The Southern Poverty Law Center has taken aim at Not the Bee, the real-news partner of The Babylon Bee. The SPLC is threatening to doxx the people who write for Not the Bee, to reveal their identities to expose them to ridicule and ostracization.
The SPLC is trying to silence Not the Bee because it publishes news that contradicts the SPLC's woke narrative. But I also suspect there's a secondary motive at play.
As the name suggests, the group was founded to provide legal representation to poor people in the South. Yet, as I wrote in my book, "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center," Morris Dees used the SPLC to sue Klan groups into bankruptcy, a noble mission but one that SPLC lawyers described as "shooting fish in a barrel" in the 1980s. When he ran out of Klan groups, Dees turned to ever more mainstream conservative and Christian groups.
Today, the SPLC releases a "hate map" that plots mainstream groups like the Center for Immigration Studies, Alliance Defending Freedom, and Moms for Liberty alongside chapters of the Klan. Their crimes? Disagreeing with the SPLC's woke agenda. The SPLC has become the Left's cancel culture enforcer.
This makes the SPLC quite useful to the Left, which is why companies like Eventbrite and NextDoor still use the SPLC despite its many scandals.
Despite the SPLC's many scandals, it enjoys broad access to the Biden-Harris administration.
✔️SPLC leaders and staff have attended at least 18 meetings at the White House.
✔️Biden nominated an SPLC to a top federal judgeship.
✔️SPLC President Margaret Huang bragged about advising the administration on the "domestic terrorism threat."
✔️ FOIA documents back up her claims, showing SPLC meetings at DOJ and with Education officials.
I cover this access in my forthcoming book, "The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government."
Well, it only happened because the FBI's Richmond office circulated a memo encouraging agents to develop sources in Catholic churches. The memo cited the SPLC on "radical-traditional Catholic hate groups."
After the brave whistleblower @KyleSeraphin published the document and I asked the FBI about it, the FBI's national office said the memo "does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI."
Yet the SPLC is still keeping "radical-traditional Catholic hate groups" on the "hate map."
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🐊DRAIN THE SWAMP
President-elect Donald Trump ran on dismantling the Deep State, and countering the SPLC's influence in government is one of the main tasks he'll have to take on when he enters office on Jan. 20, 2024.
On the very next day, I publish my book, "The Woketopus🐙: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government." This book will be an excellent resource for the incoming administration to see where the woke bureaucrats have entrenched themselves.
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But why did the SPLC attack Not the Bee?🤔
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, one of his first acts was to free The Babylon Bee. The Bee had gotten booted from Twitter for the sin of calling Rachel Levine a man (which he is). Many have suggested that Musk bought Twitter partly because he wanted to free the bee🐝
Elon's decision to make Twitter @X and to allow free speech reversed the Left's stranglehold on information. We should never forget that Twitter censored The New York Post's reporting on Hunter Biden, and that it colluded with the FBI and the Biden administration to silence dissent from the government narrative on COVID-19 and climate change.
The massive win for free speech that Elon Musk brought about may have helped Donald Trump prevail in the 2024 election. At the very least, it made Trump's win more possible.
The SPLC doesn't like losing its access to power, and so it stands to reason that the SPLC would try to take revenge on The Babylon Bee and its enterprise.
A shocking new poll from @ScottWRasmussen shows just how many D.C.-based bureaucrats who voted for Kamala Harris say they plan to disobey a lawful Trump order if they consider it bad policy.
Yes, people who work for the taxpayer plan to disobey the people's elected president. This is the key definition of the deep state.
RMG Research, Rasmussen's polling firm, identifies federal government managers as federal employees in the DC region who earn at least $75K.
The firm asked this essential question:
"Suppose that President Trump gave an order that was legal but you believed was bad policy. Would you follow the president's order or do what you thought was best?"
THREE QUARTERS—75%—of DC bureaucrats who voted for Kamala Harris said they would "do what I thought was best" rather than follow Trump's order.
Only 16% said they'd do as the people's elected president ordered.😲
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NOTE: This isn't asking if they'd follow Trump over the law.
This is just asking if they place their own opinion of good or bad policy ahead of the person who was elected by the people to lead the executive branch.
It's also worrying that 18% of those who voted for Trump say they'd "do what I thought was best" instead of following the order. That's probably a lot lower than it would have been if the poll was conducted in 2017, however.
“It’s codifying into law that if their ideology confuses your child, and you don’t affirm that delusion, you’re committing child abuse and can lose custody of your child,” Caldwell told me.
“We have now crossed the Rubicon of parental rights with this bill,” he added.
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When Caldwell asked whether parental rights groups had been allowed to weigh in on the legislation, a Democrat—Rep. Yara Zokaie—mocked the very idea.
“A well-stakeholded bill does not need to be discussed with hate groups, and we don’t ask someone passing civil rights legislation to go ask the KKK their opinion,” she quipped last Tuesday.
Zokaie doubled down on the comparison on Friday, explicitly citing the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Colorado state Rep. Yara Zokaie doubles down on comparing parental rights groups to the KKK, citing the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Zokaie did so while defending a bill that would define "misgendering" and "deadnaming" as "coercive control" and would require courts to consider it in custody battles.😡
So, parents who don't want to trans their kids should have their kids removed from them, and if these parents team up to form a group, they'll be demonized as hateful like the KKK.
Zokaie had first compared parents groups to the KKK in a hearing on Tuesday.
She attempted to explain why parental rights groups had been excluded from discussions on HB 1312, the bill in question.
“A well-stakeholded bill does not need to be discussed with hate groups, and we don’t ask someone passing civil rights legislation to go ask the KKK their opinion,” she quipped.
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Two House Republicans slammed Zokaie's remarks.
“Calling parental advocacy groups ‘hate groups’ is just their excuse to marginalize and ignore them while maintaining a pretense of moral superiority,” @COrepKdeGraaf told me.
@RepCaldwell said the comparison uses “inflammatory labels that are only meant to create division” and “dismisses the valid concerns of parents.”
The Left is freaking out about President Trump ramping down the Department of Education. Dems say Trump has "declared war on America's students," but the move won't impact kids on the ground.
Who will it harm? Unions that bankroll Democrats and other left-leaning NGOs.
Here's a 🧵 explaining what may actually happen and why the Left can't handle it.
Contrary to the Democrats' suggestions, the Department of Education doesn't actually run schools. Rather, it handles federal funding for schools and enforces certain rules like Title IX.
These functions can arguably be reassigned to other federal agencies, and other actions can be delegated to the states, which actually run public schools in this country.
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WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF DOE DISAPPEARS?
“Teacher unions benefit from access to a central place where they can advocate for programs that benefit them,” @Heritage's @JM_Butcher told me.
“Having access to a central office from which they can lobby for large sums is more cost-effective to them than 50 different states.”
Of course, the unions' power base "is in the states," and "surveys of state and local chapters find that they don’t always approve of what the national office is doing."
If the DOE goes the way of the do-do, it will be harder for national teachers unions to justify their national offices in D.C.
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Washington state has launched a “Domestic Extremism and Mass Violence Task Force,” which will recommend laws for the Legislature.
The problem? It's stacked with far-left groups, and not just any leftists, but key allies of the SPLC.
Critics warn that it is "self-evident" that this is "very dangerous to people of faith," and they fear that it may result in surveillance and blacklisting of conservatives in the Evergreen State.
The task force includes quite a few notable leftist groups and no conservatives who might provide some important balance.
Notable names include:
1⃣Western States Center, an affiliate of the SPLC, and Kate Bitz, who has endorsed the SPLC "hate map" (more on this in the next post)
2⃣American University's Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL), the director of which also serves on an SPLC "hate" panel
3⃣ADL Center on Extremism, which has demonized critics of gender ideology
4⃣Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County, which carried water for the Paris Commune-style CHAZ insurrection
5⃣Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho.
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2⃣WHAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH SPLC?
So why do I keep harping on the Southern Poverty Law Center?
You see, the SPLC gained a reputation for monitoring and dismantling hate when it sued KKK groups into bankruptcy. Then it took that reputation and the "hate map" it uses to track the Klan and weaponized it against conservatives.
Today, the SPLC suggests mainstream conservative and Christian groups are a terror threat by putting them on the "hate map" with Klan chapters.
Do you support border security like @FAIRImmigration or @DAKDIS? You're an "anti-immigrant hate group."
Do you support religious freedom like @FRCdc, @ADFLegal, or @AFLC_FreedomLaw? You're an "anti-LGBTQ+ hate group."
Do you support parental rights like @Moms4Liberty or @DefendingEd? You're an "anti-government extremist."
Do you oppose sex changes for minors? Even groups of doctors like @donoharm and @segm_ebm are on the "hate map" now. Even an LGB group, @againstgrmrs, is considered an "anti-LGBTQ+ hate group" by the SPLC.
This all sounds like a joke, right? If only. You see, the Biden FBI cited the SPLC in that notorious anti-Catholic memo. SPLC leaders briefed the DOJ when they were adding Moms for Liberty to the "hate map." A terrorist shot up the Family Research Council in 2012, and he found his target by using the "hate map."
So, I decided to reach out to some of the "hate groups" in Washington state to hear what they think about this task force.