CNN and PBS host Christiane Amanpour stopped by the Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday to deliver what was billed as a commencement addressed, but was really just a plea for the graduates to find the courage to fight back against nameless forces—but understood to be President Trump and people who support him—who are pushing America into a 1984 or Mussolinian state of affairs. Amanpour began by alluding to Trump’s battles with Harvard and suggested people who support Trump are simply against education, “I am delighted to be invited to the Kennedy School of Government, to Harvard, which is leading the struggle and scoring significant gains in this current battle for academic freedom, and make no doubt about it, make no mistake about it, academics, education are on the front lines in the current struggle between the two halves of America.”     A few minutes later, Amanpour attacked Trump’s USAID cuts: USAID, the Peace Corps, government in general is being stripped bare and yet, here you all are, you will find your ways to make a difference. You know that President Kennedy started USAID to launch America’s soft power, partly in response to a book that he had read. It was a political thriller, and it was called The Ugly American. We want, we need the beautiful American. The beautiful American. You are graduating from this school at a particularly fraught time. You are going to have to learn to play cat and mouse with the current crackdowns, and as I have witnessed civilians all over many parts of the world play cat and mouse with their own authoritarian regimes in order to advance their own freedoms and to be able to really strive for a future that they know they need. You will have to decide what and how you choose to lead. What to stand up for, what to believe in. The rule of law, freedom of speech, equal rights, constitutional democracy, civil rights, as Kennedy said in his own soaring inaugural, 'let public service be the very best service.'"     Reading from the book Who Is Government by Michael Lewis, Amanpour then claimed that, unlike the private sector, working for the government is noble and virtuous, “A former IRS commissioner who is quoted says, ‘The quality of life that we have, it’s all government. Government touches you a hundred times before breakfast, and you don’t even know it.’ The book shows how much safer, how much more secure daily life is today than it was even a generation ago, but more than that, the book is filled with thousands of reminders of why we have government because no one else will do this work. There is no profit motive in much of the work, no private business that will step and spend years or decades solving these difficult challenges. That’s true today, and it always will be, so you keep the faith.     In 2023, Amanpour gave another commencement speech, this one at the Columbia Journalism School, ripping former boss Chris Licht for daring to have a town hall with Trump. Now, she pretended to be someone who greatly values ideological diversity, “I also think, of course, universities must be places of ideological diversity. If not here, where? If not when you are students, then at what point in your lives? Now, as often as I can, I do that in my program without fear nor favor. Not in a cable slugfest, but to talk, listen, and to understand. I believe really strongly that you can only move the dial forward when you learn the story of the other, it’s all about empathy, which is the foundational stone for any peacebuilding, for any nation building.”     Later still, Amanpour would touch on her favorite saying, “Reporting the genocide in Bosnia, which no Western nation wanted to stop until it was too almost late, I came up with my own code of objectivity and my mantra is to be truthful, and not neutral. That’s when I learned to refuse, to refuse to equate victim and aggressor and the glass is more than half full when it comes to journalism today.”     Of course, Amanpour often times confuses her own pro-abortion opinions with truth, and when it comes to her area of specialization—foreign affairs— she is not always truthful either. Nevertheless, she continued: Everywhere we look, left, right, and center, we see democratic institutions, distressing signs of them bending, but guess who’s not bending? We the press. You, Harvard, academia. Some corporate owners of ours, maybe, and they are coming after us, but you can still find plenty of excellent, fact-based, evidence-driven, consequential, and even game-changing journalism right now. In the 1984, Animal Farm vortex that we are caught up in right now, the truth still will get out. No matter how many words are banned, how many news organizations are shuttered and threatened, how many journalists are threatened and intimidated. We will not be silenced, not then, not now, not ever, and no administration should be surprised. As if invoking Orwellian villains wasn’t enough, Amanpour concluded by bringing up Benitio Mussolini, “Thomas Jefferson warned freedom is lost slowly. Some have talked about the frog in the pot where the water is slowly turned up and the heat slowly comes to boiling before they recognize it. A hundred and fifty years later, Benito Mussolini crowed that ‘Democracy brings us so much freedom, even the freedom to destroy itself.’ Edward R. Morrow said on his programs holding Senator Joe McCarthy to account, “No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. So, everybody, that’s my message to you. Let's get on with it, while the glass is still half full. Good luck to you. “     Comparing Trump’s America to Mussolini’s Italy. Now, that’s neither truthful nor neutral. Here are portions of the May 28 speech: Christiane Amanpour’s Commencement Address to the Harvard Kennedy School 5/28/2025 CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: It’s quite something to be in this particular place, addressing this particular group of graduates at this particular time.  I am delighted to be invited to the Kennedy School of Government, to Harvard, which is leading the struggle and scoring significant gains in this current battle for academic freedom, and make no doubt about it, make no mistake about it, academics, education are on the front lines in the current struggle between the two halves of America. As you know, we over there, in Europe, are happy to lay out the welcome mat for all those here who are having their roles taken away. … USAID, the Peace Corps, government in general is being stripped bare and yet, here you all are, you will find your ways to make a difference. You know that President Kennedy started USAID to launch America’s soft power, partly in response to a book that he had read. It was a political thriller, and it was called The Ugly American. We want, we need the beautiful American. The beautiful American. You are graduating from this school at a particularly fraught time. You are going to have to learn to play cat and mouse with the current crackdowns, and as I have witnessed civilians all over many parts of the world play cat and mouse with their own authoritarian regimes in order to advance their own freedoms and to be able to really strive for a future that they know they need. You will have to decide what and how you choose to lead. What to stand up for, what to believe in. The rule of law, freedom of speech, equal rights, constitutional democracy, civil rights, as Kennedy said in his own soaring inaugural, “let public service be the very best service.” … A former IRS commissioner who is quoted says, “The quality of life that we have, it’s all government. Government touches you a hundred times before breakfast, and you don’t even know it.” The book shows how much safer, how much more secure daily life is today than it was even a generation ago, but more than that, the book is filled with thousands of reminders of why we have government because no one else will do this work. There is no profit motive in much of the work, no private business that will step and spend years or decades solving these difficult challenges. That’s true today, and it always will be, so you keep the faith. … I also think, of course, universities must be places of ideological diversity. If not here, where? If not when you are students, then at what point in your lives? Now, as often as I can, I do that in my program without fear nor favor. Not in a cable slugfest, but to talk, listen, and to understand. I believe really strongly that you can only move the dial forward when you learn the story of the other, it’s all about empathy, which is the foundational stone for any peacebuilding, for any nation building. … And just a few years before that, in South Africa, Nelson Mandela emerged from 28 unjust years in prison. He modeled the ultimate in reconciliation and in peacebuilding. He almost single handedly and most certainly persuaded the radicals on all sides to protect their moment of liberation. He talked them down from the very real threat of civil war after he was released from jail and navigated his nation out of the oppression of Apartheid. I think of that when I see Afrikaner minorities, who were the perpetrators of Apartheid, being brought into this country as refugees. I think of that when I see Cyril Ramaphosa, who was the chief negotiator in the post-Apartheid reconciliation, have his time in the White House. … Reporting the genocide in Bosnia, which no Western nation wanted to stop until it was too almost late, I came up with my own code of objectivity and my mantra is to be truthful, and not neutral. That’s when I learned to refuse, to refuse to equate victim and aggressor and the glass is more than half full when it comes to journalism today. Everywhere we look, left, right, and center, we see democratic institutions, distressing signs of them bending, but guess who’s not bending? We the press. You, Harvard, academia. Some corporate owners of ours, maybe, and they are coming after us, but you can still find plenty of excellent, fact-based, evidence-driven, consequential, and even game-changing journalism right now. In the 1984, Animal Farm vortex that we are caught up in right now, the truth still will get out. No matter how many words are banned, how many news organizations are shuttered and threatened, how many journalists are threatened and intimidated. We will not be silenced, not then, not now, not ever, and no administration should be surprised. … Thomas Jefferson warned freedom is lost slowly. Some have talked about the frog in the pot where the water is slowly turned up and the heat slowly comes to boiling before they recognize it. A hundred and fifty years later, Benito Mussolini crowed that “Democracy brings us so much freedom, even the freedom to destroy itself.” Edward R. Morrow said on his programs holding Senator Joe McCarthy to account, “No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” So, everybody, that’s my message to you. Let's get on with it, while the glass is still half full. Good luck to you. 

PolitiFact threw another "False" flag on their mountain of 1,095 Donald Trump "fact checks" on Wednesday. The dispute was whether Harvard gave the Department of Homeland Security the information they requested on their foreign students. They cited a recent press gaggle with the president:  "Part of the problem with Harvard is that there are about 31% of foreigners coming to Harvard ... but they refuse to tell us who the people are," Trump told reporters May 25. "We want a list of those foreign students and we'll find out whether or not they're OK. Many will be OK, I assume. And I assume with Harvard many will be bad." PolitiFact immigration reporter Maria Ramirez Uribe reported things that made it sound like it's preliminary to cry "False":  The Department of Homeland Security says Harvard did not provide the information it requested about the university’s international students. DHS cited that as one reason for revoking Harvard’s certification. But Harvard disputed that in its lawsuit against the Trump administration. Courts have not yet ruled on whether Harvard complied with providing DHS with the additional information it requested.  But PolitiFact shopped for an expert to convict Trump of falsehood:  However, immigration law experts said Trump’s statement that the U.S. government doesn’t know the identities of Harvard’s international students is incorrect. U.S. colleges and universities that enroll international students must be certified under the Department of Homeland Security’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program, called SEVP. SEVP’s database "contains all information about every student visa holder. Addresses, courses, grades, jobs, social media accounts, and much more," Charles Kuck, an Atlanta-based immigration lawyer and Emory University law professor, said. According to campaign finance records, Chuck Kuck is (surprise!) is a serious donor to Democrats, including Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Stacey Abrams, Raphael Warnock, and Jon Ossoff. In 2018, Kuck gave $10,000 to the Georgia Democratic Party. You'll also find Kuck used to donate to Republicans like Jeb Bush until.....Donald Trump became the leader of the GOP.  PolitiFact also suggest Trump was "False" because the "State Department issues visas. To apply for a student visa, a person must fill out a form and schedule an interview. As part of the application process, students must provide biographical and employment information, including information about their relatives, and answer security questions, including about their criminal records." Since they're Democrat-friendly, these journalists have zero suspicions that the Biden administration was lax on violent criminal immigrants coming into the country, and so the Trump people are vigilantly assuming something might have fallen through the cracks.  Does Maria Ramirez Uribe have a problem with Trump and his team? It would seem so, since in 2025, she hasn't "fact checked" a single Trump opponent. This is her author page so far this year, in reverse date order:  May 28: Donald Trump -- FALSE May 15: Stephen Miller -- FALSE May 9: Pam Bondi -- PANTS ON FIRE May 8: Donald Trump -- FALSE May 1: Pam Bondi -- PANTS ON FIRE April 10: Donald Trump -- PANTS ON FIRE April 8: Brooke Rollins -- MOSTLY FALSE February 21: Elon Musk --  PANTS ON FIRE February 14: Elon Musk --  FALSE February 7: Kristi Noem -- HALF TRUE  January 31: Donald Trump -- FALSE January 30: Karoline Leavitt -- FALSE  This is what PolitiFact calls "independent fact checking."

Minneapolis police officers told Blaze Media they believe former officer Derek Chauvin should get a pardon for his federal conviction or a new trial at a minimum.The officers listed many reasons why President Donald Trump should give Chauvin a pardon, even if it is clear he would not get a pardon on his state conviction. They pointed to how rigged the trial was and the police department falsely claiming the restraint Chauvin used on Floyd was not taught to officers. They also claimed Chauvin's conviction has been the pretext to implement policies that make enforcing the law difficult.The officers were part of exclusive interviews with Blaze Media for the five-year anniversary of the Black Lives Matter riots that ravaged the city after the death of George Floyd. They were on the force during the riots and remain on it today.RELATED: Minneapolis cops speak out about BLM riots 5 years after 3rd Precinct burned Scott Olson/Getty Images "I think there's a consensus that it was clearly that he was railroaded from that. I mean, you have the city doing the settlement [with Floyd's family] before the trial has even begun. That is so corrupt," one officer said.The officer said what happened to Floyd was unfortunate, but claiming Chauvin murdered him was not justice."The restraint he was using was taught in Minneapolis by the police department. It was taught at the academy. I've had that restraint done to me, and I've done it to other people in the academy," the officer said. "I think people would like to see a pardon and see him get a new trial. ... I don't think there's very many that feel the trial was fair to begin with. ... You had razor wire, Jersey barriers, and everything set out" with a large crowd waiting outside the courthouse, another officer explained. "If you're a member of that jury, how are you not afraid, you know? How are you not swayed?" — (@) Big-name conservatives like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Jack Posobiec have come out recently to publicly lobby the Trump administration to issue the pardon. The White House said back in March it is not considering a pardon at this time.Earlier this month, KSTP-TV reported that multiple sources informed them Governor Tim Walz (D), the Minnesota National Guard, Mayor Jacob Frey (D), and Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt have all been briefed on preparations for possible riots in the event of a pardon.Watch the 10-minute interviews with the officers below. You can watch the full 30-minute documentary on BlazeTV. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

What are the best F1 25 settings for PC and Steam Deck? Another instalment of the F1 racing sim is finally here, and it's yet another solid outing on PC for Codemasters' leading franchise. However, EA's insistence on using its proprietary anti-cheat system is bad news for Steam Deck gamers. The F1 25 system requirements are incredibly detailed, listing everything needed to play the game both on PC and in VR. While you won't need the best graphics card to get the game running at a great frame rate, you may need an upgrade if you're aiming to run the "max ultra" graphics profile with ray tracing enabled. If you're keen to read more about our thoughts on this latest racing sim from Codemasters, you can check out our F1 25 review. Continue reading Best F1 25 settings for PC and Steam Deck MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best graphics card, Best gaming PC, Best SSD for gaming

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