>>19371834

Federal Court: D.C. ‘Selectively’ Enforced Law to Arrest Pro-Lifers but Not BLM Protesters

A federal appeals court delivered a major free speech victory on Tuesday, ruling that Washington, D.C., officials “selectively” enforced a statute to arrest pro-life activists but not Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020.

In the summer of 2020, thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters flooded D.C., and over several weeks, they covered the streets, sidewalks, and storefronts with paint and chalk. While these markings violated the District’s defacement ordinance, no protesters were arrested. However, district police officers were quick to arrest two pro-life advocates in a smaller protest for chalking “Black Pre-Born Lives Matter” on a public sidewalk outside of a D.C. Planned Parenthood facility.

“The government may not enforce the laws in a manner that picks winners and losers in public debates,” reads the D.C. Circuit opinion penned by Judge Neomi Rao, reversing a lower court’s decision. “It would undermine the First Amendment’s protections for free speech if the government could enact a content-neutral law and then discriminate against disfavored viewpoints under the cover of prosecutorial discretion.”

“The First Amendment prohibits discrimination on the basis of viewpoint irrespective of the government’s motive,” the three-judge panel ruled: …

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/16/federal-court-d-c-selectively-enforced-law-to-arrest-pro-lifers-but-not-blm-protesters/

Veto overridden: Ban on gender-affirming care for minors takes effect in North Carolina

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Transgender youth in North Carolina lost access Wednesday to gender-affirming treatments after the Republican-led General Assembly overrode the Democratic governor’s vetoes of that legislation and other bills touching on gender in sports and LGBTQ+ instruction in the classroom.

GOP supermajorities in the House and Senate enacted — over Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto — a bill barring medical professionals from providing hormone therapy, puberty-blocking drugs and surgical gender-transition procedures to anyone under 18, with limited medical exceptions.

The policy takes effect immediately, but minors who had begun treatment before Aug. 1 may continue receiving that care if their doctors deem it medically necessary and their parents consent.

North Carolina becomes the 22nd state to enact legislation restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for trans minors. But most of those laws face legal challenges, and local LGBTQ+ right advocates vowed to challenge the ban in court. The Senate voted 27-18 to complete the veto override after the House voted 73-46 earlier. …

https://apnews.com/article/transgender-health-care-veto-override-north-carolina-536351cc360a92cdd21f298f6212e6d2

>>19371892

DC Officials Selectively Arrested Pro-Lifers While Ignoring 2020 BLM Activists: Appeals Court

A federal appeals court has ruled that officials in the Washington D.C. local government could be sued for selectively enforcing a property defacement statute to punish pro-life activists who wrote a pro-life message in chalk on a city sidewalk, while ignoring similar but more permanent actions by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists.

In the summer of 2020, D.C. police arrested two pro-life activists for chalking “Black Pre-Born Lives Matter” on a public sidewalk. The arrests came as BLM activists were painting their own activist messages throughout the city—but without facing similar enforcement measures.

The Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life filed a lawsuit against the city in the D.C. Federal court in November of 2020. While the D.C. defacement statute is ostensibly neutral and designed to prevent vandalism, the two pro-life groups insisted that the way the city enforced the law was not neutral and punished them for writing messages in easily removable washable chalk, while ignoring numerous instances of BLM activists writing their own messages in permanent paint. The plaintiffs alleged the city's selective enforcement of the statute violated their First Amendment and Fifth Amendment rights. …

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/dc-officials-selectively-arrested-pro-lifers-while-ignoring-2020-blm-activists-appeals-court-5471057

AUG 16, 2023

How NewsGuard Became the Establishment Guard Against Independent Media

Company makes a profit—including from US government funds—through a business model that leads to defunding and censoring of independent media

As difficult as it is to run an independent media outlet, there’s a company making it substantially harder. Its name is NewsGuard. The company claims to rate online content, including from media outlets, for trustworthiness, but a closer look shows it does much more than that—its business model produces censorious pressure on news organizations. An investigation by The Epoch Times has revealed troubling questions regarding the quality of and the agenda behind NewsGuard's offerings.

Founded in 2018, NewsGuard dispatches its “analysts” to prepare reviews of online content creators and to issue ratings “to help readers have more context for the news they read online.” The ratings display as small badges with scores next to search results.

That, however, represents only a small part of the picture. The bigger picture shows that NewsGuard's most potent function stems from its relationships with advertising agencies, which have steered their clients to cut off advertising dollars for content creators disfavored by the company's "analyst" reviews. As it so happens, corporate, establishment-friendly media tend to receive high scores while independent media skeptical of the establishment tend to receive low scores, even if they adhere to high journalistic standards.

The Epoch Times emailed NewsGuard questions regarding its products, activities, personnel, and funding, but received no response. …

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/how-newsguard-became-the-establishment-guard-against-independent-media-5417756

Charlie Kirk

So if Trump and 18 co-conspirators have been indicted for a "vast conspiracy to subvert our Democracy" thenwhat do you call the secret "Shadow Campaign" exposed by Molly Ball in Time Magazine?

TIME Feb 4, 2021:

"There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy."

"Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears."

Seems to me there was a conspiracy involving hundreds of leftwing activists who had previously, in the summer of 2020, unleashed mobs of violent rioters onto the streets of America.

Using the same theory put forward in the Georgia case, will these co-conspirators be investigated?

Of course not.

1:42 PM · Aug 16, 2023·426.7K Views

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1691867959164313814

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>"Shadow Campaign" exposed by Molly Ball in Time Magazine?

>TIME Feb 4, 2021:

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

InteractivePolls

RCP AVERAGE: Trump has the largest advantage over DeSantis ever.

The GOP primary frontrunner on this day was…

– Trump in 2015 with +12%

– Romney in 2011 with +1.8%

– Giuliani in 2007 with +10%

Today in 2023, Trump leads by +40.3%

Trump 54.4% (+40.3)

DeSantis 14.1%

11:23 AM · Aug 16, 2023

https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1691832952907255949/photo/1