passed over for promotions and subjected to objectionable racial comments. The WEF suggested the Journal's report was "inaccurate," stating, "We are an organization that upholds the highest standards of governance, while working to address the most pressing challenges of our time with our high-performance teams, our diverse and global outlook, and an environment that values innovation, inclusion, and well-being." After the Wall Street Journal's report made waves, the WEF hired a pair of law firms to investigate the claims of workplace discrimination and harassment. The law firm Covington and Burling — whose members had their security clearances suspended last month by President Donald Trump — conveniently concluded with the Swiss firm Homburger that it "did not find the forum had committed any legal violations" and "did not substantiate" the misconduct allegations against Schwab. Time will tell if Schwab's replacement will secure the future he long conspired to bring about. In a June 2020 WEF blog post, Schwab noted that "the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a 'Great Reset' of capitalism." Observing that populations proved willing "to make sacrifices" during the pandemic, Schwab indicated "the will to build a better society does exist." "We must use it to secure the Great Reset that we so badly need," continued Schwab. "That will require stronger and more effective governments." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

When I was a boy, my father would rouse my brothers and me — plus the dog — just after sunrise on Patriots Day. We’d walk to the bottom of our street to catch a glimpse of the men and boys marching down Strawberry Hill Road, bound for the Old North Bridge in Concord. There were never more than a few dozen from Acton, but we heard the drums long before they appeared through the tall, thick trees that line the roads of our Massachusetts town. Now and then, a musket shot cracked the morning air. The dog hated it. He couldn’t grasp why we stood there, waiting for what sounded like an advancing army. You can’t hold on to your inheritance if you don’t know where it came from — or what it cost. But for us, it was unforgettable. It felt like history marching toward us. The thrill of a lifetime. Two hundred and fifty years ago this past Saturday, there were no ceremonial shots. No crowd. No celebration. Just a grim and determined militia moving through the cold New England air, summoned by the alarm of church bells echoing across the countryside. The British were coming. And the men of Acton walked out to meet them. There were far fewer trees back then. As the sun rose, the men could see across the open farmland for miles. Today, Concord is downright tony. But in April 1775, it was still rough country — 140 years old and carved from the wilderness by people who lived off the land. The forest wasn’t just scenery. It was essential for survival: fuel for fires, timber for homes, a barrier against the cold and the unknown. Years later, the most despised man in town wasn’t a redcoat or a Tory — it was a scrawny, self-important poet who managed to burn the woods down trying to make chowder. His name? Henry David Thoreau. But on that frozen April morning, no one had time for philosophy. As the Minutemen turned onto Barretts Mill Road, then Lowell Road, they may have glimpsed fellow militiamen assembling on the ridge above the bridge spanning the Concord River. Ahead lay the town. Between them and it: British light infantry, armed and in formation. In 1775, the British Empire spanned from Bengal to Bermuda. It held all 13 American colonies and, after its victory in the French and Indian War, ruled Eastern Canada as well. The British Army was undefeated, disciplined, and sharply dressed in red coats and white trousers. But beneath the uniform, most were poor. Soldiering wasn’t seen as honorable. It was a last resort for men with no other prospects — desperate enough to take the king’s shilling. The night before the battle, those men had been roused from their barracks in Boston, a world away from the places they called home. They boarded small boats and crossed the Charles River in silence. Seven hundred soldiers, soaked to the skin, trudged 10 miles through the dark to Lexington Green. There, about 80 American militiamen waited. They had mustered in the night, armed but unsure. As the British columns approached, fear rippled through their line. The enemy just kept coming. Their captain — a veteran of the war in Canada — knew the odds. He arranged his men in parade formation and told them not to fire. He wasn’t there to win. He was trying to avoid a massacre. British officers on horseback rode past their lines, eyes cold, barking orders at the militiamen to drop their weapons and disperse. The sun was still nearly two hours from rising when a shot rang out. No one knows who fired first — but the British answered with a volley. They gunned down their own countrymen — eight killed, 10 wounded — shattering a small town before continuing their march to Concord. The shock was immediate and profound. Tensions had simmered for months, but no war had been declared. The Declaration of Independence was still more than a year away. British troops had fired on an unruly mob in Boston five years earlier, but this was different. This time they opened fire on a peaceful militia. And this time, they were marching inland to seize arms and cannon — something they had done before without bloodshed. This time changed everything. By the time the British reached Concord, seven miles farther west, the town already knew what had happened. Colonial spies had tracked the army’s every move. Paul Revere had watched their boats leave Boston. The militia had scattered much of the weapons and ammunition into nearby fields. The element of surprise was gone. Unlike Lexington, Concord didn’t meet the troops with defiance — at least not at first. Soldiers paid townspeople for supplies. No shots were fired. But above Barrett’s Hill, the Minutemen were watching. They were farmers, blacksmiths, merchants, and their sons. Some had fought the French. Others had battled Indians. But most had never faced trained soldiers. They weren’t an army — until that moment. Now, they outnumbered the redcoats. Then the smoke rose from the town — cannon carriages, set ablaze by the British. The sight triggered fury. “Will you let them burn down the town?” shouted Joseph Hosmer. The Americans didn’t answer with words. They marched down the hill to cross the bridge — and into history. When I was a kid, “the shot heard ’round the world” was the defining story of the American Revolution. We took field trips to the battlefield, rode our bikes down to see the re-enactments with Dad, and as teenagers, we snuck beers and cigars along the quiet river after dark. I imagined the men — some barely more than boys — who stood their ground and faced down a global empire for their rights. I thought of their strength, courage, and resolve. They suffered, bled, and died for our inheritance. To us, they were heroes. It wasn’t until I got older and started to travel that I realized how little of the war was actually fought in the towns where I grew up. I knew my ancestors had fought at Monmouth. Others in my family had taken up arms for the crown in the South. But in my imagination, the war was always Lexington, Concord, the Boston Massacre, and Bunker Hill. Travel shattered that illusion. I stood on a hill in New Jersey where my family had held the line against charging Hessian mercenaries. A few miles away, I visited a house marked with a plaque: A man had been hanged there by a mob, suspected of loyalty to the king. The biggest battles were in the South. That’s where the war was won. One branch of my family knew the cost of neutrality. A former officer from the French and Indian War refused to take sides when the Revolution broke out. The local townspeople tried to lynch him. Driven into exile, he joined the loyalists. While he was away fighting, his wife fed information to the Americans — protecting the farm and their many children from reprisals. Her actions earned him a pardon. After the war, he returned from exile and served in the North Carolina State Assembly. The Revolution wasn’t a clean myth. It was a civil war, bitter and personal. And my family, like many, lived both sides of it. I once had a beer and a lobster roll on a quiet Connecticut beach where Long Island spies came ashore with news of British troop movements. I bent down and touched the cold water of the Delaware, where Washington’s army crossed one bitter Christmas Eve. No book can teach what you learn by walking where history happened — by breathing the same air, listening to the same wind, standing where great men once stood. With time, I came to see how much larger the Revolution really was. And uglier. The lines between right and wrong blurred. The deeper you go, the more complexity you uncover. That’s the price of understanding — and of growing up. Still, Concord will always stay with me. I know the men in red weren’t monsters. They were cold, far from home, following orders. “They came three thousand miles, and died, to keep the Past upon its throne,” reads the grave marker by the river. “Unheard, beyond the ocean tide, their English mother made her moan.” But I know the other side, too. The farmers who stood against them weren’t radicals or rebels. They were citizens. They were noble. And when the moment came, they chose to act. You can’t hold on to your inheritance if you don’t know where it came from — or what it cost. That’s why I’ll take my son with me the next time I stand on that “rude bridge that arched the flood” and tell him what happened there — where embattled farmers once stood and fired the shot heard ’round the world. 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Voters in crime-ridden Oakland, California, elected former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, a Democrat, as the city’s next mayor.Oakland held a special election on Tuesday after former Mayor Sheng Thao (D) was recalled by her constituents over the city’s rising crime rates, which prompted many businesses to flee the area.'I’ve never uttered "defund the police."'The FBI raided Thao’s home in June, and she was later indicted in January on bribery, conspiracy, and mail and wire fraud charges. Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price (D) was also recalled.The successful recall efforts appeared to indicate that Oakland residents had had enough of progressive politicians’ soft-on-crime approach.Seneca Scott, the founder of Neighbors Together Oakland, said the recalls signaled that the “phony ‘progressive’ movement is officially dead.”However, last week, Oakland residents voted to replace Thao with Lee, a Democratic candidate who had opposed the recall effort and previously expressed support for defunding the police. In June 2020, Lee told Politico that she was “really proud of what Minneapolis unanimously decided” after the city pulled funding from the police. Yet, Lee has insisted that she never supported the defunding movement. “I’ve never uttered ‘defund the police,’” she told KRON-TV in January. “I never was there. Some were, some weren’t. But that’s okay. I wasn’t. Some said it was only progressives who were, doing the right thing for police reform. And believe you me, I’ve been out there on police accountability and police reform. That’s me. But, believe you me, I understand the need for public safety for everyone.”Lee’s challenger, former City Council member Loren Taylor (D), who supported tougher police measures, held the initial lead in the mayoral race. However, Lee ultimately secured a five-point victory in the ranked-choice election.Despite her previous comments indicating her support for yanking funding from law enforcement, Lee ran on a public safety platform in the special election.Her “first 100 days” plan stated that she intends to address the city’s homelessness crisis and “bring together Police Department leadership and representatives from all business corridors to coordinate and improve public safety strategies.”She also stated she would appoint a task force “to modernize Oakland’s Charter and strengthen government accountability.”Scott referred to Lee as “Thao 2.0” and attributed her election success to her “tremendous name recognition.” He expressed doubt that she would keep her campaign promises.“I have no confidence ‘progressives’ will actually follow thru, they just pandered as usual and will continue passing destructive anti-commerce policies,” Scott wrote in a post on X.Lee stated on Saturday, "This morning, Loren Taylor called me to concede the race. While I believe strongly in respecting the democratic voting process and ballots will continue to be counted through Tuesday, the results are clear that the people of Oakland have elected me as your next Mayor. THANK YOU, OAKLAND!""I accept your choice with a deep sense of responsibility, humility, and love," she continued. "Oakland is a deeply divided City, and I answered the call to run, to unite our community—so that I can represent every voter, and we can all work together as One Oakland to solve our most pressing problems."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!