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'I just don’t think the majority of men are ready'

'I WILL BE GOING BACK TO BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA'

'There's no Democrats that feel disenfranchised'

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. In the EU, Apple has been forced to allow third-party iOS app stores, and several months after the rule came into effect, one of them, AltStore PAL, released the first apps. Other than weakening the grip Apple has on what its users are allowed to use on their phones, the AltStore’s move is notable for including only one app that is already in the giant’s store. Even more notably, Apple users in the EU can now install torrenting apps – the type of software that is banned from the official store, because Apple has chosen to associate this otherwise legal protocol and clients with “often” being used to infringe on copyright. But now, AltStore has iTorrent, a torrent client, and qBitControl, a qBittorrent remote client in its initial offer. In a series of posts on social media, those behind the third-party store said that it contains apps Apple users can’t find anywhere else (with the caveat, however, that this may be the case “unless Apple changes their rules again…”) The posts said that what they call initial recommended sources have been inspected to comply with safety standards, and instruct users on how to update the store and get the new apps. Explaining iTorrent, AltStore developers said that it allows iPhones to have the same functionality that’s been available on computers for decades, namely, the use of peer-to-peer networks. qBitControl, on the other hand, allows users to remotely control qBittorrent installed on their computers. The one app that is in already the Apple Store (although it was first banned there, but then allowed just this month, and its developers say thanks to AltStore) is UTM SE. It is a virtual machine that emulates other operating systems (such as Linux and Windows) on macOS on iOS. AltStore suggests it is particularly popular for playing retro games that were previously unavailable on Apple’s OS’s. Finally, there’s PeopleDrop, a social discovery app with a focus on dating, which AltStore likens to the functionality of 3DS StreetPass, but this time needing only one device, with PeopleDrop running in the background and automatically discovering other users in close proximity. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post AltStore PAL Launches in EU with New iPhone Apps, Including Banned Torrent Clients appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) revisited a huge Media Research Center (MRC) victory over a public-private partnership to censor publications on the right. McCormick spoke with MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider about the successful attempt to add a ban on government funding of NewsGuard censorship campaigns into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). McCormick issued a dire warning: the government is seeking to “weaponize the agencies like NewsGuard.”  McCormick said, “Now they want to use our taxpayer monies in the defense industry to hire industries like–NewsGuard which would keep people off of Newsmax and other conservative venues.” He explained how NewsGuard rates publications according to its biased standards of what is “true” or “factual” and said that failing their metrics will have severe consequences for the publications and their advertising, which is needed to survive. Three studies conducted by the MRC have demonstrated that NewsGuard is extremely biased in favor of the left. The MRC’s most recent study showed that NewsGuard gave an average rating of 65% to publications on the right while giving an average rating of 91% to publications on the left. NewsGuard has a long history of rating left-wing sources far higher as demonstrated by earlier MRC studies.   The congressman highlighted this absurd bias at NewsGuard, attacking the pro-censorship group for targeting news sources such as One America News (OAN), Newsmax and Fox News. “So it's actually a biased way to keep you from being, just like ESG in investment, they continue to divest from investing in conservative venues,” he said. As a former fighter pilot, McCormick discussed the role of conservatives in the armed forces, expressing outrage that NewsGuard and the government targeted patriotic Americans and their news sources. “The most conservative venues are where you get those heritages of people who enlist in the Army, in the Marines, in the Navy, in the Air Force, they’re trying to basically weaponize the agencies like NewsGuard to keep them away from advertising. It steals millions of dollars away from conservative venues and that needs to be ended,” he said. In 2024, McCormick and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) led the passage of the 2025 NDAA, which included a pro-free speech provision effectively banning the Pentagon from contracting with NewsGuard and other outlets that target the advertising of right-leaning outlets.  Congress passed similar language a year prior for the 2024 NDAA. “This year’s NDAA will refocus our military on its core mission of defending America and its interests across the globe,” Johnson told MRC at the time. Echoing Johnson’s remarks, McCormick stated, “Congress has a real opportunity to do something about that by reining in for-profit censors that have been funded by our own government like NewsGuard and GDI. FLASHBACK: Rep. McCormick Champions Push to End Dystopian Censorship Industrial Complex, Touts MRC MRC Free Speech America Assistant Editor Luis Cornelio contributed to this report. Conservatives are under attack! Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency on WEF partnerships, clarity on so-called hate speech and 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.

Joe Biden is no longer the Democratic presidential nominee. After weeks of heartburn from the Democratic political establishment — and the unique spectacle of the media finally holding the Democrats accountable for their dishonesty — Biden announced this week that he would be dropping out of the presidential race. That announcement followed his disastrous debate performance against Donald J. Trump, a performance that demonstrated to a flabbergasted America that the president of the United States is fully addled. Biden tried to deny it for weeks; some played along; most did not. Eventually, Biden's abysmal poll numbers, combined with strong-arm tactics from political mafia boss Barack Obama and consigliere Nancy Pelosi, forced Biden from the race. There are a number of lessons to be learned from this extraordinary chain of events. First, as Lincoln apocryphally said, you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. For years, we were told that behind closed doors, Joe Biden was cracking the secrets of cold fusion, even as we saw with our own eyes that he was in a state of continuous mental collapse. The power of the media only extends so far. Second, while the political parties have lost much of their former power, they still exist — and they still have teeth. Democratic Party bosses and money men tossed out 14 million votes in favor of Joe Biden in the primaries because the polls looked bad. It's that simple. Biden didn't drop out because he suddenly discovered that as a patriot, he simply couldn't lead America forward any longer. He dropped out because it was made clear to him that either his political brains or his signature would be on his resignation papers. Third, the Democratic Party still has a few unbreakable rules, the most important of which is that no Black woman can be supplanted, no matter how bad a candidate she is. The newfound Democratic enthusiasm for hideously unpopular Vice President Kamala Harris has odor but no substance. Few Democrats are excited about Harris; they're more excited that Biden is gone. But Harris herself is a preternaturally flawed candidate: corrupt, radical and dishonest. She ran an all-time stinker of a presidential campaign in 2020; during that campaign, she somehow achieved the signal political feat of coming out against fracking, guns and private health insurance — sure winners in swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. As Biden's supposed "border czar," she has presided over the worst border crisis in American history; she is tied at the hip to his awful record. Then there's the fact that she is a charmless copy of Hillary Clinton, with the unfortunate addition of a Joker-like involuntary laugh that could break glass. But Democrats can't get rid of her. To do so would be to crack their intersectional coalition. And since 2012, Democrats have been running on that coalition ... over and over and over again. It has only worked once, and that time only because Democrats radically changed every voting rule. But Democrats are wed to the strategy. And they won't divorce it now. All of which means that Donald Trump still has the electoral advantage in 2024, should he choose to take advantage of it. He'll have to be more disciplined than he has been against a walking corpse like Biden; he'll have to focus on Harris' record rather than her unlikability or lack of qualifications. But anyone who proclaims that Harris' entrance into the race means that she is now the frontrunner simply isn't living in the world of reality. In the meantime, we bid a not-so-fond farewell to the candidacy of Joe Biden. Now only one question remains: If he's too senile to run, why isn't he too senile to remain president for the next six months? Ben Shapiro's new collection, "Facts and Furious: The Facts About America and Why They Make Leftists Furious," is available now. Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show," and co-founder of Daily Wire+. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author. To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

The U.S. Department of Justice appears to have opened a grand jury investigation into former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin in retaliation for his role as a whistleblower over the past two years and his promotion of other whistleblowers who sought to expose malfeasance at the nation’s top law enforcement agency. Seraphin told Blaze News that a federal grand jury has subpoenaed his social media postings on X/Twitter and those of suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle. Both men have had a prominent role since 2022 exposing what they allege are abuses within the bureau that threaten the civil rights of agents and the general public. In May 2022, Seraphin exposed various abuses at the FBI in a video interview with investigative journalist James O’Keefe III at Project Veritas. In the Veritas broadcast, Seraphin’s face was hidden and his voice was masked to protect his identity. On the program, Seraphin disclosed that the FBI had opened “sensitive investigative matter” investigations into news media organizations. “The FBI is trying to jam me up for an obstruction of justice charge, probably that 1512(c)(2), on the actual [Veritas] video that was released,” Seraphin told Blaze News. 'O’Boyle should have his clearance immediately reinstated, be returned to duty, and be provided back pay and benefits for his time on unpaid leave.' That charge, under 18 U.S. Code §1512(c)(2), was used against more than 350 defendants who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Its novel, unprecedented use was challenged at the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled on June 28 that the 20-year felony could be used only if the person charged had impaired the use of documents or some other evidence in an “official proceeding.” O’Boyle was notified through his attorney that he was not the target of the grand jury probe, Seraphin said. Seraphin did not receive such a notice, which he said likely indicates that he is an investigative target. “If that’s what they’re trying to do, then it should be public and they [the FBI] should know that I know,” Seraphin said. O'Boyle wrongly targeted Seraphin also disclosed that the FBI suspended O’Boyle’s security clearance in July 2024 after denying him a paycheck for the past 18 months — even though the bureau knew that it was Seraphin and not O’Boyle who was interviewed by Project Veritas. O’Boyle had taken on a new role at the FBI in September 2022 and was in the process of moving his family to Virginia from Kansas. On the day he was to report for work, his service weapon and FBI credentials were seized and his employment suspended, all based on the false assertion that he had leaked information to Project Veritas. The FBI’s sudden suspension left the O’Boyle family without a place to live since all of his belongings were en route to their new home. They were forced to head to Wisconsin and took shelter in a camper parked in a relative’s driveway. "If the FBI is going to do this to their own employees, what do you think they're capable of doing to normal people in our society?" O'Boyle said in an interview with Blaze News. "The depth of the wrongdoing here on what they've done to me and my family is so deep that it's close to impossible to even untangle." FBI Special Agent Garret O'Boyle with daughters Iris and Gwen during his days as a police officer in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Photo courtesy of Garret O'Boyle, used with permission Blaze News asked the FBI to comment on Seraphin's contentions but did not receive a reply by publication time. The whistleblower cases of both men — and the recent expulsion of a 27-year FBI veteran just 90 days shy of retirement — shed light on an agency that has pursued vengeance against insiders for making lawful, statutorily protected disclosures about alleged abuses inside the FBI, Seraphin said. Revelations from current and former FBI employees have not led to reforms inside the bureau but rather have resulted in vindictive campaigns to silence and punish those who dared to speak up about COVID “vaccine” mandates, Jan. 6 SWAT raids, investigations of the Catholic Church, and various other civil rights violations, he said. In spring 2022, Seraphin was suspended under the guise of an investigation into him for doing target practice with his service weapon at a shooting range on federal land in New Mexico. The sound of the shots had prompted calls to local police from a nearby school. The police officer who made contact with Seraphin at the range concluded that Seraphin did nothing wrong. The officer left the scene without taking any action, Seraphin said. The land was often used by the public for target practice. The internal investigation started by the FBI was actually because Seraphin had refused to take the COVID-19 shot that was being pushed as a vaccine on bureau employees, he said. Seraphin filed for an exemption from the FBI’s vaccine policy based on his Catholic faith, because the COVID shots were developed using cell lines from aborted babies. Seraphin was the organizer of an FBI chat group on the encrypted app Signal that focused on the vaccine mandates. “They went after Garret simply because we were connected together, we were good friends,” Seraphin told Blaze News. “My belief is they lined it up because they knew we both had gotten into that COVID group that I started on Signal, which had 300 FBI employees.” House Judiciary testimony O'Boyle offered emotional testimony before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary in May 2023 about the damage done to him, his wife, and four children by the false accusation and resulting suspension without pay. O'Boyle appeared with former FBI Special Agent Steve Friend, suspended FBI analyst Marcus Allen, and Tristan Leavitt, president of Empower Oversight, an agency that supports and represents government whistleblowers. Leavitt sent a letter on July 22 to Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz and the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility demanding that O'Boyle's security clearance be reinstated. Suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle tells the House Judiciary Committee on May 18, 2023: "The FBI will crush you. This government will crush you and your family." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) "Despite knowing that SA O’Boyle had accepted a transfer, sold his family’s home, and had a newborn baby, the FBI — in violation of its own policy — waited until after SA O’Boyle reported to his new duty station to suspend his clearance, leaving him and his family homeless," Leavitt wrote. "Because the FBI’s actions against SA O’Boyle were clearly retaliatory, SA O’Boyle should have his clearance immediately reinstated, be returned to duty, and be provided back pay and benefits for his time on unpaid leave." O'Boyle said the FBI has not reimbursed him for the $30,000 cost to move his family from Wichita to Virginia. An FBI official told O'Boyle in a November 2022 email that reimbursement was not possible until the investigation into him was finished. Seraphin has brought numerous examples of FBI overreach to public view, including an internal memo directing agents to look for threats against local school boards or administrators in order to open domestic terrorism cases. Many parents said in response that they felt like the weight of the federal government could be used against them for asking for redress of grievances about drag queen story hours or school libraries that stock pornographic homosexual books aimed at children. Seraphin also disclosed that the FBI was seeking to infiltrate and investigate so-called radical traditional Catholics, many of whom prefer the Traditional Latin Mass, as some kind of domestic extremists. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!