90 Miles From Tyranny

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

I'm So Sorry....

#mattwalsh

But the kettle's on the boil and we're so easily called away...

There was a joke going around when I was oh, so young:

What do you call a dog with wings?

Facebook's secret "dangerous individuals and organizations" blacklist, which the Big Tech giant uses to silence dissenters as though they're on par with Islamic terrorists, has been leaked in full by The Intercept.

The blacklist, which applies to both Facebook and Instagram, has right-wing commentators like Nick Fuentes and Gavin McInnes listed alongside ISIS terrorist groups.

Joshua Caleb Sutter, the leader of the Satanic death cult Atomwaffen Division who was recently outed as a well-paid FBI informant, is on the list as well as Atomwaffen as a group. The Proud Boys, which has been led for years now by "prolific" FBI informant Enrique Tarrio, also made the list.

Facebook also lists the anti-feminist and anti-SJW blog "A Voice For Men" as a "hate" group. The SPLC evidently labeled the site as "male supremacist" in 2018.

Some other notable blacklisted "hate" sites include the American Free Press, American Renaissance, Britain First and Red Ice Creations.

As a reminder, Facebook-owned Instagram deemed FBI crime stats "hate speech" last year.

Here's the full list of "dangerous individuals" (check out the full list of groups on The Intercept):

Leftists Betray America: Submarine Spy Couple Radicalized by Anti-Trump #Resistance

Spies Should Be Hung.

'Strong feminist and very liberal' teacher threatened to move to Australia after 2016 election, New York Times reports

The Annapolis couple charged with attempting to sell closely guarded secrets about U.S. nuclear submarines to a foreign power appears to have been radicalized by the anti-Trump #Resistance movement, according to a report published in the New York Times.

Jonathan Toebbe, an expert in nuclear physics and submarine propulsion, served in the Navy as an officer before being hired as a civilian consultant. He and his wife Diana, a teacher at a progressive private school, have been charged with violating the Atomic Energy Act's prohibition on sharing nuclear secrets.

The couple was busted by federal agents after delivering a memory card to a dead drop location in south-central Pennsylvania. They had allegedly proposed a payment of $100,000 in cryptocurrency in exchange for providing information to the foreign country, which has yet to be revealed.

The Times report described Ms. Toebbe as a "strong feminist and very liberal" academic who was "taken aback" by former president Donald Trump's election in 2016, and "mentioned several times that she was considering moving to Australia."

Toebbe's radicalization as a member of the anti-Trump #Resistance appears to have been a significant factor in compelling her to betray the United States. "She said she couldn't stand the current state of politics," one of her former students told the Times, which found no evidence that the couple was in financial distress, suggesting an....

A federal judge in Texas issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against United Airlines on Wednesday, blocking the airline from imposing a vaccine mandate against any of its employees in a nationwide class-action lawsuit.

According to the judicial order, which could be the first of its kind in the country against a coronavirus vaccine mandate, United Airlines is prohibited from placing employees with religious and medical exemptions on unpaid leave until October 26 while litigation continues. The judge also prohibited the airline from denying any employee requests for religious or medical exemptions. Previously, the airline did not allow employees to apply for an exemption after August 31.

Earlier in the case, the airline agreed of its own accord to postpone its vaccine mandate until October 15 for employees with exemptions during litigation. The day before the October 8 hearing, however, United filed a partial motion to dismiss, alleging the court lacked jurisdiction over the claims in the lawsuit. In order to allow the court reasonable time to respond to the jurisdictional challenge and to rule in the evidentiary hearing for a preliminary injunction, which was reset for Wednesday, the judge issued the TRO.

United Airlines originally told its 67,000 U.S. employees they must be vaccinated against Chinese coronavirus (or secure an exemption) by September 27 or face termination. As the airline’s vaccine mandate stands, any employees with exemptions would still be considered employed but would be placed on unpaid leave and would lose their benefits for up to six years or until the airline deems pandemic conditions safe for unvaccinated employees to return, according to the complaint.

“It is unconscionable to force any person to undergo a medical treatment that they object to as a matter of faith,” said Ken Blackwell, formerly the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and currently with the American Constitutional Rights Union. “When so many other nations recognize that there is no medical reason for people with natural immunity to take a vaccine, it is essential that America lead the way to protect our...