ACLU Responds to Musk Saying He Would Reinstate Trump’s Twitter, Say They Agree That He Shouldn’t Be Banned

Elon Musk, the soon-to-be owner of Twitter, announced that he would reverse former President Donald Trump’s ban on the platform while speaking at the Financial Times’s “Future of the Car” event on Tuesday.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) responded that they agree he should be unbanned.

“You’d be hard-pressed to find a more steadfast opponent of Trump and his policies than the ACLU, but Elon Musk’s decision to re-platform President Trump is the right call. When a handful of individuals possess so much power over the most important forums for political speech, they should exercise that power with restraint. If Trump violates the platform rules again, Twitter should first employ lesser penalties like removing the offending post — rather than banning a political figure,” Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director, said in a statement.

Romero added, “like it or not, President Trump is one of the most important political figures in this country, and the public has a strong interest in hearing his speech. Indeed, some of Trump’s most offensive tweets ended up being critical evidence in lawsuits filed against him and his administration. And we should know — we filed over 400 legal actions against him.”

Musk called the decision to ban Trump “a morally bad decision to be clear and foolish in the extreme” earlier in the day.

“I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump. I think that was a mistake,” Musk continued. “It alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice.”

Trump was banned from the platform two days after the protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The company claimed that the ban was due to “risk of further incitement of violence” from the then-president.

At the time of his ban, Trump had over 80 million followers on Twitter.

Following the news of Musk’s takeover, Trump said that he has no interest in rejoining the platform.

“No, I won’t be going back on Twitter,” Trump told CNBC’s Joe Kernen last month. “I will be on Truth Social within the week. Its on schedule. We have a lot of people signed up. I like Elon Musk. I like him a lot. He’s an excellent individual. We did a lot for Twitter when I was in the White House. I was disappointed by the way I was treated by Twitter. I won’t be going back on Twitter.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/aclu-responds-musk-saying-reinstate-trumps-twitter-say-agree-shouldnt-banned/

Schumer Endorses Criminal Conduct When Asked if He is Comfortable with Protests Outside Homes of Conservative Supreme Court Justices

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Tuesday endorsed criminal conduct when he encouraged pro-abortion activists to protest outside of the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices.

Godless, pro-abortion activists protested outside of Justice Alito’s home this week.

Protesters are trying to intimidate conservative justices in an effort to change the draft opinion on Roe v Wade.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr Monday night told Fox News host Jesse Watters that it is a crime to go to a judge’s residence to influence decisions.

“[It’s] not a valid form of protest because it’s a violation of the law. There is time and place for protests, and the federal statute makes it clear if you go to the house of a judge, the residence of a judge to influence the judge in his decisions and demonstrate that that’s a federal crime,” Bill Barr told Jesse Watters.

A reporter on Tuesday asked Schumer if he is supportive of the protests outside of the homes of SCOTUS justices.

“Are you comfortable with protests that we saw outside the homes of Supreme Court justices over the weekend?” CNN’s Manu Raju asked Schumer.

Schumer endorsed criminal conduct.

“If protests are peaceful, yes. There’s protests three, four times a week outside my house,” Schumer said.

Schumer is not a judge so it’s no where near the same thing.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/schumer-endorses-criminal-conduct-asked-comfortable-protests-outside-homes-conservative-supreme-court-justices-video/

Gavin Newsom Is Blaming Climate Change For The Blackouts He Is Creating

Did you hear the news? California nearly got 100% of its electricity from renewables for a period last weekend!

But wait. Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration said yesterday that we would once again have blackouts this summer.

What’s going on?

According to Newsom’s people… climate change. That and the fact that people might actually use their air conditioners this summer.

This is bonkers. We Californians pay more for electricity than anyone else in the country except people in Hawaii.

https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/gavin-newsom-is-blaming-climate-change?s=r

Haitian Police Officer Charged with International Narcotics Conspiracy, Narcotics Distribution, and Firearms Offense

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edwi/pr/haitian-police-officer-charged-international-narcotics-conspiracy-narcotics

Managers of Arizona Telemedicine Company Admit Roles in $64 Million Nationwide Kickback, Health Care Fraud Schemes

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/managers-arizona-telemedicine-company-admit-roles-64-million-nationwide-kickback-health

Bill Gates tests positive for COVID, says "I'm fortunate to be vaccinated and boosted."

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1524147477653381120

Church Youth Group Leader, Former Youth Coach, Again Arrested On Sex Abuse, Sodomy Charges

A woman arrested earlier this year for sexually abusing a juvenile in 2016 is facing additional charges after a second victim came forward with allegations of abuse. Megan Billingsley Deese was arrested on February 23rd of this year on charges of Sodomy 1st degree, Sexual Abuse 1st degree, and Enticing a Child to Enter a Vehicle, House, Etc. for an immoral purpose.

After these charges were announced, an additional victim contacted the Hoover Police Special Victims Unit stating Deese had sexually abused her over a period of a year between 2018-2019.

During the investigation, detectives learned that Deese was a leader of the victim’s youth group at church when the abuse occurred.

Deese was arrested earlier today and transported to the Hoover City Jail. She will be transferred to the Jefferson County Jail later this evening. Detectives are continuing to work this case to determine if there are more victims.

If anyone has any information about this case or Deese, please contact Sergeant Scott Prentiss at 205-739- 6125.

Due to the sensitive nature of this case, no additional information will be released.

https://breaking911.com/church-youth-group-leader-former-youth-coach-again-arrested-on-sex-abuse-sodomy-charges/

Tim Scott Responds To Janet Yellen Claiming Black Women Need Abortion Access

President Joe Biden’s Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, said Tuesday that making abortion illegal would be bad for the economy.

Yellen was asked by Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez during a Senate hearing about the economic impact of the Supreme Court’s reported decision to undo Roe v. Wade, opening a path for states to impose increased restrictions on abortion. Yellen said that legalized abortion helped women make more money and participate in the labor force.

“I believe that eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy, and would set women back decades,” Yellen said. “Roe v. Wade and access to reproductive healthcare, including abortion, helped lead to increased labor force participation, it enabled many women to finish school, that increased their earning potential, it allowed women to plan and balance their families and careers, and research shows that it had a favorable impact on the wellbeing and earnings of children.”

She continued on to say that restricting abortion would lead to women living in poverty and needing government assistance.

“There are many research studies that have been done over the years looking at the economic impacts of access, or lack thereof, to abortion, and it makes clear that denying women access to abortion increases their odds of living in poverty or need for public assistance,” Yellen said.

The Treasury Secretary was later pressed on the pro-abortion comments by Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott. “Some of your comments in response to Bob’s question, I found troubling. Just for clarity’s sake, did you say that ending the life of a child is good for the labor force participation rate?”

“I think people can disagree on the issue of being pro-life or pro-abortion, but in the end, I think framing it in the context of labor force participation, it just feels callous to me,” Scott added.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/10/janet-yellen-abortion-economy-labor-force-tim-scott/

Durham seeks delay of classified discovery in Danchenko case

Durham blamed the delay on intelligence agencies' slow production of documents

Special Counsel John Durham on Monday requested a delay to produce classified documents ahead of the trial of primary Steele dossier source Igor Danchenko, citing federal agencies' slow declassification of documents.

While the bulk of classified discovery documents have been produced to Danchenko's lawyers, Durham noted that "recent world events continue to contribute to delays in the processing and production of classified discovery."

Durham indicted Russian analyst Danchenko in November 2021 for repeatedly lying to the FBI during the alleged Trump-Russia collusion investigation.

The special counsel wrote that the defense rejected the request to delay the filing deadlines, which would give them less time to study the documents before the October trial.

"To date, the Government has produced to the defense over 5,000 documents in classified discovery and nearly 61,000 documents in unclassified discovery," Durham wrote in his filling.

He explained that "some of the officials preparing and reviewing the documents at the FBI and intelligence agencies continue to be heavily engaged in matters related to overseas activities."

The "recent world events" and "overseas activities" Durham is referring to may be Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"Nevertheless, the Government is continuing to press the relevant authorities to produce documents in classified discovery as quickly as possible and on a rolling basis," Durham said.

The current deadline to produce classified discovery is set for May 13, but Durham wants the deadline pushed to June 13.

The request comes as the trial of former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann is set to begin next week. Durham has also accused Sussmann of lying to the FBI.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/durham-seeks-delay-classified-discovery-danchenko-case

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Facebook moderator sues company over ‘human trafficking’

Meta has been accused of a "deceptive recruitment process" in Kenya

Former Facebook moderator Daniel Motaung has sued the social media giant’s parent company Meta and its African subcontractor Sama, alleging in the suit filed on Tuesday that the company “subjected current and former content moderators to forced labor and human trafficking for labor.”

Motaung claims he was laid off for organizing a strike in 2019 and trying to unionize Sama’s employees. The subcontractor, he alleges, engaged in a “deceptive recruitment process” by advertising call center jobs that turned out to be content moderation jobs – with all the exposure to psychologically harmful content that entailed.

“The varying descriptions (call center agents, agent and content moderator) for the position of a content moderator are deceptive and designed to trick unsuspecting applicants into unknowingly becoming Facebook Content Moderators,” Motaung’s lawyers declared in their filing, noting that “applicants who responded to the call for ‘Agents’ were especially deceived.”

Sama not only failed to give employees adequate mental health support, it deliberately perpetuated a “toxic work environment” that prohibited moderators from airing their grievances with third parties, including Meta employees, the filing alleged. Workers’ screen time and movement during work hours were tracked using Meta’s software, and they were denied “unplanned breaks as needed particularly after exposure to graphic content,” instead receiving an hour in “wellness breaks” per week – time some employees report having to “beg” to receive.

Employees at the site, located in Nairobi, were drawn from all over Africa, as far away as Ethiopia, Uganda, and Somalia, as well as Motaung’s native South Africa, and only learned the true nature of their jobs after signing contracts and relocating – meaning they could not simply turn around and go home if they found the true nature of the job too disturbing.

An exposé on Sama’s content moderation center published in Time magazine revealed the company paid the lowest rate of any Meta subcontractor – as low as $1.50 per hour, according to the report – and while the company upped workers’ pay in response, its PR problems have persisted. Motaung and his lawyers threatened to sue over a month ago if Sama did not make serious improvements to its treatment of employees.

Meta has sought to distance itself from the company, declaring it requires its partners to “provide industry-leading pay, benefits and support,” while Sama has in turn denied any wrongdoing regarding Motaung’s departure. The company claimed his employment was “terminated because of unacceptable actions taken against fellow employees that jeopardized their safety” and insisted the process was “fair, clear, and well documented.”

Moderators at Sama threatened to strike in the summer of 2019 unless they received better pay and working conditions, but rather than negotiate with the workers, the company flew two higher-ups from the US to “deal with” the uprising – a process that ended with Motaung’s dismissal and the accusation that his actions had put the relationship between Sama and Facebook (now Meta) at “great risk.” Rather than face a similar fate, the other would-be strikers returned to work.

https://www.rt.com/news/555270-facebook-african-content-moderators-lawsuit/

Ukraine’s ‘senseless PR action’ at Snake Island led to heavy losses – Russia

Kiev lost 30 drones, 14 aircraft and 3 ships in a ‘senseless PR action’ to retake island, the Russian military says

Kiev has so far lost 30 drones, 10 helicopters, four jets, three ships, and upwards of 50 troops in failed attempts to take Snake Island, the Russian Ministry of Defense has revealed. Urged on by British advisers, President Volodymyr Zelensky personally ordered the attack and wanted to see a victory by May 9, media reported citing security sources.

Another Bayraktar TB-2 strike drone, a Turkish import, was shot down over the island on Tuesday, said Major General Igor Konashenkov, the spokesman for the Russian military. That makes nine Bayraktars destroyed over Snake Island since Saturday, he pointed out.

Russian troops noticed on Tuesday three more bodies of Ukrainian attackers that washed up on the beach, Konashenkov added, for a total of 27 special forces and nationalist battalion personnel that perished on the island itself.

https://www.rt.com/russia/555268-snake-island-pr-military/

Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann’s defense list includes ex-NYT reporter

A former New York Times reporter, top Hillary Clinton campaign aides and current and former officials from the Justice Department and the CIA are among the potential witnesses at the first trial stemming from special counsel John Durham’s probe into the federal investigations of former President Donald Trump.

Former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann plans to call two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Eric Lichthblau to testify in his defense, according to reports of a pretrial hearing held in Washington, DC, federal court on Monday.

Lichtblau would be asked about his communications with both Sussmann and tech executive Rodney Joffe, the Washington Post said.

Joffe provided Sussmann with computer research that purportedly tied a Trump Organization server to Russia’s Alfa Bank and helped him compile a “white paper” on the findings, according to Sussmann’s indictment.

Sussmann is charged with lying to the FBI when he allegedly claimed he wasn’t “acting on behalf of” Joffe and the Clinton campaign while passing along the since-debunked information in September 2016, less than two months before the presidential election.

The Times isn’t expected to object to the defense’s planned questioning of Lichtblau but might do so if he’s asked about any independent reporting he did on the research, and the paper is expected to file court papers this week, defense lawyer Sean Berkowitz reportedly said in court.

Lichtblau referred questions to his lawyer, who declined to comment, as did the Times, according to the Washington Post.

Lichtblau, who writes about national security and law enforcement, has bylines on two Times stories from March and April 2016 in which Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer, was quoted as an expert.

Those reports involved government efforts to unlock iPhones, including one that belonged to one of the homegrown ISIS terrorists who killed 14 people at a 2015 Christmas party in San Bernardino, California.

Sussmann also acknowledged speaking to Lichtblau and other reporters from the Washington Post and Slate magazine in late October 2016, leading to stories that appeared a short time later, according to a timeline compiled by US Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin).

Sussmann’s other planned witnesses include Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who will be questioned about how Sussmann gave him information “that also involved Mr. Joffe,” according to The Washington Post.

https://nypost.com/2022/05/10/clinton-campaign-lawyer-sussmans-defense-list-includes-ex-nyt-reporter/

Kindergarten Teacher Brags About Teaching ‘White Privilege’, Mocks Parents Who Disapprove

The district has shelled out over $50,000 for "equity" consultants over the last two years

During a recent Zoom meeting, a Billerica Public Schools teacher bragged about teaching her kindergarten and first grade students about “white privilege.” The Massachusetts teacher, Brenna Woods, went on to mock parents who disapprove of her teaching of leftist ideology to their children.

Woods — who has “they/them” pronouns listed on Zoom — told her fellow teachers that she taught remotely throughout the previous school year, which she called “exciting.” The teacher noted that parents could hear everything she was saying and went on to gleefully mock their concerns.

“I did a lesson on white privilege, essentially. I talked about how some people are treated differently based on their race and what they look like,” Woods continued. She then claimed that some parents praised the “powerful conversation” while others voiced their disapproval.

“I received some emails that were like ‘how dare you treat my white child differently?’ I’m like ‘was that hard for you?'” Woods continued while her fellow teachers nodded in agreement.

The teacher went on to say that parents opposed to the “white privilege” kindergarten lesson “unknowingly live very privileged lives” and called for “talking points” in order to explain things to said families.

https://nationalfile.com/kindergarten-teacher-brags-about-teaching-white-privilege-mocks-parents-who-disapprove/