This evening Elon Musk opined on Twitter’s banning of the New York Post’s reporting of Hunter Biden’s laptop.  Musk labeled the actions “obviously incredibly inappropriate”.

The New York Post released stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop.  Twitter banned the New York Post.  [I also released stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop and my account was shut down.]

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The Gateway Pundit’s account was shut down for questioning the stolen 2020 Election results.

Orwellian! Twitter Suspends Gateway Pundit Account for Violating “Civic Integrity” Rule — No Questioning of Election Results Allowed!

Another Gateway Pundit’s Editor’s account was banned for tweeting about Twitter’s censorship.

Twitter Bans TGP’s Associate Editor Cristina Laila After Tweetstorm Calling Out Twitter Censorship

All of this was wrong.  All of it.  It all was obviously incredibly inappropriate.  We hope and pray this soon ends and free speech is given its proper place on the Twitter platform. 

Western military leaders are doing a poor job of hiding their growing consternation about the progress of Russia in achieving the “de-militarization” of Ukraine. Following Poland’s announcement it was sending T-72 tanks to Ukraine Russia upped the ante:

Russia has suspended gas supplies to Poland under the “Yamal contract” – Polish portal Onet

According to the newspaper, the Russian Federation did not inform the Polish side about the reasons for the suspension of supplies. A crisis group has already been urgently convened in the Polish government.

This is not only a blow to Poland but to other European countries that rely on the gas that travels through the pipelines in Poland. The Germans and French will be taking more cold showers in the coming days. Even in the summer, icy water is not always refreshing.

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Besides turning the economic screw on Europe, Russia is sending a clear message with bombs and missiles–the Russians blew up key railroad junctions west of Kyiv, effectively cutting the ability of moving any tanks or heavy equipment to the east. Here is the map of the latest strikes (confirmed by the Ukrainians):

There are three ways to move military materiel to the Ukrainian soldiers getting pounded in the Donbas–air, railway and trucks. Ukraine has no air assets to move such equipment. So scratch that option. Rail transport was a possible option until today. But the eight railroad junctions suffered serious damage and are inoperable for the near term. Can they be repaired? Sure, with time and the necessary material. But Ukraine and NATO have yet to come up with a solution to stop the Russian aerial onslaught of cruise missiles. If we rebuild it the Russians will destroy it again.

That leaves trucks. Forget about it. The Ukrainians do not have enough trucks to carry out a significant resupply and any sizeable column of trucks will face the same fate as the railroad junctions. They will be destroyed enroute. The only hope for Ukraine is that Russia runs out of precision-guided missiles. If that happens then Russia will have to rely on dumb bombs. But that silver lining is not so shiny. Trucks are still a big fat target and are not accompanied by mobile air defense systems. The Russians still have de facto air supremacy in Ukraine.

POLITICO, in a surprising act of journalism, provides a gripping first-hand account of what it is like to be on the receiving end of Russian artillery and aerial bombardment in the Donbas. It ain’t pretty:

Eighty miles north of the city, First Lt. Ivan Skuratovsky, serving in the 25th Airborne Brigade, told POLITICO that help needs to come immediately.

“The situation is very bad, [Russian forces] are using scorched- earth tactics,” the 31-year-old married father of two said via text. “They simply destroy everything with artillery, shelling day and night,” he said via text.

He fears that if reinforcements in the form of manpower and heavy weaponry — particularly air support — don’t arrive in the next few days, his troops could find themselves in the same position as those in Mariupol.

Skuratovsky described his soldiers’ situation as “very desperate.”

“I don’t know how much strength we will have,” he said, adding that the troops under his command around the city of Avdiivka, near Donetsk, have gone without rest since the start of the war. At least 13 of them have been wounded in recent weeks, he said, and they are running dangerously low on ammunition, reduced to rationing bullets.

The day before, he told POLITICO his soldiers were being bombarded with Russian howitzers, mortars and multiple-launch rocket systems “at the same time.” Just hours earlier, he said, they had been attacked by two Su-25 warplanes, “and our day became hell.”

Skuratovsky had a message for the United States and other NATO countries: “I would like to tell them that grenade launchers are good, but against airstrikes and heavy artillery we will not be able to hold out for long. People can no longer endure daily bombardments. We need air support now. We need drones.”

First Lieutenant Skuratovsky clearly does not understand the capability of Russian air defense systems, which have been shooting down Ukie drones in devastating numbers. And drones do not solve the problem of resupplying troops that are being encircled by the Russians. As I noted in previous posts, the Russians are cutting key lines of communications (i.e., roads) that are needed for trucks hauling needed supplies.

Desperate me do stupid things. The Russians do not appear desperate to me. The same cannot be said for the Ukrainian troops in the Donbas.

As reported earlier — On Thursday The New York Times investigative reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns released passages from their latest book “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future.”

In the book the two claimed that GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy told Liz Cheney on a January 10, 2021 call that he would counsel Trump to resign before the end of his term.

When the claims within the book broke early in the news, McCarthy’s spokesman Mark Bednar refuted them saying, “McCarthy never said he’d call Trump to say he should resign.”

McCarthy himself called the claims about his conversations “totally false” when The New York Times reported on them earlier in the day.

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Then he got caught.

Rachel Maddow leaked the private phone call on her show on Thursday night of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy with Trump-hating lunatic Liz Cheney on January 10, 2021.

During the call, McCarthy told Liz Cheney that he would counsel President Trump Trump to resign. This is exactly what the book reported. Liz Cheney released the call to the authors. And now Kevin McCarthy was caught in a lie.

From the call:

Kevin McCarthy:  “I think [impeachment resolutions] will pass, and it would be my recommendation you (President Trump) should resign… What he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that and nobody should defend it.”

McCarthy also indicated that he believed Twitter and Facebook should delete the accounts of lawmakers who were supporting Trump’s claim of a rigged election. “We can’t put up with that,” he said. “Can’t they take their Twitter accounts away, too?”

McCarthy was caught. He can’t deny it.
In an interesting twist, FOX News refused to report on this story on Kevin McCarthy. They protected him following this embarrassing and explosive development.

There was a boycott on McCarthy’s explosive statements.  FOX News circled the wagons around their favorite Kevin McCarthy.

Then this happened…
FOX News reporter Bill Melugin confronted Kevin McCarthy on his lies during his trip to the open US border in Texas on Monay.

Then on Tuesday night Tucker Carlson totally threw down on McCarthy for tossing his Caucus members under the bus and pushing to silence them online.

Tucker warned Republicans of electing Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker if Republicans gain control of the US House in 2023.

Tucker Carlson:  “He told his close friend Liz Cheney that he hoped the social media companies would censor more conservative Republicans in Congress.  Donald Trump the sitting president was already silenced by those companies.  but McCarthy wanted the tech oligarchs to do more.  To force disobedient lawmakers off the internet.  “Can’t they take their Twitter accounts away too?” Those are the tape-recorded words of congressman Kevin McCarthy, a man who in private, it turns out, sounds like an MSNBC contributor…  Unless conservatives get their act together right away, Kevin McCarthy, or one of his highly liberal allies, like Elise Stefanik, is very likely to be speaker of the House in January. That would mean we will have a Republican Congress led by a puppet of the Democratic Party.”

Via Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Last week, Washington Post ‘journalist’ and professional victim crybully, Taylor Lorenz, doxxed the independent conservative journalist known as LibsofTikTok, exposing not only her name but also her home address in a malicious hit piece that served no journalistic purpose whatsoever.

An especially egregious act, considering the fact that Lorenz, barely a week before this piece came out, was hysterically crying on national TV about being the victim of online harassment. These leftists have absolutely no shame.

Not only did WaPo and their cancel culture lapdog publish her personal information, but the seedy outlet also lied about ever doing so after deleting the information out of the original post.

All because LibsofTikTok is exposing leftists exposing themselves as radical lunatics. The people at the Washington Post, and fake news outlets alike, are some truly sick individuals.

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SICK PEOPLE: WaPo and Taylor Lorenz Dox Conservative Twitter User – Publish Her Home Address and Then Lie About It

Unsurprisingly, serving up this information to the hysterical leftist mob has subjected LibsofTikTok and her family to intense and vile online threats and attacks. Some of her family members have even reportedly been harassed at their homes in person.

People who simply share her last name are even being targeted by the radical (in)tolerant left.

Thankfully, LibsofTikTok’s life hasn’t become a complete horror show – although, she will have to deal with lunatics for quite some time following Lorenz’s hit piece. Instead of having the intended effect of bullying the brave independent journalist into silence, WaPo’s exposure has actually catapulted her notoriety into the stratosphere.

In the short time since the doxxing – less than a week – the popular account has gained hundreds of thousands of followers, surpassing one million on Tuesday, which is nearly triple Lorenz’s Twitter footprint.

Let’s just say, that didn’t work out as planned. You can’t bully everyone into silence.

LibsofTikTok took to Twitter to share the news, thanking Lorenz for the boost:

Naturally, the news spurred an onslaught of memes trolling Lorenz in a hilarious fashion.

Kicked off by LibsofTikTok herself:

Take a page out of LibsofTikTok’s playbook – don’t back down to the mob.

Gonzalo Lira is a journalist, YouTube personality, and ‘manosphere’ writer going by the name “Coach Red Pill.” Lira also had an active Telegram channel.

Lira, a Chilean-American who moved to Ukraine several years before the war, happened to be in Kiev at the time of the invasion. 

Lira made many videos criticizing Ukraine President Zelensky and the tactics of the Ukrainian forces, including their neo-Nazi elements. He also criticized NATO’s provocations that caused the war. Lira claimed he had the opportunity to leave Ukraine but chose to stay and report that which was being suppressed in the western media. 

Reports were that he had gone missing. He has since emerged and said that he was arrested and held by Ukrainian forces, who took all of his electronics including his phone and laptop. 

This arrest came after the Daily Beast ran a shameless hit piece on Lira last month under the byline “Mark Hay.”

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LEFT-WING REPORTERS ENCOURAGING ARREST OF DISSIDENT WAR REPORTERS

Mark Hay is the biological name of transexual “Sarah Ashton-Cirillo.” 

Lira had recently made a video claiming that the Daily Beast Contributor had doxxed Lira and informed the Ukrainian regime of Lira’s location. 

DAILY BEAST REPORTER MADE REPEATED COMMENTS HOPING ARRESTED REPORTER WOULD BE HARMED, KILLED

Biologically male Sarah Ashton-Cirillo bragged about the disappearance and at-the-time potential death of Lira, noting that any criticism or journalism perceived as criticism of Ukraine was illegal after all:

OUT OF CONTROL MAINSTREAM MEDIA ENCOURAGING GOVERNMENTS TO ARREST, KILL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA REPORTERS

While Lira was missing, Ashton-Cirillo referred to him as a “Russian Puppet” and joked whether “he has the time” referencing his potential murder at the hands of Ukrainian agents while he was missing.

Later this Daily Beast Contributor says Lira was a Russian “Useful Idiot” and suggests Lira’s death is deserved.

Here is a so-called Daily Beast journalist celebrating the arrest and detention of another journalist. Matt/Sarah is referring to all criticism of their advocacy of Lira’s arrest as part of a “Russian troll operation”

Here is the Daily Beast journalist celebrating Lira’s potential murder, referring to him as an ‘enemy of freedom’:

Daily Beast’s Cirillo has also threatened another courageous dissident reporter, Patrick Lancaster, who has been reporting on the Ukraine War as a videojournalist showing facts suppressed by Western media. 

Lira was notorious for having exposed Ukrainian war propaganda on Telegram. Specifically, Lira was instrumental in exposing:

• Agents of Ukrainian President Zelensky assaulting unarmed civilians
• The Western-supported Azov Battalion, which has been an explicit neo-Nazi organization, raped and killed a young girl and a swastika was burned onto her body.
• Debunking a planned western provocation using toxic chemicals to stage what would have likely been spun as a “chemical attack” by Russia upon Ukraine. 

Lira’s last pinned post, one of the last things he posted, was “the Missing” where he listed a group of people who have gone missing in the Ukrainian conflict and noted that if he hadn’t been heard from in 12 hours, to add his name to the list. Journalists whose reporting does not follow the pro-Ukraine party line have been under attack and assault.

SOCIAL NETWORKS LET LEFTISTS ENCOURAGE VIOLENCE, MURDER, WHILE CONSISTENTLY SILENCING CENTER-RIGHT REPORTERS LIKE TGP’S JIM HOFT

Even though Daily Beast Contributor Cirillo’s tweets clearly violate Twitter’s Terms of Service for inciting violence, there appears to be no sanction against them, which has been a common double-standard for the social media platform. 

Cirillo’s history of unethical journalism also include infiltrating a Nevada GOP event, calling in the controversial group the “Proud Boys” and then letting left-wing reporters claim there was a connection between the groups even though they had made the connection. 

Lira had been missing since Friday, April 15 and reappeared yesterday April 21. 

Lira has published at LewRockwell.com and ZeroHedge.com.

A recent election report from Tennessee was recently issued by the EAC that stated that an erroneous code was found on Dominion software that had been certified by the EAC. 

How does system software get certified with erroneous code on it?

There appears to be a few issues with the voting machines used across the US.  We’ve already reported on the fact that voting machines were put in use in Pennsylvania without being properly hardened.

We know these machines are not properly ‘hardened’ because we have found software on the machines that would have prevented the machines from being certifiable.  When machines are hardened they are certified with the most up-to-date software needed for use and without any software that should not be there.  In the case of election machines used throughout the US, the machines should not be put in use with any extra software loaded on the machines.

Now a report was located that was related to some issues identified in an election in Tennessee.  An error was identified on the voting machines and systems related to erroneous code.  The real issue is the systems had been certified by the EAC.  How could the EAC certify these machines?

The voting machine audit firms are paid by Dominion to certify their machines per the video below.

MSNBC’s Ari Melber was talking about Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter this week and without a hint of irony, gave away the left’s game.

He suggested that Musk could deplatform a liberal presidential candidate, or suppress support for such a candidate.

Sound familiar?

Melber said all of this with zero self-awareness.

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FOX News has details:

MSNBC host trashed for warning Elon Musk could use Twitter to ban political candidates: ‘You absolute clown’

MSNBC host Ari Melber was roasted on Twitter for worrying Monday that Elon Musk could use Twitter to “secretly ban” or “turn down the reach” of a major party’s candidate ahead of an election.

Melber’s apprehension of the purchase of Twitter by the SpaceX and Tesla CEO was obvious during the Monday evening episode of The Beat with Ari Melber, where he couched Musk as potentially power-hungry rich guy willing to use the social media platform to his advantage…

“It’s true if you are a democracy like the United States that used to regulate media ownership and say Rupert Murdoch can’t have too many local TV stations and newspapers in one town, they have laws for that are still on the books,” he said, adding that meanwhile, “Congress hasn’t gotten round to limiting whether someone can own all of Twitter.”

Then he gave his main warning: “If you own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you, you don’t have to explain yourself, you don’t even have to be transparent, you could secretly ban one party’s candidate or all of its candidates, all of it nominees.”

“Or,” he added, “you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find about it til after the election.”

Here’s the video:

Has Melber been living under a rock for the last five years?

Cross posted from American Lookout.

A Wisconsin couple was electrocuted to death after attempting fractal wood burning, a viral trend on TikTok.

Tanya Rodriguez, 44, and James Carolfi, 52, were found charred in their garage after firefighters put out a blaze at their home.

At first, law enforcement suspected foul play, however after weeks of a thorough arson and homicide investigation, investigators concluded the couple died before the fire started.

The Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory and Fire Marshals found that the couple had actually been electrocuted when they attempted to make very dangerous wood burning art.

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Fractal wood burning creates lightning-like patterns and police believe the equipment used to create the art electrocuted the couple.

According to law enforcement, the Wisconsin couple used a disassembled microwave as their power supply.

“Foul play has been ruled out, and the deaths are found to be accidental in nature and believed to be caused by electrocution from fractal wood burning,” Chief Deputy Chad Billeb said at a news conference Thursday.

NBC News reported:

A Wisconsin couple was electrocuted attempting a popular but dangerous wood-burning technique, law enforcement officials said.

Tanya Rodriguez, 44, and James Carolfi, 52, were found dead in a house fire April 6. Their bodies were in the garage of their home in Marathon County, Wisconsin.

The couple had died before the fire started, and the Marathon County Sheriff’s Office initially described the cause of their deaths and the fire as “suspicious.” The mysterious circumstances prompted weeks of arson and homicide investigation, Wisconsin Public Radio reported.

The sheriff’s office, fire marshals and the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory found that Rodriguez and Carolfi died by accidental electrocution when they attempted the dangerous wood-burning technique. The couple used a disassembled microwave oven for a power supply. Authorities believe the equipment that caused the electrocutions also caused the fire, which started in the garage before it spread, the sheriff’s office said in a statement last week.

Even with proper equipment and experience, fractal burning carries risks. At least 33 people have died from fractal burning attempts since 2016, according to the American Association of Woodturners, including an experienced electrician. The group banned the use of fractal burning at all of its events and forbade articles about the practice from appearing in any of its publications to discourage attempts.

As the mass exodus of citizens and businesses fleeing Blue areas continues, Red states across the nation are bracing for a massive influx of new people who are seeking to escape the leftist policies that democrats have used to make big cities across the United States practically unlivable. Thanks to the jaw-dropping spike in crime and authoritarian public health measures, among other arbitrary nonsense and ‘big government’ interference, millions have fled leftist-controlled areas in favor of the freer, red areas.

And the mass migration is only intensifying. Californians above all others, however, are packing their bags en masse and fleeing the state for redder pastures.

Two of the most popular destinations for these ex-Californians are the conservative strongholds of Florida and Texas. The two states have each seen hundreds of thousands of newcomers over the past year and a half, which has some people in those states rightfully concerned about what follows – including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

After all, everything that leftists get involved with turns to crap, as has been proven repeatedly.

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At an event on Monday, DeSantis blasted California cities, like San Francisco, for being complete “dumpster fires” and pointed to cities like Austin, Texas, which has become increasingly blue, as an example of what happens when Californians invade and import their destructive liberal policies.

From DeSantis:

“There is cause for concern. Texas would have all these companies moved from California over the years. So you’d have companies move from San Francisco to Austin, and they’d bring hundreds of employees with them. And those employees would vote the exact same way they voted that turned San Francisco into the dumpster fire that it is.”

According to DeSantis, Democrats – especially California Democrats –  haven’t proved that they are able to connect the dots between the leftist policies they vote for and the destruction that is left in their wake once they are implemented. Even though Californians are fleeing the hollowed-out shell that was formerly known as the Golden State, where liberals have gotten their way for decades – and they are choosing to relocate into a Red area – a large number of them will continue bending the knee at the altar of wokeism.

DeSantis continued:

“It’s like the leftism, they will not draw the connection between their leftist ideology and the destruction that’s all around them,” DeSantis said. “It is a problem because I do think there’s a class of voters who would come to Florida, and they would continue to vote the same way.” 

Watch:

In short, you libs don’t have to stay home, but you sure as hell shouldn’t come to Florida – or any other Red area for that matter. Surely there is room, and they are woke enough, in Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago or some such.

Southern California officials Tuesday evening declared a water shortage emergency for the first time ever.

The Metropolitan Water District’s board declared a water shortage emergency and ordered SoCal residents to restrict outdoor watering to one day a week.

The restrictions will go into effect June 1.

Cities and water suppliers that get their water from the agency will face hefty fines if they don’t comply and exceed monthly water limits, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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Parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties will be required to cut back outdoor watering.

KTLA reported:

A water shortage emergency was declared by Southern California water officials for the first time ever on Tuesday.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California implemented an “Emergency Water Conservation Program,” restricting outdoor watering to one day a week in parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties. The restrictions will take effect on June 1.

The action affects some 6 million residents and comes at a time when one-third of the region “faces an emergency because of reliance on severely limited NorCal supplies,” the agency said.

Since the water supply in California’s major reservoirs are at a record low, the Metropolitan Water District doesn’t have enough water to meet demand.

Cities and smaller water suppliers that get water from the district will need to find ways to cut usage or restrict outdoor watering.