Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) demanded answers from former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci on the Biden administration's relentless drive to censor the COVID-19 lab leak theory online. During a June 3 Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing, Fauci fielded questions on gain-of-function research, horrific experiments involving puppies, and collusion between Big Tech and the government. Jordan specifically pressed Fauci over government pressure on Facebook’s parent company Meta to censor the lab leak theory, among other topics. Jordan twice confronted Fauci with internal Facebook admissions of censorship following Biden administration pressure.  “In our study on the censorship of the Biden Administration working with Big Tech, I want to read you a WhatsApp message from Mark Zuckerberg: ‘Can we include that the White House put pressure on us to censor the lab leak theory,’” Jordan read to Fauci. Jordan went on to emphasize that this occurred only a few months into the Biden Administration. The congressman added, “[Meta executives are] certainly feeling the pressure to downplay any lab leak theory and go with the natural origin theory.”  Jordan followed with another damning example of Facebook acknowledging government pressure: “Here’s another email to Mark Zuckerberg, it says subject line, ‘COVID misinformation Wuhan Lab Leak Theory. In response to public pressure and tense conversations with the new administration, we started removing five COVID claims, including the lab leak theory.’ Mr. Zuckerberg responds, ‘This seems like a good reminder that we compromise our standards due to pressure from an administration in either direction we often later regret it.’” Last year, Jordan released the Facebook Files on X (formerly Twitter) providing evidence on the extent of the pressure the government exerted on getting Zuckerberg’s Big Tech behemoth to bend to its will. The released documents included an April 2021 email from a Facebook employee confirming the Biden regime’s scheme against free speech. “We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the [Biden] White House and the press to remove more COVID-19 vaccine discouraging content,” an unnamed employee told Zuckerberg and former Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. Jordan wasn’t the only lawmaker to grill Fauci over the government’s collusion with Big Tech to censor speech that went against the Biden narrative on the pandemic. During the hearing, Rep. Rich McMormick (R-GA) also spoke out against the censorship of so-called COVID-19 disinformation. "In 2020, I was censored. My medical license was threatened because I disagreed with bureaucrats. Literally taken off the internet as a person who is treating patients with leading edge technologies." McMormick went on a tear against Biden Administration bureaucrats who thought they knew what was best for his patients and who were willing to censor all opposing opinions. “My opinions were relegated to conspiracy, misinformation by so-called health care experts, who had never treated a patient throughout the entire pandemic.”  Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency and an equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

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Saturday marked the beginning of a month — and in some cases, a season — that LGBT activists across the West have devoted to the capital vice, pride. As in past years, the heart of Texas has not gone untouched by this devotion. Over the weekend, activists once again took to the streets of Dallas to proudly signal their support for all things non-straight. The Dallas Pride Committee indicated in its guidebook that this year's festivities were dedicated to transvestites who are supposedly "a visible target for extremists — from the halls of Congress to the state legislatures to the streets." BlazeTV host and Defend Our Kids: Texas executive director Sara Gonzales went to the Dallas Pride Music Festival to get a better sense of the varieties of agitprop and obscenities Texan activists decided to expose minors to this time around. The guidebook advertised "age-appropriate entertainment" at the Dallas Pride Music Festival's so-called Teen Pride and Family Pride Zone. 'There was no 'adults only' area — all the graphic content I captured was from the main event.' Teen Pride subjected teens 13 and older to transvestite performers in highly sexualized costumes, "a dedicated area for Trans services and organization," and "empowerment discussions by Trust the Process" — a panel discussion centered on encouraging confused children to disassociate with their respective biological realities. "The entire festival was billed as 'family friendly,' including the parade in which the announcer called people 'sluts' and made jokes about male genitalia," Gonzales told Blaze News. "There was no 'adults only' area — all the graphic content I captured was from the main event, where children were present and welcomed." Gonzales shared footage of the supposedly family-friendly festivities on her show, "Sara Gonzales Unfiltered," as well as on X, revealing kids were exposed to various degrees of vulgarity and sexualized exhibitions. The amplified voice of a speaker at the festival can be heard in the video saying, "Where are my bisexuals? They're not really bisexual. They're just sluts." Later in the video, an event speaker says to the all-ages crowd, "Oh, Cox Automotive," referencing a DEI-captive company apparently advertised nearby. "Cox. Well, you're in good company. Except for the ladies who are a little grossed out by that." Gonzales also captured images of children and families ambling by LGBT merchandise and banners emblazoned with the words, "Boo, you whore!"; "Is dick a carb?"; "F*** you"; "over worked & under f***ed"; "you my friends should have been swallowed"; "p***y power"; and "Slut." There was, of course, also LGBT activist apparel targeted at children, including rainbow "Paw Patrol" gear and transvestite flag T-shirts. 'Because it's not family friendly. It's not even adult friendly.' Gonzales told Blaze News that the "overwhelming majority of children were attending the event with what appeared to be single mothers." — (@) "You know what's so funny?" Gonzales said on her BlazeTV show. "Every time I go, I'm like, 'I hate going to this.' I feel like I need an exorcism every time I leave. ... I don't understand how they can get away with saying this is 'family-friendly.' I go to the family friendly festivals. I go to them. I have never once seen any of this. None of it. None of it." "I have never seen flags that say, 'P***y power.' Sorry, edit. Yeah, you're going to have to mute that," continued Gonzales. "You know why? Because it's not family friendly. It's not even adult friendly. I've never been to an all-ages family-friendly festival that has fans with the c-word on it or people dressed like that." Minnesota state Rep. Walter Hudson (R) said in response to Gonzales' video, "It's 'family friendly' because, like with so many things, they've appropriated the word, changed its definition, and smuggled in the substitute without telling you. To them, 'family' means queer. So, they're just saying queer-friendly. It's that simple." BlazeTV host Steve Deace responded with an illustration of Carthaginian child sacrifice. Christin Bentley, Texas state Republican executive committeewoman for Senate District 1, noted, "If you think this is 'family friendly' ... you're a degenerate." "The LGBT festivals happening across the country this month are just a reminder of how far society has degraded," Gonzales told Blaze News. "What was once unthinkable to bring children to participate in is now celebrated by the left. There is nothing else to call it other than grooming and indoctrination — and quite frankly, child abuse." Defend Our Kids: Texas, the initiative Gonzales helms, is actively working to stop the sexualization of children in the Lone Star State, "whether it be from drag story hour for toddlers or pornographic literature in school libraries." Gonzales emphasized that "our children are under attack." 'The quicker they can poison young minds, the more chaos they can create within the family unit.' "While we were largely successful last session in getting several critical bills passed, there is more work to be done to ensure Texas children are free from the exploitation and sexualization from adults — whether it be parents, teachers, Pride parades, or otherwise." The BlazeTV host indicated that the Pride-themed campaign underway is "straight out of the Communist Manifesto: a move to destroy the nuclear family." "The quicker they can poison young minds, the more chaos they can create within the family unit," said Gonzales. "They very much want your children, and they've said as much. It is up to us to be vigilant and stop it." While the Biden administration and corporations nationwide continue to lean into their respective pride devotions, it appears the general public is fast losing its appetite for the LGBT agenda. After interviewing over 22,000 American adults for its so-called American Values Atlas last year, the Public Religion Research Institute found that support for LGBT policies had dropped for the first time. PBS News reported that support for homosexual "marriage" dropped by 2 percentage points; support for nondiscrimination protections dropped by 4 points; and opposition to Americans refusing services based on their deeply held religious convictions dropped 5 points. In Canada, where the Trudeau government celebrates "Pride Season," a recent Ipsos survey indicated there were "precipitous drops" in support for so-called LGBT rights. Support for overt displays of sexual preferences and so-called gender identity dropped by 12% since 2021. Like Blaze News? 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It’s the summer of 2024. Almost seven years have passed since the iPhone X introduced the first smartphone with uniformly thin bezels (except for the notch). It was a design that everyone else copied. All smartphones have incredibly thin bezels these days, and they all feature essentially the same design: a hole-punch display takes up almost all of a phone’s front panel. Even still, vendors are still competing to offer the smallest bezels. The iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max will feature even thinner bezels than last year’s models. That's after the current iPhone 15 Pro models already have even smaller bezels than previous iPhones. This will only pressure Android vendors to go after Apple and further reduce the bezels of future devices. The reaction to the iPhone 16 Pro Max’s purported bezels from a diehard Galaxy fan who happens to be a prominent Samsung leaker is the best proof of that. Some people will want those bezels to shrink down until they eventually disappear. But there is one explanation why Apple’s push is important this year. Continue reading... The post Here’s why a top Samsung insider is already drooling over the iPhone 16 Pro Max appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $3.25 smart plugs, $79 AirPods, $849 M2 MacBook Air, $329 Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones, more Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $355+ free Today’s deals: $399 M1 iPad Air, $136 electric standing desk, $599 HP 17-inch laptop, Shark vacuums, more Best deals: Tech, laptops, TVs, and more sales

China said its lunar spacecraft unfurled the country's red and gold flag for the first time on the far side of the moon before part of the vehicle blasted off early Tuesday with rock and soil samples to bring back to Earth.

Checkpoints and rows of police vehicles lined a major road leading to Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Tuesday as China heightened security on the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

Parts of California, Nevada, and Arizona are expected to bake this week as the first heat wave of the season arrives with triple-digit temperatures forecast for areas including Phoenix, which last summer saw a record 31 consecutive days of at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., a member of the House Democrats' progressive "Squad," is facing a tough primary race because of his support for Hamas, according to The New York Times.