If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Britain’s largest police force has announced it will stop investigating non-crime hate incidents, saying officers should no longer spend time investigating matters that fall short of a criminal offense. The decision comes just as the Metropolitan Police confirmed it has abandoned its case against Father Ted creator Graham Linehan, who had been arrested at Heathrow Airport last month. A police spokesperson said the force “understands the concern” surrounding the case. “The Commissioner has been clear he doesn’t believe officers should be policing toxic culture war debates, with current laws and rules on inciting violence online leaving them in an impossible position,” the spokesperson said. The new approach, they added, will “provide clearer direction for officers, reduce ambiguity and enable them to focus on matters that meet the threshold for criminal investigations.” Non-crime hate incidents, Orwellian in name, are situations reported to police that are thought to involve hostility or prejudice toward people based on attributes such as race, religion, or gender identity. They are recorded under Home Office guidance to monitor potential hate-related behavior that might “escalate into more serious harm,” but these incidents do not constitute criminal acts. The Metropolitan Police has confirmed that while it will stop investigating non-crime hate incidents, officers will still record them for intelligence purposes. The shift marks a major change in policy but not a complete abandonment of data collection. A spokesperson clarified the distinction, saying, “These incidents will still be recorded and used as valuable pieces of intelligence to establish potential patterns of behaviour or criminality.” In a statement following the Met’s decision, the the Free Speech Union wrote, “Great news that the @metpoliceuk will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents — a direct result of our successful campaign to get the Met to drop its investigation of @glinner, which it has now done.” The group warned, however, that the broader issue remains unresolved, saying, “This is a tremendous victory, but the war is not yet over. We now have to make sure all the other police forces in the UK follow in the Met’s footsteps and they all now stop recording NCHIs, including the Met, in a way that means they can show up in enhanced DBS checks and prevent you from getting a job as a teacher or a carer. No one should be prevented from getting a job because they’ve committed a ‘non-crime’.” If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post UK Met Police Will Stop Investigating (But Will Still Record) “None-Crime Hate Incidents” appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

Graham Platner: I'm 'Very Proud of the Person I Am Today'

Biden regime White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre kicked off her book tour on Monday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Mornings Plus and, unfortunately for her, she did not receive softballs. With the Bari Weiss effect increasingly appearing to take hold, Jean-Pierre was confronted over her deranged claims that it was wrong to force President Biden out of the 2024 race, she never saw Biden in cognitive decline, and that she’s a true independent. Co-host Tony Dokoupil started with a sense of exasperation that she used her book to be “angry at the people who tried to push him out,” not that Biden ran for a second term:   Even co-host and Democrat donor Gayle King participated, saying she also thought, based on the title, Jean-Pierre would be unsparing in her criticisms of the administration, Instead, King noted, Jean-Pierre wrote a book claiming she never saw anything — even leading up to the fateful June 27, 2024 debate — that gave her pause about Biden’s abilities: [P]eople said, why didn’t members of his inner circle speak up about what many believe was the apparent decline of — of Joe Biden and you said you’re a member of the inner circle and you never saw the decline. After that I wrote, how? You even write, Karine, you were on the plane with him going to the debate and you didn’t see anything. It is so hard to understand. Jean-Pierre tried to have it both ways, claiming she “didn’t see him until after the debate even though I was on” Air Force One.     As she so often did at the Briefing Room podium, she had the gall to insist this was a topic she “take[s]...incredibly seriously” because she “saw him practically every day and traveled with him.” King hit back, wondering again why she “saw nothing.” Jean-Pierre cast his aging as something that occurred, but not to the point it affected his mental faculties: “[W]e’ve always said we are not going to say, oh, he didn’t age. He aged and he poked fun at it. We always owned up and with age comes what happens when you get older.” “I never saw anyone who wasn’t there. I saw someone who was always engaged. I saw someone who understood policy, pushed us on the policy, and also understood history,” she added with a straight face. With the time remaining, co-host Nate Burleson gave Jean-Pierre the only air to breathe in either interview by inviting her to explain “what can the Democratic Party do to get out of this timid and even some will say disappointing place” and what she insisted is “too timid.” Remarkably, Jean-Pierre found a way to mess this up as well by offering a tiresome talking point about “the system” being “broken” and the left in particular should do more to galvanize moments such as Saturday’s No Kings rallies. In essence, she declared, the Democrat Party isn’t doing enough to fight Donald Trump.     Dokoupil cut in with this biting follow-up that blew holes in her fake move to become independent (which, if she lives in Virginia, doesn’t exist as there isn’t party registration): “Will you create a new party? Is that what you’re angling for?” Jean-Pierre declared she’s not calling for a third party because “the history of third-party candidates in presidential” has never worked and she’s still “aligned with the values of the Democratic Party.” CBS Mornings Plus was even more of a disaster as, this time, Dokoupil had MoneyWatch correspondent Kelly O’Grady (formerly of Fox Business) serving as fill-in co-host. Dokoupil dove right in by wondering why she believes “what was reckless was pushing him out,” not that Biden was allowed to seek reelection:   O’Grady joined with a simple question about loyalty and partisanship: “[I]n your book, you talk a lot about how the Republicans were very in lockstep with President Trump. Do you think it’s okay for people to be in lockstep, have unwavering support, even if there are concerns that a lot of people were having?” This yielded a ludicrous, pants-on-fire response and completely memory-holed Robert Hur:   Dokoupil could not believe the vapidness: “But he was clearly having problems, right? I mean, lots and lots and lots of people who just watching him on video, let alone meeting him, had reported on that. Have you reflected on why there’s this big disconnect between the millions of Americans at home who are watching him and said, I don’t know if he’s all there, and you saying behind the scenes, wow, he was there?”     Jean-Pierre didn’t flinch in declaring the administration was “always honest” and while “there were moments where it showed that he was” aging, she takes such accusations “very seriously” and thus believes nothing was wrong since he would always “debate” and “engage with you.” “So then, what’s the disconnect here then? Like, is the country just ageist because millions of Americans didn’t think he was up to it? But you’re saying there was nothing there, there,” Dokoupil said in a follow-up. Jean-Pierre went with the trust-me strategy seeing as she “saw him every single day and had a first account of the President that I understood, and I knew to have cared about this country, understand policy, understand history, and be able to have, again, objectively a very successful couple of years[.]” Dokoupil and O’Grady wrapped by addressing head-on Jean-Pierre’s farcical claim she’s an independent yet won’t consider voting for Republicans or a third party (click “expand”):     O’GRADY: Before we let you go — independent, you’ve left the party. I’ll admit, as an independent myself, I did read a few, you know, of these passages and go, ehhh, it really feels like you’re setting this up as Democrats versus Republicans. Would you ever vote Republican? JEAN-PIERRE: No, I would not vote Republican. O’GRADY: So, are you an independent? JEAN-PIERRE: Well, no. Here’s the thing. What I’m trying to highlight is the system is — is indeed broken. We need a two-party system that’s functioning, that’s actually functioning in order for our democracy to work. And what’s happening right now is not working. You have millions of people like ourselves who are independent, who cannot participate in that two-party system. And so if that’s happening, there’s something broken. People are not seeing themselves in either of the party, so we have to lean in. I feel like I have to lean in and say, okay, let’s highlight this and figure out how do we fix this? What do we do. DOKOUPIL: If you’re really an independent, though, how can you rule out a whole party? I mean, presumably, I don’t know where you live. There might be a candidate who’s a Republican who you happen to like in more than the Democrats, right? JEAN-PIERRE: I mean, look, right now where the Republican Party is in this moment, me, I care about the vulnerable communities out there. Project 2025 is something that they’re touting, and they’re actually ticking off. That’s scary to me. That is really, really scary. I represent many of the communities that are under attack, and even if I didn’t, there has to be humanity and care for people and I’m not seeing that now. If they were to change and — and we — there, you know, turn that around, maybe. But I think there is a — there is a fundamental problem. And I’m talking about — DOKOUPIL: Yeah. JEAN-PIERRE: — like, there’s a problem on the Democratic side. There’s no fight. I think they need to be an opposition party. And I see clearly some flaws in the Republican side that scare me, that scare me. To see the relevant transcripts from October 20, click here (for CBS Mornings) and here (for CBS Mornings Plus).

Proving just how useless she was at being the purported voice for conservatives on ABC News’s The View, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin contributed to the show’s praise for the so-called “No Kings” rallies by fretting that Democrats would be unable to capitalize on it and harness it for the midterm elections. She also asked Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) if the future of the Democratic Party and the way to boost their voter registration was to move further to the left. Ignoring the inciting rhetoric and murderous imagery against conservatives present at the rallies, Farah Griffin began by lauding them. “I think it's always a good thing when people are civically engaged. I think left, right, or center if you’re showing up you’re peacefully assembling, that’s something I applaud,” she proclaimed. As Farah Griffin began to pivot to questioning if Democrats were up to the challenge to utilize the protests’ energy for their get-out-the-vote efforts, citing how bad their registration numbers were, she was interrupted by moderator Whoopi Goldberg. Goldberg couldn’t stomach any criticism directed at Democrats, so she tried to make it an “everybody” problem: FARAH GRIFFIN: My question is, will this momentum turn into tangible organizing? That's the open question here, cause there's some pretty glaring stats that I think Democrats have to kind of come to grips with. One is – GOLDBEG: How about everybody has to come to – Yeah. Yeah. FARAH GRIFFIN: Everybody. Because it goes for everyone. Democrats are hemorrhaging voters. So Republicans gained 2.5 million voters in the last four years. Democrats lost 2.1 million. So they actually have a net loss of 4 million votes they have to gain.     Attempting to complete her point, Farah Griffin noted that Democrats were only able to register 190 Democrats in 2025 so far, only to be interrupted again; this time by pretend independent Sara Haines: FARAH GRIFFIN: And in California roughly this year, they've only registered 190 Democrats. 190. HAINES: What’s the age range? FARAH GRIFFIN: GOP -- I don't know, but the GOP got 66,000, which is isn't huge, but this has to translate into organizing. “So, a movement like this matters if it turns into something tangible and actually getting voters out or could fall flat like the Women's March. It was huge and it felt powerful and then it kind of just petered out,” Farah Griffin warned them.     Her curious concern for the future of the Democratic Party’s electoral prospects continued into their interview with Sanders: Well, and Senator, as you mentioned, this weekend’s rallies drew millions and you've also been touring the country with Representative AOC on your Fight the Oligarchy Tour, which is also the name of your new book. And you've drawn tens of thousands at every event including some red states. But I want to ask, how do you see this momentum translating into outcomes? Because right now, the Democratic Party has the lowest approval rating in 35 years and they lag Republicans in new voter registration by four-and-a-half million votes. That urging for the Democrats to move further left, was a priority for extremist co-host Sunny Hostin: Now Senator, you've been campaigning with the front-runner in New York City's mayoral race: fellow democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani. He's leading by double digits. He probably will be the next mayor of New York. Now, a recent Gallup poll showed that over half of Democratic voters prefer socialist aligned figures like yourself, like AOC, like Mamdani, to more establishment, centrist politicians. Is this the direction the Democratic Party needs to go?     The other fake Republican on the panel, Ana Navarro seemed to think she caught Republicans in a double standard in how they criticized the Democratic base as pro-Hamas and pro-criminal when they didn’t like being called “deplorables”: You know, I'm so old I remember when they had a cow over Hillary Clinton calling some of Trump supporters deplorables, but somehow calling Democrats Hamas, illegal aliens, and violent criminals is okay. You think this is performative or do you think this is actually how they feel about their fellow Americans who happen to be Democrats? In reality, she exposed her own hypocrisy, since she had compared black artists who performed at President Trump’s second inauguration to “trained seals,” claimed black and Latinos could be “white supremacists,” and suggested Secretary Marco Rubio was a race traitor. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View October 20, 2025 11:07:15 a.m. Eastern (…) ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think it's always a good thing when people are civically engaged. I think left, right, or center if you’re showing up you’re peacefully assembling, that’s something I applaud. My question is, will this momentum turn into tangible organizing? That's the open question here, cause there's some pretty glaring stats that I think Democrats have to kind of come to grips with. One is – WHOOPI GOLDBEG: How about everybody has to come to – Yeah. Yeah. FARAH GRIFFIN: Everybody. Because it goes for everyone. Democrats are hemorrhaging voters. So Republicans gained 2.5 million voters in the last four years. Democrats lost 2.1 million. So they actually have a net loss of 4 million votes they have to gain. And in California roughly this year, they've only registered 190 Democrats. 190. SARA HAINES: What’s the age range? FARAH GRIFFIN: GOP -- I don't know, but the GOP got 66,000, which is isn't huge, but this has to translate into organizing. We talk about what Trump's been doing. He's playing a ten-year game. He's at every level. He’s got his people elected as state – you know, school officials and school boards, they've got think tanks, they’ve got voter registration on college campuses. So, a movement like this matters if it turns into something tangible and actually getting voters out or could fall flat like the Women's March. It was huge and it felt powerful and then it kind of just petered out. So, I’m curious to see what happens next. (…) 11:18:48 a.m. Eastern ANA NAVARRO: Can we talk a minute about your Republican colleagues and their reaction to these protests? They've been pretty dismissive. In fact, they’ve not been dismissive. It's really gotten under their thin little skin. And Mike Johnson was calling it a “hate America rally.” Trump called protesters whacked out and put out that video dumping sewage on them. Coming on the heels of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who called Democrats’ main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals. You know, I'm so old I remember when they had a cow over Hillary Clinton calling some of Trump supporters deplorables, but somehow calling Democrats Hamas, illegal aliens, and violent criminals is okay. You think this is performative or do you think this is actually how they feel about their fellow Americans who happen to be Democrats? (…) 11:21:04 a.m. Eastern FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, and Senator, as you mentioned, this weekend’s rallies drew millions and you've also been touring the country with Representative AOC on your Fight the Oligarchy Tour, which is also the name of your new book. And you've drawn tens of thousands at every event including some red states. But I want to ask, how do you see this momentum translating into outcomes? Because right now, the Democratic Party has the lowest approval rating in 35 years and they lag Republicans in new voter registration by four-and-a-half million votes. (…) 11:33:15 a.m. Eastern SUNNY HOSTIN: Now Senator, you've been campaigning with the front-runner in New York City's mayoral race: fellow democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani. He's leading by double digits. He probably will be the next mayor of New York. Now, a recent Gallup poll showed that over half of Democratic voters prefer socialist aligned figures like yourself, like AOC, like Mamdani, to more establishment, centrist politicians. Is this the direction the Democratic Party needs to go? (…)

As the government shutdown closes in on its third week, some members of the Trump administration believe that Democrats may soon be willing to come to the table. Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, suggested that the end could be in sight for the government shutdown. 'I think the Schumer shutdown is likely to end some time this week.'In a CNBC interview, Hassett said, "A lot of our friends in the Senate have said that it was just bad optics for Democrats to open the government before the No Kings rally, and that now there's a shot that this week things will come together and very quickly the moderate Democrats will move forward and get us an open government."The No Kings rallies, a series of feeble nationwide protests against the Trump administration, took place on Saturday. With this event in the rearview mirror, Hassett argued, Democrats may be ready to come to the table.RELATED: George Soros foundations fund No Kings protests against Trump Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images"There are sort of cracks in the Schumer armor. I think the Schumer shutdown is likely to end some time this week," Hassett said.Democrats have similarly expressed hopes to reopen the government, but the entrenchment is far from over.According to CBS News, Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said on Sunday during an interview on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," "We should be able to wrap this up this week if they will sit down and have a negotiation with us."However, it is unclear whether this prediction will be substantiated this week. Democrat holdouts have not publicly indicated any change in their demands, though some moderates have already sided with Republicans on a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government. “Director Hassett is one of tens of millions of everyday Americans who are all hoping that Senate Democrats will do the right thing by ending their government shutdown. The American people deserve better than being left in the lurch because Democrats want to die on the hill of giving free health care to illegal immigrants,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai told Blaze News.Editor's note: This article has been edited after publication to include a comment from the White House.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

An ex-Pennsylvania state police trooper — who is white — is suing his former agency for firing him after his viral arrest of a black Philadelphia LGBTQ leader.Andrew Zaborowski arrested Celena McLean — then Celena Morrison — and McLean's husband in a March 2024 traffic stop on the Schuylkill Expressway, WPVI-TV reported.'It's cause I'm black.'Zaborowski claims in his lawsuit that state police fired him because of his skin color and that he was falsely accused of racial profiling, the station said.At the time of the traffic stop and arrest, McLean was Philadelphia's executive director of the Office of LGBT Affairs, WPVI reported.The station said it reached out to state police for comment but did not hear back.RELATED: 9 arrested after transgender activists clash with police at 'Let Women Speak' event in NYC As Blaze News previously reported, the March 2 incident — some of which was caught on video — took place on Interstate 76 near the downtown part of the city.The Philadelphia Inquirer, citing state police, at the time reported that the trooper pulled over Celena Morrison for driving with an expired and suspended registration, driving without headlights activated in the rain, illegally tinted windows, and driving too close to another car.After the traffic stop, Celena Morrison's husband, Darius McLean, pulled up behind them, the paper said, adding that state police said McLean “became verbally combative” and “refused multiple lawful orders" after the trooper approached him.The trooper attempted to arrest McLean, and Morrison tried to intervene, the Inquirer said, adding that Morrison also was arrested.In Morrison's video of the arrest, Morrison was heard yelling, “I work for the mayor! I work for the mayor!” as McLean was laying on the shoulder of the freeway, the paper said."Please, just stop. No! It's cause I'm black," McLean was heard saying, according to WPVI-TV."It's not 'cause you're black," the trooper replied, according to the station.The trooper then told Morrison to "turn around" and "give me your hands, or you are getting tased," WPVI reported. At one point, Morrison was heard saying, “He just punched me," the Inquirer said.More from the station:"This was a simple traffic stop cause you didn't have your lights on. You're tailgating," the officer explains to the couple. "Then, I don't know who you are. I don't need somebody rolling up on me.""There was no need at all," one person is heard saying."You were about to tase me. You pulled your gun on me," another voice says."You were fighting with me," says a third voice."No, I wasn't fighting you," someone responds.RELATED: The Zizians’ violent spiral: A trans group tied to killings across America State police placed the trooper on restricted duty after the incident, the Inquirer reported.In addition, while state police charged the couple with resisting arrest, obstruction of justice, disorderly conduct, and summary traffic citations, the paper said the office of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner declined the charges, and Celena Morrison and Darius McLean were released from custody on the evening of March 2.Blaze News reported in January 2020 that then-Mayor Jim Kenney appointed Celena Morrison to run his Office of LGBT Affairs — and that Morrison was the first-ever trans-identifying individual of color to head up the agency."While Philadelphia is known as a progressive, LGBTQ-friendly city, we still have work to do," the far-left Kenney said in a statement. "I look forward to working with Celena to build a more inclusive city for our residents."Morrison added to KYW-AM that being transgender and black will be an asset when it comes to the job's demands of dealing with issues of race and gender."Trans folks are not being accepted," Morrison told KYW. "They are not accepted within the LGBT community. They are also not accepted within the black community. That double marginalization calls for a different type of support."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

An outage on Amazon's web hosting service caused a sweep of app outages after the company faced issues at an east-coast operations center.AWS hosts about 6.3% of all websites, but some of the biggest brands' communications platforms also rely on the service.'I don't trust Signal anymore.'When reports started rolling in around 3 a.m. Eastern Time, Amazon said it was dealing with an "operational issue" that was affecting 14 services at its northern Virginia center.Snapchat, McDonald's, and even Ring doorbell cameras were among some of the applications affected. Even gaming platforms like Roblox and Fortnite were affected, as were messaging and communications programs like Zoom and Signal. According to NBC News, about 6.5 million reports piled up that said over 1,000 sites and services had gone offline.After 6:30 a.m., AWS said it had "fully mitigated" the issues; that was until 10:14 a.m., when it confirmed "significant API errors and connectivity issues across multiple services in the US-EAST-1 Region."The widespread outage sparked conversations about the fragility and dependency of major companies and even institutions, as the blackout affected the U.K. government's HM Revenue and Customs department, which handles tax services.With Signal affected, purporting to be an encrypted chat, X owner Elon Musk jumped on the opportunity to cast doubt on the app and direct readers to his own version, X chat.RELATED: Amazon invests $500M in mini nuclear reactors to power AI operationsThe messages are fully encrypted with no advertising hooks or strange “AWS dependencies” such that I can’t read your messages even if someone put a gun to my head. You can also do file transfers and audio/video calls. https://t.co/l0GIIZYz6y— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 20, 2025"I don't trust Signal anymore," Musk wrote on X, responding to a user alarmed that Signal was not working.Just over 20 minutes later, Musk started promoting his own messenger: "The messages are fully encrypted with no advertising hooks or strange 'AWS dependencies' such that I can't read your messages even if someone put a gun to my head."This is a contrast from May 2024, when Musk openly praised AWS for developing generative AI that helps write website code."Impressive. My hat is off to what Amazon has accomplished with AWS," Musk wrote at the time.RELATED: AI isn’t feeding you — (@) This is not the first time Signal has been accused of being insecure. In a 2023 interview with the popular online influencer group Nelk Boys, conservative host Tucker Carlson claimed the NSA had hacked his Signal account around the time he was attempting to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.Carlson said he got a call from someone in Washington, D.C., who sat down with him and had knowledge of his conversations about planning an interview with Putin because the NSA had allegedly read Carlson's messages.An NGO called Article 19, which describes itself as a group "defending freedom of expression and information around the world," told NBC News that the organization felt the disruptions were "democratic failures.""When a single provider goes dark, critical services go offline with it — media outlets become inaccessible, secure communication apps like Signal stop functioning, and the infrastructure that serves our digital society crumbles."According to Wojciech Gawroński, who runs the website AWS Maniac, Amazon has suffered one to two major outages per year between 2011 and 2021.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Mary Katharine Ham DROPS Morgan J. Freeman for BRAGGING About How Scared His 10-Year-Old Was to Protest

Dem Senators Now Fear Fallout of 'No Kings' Absurdity

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