The girl with the pearl ear pig.
Slovak and Serbian Leaders Defy EU Globalists, Will Join Russia’s Victory Day Celebration in Moscow Despite Consequences
Despite intense pressure from Brussels’ foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, the nationalist leaders of Slovakia and Serbia are resolutely standing their ground, opting to honor their historical ties with Russia rather than yield to the petty whims of unelected and increasingly irrelevant EU bureaucrats.
Both Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić have confirmed that, regardless of any backlash that they may face from globalists leading the EU, they will be attending Moscow’s Victory Day celebrations on May 9, marking a major symbolic break from the European Union’s official stance.
Fico, known for his nationalist, left-populist politics and strong anti-globalist rhetoric, dismissed criticism from EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, the former prime minister of Estonia, a country of 1.3 million people, who warned against any EU officials participating in the annual event.
The Slovak leader, who, like President Trump, has survived an assassination attempt, snapped back at Kallas, stating that nobody would dictate where he would travel to, and adding that the celebration is a tribute to the Soviet sacrifice in World War II, not a political statement.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/slovak-serbian-leaders-defy-eu-globalists-will-join/
US shuts down Biden-era ‘censorship’ agency
The previous administration worked to silence dissenting voices, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said
The US has officially shut down a government agency that Secretary of State Marco Rubio said was used by the Biden administration to censor Americans.
Former President Joe Biden set up the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) in 2016 to “recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation,” according to its mission statement.
On Wednesday, Rubio announced the closure of the GEC, which had been operating as the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) office since December.
“Under the previous administration, this office, which cost taxpayers more than $50 million per year, spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving,” Rubio said. “This is antithetical to the very principles we should be upholding and inconceivable it was taking place in America.”
In an interview with conservative activist Mike Benz published on Wednesday, Rubio said the GEC was originally conceived as a tool to fight extremism, such as propaganda from Al-Qaeda and ISIS, but later started “going after individual American voices.”
“We ended government-sponsored censorship in the United States through the State Department,” he said.
The Biden administration backed groups that were “literally tagging and labeling voices in American politics – Ben Shapiro, The Federalist, others – tagging them as foreign agents,” Rubio said.
The GEC had an annual budget of $61 million and employed around 120 workers. In December, congressional Republicans refused to renew its funding.
US President Donald Trump and his allies have long accused the Democrats of weaponizing the government to suppress conservative opinions online. In 2023, tech billionaire Elon Musk slammed the GEC as the “worst offender in US government censorship & media manipulation,” and “a threat to our democracy.” Journalist Matt Taibbi argued that the agency had tried suppressing discussions about Covid-19 under the guise of fighting “Russian personas and proxies.”
Last year, a group of House Republicans wrote a letter to then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken, claiming that the GEC was biased in favor of “American progressives” and worked to silence opinions “deemed to be politically disfavored or inconvenient.”
https://www.rt.com/news/615865-us-state-dept-shuts-biden/
Nervous Mark Zuckerberg Tried to Cozy Up to Trump to Slash $30B FTC Lawsuit Down to $450M — But the Scheme Blow Up in His Face
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly tried to cozy up to President Donald Trump to slash a looming $30 billion antitrust lawsuit down to a paltry $450 million—only for the scheme to blow up in his face.
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Zuckerberg personally reached out to the head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in March to offer a laughable $450 million settlement — a mere 1.5% of what the government says Meta owes for years of monopolistic power grabs, particularly its shady acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
Zuckerberg believed President Trump would have his back — and tried to cash in on his donations and political posturing to win favor with the president.
Zuckerberg, infamous among conservatives for silencing dissent and manipulating online narratives in 2020, donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, met with Trump officials multiple times, and even instructed Meta to scale back content moderation — all in a bid to rebrand himself as a MAGA-friendly ally.
But despite visiting Mar-a-Lago twice, attending Trump’s inauguration in January, settling Trump’s lawsuit for $25 million, and dumping millions into election-related PR, the Meta CEO couldn’t buy his way out of accountability.
Zuckerberg’s campaign culminated in a desperate phone call to FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, offering a pitiful $450 million to settle the case.
Ferguson, to his credit, didn’t budge — calling the offer non-credible and reaffirming the agency’s demand for at least $18 billion and a binding consent decree. The trial proceeded as scheduled.
Though President Trump initially appeared open to a deal, conservative advisors and DOJ officials made it clear during an April 8 Oval Office meeting that Zuckerberg’s overtures were not to be trusted.
Those in the room — including DOJ antitrust head Gail Slater and adviser Mike Davis — urged Trump to let the trial play out, and he agreed, according to WSJ.
Zuckerberg sounded confident that President Trump would back him up with the FTC, said people familiar with the matter. The billionaire Facebook co-founder had been developing closer ties to Trump—his company donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration and settled a $25 million lawsuit—and had been pressing the president in recent weeks to intervene in the monopoly lawsuit.
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson found the offer not credible, and wasn’t ready to settle for anything less than $18 billion and a consent decree. As the trial approached, Meta upped its offer to close to $1 billion, the people said, and Zuckerberg led a frenzied lobbying effort to avoid the FTC trial.
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan told the Journal that the company’s $450 million settlement offer was “delusional.”
“Mark bought his way out of competing, so I’m not surprised that he thinks he can buy his way out of law enforcement, too,” said Khan, who was nominated by former President Joe Biden. “His proposed remedy, like his market strategy, is: ‘let my illegal monopoly keep monopolizing.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/nervous-mark-zuckerberg-tried-cozy-up-trump-slash/
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Massive coinkidinks
Tallahassee police hold a live training exercise -residents “may hear loud bangs, crashes, sirens, and see officers with firearms displayed."
At the same time there is a mass shooting at the university just up the road.