Review: Zoom Masturbator Whitewashes Merrick Garland’s Role in OKC Bomb Coverup

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Review: Zoom Masturbator Whitewashes Merrick Garland’s Role in OKC Bomb Coverup

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who achieved infamy in 2020 when he masturbated on a Zoom conference call in front of his colleagues, released a new book today that compares the Oklahoma City bombing with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest.

The book, Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, is just as bad as one might think. When Headline USA obtained a pre-publication copy last month, it took a mere four sentences to spot an egregious error—as covered here.

Headline USA would need about 10,000 words to cover all the misinformation peppered throughout Toobin’s book, but will suffice it to say that Homegrown is based on an incorrect premise: that McVeigh acted alone in attacking Oklahoma, receiving only minor assistance in building the Ryder truck bomb from Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier.

By pinning the bombing solely on McVeigh, Toobin ignored that the country’s sitting attorney general, Merrick Garland, failed to prosecute others involved in the bombing. As will be revealed below, Garland actively attempted to steer the case away from McVeigh’s mysterious accomplice—known only as “John Doe 2″ —which should be grounds for his immediate removal from office.

To call Toobin’s work an “error” would be generous to the Zoom fapper. The book features an exclusive interview with Garland, but doesn’t include any comments from him about John Doe 2.

John Doe 2
An FBI composite of John Doe 1 and John Doe 2, the latter subject who remains at large. PHOTO: FBI composite sketch

Moreover, the book quotes Garland’s statements that he made while leading the prosecution at McVeigh’s the April 27, 1995, preliminary hearing. Garland made numerous references to John Doe 2 during this hearing, but Toobin made no mention of this.

Indeed, Toobin ignored the fact that Garland heard direct evidence that John Doe 2 was indeed present with McVeigh. Proof of this is in the transcript from the preliminary hearing, which can be found here.

The key moment of the hearing came when McVeigh’s defense counsel was asking Agent Hersley about how many people witnesses saw speeding away from the crime scene after the bomb detonated.

“Two,” the FBI agent responded.

“Did this witness also identify the person that we know as number 2, ‘unsub [unidentified subject] 2’ at the scene?” McVeigh’s defense attorney further asked, referencing John Doe 2.

Garland objected to this question, telling the presiding judge that “unsub 2 is not before the court.”

The judge sustained Garland’s objection.

But later during the hearing, FBI agent Hersley referenced “occupants” of the Ryder truck bomb—leading McVeigh’s defense to ask about John Doe 2 again, and for Garland to object once more.

“Did you tell me [the witness] saw occupants of a Ryder truck and there was more than one?” McVeigh’s defense asked the FBI agent.

“Objection,” Garland interjected. “The only person on trial at this hearing is Mr. McVeigh. It doesn’t matter whether there were two or 100 people in that truck, as long as there was somebody representing Mr. McVeigh there. It is discovery and totally outside of the scope of this hearing.”

This time, the judge sided with McVeigh’s defense, overruling Garland.

After McVeigh’s defense repeated this question, FBI agent Hersley said: “This witness advised that there were two individuals in the truck. The individual resembling Mr. McVeigh was the driver.”

Despite this revelation about McVeigh’s accomplice, the U.S. government would go on to claim that the Oklahoma City bombing was a lone wolf attack—and Toobin is carrying on that myth to this day.

Later in the book, Toobin tried to explain away John Doe 2 by saying that a key witness, Elliott’s Body Shop owner Eldon Elliot, was mistaken in seeing McVeigh was with an accomplice when he rented his Ryder truck two days before the bombing.

In doing so, Toobin spread more misinformation by retreading the already debunked story that Elliot confused McVeigh and John Doe 2 with two other people who rented a Ryder truck a day later, on April 18. Elliot was not at his body shop on April 18, meaning he could not have confused McVeigh and John Doe 2 with the two people other people.

Elliott maintained until the day he died that he saw McVeigh with John Doe 2. And he’s not alone: Even the FBI admitted to still looking for John Doe 2 in 1996—almost a year after publicly calling off the investigation for him in June 1995.

Headline USA also recently interviewed a first-responder to the bombing who saw McVeigh with an accomplice, which puts the number of witnesses who saw John Doe 2 on April 19 up to at least 27.

Luckily for readers, there are far better resources on the true story of the Oklahoma City bombing—particularly Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh, and Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed—and Why It Still Matters.

And for non-readers, there is an ongoing television series from Showtime called Waco: The Aftermath, which tracks in dramatic fashion the time period from the April 19, 1993, Waco massacre to the OKC bombing exactly two years later.

While this show is a drama, it is far more truthful than Toobin’s book—showing, for instance, the likelihood that the Aryan Republican Army terrorist group is among the “others” Garland failed to prosecute in relation to the bombing. Headline USA’s early review of this show can be found here.

Meanwhile, Garland continues to prosecute peaceful Jan. 6 defendants and protesting parents under the guise of combatting white supremacy and domestic extremism.

But in the words of researcher Richard Booth, who has amassed the largest publicly available archive of OKC bombing records online, “Garland can kick off any effort to curtail white supremacists by finishing his work on the OKC bombing case.

“And he can finish by apologizing to the American people for letting dangerous still-unidentified white supremacists get away with being accessories to murder for the last 25 years.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Far-Left Media Site ‘Vice’ Filing for Bankruptcy

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Far-Left Media Site ‘Vice’ Filing for Bankruptcy

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Vice Media Group, a left-wing digital media site, has prepared to file for bankruptcy.

After months of searching for a potential buyer, the formerly successful company is considering bankruptcy as the only viable alternative, Deadline reported. The company was worth $5.7 billion in 2017.

According to the report, the company has had an extraordinarily chaotic year to date, beginning with the exit of former CEO Nancy Dubuc, who was replaced by the current leadership, Bruce Dixon and Hozefa Lokhandwala.

Further, Vice had to deal with the departure of Jesse Angelo, its former global president of News & Entertainment. The company released a statement to the New York Times, which broke the news.

“Vice Media Group has been engaged in a comprehensive evaluation of strategic alternatives and planning,” company leaders wrote, emphasizing that they are searching desperately for the best option. “The company, its board and stakeholders continue to be focused on finding the best path for the company.”

According to the Deadline report, Vice is still holding out hope that it could come to terms with a potential buyer in the coming weeks.

Vice is just the latest of the legacy media corporations to feel the sting of reality as America enters a new age of media.

From Fox News to CNN, the mainstream media is collapsing at an unprecedented rate. BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced last December that the news company will cut 12% of its staff in a recent memo to the members of the company.

The cuts ended up being worse than initially anticipated, with the entire BuzzFeed News part of the operation being shuttered, amounting to 15% of the company’s total employees.

Perette, however, tried to soften the blow.

“It might not feel this way today, but I am confident the future of digital media is ours for the taking. Our industry is hurting and ready to be reborn. We are taking great pains today, and will begin to fight our way to a bright future,” Peretti wrote in a memo to the staff.

Disney has also struggled to turn profits as it doubles-down on pro-LGBT discourse.

Hundreds of Catholic Protesters Swarm Satan Convention in Boston

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Hundreds of Catholic Protesters Swarm Satan Convention in Boston

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Satancon, the demonic infestation of Boston, that took place Friday through Saturday, drew heavy protests from freedom-loving Americans, who in turn were slandered by the media.

More than 100 Catholic protesters gathered outside the Marriott Copley Place, where the nefarious event was held, according to the New York Post. One Catholic group that attended the event was the American Society for The Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property, according to Catholic News Agency.

As TFP’s YouTube channel demonstrates, the group is known for dressing in suits and sashes on college campuses and confronting the leftist culture. During their protests the group also sings Marian hymns, sings patriotic songs, prays the Rosary, prays the Saint Micheal Prayer and plays the bagpipes.

Their protest in Boston was captured and published on the group’s YouTube page.

The video depicted sharply-dressed and well-groomed young men, bearing signs, singing, praying and speaking against the Satanic infestation of Boston. The crowd included protesters from Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Florida, Maine, Wisconsin and Massachusetts, present and willing to speak against the event.

“Would it be better to just ignore Satanism?” a member of TFP asked a protester.

“No,” the protester from Connecticut said. “That’s why we’re in the situation we are now. Because people have been ignoring instead of fighting.”

Another protester responded to the same question.

“Jesus didn’t. He battled Satan,” the protester said, while another reasoned that “Ignoring Satanism is not going to make it go away.”

TFP also claimed to have gathered more than 59,000 signatures opposing the event.

Several protesters made signs to communicate the purpose of their presence.

“Satan is evil, Evil has no rights,” read one sign. “Satanism destroys innocence,” another proclaimed. “Satanism is NOT a religion but an attack against God,” read another.

In addition to TFP, a group called Patriot Front was present to protest the Satanic gala, according to the Boston Herald, which, along with a majority of fake news media, took the side of the Satanists by slandering the protesters.

The Daily Beast ran an article headlined “Masked Neo-Nazis Crash World’s Largest Satanic Event.”

Newsweek attacked the Christian and Catholic protestors with an article that bore the headline, “Christians Plan ‘Ambush’ of Satanic Temple’s Convention.”

The Herald, the Boston Globe and Yahoo!, all produced similarly deceptive headlines covering the protests.

Biden Repeatedly Insulted Muslims at White House Ramadan Celebration

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Biden Repeatedly Insulted Muslims at White House Ramadan Celebration

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Fresh off a series last week of brutal gaffes and recurring lapses of cognitive recall, President Joe Biden kept pace with his own low standards when he rolled out a bogus southern accent to denigrate a Muslim federal judge during a White House gala to mark the end of Ramadan.

Not content with just one insult to Muslims, the Biden regime, reportedly under guidance from the Secret Service, banned the Muslim mayor of a New Jersey town from attending the Eid-al-Fitr celebration.

Mayor Mohamed Khairullah said racial profiling was responsible for the snub, CNN reported. Khairullah claimed he was en route to the celebration when he received a call from the White House telling him to turn around and steer clear of the event.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that at this point, my crime is my race, my religion and my name,” said Khairullah, who reportedly remains in the dark about why he was barred from the event.

“At this point, we still did not receive any explanation,” he told CNN on Tuesday morning. “All that happened is I received that call as I was entering D.C. And I was told by a staffer from the White House social events department that the Secret Service advised them that I cannot attend the event and that Secret Service did not provide them with any explanation.”

Khairullah might consider the snub a saving grace, in retrospect. Biden used the gala event at the White House, meant to celebrate the Islamic holiday Eid-al-Fitr, to repeatedly insult Muslims, reverting to his Democrat racist segregationist roots, scolding one Muslim present at the event and calling him “boy.”

The slur came after an audience member told Biden that the first and only Muslim federal judge in the country’s history was in attendance.

“You want to come and make a speech?” Biden cracked.

“Hush up, boy, as my mother would say” he huffed in a bogus Southern drawl, an insult that seemed to draw laughter from the crowd.

Biden also stumbled and mumbled his way through trying to pronounce various names and titles, while slipping into a sexist, patriarchal parlance.

“In the span of 20 minutes, Biden: told a Black Muslim federal judge to ‘hush up, boy’, called the Quran the ‘Quorum’, mispronounced Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s name, told Ilhan Omar she “look[s] beautiful,'” wrote RNC Research’s Jake Schneider. “Four more years!”

Pre-Teen Student Schools a School Board on Free Speech

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Pre-Teen Student Schools a School Board on Free Speech

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) In a brief but powerful message, a soft-spoken middle schooler reminded a Massachusetts school board in a loud-and-clear manner that the First Amendment must apply equally to all students.

Liam Morrison, age 12, recalled how he was allegedly kicked out of gym class over wearing a T-shirt that read “there are only two genders.”

It wasn’t that long ago when that statement was settled science, to borrow one of the Left’s favorite terms.

The two school officials who reportedly interacted with him said he wasn’t in trouble but also allegedly claimed that the wording, “was making some students feel unsafe” and was “a disruption in learning.”

Morrison, who hinted that he sensed that the two adults were not receptive to “an opposing view,” noted that staff sent him home after he politely declined to remove the shirt.

“Thankfully, my dad, supportive of my decisions, came to pick me up. What did my shirt say? Five simple words…Nothing harmful. Nothing threatening. Just a statement I believe to be a fact,” he explained to the Middleborough, Mass, School Committee during a public meeting.

The staffers purportedly informed Liam that the wording was “targeting a protected class.”

“Who is this protected class? Are their feelings more important than my rights?,” he wondered rhetorically especially since “Not one person, staff, or student, told me that they were bothered with what I was wearing…No one got up and stormed out of class. No one burst into tears.”

He went on imply that tolerance is a two-way street, a fundamental concept that seems to have become abandoned in education and elsewhere as gender ideology and other aspects of the woke culture have become dominant.

“I don’t complain when I see Pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right to their beliefs, just as I do,” he said.

In another comment that will likely resonate strongly with students and parents, he alluded to ineffectual administrators who often fail to address actual and chronic discipline problems in the classroom.

“I experience disruptions to my learning every day. Kids acting out in class are a disruption, yet nothing is done. Why do the rules apply to one yet not another?”

Morrison’s dignified 2-1/2 minute presentation has received 12 million-plus views on Twitter after it was shared by Libs of TikTok.

“I didn’t go to school that day to hurt feelings or cause trouble,” Liam Morrison insisted.

“I have learned a lot from this experience. I learned that a lot of other students share my view. I learned that adults don’t always do the right thing or make the right decisions. I know that I have a right to wear a shirt with those five words,” Morrison said

“Even at 12 years old, I have my own political opinions, and I have a right to express those opinions. Even at school. This right is called the First Amendment to the Constitution.”

The First Amendment applies to government-run entities, which includes the public school system.

Morrison concluded his eloquent remarks by essentially calling upon the school committee to support free speech for everyone “so we can express ourselves without being pulled out of class…”

The youngster is a seventh grader at Nichols Middle School in the town located about 40 miles south of Boston.

The nonprofit Massachusetts Family Institute announced on social media that it is providing legal support to Morrison and has formally contacted the Middleborough school superintendent on his behalf.

A letter from its staff attorney, among other things, puts the superintendent on notice that Liam plans to wear the same shirt on May 5 and that the organization may take legal action if the school interferes with his constitutional right to free expression.

 

Biden to Send Troops to Southern Border Ahead of Title 42 Reversal

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Biden to Send Troops to Southern Border Ahead of Title 42 Reversal

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden is sending 1,500 active-duty U.S. troops to the southern border ahead of the end of Title 42, which is set to expire next week, according to reports.

“At the request of [the Department of Homeland Security], [the Department of Defense] will provide a temporary increase of an additional 1,500 military personnel, for 90 days, to supplement [Customs and Border Protection] efforts at the border,” a U.S. official said in a statement.

Border officials expect tens of thousands of migrants to rush across the border seeking asylum as soon as the policy, which allowed officials to turn away migrants who do not meet the criteria for asylum, is lifted. Reports indicate that as many as 40,000 migrants are waiting across the border from El Paso, Texas, a crossing hotspot.

The Biden administration said the troops will assist border officials by filling in “critical capability gaps, such as ground-based detection and monitoring, data entry, and warehouse support, until CBP can address these needs through contracted support.”

“They will not be doing any law enforcement work,” the statement added. “DoD personnel have never, and will not, perform law enforcement activities or interact with migrants or other individuals in DHS custody. This support will free up DHS law enforcement personnel to perform their critical law enforcement missions.”

Troops are already limited in what they can do at the border. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 prevents the U.S. military from enforcing domestic laws unless explicitly authorized by Congress.

However, each of the past four administrations has deployed active-duty National Guard troops to the border to enhance security measures.

Migrants on both sides of the border are already overwhelming shelters. In El Paso, more than 200 migrants crammed into one tent in the city’s “Opportunity Center” for the homeless.

The director of the center, John Martin, said the majority of the migrants are from Venezuela.

Sotomayor Failed to Disclose at Least 6 Free Trips from Universities

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Sotomayor Failed to Disclose at Least 6 Free Trips from Universities

(Headline USA) Democrats attacked the Supreme Court this week over a number of ethics controversies, specifically ones in which conservative justices were allegedly involved, and argued that Congress should impose tighter standards on the judiciary.

Senate Democrats specifically complained about Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and John Roberts for failing to properly disclose funded trips, property purchases, and outside connections that could have influenced the bench.

However, they failed to mention Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s improper disclosures.

Last year, Sotomayor was forced to correct a 2016 financial disclosure report and add to it six free or reimbursed trips that she had initially left off of it. For example, Sotomayor was given a free flight and hotel when she traveled to Rhode Island to give the University of Rhode Island’s commencement address. These gifts are required by law to be reported annually.

Also omitted from Sotomayor’s report were her trips to universities in Illinois, New Jersey, Alaska, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and in each case she received “Transportation, Lodging, and Meals” from the university, according to reports.

Roberts declined an invitation from Senate Democrats this week to testify during a hearing on Tuesday. 

All nine justices signed a statement last month defending the court’s current ethical standards and reaffirming that they hold themselves to the highest standards possible.

“The justices … consult a wide variety of authorities to address specific ethical issues,” they wrote. “This statement aims to provide new clarity to the bar and to the public on how justices address certain recurring issues, and also seeks to dispel some common misconceptions.”

However, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, insisted that ethics reform is necessary regardless of whether the justices agree to it.

Durbin said Thursday in a statement that the justices’ explanation of their approach to ethics “raises more questions than it resolves.”

“Make no mistake,” he said, “Supreme Court ethics reform must happen whether the Court participates in the process or not.”

NYC Mayor: Sending Illegals to Big Cities is RACIST

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NYC Mayor: Sending Illegals to Big Cities is RACIST

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) New York City’s far-left mayor, Eric Adams, recently declared that sending illegal immigrants to the Big Apple and other black-run cities was racist, the Daily Caller reported.

Adams has regularly complained about the influx of illegals under the Biden administration’s open-borders policies, despite insisting New York was a so-called sanctuary city.

On Monday, he released a statement accusing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott of racism for busing migrants to big cities.

“This weekend, we learned that Governor Abbott is once again deciding to play politics with people’s lives by resuming the busing of asylum seekers to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, and Washington, D.C.,” Adams wrote.

The mayors of all five cities are currently black, although Denver Mayor Michael Hancock is expected soon to cede control to a white candidate pending the outcome of the city’s municipal runoff election. Los Angeles’s newly elected mayor, Karen Bass, took over from a white fellow Democrat, Eric Garcetti.

Nonetheless, Adams went on to accuse Abbott of immorality for defending his state from Biden’s disastrous border policies, which is expected to become worse next week with the expiration of the pandemic-era Title 42 protections.

“Not only is this behavior morally bankrupt and devoid of any concern for the well-being of asylum seekers, but it is also impossible to ignore the fact that Abbott is now targeting five cities run by [b]lack mayors,” Adams said.

“Put plainly, Abbott is using this crisis to hurt [b]lack-run cities,” he added.

Abbott, along with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, made a splash by sending immigrants to wealthy leftist enclaves last year to reveal how opposed to illegal immigration such people really are when they have to deal with the consequences.

But Abbott is blameworthy for busing illegal immigrants to New York “against their will,” even accusing the Texas Gov. of using security guards to “hold them hostage on busses [sic],” Adams claimed.

“Despite Abbott’s inhumane actions, New York City will continue to do all it can to handle this influx,” he continued, “but this crisis is more than one city can handle.”

Adams was following the lead of out-going Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who recently stated that Chicago is unable to support the influx of illegal immigrants.

“We have shouldered the responsibility of caring for more than 8,000 men, women, and children with no resources of their own,” she wrote.

University President’s Job Might Be In Jeopardy for Liking Tweets

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University President’s Job Might Be In Jeopardy for Liking Tweets

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) A medical doctor and scientist who is the president of a Philadelphia-based university has apologized for liking COVID-vaccine skeptic Alex Berenson’s tweets.

Time will tell if the repentance is good enough, however, for the woke cohort, in a scenario that has prompted an investigation of some sort by university officials.

The college president is also taking some flak for reportedly liking a tweet that ran counter to the far-left gender ideology narrative.

On Monday, Berenson, of Twitter Files fame, alerted his social media followers to this situation:

“The president of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia may be about to lose his job. Dr. Mark Tykocinski is a 70-year-old immunologist with an spotless academic record. His crime appears to be liking my tweets. Academic freedom is dead,” Berenson, a former New York Times reporter lamented.

Twitter boss Elon Musk also chimed in that “This is is absurd. Shame on the CEO and board of trustees of Thomas Jefferson University!”

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the aforementioned CEO, Joseph G. Cacchione, expressed disappointment in the “careless” way Dr. Tykocinski used his official Twitter account.

In a message to the university community, Cacchione said that “At his level, he is held to a higher standard and should have known better.” The CEO also underscored Thomas Jefferson’s fundamental “diverse, equitable and inclusive environment.”

Patricia D. Wellenbach, the chair of Jefferson’s board of trustees, said that the controversy is getting the group’s “full attention.”

Tykocinski told the corporate news outlet that he uses the like-function to bookmark tweets so that he can follow up and gain more knowledge about the subject matter.

“I regret my lack of understanding of how ‘liking’ a tweet is an implied endorsement. I also regret how my lack of understanding of the Twitter platform caused some to question my views on these complex issues,” he explained.

This kind of imbroglio is why many users include a disclaimer in their Twitter bio alerting their followers and others that likes or retweets do not constitute an endorsement.

Dr. Tykocinki reportedly liked about 30 of Berenson’s tweets.

In one of them, Berenson, the author of the best-seller Pandemia, criticized Big Pharma for its mRNA push:

“In his letter of apology to the Jefferson community, Tykocinski said he does not believe vaccines are harmful and noted that he and all members of his family received the COVID-19 vaccine,” the Inquirer disclosed.

A contrite Tykocinki added that “I understand that my lack of knowledge of the Twitter platform created questions and unintentionally offended many. Please be assured this will be a learning experience, and I will grow as a person and professional from this misstep.”

As alluded to above, the doctor also allegedly liked a Donald Trump Jr. tweet that called for an end to “child mutilation.”

An Inquirer article published late last month conducted a deep dive into Tykocinski’s like-history (which reportedly extended to tweets about diversity gatekeeping) after apparently being prodded to do so by Jefferson employees.

One unnamed employee told the Inquirer that “He’s welcome to his private views, but broadcasting them on social media in his capacity as president of Jefferson shows questionable judgment and undermines Jefferson’s credibility as an institution of higher learning. Some of the views he endorses on his account call into question the university’s commitment to diversity and inclusion and would be hurtful to Jefferson’s trans-identifying students and students of color.”

Reacting to the controversy among many, Twitter user TJ Roberts asserted that “Thomas Jefferson was a champion of free speech. That university should change its name.”

“Of Tykocinski’s 539 ‘likes’ that existed before the Inquirer story was posted, 348 remained by early afternoon. By midafternoon, it was down to 203,” the Inquirer reported on Monday.

The board of trustees’ appointment of Dr. Tykocinki as Thomas Jefferson president became effective July 1, 2022. He was previously its provost and executive VP for academic affairs, as well as dean of its medical college, in addition to many prior accomplishments in academia and medicine on his resume.

At the time, he was lauded as “a person of extraordinary vision and creativity” and “a biomedical innovator.”

Perhaps ironically, Dr. Tykocinski apparently participated in a workshop at the 2017 Association of Pathology annual meeting that was later published under the title “Dealing With Deans and Academic Medical Center Leadership: Advice From Leaders.”

Did BlackRock and Ukraine Collude to Oust the Lone Anti-War Voice on Cable News?

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Did BlackRock and Ukraine Collude to Oust the Lone Anti-War Voice on Cable News?

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On Feb. 1, it was announced that the Biden-friendly investment firm BlackRock bought more than 5 million shares in Fox Corporation.

Weeks later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a BlackRock crony, had a phone call with Fox co-chairman Lachlan Murdoch, according to a recent report from Semafor.

It wasn’t long after that when Fox News ousted Tucker Carlson, the lone voice on cable news that has consistently opposed U.S. involvement in the war in Ukraine.

While the Murdoch family hasn’t given a reason for sidelining Carlson, and the popular news host had drawn heat from a multitude of powerful institutions, including Big Pharma, Big Tech, both major political parties and the Murdochs themselves.

However, the military-industrial complex’s joyous reaction to Carlson’s departure indicates that the Ukraine war may have at least been the final straw. Politico reported last week that top Pentagon officials are cheering at the recent Fox News shakeup.

“We’re a better country without him bagging on our military every night in front of hundreds of thousands of people,” said one senior Pentagon official, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, according to Politico.

“Good riddance,” a second unnamed official reportedly said.

Top Republicans are also reportedly saying that Carlson’s ouster “probably reduces the loudest voice out there against U.S. support,” according to Semafor.

“Clearly, he spooked a lot of members into not being fully supportive of Ukraine,” a senior Republican congressional aide reportedly told the outlet.

Carlson himself has indicated that the war machine may have pushed him out at Fox. “Ha! I’m sure,” he told Politico in a text message in a response to the celebrating Pentagon officials.

Meanwhile, cable news continues to spew war propaganda—now unchecked by Carlson’s stinging rebukes.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who has received frequent tongue-lashings from Carlson for his efforts in syphoning billions of American tax dollars to Ukraine, said Monday that he will “continue to support Ukraine”—a message amplified by the fawning pro-war media.

“I support aid for Ukraine,” he said. “And I will continue to support because the rest of the world sees it just as it is.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

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