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Authored by Wim De Gent via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the establishment of a task force aimed at protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding American citizens.

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at a news conference regarding immigration enforcement at the Justice Department in Washington on Feb. 12, 2025. Ben Curtis/AP Photo

“For too long, the Second Amendment, which establishes the fundamental individual right of (more…)

Authored by James Howard Kunstler,

The decade-long treasonous hectoring of Mr. Trump keeps on coming, you understand, for the simple reason that there have been absolutely zero consequences for any of the vicious rogues behind it. 

Not so much as a rap on the knuckles for seeking to overthrow a president, steal elections, hide high crimes, rob the treasury, and recklessly frame the innocent.

And suddenly this week, as startling as a mythic goddess of justice riding a spring (more…)

Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

A former Facebook executive told Congress on April 9 that she watched her former coworkers “repeatedly undermine U.S. national security and betray American values” in their dealings with China.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, former director of Global Public Policy at Facebook, prepares to testify during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 9, 2025. Win McNamee/Getty Images

“They did these things in secret to win favor with Beijing and build an $18 billion business in China,” Sarah Wynn-Williams testified before a panel of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Meta has denied the accusations.

Wynn-Williams served as the director of global public policy for Facebook, now Meta, from 2011 to 2017. During that time, she said Meta executives “lied about what they were doing with the Chinese Communist Party to employees, shareholders, Congress, and the American public.”

Wynn-Williams’s allegations against Meta, which she detailed in her memoir “Careless People,” include the claim that the company worked “hand-in-glove” with the CCP to custom-build and wield censorship tools against the regime’s critics.

“When Beijing demanded that Facebook delete the account of a prominent Chinese dissident living on American soil, they did it and then lied to Congress when asked about the incident in a Senate hearing,” she said, referring to Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, whose Facebook page was removed in 2017.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), the panel’s chairman, said that the move followed documented pressure from the CCP to remove the page.

Wynn-Williams also alleged that Meta provided the CCP with access to user data—including that of Americans—and briefings on artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies “to help China out-compete American companies.”

Wynn-Williams said, “There’s a straight line you can draw” between those briefings and media reports that China is developing an AI tool for military use based on Meta’s publicly available Llama model.

Meta has denied Wynn-Williams’s allegations and has taken legal action to prevent her from voicing them. An arbitrator’s gag order issued on March 12—just one day after her book release—bars the whistleblower (more…)