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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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🚨TRANS BATHROOMS FOR THEE, NOT FOR ME

Stone Bridge High School infamously allows boys in the girls' restroom and girls in the boys' locker room.

But a brave dad took a picture of this sign back in May, and now his son took another one, today.

Here's why it matters.

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“How do they have their own bathrooms if our own students don’t have their own bathrooms?” the father asked me.

His question comes in the midst of a second huge trans bathroom scandal at Stone Bridge High School.

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In 2021, a male s*xually assaulted a girl in a Stone Bridge girls' room. The district moved him to another school, where he victimized another girl in a bathroom.

The superintendent said, “The predator transgender student or person simply does not exist.”

This rightly fueled outrage and boosted Glenn Youngkin to win the Virginia governor election.

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Aug 23
DR. DOBSON'S LEGACY

Dr. James Dobson had a profound impact on my life, but not for the reasons our culture might think.

Here's how his work impacted me, and how I'm fighting to protect his legacy.

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Stories of "deconstruction" among my fellow millennials who grew up in the 1990s have become so common they're passe.

But the conservative Christian movements of the 1980s and 1990s had a positive impact on my life, and Dr. Dobson was a giant in these movements.

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Who was Dr. Dobson?🤔

He fought the sexual revolution by emphasizing marriage & family. He taught authoritative parenting in response to the "free range" Dr. Spock.

A psychologist, he encouraged Christian parents to lead their kids away from sin & toward virtue.

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Aug 22
🚨EXPELLED FROM GIRL SCOUTS

The Girl Scouts expelled NJ mom Alexandra Bougher, a @Moms4Liberty chapter chair, after she refused to promote LGBTQ "Pride" to her troop.

She also got swatted after she attacked a church's decision to raise an LGBTQ flag.

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Bougher's daughter had been in Girl Scouts since Kindergarten, but the mom started noticing a very liberal bias in Girl Scouts amid the BLM riots of 2020.

She says she remembers troops going to BLM protests. That's plausible. Here's GSUSA's statement on BLM

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In June, Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey posted an LGBTQ graphic. Bougher responded by saying, "WE DO NOT talk about this with our troop."

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Aug 20
🚨WINSOME STANDS WITH 'THE LOUDOUN 3'

Lt. Gov. @winwithwinsome spoke at Stone Bridge High School, slamming Loudoun County Public Schools for punishing 3 boys who complained about a girl in the locker room.😲

One boy's dad spoke, and so did the lawyer representing him.

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First, @TFFVA Prez Victoria Cobb explained what happened.

Loudoun County punished three boys after they saw a girl in their locker room. This at the same school where a boy sexually assaulted a girl in the girls' room four years ago.

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Then @WinsomeSears slammed LCPS for using “the parents’ own tax money against them and punish[ing] these boys.”

“What are we supposed to do now?” she asked. “Well, I’ll tell you what we can do. There are things called elections.”

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🚨3 JAW-DROPPING REVELATIONS

@DNIGabbard and @FBIDirectorKash released more declassified info on Russiagate and the Intelligence Community's efforts to strangle the Clinton Foundation probe in its crib.

Here are 3 major docs you should know about.

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First, then-National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers sent a Dec. 2016 email to then-DNI James Clapper on the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russia.

Rogers suggested his team had neither "sufficient access" nor "sufficient time" to prepare the document.

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Crucially, Rogers added, “I know that you agree that this is something we need to be 100% comfortable with before we present it to the President—we have one chance to get this right, and it is critical that we do so.”👀

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🚨THE BIDEN BURROWERS

How does Adam Schiff's Russiagate advisor end up in the Trump admin?

How does the woman who helped Kamala Harris demonize Kavanaugh end up in the Trump DOD?

My investigative series exposes a potential deep state threat in the second Trump admin.

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The phenomenon is called "burrowing in."

Presidents appoint 3K people to political positions, but there are 3M+ supposedly non-political career roles in the government.

Biden's appointees moved into these career roles, and many remain under Trump.

Who are they?🤔

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First, let's mention Lucian Sikorskyj, a former advisor to Adam Schiff's House Intelligence Committee during Russiagate.

Now, he's at the FAA under Trump. To say this raises questions would be an understatement.

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