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.
Did you know the Dem nominee for Virginia governor was called as a witness in a defamation lawsuit?
Did you know she nearly got sued for defamation, and physically ran away from the guy who claimed she defamed him?
This case is wild.
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The case dates back to Nov. 3, 2022, when the Democratic Party of Virginia published a press release attacking @yestoyesli for spending time with Thomas Speciale, a retired Army intel officer and former U.S. Senate candidate.
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As you can see here on this archived version, the press release claimed Speciale "attacked the US Capitol" on Jan. 6 and suggested he "bloodied and beat law enforcement officers."
Speciale contests both claims, and says this press release defamed him.
Why did the Bureau of Labor Statistics get it so wrong?
Today, the BLS revised the jobs estimate—it was the largest downward jobs revision in BLS history.
President Trump has accused BLS of cooking the books to help Biden.
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Here's the breakdown.
911,000 fewer jobs than previously estimated in the year from April 2024 to March 2025😲
How does the BLS get it that wrong?!
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“This staggering 911,000 downward revision in jobs data marks the largest such correction in history, underscoring the urgent need for change and new leadership at the BLS," @Heritage's @RichAStern told me. "BLS must refine its data collection methods."
This week, Sen. Tim Kaine flipped the central principle of the Declaration of Independence on its head.
He got religious freedom exactly wrong.
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Key quote:
"The notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government but come from the creator—that's what the Iranian government believes."😲
"The notion that our rights do not come from our laws or our government should make people very nervous."
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Kaine rightly noted that "people of any religious tradition or none are entitled to the equal protection of the laws under the 14th Amendment. It shouldn't matter what their religious background is."
On @NEWSMAX's The Right Squad last night, I hit on Chorus, a project of Sixteen Thirty Fund, a dark money Arabella Advisors nonprofit, which is paying leftist influencers.
Chorus says it's no strings attached, but count me skeptical.
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It sounds harmless when framed as desperate leftists trying to pay for friendship, but let's remember how much alternative media—specifically a long-form podcast strategy—bolstered Trump last year (as @bradleydevlin reported). The Left is jealous.
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Last week, @TaylorLorenz wrote an exposé in @WIRED focused on Chorus, which reportedly has offered as much as $8K per month for an influencer training program.
Lorenz said the contracts require secrecy and control over some political messaging.