Several influential figures in Democratic politics were on Capitol Hill Wednesday night for a fundraiser benefitting the People for the American Way (PFAW). Spotted at the event, hosted by the Top of the Hill Banquet & Conference Center, were former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Ed Markey (D-MA), as well as Alex Soros — son of billionaire globalist George Soros — and Rabbi David Saperstein.
RIGHT WING WATCH.
The group, which boasts an annual nonprofit budget of nearly $6 million, backs several initiatives that promote politically progressive causes. However, their best-known project is the website and publication Right Wing Watch. Right Wing Watch was credited with leading the campaign to de-platformAlex Jones in 2018. Following a Right Wing Watch pressure campaign, Apple Inc., YouTube, Facebook, and Spotify blocked Jones‘s content.
Right Wing Watch operates similarly to Media Matters for America (MMFA), selectively editing clips of conservative and religious leaders, politicians, and commentators and subsequently promoting the videos to the corporatemedia. The tactic was actually popularized by PFAW. The group would record VHS television segments and mail them to news networks and television stations.
HOLLYWOOD LIBERALS.
PFAW founder Norman Lear was a Hollywood television producer and writer best known for creating several popular 1970s sitcoms. Lear, a self-described liberal who died in 2023, backed numerous civil-libertarian political efforts. PFAW’s board members include actor Alec Baldwin, comedian and writer Seth MacFarlane, United Farm Worker co-founder Dolores Huerta, actress Jane Lynch, and former AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan.
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Several influential figures in Democratic politics were on Capitol Hill Wednesday night for a fundraiser benefitting the People for the American Way (PFAW). Spotted at the event, hosted by the Top of the Hill Banquet & Conference Center, were former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Ed Markey (D-MA), as well as Alex Soros — son of billionaire globalist George Soros — and Rabbi David Saperstein.
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On the same day as a dozen of his family members expressed their support for President JoeBiden, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. secured a spot on the official ballot in Michigan, a critical swing state in the November presidential election. The ballot qualification moves Kennedy one step closer to qualifying for the 2024 presidential debates.
Kennedy will need to make enough state presidentialballots to be able to win at least 270 electoral votes. Michigan currently awards 15 electors for the Electoral College, boosting the number Kennedy can win — given the current states in which he’s qualified for the ballot — to 52. The independent candidate has over a month until he’ll need to file finalized petitions to qualify for the Texas and New York ballots — with almost every other U.S. state coming thereafter.
The National Pulse previously reported that Kennedy could make the debate stage. In addition to being mathematically competitive in the Electrical College, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) requires candidates to achieve an average of 15 percent of the vote across five national presidential polls. The CPD stipulates which polls qualify.
Kennedy and his running mate, NicoleShanahan, received the nomination from the Natural Law Party, approving their candidacy in Michigan for president and vice president, respectively. Natural Law Party Chairman Doug Dern, in a statement from the independent candidate’s campaign, described Kennedy as “the most qualified candidate in the modern-day history of America.”
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On the same day as a dozen of his family members expressed their support for President JoeBiden, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. secured a spot on the official ballot in Michigan, a critical swing state in the November presidential election. The ballot qualification moves Kennedy one step closer to qualifying for the 2024 presidential debates.
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Government watchdog Judicial Watch has received five pages of records from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that reveal an April 2020 exchange with officials in the bureau’s Newark Field Office referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China as including “gain-of-function research” which “would leave no signature of purposeful human manipulation.”
On April 23, 2020, an email exchange with the subject “Follow-up call” occurred between unnamed FBI officials. A person whose name is redacted writes:
Details of the current NIAID [Fauci’s National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases] grant for WIV [Wuhan Institute of Virology] bat coronavirus surveillance and WIV bat coronavirus gain-of-function research are available at:https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9819304&icde=49645421&ddparam=&ddvalue=&ddsub=&cr=1&csb=default&cs=ASC&pball= [summary of NIH grant to EcoHealth Alliance for Project 2R01AI110964-06]. The key activity for bat coronavirus surveillance is ‘Aim 1 … We will sequence receptor binding domains (spike proteins) to identify viruses with the highest potential for spillover which we will include in our experimental investigations. (Aim 3).’
The key activity for bat coronavirus gain of function is “Aim 3 … We will use S protein sequence data, infectious clone technology, in vitro and in vivo infection experiments and analysis of receptor binding to test the hypothesis that 0/0 divergence thresholds in S protein sequences predict spillover potential.” Translated into lay language, this equates to: “In Aim 3, we will use de novo synthesis to construct novel viruses encoding different spike proteins in an otherwise-constant genomic context, and we will test the ability of the resulting novel viruses to infect human cells in culture and to infect laboratory animals. We hypothesize that there is a direct correlation between the receptor binding affinity of the spike protein and the abilities to infect human cells in culture and to infect laboratory animals. We will test this hypothesis by asking whether novel viruses encoding spike proteins with the highest receptor-binding affinity have the highest abilities to infect human cells in culture and to infect laboratory animals.”
The reason I am writing is that the experimental strategy proposed in Aim 3 (“infectious clone technology”), if performed using commercial or in-house gene synthesis to prepare the infectious clones, *** would leave no signatures of purposeful human manipulation***. [Emphasis added]
A colleague then replies, “Hey, are you going to be in the office tomorrow? We just interviewed our person from [redacted] again, and he provided us with some alarming new info. Give me [a] call if you can.”
The email thread was then forwarded by the Newark Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge-National Security Branch (ASAC-NSB), whose name is redacted, to the then-special agent in charge of the Newark Field Office, Gregory Ehrie.
“These smoking gun documents showed the FBI quickly understood that Fauci’s agency funded the gain-of-function research that could disguise the resulting coronavirus as ‘natural,’” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “These new documents further demonstrate the need for a comprehensive criminal investigation into Fauci’s gain-of-function scandal.”
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Government watchdog Judicial Watch has received five pages of records from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that reveal an April 2020 exchange with officials in the bureau’s Newark Field Office referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China as including “gain-of-function research” which “would leave no signature of purposeful human manipulation.”
All twelve jurors have been selected to serve on the jury in former President Donald Trump’s non-disclosure agreement trial in New York City.
Back up:Trump is facing 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a non-disclosure agreement with adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Trump calls the trial “political persecution.”
The details: Juan Merchan, the controversial judge with a clear bias against Trump, declared, “We have our jury” after the 12th juror was selected Thursday. Here’s what we know about the jurors:
Juror 1 is a NYC resident with no children who enjoys the outdoors. They get their news from The New York Times, The Daily Mail, Fox News, and MSNBC.
Juror 2 says he follows Trump’s former lawyer turned-hater Michael Cohen on X and other right-wing accounts but will “try to keep an open mind.”
Juror 3 is an attorney who grew up in Oregon and gets his news from The New York Times and Google.
Juror 4 is originally from California and has been a security engineer for 25 years. He’s married with three kids, and his wife is a teacher. He enjoys metal and wood working.
Juror 5 is a single young woman. She’s a New York native who has taught English for eight years. She gets her news from Google and TikTok. She says she appreciated Trump’s candor.
Juror 6 is a young woman who lives in Manhattan and works as a software engineer.
Juror 7 is originally from North Carolina and works as a civil litigator. He’s married with two kids and gets his news from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and The Washington Post.
Juror 8 information is not available yet.
Juror 9 is a single woman from New York who lives in Manhattan and works as a speech therapist. She has e-mail subscriptions to CNN and The New York Times. She says she has opinions of Trump but believes she can put them aside.
Juror 10is a single man originally from Ohio who lives in Manhattan and works for a large commerce company. He says he doesn’t watch the news but listens to podcasts about behavioral psychology.
Juror 11information is not available yet.
Juror 12 information is not available yet.
Dismissals: Yesterday, two jurors were dropped.
One juror [originally Juror #2] told the court she did not believe she could be impartial, as friends and family contacted her based on news reports, suspecting she was one of the jurors.
Another juror [originally Juror #4], was kicked off the trial after Trump’s lawyers discovered he had previously been arrested for tearing down right-leaning political advertisements.
Today the court will select backup jurors.
Do you think Trump can get a fair jury pool in Manhattan?
All twelve jurors have been selected to serve on the jury in former President Donald Trump's non-disclosure agreement trial in New York City.
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Barnard College suspended Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, for her involvement in a pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University. The daughter of the controversial Somali Congresswoman was arrested at the protest.
Hirsi announced her suspension on social media on Thursday. This coincided with Columbia University President Nemat Shafik’s congressional appearance discussing antisemitism on campuses. Dr. Shafik assured lawmakers of her commitment to enforce rules relating to unauthorized protests and antisemitism during her testimony. Barnard is the sister school of Columbia.
Representative Omar, a committee member during the hearing, pushed Dr. Shafik on her treatment of Palestinian and Muslim students without mentioning her daughter’s involvement in the protest.
Hirsi, who identified herself as an organizer with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, has been advocating for the university to sever ties with companies supporting Israel.
In a social media post, Hirsi wrote, “I just received notice that I am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.”
Hirsi’s mother is also vocal critic of U.S. support for Israel. Joe Biden faces increasing pressure and resistance from political progressives and Muslim and Arab Americans for his government’s continued support of the Jewish state.
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Barnard College suspended Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, for her involvement in a pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University. The daughter of the controversial Somali Congresswoman was arrested at the protest.
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