If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. 4chan’s legal team has firmly rejected an attempt by UK regulator Ofcom to impose penalties under Britain’s new Online Safety Act, declaring the proposed fine unenforceable and a direct challenge to free expression protected by US law. The media regulator wants the site to pay a £20,000 ($27,010.78) penalty, with additional daily fines if it continues to ignore requests tied to its ongoing investigation. However, Preston Byrne, the attorney representing 4chan, argues that the demand lacks legal standing in the United States. Speaking to the BBC, Byrne described the regulator’s actions as “an illegal campaign of harassment” directed at American tech firms. Byrne made clear his client would not comply: “4chan has broken no laws in the United States, my client will not pay any penalty.” Ofcom launched its investigation to determine whether the platform meets requirements laid out in the Online Safety Act, which compels digital services to shield UK-based users from “harmful” content. In August, the regulator issued what it called a “provisional notice of contravention,” accusing 4chan of failing to respond to two formal data requests. The site, long known for its loose moderation policies and anonymous posting, has been a regular target of controversy over the years. Its open nature allows for a broad range of user expression, which some governments now seek to restrict under the pretext of safety. In a public statement released on X, legal representatives for 4chan doubled down. Byrne & Storm, alongside Coleman Law, stated: “American businesses do not surrender their First Amendment rights because a foreign bureaucrat sends them an email.” They argued that US courts have consistently refused to enforce foreign censorship fines, and if necessary, they would escalate the matter in federal court to protect those constitutional rights. The statement added that US authorities were already briefed on the situation, and it urged the Trump administration to “invoke all diplomatic and legal levers” in defense of US-based platforms against what it called “extraterritorial censorship mandates.” Ofcom declined to provide further comment while the investigation remains open. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post 4chan Rejects UK Ofcom Fine, Citing US Free Speech Protections and Threatening Legal Action appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC), a government office created during the Biden administration under the pretense of countering foreign disinformation, has been officially shut down as part of a broad overhaul of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) led by Director Tulsi Gabbard. The move is being described by the administration as an effort to dismantle wasteful, politicized, and unconstitutional programs that have operated well beyond the intended scope of US intelligence work. A fact sheet released by ODNI reveals that FMIC, along with its earlier incarnations, served as a tool for suppressing domestic political speech, particularly viewpoints at odds with the previous administration. “FMIC and its predecessor entities were used by the previous administration to justify the suppression of free speech and to censor political opposition,” the document states. Furthermore, it details the existence of a sustained partnership between the center and major technology companies, including X, Facebook, and Google, which ODNI says lacked any objective or scientific grounding and may have been weaponized against Americans. This coordination, according to ODNI, took place under the guise of countering foreign influence but functioned in practice as a mechanism to police and control public discourse online. The fact sheet highlights a specific incident from October 2020, when FMIC, then operating as the Election Threats Executive, was involved in shaping how social media platforms responded to the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop. That reporting was rapidly suppressed across major platforms, an act that later drew widespread condemnation from free speech advocates. The ODNI document directly connects FMIC to that censorship effort, noting its coordination with platforms on their response to the story. Gabbard, speaking with Fox News host Jesse Watters, condemned the center’s activities in clear terms. “It was essentially used as a means to censor Americans’ free speech, calling it, ‘Hey, you’re spreading disinformation,’” she explained. Gabbard further stated that FMIC worked directly with social media companies to silence dissent, particularly criticism of the Biden administration, which she described as “a direct contradiction and undermining of our fundamental constitutional rights.” Although the ODNI fact sheet stops short of using the term “abolished,” it does confirm that FMIC’s functions are being dismantled and its personnel absorbed elsewhere. The agency’s language states it is “refocusing functions within the Foreign Malign Influence Center” and integrating any necessary components into other divisions like Mission Integration and the National Intelligence Council. Nevertheless, in her interview, Gabbard was clear that the center’s days of operating as an independent entity are over. Beyond FMIC, the Gabbard-led reforms are targeting a range of other ODNI entities accused of serving partisan purposes rather than advancing national security. Among those being eliminated are the External Research Council and the Strategic Futures Group, both criticized for pushing politically motivated intelligence. According to the fact sheet, the overall restructuring, referred to as “ODNI 2.0,” will slash agency staffing by nearly half and save taxpayers over $700 million per year. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Tulsi Gabbard Shuts Down Foreign Malign Influence Center, Citing Political Censorship appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

Judge Orders Shutdown of 'Alligator Alcatraz' to Protect the Environment

Here we go again, another White House correspondent “news analysis” in Friday’s New York Times that sounded just like an editorial. Zolan Kanno-Youngs conjured up racially charged attacks on “people of color” in Trump’s criticism of the Smithsonian Institution’s excessive focus on the dark parts of America’s history, including slavery. The headlines: In Trump’s Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo Using the full power of the federal government, President Trump has promoted a vision of America that challenges the legitimacy of the Black experience. Kanno-Youngs began: President Trump accused the Smithsonian Institution this week of focusing too much on “how bad slavery was” and not enough on the “brightness” of America. He has ordered Confederate statues honoring those who fought to preserve slavery to be restored and celebrated. And he used language carrying uncomfortable racial overtones to describe Washington, a historically Black city, as a hotbed of “savagery, filth and scum” in need of “beautification.” (Here's the relevant bit of what Trump actually posted: “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future.”) Kanno-Youngs painted a cartoonish picture of Trump as symbol of ignorant white privilege. Over the past seven months, Mr. Trump’s words and actions have revealed what he sees as an ideal picture of the United States, in which the concept of diversity is taboo; the traditional power centers in America — white and wealthy men — get the benefit of the doubt; immigrants are suspect or unwelcome; and people of color must set their grievances and outrage aside. The anonymous “critics” cited sound awfully similar to the reporter's own liberal worldview. In the view of his critics, Mr. Trump has used the power of the federal government to promote a vision of America that not only challenges the legitimacy of the Black experience, but also demeans and dehumanizes people of color. In the process, they say, he has elevated and even endorsed a version of American culture that venerates a white-dominated society of old, and casts the history and reality of race in the United States as unwelcome or suspiciously “woke.” “He’s very much in opposition to a lot of what has happened in terms of race over the last couple of generations,” said Chris Myers Asch, a historian and the author of the book “Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in Our Nation’s Capital.” “He’s born wealthy. He’s always had easy access to power. It works very well for him. So anything that undermines that world is suspect,” Mr. Myers Asch said. Kanno-Youngs proclaimed "The White House did not respond to requests for comment." It makes you wonder about the pitch to Team Trump: "Would you like to respond to the reality that you dehumanize black people?" He said "Trump allies" say his voters feel "political leaders, cities, universities and the country’s culture more broadly had become too permissive or too liberal in their attitudes toward crime, border security, diversity efforts, student protests and other parts of American society." The reporter thinks any edits of "woke" history are "erasing" reality. He found a radically named and radically inclined visitor of a Smithsonian museum. As he exited the museum, Mr. [Jameel] Shabazz said he felt Mr. Trump was trying to erase a critical part of the nation’s story. “It shows a lot of history that I didn’t even know, and for him to take it away — you trying to hide something that America was built on,” said Mr. Shabazz, who donned a hat labeled “melanin” — a celebration of Black pride. “You trying to make America great again, you gotta keep the history.”

By now we've all seen the video. An Indian man driving an 18-wheeler on the Florida Turnpike attempts an illegal U-turn, carelessly pulling his rig across two lanes of traffic. A minivan traveling at highway speed crashes into the trailer, killing all three of its occupants.The horrific August 12 accident has dominated headlines and social media for the past week and seems to have struck a very raw nerve in Americans across the country.It’s about stopping a system that endangers the public, destroys good jobs, and shows open contempt for the skill and sacrifice of America’s truckers.Hardest to forget is the face of the driver, one Harjinder Singh. Thanks to driver-facing camera footage obtained and released by the trucking industry YouTube channel "Bonehead Truckers," we can watch Singh up close as he makes his fatal decision.It's shocking to observe that Singh fails to check for oncoming traffic before executing his dangerous maneuver. More shocking still is the utter lack of emotion he displays in the seconds after the minivan has plowed into his trailer.Even once he exits his cab and surveys the carnage, Singh remains unnervingly expressionless. In a widely circulated photo of Singh standing outside his truck and staring into the camera, he appears to show no remorse or emotion of any kind. In fact, he looks almost defiant.License to killA careless — and seemingly uncaring — illegal immigrant worker destroying the lives of three Americans. The incident immediately went viral. The facts of the case, once they emerged, only added fuel to the fire.While Singh was driving under a California-issued commercial driver's license, he was in the United States illegally, crossing from Mexico back in 2018. Washington state illegally issued him a CDL first, which California unquestioningly honored when Singh went to work for a company based there. Republicans and Democrats quickly began to fight over who should take the blame for Singh remaining in America.According to California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), his state may have issued Singh a "limited-term, non-domiciled" CDL in 2024, but it was the Trump administration that allowed him to stay in America in the first place.Department of Homeland Security official Tricia McLaughlin countered that the first Trump administration rejected Singh's work authorization in 2020, only to have President Biden grant it in 2021. A spokesman for Newsom then retorted that Singh's work permit was renewed this April.For his part, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) placed the blame squarely on Newsom and his state's sanctuary policies. — (@) Blame to spareBut DeSantis is as much to blame for the highways of America becoming death traps as is Newsom, or a number of other governors. Picking on Newsom or DeSantis misses the point, although they could be doing more to clean up their respective state DOTs and DMVs.Gavin Newsom’s DMV and DOT in California have been egregious on this issue and remain defiant in enforcing President Trump’s executive order on enforcing English language proficiency.Research by American Truckers United shows that these two states are among at least 10 that, after President Biden’s 2021 “Trucking Task Force,” issued an unusually high number of “limited-term” or “non-domicile” CDLs to recent arrivals — many with questionable work credentials or, like Harjinder Singh, through sob stories designed to avoid deportation.Florida, in particular, has seen a major CDL bribery scheme, in which hundreds of licenses were sold for cash without exams or skill tests. The state also harbors a cottage industry of substandard trucking schools. One graduate, Jean Marie St. Lot, a recent immigrant from Haiti, admitted after a deadly 2021 Texas crash that his three-week course had taught him nothing about winter driving.No English, no problemCalifornia has its own network of poor-quality schools, some even offering classes in Punjabi, despite the federal requirement that commercial drivers be proficient in English. That’s why President Trump’s April executive order reinstating the English language proficiency rule was so significant.Since June, the DOT has sidelined 1,500 illiterate drivers, according to Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. But with over 400,000 new CDLs issued in the year after Biden’s task force — many to drivers who couldn’t meet basic standards — removing 1,500 is barely a start. Singh himself was pulled over in New Mexico just weeks before his fatal Florida crash.It was not until after the fatal crash that Singh's command of English was put to the test. According to the DOT, Singh "failed the [ELP] assessment, providing correct responses to just two of 12 verbal questions and only accurately identifying one of 4 highway traffic signs."'Shortage' scamThis outrage goes beyond one illegal alien with a fraudulent CDL. The entire industry is being hollowed out by foreign drivers who lack training, language skills, and often legal status.The American Trucking Association has fueled this crisis for decades, peddling the false narrative of a “driver shortage” to justify endless subsidies for CDL mills. Instead of raising pay to retain drivers, mega-carriers embraced turnover rates above 100%, cycling through cheap recruits while pocketing taxpayer money.Today, that model is reinforced by NGOs and nonprofits aligned with Biden-era immigration policies.Tax haulWriting at her Substack, Highway Veritas, independent trucking industry researcher Danielle Chaffin notes that the system deliberately channels taxpayer dollars into programs for “fresh recruits” — immigrants, refugees, foster youth, and "justice-involved individuals" (what we used to call ex-convicts) — who qualify for federally funded workforce schemes. More recruits mean more subsidies, which keep the churn alive.Who benefits? Recent arrivals often go to work for their fellow immigrants, who have built huge networks of small trucking companies by exploiting every available loophole.Many haul freight for Amazon through its Relay subcontracting system, where pay is far lower than what American truckers once earned. The results are predictable: tragedies like the Austin crash this March, when Ethiopian driver Solomun Araya — licensed only four months — plowed into stopped traffic, killing five, including all four members of a young family with children, and injuring 12 others.RELATED: Highway to hell: Mass influx of foreign-born truckers cause carnage on American roads Gina Ferazzi/Win Mcnamee/Getty ImagesOff the hookThese small carriers are often “chameleon carriers,” changing names and registrations to dodge regulators, sometimes literally scribbling new numbers on taped-up paper signs. They collapse one LLC when violations pile up and reappear under another the next day, with the same trucks and the same drivers.As Chaffin puts it in her excellent piece on chameleons, "The trucking industry remains one of the few places in America where a company can get shut down for killing someone … and be back in business tomorrow."Transportation Secretary Duffy has opened an investigation into the flood of questionable CDLs. But focusing on drivers alone won’t solve the crisis. The real culprits are the companies — often foreign-owned — that exploit corrupt licensing systems, cut corners on training, and then feed cheap labor into supply chains for corporate giants like Amazon.The truck stops here?Americans are sick of watching their loved ones die on roads made dangerous by this racket. This isn’t about which governor governs worse or about empty grandstanding over immigration policy. It’s about stopping a system that endangers the public, destroys good jobs, and shows open contempt for the skill and sacrifice of America’s truckers.As this essay was going to print, Secretary of State Marco Rubio took to X to signal how seriously the administration takes this problem: — (@) Welcome news for this trucker, and no doubt for many others. I thank Secretary Rubio for honoring the work of so many trucking advocates who have been discussing these issues for years now.But be aware: Turning off the flow doesn’t do very much about the hundreds of thousands of ill-trained, often illiterate, and dubiously licensed replacement "truckers" who are already here.We look forward to seeing Secretary Duffy work with presumptive new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration head Derek Barrs to remove these dangerous operators from our industry. They are a clear and present danger to the lives of American motorists, and they must be taken off the road for good.

President Donald Trump's administration is strengthening its vetting of foreign nationals in the United States.On Thursday, the State Department announced plans to review all of the more than 55 million current visa holders. Those individuals are subject to "continuous vetting" to ensure that they are permitted to be in the U.S., the department told the Associated Press.'[A quarter] of the country is foreign but the corporate class says we still need more.'The audit will include looking for indicators of potential ineligibility, including overstays, criminal activity, public safety threats, and ties to terrorist activity. In the event the State Department determines an individual is ineligible, their visa will be revoked, and if they are currently in the U.S., they could be subject to deportation. "We review all available information as part of our vetting, including law enforcement or immigration records or any other information that comes to light after visa issuance indicating a potential ineligibility," the department stated.The State Department has already revoked "more than twice as many visas, including nearly four times as many student visas, as during the same time period last year," a spokesperson told Fox News Digital.RELATED: 'A more direct solution': State Department rolls out key strategy to prevent foreigners from overstaying their welcome Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images"There is no national sovereignty in a country with 55 million people on visas and another 50 million illegals without them. Our entire system is a joke," BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre wrote in a post on social media.William Wolfe, the executive director of the Center for Baptist Leadership, responded to MacIntyre, stating, "100 million must go back."Since the 1970s, the U.S. has "on a roughly one-to-one ratio, traded an aborted American citizen baby for an imported foreigner," Wolfe noted.Charlie Kirk, founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, stated, "55 million legal. 20 million illegal. [A quarter] of the country is foreign but the corporate class says we still need more. Their 'need' will never be satisfied. They must be completely ignored and never taken seriously again."RELATED: Rubio takes action to prevent more foreigners from 'endangering American lives' with big rigs Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesThe same day that the State Department announced its plans to review all visa holders, Secretary Marco Rubio declared an immediate pause on "all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers.""The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers," Rubio stated.His announcement came after a crash in Florida last week involving an illegal alien truck driver. The driver made an illegal U-turn, which caused the trailer to jackknife and crush a minivan, resulting in the death of all three passengers inside.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Recordings made by some of the biggest classic rock artists of the era were side-by-side with popular disco releases on the year's U.S. sales chart. The post The Top Selling Albums of 1979: End of an Era appeared first on Best Classic Bands.

The More Ya KNOW! Jillian Michaels Nukes Abby Phillip From ORBIT for Trashing Her on Pod Behind Her BACK

HAAA! George Conway Recording As FBI Raids John Bolton's Home Pic Goes Hilariously VIRAL -Trump Jr. Wins

Rolling Stone's Spin on the FBI's Raid of John Bolton's Home/Office Has Many Rolling Their Eyes