It's out with one dystopian tactic and on to the next for the British government’s ongoing assault on free speech. London’s Metropolitan Police force told The Daily Mail on Monday that it is pulling back on investigating "non-crime hate incidents," and instead will “focus on matters that meet the threshold for criminal investigations.” But after the U.K. government’s full-throated attack on free speech these last couple of years, it is going to take a lot more than words to restore trust. A good start would be dismantling other dystopian policies that seem to be a censorship crackdown waiting to happen, like its ever-expanding digital identification program. The U.K. is using the excuse of mass migration to demand that all working citizens obtain a digital identification. But that supposedly narrow application of the digital ID has already widened, as the U.K. government rolled out a digital ID for military veterans on Oct. 17. Read the full blog on MRC Free Speech America’s site.

Google could be in serious hot water after it reportedly programmed its artificial intelligence to make false accusations against filmmaker and podcast host Robby Starbuck. Starbuck announced on X Oct. 22 that he is suing Google, accusing the company’s Bard, Gemini and Gemma AI of generating defamatory statements against him. He accused the AI bots of providing “fake criminal allegations including sexual assault, child rape, abuse, fraud, stalking, drug charges, and even saying I was in Epstein’s flight logs.” These claims are “100% fake. All generated by Google’s AI,” he said. I have ZERO criminal record or allegations.”  Now Starbuck, with the legal representation of the Dhillon Law Group, is taking the tech giant to court. Read the full blog on MRC Free Speech America’s site.

MSNBC host Jen Psaki rolled out the "Mean Girls" routine on the "I've Had It" podcast with two former Bravo reality-TV stars, Jennifer Welch and Angie "Pumps" Sullivan. It's bad enough for Psaki to mock Vice President JD Vance. But she mocked his wife Usha like she was in a hostage video.  PSAKI: I think the little Manchurian candidate, JD Vance, wants to be president more than anything else," Psaki said. "I always wonder what's going on in the mind of his wife. Like, are you OK? Please blink four times. Come over here. We'll save you. And that he's willing to do anything to get there. And your whole iteration you just outlined, I mean, he's scarier in certain ways, in some ways....And he's young and ambitious and agile in the sense that he's a chameleon who makes himself whatever he thinks the audience wants to hear from him. It's not a surprise that they'd say Vance is even "scarier" than Trump, because they presume he's smarter -- just as they did with Ron DeSantis. As some remarked on social media, this VP-power-lust critique certainly could have matched Joe Biden (and Jill). They wanted to be president "more than anything else," more than the mental health of their children with substance abuse. As White House press secretary, Psaki would have been expected to trash any journalist who suggested Biden's wife was in a hostage video or under duress.  This echoes a lot of trashy leftist speculation about Melania Trump, who is often painted as trapped in a loveless marriage. The podcast video is captioned: "Usha Vance, please blink twice if you need help." Then there's the added "woman of color" edge to their hostage humor.  Jen Psaki says JD Vance in “scarier” than Donald Trump & suggests his wife Usha wants out of their marriage. “Blink 4 times. Come over here. We’ll save you.”pic.twitter.com/aqgcyhlXZo — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) October 21, 2025 This also comes from the MSNBC sector that slavishly promoted the last vice presidential spouse, Doug Emhoff, even after credible allegations of violence toward an old girlfriend. Days before that allegation broke, Psaki interviewed Emhoff, and teed him up to attack Trump for suggesting Democrats are "bad to Israel" and Jews should "have their head examined" if the vote for Kamala:  "Do you worry that he’s putting a target on the backs of Jewish Americans?" This came just weeks after Trump was targeted and shot in the ear.  It's obvious Psaki is really picking the wrong vice-presidential spouse to paint as troubled. Emhoff admitted to impregnating his nanny, who also served as his daughter’s second grade teacher. Psaki wasn't going to ask about that. The hosts of this trashy podcast -- with 1.3 million subscribers -- opened their Psaki podcast by hailing their audience as comprised of "patriots, gay-triots, they-triots, blacktriots, browntriots" and "the people who don't support them can f--k off!" What a treat of a show.

The Media Research Center is proud to recognize President Donald Trump and several members of his administration during the 21st annual Free Speech Week for their unwavering commitment to defending the First Amendment and confronting one of the greatest threats to our constitutional Republic: the Biden administration’s whole-of-society approach to censorship. This year’s MRC Free Speech Award was awarded exclusively to Charlie Kirk, the late founder of Turning Point USA. In addition to celebrating Kirk’s legacy, the MRC is also using Free Speech Week to recognize other leaders, including public and foreign advocates, legal officers and members of Congress. Trump is among those celebrated by MRC, who has assembled one of the most unapologetically pro-free speech administrations in modern American history, and this is not hyperbole. On his first day in office, Trump and his administration took bold and decisive action with an executive order to begin dismantling the Biden administration’s 57 censorship initiatives exposed by MRC Free Speech America. Also during the first week, Trump issued another executive order revoking Biden-era directives, forcing the left-wing ideology in AI. He expanded this order just months later, ensuring that the government would not partner with Big Tech companies that discriminate against individuals based on viewpoint. The administration further used the weight of the U.S. government to pressure world leaders to stand up for freedom of speech. Trump’s appointments of free speech warriors — including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem — signaled a clear shift toward protecting, rather than policing, speech.  This approach to free speech protection has ultimately defined the Trump administration. This stood in stark contrast to Biden’s weaponization of government to target his opponents. Under Biden’s tumultuous years, Americans endured an unprecedented assault on the First Amendment. This government was characterized by a reckless pattern of government overreach, speech suppression and blatant contempt for the First Amendment. As previously exposed by MRC, Biden's administration oversaw the establishment of one of the largest censorship operations in U.S. history, involving 57 initiatives across an astounding total of 93 federal agencies. The MRC is proud to recognize the following executive branch officials for their actions in defense of Americans’ free speech rights: President Donald J. TrumpPresident Trump is a man of action, and he has acted forcefully and fearlessly to protect Americans’ free speech rights. Before even taking office for his second term, President Trump had assembled a cabinet of First Amendment warriors; within a week of taking his oath, he issued two executive orders outlining steps to preserve the First Amendment. President Trump then set about dismantling Biden’s censorship agencies, firing hundreds of government censors and cutting off thousands of censorship grants. To this day, he remains a great warrior for the First Amendment and continues to prioritize Americans’ right to speak freely.  Vice President JD VanceThe vanguard of President Trump’s anti-censorship crusade, Vice President Vance has been relentless in his efforts to preserve Americans’ First Amendment rights. Perhaps the most significant moment of his already-historic vice presidency was his generation-defining speech in Munich confronting leftist European leaders and demanding that their big tech censorship not be exported to our shores.   Secretary of State Marco RubioSecretary Rubio was given one of the most difficult tasks in government: Stopping the sprawling censorship enterprise that infected the State Department and USAID. Secretary Rubio has removed this cancer with surgical precision. He shut down the FIMI Hub, dismantled the multinational framework for censorship, fired hundreds of corrupt government censors, and removed hundreds of grants that were silencing speech around the world.        Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.Secretary Kennedy took command of a Department that had been perverted to silence American critics and stifle scientific inquiry, Secretary Kennedy faced near insurmountable opposition from the censorship cartels operating in our government and media. With no hesitation, Secretary Kennedy rescinded the countless NIH grants and contracts that were paying for the silencing of American researchers, and has instead created a new Department that is dedicated not to playing politics, but instead to making America healthy again.  Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi NoemSecretary Noem has shown temerity and grit as she dismantles the censorship operations in the Department of Homeland Security that were jeopardizing Americans’ liberty and security. Secretary Noem eliminated the censorship agency CP3, eliminated the Quiet Skies censorship program, rescinded the TVTP censorship grants, and transformed CISA from a Stasi-style censorship bureau to an agency that protects Americans’ critical infrastructure from foreign cyberattacks. FCC Chair Brendan CarrFCC Chair Carr has tirelessly worked to refocus the agency on protecting, rather than impeding, Americans’ ability to communicate. He has fought to ensure that public spectrum is used responsibly, rather than by being monopolized by a few big media censorship advocates. He has also worked to ensure that merger approval is contingent on ending unlawful DEI programs.   FTC Chair Andrew FergusonFTC Chair Andrew Ferguson has tackled the advertising cartels being run by deceitful censorship outfits like Ad Fontes and Media Matters. He has also continued to battle Meta and Google for monopolizing American markets so they could control American speech. OMB Director Russ VoughtDirector Vought has been instrumental in defunding and dismantling the lawless government censorship agencies that were paying millions of taxpayer dollars to censor people both at home and abroad.  Director of the National Institutes of Health of the United States Jay BhattacharyaDirector Bhattacharya has shown tremendous courage in dismantling the censorship operations at NIAID and the NLM, instead creating a leaner, more inquisitive NIH that works to make America healthy.  White House AI and Crypto Czar David SacksDavid Sacks has been a fierce opponent of the push for AI exclusivity contracts, and has worked to ensure the Biden pandemic of debanking never occurs again. FCC Media Bureau Chief Erin BooneChief Boone worked tirelessly to reform the FCC to be an agency that protects Americans’ free speech, including by spearheading FCC Chairman Carr’s efforts to ensure public spectrum is not hijacked to become propaganda for big media. FCC General Counsel Adam CandeubThe nation’s premier authority on Section 230, Candeub has helped Chairman Carr reform the FCC to protect Americans’ liberties from government and Big Tech censorship. FCC Policy Advisor Katie McAuliffeMcCauliffe has worked tirelessly to protect free speech rights for all Americans, including through careful review of how public spectrum and public airwaves are used.   FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Director Chris MufarrigeMufarige has worked tirelessly to carry out Chairman Ferguson’s mission of stamping out unlawful censorship.  FTC Competition Bureau Director Daniel GuarneraGuarnera has worked tirelessly to carry out Chairman Ferguson’s mission of stamping out unlawful censorship. MRC presented 35 pro-free speech advocates with the prestigious MRC Free Speech Award last year, honoring the original vision for Free Speech Week with 2024 awards. 2024 award winners included: five U.S. senators, 10 congressmen, 10 officials ranging from attorneys general to governors and from state legislators to the FCC, as well as 10 thought leaders.

In a viral video, Democrat Whip Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) says that, while Democrats’ government shutdown will cause American families to suffer, it’s worth it because it gives her party leverage to pass its political agenda. “Utterly shameful! The Democrats OPENLY ADMIT they are causing the shutdown—and using hardworking American families as their LEVERAGE,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrote Wednesday, responding to a social media post of Clark’s statement. Clark made the admission on Thursday in an interview with Fox News Channel, in which she said Democrats take “responsibility” for the suffering: "Shutdowns are terrible and, of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage items we have. It is an inflection point in this budget process where we have tried to get the Republicans to meet with us and prioritize the American people." Getting the extra $1.5 trillion of spending for things like health care for illegal aliens that they’re demanding is more important than ending the suffering caused by the shutdown, Clark said. Utterly shameful! The Democrats OPENLY ADMIT they are causing the shutdown—and using hardworking American families as their LEVERAGE. https://t.co/boosLESCYP — Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) October 22, 2025