BREAKING: Darren J. Beattie Joins Trump State Department—Issues Exclusive Message to Loyal Revolver ReadersFeby 3, 2025 (3 hours ago) 1/3

We are pleased to inform you that Revolver’s own Darren Beattie has landed a top role in the America First Trump administration.Dr. Beattie—a former speechwriter for President Trump and a professor at Duke University—has earned widespread respect for his academic scholarship and groundbreaking work at Revolver News. Since leaving academia, Darren has been a relentless force in exposing the left’s DEI agenda, their censorship schemes, and the J6 entrapment operation—including the infamous pipe bomb hoax.

Now, Darren is joining President Trump’s State Department in a top-ten ranking position, serving as the Acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. In plain terms, Darren will be shaping America’s messaging to counter terrorism and combat violent extremism.

Something he’s been doing at Revolver for years now.

As a result, Darren will be taking a leave of absence from direct editorial involvement at Revolver News. But worry not, the same invisible team of patriots that has worked at Revolver since the very beginning (July of 2020) will remain behind to continue carrying out the Revolver mission without missing a beat.

Here is Darren’s exclusive statement to the Revolver News regarding his appointment to the Trump administration:

Dear Revolver Readers,

Over the past four and a half years it has been one of the greatest honors of my life to pour my blood sweat and tears into making Revolver News the news website that I always thought American patriots deserved. I think it is now more than fair to say that pound for pound, Revolver stands as the most cutting-edge, influential, and fearless voice for Americans who want to learn the truth. Our original reporting and perspectives have reshaped and corrected the national narrative on many important matters, including, and principally, the political weaponization of the national security bureaucracies against Trump supporters and American patriots of all stripes. We are, of course, best known for directly challenging the official narrative of January 6—and we are especially proud that President Trump, who recently and heroically pardoned the January 6 political prisoners, has himself cited our reporting on this issue frequently and favorably.

Our journalistic efforts have earned the praise not only of President Trump himself but also just about every prominent and fearless figure in the America First, MAGA world. What I am most proud of, however, is the hundreds of millions of patriots who have done us the great honor of visiting our news page and trusting us to give them the truth. I am eternally grateful to you, readers, for sticking by us even as some of the most ruthless and well-funded political operatives on the planet tried to bury us. The sad truth is the regime wanted to prevent the American people from knowing the truth of things.

Now, thanks to President Trump’s miraculous victory, we have entered the beginning of a new Golden Age—of success, prosperity, legitimacy, and accountability. I have been given the great honor of serving once again in Trump’s administration, this time in the Department of State. Helping Secretary Rubio and my esteemed colleagues in the State Department fulfill President Trump’s agenda will require every ounce of my focus and energy, and accordingly, I will for the time being suspend my direct editorial involvement in Revolver News. I want to reassure my beloved readers that Revolver remains in good hands and that the exceptionally talented team that remains is the same team that has been on board since day one and has been indispensable to our success. Rest assured, Revolver will continue to provide the fearless, cutting-edge, America First reporting that our readers expect and deserve.

At the risk of redundancy, I would like to end this message by once again thanking our readers for joining us on this tremendous journey and for fighting alongside us even as someof the most powerful forces in the world were trying to shut us up and shut us down. With our readers and our Revolver News family, we have changed the world. But without you, we are nothing. I want you to know that we know that and that we are grateful for each and every one of you.

I hope that you will stay with us on this journey as we enter a new Golden Age for our country under President Trump’s leadership. This great country and Revolver News alike have unfinished business. The best is yet to come!

With gratitude and love to our readers,

Darren

https://revolver.news/2025/02/darren-j-beattie-joins-trump-state-department-issues-exclusive-message-to-loyal-revolver-readers/

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What an incredibly heartfelt message from Dr. Beattie, who has truly put all of his blood, sweat and tears into Revolver News in the past nearly half decade. Of course, the usual suspects are guffawing and melting down on X and in the media. And as news of his new role spreads, other media outlets are being forced—begrudgingly—to report it. This is a real blow to the same smug hacks who love slapping the “conspiracy theorist” label on anyone who challenges their narrative.

The publication Semafor originally broke the news and provided us with some choice quotes from Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson.

“Darren personifies the America First Right — smart, tough, relentless — with a ‘take no prisoners’ attitude. He made Revolver a major player in the frontal attack on the Deep State,” Steve Bannon said in a text message to Semafor. “As important as his agency will be in the building at ‘Foggy Bottom’ , the symbolism of his hire by POTUS screams: ‘We Don’t Give 2 F****x’ for convention.’”

Tucker commented to Semafor as well, calling Beattie “decent and genuinely smart” in a text message.

A chastened Jonathan Greenblatt surprisingly bit his tongue:

[Beattie] was appointed by Trump in 2020 to a the Commission for the Preservation of American Heritage Abroad, a move that the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, called “outrageous” at the time.

(Greenblatt declined to comment Sunday.) The commission works with other governments to preserve sites related to World War II and the Holocaust.

And of course, right on cue, ABC News is in full meltdown mode, screeching “conspiracy theorist” at Darren Beattie and his team—the left’s typical, lazy, go-to attack when they’ve got nothing left in the tank. But here’s the truth:

Darren and his Revolver investigators didn’t just ruffle feathers; they blew the lid off the FBI’s entrapment plot against Trump and his supporters on January 6. As a matter of fact, Darren is the one who coined the famous phrase “Fedsurrection,” which perfectly describes the FBI’s little house party at the Capitol that day.

ABC News:

President Donald Trump’s administration is filling one of the State Department’s top positions with a controversial conservative journalist who has promoted conspiracy theories related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and was fired as a speechwriter by the first Trump administration when it was revealed that he had spoken at a conference tied to White nationalists, sources familiar with the move told ABC News.

The sources said that the man,Darren Beattie, will now be the acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, a so-called “Top 10” position that, as the State Department’s websitedescribes it, “leads America’s public diplomacy outreach, which includes messaging to counter terrorism and violent extremism.”

[…] More than two years ago, Beattie launched a right-wing media outlet called Revolver News, which has raised funds in part by selling pro-Trump apparel and merchandise.

“It’s OK to deny 2020,” reads two shirts still being sold on the outlet’s website. Another shirt promotes the refuted claim that Jan. 6, 2021, was an “FBI setup to frame Trump supporters as insurrectionists,” as the shirt says.

And Beattie has become a frequent guest on other right-wing media, often promoting conspiracy theories related to Jan. 6.

On Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast last month, Beattie repeated his claims that the FBI knows who’s behind the pipe bombs left at DNC and RNC offices on Jan. 6 but “what they found out was profoundly embarrassing to the government and to the narrative that the Biden regime wanted to promote, and so instead of following that investigation further, they basically just killed it,” Beattie said.

https://revolver.news/2025/02/darren-j-beattie-joins-trump-state-department-issues-exclusive-message-to-loyal-revolver-readers/

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Beattie also claimed that surveillance video released by the FBI to seek help in identifying the perpetrator was “clearly tampered with.” And who can forget this saga?

ABC News: At the end of the Trump administration, in November 2020, the Trump White House appointed Beattie to a three-year term with the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, which helps preserve sites related to the Holocaust.

==The Anti-Defamation League strongly objected to the appointment, issuing a statement at the time saying]], “It is absolutely outrageous that someone who has consorted with racists would even be considered for a position on a commission devoted to preserving Holocaust memorials in Europe.”

The New York Times then asked Beattie for comment, and he told the paper: “The ADL pretends to be an organization that protects Jews, but it really exists to protect Democrats.

As a Jewish Trump supporter, I consider it an honor to be attacked by the far-left ADL and its disgraced leader, Jonathan Greenblatt.” That was funny. (POST)

Here’s how Semafor broke the news in a slightly more fair way than ABC News:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will appoint Darren Beattie, a speechwriter in President Donald Trump’s first term, acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, two people briefed on the plans said.

Beattie has been a vocal critic of broad swathes of American foreign policy and represents a dramatic step away from the establishment Republicanism Rubio long embodied: In a widely-circulated essay on the site he founded, Revolver, Beattie compared the “color revolutions” that Western democracies backed in Eastern Europe in the 1990s and 2000s to “the coordinated efforts of government bureaucrats, NGOs, and the media to oust President Trump.”

It’s unclear whether Beattie will be nominated to fill the role on a permanent basis, and he declined to comment on the post. A State Department spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to an inquiry.

[…] Beattie’s appointment will send another signal that the new administration is rooting itself deeply in the new right.

[…] Beattie is a well-regarded figure in Trump’s orbit whose controversy in 2018 — he appeared at a conference with extreme figures, but was not criticized for anything he said there — barely rates by 2025 standards.

The move offers a glimpse, however, at how Rubio is staffing his department to reassure the MAGA faithful that he’s with the program. Rubio’s director of policy planning is another MAGA intellectual, Michael Anton, whose essay, “The Flight 93 Election” made the case for electing Trump in 2016 at any cost.The role that Beattie is filling on, at least, a temporary basis oversees American public diplomacy abroad, as well as the high-profile office of the department spokesperson in Washington.

Here’s a collection of reactions from notable MAGA luminaries on X, starting with Steve Bannon: Jeremy Carl: X POST Mike Benz: XPOST THe online meltdowns over the news were delicious: POSTS

This is a huge win for MAGA and a clear sign that the Trump administration means business when it comes to putting America first and draining the swamp.

Revolver News staff couldn’t be prouder or happier for Darren Beattie if we tried. Darren has proven himself to be not just a powerhouse, but a relentless truth-seeker, and absolutely fearless when it comes to exposing the corruption that others are afraid to touch. Under his leadership, Revolver has become a game-changer in the fight to save America, and we know he’ll bring that same fiery, righteous energy to the US State Department.

Godspeed, Darren.

We’ll hold down the fort while you’re making America great again.

https://revolver.news/2025/02/darren-j-beattie-joins-trump-state-department-issues-exclusive-message-to-loyal-revolver-readers/

>>22499458

Kek, and they are not going to buy anymore weapons. Their rare earth will pay us back, and believe me, Trumps, Military, USAID, State Department and all the other secret agencies funding them will be audited to find out how much was given to them. I wouldn't be surprised if its a trillion.

Zelensky really thinks he can negotiate with Trump. KEKKKKKK

>>22499458

Kek, and they are not going to buy anymore weapons. Their rare earth will pay us back, and believe me, Trumps, Military, USAID, State Department and all the other secret agencies funding them will be audited to find out how much was given to them. I wouldn't be surprised if its a trillion.

Zelensky really thinks he can negotiate with Trump. KEKKKKKK

>>22499458

Kek, and they are not going to buy anymore weapons. Their rare earth will pay us back, and believe me, Trumps, Military, USAID, State Department and all the other secret agencies funding them will be audited to find out how much was given to them. I wouldn't be surprised if its a trillion.

Zelensky really thinks he can negotiate with Trump. KEKKKKKK

One female activist judge just pissed off Elon and killed Delaware…February 3, 2025 (3 hours ago)

The hyper-emotional female strikes again, folks. This time in Delaware. But before we get to that, here’s some background.

Companies have historically incorporated in Delaware because its business laws have been corporate-friendly, and offered legal protections, tax advantages, and a court system that specializes in business disputes—Elon Musk and other big names were no exception.But now, thanks to a lady judge on a seek and destroy mission, things have gone south—fast.

As you like know,Elon Musk has been in a full-blown showdown with Delaware’s legal system over his $56 billion Tesla pay package.It all started back in 2018, Tesla’s board approved the deal, but a shareholder complained, saying the payout was unfair to investors.

Now, fast forward to 2024, and right on cue, a female Delaware activist judge by the name of Kathleen St. J. McCormick, agreed with the whiney shareholder, calling the payout “excessive” and tossing it out the window.

And that was the move that ignited a firestorm.

And just so you know – Democrat Governor John Carney nominated McCormick to the vice-chancellor position on the Delaware Court of Chancery back in 2018.

Musk, who isn’t about to just walk away from $56 billion, tried to get shareholders to reapprove the package, but the same lady activist judge shot that down too, saying it wouldn’t fix the original issue. At that point, Musk had enough. He fired back with a brutal economical nuke:Never incorporate your company in Delaware.

Now, the fallout is real.

• Big corporations are eyeing the exit door and looking to move to states like Texas and Nevada where they won’t get tangled up in this kind of unjust lawfare.

• Dropbox is planning their exit from Delaware. But you have to keep in mind, Dropbox is the “golden goose” for Delaware, and this lady judge just screwed the entire state with her hysterical lawfare.

• But it’s not just Dropbox—now, word is that Meta is looking for the exit too.

What an absolute disaster for Delaware. (Article) Thanks to this activist lady judge, Delaware’s Democrat governor is now scrambling to do damage control, but it’s likely way too late.As a matter of fact, there’s already an entire movement called “Leave Delaware.”

The truth is, these activist judges are destroying everything they touch, and as of now, are in the process of destroying the largest income for the state of Delaware.Think of this: the income from corporate franchise taxes & fees is the biggest generator of revenue for Delaware. Gone. All gone.So, you can see why the Dem governor sounds downright desperate. He’s probably sweating bullets as we speak.

Leave Delaware:

BREAKING🇺🇸: The Delaware Governor has responded to companies leaving Delaware: “It’s really important we get it right for Elon Musk or whoever the litigants are in Delaware courts,”—”We’re cognizant that there may be some things that need to change. We’re going to work on them.” – Matt Meyer, Delaware Governor

The truth is, Musk’s unjust lawfare battle just ripped the lid off a much bigger war over corporate power and government overreach. At a time when Americans are already side-eyeing the justice system—after watching Biden weaponize it against his political enemies—now, we’re seeing states jump on the bandwagon, too.

Thanks to this lady judge, we now see how you can very quickly drive businesses out and kill economic growth for your state.If Delaware thinks it can strong-arm corporations with activist judges, and get away with it, they’re in for a rude awakening. Because once Americans start losing jobs over this, the backlash will be fast and furious, and it won’t just be Musk leading the charge.

https://x.com/LeaveDelaware/status/1886266012179235098

February 5, 2024Meet whiz kid from DOGE team.

Farritor named co-winner of $700,000 prize for ID’ing scroll passages

HUSKER UNDERGRAD PREVIOUSLY DECODED FIRST GREEK WORD FROM ANCIENT SCROLL

By Scott Schrage | University Communication and Marketing1/2

Luke Farritor, a senior at Nebraska, superimposed with Greek text from a nearly 2,000-year-old scroll that he spent much of the past year working to decipher.

In late 2023, Nebraska’s Luke Farritor became the first to free a Greek word from its prison: papyrus charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago.

That feat would earn Farritor worldwide acclaim and $40,000 from the organizers of the Vesuvius Challenge, a global effort to decode the writings of burnt scrolls recovered from a library in the Roman town of Herculaneum. For most, it would rank as the achievement of a lifetime.

But the Husker undergrad and Lincoln native was far from finished. On Feb. 5, the Vesuvius Challenge named Farritor, Youssef Nader and Julian Schilliger the co-winners of its $700,000 Grand Prize for deciphering at least four passages of text, each 140-plus characters long, from digital scans of a seared scroll.

Though the text revealed by the team is still being transcribed and translated, an early read suggests that it is a philosophical treatise on pleasure, akin to what the organizers called “a 2,000-year-old blog post about how to enjoy life.”

The preliminary analysis has also confirmed that the text was never duplicated, meaning that it has gone unread since at least A.D. 79, when Mount Vesuvius drowned the surrounding area in ash and volcanic mud.

“Sometimes we take breakthroughs such as this for granted, but we should not,” said Farritor, a senior in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. “It took the combined efforts of many people over several centuries to discover, preserve, scan and now, finally, read and translate these scrolls. It is the privilege of a lifetime to be a small part of this.”

Stacked fragments of the scanned scroll (top = left, bottom = right), collectively featuring the 15 passages of Greek text extracted by Farritor and the team.

Farritor spent much of the past year developing and training a machine-learning model that could detect ultra-faint differences in the texture of the carbonized scrolls, which are now too delicate to unroll. Those textural differences hinted at the presence of ink — and Greek letters that many thought would never be read again. Eventually, Farritor’s model managed to identify 10 letters in close proximity, enough to earn him the Vesuvius Challenge’s First Letters Prize. Experts would soon conclude that several of those letters spelled the Greek word for “purple.”

With just a few months to go before the Dec. 31 deadline for the Grand Prize, though, Farritor had little time to savor his triumph. Knowing the magnitude of the task before him, Farritor teamed up with Nader and Schilliger, balancing the demands of fall classes and coding sessions. The superteam went to work refining not just the detection of ink — so that they neither missed actual letters nor conjured ones that weren’t there — but also the segmentation of rolled-up papyrus into coherent fragments.

When the Vesuvius Challenge organizers first released their criteria for the Grand Prize, they figured the odds of anyone deciphering even four passages of text were less than 30%. Farritor and the team would sail past the mark, submitting 15 passages that comprised more than 2,000 characters — an estimated 5% of the scroll’s text….

https://news.unl.edu/article-2

February 5, 2024Meet whiz kid from DOGE team.

Farritor named co-winner of $700,000 prize for ID’ing scroll passages

HUSKER UNDERGRAD PREVIOUSLY DECODED FIRST GREEK WORD FROM ANCIENT SCROLL

By Scott Schrage | University Communication and Marketing1/2

Luke Farritor, a senior at Nebraska, superimposed with Greek text from a nearly 2,000-year-old scroll that he spent much of the past year working to decipher.

In late 2023, Nebraska’s Luke Farritor became the first to free a Greek word from its prison: papyrus charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago.

That feat would earn Farritor worldwide acclaim and $40,000 from the organizers of the Vesuvius Challenge, a global effort to decode the writings of burnt scrolls recovered from a library in the Roman town of Herculaneum. For most, it would rank as the achievement of a lifetime.

But the Husker undergrad and Lincoln native was far from finished. On Feb. 5, the Vesuvius Challenge named Farritor, Youssef Nader and Julian Schilliger the co-winners of its $700,000 Grand Prize for deciphering at least four passages of text, each 140-plus characters long, from digital scans of a seared scroll.

Though the text revealed by the team is still being transcribed and translated, an early read suggests that it is a philosophical treatise on pleasure, akin to what the organizers called “a 2,000-year-old blog post about how to enjoy life.”

The preliminary analysis has also confirmed that the text was never duplicated, meaning that it has gone unread since at least A.D. 79, when Mount Vesuvius drowned the surrounding area in ash and volcanic mud.

“Sometimes we take breakthroughs such as this for granted, but we should not,” said Farritor, a senior in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. “It took the combined efforts of many people over several centuries to discover, preserve, scan and now, finally, read and translate these scrolls. It is the privilege of a lifetime to be a small part of this.”

Stacked fragments of the scanned scroll (top = left, bottom = right), collectively featuring the 15 passages of Greek text extracted by Farritor and the team.

Farritor spent much of the past year developing and training a machine-learning model that could detect ultra-faint differences in the texture of the carbonized scrolls, which are now too delicate to unroll. Those textural differences hinted at the presence of ink — and Greek letters that many thought would never be read again. Eventually, Farritor’s model managed to identify 10 letters in close proximity, enough to earn him the Vesuvius Challenge’s First Letters Prize. Experts would soon conclude that several of those letters spelled the Greek word for “purple.”

With just a few months to go before the Dec. 31 deadline for the Grand Prize, though, Farritor had little time to savor his triumph. Knowing the magnitude of the task before him, Farritor teamed up with Nader and Schilliger, balancing the demands of fall classes and coding sessions. The superteam went to work refining not just the detection of ink — so that they neither missed actual letters nor conjured ones that weren’t there — but also the segmentation of rolled-up papyrus into coherent fragments.

When the Vesuvius Challenge organizers first released their criteria for the Grand Prize, they figured the odds of anyone deciphering even four passages of text were less than 30%. Farritor and the team would sail past the mark, submitting 15 passages that comprised more than 2,000 characters — an estimated 5% of the scroll’s text….

https://news.unl.edu/article-2

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The charred scroll whose text was deciphered by the team. Using high-energy X-rays, researchers at the University of Kentucky managed to image the burnt scrolls in three dimensions, eventually clearing the way for the Vesuvius Challenge.

As for its author? The scroll’s content and references point to Philodemus, who was likely the philosopher-in-residence of the library that housed the scroll and many others like it.

Philodemus was a proponent of Epicureanism, a philosophical system that values pleasure, especially in the form of a life free from fear and pain.

Richard Janko, one of the papyrologists examining the team’s submission, said the text “quite probably” discusses the pleasure derived from music, and how it compares with the joys of food, drink and beautiful sights. The text even seems to take a shot at the rival school of Stoicism, noting that its advocates “have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular, when it is a question of definition.”

“Peering at and beginning to transcribe the first reasonably legible scans of this brand-new ancient book was an extraordinarily emotional experience,” Janko said.

Farritor

A self-described history nerd himself, Farritor said he hopes that the Vesuvius Challenge, and his contributions to it, could eventually help double the amount of readable text from the Greco-Roman era. Situated in a villa thought to be owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar, the Herculaneum library containing the burnt scrolls is considered the last of its kind. Roughly 800 of the scrolls extracted from the library now reside in Naples, waiting to be read. And another two stories of the villa have yet to be excavated, potentially hiding thousands of more scrolls.

“We are celebrating right now, but there’s no reason to slow down,” said Farritor, who plans to continue improving the models that helped translate carbon to Greek. “Let’s read the entire library!”

https://news.unl.edu/article-2

>>22499811

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The charred scroll whose text was deciphered by the team. Using high-energy X-rays, researchers at the University of Kentucky managed to image the burnt scrolls in three dimensions, eventually clearing the way for the Vesuvius Challenge.

As for its author? The scroll’s content and references point to Philodemus, who was likely the philosopher-in-residence of the library that housed the scroll and many others like it.

Philodemus was a proponent of Epicureanism, a philosophical system that values pleasure, especially in the form of a life free from fear and pain.

Richard Janko, one of the papyrologists examining the team’s submission, said the text “quite probably” discusses the pleasure derived from music, and how it compares with the joys of food, drink and beautiful sights. The text even seems to take a shot at the rival school of Stoicism, noting that its advocates “have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular, when it is a question of definition.”

“Peering at and beginning to transcribe the first reasonably legible scans of this brand-new ancient book was an extraordinarily emotional experience,” Janko said.

Farritor

A self-described history nerd himself, Farritor said he hopes that the Vesuvius Challenge, and his contributions to it, could eventually help double the amount of readable text from the Greco-Roman era. Situated in a villa thought to be owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar, the Herculaneum library containing the burnt scrolls is considered the last of its kind. Roughly 800 of the scrolls extracted from the library now reside in Naples, waiting to be read. And another two stories of the villa have yet to be excavated, potentially hiding thousands of more scrolls.

“We are celebrating right now, but there’s no reason to slow down,” said Farritor, who plans to continue improving the models that helped translate carbon to Greek. “Let’s read the entire library!”

https://news.unl.edu/article-2