Sean Penn Says Trump ‘Might Destroy The World’ — Says He Is ‘Not Unlike’ A Spouse-Murderer: Says the actor that no longer gets gigs.

Tommy ChristopherMay 3rd, 2025, 1:25 pm

Actor and activist Sean Penn ripped President Donald Trump as “not unlike” a spousal murderer, and told Jim Acosta he “might destroy the world” before his time in the presidency ends.

Penn was a guest on Thursday’s edition of his Substack video podcast The Jim Acosta Show, along with Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA). Acosta and Swalwell brought up the prospect of Trump leaving everyone who “caved” to him in the lurch after his presidency ends.

But Penn floated another “worst-case scenario” involving the literal destruction of the world:

JIM ACOSTA: Bukele needs to be told, like, there are going to be other administrations that are going to come in here that are not going to look too kindly on this. What you’re doing down there.

REP. ERIC SWALWELL: Jim, Bukele should be told that, the law firms that are caving should be told that, the colleges that are cave in should be told that.

The CEOs who have antitrust suits against them and are trying to find their way out by donating to his inauguration funds or helping him in some other way, they should be taught that.

We’re taking inventory of who’s trying to do these one-off anti-democratic deals with Donald Trump. There’s going to be a day of reckoning and accountability because the president’s poll numbers are under 40% right now.

I mean, he’s in a free fall as far as his poll numbers. And we’re putting more and more seats in Congress and in the Senate in play. And so we expect a wave-like election, and we’re preparing for that. And we are going to be a check that is not there right now.

And so, yes, he should think twice about what the long-term future of El Salvador is if Donald Trump is no longer in power.

SEAN PENN: But before Bukele gets to that point where he’s dealing with another leader, we should consider worst case scenarios.

And I do think it’s a reasonable theory that Donald Trump is not unlike the spouse of someone who leaves him, perhaps for another, who then murders their former partner because if they can’t have her, nobody can.

And I think Donald Trump and his solipsism may have that relationship with the world and that this destruction is in part a power play. And also a literal intention of his final out.

JIM ACOSTA: You think he’ll try to stay on?

SEAN PENN: I think he might try to destroy the world before he ages out of life.

REP. ERIC SWALWELL: I just, in the history of dictators or those who aspire to be dictators, there’s never a succession plan, right?

There’s never, and that’s what worries me is if he doesn’t believe there’s somebody who can protect him, that he, you will see him ratchet up, you know, what he’s willing to do to the country to protect himself.

https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/sean-penn-says-trump-might-destroy-the-world-says-he-is-not-unlike-a-spouse-murderer/?cfp

They are getting the news from Acosta’s podcast, with Swallowell KEK

How Marco Rubio defied expectations and rose to the top of Trump’s or…Rubio Rising

During a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, Rubio was asked if he’d requested that El Salvador return a man the Justice Department has admitted was mistakenly deported.

“I would never tell you that. And you know who else I’ll never tell? A judge,” Rubio replied. “The conduct of our foreign policy belongs to the president of the United States and the executive branch, not some judge.”

With Rubio expected to serve as both secretary of State and national security adviser for at least six months and likely longer, current and former State officials warned that it’s hard to do both jobs well.

Some wondered if it meant both positions would be watered down. They also questioned how Rubio would balance the demands of travel for the secretary of State with the national security adviser’s tendency to stay by the president’s side while overseeing the National Security Council.

“It’s hard to be in two places at once,” a former senior diplomat said.

There’s a bit of cockiness in some corners at the State Department, which has seen its power eroded over the decades as the NSC and Pentagon have outmaneuvered it.

“What’s the NSC? A new bureau of State?” one State official quipped.

Serving as secretary of State and national security adviser didn’t always go well for the only other person who’s done it, diplomat Henry Kissinger. During that 1970s stint, Kissinger faced questions about whether he manipulated decision-making to favor State and himself.

“People at the Defense Department and other agencies that had roles in the national security process thought that it was unfair that everything was biased in Kissinger’s favor because he held two chairs,” said John Bolton, a first-term Trump national security adviser who has fallen out with the president. “That was one reason why pressure grew on [President Gerald] Ford, ultimately, to separate them and go back to the regular order.”

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Kaitlin Bennett

@KaitMarieox

I went undercover to infiltrate a Democrat May Day rally and got libs to compliment my pro-MS13 signs Once they recognized me, someone threw my signs into a motel pool and got arrested!

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This protest are filled with young stupid people and old communists

New Rule: Politics is Blind | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

New Rule: Before they can take on Donald Trump, Democrats have to decide which wing of their own party is best to lead them out of the wilderness.

https://youtu.be/dv4nZEBq3_E

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Overtime: Kara Swisher, Spkr. Kevin McCarthy (HBO)

Bill and his guests – Kara Swisher and former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) – continue their conversation after the show.

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Kevin McCarthy is an arrogant asshole, and says it’s very clear to him that Bidan won the 2020 election. No wonder they kicked him out

JD Vance’s Canadian pal tells him: Please don’t visit

The Ottawa lawmaker broke with his law school pal over Trump’s threats and policies.

05/01/2025 07:25 PM EDT OTTAWA —

JD Vance’s close friend from Canada is taking back his open invite for the vice president to visit. Conservative MP Jamil Jivani, who became close with Vance at Yale Law School 15 years ago, said it would not be “constructive” for the VP to visit his Toronto-area district right now given the Trump administration’s provocations toward Canada.

“Right now we have strong political disagreements, and that’s kind of how it is,” he said. It’s a reversal from how he felt in December, when he accepted an invitation to dine with Vance in Arlington, Virginia.

Jivani was also in Washington for Inauguration Day. “They need to probably reconsider some of their rhetoric and their policy before coming to Canada,” Jivani said to POLITICO.

“Our country should deserve more respect before being able to welcome them.” Jivani represents a suburban and rural area that employs thousands of auto workers at a GM plant that makes the Chevrolet Silverado.

People in the community are anxious about tariffs on the auto sector and President Donald Trump’s annexation threats, Jivani said. “We haven’t talked in a while,” Jivani said when asked about the status of the friendship.

“He’s busy, I’m busy. It’s just the nature of the work that we do. Certainly, the way they’ve talked about Canada has been a problem for me personally. I’m a proud Canadian.

I’m focused on my community, and we’ll see what happens next.” Jivani was reelected in Canada’s federal election on Monday, which saw the Liberal Party return to power under a minority government.

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre lost his seat, and there is open debate about his future at the helm. Jivani said he’s not eyeing the job. “Pierre Poilievre is our leader, and I’m focused on how we get ready for the next election,” he said.

Throughout the five-week campaign, Jivani had to contend with Liberal attacks that highlighted his friendship with the vice president, while accusing him of turning his back on the country, he said.

“They created commercials about me and JD being friends. They doctored pictures of us and dropped them in mailboxes in my riding,” Jivani said.

“The misrepresentation of who I am, what I believe in, the misrepresentation of my commitment to this country, that stuff, was very, very frustrating.”

Having to prove he was country above everything else was tough, Jivani said, but it resulted in a much more meaningful win. This will be his second term as MP. “People were saying: We know you, we got you, we see who you are and we’re choosing you to go and fight for us,” he said.

Jovani said he’s looking forward to getting back to Ottawa when the House returns to advocate for his community on issues related to cost of living, housing and the trade war. While his friendship with Vance has drifted, Jivani is hopeful that soon enough they’ll be back to talking football.

“We were friends before politics, we will be friends after politics,” he said. “This is a guy that I played fantasy football with for the last 15 years. He’s now the vice president and that’s a unique situation.”

But like a lot of friends, Jivani said, they’ve had political disagreements the entire time. “It’s just the nature of having a friend in a situation like this. I kind of just acknowledge that we’re in different places, we have different priorities.

He does his thing, I do my thing. And when this is all over, I’m sure we’ll talk again.”

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FAA: Army helicopter taking ‘scenic route’ near Reagan National forces two passenger jets to shift course 1/2

The incident occurred months after a Jan. 29 crash at the airport killed 67 people.

The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is pictured. While go-arounds are a typical maneuver for flights inbound to Reagan National given the congestion at the busy airport,an FAA official classified the incidents as “loss of separation” events.

An Army helicopter flying in the D.C. airspace Thursday forced two commercial passenger jets inbound to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to perform go-around maneuvers— roughly three months after the airport was the site of the nation’s worst aviation fatality in more than two decades.

The Federal Aviation Administration sent out a notice about the incidents on Friday. Reagan National airport has been in the spotlight ever since the catastrophic crash of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a regional passenger jet killed 67 people in January and set off a wave of investigations.

According to the email written Friday by Chris Senn, FAA’s assistant administrator for government and industry affairs, obtained by POLITICO, the Army helicopter — also aBlack Hawk — “took a scenic route around the Pentagon versus proceeding directlyfrom the west to the heliport” on Thursday,prompting controllers to call for two go-arounds.

While go-arounds are a typical maneuver for flights inbound to Reagan National given the congestion at the busy airport,Senn classified the incidents in the email as “loss of separation” events, which are a breach of the minimum separation standards for aircraft in the same airspace.

Senn added the aircraft “were not within the restricted mixed traffic area” of the airport,but the FAA will investigate whether the Army was in violation of its flight approvals. A person familiar with the email, who was granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, confirmed its authenticity.

In a statement, the FAA on Friday said a “priority transport” inbound for the Pentagon’s helipadmade both a Delta Air Lines flight and a Republic Airways flight perform go-arounds. The agency said it will investigate the incident, which happened around 2:30 p.m. on Thursday.

Delta said it would cooperate with the FAA on its investigation. A spokesperson for Republic could not be reached. The National Transportation Safety Board is also investigating. Both flights were on final approach.The closest proximity between the Delta plane and helicopter was less than a mile and 400 feet.As the Black Hawk continued flying, the proximity between the Republic flight and the helicopter then grew closer — roughly 0.4 miles and 200 feet apart, according to the email.

Separately, there was another underlying issue:Controllers didn’t see the Black Hawk’s tracking position in real-time on their radar screens. Senn said the helicopter’s radar track “inadvertently floated and jumped to a different location on the controller feed after being unresponsive for a couple seconds.”

The jump happened when the Republic flight was 1.7 miles away from the runway.At the time of the go-arounds, the control tower had one supervisor performing direct operational oversight, four certified professional controllers, or top-level controllers capable of performing all functions of a controller at their facility, plus one certified professional controller trainee receiving on the job training, Senn said.

The Army was broadcasting via a transponder using its Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast technology, which provides air traffic controllers with more detailed information about an aircraft’s altitude, speed and location.

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ADS-B has come under increased scrutiny since the January crash as investigators believe the broadcast was turned off. The cause of the crash remains under investigation. At the time of the accident in January, the Army’s policy was to restrict turning on ADS-B for sensitive or classified missions with commander approval, according to Brig. Gen. Matthew Braman, who testified in March during a Senate aviation subpanel hearing into the crash.

Lawmakers have called the policy inconsistent and unacceptable. Responding to Thursday’s incident, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Commerce Committee, said the Black Hawk involved in Thursday’s incident came from the same Army Aviation brigade as the helicopter involved in the fatal collision earlier this year.

“It is outrageous that only three months after an Army Black Hawk helicopter tragically collided with a passenger jet,the same Army brigade again flew a helicopter too close to passenger jets on final approach” at the airport, she said in a statement, and called on the Pentagon and the FAA “to give our airspace the security and safety attention it deserves.”

JD Vance’s Canadian pal tells him: Please don’t visit The Army said it is aware of yesterday’s incident, and referred questions to the Military District of Washington, which oversees Army operations within the nation’s capital. But in a statement in response to a New York Times report regarding the events leading up to the fatal January crash, the Army said it “cautions against speculating about potential causes or contributing factors prior to the” NTSB completing its investigation. The probe is expected to take at least a year.

“It is irresponsible to take snippets of information and present them in a way that casts blame on any individual or group,” the Army said. “The events of January 29th were tragic, and the Army is committed to a full and thorough investigation that will provide fact-based conclusions so we can ensure an accident such as this is never repeated.”

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Trump's Budget Calls for $17 Billion Cut to NIH, Citing Lax Oversight of Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan

The White House budget plan says the agency's failure to prove it was not complicit in a possible lab leak shows it's "too big and unfocused."

Christian Britschgi5.2.2025 3:30 PM

The White House budget calls for slashing $17 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), citing the agency's failure to properly monitor risky gain-of-function research it funded at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)—where the COVID-19 pandemic plausibly originated.

"While evidence of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic leaking from a laboratory is now confirmed by several intelligence agencies, the NIH's inability to prove that its grants to the Wuhan Institute of Virology were not complicit in such a possible leak, or get data and hold recipients of Federal funding accountable is evidence that NIH has grown too big and unfocused," reads the budget summary released on Friday.

Merck KGaA to Buy Springworks for $3.9B

Shortly after President Donald Trump's inauguration, the CIA produced a new assessment saying that the agency now favors a lab leak explanation of the pandemic's origins.

The FBI and the Energy Department have also said theyfavor the lab leak theory, as does Germany's intelligence agency.

NIH has come under intense scrutiny for lax oversight of gain-of-function research it funded at the WIV via its grantee, the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance.

In the years preceding the pandemic, NIH continued funding EcoHealth's gain-of-function research on coronaviruses, despite White House policies either freezing funding for that type of work or requiring it to undergo more serious scrutiny. It also failed to follow up with EcoHealth when it missed a deadline to submit progress reports on its work at WIV on the eve of the pandemic.

Lab leak proponents point to this work, which involved creating viruses with enhanced potential to infect human cells, as likely seeding the creation of the pandemic at the WIV.

The Biden administration suspended EcoHealth Alliance, and its now-former president Peter Daszak from receiving federal funding in 2024, citing its lax oversight of its subgrantees in Wuhan.

In its last days in office, the Biden administration formally debarred EcoHealth and Daszak from receiving federal funds for the next five years.

Gain-of-function research on pandemic pathogens is a tiny portion of NIH's budget. EcoHealth's grant was just $3 million, and only a portion of that was spent on its controversial work at WIV.

Trump's proposed cuts to NIH are clearly part of a larger agenda to whittle the agency down in size. The budget document also criticizes NIH for funding "radical gender ideology."

White House budget documents are ultimately a political statement, and it's typical that few of the proposed cuts they include are passed by Congress.

It would be notable if Congress declined to take up Trump on his proposed NIH cuts, given the administration's lab leak justification for the cuts.

The final report from the Republican majority on the House subcommittee tasked with investigating the origins of COVID-19 concluded that the pandemic likely resulted from a lab incident.

It would be remarkable if, after coming to that conclusion, House Republicans continued to fund NIH at existing levels without additional oversight of gain-of-function research on pandemic pathogens.

The Trump administration is reportedly going to be issuing a freeze on federal gain-of-function research funding imminently. Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) also has reintroduced a bill to more tightly regulate funding of such research.

Paul's bill passed out of the Senate's Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee in the last Congress.

https://reason.com/2025/05/02/trumps-budget-calls-for-17-billion-cut-to-nih-citing-lax-oversight-of-gain-of-function-research-in-wuhan/

Fed whistleblower: They gave us coloring books, ‘I realized, holy sh*t, everybody’s gay’…

May 2, 2025 (2 days ago)

Are you old enough to remember when our government operated like a serious institution? Say what you want about our sketchy past, but at the very least, the USA government once projected strength, confidence, and some semblance of order. But fast-forward to today, andnow we’ve got grown federal agents participating in something called a “color wall,” literally coloring to cope with the pressures of their job.

Sadly, we’re not joking. This was the state of law enforcement and government under the Biden regime: safe spaces, therapy-speak, and grown men coloring like it’s art class at recess.Oh, and everybody is also gay.

A recent hidden-camera interview with a current DHS employee just blew the lid off something many of us already suspected:the US government has been infiltrated by a radical, emotionally chaotic homosexual culture.

According to this makeshift whistleblower,the entire system is infested by agents in toxic relationships, drama, weak-minded men, and an overwhelming lesbian/gay presence that isn’t just tolerated; it’s pretty much the entire operating system at this point. The way it sounds, the agent badge should probably come with a juice box and a pronoun.

But honestly, this isn’t just about DHS. It’s about a much bigger mentality that’s infected everything. The Left has mainstreamed this childish, emotionally dependent worldview.It’s a movement that treats normal everyday discomfort as trauma, disagreements as violence, and therapy as a lifestyle. This is a culture that worships safety at the expense of strength and independence. It’s a twisted lifestyle built around group therapy instead of grit, toughing it out, and independence. It’s more about group coddling than individualism.

Canadian conservative activist/lawyer Viva Frei (David Freiheit) nails it with this post about “safe spaces.”

This whole “safe space” and “inclusion” movement has also infected corporate America.But don’t be fooled; this is social Marxism in a friendly HR disguise. It’s sold as kindness, but it’s meant to control.

This type of movement is groupthink at its most destructive. And when the federal government embraces this mindset, it’s not just embarrassing. It’s dangerous.

You cannot have law enforcement or government departments run by people who are terrified of words. You can’t maintain national security with agents who need coloring books to manage their emotions. This is the psychological equivalent of disarming the country from within. And it’s not happening by accident. The regime doesn’t want people to grow up. It wants them weak, emotional, and easy to control and in a state of perpetual arrested development. If you keep people stunted, you can control them. If they’re broken, they’ll follow orders. It’s like a cult.

But this is how the hive mind operates, not just through ideology but through deep emotional control. Welcome to the infantilized US government.

And just wait till you hear what else this whistleblower had to say:

That clip was hard to watch and even harder to process. But every American needs to know what’s going on behind the curtain, no matter how pathetic, unstable, or creepy it looks. This is the current state of our so-called intelligence agencies. And while it might seem like a bad SNL skit, the consequences are deadly serious.

This kind of emotionally stunted, therapy-addicted culture didn’t show up overnight. We spotted it years ago.

Back in 2021, we published a piece that broke down the absolute absurdity of something called “Havana Syndrome,” a “psychosomatic” mystery illness that allegedly struck American diplomats and CIA agents overseas. The symptoms were practically anything and everything under the sun: headaches, ear pain, brain fog, dizziness, fatigue, anxiety, memory loss… basically anything that made someone feel a little off. No real cause, no concrete diagnosis, just some vague misery.

And the explanation? Well, brace yourself: crickets. Yes, chirping crickets. According to Cuba, the terrifying “sonic attacks” might’ve just been the sound of bugs in the bushes.

Meanwhile, the propaganda media breathlessly reported on these “invisible brain attacks” and “mystery weapons” being used against the CIA’s finest. And that’s when Cuba’s government responded by calmly pointing out that the noise driving these elite US agents into panic mode was likely native insects.

Yep, this is how easily America’s top spies lost their minds.….

https://revolver.news/2025/05/fed-whistleblower-they-gave-us-coloring-books-i-realized-holy-sht-everybodys-gay/

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Steven Crowder

@scrowder

DHS Refugee Officer Timothy Hagen on life working in the federal government:

"I realized, holy sh*t, everybody is gay."

"Right now we're doing nothing… We have a coloring wall. A coloring wall, literally a coloring wall… Yeah we have coloring books."

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This is how fucked our government is

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So Kristi Noem is not doing her job, just letting DHS sit around while she does interviews on FOX and videos on warning terrorists. Pathetic

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

@RepMTG

I represent the base and when I’m frustrated and upset over the direction of things, you better be clear, the base is not happy.

==I campaigned for no more foreign wars.

And now we are supposedly on the verge of going to war with Iran.==

I don’t think we should be bombing foreign countries on behalf of other foreign countries especially when they have their own nuclear weapons and massive military strength.

And on top of that, now we are told that we havesigned a deal for mineral rights in Ukraine, in order to pay us back for the hundreds of billions of dollars that we gave Ukraine and they used for money laundering, sold the weapons we gave them to our enemies, and their leader is a dictator who canceled elections, was involved of the first impeachment of Trump, and campaigned for Biden.

Didn’t we learn our lesson when we went to war in Iraq and killed Saddam Hussein because of “weapons of mass destruction?”

Did we ever find any? And did any of that oil over in the Middle East make us rich? The answer is no, we are $36 trillion in debt today.

So why on earth would we go over and occupy Ukraine and spend an untold amount of future American taxpayer dollars defending and mining their minerals as well as potentially putting American lives at risk and future war?

Why don’t we just mine our own rare earth minerals that are tied up on federal lands that the government confiscated years ago?

I also campaigned on accountability for the communist and tyrannical acts made by the government during Covid. Yet the Covid vaccine still has FDA approval even though there are millions reported injuries and deaths, and this mRNA vaccine is known to have horrific side effects and DOES NOT STOP PEOPLE FROM CATCHING COVID.

And to this day, it’s still on the childhood vaccine schedule, why on earth is this happening? Hasn’t big pharma made enough billions and billions and billions of dollars on this lie?

I also campaigned on accountability for all the law fair that was waged against the American people in the past four years. What about all the people that were locked up in jail and the abuse that they went through? And when are those vicious attorneys and judges ever going to be held accountable for the lives they ruined?

And I campaigned for an end to waste fraud and abuse of the American people’s harder tax dollars. I believe the DOGE mission is one of the most important things happening today in our government, and yet where are the rescissions that we should be voting on in Congress?

And one of the biggest issues in the nation that I have fought for, and early on I was one of the only ones that took a loud screaming stand against, is the evil transgender assault against our children. Most normal people in this country can’t even comprehend how it’s allowed to happen to kids who by law can’t even get a tattoo, drive, or vote. And how did so many of our teachers turn into the predators themselves that groom children with gender lies? This should be an all out effort by Republicans to end this insanity.

And look at the extreme nature of our rogue judicial system that is so defiant that there are judges that defy our nation’s laws and block the deportation of literal enemies of the United States of America. Where is the outrage and moral courage to dispose of this treason? Sadly not in Congress.

And what about election integrity?This should be the most important issue that the Republicans aggressively fight to protect because without secure elections protected from illegals voting and protections from stealing our votes, the American people have lost their power.

When you are losing MTG, you are losing the base.

And Trump isn’t on the ballot in the future, so do the math on that.

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(I don’t understand the mineral rights deal. Who talked Trump into this.)

Revolver NewsThe Real Job of Darren Beattie1/2

JUST IN: The MIT Technology Review reports that the Deep State is highly upset after the State Department's Darren Beattie sought internal communicationsbetween U.S. and European government censors, disinformation “journalists”, and other deep state creeps.

==Creeps caught in the crosshairs: Anne Applebaum, former US cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs, the Stanford Internet Observatory, and Bill Kristol:=

“A previously unreported document distributed by senior US State Department official Darren Beattie reveals a sweeping effort to uncover all communications between the staff of a small government office focused on online disinformation and a lengthy list of public and private figures-many of whom are longtime targets of the political right. The document, originally shared in person with roughly a dozen State Department employees in early March, requested staff emails and other records with or about a host of individuals and organizations that track or write about foreign disinformation- including Atlantic journalist Anne Applebaum, former US cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs, and the Stanford Internet Observatory —or have criticized President Donald Trump and his allies, such as the conservative anti-Trump commentator

Bill Kristol.”

Search keywords include Alex Jones, Glenn Greenwald, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and hilariously “Pepe the Frog” and “incel.”

The goal is a Twitter-files style document release to rebuild trust and increase transparency.

Critics complain it's a “witch hunt.”

“The document also seeks all staff

communications that merely reference Trump or people in his orbit, like Alex Jones, Glenn Greenwald, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In addition, it directs a search of communications for a long list of keywords, including "Pepe the Frog," "incel" "q-anon," "Black Lives Matter," "great replacement theory," "far-right," and "infodemic." For several people who received or saw the document, the broad requests for unredacted information felt like a "witch hunt," one official says-one that could put the privacy and security of numerous individuals and organizations at risk.”

“Beattie, whom Trump appointed in February to be the acting undersecretary for public diplomacy, told State Department officials that his goal in seeking these records was a "Twitter files"-like release of internal State Department documents "to rebuild trust with the American public," according to a State Department employee who heard the remarks. (Beattie was referring to the internal Twitter documents that were released after Elon Musk bought the platform, in an attempt to prove that the company had previously silenced conservatives. While the effort provided more detail on the challenges and mistakes Twitter had already admitted to, it failed to produce a smoking gun.”)

As reported last month, the Global Engagement Center i no longer.

“The document, dated March 11, 2025, focuses specifically on records and communications from the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub, a small office in the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy that tracked and countered foreign disinformation campaigns; it was created after the Global Engagement Center (GEC), which had the same mission, shut down at the end of 2024”.

MIT Technology Review broke the news earlier this month that R/FIMI would be shuttered. Some R/FIMI staff were at the meeting where the document was initially shared, as were State Department lawyers and staff from the department's Bureau of Administration, who are responsible for conducting searches to fulfill public records requests.”

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Other disreputable notables in the crosshairs include Bellingcat, Daniel Fried, Renee DiResta, and Nina Jankowicz.

"Multiple sources say State Department employees raised alarms internally about the records requests."

Revolver’s favorite theater girl Nina Jankowicz is particularly perturbed.

“multiple employees raised alarms internally about the records requests. They worried about the sensitivity and impropriety of the broad scope of the information requested, particularly because records would be unredacted, as well as about how the search would be conducted: through the eRecords file management system, which makes it easy for administrative staff to search through and retrieve State Department employees' emails, typically in response to FOIA

requests. This felt, they say, like a powerful misuse of the public records system —or

as Jankowicz, the disinformation researcher and former DHS official, put it, "weaponizing the access [Beattie] has to internal communications in order to upend people's lives." "It stank to high heaven," one staffer says. "This could be used for retaliation. This could be used for any kind of improper purposes, and our oversight committees should be informed of this."

Very good.

“This is what Beattie-and Benz-have long called for. Many of the names and keywords he included in his request reflect conspiracy theories and grievances promoted by Revolver News-which Beattie founded after being fired from his job as a speechwriter during the first Trump administration when CNN reported that he had spoken at a conference with white nationalists. Ultimately, the State Department staffers say they fear that a selective disclosure of documents, taken out of context, could be distorted to fit any kind of narrative Beattie, Rubio, or others create. Weaponizing any speech they consider to be critical by deeming it disinformation is not only ironic, says Jankowicz—it will also have "chilling effects" on anyone who conducts disinformation research, and it will result in "less oversight and transparency over tech platforms, over adversarial activities, over, frankly, people who are legitimately trying to

disenfranchise US voters."

That, she warns, "is something we should all be alarmed about."

All of this leaked reporting begs the question: What do the career bureaucrats fear from transparency and accountability?

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Penn hanging out with Acosta and Swallowell means he’s hit the bottom of the barrel.

'Bold and fearless': Trump launches new wave of judicial nominations

Federal judiciary's war on Trump's agenda proves the need for Constitutionalists on the bench

May 2, 2025 5:07pm EDT1/2

President Trump announced his first judicial nominee of his second term, kicking off what will be a historic next four years as he continues to build on the most consequential accomplishment of his first term by appointing even more bold and fearless judges. The stakes could not be higher as Democrat activist judges are actively sabotaging American voters, the presidency, our Constitution, and our country.

Trump nominated Whitney Hermandorfer to a Tennessee-based seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She is a brilliant legal mind and committed constitutionalist who has litigated critical First Amendment issues. Trump's first nomination stands in stark contrast to the Obama- and Biden-appointed Democrat activist judges who have repeatedly attempted to sabotage the president’s core Article II executive powers during these first months of Trump’s historic second term. These anti-American judges, who side with Hamas supporters, MS-13 gang members, and no-show federal bureaucrats leeching on the taxpayer, need to be countered. Trump’s nominees promise a return to the original vision of a judiciary grounded in constitutionalism and judicial restraint.

During his 2016 campaign, Trump boldly and brilliantly ran on the issue of judicial nominations in an unprecedented way. He released a list of potential Supreme Court candidates from which he would choose to fill the vacancy arising from Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. This list of nominees set him apart from his rival at the time, Hillary Clinton. Had Clinton won, we would have been subjected to leftist judicial tyranny for at least a generation. Fortunately for the Constitution and the American people, Trump prevailed, and the country was rewarded with Justice Neil Gorsuch instead of Justice Merrick Garland. Given his horrendous and truly shameful service as attorney general, Garland would have been an unmitigated disaster had he received a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

Trump did not stop after the confirmation of Gorsuch. Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation shifted the balance of the Court in 2018, as he replaced Anthony Kennedy, the pivotal justice in countless landmark cases. The coup de gras came in 2020, when Trump replaced liberal lion Ruth Bader Ginsburg with the more conservative Amy Coney Barrett. This dramatic shift paid dividends in short order and in many consequential ways.

In 2022, the Court overruled Roe v. Wade (1973) in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and restored the issue of abortion to its rightful place: the states. The justices also strengthened the Second Amendment in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, ruling that the Second Amendment requires "shall-issue" concealed-carry permits. No longer can states have foggy standards where bureaucrats whimsically decide whether to allow citizens to carry concealed weapons. States must set forth standards, and citizens who satisfy those standards will be able to carry such firearms.

The next year, the Court put a stop to the practice of race-based college admissions policies in two cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Thanks to the rulings in Students for Fair Admissions, students must be evaluated based on merit. Conservatives had been trying for decades to eliminate affirmative action, just as they had abortion. Trump made these dreams come true. Last year, the Court struck a giant blow against the administrative state in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, a decision that overturned the requirement that courts defer to administrative agencies when a statute is ambiguous.

He will look beyond the garden-variety Federalist Society choices and install a new generation of judicial titans who will change the landscape for generations to come in line with our Founders’ intent.

Just days after Loper Bright, the justices strengthened the presidency in Trump v. United States. There, the Court held that presidents are absolutely immune when exercising core Article II powers like pardons and at least presumptively immune for acts done within the outer perimeters of their official duties. This ruling enormously aided Trump against the lawfare perpetrated by the Biden Justice Department.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bold-fearless-trump-launches-new-wave-judicial-nominations

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Trump’s judicial impact extended beyond the Supreme Court. He appointed 54 circuit judges in his first term, second only to President Jimmy Carter’s 56 in a single term. Carter benefited enormously from the Democrat-controlled Congress’s creation of 35 new circuit judgeships during his term. Congress created none for Trump. More importantly, Carter did not appoint any Supreme Court justices. Trump’s impact on the judiciary dwarfs Carter’s by any reasonable metric. Trump appointed only one fewer circuit judge in one term than did President Obama in two, and several of Obama’s appointees were to the Federal Circuit, a court with comparatively less impact than the other circuits on crucial issues. More importantly, Obama’s two Supreme Court appointments did not shift the balance of the Court; he replaced two leftist justices with two others. Trump also has an excellent chance to surpass President Ronald Reagan’s record for circuit confirmations of 83.

The accomplishments of Trump’s first term were excellent, but there is still work to be done. At times, the Supreme Court has been frustrating with rulings, mainly on the emergency docket with respect to Trump’s policiesand the leftist inferior court judges who have enjoined them. Thanks to the Republican-controlled Senate—and a wider majority than existed in the first two years of his first term—Trump will select even more bold and fearless nominees. He will look beyond the garden-variety Federalist Society choices and install a new generation of judicial titans who will change the landscape for generations to come in line with our Founders’ intent.

Trump has assembled an excellent judicial nominations team in Attorney General Pam Bondi, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, White House counsel Dave Warrington, and his deputy Steve Kennyto help him identify, vet, and nominate bold and fearless judges.

The Article III Project, which I founded, is proud to support and assist their efforts and these excellent nominees, who will uphold the law and Constitution without fear or political consideration. We will continue to dedicate our resources and expertise to ensure only the most bold and fearless judges are nominated and confirmed to the bench.

Mike Davis is the founder of the Article III Project.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bold-fearless-trump-launches-new-wave-judicial-nominations

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