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Tyler O'Neil Profile picture
@Tyler2ONeil
Nov 19, 2024 • 8 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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🚨THE LEFT'S ENFORCER:

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.

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First, a word on the SPLC. What is it?

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.

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What Scandals?🤔

It might be more pertinent to ask what kind of scandal hasn't dogged the SPLC.

It's quite a list:

1⃣$3M in a defamation settlement to a Muslim reformer the SPLC branded an "anti-Islamic extremist."

2⃣A racial discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit that led SPLC to fire its cofounder and have its president resign in 2019.

3⃣A former employee saying the "hate" accusations are a "highly profitable scam" to bilk donors.

4⃣The FBI publicly declaring that SPLC isn't a reliable source of information (more on this later).

5⃣A defamation lawsuit against the SPLC making it past a key legal hurdle last year.

6⃣Accusations of "union-busting" from employees amid a restructuring earlier this year.

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🏛️WHITE HOUSE TIES

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."

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Remember the FBI disavowing SPLC?

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.

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UPDATE: SPLC has published the article and The Babylon Bee is weighing legal options.

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🚨FOLLOW THE MONEY💰

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.

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WHAT DOES THE DOE DO?🤔

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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Mar 7
🚨SURVEILLANCE, BLACKLISTING

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.

Here's why their concerns are valid.

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1⃣WHO'S ON THE TASK FORCE?

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.

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Mar 6
🚨EXCLUSIVE

Do you remember @paytonmcnabb_, who got her face beat in by a man playing women’s volleyball?

Well, she also got kicked out of her sorority for *checks notes* confronting a man in the women’s restroom.

The Daily Signal is the first to break this news.

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Here’s the incident that got her booted from the sorority. Who’s harassing whom here?!
And yes, this is the same Payton McNabb who was Trump’s honored guest Tuesday night
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Feb 16
🐙THE LEFT'S TENTACLES IN USAID

USAID wasn't just spending your tax dollars💰 to promote woke causes overseas, it also ties in to the Left's dark money and influence network that called the shots in the Biden administration.

USAID has funneled money to the Tides Foundation, sent cash to the same groups George Soros' Open Society Foundations was funding, and served as a revolving door—former USAID workers go to work at left-wing foundations and activist groups.

I have the receipts🧾 here.

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WHAT IS USAID?🤔

While the acronym suggests USAID is about aid, it’s really about soft power. John F. Kennedy established USAID as a tool to fight Soviet Communism abroad.

In recent years, the agency has promoted the classic woke causes:

1⃣critical race theory
2⃣climate alarmism
3⃣gender ideology
4⃣a preference for technocratic government

USAID spent:

1⃣$1.5M for DEI in Serbia's workplaces
2⃣$47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia
3⃣$2M for promoting s*x changes in Guatemala
4⃣$250M on a Climate Finance for Development Accelerator to help countries meet their climate goals in the Paris Agreement

These initiatives echo the spending of Hungarian American billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, and that is no accident.Image
THE SOROS CONNECTION💰

The Open Society Foundations has bankrolled many of the leftist groups in the Woketopus, my term for the groups that staffed and advised the Biden administration.

Open Society claims not to receive funding from USAID or direct USAID's funding, but its ties to USAID are undeniable.

1⃣It funds the same projects (2 notable examples below)

2⃣Leaders met with former USAID Administrator Samantha Power

3⃣Soros foundations network listed USAID among its "donor parters" in 2001

4⃣An Open Society nonprofit sued USAID twice, with the cases reaching SCOTUS both times.

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Jan 21
🚨PREVENTING ANOTHER NATIONAL NIGHTMARE

What made Joe Biden's presidency so bad? It wasn't just Biden's age—there was a fundamental mismatch between the issues impacting Americans' lives and the priorities of the federal government.

While Americans struggled with inflation, Biden bragged about "investing" in green technology, even as his administration cracked down on oil and gas. The Biden admin opened the border while Americans struggled with increasing crime and lawlessness. The Biden White House celebrated Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter Sunday.

Much of these and other policies trace back to a woke influence campaign propped up by the Left's dark money network. My new book, "The Woketopus🐙: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government," has the receipts.

It works like this: the Left's dark money network (think George Soros, Alex Soros, Arabella Advisors, The Tides Foundation) feed the woke nonprofits. Those woke nonprofits then send staff into the unelected bureaucracy. Those bureaucrats then prioritize the woke agendas of those nonprofits, partly because they used to work there and partly because they agree with the ideology.

The Woketopus succeeds at getting woke policies that are out of step with the American people enshrined into federal regulations.

President Trump has replaced Biden, but he also needs to combat this influence campaign. This thread will explain why it's still a problem and what he needs to do about it.

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🐙WHAT IS THE WOKETOPUS?🐙

The Woketopus is a massive influence campaign, composed of woke nonprofits pressuring the federal government to take extreme stances.

It's a compound word with two parts: "woke" and "octopus."

I define "woke" as a comprehensive worldview that combines at least four elements:

1⃣Critical race theory: the idea that America is systemically racist for whites and against blacks and that we need fundamental change to root that out.

2⃣Gender ideology: the idea that a nebulous sense of gender identity overrides biological sex, such that doctors should be allowed to sterilize kids, males should be allowed in women's private spaces, and gender pronouns should be forced on people, regardless of the consequences.

3⃣Climate alarmism: the idea that human beings are destroying the environment by burning fossil fuels. In truth, fossil fuels can now burn very cleanly and it is emphatically not a "consensus" that CO2 emissions will destroy civilization.

4⃣A preference for technocratic government: trust in bureaucratic elites and institutions over the people's elected representatives. After COVID-19, Americans are waking up to the rot in the health and other establishments, but the reckoning is just beginning and woke wants it to stop.

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🐙THE OCTOPUS PART

Now for the octopus part of Woketopus: the sprawling influence network.

Some names should not be a surprise to the politically aware. On the money💰 side:

1⃣Open Society Foundations (founded by George Soros, now run by Alex Soros)

2⃣Arabella Advisors (exposed in an excellent book from @capitalresearch Prez. Scott Walter), a for-profit entity founded by Eric Kessler that sets up multiple nonprofits to funnel money, cloaking which projects donors are funding.

3⃣The Tides Nexus, a network of dark money foundations that bankroll various woke causes.

4⃣Unions. The union dues of members at the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, the SEIU, AFL-CIO, and AFSCME are funneled toward woke causes in the name of charity.

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Dec 10, 2024
🚨DEEP STATE GEARING UP President-elect Donald Trump poses a serious threat to the woke bureaucrats staffing the federal government.

The massive left-wing influence campaign I call The Woketopus🐙 won't go away on Jan. 20. Far from it.

Instead, the left-wing ideologues in the administrative state have a three-part strategy to hamstring Trump, undermine his admin from within, and prepare for the next liberal administration.

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1⃣GOVERNMENT IN EXILE

Some of the bureaucrats, knowing Trump will fire them, have already found their next jobs—in the left-wing nonprofits that form the arms of the Woketopus.

Tracy Stone-Manning, for example, will leave the Bureau of Land Management for The Wilderness Society, a woke environmentalist group.

All the woke nonprofits that staffed and advised the Biden administration will welcome back their old colleagues and their ideological allies. Bureaucrats will flock to the Center for American Progress, the Human Rights Campaign, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, among others.

From there, they will influence the political discourse and bide their time⏱️ for another liberal administration.

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2⃣TRUMP-PROOFING

Various federal agencies are trying to head off Trump's attempts to drain the swamp.

1⃣OPM finalized a rule attempting to block Trump from reinstating his "Schedule F" executive order, which would make it easier to fire certain bureaucrats.

2⃣EPA signed a collective bargaining agreement with its employees' union creating mechanisms for employees to report any coworker who had "improper influence" on a scientific study.

3⃣NIH designated an official to identify supposed political meddling in the agency's work.

Stay tuned—I'm sure there are far more attempts to hamstring Trump.

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