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State Department Partners With Left-Leaning Media in Propaganda Push, Documents Reveal

May 25, 2023 documents, leftleaning, Partners, propaganda, state, media, Push, Reveal, Department0 comment

A State Department agency with a mission of combating disinformation abroad has helped shape coverage by—and in some cases subsidized—U.S. news outlets, according to records obtained by a conservative legal organization. America First Legal says that over 600 pages of documents obtained in a public records lawsuit show the State Department’s Global Engagement Center worked with privately owned media organizations to tout government propaganda. Among those named in the documents are The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, and PolitiFact. PolitiFact’s parent organization,…

Chairman McCaul threatens to hold Secretary of State Blinken in contempt of Congress

May 9, 2023 threatens, chairman, contempt, McCaul, Blinken, state, Congress, Hold, Secretary0 comment

The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee is threatening to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress for not turning over confidential messages from career diplomats. Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Blinken hasn’t complied with a subpoena demanding access to so-called dissent channel cables from State Department personnel during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The dissent channel serves as a forum for diplomats to critique department policy decisions. McCaul said a State Department briefing last month on the content of those cables fell short…

EXCLUSIVE: Medical Group Backs State AG’s Emergency Order on Transgender Interventions Amid Legal Threat

April 15, 2023 emergency, order, Transgender, state, AG’s, Amid, Interventions, EXCLUSIVE, Medical, Threat, group, backs, legal0 comment

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued an emergency regulation Thursday restricting the use of experimental transgender interventions on minors. An organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals supported Bailey’s order, despite pro-transgender activist groups condemning it as based on “debunked claims” that ignore “medical evidence” and threatening a lawsuit to block it. “We absolutely support the efforts of Attorney General Bailey and his efforts to restrict transgender medical interventions,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, told The Daily Signal in a statement Friday.…

How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor?

March 30, 2023 Weirdest, FreedomObsessed, state, Most, fall, governor, America's, authoritarian0 comment

Illustrations by Brandon Celi This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. In the course of a single month this year, the following news reports emanated from Florida: A gun enthusiast in Tampa built a 55-foot backyard pool shaped like a revolver, with a hot tub in the hammer. A 32-year-old from Cutler Bay was arrested for biting off the head of his girlfriend’s pet python during…

MoveOn: Biden’s State of the Union a “Bold, People-First Playbook to Finish the Job and Deliver for the American People”

February 14, 2023 playbook', Bold, MoveOn, PeopleFirst, state, People, American, finish, Union, Deliver, Biden's0 comment

Washington, D.C. – Statement from MoveOn Executive Director Rahna Epting on tonight’s State of the Union address by President Biden: “Tonight, the American people heard President Biden detail the hard-fought progress of the last two years to build an economy that works for everyone, defend our democracy, lower unemployment, and rebuild our nation from the pandemic. On everything from making health care more affordable to fighting climate change and protecting Social Security and Medicare, the president shared a bold, people-first playbook to finish the job and deliver for the American…

Alliance of Big Tech, Dark Money Groups Partners With Counties in State That Bans ‘Zuckerbucks’ for Elections

January 29, 2023 Partners, ‘Zuckerbucks’, Tech, state, money, groups, Elections, Alliance, Counties, Dark, bans0 comment

The group that distributed most of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s controversial election grants in 2020 has designated at least two Utah counties as part of a new effort, despite a state ban on private money funding election operations. The two local juridictions are Cache County, with a population of 137,00, and Weber County, population 267,000. The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, a group launched by the Center for Tech and Civic Life and other left-leaning organizations, designated the Utah counties as participants in its plans for 2024. In 2022, the…