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Remember silence prepares you to navigate noise. Silence also prepares you to make impact. Silence is what history remembers. In times like these stay silent or make it loud. FREE BRIAN COLE JR!!

Day 8 of 14 | The Manufactured Narrative Who Controls the Economy? Larry Fink, BlackRock, and the Business of Financial Power What happens when the same financial institutions managing trillions of dollars are repeatedly called upon to advise the government during economic crises? And who benefits when those decisions are made? To understand BlackRock's influence, we need to go back more than 40 years. In the 1980s, Larry Fink worked at First Boston, helping pioneer mortgage backed financial products, including collateralized mortgage obligations. These products allowed mortgages to be bundled into securities and sold to investors. Over time, increasingly complex financial instruments distributed mortgage risk throughout the global economy. Fink co-founded BlackRock in 1988. Twenty years later, the housing market collapsed. Millions of Americans faced foreclosure, retirement savings evaporated, and major financial institutions suffered enormous losses from mortgage-related investments. The federal government intervened. In 2008, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve officials developed emergency measures to stabilize the financial system. Congress authorized the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Although originally designed to purchase troubled assets, the government shifted toward injecting capital directly into banks. Nine major financial institutions initially received a combined $125 billion. While families were losing their homes, extraordinary taxpayer-backed assistance was flowing toward the financial institutions at the center of the crisis. Homeowner assistance programs eventually followed, but the initial capital injections prioritized stabilizing banks. And here's where BlackRock enters the picture. Government agencies hired BlackRock to help evaluate and manage troubled financial assets associated with the Bear Stearns and AIG rescues. That relationship is documented by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Claims that Fink personally selected bailout recipients or owned substantial stakes in eight of the nine banks require additional evidence. But the larger question remains: Why did the federal government turn to powerful Wall Street institutions to help manage a financial collapse rooted in Wall Street's own products? And what safeguards protected the public from conflicts of interest? In 2009, BlackRock acquired Barclays Global Investors, dramatically expanding its influence over global investment markets. Then came 2020. COVID-19 triggered another financial emergency. The Federal Reserve established extraordinary programs to stabilize corporate credit markets. Once again, BlackRock received a major government assignment. The New York Fed selected BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory to manage emergency corporate credit facilities. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve dramatically expanded its balance sheet through asset purchases and emergency lending. Those decisions came from public monetary authorities, not Larry Fink personally. But the pattern is worth examining. During two major financial crises, the government turned to the same private financial institution for specialized assistance. By September 2026, BlackRock managed approximately $15.5 trillion in assets. That's largely money belonging to clients, not Fink's personal wealth. But managing trillions provides substantial influence through investment decisions, corporate relationships, and shareholder voting authority. BlackRock doesn't need to secretly own every corporation or control every politician for legitimate concerns about concentrated financial influence to exist. The real questions are about accountability. Who selects these financial advisers? How much are they paid? What conflicts of interest are disclosed? Who oversees their decisions? And why does financial assistance often reach major institutions faster than struggling households? This isn't an accusation that Larry Fink personally engineered every financial crisis. It's an examination of how financial power becomes concentrated and how certain institutions become increasingly important to government decision-making. When the economy collapses, ordinary Americans experience the consequences through unemployment, lost savings, foreclosures, and higher costs. Meanwhile, the financial system receives extraordinary intervention to prevent further collapse. Those interventions may serve legitimate economic purposes. But they should never escape public scrutiny. Tomorrow, we'll examine corporate subsidies, government assistance, and why some forms of public support are defended as essential while others are condemned as socialism. Because the central question remains: Who receives the assistance, who carries the risk, and who ultimately pays the price? Sources: U.S. Treasury Department, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Board, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Congressional Oversight Panel, BlackRock disclosures, Reuters, Federal Reserve History.

Day 7 of 30 Days of @boardyai. The goal is to submit REAX.me to Apple within the next 24 hours. What's left on the final checklist: 1. The privacy functions Apple's policy requires. 2. Confirming live GTM ops and the admin dashboard work. 3. Render setup and the new build. I'm submitting before the weekend on purpose. Review time isn't in my control, so I'll get the submission in, spend the weekend organizing everything else, and keep the remaining work moving while Apple reviews. If approval comes through, day one of the 15-day closed test is November 2. The test group is about 20 people: 8-10 close contacts, volunteers from our Discord, and roughly 10 more I'll recruit after submission. Testers earn a founding tester badge for activity and daily tasks, and each content vertical has its own participation questions. After the closed test, the 85 people on the waitlist get onboarded at public beta. In the days before it opens, 1,000 targeted creator invites go out.

Day 7 of 14 | The Manufactured Narrative Who Controls the Narrative? The Business of Free Speech, AI & Digital Ownership What happens when the corporations presenting themselves as defenders of free speech also control which voices receive attention, which stories reach millions, and which opinions become nearly invisible? There's a difference between protecting free expression and controlling its distribution. And Americans need to understand that difference. Consider The Daily Wire. It built a profitable media business around political commentary, cultural controversy, and subscription content. When Candace Owens departed in March 2024 following public disagreements, the dispute illustrated an important reality: private media companies ultimately decide which voices they support. That's their right. But having the freedom to speak doesn't guarantee freedom from editorial control. Outrage generates attention. Attention generates advertising revenue, subscriptions, and influence. Political division isn't necessarily a failure of that business model. Sometimes it's what makes the model profitable. According to Gallup, only 33% of Americans expressed confidence in mass media in September 2026, compared with roughly 68% in 1972. But abandoning traditional newsrooms for social platforms doesn't automatically mean you've escaped manipulation. You may have simply exchanged one gatekeeper for another. And nowhere is that concentration of power more visible than Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Consider Brazil's 2026 presidential election. Internal communications reported by Folha de S.Paulo indicated Instagram restrictions affected President Lula da Silva's campaign, while the platform promoted challenger Flávio Bolsonaro's profile and WhatsApp channel. Meta attributed the problems to technical failures and denied political favoritism. Whether deliberate or accidental, private platform decisions can influence political visibility during an election. Now consider Florida. On October 27, Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon reported that Instagram suspended her campaign's Latino outreach account during a voter mobilization event. The account was subsequently restored, but the disruption occurred days before Election Day. Think about that. A political campaign's ability to communicate with voters can depend on automated systems operated by a private corporation. These examples don't establish intentional political censorship. They demonstrate how much power these platforms possess over public communication, even when mistakes are involved. But controlling what people see is only half the concern. What about controlling what people create? Meta proposed substantial changes to its Commercial Terms, originally scheduled to take effect October 30, 2026. The proposed language raised concerns that businesses using Meta's commercial services could grant permission for automated tools, including web scrapers, bots, and crawlers, to collect information from websites associated with those businesses. An earlier version explicitly referenced training Meta products. Although that language was removed, legal experts questioned whether the revised terms still provided overly broad permissions. Think about the implications. A small business spends years building its website. A photographer publishes original work. An independent journalist develops investigations. A musician, filmmaker, or artist creates something uniquely their own. Should using a Facebook business service potentially involve granting a technology corporation broad access to material published outside its platforms? And should those permissions be buried in commercial agreements that most people will never read? Meta maintains that the proposed terms concern its advertising and business products, do not change existing crawling practices, and respect website owners' stated crawling preferences. But publishers, advertisers, and industry representatives challenged the language. The objections were significant enough that Meta delayed the changes. On October 28, the company announced further consultations and postponed implementation indefinitely. The existing terms remain in effect. October 30 is no longer the deadline. But that doesn't make the controversy disappear. It raises an even bigger question about how businesses and individuals give consent in the digital economy. Meta points to website controls such as robots.txt, which allow website operators to communicate restrictions to automated crawlers. However, those technical controls aren't the same as an explicit contractual opt-out from proposed commercial terms. As someone building an independent media company, I take that distinction seriously. Until these questions are resolved, I intend to limit our company's commercial use of Meta services. Our personal use of social platforms is a separate decision, and it doesn't eliminate broader privacy concerns. This is not an argument that artificial intelligence should disappear or that every technology company is acting maliciously. It's an argument for transparency, meaningful consent, and accountability. Because we're entering an era where the same companies influencing what information people encounter are also developing increasingly powerful systems capable of collecting, reproducing, and generating content. And if independent creators, journalists, businesses, and everyday people don't understand the agreements governing their work, how much control do they actually retain? Free speech matters. Independent journalism matters. Human creativity matters. Ownership and consent matter. And when a handful of corporations can influence what we see, whose voices reach us, and potentially how our work is used, we should be asking much harder questions. The public deserves to understand what it's agreeing to before clicking "Accept." Sources: Reuters, Nieman Lab, Folha de S.Paulo, Latin Times, Meta Oversight Board, Meta Commercial Terms, Gallup.

Day 6 of 30 Days of @boardyai. Content verticals are live on REAX.me, on both the website and the mobile app, and the two are connected. Now comes the less visible work: 1. Cleaning code. 2. Running internal tests. 3. Final touches before the Apple policy test. 4. Preparing the new Render database and the Expo EAS build. This is the work that keeps a closed test from breaking once real creators start posting. The target hasn't moved: finish a 15-day closed test, move into public beta, and bring on a minimum of 100-150 founding creators.

Day 6 of 14 | The Manufactured Narrative Manufacturing the Enemy: When Fear Replaces the Facts How does a protest about education, wages, and living conditions become a story about immigrants, religion, and threats to Western civilization? Sometimes, all it takes is changing the narrative. Look at France. Students, teachers, parents, and unions have protested deteriorating schools, teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and rising living costs. On October 24, approximately 410,000 people demonstrated nationwide. But videos of burning vehicles, police confrontations, and street violence circulated internationally, often stripped of the original context. Some images were fabricated. Others were real footage presented with misleading claims. And here's something worth examining. Plainclothes police officers were filmed throwing grenades during the protests. In Reims, authorities confirmed that a masked individual filmed throwing a projectile was actually an officer deploying tear gas. In Metz, footage showed two masked, plainclothes officers throwing grenades during the October 17 demonstrations. The footage establishes police involvement, although it doesn't prove officers deliberately staged violence. But imagine watching an explosion, smoke, and people fleeing without knowing who deployed the grenade. Authentic footage can still support a completely misleading narrative. How many Americans understood that students and teachers were protesting education and economic conditions? How many instead encountered claims blaming immigrants, Muslims, or religious extremism? That's selective framing. Now consider the numbers. According to Pew Research Center, approximately 1.2% of American adults identify as Muslim. Yet some political narratives portray this small minority as an overwhelming threat. Extremists don't represent every Muslim, just as violent individuals don't represent every Christian or Jewish American. Religious freedom is a constitutional right, not a privilege reserved for one faith. Now consider what happens when cultural division influences public policy. Look at Texas. In 2025, Texas approved a $1 billion private school voucher program, providing $10,474 per participating student for the 2026 school year. Supporters argue parents deserve educational choice. But wealthy families can also qualify. Lower income families receive priority, yet private schools aren't required to accept every eligible child. They can maintain selective admissions, charge additional tuition, and operate under different requirements than public schools. So who actually gets the choice? Families with money can afford transportation, additional tuition, and alternative options. What about rural families, children with disabilities, or parents who can't afford the difference? Critics, including Texas Senator César Blanco, have raised concerns about unequal access and the potential consequences for public schools. And here's the contradiction I want people to examine. Many Americans benefited from public education. Their children attended schools supported by taxpayers and communities. Why should future generations have fewer opportunities? Why subsidize families already able to afford private education while others struggle to access comparable resources? Now consider the religious argument. How can someone claim to follow Christian teachings about loving their neighbor while treating people of another religion as threats? You don't have to share someone's beliefs to respect their religious freedom. And you shouldn't need to diminish another person's opportunities to feel secure in your own. The First Amendment protects religious liberty for everyone. When fear and cultural division begin influencing education, public resources, and equal treatment, the consequences extend far beyond political arguments. Students demanding better schools become background characters in immigration debates. Children's opportunities become another cultural battleground. And neighbors begin seeing each other as enemies. I'm not arguing that every protest is peaceful or that every school choice supporter shares the same motives. I'm asking whether the policies we support reflect the values we claim to hold. Do they expand opportunity? Protect equal treatment? Strengthen communities? Or create new divisions? Because the difference between what actually happened, what we're told happened, and what ultimately becomes public policy can change people's lives. The next time someone tells you who your enemy is, ask who benefits from making you believe it. Sources: AP, AFP, Le Monde, La Dépêche, Pew Research Center, Texas Comptroller, Texas Tribune, Texas Senate.

Day 5 of 14 | The Manufactured Narrative Manufactured Consensus: When Thousands of Voices Aren’t Thousands of People Imagine seeing hundreds of social media accounts repeating identical political messages. Different names. Different photos. Different locations. Yet the same accusations, phrases, and arguments appear word for word. You might assume you’re witnessing widespread public opinion. But what if those voices aren’t independent? This is coordinated inauthentic behavior. Researchers at Clemson University have documented millions of posts from Russian influence networks. Meta reported removing 20 coordinated influence operations in 2024. In one operation originating in India, investigators identified 59 Facebook accounts, 11 Pages, and 152 Instagram accounts using artificial engagement and deceptive identities. Some accounts used AI generated photos, fabricated biographies, and ordinary lifestyle content to appear authentic. The objective? Create the appearance of genuine public agreement. I’ve witnessed similar patterns firsthand. During my own monitoring of X and other platforms, I’ve repeatedly encountered identical political messaging distributed across numerous accounts. Looking deeper, I’ve found profiles indicating locations outside the United States while actively participating in American political conversations. That doesn’t independently establish coordination or their actual location, but the patterns deserve examination. Most people scrolling for 30 minutes a day would never think to investigate who is behind these messages. Here’s why that matters. A major MIT study published in Science in 2018 found that false news was 70% more likely to be retweeted and reached 1,500 people approximately six times faster than truthful news. By the time someone investigates a lie and publishes the evidence, the false narrative may have already reached millions. This reflects Brandolini’s Law: correcting misinformation can require far more effort than spreading it. Now consider the consequences. Artificial consensus can distort conversations about elections, immigration, religion, and public policy. It can make fringe opinions appear mainstream, intensify hostility, and convince people they’re far more divided than they actually are. One message repeated a thousand times is still one message. And a thousand accounts don’t necessarily represent a thousand independent opinions. This isn’t about censorship or deciding which political beliefs are acceptable. It’s about distinguishing authentic participation from manufactured influence. I believe Americans have far more in common than the conflicts dominating their feeds suggest. But genuine conversation becomes harder when real people compete with fabricated identities, coordinated distribution, and artificial engagement. So here’s my question: When hundreds of accounts repeat the same message, are you witnessing independent public opinion, or are you watching a coordinated distribution campaign? Popularity can be manufactured. Authenticity matters. And society needs to know the difference. Sources: Clemson Media Forensics Hub, Meta Adversarial Threat Reports, MIT Sloan, Science (2018).

Who Broke the Story, and Who Got the Credit? What happens when journalists and investigators spend years uncovering fraud, only for a social media influencer to go viral and receive national recognition for information already publicly available? The Minnesota fraud controversy is a revealing example of how amplification can reshape public perception. Let’s examine the timeline. On January 28, 2025, KSTP investigative journalist Jay Kolls reported 62 active investigations involving childcare providers receiving public assistance. His reporting examined Quality Learning Center, which had accumulated 95 licensing violations between 2019 and 2023 while receiving approximately $7.8 million in public childcare payments. Kolls examined records, visited facilities, and questioned operators. Minnesota authorities had already been investigating fraud and oversight failures for years. Eleven months later, Nick Shirley went viral. On December 26, Shirley released a video alleging widespread daycare fraud. Elon Musk, JD Vance, and other influential political figures amplified it to millions. But Shirley didn’t originate the investigations. Subsequent state inspections also challenged parts of his presentation. Of nine facilities inspected, eight had children present. The ninth hadn’t opened for the day. CBS obtained footage showing children arriving at a facility Shirley had portrayed as empty. Minnesota has real fraud problems. But allegations aren’t convictions, and a locked door isn’t evidence of financial fraud. Now consider the actual $250 million fraud case. Aimee Bock, founder of Feeding Our Future, was convicted in March 2025 of leading a massive federal child nutrition fraud scheme. Federal charges were filed in 2022. In May 2026, Bock received a prison sentence exceeding 41 years and was ordered to repay nearly $243 million. Years of investigations, financial records, federal prosecution, and an actual conviction. Yet the newer political conversation has focused heavily on Shirley and Quality Learning Center, rather than one of Minnesota’s largest proven fraud schemes. These were separate programs, but they’ve increasingly been blended into one political narrative. Now look at what happened this week. On October 20, President Trump welcomed Nick Shirley to the Oval Office and announced a $10,000 award recognizing his work. Think about that. Jay Kolls reported on the daycare concerns eleven months earlier. Authorities had been investigating related fraud for years. Yet Shirley received national recognition. What new fraud did his original video independently establish? What had already been documented? Shirley brought renewed attention, but attention and investigative discovery aren’t the same thing. And there were real consequences. The controversy became a national political issue. Federal funding came under scrutiny, and Somali American childcare providers reported threats and harassment. A story about government accountability became entangled with immigration, ethnicity, and political identity. Meanwhile, the original investigative work was overshadowed. We should demand fraud investigations, protect taxpayer money, and recognize those who uncover wrongdoing. But millions of views don’t establish investigative originality. Political endorsements don’t prove allegations. And a White House award doesn’t rewrite the reporting timeline. The question isn’t whether fraud matters. Of course it does. It’s whether we’re rewarding evidence, accountability, and genuine investigative work, or whoever commands the largest audience. When attention becomes more valuable than accuracy, journalism risks becoming a performance. Day 4 of 14 | The Manufactured Narrative Sources: KSTP, CBS Minnesota, U.S. Department of Justice, Reuters, MPR News, Minnesota Star Tribune.

Day 3 of 14 | The Manufactured Narrative When the Owner of the Public Square Controls the Conversation What happens when the owner of a major social platform also influences the political narratives it distributes? For 16 months, I’ve monitored X, studying suspicious accounts, synthetic media, and coordinated amplification. It’s directly connected to my work building human verification technology. Who controls what millions see? In February 2023, Twitter engineers reportedly modified algorithms to increase Elon Musk’s visibility. Independent analysis confirmed a substantial increase in his reach. Musk also spends hundreds of millions influencing politics while controlling a platform that determines which messages receive attention. Following Ukrainian strikes on Russian data infrastructure, researchers recorded an 83.6% decline in activity among 5,201 suspicious Facebook and Telegram accounts. The disruption was temporary and doesn’t establish the same effect on X. But it reveals how artificial information campaigns can depend on infrastructure hidden from ordinary users. Consider James Talarico. The Texas Senate candidate was recovering from the flu when influencers falsely claimed he’d entered an Ohio psychiatric hospital. Rhein Amacher impersonated his cousin during a phone call. Nick Sortor shared a selectively edited recording that exceeded 7 million views. Musk amplified the speculation, attracting another 870,000 views. The hospital denied treating Talarico. His campaign and documented public appearances contradicted the allegation. Within 36 hours, evidence challenged the story, but millions had already encountered it. Watch the attached visualization. It tracks the spread of the allegation and competing narratives, with approximately 11 million views in its leading false claim category. Days later, AI generated videos impersonated a former student accusing Talarico of misconduct. The real individual denied it. Researchers linked the operation to Russia aligned Storm 1516. This is how fabricated information can damage reputations before corrections catch up. The consequences extend beyond elections. This week, I shared body camera footage of one year old Kohen Wiley, killed during a Mississippi police encounter involving alleged theft of diapers and baby clothing. I wrote: “5 drawn guns for an alleged shoplifting and a 1year old killed.” The officer fired multiple shots and later resigned. State authorities justified the force, while the family disputes that finding. Within ten hours, more than 30 people attacked me with hateful, racist remarks. I was discussing a dead child. Instead of examining evidence, people turned the conversation into hostility. Information also affects financial decisions. The government revised 2025 employment growth from 584,000 jobs to 181,000, a 69% reduction. These were legitimate statistical revisions, not proof of manipulation. But traders and investors had already reacted to earlier economic information. Accuracy and timing matter. The bigger issue is our communities. Americans have more in common than our feeds suggest. Most want safety, opportunity, financial stability, and peaceful communities. Yet algorithms can reward outrage, artificial reach can distort public attention, and corrections often struggle to catch up. The First Amendment protects speech against government restrictions, not equal visibility on private platforms. That makes transparency essential. If platforms influence which voices are heard and which controversies dominate, how accurately do they represent what ordinary people actually believe? What would our communities look like if authentic human conversation mattered more than manufactured attention? Sources: WIRED, TechRadar, PolitiFact, Graphika, ABC News, BLS. @theGhostOfRiel is responsible for this amazing tracker he put together of the Talarico fake story.

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The narrative should not be driven by power systems with an agenda.

We wont know how bad this was until we are out of it. Just like a bad relationship. This looks really bad now. The future might really teach those who supported this a lesson. I have to be honest though. Some will not care and a ton of them wont be around to see it. Those who blindly supported this administration are damaging their kids and grandkids futures and some know it and sadly do not care.

Day 2 of 14 | The Manufactured Narrative Before smartphones, social media algorithms, and endless newsfeeds, finding information required effort. When I was in college, research meant libraries, encyclopedias, early internet searches, forums, and independent media outlets. You had to dig deeper to understand a story. A college government class and a what turned into a 30 page research paper changed the way I approached information. That assignment started habits I’ve carried for nearly two decades. Who is behind this story? Why are they telling it? Is this a credible source? Where is the evidence? And what am I not being told? As the internet evolved, so did my awareness of how information could shape public opinion. Traditional media was losing its monopoly on information, independent voices were emerging, and the battle to influence public perception was entering a new era. I became fascinated not just by what people believed, but by how they came to believe it. Today, the entire process has changed. We no longer have to search for information. Information finds us. Algorithms influence what we see. Influencers amplify narratives. Political messaging is repeated across platforms. Artificial intelligence can now produce synthetic content at an unprecedented scale. And the emotions driving engagement haven’t changed. Fear. Anger. Division. Identity. Outrage. The difference is the speed, reach, and sophistication of the systems delivering those messages. What concerns me isn’t simply misinformation. It’s how easily repeated narratives can become accepted beliefs without people ever examining the original evidence. We’re watching Americans argue over issues they may never have considered important until those issues began dominating their feeds. Meanwhile, the everyday concerns affecting our communities compete for attention. Housing. Healthcare. Economic security. Privacy. Constitutional rights. Our children’s future. I’ve spent nearly two decades developing my own understanding of mass media and social engineering, independent of political party affiliation. Those habits helped shape my views and eventually contributed to why I’m building REAX Media. I believe authentic human communication, independent thought, and community deserve a stronger place in the future of media. The internet should expand our ability to think, not replace our judgment with someone else’s narrative. So here’s my question: Are you researching information to develop your own understanding, or are you allowing the information delivered to you to develop your understanding for you? Tomorrow, we’ll examine Elon Musk, X, and how control over an information platform can influence what millions of people see. Day 2 of 14 | The Manufactured Narrative

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Over the next two weeks, I’m examining something I’ve studied independently for nearly 20 years: mass media, social engineering, misinformation, and the manipulation of public perception. We’re entering an era where synthetic media, AI generated content, algorithmic amplification, and coordinated messaging are changing how society consumes information. The consequences go beyond politics. They affect how we understand our neighbors, what we fear, what we trust, and which issues dominate public conversation. Meanwhile, real concerns about privacy, constitutional rights, economic security, and accountability compete for attention. This is one reason I’m building REAX MEDIA. I believe authentic human expression and independent thought need a stronger place in the future of media. Over the next 14 days, I’ll share videos, public records, historical examples, research, and personal experiences examining how narratives are created, repeated, and amplified. One upcoming investigation will examine Meta’s controversial commercial terms taking effect October 30 and what they mean for businesses, creators, publishers, and website owners. This isn’t about asking anyone to adopt my politics. It’s about questioning what we consume, understanding how information influences us, and examining the evidence before forming conclusions. Because when people can no longer trust the information they consume or the people around them, communities suffer. And protecting that human connection matters. So here’s the question: Who decides what deserves our attention, and how much of that decision are we actually making for ourselves?

This WH and its treatment of the press has come to its lows. Everyday they embarrass the office. Insulting members of the press became normalized? Why do we accept this?

This administration has not one honorable bone in their body. Pete Hegseth is a War Criminal

Let’s give credit where credit is due. Investigative journalist @JayKollsKSTP of KSTP was reporting on Minnesota’s childcare funding problems long before Nick Shirley went viral. On January 28, 2025, Kolls reported that Minnesota DHS already had 62 active childcare investigations. He documented 95 licensing violations at Quality Learning Center between 2019 and 2023, identified $7.8 MILLION in government payments since 2019, and personally visited the facility multiple times. That was 11 MONTHS before Shirley’s viral video. Hey @NickShirleyy, why not publicly acknowledge and thank Jay Kolls for investigating the very facility that helped make you famous? And to the White House: Why celebrate Shirley without recognizing the journalists, investigators, and prosecutors whose work preceded his? Here’s the irony: KSTP is an ABC affiliate. The claim that mainstream media ignored Minnesota’s childcare problems is contradicted by its own reporting. Jay Kolls deserves recognition for his original reporting. Shirley brought renewed national attention, but the underlying problems and investigations were already public. An Oval Office invitation doesn’t rewrite the historical record. Publicity isn’t discovery. Going viral doesn’t make you first. Give credit where it’s due. @KSTP @WhiteHouse @TheJusticeDept @abcnews

Tariffs were refunded 100 billion! Stupid from day one! Lies like he breathes!