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Nov 19, 2024 8 tweets 6 min read Read on X
🚨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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Read more here: dailysignal.com/2024/11/19/can…Image
UPDATE: SPLC has published the article and The Babylon Bee is weighing legal options.

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Jul 9
Apparently, smearing conservatives really does pay.

The SPLC puts mainstream conservatives on a "hate map" with the KKK, silencing its opponents & scaring donors.

I went through its latest tax filing, which lists accounts in the Cayman Islands👀

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The SPLC admitted having an account in a foreign country, the Cayman Islands.

The SPLC also listed $30M in offshore accounts in "Central America and the Caribbean."

This may actually be a decrease from $92.6M in "non-U.S. equities" SPLC reported in 2017.👀

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"It's very odd and frankly raises suspicion that a nonprofit organization would have accounts in places like the Cayman Islands, or as they reported $30 million in Central America," @libertycounsel's @MatStaver told me.

Naturally, SPLC refused to answer my questions.

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Jun 11
Did the SPLC just admit that it's anti-Christian?🤔

This year's SPLC "hate map" includes @TPUSA & @PragerU alongside KKK chapters.

But SPLC also made a key blunder that undercuts its previous claims not to be "anti-Christian."

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SPLC puts mainstream conservative & Christian groups on the "hate map" alongside Klan chapters, claiming it's the "infrastructure upholding white supremacy."

My book, "Making Hate Pay" explains how SPLC uses this to demonize opponents & raise 💰

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In 2010, the SPLC added conservative Christian groups to the "hate map," branding them "anti-LGBT hate groups." At the time, SPLC intentionally did not put @FocusFamily on the hate map.

In 2012, an LGBT activist targeted @FRCdc for a mass shooting, using the map.

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Jun 10
What if I told you a top advisor for Adam Schiff during Russiagate and the first Trump impeachment "burrowed in" to the federal bureaucracy and apparently is still there?😲

If anyone seems likely to oppose the Trump admin from within, it's him.

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Meet Lucian Sikorskyj.

According to his verified LinkedIn profile, he serves as an associate administrator for security and hazardous materials safety at the FAA.

President Biden brought him in as a political appointee, but he switched to a "career" job in September.

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So what if some FAA safety staffer once worked for Schiff? Why should I care?

It's called "burrowing in." Presidents appoint 3K people for "political" positions, but most of the 2.3M federal workers are in non-political "career" roles.

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Jun 6
🚨UTTERLY INEXCUSABLE

The anti-conservative bias at the FBI goes deeper than you think.

This week, @ChuckGrassley exposed how more than 1,000 FBI staff responded to the notorious anti-Catholic memo citing the SPLC, and it's not pretty.

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According to Grassley's office, FBI Richmond disseminated the anti-Catholic memo to 1,000+ staff.

"No one contacted FBI RH with concerns, suggestions, or negative feedback," the report states. The office "only received positive input."😲

THAT in itself is a scandal.

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The FBI almost never comments on such things.

Yet the day after a whistleblower published the memo, HQ deigned to speak to the likes of me.

The memo, you see, "does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI."

Talk about an understatement.

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May 24
🚨BREAKING

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which trades on its history bankrupting the KKK to smear conservatives as secret supporters of "white supremacy," has put the largest conservative youth org—@TPUSA—on the "hate map" with Klan chapters.

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Every year, the SPLC puts out a new version of the "hate map," partly to scare donors into ponying up cash and partly to "cancel" its opponents—cutting them off from polite society.

This year, the "hate map" includes Turning Point USA.

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The SPLC accuses Turning Point and its founder, @charliekirk11, of propping up "white Christian supremacy."

Now, if Charlie Kirk were racist & theocratic, would Turning Point have a presence on more than 3K campuses?🤔

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May 17
The EEOC under Biden tried to rewrite federal law to force gender ideology on state and local governments—and on every company that hires at least 15 people.

@KenPaxtonTX and @Heritage sued.

This week, a judge threw out the EEOC guidance.

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Bear with me: the case is complicated but as I lay it out, you'll see just how outrageous it is.

Also, please bookmark the first post in this 🧵, so you can go back to it. I'll walk you through how Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk just eviscerated the Left's false narrative.

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First, @Heritage Prez @KevinRobertsTX reveals why it's important:

“The Biden EEOC tried to compel businesses—and the American people—to deny basic biological truth.”

The ruling means “You don’t have to pretend men are women. And you don’t have to lie to keep your job.”

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