While you were occupied ... This is the real news
By Tatiana Prophet
But first: BREAKING NEWS: Update 4:17pm EDT: President Trump has already left Miami. He is scheduled to speak tonight at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J.
MIAMI—President Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States, was arrested in Miami on Tuesday. Some reports were saying he was going to be “processed” and held “loosely” by U.S. Marshals. Other reports said he was “in federal custody.” The latter sounds much scarier. This is the first time a former U.S President has been arrested by the (federal) Department of Justice. Last month he was arrested by the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg.
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In other news:
There’s a giant hole where the news should be. Under most circumstances, the following stories would be considered a big deal. Only now, when the main goal of the media industrial complex is to destroy one flashy billionaire, are these stories buried. But they will have consequences for every single American. They reach into our schools and our homes. But for some reason, they have been minimized, censored and discredited by both corporate and social media.
On Wednesday June 7, 2023, The Wall Street Journal published an exposé of Instagram’s algorithm as encouraging the distribution and sale of child pornography. It is a true bombshell, not the kind that is perennially “closing in” on Donald Trump. No, it is about very real, horrible things.The investigation , by researchers at Stanford University, reveals the existence of a “vast network” connecting pedophiles with child abuse sexual material or CSAM.
Three researchers at Stanford set up test accounts and were recommended hundreds of ways to view such material, including “menus” of various types of content, some referring to “pizza.” Selling CSAM is bad enough, but if criminal Instagram users are doing that, it’s not much of a stretch to think that they might also be selling even worse.
This links to the WSJ article, which requires a paid subscription. The Verge article provides information also.
Illustration by Tatiana Prophet. This was meant to be the cover photo before News broke of Trump’s arrest, which I might add was overblown by all the corporate media. It was essentially the same scenario as in New York last month, except that this is a federal jurisdiction.
2. On Thursday, June 8, 2023, Congressional Republicans reported on an FBI document related to the current president, which they were allowed to read in a secure location under the FBI’s direction.
The much discussed document, form FD-1023, requested by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, contains a report from a paid informant regarding the Biden family and their overseas business deals. In 2016 the source had reported that Hunter Biden, as part of his membership on the board of Burisma, was engaging in a pay to play for favors from his father when Joe was vice president. Most of the elite media only reported on this development in the context of “those Republicans, how insane.” Newsweek at least quoted from MTG’s press conference:
“On Thursday, Greene said that Burisma's owner paid a total of $10 million to two Biden family members, without mentioning names. She said that the information in the FBI document revealed that the payment was bribery to get Shokin fired and that the company's owner told the informant that this was a "common practice" in Russia and Ukraine.”
Yet the article went on to quote USA Today in 2019 as saying that the reason Biden wanted the prosecutor Shokin fired was because he was not fighting corruption. But the confidential paid informant, memorialized in the FD-1023, reported the opposite. The claims are from an unnamed source, but they do come from a directly paid confidential FBI informant. As such, they should have at minimum prompted an investigation by the Department of Justice.
3. May 5, 2023: Four members of the Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy. You can read the indictment here. Two of their “co-conspirators” chose to plead guilty and cooperate fully with the government.
The trial, expected to last seven weeks at most, stretched in the four months. Two of the defendants testified that there wasn’t any concrete plan to overthrow the government that day. Defense attorneys were blindsided by the revelations that more than one FBI informant being part of the operation.
And Judge Timothy Kelly rejected a request by Zachary Rehl’s lawyer to dismiss the case, claiming his Sixth Amendment rights were violated and motioned the court to dismiss his indictment because FBI agents reviewed messages with his former attorney Jonathan Moseley, sent through the Bureau of Prisons’ email system.
Further Enrique Tarrio, the “chairman” of the proud boys, has been an informant, a “prolific” informant, according to his own attorney speaking during a case in Miami, for more than a decade and it gets curiouser with text messages coming out showing him getting advance warning from Lt. Shane Lamond about his arrest before January 6. The messages appear to show a long-standing record of communication between the two.
4. Earmarks became legal again (officially on Feb. 21, 2021). Those infamous Congressional add-ons, which often have nothing to do with the legislation they are attached to, have been rebranded as ‘member-directed spending.’ And there is some evidence that earmarks in the Democrats’ 2021 $1 trillion infrastructure bill had a lot to do with the bipartisan passage of Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion spending bill in December 2022. The bill was flown to St Croix over the New Year holiday for Biden to sign.
Earmarks are designed to elicit a “yes” vote from the opposite party on present or future contentious legislation, with money for projects in the representative’s district.
The final infrastructure bill needed 15 Republican votes to pass, and it got 18.
All the Republicans who voted Yes on the $1 trillion infrastructure spending bill in mid-2021. Earmarks clearly played a part in getting the bill over the finish line. Part of allowing earmarks again was establishing more rules and transparency requirements.
5. California is considering a bill that would classify parents who oppose their child’s “gender identity” as being guilty of child abuse.
AB-957 is scheduled for a hearing jn the State Senate on June 13, 1:30 pm.
Track the legislation here.
The Daily Signal: “By changing the definition of what constitutes the “health, safety, and welfare of [a] child,” schools, churches, hospitals, and other organizations interacting with children would be required to affirm “gender transitions” in minors by default—or risk charges of child abuse.”
Meantime, legislation has also been introduced by Bill Essayli, assemblyman from Riverside, “to require schools in California to notify parents in writing within three days” after discovering that a child identifies as a different gender than official records. Activist groups oppose the bill, which has languished in committee since March 13.
California Assembly member Lori Wilson, who authored bill 957. The bill would classify parents who do not affirm their child’s desired gender as child abusers. It passed the assembly and has been amended by the state senate. Wilson reportedly has a child who is transgender.
