Have censorship regimes met their match in Elon Musk? As I and many others have written recently, discussion of mass Pakistani rape gangs operating with impunity in the United Kingdom has exploded in the past week, even though the story is now more than a decade old. The details are horrifying and profound. It’s hard to imagine something like that happening on such a scale for so long. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in hot water as his Labour Party is desperately trying to stop a new national inquiry into the matter. Starmer has been reduced to the laziest, played-out message; namely, that asking questions about the widespread pedophile rape gangs that operated for years as authorities looked the other way makes you a part of the scary “far right.” As some folks online say, however: “Far-right” is a stand-in for “right so far.” Frankly, every person and institution involved in sweeping the issue under the rug should never be involved in public leadership ever again. They’ve brought infamy to their country and stained their souls. Shame on all of them. Maybe now the victims of these most heinous crimes will get at least the small amount of justice they deserve, albeit belatedly. What’s happening in the U.K., as this discussion about immigration and the failure of institutions heats up, is part of a much larger story. What Musk has done is essentially force an American-style political debate onto the U.K. and even more profoundly, onto a European continent that not only doesn’t have a long-standing free speech culture, but has actively tried to do more to censor their own citizens in recent years. Just listen to how shocked Jessica Phillips, the Labour Party member of parliament who initially shut down the inquiry into the rape gangs, was when she was accused of enabling the groomers. UK Safeguarding Minister Jess Philips claims her life has been turned “upside down”, after she was called out by @elonmusk for declining to launch a public inquiry into child r*** gangs in Oldham. “This is going to turn my world upside down…” pic.twitter.com/2cKDWPhGtW— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) January 7, 2025 She said she felt like her world was being turned “upside down.” Ah yes, thousands of young girls, some no more than 11 years old, were repeatedly raped, but won’t somebody think of the poor politicians! The U.K.’s political establishment isn’t used to dealing with these kinds of direct challenges and accusations. Their world really is being turned “upside down.” Musk suddenly coming out and praising Germany’s AfD party, which backs immigration restrictions—and generally injecting the immigration question onto European Union  countries that have spent decades attempting to shut down debate on the issue—is a seismic shock to the system. From an American perspective, this may be hard to understand. Most Americans have been raised in a culture that embraces something close to absolutist free speech, even if that isn’t what we have in practice. Certainly, for many Europeans, whose speech on the immigration issue has been squelched, this must be a refreshing change. The social media platform X is colliding directly with Europe’s censorship regimes, and right now it’s breaking through. Don’t think those regimes won’t strike back. For EU countries, such as Germany and France, that tightly control speech in the name of public “safety,” and have nothing like the First Amendment, foisting debates on their country that were once considered off the table is seen as an existential threat. European politicians and many of their most powerful, established media outlets are now up in arms about Musk’s “meddling” in their political systems. French President Emmanuel Macron took a potshot at Musk in a speech Monday. “Ten years ago, who could have imagined it if we had been told that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would support a new international reactionary movement and intervene directly in elections, including in Germany,” he said. The EU is reportedly considering putting regulations on X to prevent Musk from boosting “populist” parties. Those countries may go even further. There’s been speculation that Starmer and other European leaders may cut ties with the U.S. over the Musk issue because the entrepreneur is so closely aligned with President-elect Donald Trump. BREAKING: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer considering cutting ties with US unless Donald Trump distances himself from Elon Musk. pic.twitter.com/VgEevNI52O— Dominic Michael Tripi (@DMichaelTripi) January 7, 2025 Keep in mind, the EU doesn’t care that X can manipulate political debates in their countries. They are perfectly happy using Big Tech companies to shape public opinion and quash dissent. What they really loathe and fear is that they can’t control the man whose social media platform has become a kind of global newspaper. Is it good that one man and one social media platform have this much power? On the whole, I’d say “no,” even though I’m happy with the results so far. We shouldn’t need the deus ex machina of one rogue billionaire to restore some semblance of free speech in the West. But right now, that’s where things stand. Starmer, Macron, and other world leaders are struggling to put a lid on a media environment that’s radically changed. And as the historical French observer of American life Alexis de Tocqueville noted long ago, countries that suppress free debate and expression and the truth are more likely to explode in revolution once the truth gets out. The post How Musk’s X Is Turning Europe’s Censorship Regimes ‘Upside Down’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The two Democratic senators representing Laken Riley’s home state of Georgia remain noncommittal on legislation bearing her name nearly a year after she was murdered by an illegal migrant. The Senate is slated to hold a procedural vote on the Laken Riley Act, legislation that requires Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local law enforcement to detain illegal migrants who commit theft-related crimes, as early as Friday. Most Senate Democrats, including Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia, have refrained from supporting the bill, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s multiple inquiries to every Democratic lawmaker on whether they back the Laken Riley Act’s passage. The Laken Riley Act is named in honor of the 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student who was murdered by an illegal migrant while out on a run near her college campus in February 2024. The legislation is notably backed by members of Riley’s family and is sponsored by the entire Senate Republican conference as well as Democratic Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Ruben Gallego of Arizona. Ossoff and Warnock have notably refrained from expressing support for the bill despite Riley previously being one of their constituents. An Ossoff spokesperson referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to a statement the senator gave to CNN on Tuesday that he will vote to advance the bill during a procedural vote. The spokesperson did not address the Daily Caller News Foundation inquiry about whether the senator supports the bill in its current form and will ultimately vote for the Laken Riley Act’s passage. Ossoff, one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents, is expected to face a tough reelection fight in 2026. Ossoff narrowly won his first Senate election in the state by just 55,000 votes during a runoff against former Republican Georgia Sen. David Perdue in January 2021. A spokesperson for Warnock did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s multiple inquiries about whether he will vote for the Laken Riley Act. “The Laken Riley Act is good bipartisan legislation that will save lives and bring justice to a young woman who was killed by an illegal criminal,” Georgia Republican Rep. Mike Collins, the lead sponsor of the Laken Riley Act in the House, told the Daily Caller News Foundation Wednesday. “I do not know how any elected official, whether in the House or Senate, can go back to their constituents and tell them that they voted to keep dangerous criminals in their communities.” “If there are any two U.S. Senators in our country that should vote ‘Yes’ on the Laken Riley Act it is Senators Warnock and Ossoff,” Collins added. “She [Laken Riley] was their constituent, and she would still be alive today if this legislation had been in place.” Riley’s killer, Venezuelan national Jose Antonio Ibarra, had a criminal record in the United States prior to murdering Riley. Ibarra was arrested in October 2022 for allegedly shoplifting at a Walmart in Athens, Georgia, but was ultimately released because the shoplifting charge was a misdemeanor. Despite residing in the U.S. illegally, Jose Ibarra reportedly arrived in Georgia after receiving a “humanitarian flight” from New York City in 2023. If the Laken Riley Act passes the Senate and is signed into law by President-elect Donald Trump, ICE and local law enforcement would be required to detain illegal migrants like Ibarra who commit theft-related crimes in the United States, according to the bill text. Democratic Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, who is facing a competitive reelection contest in a swing state that Trump won in November, is reportedly backing the legislation, though a Peters’ spokesperson did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s multiple inquiries about why the Michigan Democrat is supporting the bill. Democratic Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper will vote to advance the Laken Riley Act during a procedural vote, but wants the legislation to be subject to an amendment process and does not support the bill in its current form, a spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Other Democratic lawmakers who could face competitive reelection bids in 2026, including Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Tina Smith of Minnesota and Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico are thus far noncommittal on the bill. Spokespersons for these Democratic lawmakers did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s multiple inquiries about whether they support the legislation. The bill passed the House overwhelmingly in a 264-159 vote Tuesday afternoon with roughly a fifth of House Democrats voting in support of the legislation. The Laken Riley Act would need to overcome the Senate’s 60-vote threshold to secure its passage in the upper chamber, requiring five other Democratic lawmakers in addition to Fetterman, Gallego and Peters to support the bill. Originally published by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The post Dem Senators From Laken Riley’s Home State Won’t Say How They’ll Vote on Namesake Bill appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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For decades now, the U.K. government has been burying untold thousands of incidents of sexual assault perpetrated by predominantly Muslim gangs that have essentially been imported into the country despite the culture’s incompatibility with Western beliefs. Anyone who has dared to call the government out on its egregious abandonment of British citizens has been labeled racist and Islamophobic. The U.K.’s institutionalized censorship has worked to squash dissent as well, as something as benign as expressing frustration at the nation’s handling of immigration could land someone behind bars. But seemingly out of the blue, a light has begun shining on what’s long been a hushed scandal. And that light’s name is Elon Musk, who, as of late, has posted a flurry of tweets aimed at exposing the U.K.'s web of corruption and censorship as well as the people who are responsible — namely British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Sara Gonzales reads the tweet that started it all: The source material Musk refers to is from a 2013 court case that graphically documents the depraved acts performed on a British child. “You read the severity of these cases, and then you find out that last October, the Labour Party Safeguard Minister Jess Phillips decided not to launch an investigation into this alleged exploitation between 2011 and 2014 and wouldn't even hold a public inquiry into sexual abuse by these sexual assault gangs in that area,” says Sara. Philips maintained that it was “for Oldham Council alone to decide to commission an inquiry into child sexual exploitation locally rather than for the government to intervene.” BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden, who is from England, says that it’s “really difficult to talk about this without being absolutely, utterly disgusted and furious.” The problem, he says, doesn’t just lie in the abandonment of the British by their own government, but it also lies in this obsession with political correctness. “Political correctness needs to end immediately because this is ... the real-world consequence of political correctness. Because you don't want to call out something that is evil because you don't want to offend a certain group of people,” he condemns, noting that this “concern” for others never seems to apply to Christians. Marsden explains that political correctness not only allows Islamism to multiply, but it also spawns authentic racism, as people begin to assume anyone with a brown face is Muslim. As natives witness the barbarity of these Muslim groups, “they go, ‘Oh brown face equals Muslim,’ and it’s not true,” he says. This problem with political correctness has grown to be so insidious that U.K. officials and police forces have actually been “going after the victims and the parents of the victims.” “I’m not even sure how you undo the damage,” granted “there are Muslim mayors now in so many of these areas in the U.K.” and that the swarms of Muslims that now live in the U.K. have largely made it clear that “they don't intend to assimilate,” says Sara. Eric July points out that in our quest for “multiculturalism,” we’ve forgotten a basic truth: “There absolutely needs to be some sort of binding culture” that outranks any subcultures in the area." “If that [overarching culture] is not there” or it’s “infiltrated, you are going to create turmoil,” he says. These “kumbaya and love everybody” people “don't want peace among folks because they’re trying to force integration,” July explains. “Forced integration is negative all the time. ... It doesn't mean that you're going to see the effects of that immediately. Sometimes it may take a generation for that to blow up in your face, but when it does blow up, like what's happening right now in the U.K., it's going to be one too late, and there's going to be a lot of people that are going to be harmed emotionally, psychologically, [and] physically,” he says. To hear more of the panel’s analysis, watch the episode above. 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.

In wake of the horrifying New Orleans Islamic extremist terror attack, Americans have been left wondering who and what will be targeted next. Sarah Adams, a former CIA targeter, predicted months ago that there were radical Islamists peppered across the United States, essentially sleeper cells, that are going to wage coordinated terror attacks. “That was six or seven months ago that you made that prediction. It came true on January 1,” Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” tells Adams, before asking, “If we are sitting here in the United States in a situation where there are a thousand radical Islamist sleeper cells in the United States, what are they waiting for?” “There’s going to be a number of these, as you call them, ‘lone wolf attacks’ over the course of whatever time al-Qaeda chose and whatever deal they made with the Islamic State Khorasan Province,” Adams explains. “And the point of that is to shift law enforcement focus onto ‘lone wolves.’” “That actually takes up a lot of resources,” she adds. “Then you don’t spend any time looking into the big plot that al-Qaeda has planned.” And under the Biden administration, the threat has only grown. “We let a lot of terrorists into the country,” Adams tells Wheeler. “So it takes time to train terrorists, get things operational, put people in place. So now the homeland attack is operational because everybody’s been trained and everyone’s been deployed to the United States.” “So we’re just coming up in the series of a number of attacks planned, and so I think people need to really focus on this because we can help thwart some of this stuff,” she adds. “What do you anticipate these attacks looking like? Are we going to see these quote-unquote ‘one-offs’ like in New Orleans, just randomly and with more frequency? Do they have an October 7-style assault plan? What are you expecting?” Wheeler asks, concerned. “We have both. So we’re first going to see the one-offs, and then we’re probably going to see at least one U.S. embassy overseas targeted, and then there is a large 9/11-style attack, but it’s more like the Hamas attacks or like the Mumbai plot from 15 years ago,” Adams answers. “We believe about 10% of the attackers will be suicide bombers, but we also believe the suicide bombings aren’t just going to occur on land, they’re also going to occur in the air on airplanes,” she adds. Want more from Liz Wheeler?To enjoy more of Liz’s based commentary, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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