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Tiffany Hsu, who covers “misinformation and disinformation” for the New York Times, took the reins of the paper’s “On Politics” newsletter Wednesday and issued the latest hypersensitive media defense of the newly minted Democratic nominee, under the inflated headline, “Tackling the falsehoods about Kamala Harris.” Yet much of what the paper condemned as “falsehoods” was merely partisan rhetoric which would have gone unremarked upon if thrown at Republicans by Democrats. Vice President Kamala Harris has been campaigning for president for three days. And she is already facing disinformation and abuse of a far different caliber than President Biden ever has. Ever since Sunday, when Biden backed her candidacy for president in his stead, many social media posts have parroted variations on the sexist and racist rumors that have followed Harris for years. Within hours of Biden’s announcement, more than 11 percent of related mentions of Harris on X involved attacks related to her race or gender, according to the data firm PeakMetrics. Many posts, including one from a woman running for secretary of state in Missouri, involved hostile sexual references. Hsu strongly hinted for online censorship, faulting “weak oversight” and hauling out Nina “Mary Poppins” Jankowicz, previously appointed director of the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board before that Orwellian outfit was scuttled.  Disinformation researchers, however, said the normalization of misogynistic language had become an inexorable byproduct of an online ecosystem run with weak oversight and powered by a hunger for engagement. The toxic discourse surrounding Harris has often recycled earlier falsehoods about her, said Nina Jankowicz, the chief executive of the American Sunlight Project, a nonprofit studying disinformation. Under the heading “Claims tied to race,” Hsu sympathetically defended Harris from charges of being a “D.E.I. hire.” Never mind that Biden bragged about appointing a black woman as his vice president and promised to put a black woman on the Supreme Court. ….Harris was derided as a “D.E.I. hire” in posts and television appearances by Republican lawmakers who accused her of being unsuited for leadership because diversity, equity and inclusion policies could have helped her advance. The comments largely ignored her extensive history holding public positions in jurisdictions that required her to navigate widely disparate activist circles and what she has called “blood sport” establishment politics. Some of Hsu’s “misinformation” examples were just unfriendly assumptions. Harris has long been subject to exaggerated or unfounded claims that her past romantic partners enabled her political ascent. Those have only picked up this week. From Saturday to Monday, posts on X referring to claims that Harris “slept her way to the top” garnered nearly 40.3 million impressions -- a 44,000 percent increase from the prior two-day period, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a nonprofit research group. The sexist insinuations point in part to her brief relationship in the 1990s with Willie Brown, who was 60 and the speaker of the California Assembly when Harris was 29 and rising in the Bay Area legal scene. He appointed Harris to two well-paid state board positions and introduced her to his political connections. Does that sound “exaggerated or unfounded”? Among the “Misrepresentations of her political positions” was the now-infamous question of whether Harris was ever appointed the Biden Administration’s “border czar.” Hsu huffed: The title, however, is a misleading one that was never officially bestowed on the vice president. Instead, Biden deputized her with a diplomatic mission to evaluate the factors that cause people to leave their home countries in the first place. Both she and Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security, have noted that it is his job to manage the border. NewsBusters Tim Graham reminded us that the press often referred to Harris as “border czar” and underlined that “Biden appointed her to stem the tide” of illegal immigration. PS: Wednesday’s newsletter included this story link: Harris gave a speech to thousands of Black women in Indianapolis, warning that former President Donald Trump is a threat to children and families. So is Donald Trump a confirmed “threat to children and families”? That vitriolic accusation doesn’t seem to pass standard media fact-check scrutiny. But don’t expect the New York Times ever to flag such overheated Democratic rhetoric as “disinformation.”

United States Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday presenting additional shocking whistleblower claims pertaining to the U.S. Secret Service's failed response to the recent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.In the letter, Hawley noted that the gunman had used a drone to survey the area around the rally ahead of the event, a fact which was confirmed by FBI Director Christopher Wray yesterday during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.More than two hours before the attempted assassination, the shooter flew the drone for roughly 11 minutes, approximately 200 yards from the stage, Wray said."This raises an obvious question: why was the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) not using its own drones?" Hawley asked Mayorkas.Hawley stated that a whistleblower reported that the USSS "repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally.""This means that the technology was both available to USSS and able to be deployed to secure the site," Hawley's letter continued. "Secret Service said no. The whistleblower further alleges that after the shooting took place, the USSS changed course and asked the local partner to deploy the drone technology to surveil the site in the aftermath of the attack."According to the whistleblower, Hawley noted, the drones offered by the law enforcement agency had the capability to identify active shooters and "help neutralize them.""It is hard to understand why USSS would decline to use drones when they were offered, particularly given the fact USSS permitted the shooter to overfly the rally area with his own drone mere hours before [the] event," he wrote. Hawley added that Mayorkas is expected to testify before lawmakers next week. — (@) Just days ago, Hawley sent a separate letter to Mayorkas demanding answers from the DHS regarding why law enforcement agents were not stationed on the roof of the building where the gunman took his shots. Hawley stated that an agent was assigned to be on the roof but that they "abandoned" their post "due to the hot weather."On Thursday, Hawley plans to introduce legislation, the Trump Assassination Attempt Transparency Act, that would force the declassification of all information related to the incident. "We can't let the federal government hide behind the 'classified' label," he told Fox News Digital.On Wednesday, the House unanimously passed — in a 416-0 vote — a resolution to form a bipartisan task force that will investigate the assassination attempt.The USSS deferred comment to the DHS.The DHS told Blaze News, "DHS responds to congressional requests directly via official channels, and the Department will continue to respond appropriately to congressional oversight. We are committed to working with the appropriate and relevant investigations of what happened on July 13, including with Congress, the Inspector General, and both internal and independent reviews."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Anti-Israel protesters are releasing their rage on Washington, D.C., as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress in the nation’s capital. Blaze Media’s national correspondent Julio Rosas was on the scene and captured video of the violent protests as protesters clashed with police and tore down American flags. They then replaced them with the Palestinian flag. “I question why the hell they’re here,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments. Head researcher for Glenn Beck, Jason Buttrill, is in firm agreement. “This enrages me. I don’t even want to watch it again. It’s insane,” Buttrill says. “That is not free speech when you’re ripping those flags down. It’s a government building. You’re ripping those flags off of a government building. Even if it was a private building, you’re not allowed to do that,” he adds. Gonzales recalls the January 6 protesters receiving extremely harsh punishments for doing much less — like Adam Johnson, who was photographed smiling and waving as he moved a lectern 30 feet. “What’s the charge every time someone peels out on a flag, Pride flag, on the street. It’s a hate crime. But they can do that crap,” Buttrill says angrily. John Doyle is also in agreement. “Every state throughout history has always had something approximating a blasphemy law, whether it was like a religious monarchy or any state. There’s going to be something that you’re not allowed to criticize or defame. And in America, right now, it’s the woke stuff. I mean you can’t peel out over a Pride flag mural, you can’t peel out over the Black Lives Matter street in D.C.,” Doyle says. “If you do that, you will be prosecuted. You will be arrested. And that doesn’t go for the American flag as a symbol of American people,” he continues, adding, “The only consequence that you face nowadays is if you are actually like a patriot, like if you are taking an unguided tour of the Capitol. They launch the biggest investigation in the history of the DOJ.” Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred take to news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.