America should start their own collective of countries like BRICS did.
Here are a few ideas:
STRIVE – Strategic Trade and Regional Integration for Vital Economies
ORBIT – Organization for Regional Balance and International Trade
RISE – Regional Innovation and Strategic Expansion
PACT – Partnership for Advanced Cooperation and Trade
VISTA – Vital International States for Trade and Advancement
AURA – Alliance for Unified Regional Advancement
That's only with European countries though.
Newsome worked with and donated to the Annenberg Foundation, and even attended the opening ceremony. Someone put together a report pls I'm lazy rn.
Yeah, a lot of people think homeless people are redeemable, but they aren't. When you move them into a place, they live like a swamp creature and ruin it for all their neighbors. These are mostly the mentally ill people that used to be in the now closed down mental institutions. Maybe 5-10% are stuck with an addiction but otherwise can come back to reality and maintain a clean home and body.
The 90% worthless retards need like 10 years of rehabilitation and even then they're still stuck being retarded.
Thorium-229 decays into Ac-225. Ac-225 is the cancer-killer, not Thorium-229. Maybe the headline or the article should explain that better.
I said 5-10% are the ones to focus on. You can almost immediately tell with your eyeballs who the 90% worthless are.
Court blocks ammunition background checks in new blow to California’s gun control framework
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down California’s first-in-the-nation law requiring background checks for ammunition purchases, another blow to the state’s gun control framework that has been pared down, case by case, since the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically expanded gun rights in a monumental 2022 decision.
The California law that forced ammunition purchasers to pass a background check was passed by voters in 2016. Gov. Gavin Newsom, at the time the state’s lieutenant governor, championed the initiative and was its primary advocate.
In 2018, before the law went into effect, a group of gun rights advocates and ammunition vendors sued to block the law.
They were successful – in 2020, a federal district court judge handed down an injunction against the background checks of ammunition purchasers. But at the time, the 9th Circuit paused that order and allowed the law to take effect.
Two years later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen that a New York concealed-carry law unfairly constrained people’s right to carry a gun, and California’s gun control regime was thrown into chaos.
The 9th Circuit then sent the case on background checks for ammunition purchases back down to the federal district court. That court again ruled against the background checks.
Today’s ruling helped clarify what a post-Bruen future could look like.
“Given the fees and delays associated with California’s ammunition background check regime, and the wide range of transactions to which it applies, we conclude that, in all applications, the regime meaningfully constrains California residents’ right to keep and bear arms,” Justice Sandra Segal Ikuta wrote in the 2-1 majority opinion.
Newsom in a written statement criticized the decision. “Strong gun laws save lives – and today’s decision is a slap in the face to the progress California has made in recent years to keep its communities safer from gun violence. Californians voted to require background checks on ammunition and their voices should matter,” he said.
The law required face-to-face transactions from a licensed dealer. That effectively banned internet sales of ammunition, and any ammunition purchased out of state required that it be delivered from that state to a licensed dealer in California
Purchasers would swipe a government ID and their information would be run through four databases, which searched for their criminal histories, any firearm prohibitions for mental health, restraining orders and whether they were on a wanted persons list. They would also have to pay a fee to have their information run through the state Justice Department’s firearms data repository.
The question posed by the Supreme Court in the Bruen decision is whether a law “meaningfully constrains the right to keep and bear arms,” as specified in the Second Amendment, and whether it is consistent with the country’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
Using that test, the 9th Circuit previously agreed with California that an Alameda County zoning law prohibiting gun stores within 500 feet of a residential area, or a law that bans firearm sales on state property, are both constitutional. The reasoning behind those decisions was that people could still buy guns in Alameda County, or somewhere besides state property.
The background check law is different, the appellate court ruled, because it meaningfully constrains people’s ability to purchase ammunition, which previous 9th Circuit decisions have found is foundational to a person’s ability to own guns.
In court, the state’s attorneys also proposed that California’s ammunition sales law conformed to the United States’ historical tradition of regulating guns, citing colonial-era laws or laws written after the Civil War.
The court dismissed those arguments.
“Because none of the historical analogues proffered by California is within the relevant time frame, or is relevantly similar to California’s ammunition background check regime, California’s ammunition background check regime does not survive scrutiny under the two-step Bruen analysis,” Ikuta wrote.
In a fiery dissent, Judge Jay Bybee said the decision failed to correctly apply the Bruen test, and that using the logic of the decision, any firearms regulation could be interpreted as a violation of the Second Amendment.
“It is difficult to imagine a regulation on the acquisition of ammunition or firearms that would not ‘meaningfully constrain’ the right to keep and bear arms under the majority’s new general applicability standard,” Bybee wrote in the dissent.
https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/gun-law-ammunition-background-check/
Ghislaine Maxwell seen carrying mystery box into prison after secret meeting with Trump's DOJ
Ghislaine Maxwell was spotted returning to prison with a box of materials after she was grilled by Donald Trump's Department of Justice over her association with former lover Jeffrey Epstein.
The vision has emerged as Trump sensationally floated the possibly of pardoning the convicted sex offenders who is serving 20 years' prison for her involvement in Epstein's sordid crimes.
When asked about a potential pardon, Trump responded: 'I'm allowed to do it, but it's something I haven’t thought about.'
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche flew down to Florida to meet in person with the convicted child sex trafficking offender as the MAGA base demands answers on her knowledge of Epstein's crimes.
Maxwell's attorney David Markus revealed that she answered every question asked of her during the marathon interview that lasted all day.
She apparently also brought some personal effects, as she was spotted returning to prison in Tallahassee, Florida with a box of materials as she re-entered prison.
Maxwell, wearing a brown shirt and khaki pants, is allowed to take the box with her back inside by security, in footage obtained by WCTV.
The footage came out as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced he would question Maxwell again on Friday.
'Today, I met with Ghislaine Maxwell, and I will continue my interview of her tomorrow. The Department of Justice will share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time,' Blanche wrote on social media.
Maxwell took the 'full day and asked a lot of questions,' Markus said.
'Miss Maxwell answered every single question. She never stopped. She never invoked a privilege. She never declined to answer. She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability.'
Blanche arrived at the federal courthouse around 9:00 a.m., and Maxwell's attorneys were also seen entering the building in Tallahassee.
Maxwell, 63, is currently serving a 20-year sentence at a low-security prison in Tallahassee and is the only person serving time behind bars for Jeffrey Epstein's child sex crimes.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Tuesday that Blanche had requested an interview with Maxwell to ask Epstein's longtime girlfriend: 'What do you know?'
Blanche, Bondi's No. 2 at the Justice Department, confirmed Tuesday the sit-down would take place 'in coming days.'
It comes as Trump's DOJ remains embroiled in controversy for failing to put out the full Epstein-related files.
MAGA supporters are demanding that Trump do more to get to the bottom of the Epstein files after the president campaigned on making information related to the convicted pedophile public.
It's unclear what Maxwell can reveal that isn't already public and the closed-door meeting is fueling skepticism over the handling of the Epstein files review.
Maxwell is also on the books to testify before Congress on August 11.
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) said the meeting is a way for the administration to 'secure a cover-up.'
The Connecticut senator said that Blanche is conducting a 'secret meeting' in order to strike a 'secret deal giving her potentially a pardon for providing information favorable to Trump.'
Maxwell has already made clear her intent to get her prison sentence absolved.
Her lawyers asked the Supreme Court to take up her case, arguing the socialite should have never been charged because of a plea deal Epstein struck in 2008.
'President Trump has told us to release all credible evidence,' Blanche said in a statement posted to X by Bondi. 'If Ghislane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say.'
Maxwell's attorney David Oscar Markus told CNN the team is in discussions to have her tell her side of the story.
'I can confirm that we are in discussions with the government and that Ghislaine will always testify truthfully,' Markus said. 'We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case.'
Just last week, the DOJ opposed Maxwell's request to have the Supreme Court review her case, with her lawyers claiming she should have never been charged because of a 2008 plea deal the courts struck with Epstein.
Trump tried desperately to get his base to abandon criticism of Bondi and the FBI after a memo earlier this month concluded the review found no foul play in Epstein's death.
MAGA supporters were particularly enraged that no new material was produced in the Epstein files review and that Trump's DOJ found no existence of a so-called 'client list' of high profile co-conspirators.
The president even started calling the whole ordeal the 'Epstein hoax' and claimed Democrats were to blame for stoking conspiracies in an effort to divide Republicans.
When that didn't work, Trump directed Bondi last week to request the Southern District of New York to unseal grand jury testimony in the Epstein court case.
'I've contacted her counsel,' Blanche said. 'I intend to meet with her soon. No one is above the law—and no lead is off-limits.'
Some Trump loyalists still aren't buying the latest attempt to recover from the failure that this month has caused a rift in MAGA world.
Leading the opposition to Bondi's investigation has been conservative personality Laura Loomer, who has taken to calling the AG 'Blondi.'
She said on Tuesday that the action seems like a way to 'cope' with the growing uprising within the Republican Party.
'Why wasn't this 'interview' with Ghislaine Maxwell done on day 1?' Loomer questioned on X.
'Shouldn't they have already done this?' she continued. 'Maybe there is a mix up in communication. But I just can't help but wonder whether or not this has already happened. And if not, why?'
Attorney and political commentator Ron Filipkowski said if Maxwell's statements implicate Trump, nothing will come out – but that if it exonerates the president, her sentence will be reduced.
'The truth is in the files, not from Maxwell,' Filipkowski wrote.
Blanche still insists that the July 6 joint memo from the DOJ and FBI regarding the Epstein files review 'remains accurate.'
He says that the department's recent review did not uncover any new evidence that could bring charges against others potentially involved in the crimes.
Blanche's statement on Tuesday morning acknowledges that no administration or DOJ has ever asked Maxwell to speak with them about the Epstein case.
'That changes now,' he insisted.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14938725/Ghislaine-Maxwell-mystery-box-prison-secret-meeting-Donald-Trump.html
If I said 0.1% of hockey players make the NHL does that make me Yuval?
Ghislaine Maxwell seen carrying mystery box into prison after secret meeting with Trump's DOJ
Ghislaine Maxwell was spotted returning to prison with a box of materials after she was grilled by Donald Trump's Department of Justice over her association with former lover Jeffrey Epstein.
The vision has emerged as Trump sensationally floated the possibly of pardoning the convicted sex offenders who is serving 20 years' prison for her involvement in Epstein's sordid crimes.
When asked about a potential pardon, Trump responded: 'I'm allowed to do it, but it's something I haven’t thought about.'
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche flew down to Florida to meet in person with the convicted child sex trafficking offender as the MAGA base demands answers on her knowledge of Epstein's crimes.
Maxwell's attorney David Markus revealed that she answered every question asked of her during the marathon interview that lasted all day.
She apparently also brought some personal effects, as she was spotted returning to prison in Tallahassee, Florida with a box of materials as she re-entered prison.
Maxwell, wearing a brown shirt and khaki pants, is allowed to take the box with her back inside by security, in footage obtained by WCTV.
The footage came out as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced he would question Maxwell again on Friday.
'Today, I met with Ghislaine Maxwell, and I will continue my interview of her tomorrow. The Department of Justice will share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time,' Blanche wrote on social media.
Maxwell took the 'full day and asked a lot of questions,' Markus said.
'Miss Maxwell answered every single question. She never stopped. She never invoked a privilege. She never declined to answer. She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability.'
Blanche arrived at the federal courthouse around 9:00 a.m., and Maxwell's attorneys were also seen entering the building in Tallahassee.
Maxwell, 63, is currently serving a 20-year sentence at a low-security prison in Tallahassee and is the only person serving time behind bars for Jeffrey Epstein's child sex crimes.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Tuesday that Blanche had requested an interview with Maxwell to ask Epstein's longtime girlfriend: 'What do you know?'
Blanche, Bondi's No. 2 at the Justice Department, confirmed Tuesday the sit-down would take place 'in coming days.'
It comes as Trump's DOJ remains embroiled in controversy for failing to put out the full Epstein-related files.
MAGA supporters are demanding that Trump do more to get to the bottom of the Epstein files after the president campaigned on making information related to the convicted pedophile public.
It's unclear what Maxwell can reveal that isn't already public and the closed-door meeting is fueling skepticism over the handling of the Epstein files review.
Maxwell is also on the books to testify before Congress on August 11.
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) said the meeting is a way for the administration to 'secure a cover-up.'
The Connecticut senator said that Blanche is conducting a 'secret meeting' in order to strike a 'secret deal giving her potentially a pardon for providing information favorable to Trump.'
Maxwell has already made clear her intent to get her prison sentence absolved.
Her lawyers asked the Supreme Court to take up her case, arguing the socialite should have never been charged because of a plea deal Epstein struck in 2008.
'President Trump has told us to release all credible evidence,' Blanche said in a statement posted to X by Bondi. 'If Ghislane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say.'
Maxwell's attorney David Oscar Markus told CNN the team is in discussions to have her tell her side of the story.
'I can confirm that we are in discussions with the government and that Ghislaine will always testify truthfully,' Markus said. 'We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case.'
Just last week, the DOJ opposed Maxwell's request to have the Supreme Court review her case, with her lawyers claiming she should have never been charged because of a 2008 plea deal the courts struck with Epstein.
Trump tried desperately to get his base to abandon criticism of Bondi and the FBI after a memo earlier this month concluded the review found no foul play in Epstein's death.
MAGA supporters were particularly enraged that no new material was produced in the Epstein files review and that Trump's DOJ found no existence of a so-called 'client list' of high profile co-conspirators.
The president even started calling the whole ordeal the 'Epstein hoax' and claimed Democrats were to blame for stoking conspiracies in an effort to divide Republicans.
When that didn't work, Trump directed Bondi last week to request the Southern District of New York to unseal grand jury testimony in the Epstein court case.
'I've contacted her counsel,' Blanche said. 'I intend to meet with her soon. No one is above the law—and no lead is off-limits.'
Some Trump loyalists still aren't buying the latest attempt to recover from the failure that this month has caused a rift in MAGA world.
Leading the opposition to Bondi's investigation has been conservative personality Laura Loomer, who has taken to calling the AG 'Blondi.'
She said on Tuesday that the action seems like a way to 'cope' with the growing uprising within the Republican Party.
'Why wasn't this 'interview' with Ghislaine Maxwell done on day 1?' Loomer questioned on X.
'Shouldn't they have already done this?' she continued. 'Maybe there is a mix up in communication. But I just can't help but wonder whether or not this has already happened. And if not, why?'
Attorney and political commentator Ron Filipkowski said if Maxwell's statements implicate Trump, nothing will come out – but that if it exonerates the president, her sentence will be reduced.
'The truth is in the files, not from Maxwell,' Filipkowski wrote.
Blanche still insists that the July 6 joint memo from the DOJ and FBI regarding the Epstein files review 'remains accurate.'
He says that the department's recent review did not uncover any new evidence that could bring charges against others potentially involved in the crimes.
Blanche's statement on Tuesday morning acknowledges that no administration or DOJ has ever asked Maxwell to speak with them about the Epstein case.
'That changes now,' he insisted.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14938725/Ghislaine-Maxwell-mystery-box-prison-secret-meeting-Donald-Trump.html
President Trump takes aim at college sports with a new executive order
WASHINGTON — President Trump has taken aim at college sports with a new executive order signed Thursday that seeks to empower federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Education, which disburses funds to public universities, to help enforce new provisions on athletic scholarships and "pay-for-play" licensing deals for athletes.
The order directs the nation's largest athletic departments to maintain certain numbers of scholarships for women's and Olympic sports. And it seeks to rein in the lucrative name, image and likeness deals — known as NIL — that have dramatically transformed athlete compensation in recent years.
"The future of college sports is under unprecedented threat," the order says. "A national solution is urgently needed to prevent this situation from deteriorating beyond repair and to protect non-revenue sports, including many women's sports, that comprise the backbone of intercollegiate athletics, drive American superiority at the Olympics and other international competitions, and catalyze hundreds of thousands of student-athletes to fuel American success in myriad ways."
Whether the order's provisions will pass legal muster is an open question, legal experts told NPR. Still, it represents the president's increasing interest in sports issues and especially college athletics.
"This may not be a binding legal framework — but it's absolutely a signal: that the federal government, and now presidential politics, are increasingly willing to intervene in the future of college sports," said Noah Henderson, a professor of sports management at Loyola University Chicago.
Trump's order comes the month after the approval of the House settlement, a class action legal agreement that has opened the door for Division I college athletic departments to pay players directly, upending the long-standing NCAA tradition of amateurism.
That settlement, which allows schools to compensate athletes up to an initial cap of $20.5 million, has raised anxieties about the future of non-revenue sports, including most women's and Olympic sports, as schools divert resources to compensate athletes in order to stay competitive in the revenue-generating sports of football and basketball.
"Absent guardrails to stop the madness and ensure a reasonable, balanced use of resources across collegiate athletic programs that preserves their educational and developmental benefits, many college sports will soon cease to exist," the order reads.
Among the "guardrails" the order seeks to impose are requirements that the highest-earning college athletic departments provide more scholarship opportunities in non-revenue sports than they did in the 2024-2025 school year.
That provision would apply to around 30 of the nation's largest athletic departments, according to data from 2024.
In a hint of how its provisions might be enforced, the order directs the Department of Education — which the Trump administration is in the process of dismantling — to use the disbursement of federal funds, Title IX enforcement, and interstate commerce laws to influence schools. Most of the nation's largest athletic departments belong to public universities, such as the Ohio State University and the University of Texas.
Those are "pretty extreme actions," said Sam Ehrlich, a professor at Boise State University who tracks collegiate sports litigation. "Is this just a threat or something that is actually going to lead to something? Will the executive branch actually insert themselves into these situations to enforce this? And what will be the unintended consequences if it does get followed up on?" he added.
Pay-for-play deals for players' NIL rights are also a target of the Trump administration's order. The NCAA has allowed such deals since a 2021 Supreme Court decision, which have come to dominate the financial landscape of Division I college sports.
Athletes, especially football and basketball players, now earn thousands or even millions of dollars per year in NIL deals, some of which are connected to a marketing campaign but others are effectively compensation for playing.
NIL deals that are pay-for-play are "improper and should not be permitted by universities," the Trump order says, specifically carving out deals that carry a "fair market value" for a brand endorsement or other legitimate purpose.
College athletic officials have lobbied Washington for years to help rein in the wave of litigation that has reshaped college sports over issues of compensation and eligibility.
The executive order aligns with many of the priorities stated in recent years by the NCAA, the governing body of college athletics, whose long-standing policies around eligibility and compensation have been deeply eroded over the past decade by litigation.
"The Association appreciates the Trump Administration's focus on the life-changing opportunities college sports provides to millions of young people and we look forward to working with student-athletes, a bipartisan coalition in Congress and the Trump Administration to enhance college sports for years to come," NCAA president Charlie Baker said in a statement.
The NCAA has long lobbied for federal legislation to help protect it from litigation and will continue to do so, he added.
But Trump's signing of Thursday's order could "deepen partisan divides in college sports rather than create the consensus needed for long-term reform," said Henderson — especially in the Senate, where the Republican majority falls seven votes shy of the 60 votes required to defeat a filibuster on new legislation.
The five "power conferences" in college sports were quick to applaud the executive order. In a joint statement from the Southeastern, Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12 Conferences, they said: "We hope Congress sends federal legislation to President Trump's desk as soon as possible."
The order also directs numerous federal agencies to wade into the fray. The National Labor Relations Board is asked to issue rules and guidance "with respect to clarifying the status of collegiate athletes" to ensure they continue to not be legally considered employees for the purposes of labor law. Officials at the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission are directed to prepare for involvement in future litigation over college sports.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/25/nx-s1-5479194/college-sports-executive-order-trump-eo
AOC ordered to pay $2,700 for Tax the Rich dress
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez paid less than she should have for clothes she wore to the 2021 Met Gala and shouldn't have accepted a free ticket for her then-partner, Riley Roberts, according to a report issued July 25 by the House Ethics Committee.
The New York congresswoman's appearance at the Met Gala in a dress that read "Tax the Rich" drew immediate scrutiny over whether she had complied with House rules limiting what gifts and free items members may accept.
The committee suggested the representative should make additional payments of $2,733.28 from her personal funds to compensate for the fair market value of certain expenses and $250 to compensate the Met for her partner's meal and if she does, they would consider the matter closed.
"The congresswoman appreciates the committee finding that she made efforts to ensure her compliance with House Rules and sought to act consistently with her ethical requirements as a member of the House. She accepts the ruling and will remedy the remaining amounts, as she’s done at each step in this process," said her Chief of Staff Mike Casca in a statement provided to USA TODAY.
According to the report, Ocasio-Cortz made proactive steps to comply with the House gift rule, which limits the size of gifts members of Congress may accept, by arranging to pay for various services and to “rent” apparel out of her personal funds that might normally be loaned or gifted to Met Gala participants.
But the committee found that she failed to fully comply by accepting free admission for her partner − the House gift rules at the time only allowed free admission for a spouse or child − and by failing to pay full fair market value for some of the items worn to the event.
"The Committee did not find evidence that Representative Ocasio-Cortez intentionally underpaid for any goods or services received in connection with the Met Gala," the report states.
Instead, it states that she relied on the advice from counsel to determine fair market price and payment discussions were made through a campaign staff member.
The committee found evidence suggesting that the designer may have lowered costs in response to statements from Ocasio-Cortez’s staff and that payments from her personal funds were not made on time or in some cases until the investigation began.
According to the report, Ocasio-Cortez told the committee that she was not informed by staff about the late payments or attempts to collect them. The committee report said it found no evidence that the congresswoman was aware of the late payments.
"The Committee did not find any indication that the delays in making payments wereintentional or that Representative Ocasio-Cortez was aware of the extent to which they occurred," the report states.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/house-ethics-panel-tells-aoc-182733161.html
Largest Teachers' Union in United States Erases Jews From the Holocaust
https://x.com/OwenGregorian/status/1948352070861647994
Skydance Outlines Post-Merger Moves at CBS: 'Comprehensive' Editorial Bias Review, Ombudsman To Ensure 'Accountability,' and Elimination of All DEI
Skydance Media has made a series of new commitments to eliminate bias in news and entertainment programming at CBS and its parent company, Paramount, when its planned acquisition of the companies is complete. Skydance is also confirming the "elimination" of all "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" policies and initiatives at Paramount, which had been one of the most aggressive proponents of DEI in the entertainment business.
Should the Trump administration, as expected, approve the transaction, Skydance now says it will launch a "comprehensive review of CBS" focused on bias, as well as appoint an "ombudsman" to "evaluate complaints of bias or other concerns involving CBS," and eliminate Paramount's controversial Office of Global Inclusion.
"When it comes to the legacy national news media, change is long overdue," Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr told the Washington Free Beacon.
Skydance laid out the moves in two letters it sent to Carr on Tuesday. The first letter addresses "concerns about media bias" at CBS and pledges to "ensure that CBS's reporting is fair, unbiased, and fact-based." The second outlines Skydance's "commitments going forward" to "promote non-discrimination and equal employment opportunity."
CBS News has for more than 40 years been accused of liberal and anti-conservative bias and, more recently, strong anti-Israel bias. In recent years, late-night entertainment programming both at CBS and its sister Paramount network, Comedy Central, has also been called out for a pronounced liberal bias with a particular antipathy toward President Donald Trump.
"Skydance recognizes that, as a broadcast license, it will be charged with operating in the public interest, and the company intends to undertake a comprehensive review of CBS and to make any necessary changes to ensure compliance with that standard," the first letter states. "In all respects, Skydance will ensure that CBS's reporting is fair, unbiased, and fact-based."
"To promote transparency and increased accountability," it continues, "Skydance also will commit, for a period of at least two years, to have in place an ombudsman who reports to the President of New Paramount, who will receive and evaluate any complaints of bias or other concerns involving CBS. New Paramount's executive leadership will carefully consider any such complaints in overseeing CBS's news programming."
Skydance's DEI-related letter, meanwhile, touts existing changes at Paramount that have eliminated or modified DEI initiatives. The changes were made under pressure from the Trump administration, which has been putting similar pressure on Disney and Comcast, two of Paramount’s biggest competitors, who have also pursued aggressive DEI policies, especially in the last five years.
Going forward, the Skydance letter says, Paramount "no longer will maintain an Office of Global Inclusion," will "not have any teams or individual roles focused on DEI," and will remove "references to DEI in its public messaging, including on its websites and social media."
The commitments come nearly one week after Skydance chief executive David Ellison met with Carr in Washington to lobby for the agency's approval of the Paramount acquisition. A letter from a Skydance attorney describing the meeting revealed that Ellison committed "to unbiased journalism" and pledged to reflect "the varied ideological perspectives of American viewers" at CBS. The new letters use similar language but provide fresh details on how Ellison—the son of the world’s second richest man, Larry Ellison—plans to actualize those goals.
Should the Trump administration approve the acquisition, Ellison's commitment to achieving viewpoint diversity would require forcing wholesale changes at CBS and, in particular, at CBS News.
The network has faced criticism for its news coverage of Israel in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre. In one incident, CBS News’ morning program conducted an interview with the Jewish father of an 8-year-old girl held hostage by Hamas. Star anchor Gayle King accused the father of playing "politics."
Lesley Stahl, a host of 60 Minutes, interviewed freed Israeli-American hostage Keith Siegel in April and asked him whether Hamas terrorists starved him because "they just didn't have enough food." In January, 60 Minutes also aired a segment on "dissent in the State Department over U.S. policy towards Israel and Gaza, which the American Jewish Committee called "shockingly one-sided."
Perhaps most notably, on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks, a senior CBS News executive reprimanded CBS Mornings cohost Tony Dokoupil for not meeting the network’s "standards" when he challenged the bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates about anti-Israel statements Coates made. The chairwoman of Paramount, Shari Redstone, a strong supporter of Israel, publicly criticized CBS News for its treatment of Dokoupil and took him out to lunch.
Internal editorial memos have also reflected anti-Israel bias at CBS News. In one of them, the network sent its staffers a list of terms "to be careful with" when talking or writing about Israel's war on Hamas. One of those terms was "Jerusalem."
"Don't refer to it as being in Israel," wrote CBS News senior director of standards Mark Memmott. "The status of Jerusalem goes to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." Another memo cautioned journalists about the use of the word "terrorist" when referring to Hamas.
Though CBS News is likely to attract much of Paramount's attention as it reviews ideological bias, Skydance's commitments also apply to CBS's entertainment programming, which includes the recently canceled Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He is set to continue the show until May, though it's unclear if a Skydance takeover will lead to an earlier end date if Colbert continues to mock, curse at, and criticize Trump every night.
Over at Comedy Central, Jon Stewart’s Monday night hosting of The Daily Show has become a nonstop series of attacks on Trump, including, this past Monday, a foul-mouthed song and dance routine, replete with dozens of f-bombs, that attacked media companies (including Paramount) for compromising with Trump.
CBS News’s programming has been dogged by liberal bias going back to its coverage of the Vietnam War, and to Senator Jesse Helms’s unsuccessful campaign in the 1980s to buy CBS and "be Dan Rather’s boss." In recent months, 60 Minutes aired segment after segment attacking the Trump administration, even as it was tied up in litigation Trump brought against CBS over how 60 Minutes producers edited their October 2024 interview with Kamala Harris to make her sound coherent. The lawsuit was recently settled (Colbert, on his program last week, called the settlement "a big fat bribe").
CBS News personality Margaret Brennan has also come under criticism for engaging in biased conduct during her moderation of the 2024 vice presidential debate and for badgering Face the Nation guests, such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance, with biased questions.
https://freebeacon.com/media/skydance-outlines-post-merger-moves-at-cbs-comprehensive-editorial-bias-review-ombudsman-to-ensure-accountability-and-elimination-of-all-dei/
Rashida Tlaib
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1948858178843935015
Czech politician faces 3 years in jail for anti-immigration posters
The Czech police have pressed charges against Tomio Okamura, leader of the far-right opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party, following the investigation into the anti-immigration campaign carried out by the SPD last year.
SPD billboards, seen as racist by many observers, campaigned “against the EU migration pact” depicting a black man with a blood-stained shirt and holding a knife, accompanied by the message “discrepancies in healthcare won’t be solved by ‘surgeons’ from import”.
Okamura is accused of inciting hatred, a crime which carries a penalty of up to three years in prison.
“The police have ended the investigation and submitted the file to the state procurator proposing charges,” state prosecutor for Prague 1 Jan Lelek confirmed in a statement for Czech online news outlet Seznam Zprávy (SZ).
As bne IntelliNews covered earlier this year, the Czech parliament stripped Okamura of his parliamentary immunity following the January police request so he can be interrogated over the SPD’s 2024 summer and autumn billboard campaign ahead of regional and Senate elections in the country.
Okamura has seized the opportunity to portray himself as a victim of the rule of the sitting centre-right government of Petr Fiala, whom he accused of trying to silence him.
“It is an effort of Premier Fiala and Minister of Interior [Vít] Rakušan to criminalise opposition for anti-immigration poster, because Fiala’s government is trying to manipulate the elections in its favour to stay in power at any cost,” Okamura told the Czech Press Agency (CTK) in his latest allegations against the government and in response to police pressing charges.
National elections are scheduled for October, and the largest opposition party, populist ANO (31.5%) led by billionaire ex-PM Andrej Babiš, has a wide lead in the polls ahead of Fiala’s SPOLU (19.4%) list. SPD (12.8%) is battling for third place with the remaining ruling coalition party, centrist Stan (12.2%), according to the latest Stem poll for commercial television CNN Prima News.
SPD is openly courting ANO to form the next government, but it is unclear whether ANO would be willing to join forces with SPD at governmental level. In the previous parliament, ANO avoided collaborating with SPD in government, but frequently relied on the support of its legislators and joined forces with SPD in attacks on public media.
The country’s political analysts have argued that the high-profile case against Okamura could help SPD and Okamura during the ongoing election campaign.
“In individual locations, SPD is carrying out a petition campaign for freedom of speech, so it is having a real effect on the pre-election campaign,” Miroslav Mareš, a political scientist and lawyer from Masaryk University in Brno, told Czech Radio (CRo) in an interview in response to Okamura facing police charges.
https://www.intellinews.com/czech-police-press-charges-against-leader-of-far-right-opposition-spd-party-392862/
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Hero fireman sues after being disciplined for using the term 'fireman'
A hero firefighter is suing his former fire service after being disciplined for not preventing his staff from saying the term 'fireman'.
Simon Bailey, 58, who was previously praised for his bravery, was said to have been handed a warning and downgraded after using the 'sexist' word.
The ex-Avon Fire and Rescue Service firefighter said he felt dismayed and physically unwell after receiving the disciplinary letter.
Recalling how his 'world came crashing down', he revealed the ordeal has left him a shell of his former self.
He told The Sun: 'When I received the disciplinary letter, I felt physically sick and devastated. I became a shell of myself.
'This is not how I wanted my 27 years of service to end. I don't tend to tell people I used to be a firefighter as I almost feel embarrassed because of the way I was treated.
'I have a letter of commendation from the chief, congratulating me on my service, but it's just left in a drawer now.'
Now, he has taken his former station to an employment tribunal on the grounds of constructive dismissal.
Barrister, Adam Griffiths, representing Mr Bailey, questioned assistant fire chief Luke Gazzard, who led the disciplinary investigation, about the use of the term 'fireman'.
At a hearing in Bristol, he challenged Mr Gazzard on holding an employee to such a standard about a word that has been used for 'the last 150 years'.
He went on to suggest there would 'obviously' be a formal letter or a directive to enforce such standards.
The disciplinary probe came after a female firefighter Sasha Acheson claimed she experienced sexual harassment, discrimination and victimisation at the same station.
The former England rugby player won the sex discrimination and constructive dismissal case on the grounds of sexual orientation.
Later, it was concluded a crew manager had made offensive comments to the firefighter, who is gay, and in a separate case, she is set to win compensation totaling to over £50,000.
Representing Avon Fire and Rescue Service, barrister Emma Sole, contested Mr Bailey, their boss, did not answer a 'serious grievance'.
The watch manager's claim is set to be decided at a later date.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14938745/hero-fireman-sues-disciplined-using-term-fireman.html
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