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February 1, 2025 - Elon Musk’s DOGE locks federal human resources workers out of computer systems at Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Elon Musk’s aides have locked career government bureaucrats out of computer systems that operate a federal government human resources agency.

Musk, the owner of social media platform X and the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency — which is tasked with slashing government waste, fraud, and abuse — installed allies at the government resources agency known as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Reuters, citing government officials who spoke to the outlet anonymously, said career bureaucrats have had their access to governments systems revoked.

“We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems,” one official said.

“That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications,” the official claimed.

OPM has sought to remove many in the federal government; the agency has sent out memos encouraging bureaucrats to take buyout offers to quit and take a vacation to a “dream destination.” The buyout package includes eight months pay if the civil servant chooses to retire.

Musk’s allies have figuratively set up camp at the OPM headquarters so they work round the clock:

A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20, the day Trump took office. They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency’s headquarters, which contains the director’s office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort, one of the OPM employees said. The sofa beds have been installed so the team can work around the clock, the employee said.

“It feels like a hostile takeover,” one employee lamented.

The OPM is reportedly run by Amanda Scales, a former Musk employee, who now serves as the agency’s chief of staff. Riccardo Biasini, a former engineer at Tesla, also works as a senior adviser to the agency. (Read more: Breitbart News, 2/01/2025)  (Archive)

February 3, 2025 - President Trump's lawsuit against Pulitzer Prize board members moves to discovery phase

Clipping of a New York Post article that addresses the absurd Pulitzer Price given to the NY Times and Washington Post, 2/21/2022.

President Donald Trump scored a significant legal win Monday in his lawsuit against the members of the Pulitzer Prize Board, paving the way towards the discovery phase in their courtroom battle.

Judge Robert L. Pegg (Credit: public domain)

Last week, the board members filed a motion for Protective Order Governing Discovery in hopes of shielding their internal communications involving the decision to award The New York Times and The Washington Post a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on Russiagate during Trump’s first term in office.

Judge Robert L. Pegg of the 19th Judicial Circuit Court in Okeechobee County, Florida, stuck down their motion.

“The rule requires ‘an affirmative showing of annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense’ from such party or person… Defendants have failed to meet this requirement, as there is no factual support in the record demonstrating that any defendant, much less each defendant, would be subject to annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense if a protective order is not entered,” Pegg wrote in his filing.

“President Trump is committed to holding those who traffic in deception and fake news to account,” Trump attorney Quincy Bird told Fox News Digital. “The defendants, hiding behind the once-prestigious Pulitzer Prizes, attempted to resurrect a left-wing hoax by giving, as well as continuing to stand by and republishing, its disgraced award to the organizations that drove the infamous ‘Russia Russia Russia’ hoax.”

“This was a defamatory scam designed to damage President Trump’s image and presidential campaign. After today’s win in court, this case will now proceed to a very thorough discovery process and President Trumpis committed to seeing this case through to a just conclusion,” Bird added. (Read more: Fox News, 2/21/2025) (Archive)

TRUMP FILES DEFAMATION SUIT AGAINST MEMBERS OF PULITZER PRIZE BOARD FOR DEFENDING ‘DEBUNKED’ RUSSIAGATE HONORS

February 3, 2025 - The FBI revolts; refuses Trump orders; plans protest In DC (that didn't materialize); Elon Musk says he will fire leakers

February 3, 2025 - DHS official says the agency will defy Kristi Noem if they 'don't agree with' her priorities

A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official was caught on undercover video admitting that the agency intends to defy the directives of newly confirmed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, according to footage released by James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group.

Brandon Wright, Platform Services Manager for DHS, was recorded saying that the agency’s career bureaucrats do not allow political appointees to interfere with their operations. He told the undercover reporter, “Kristi Noem? I f*cking hate her.”

“The secretaries can set the priorities for the department, but they can’t actually tell us what to do,” Wright told an undercover OMG journalist, later adding, “The truth is, we don’t let them [secretaries] get in our way.” He said, “If we don’t agree with those priorities, there is a lot of room for interpretation, in terms of how we interpret what those priorities are.”

He compared the government’s bureaucratic structure to a septic tank, saying that there are layers that allow employees to filter directives in a way that minimizes their impact. “There’s a lot of layers like that in the government. And by the time the actual marching orders get to, like, me and below, we can filter it in a way that steadies the ship,” he said.

“She doesn’t know her a**,” he remarked, adding, “The Department of Homeland Security could fall on her f*cking head, and she wouldn’t recognize what it is. Kristi Noem doesn’t know sh*t” He also expressed frustration over her leadership style, saying, “To say that I am not excited about this would be the most epic understatement.”

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said, “Secretary Noem has not seen the video in its entirety. This type of behavior will not be tolerated. This person has been placed on leave and is under investigation…The senior official says the termination of the official is imminent.” (Read more: The Post Millennial, 2/3/2025) (Archive)

(The tweet below would not embed for me so there is a link below the photo.)

“The truth is, we don’t let them [secretaries] get in our way,” admits Brandon Wright, Platform Services Manager for the Department of Homeland Security (@DHSgov), on hidden camera, to an undercover @OKeefeMedia Journalist. Drawing an analogy to a septic tank, Wright described the multi-layered bureaucracy within DHS: “There’s a lot of layers, like [in] government… By the time the actual marching orders get to me and below, we can filter it in a way that steadies the ship.”

“If we don’t agree with those priorities,” he said, noting executing orders often involves deceptively construing priorities set by political appointees to make them more practical and less disruptive, adding, “there’s a lot of room for interpretation.”

When discussing @KristiNoem’s role as the Trump-appointed DHS Secretary, Wright didn’t mince words on his opinions over Noem’s qualifications for the position. “Kristi Noem doesn’t know… She doesn’t know her ass,” he remarked, adding, “The Department of Homeland Security could fall on her f*cking head, and she wouldn’t recognize what it is.”

Wright also admitted his personal dislike of her leadership style, adding, “To say that I am not excited about this would be the most epic understatement.”

The Department of Homeland Security provided the following statement to O’Keefe Media Group:

“Secretary Noem has not seen the video in its entirety. This type of behavior will not be tolerated. This person has been placed on leave and is under investigation … The senior official says the termination of the official is imminent.”

February 3, 2025 - Congressional Dems protest outside the closed USAID office; Elon Musk exposes corruption in the program

February 3, 2025 - Zelensky claims Ukraine received less than half of U.S. aid - ‘Don’t know where all that money went’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that his country has only received around $76 billion in aid from the United States despite America authorising around $175 billion to support the war-torn country.

In an interview with the Associated Press published over the weekend, President Zelensky said he doesn’t know where most of the money the United States allocated under the Biden administration to Ukraine has gone.

“When I hear – both in the past and even now – from the U.S. that America has provided Ukraine with hundreds of billions, as the president of a nation at war, I can tell you – we’ve received more than $75 billion,” he said. “We’re talking about tangible things because this aid didn’t come as cash but rather as weapons, which amounted to about $70 billion.”

“But when it’s said that Ukraine received $200 billion to support the army during the war – that’s not true. I don’t know where all that money went,” Zelensky admitted.

“Perhaps it’s true on paper with hundreds of different programmes – I won’t argue, and we’re immensely grateful for everything. But in reality, we received about $76 billion. It’s significant aid, but it’s not $200 billion.”

The Ukrainian leader suggested that perhaps the additional funds went to humanitarian programmes, which he said he was “uninformed about, except for knowing of their existence”.

“Perhaps the U.S. President’s administration will audit these programmes and find additional billions, but I don’t know where those funds went,” Zelensky said.

(Read more: Breitbart News, 2/3/2025)  (Archive)

February 3, 2025 - The DOGE team is doxxed

DOGE: One of the ‘journalists’ who decided to doxx members of Trump’s DOGE team is a Mashable reporter a couple of years out of UNT who likes to sleep in his free time with his orange cat. He reviewed the background of the DOGE team and found them lacking. Let me tell you a little about them:

– degrees from Stanford, UC Berkeley, & MIT
– work experience at Google, Tesla, SpaceX, and OpenAI
– Several hold patents in critical areas such as blockchain consensus mechanisms, AI-driven fraud detection, and scalable payment networks
– Others pioneered open-source frameworks used by developers worldwide or built award-winning solutions in decentralized finance (DeFi) and robotics
– One member decoded ancient texts using machine learning, earning recognition in top scientific journals
– One designed a blockchain-based remittance system that transformed financial access in underserved regions
– Their work has been celebrated at premier tech conferences, in academic publications, and through accolades like hackathon victories and fellowships reserved for visionary innovators

Their youth is an asset: it brings fresh perspectives, fluency in emerging technologies, and the agility to iterate rapidly in a fast-evolving space. Far from being “unqualified,” their track records of solving complex problems, often ahead of industry curves, position them among the nation’s brightest minds—proof that capability is defined not by age, but by vision, execution, and impact. I certainly don’t think the Mashable reporter is in any position to judge these people.

h/t
@AlexanderPayton

February 4, 2025 - FBI gives up details of over 5,000 employees involved in Jan. 6 cases To DOJ

FBI officials turned over information from thousands of employees who worked on cases concerning Jan. 6 to President Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ), according to a Tuesday report.

Out of over 13,000 agents and 38,000 FBI employees, the details of more than 5,000 personnel were sent to the DOJ, sources familiar told CNN. Information provided included employee identification numbers, work titles and any roles in investigations connected to Jan. 6, according to a source, though names were excluded.

The report does not note how many out of the 5,000 were FBI agents.

The Daily Caller reached out to the FBI, which referred the Caller to the DOJ. The DOJ has not responded at the time of publication.

The DOJ sent a survey to agents and employees about their potential roles in Jan. 6 investigations. It was due by 3 p.m. Monday.

Multiple anonymous agents and employees sued the DOJ on Tuesday over its questionnaire, arguing it was “retribution.”

“Plaintiffs assert that the specific purpose of this survey is to identify agents and other FBI personnel to be terminated as a form of politically motivated retribution,” the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit also claims the DOJ violated the First Amendment and privacy laws. The employees were told that the “aggregated information” collected from the surveys would be sent to senior management, according to documents. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 2/4/2025)  (Archive)

February 4, 2025 - Democrats call for war, revolution, and fighting in the street

…The anti-Elon Musk rally last night proved two things: Trump derangement syndrome has been replaced by Elon Musk derangement syndrome. Second, the Democratic Party has no idea how to win elections. The reports of a rudderless, leaderless, and divided organization were confirmed last night. It also showed that they have no message other than ‘me no like this Trump administration,’ of which Elon Musk is a top agent of the president. His Department of Government Efficiency is wiping the table clean, exposing waste and fraud, and getting these lazy DC government workers to quit.

They already delivered a smackdown to legacy officials at the Treasury Department before Scott Bessent was confirmed as its next secretary. USAID has been virtually gutted, becoming absorbed into the State Department, where all overseas missions were ordered closed by Friday. The entire staff is slated to be furloughed this week. The CIA is also running scared, offering its entire workforce buyout options. The DOGE crew has accessed the Small Business Administration’s accounts, and Democrats cannot understand nor tolerate that the government doesn’t have to waste our tax dollars.

(Read more: Townhall, 2/5/2025) (Archive)

February 4, 2025 - Rep. Ilhan Omar is caught on tape advising illegal Somalis how to avoid deportation

“I advise the Somalian people that if ICE attempts to question you, you are not obligated to answer their questions,” Omar reportedly said in Somalian. “Just state that you were advised by a lawyer not to answer questions.”

“Disclosure of your name, immigration status, and mode of entry is not mandatory,” she added.

Omar went on to tell Somali illegals that they needed to take steps to educate themselves on America’s immigration laws to combat ICE better.

“Learn the laws and prepare yourself,” she said. “And refrain from disclosing information that you would prefer them not to know.”

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 2/5/2025)  (Archive)

February 5, 2025 - USAID and the CIA were behind the impeachment of Trump in 2019

The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019, after a White House whistleblower went public with evidence that Trump abused his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden.

In the complaint, the whistleblower claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had, on a phone call, directed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.

The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first brought into the White House by the Obama administration.

Eric Ciaramella: The Democratic national security “whistleblower,” whose complaint led to President Trump’s impeachment, was a close colleague of Kendall-Taylor. It’s not clear if Ciaramella also played a role in the drafting of the January 2017 assessment. (Credit: whitehouse.gov)

Reporting by Drop Site News last year revealed that the CIA analyst relied on reporting by a supposedly independent investigative news organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which appears to have effectively operated as an arm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which President Trump has just shut down. The CIA whistleblower complaint cited a long report by OCCRP four times.

The OCCRP report alleged that two Soviet-born Florida businessmen were “key hidden actors behind a plan” by Trump to investigate the Bidens. According to the story, those two businessmen connected Giuliani to two former Ukrainian prosecutors. The OCCRP story was crucial to the House Democrats’ impeachment claim, which is that Trump dispatched Giuliani as part of a coordinated effort to pressure a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, which is why the whistleblower cited it four times.

In a 2024 documentary that German television broadcaster NDR made about OCCRP’s dependence on the US government, a USAID official confirmed that USAID approves OCCRP’s “annual work plan” and approves new hires of “key personnel.” NDR initiated and carried out the investigation with French investigative news organization Mediapart, Italian new group Il Fatto Quotidiano, Reporters United in Greece, and Drop Site News in the United States.

However, according to a Mediapart story published the same day as the Drop Site News article, NDR censored the broadcast “after US journalist Drew Sullivan, the co-founder and head of the OCCRP, placed pressure on the NDR management and made false accusations against the broadcaster’s journalists involved in the project.”

On December 16, Drop Site’s Ryan Grim posted a link on X to the 26-minute-long documentary. “NDR, Germany’s public broadcaster, is facing a censorship scandal and has defended itself by saying it never killed a news report about OCCRP and its State Department funding — b/c no report was ever produced to kill,” said Grim. “That was absurd — and dozens, maybe hundreds, of journalists knew it to be false, and now of course, someone has leaked it.”

The journalistic collaboration revealed that OCCRP’s original funding came from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the State Department, and quotes a USAID official who says, “Drew’s just nervous about being linked with law enforcement,” referring to Sullivan. “If people who are going to give you information think you’re just a cop, maybe it’s a problem.”

OCCRP does not operate like a normal investigative journalism organization in that its goals appear to include interfering in foreign political matters, including elections, aimed at regime change. Sullivan told NDR that his organization had “probably been responsible for five or six countries changing over from one government to another government… and getting prime ministers indicted or thrown out.”

As such, it appears that CIA, USAID, and OCCRP were all involved in the impeachment of President Trump in ways similar to the regime change operations that all three organizations engage in abroad. The difference is that it is highly illegal and even treasonous for CIA, USAID, and its contractors and intermediaries, known as “cut-outs,” to interfere in US politics this way.

OCCRP threatened to file a lawsuit against Public in response to questions we sent. “The premise of your article is factually false and defamatory,” wrote Miranda Patrucic, the Editor in Chief of OCCRP, over email. “The claim by Dropsite News and partner media that USAID has control over editorial appointments has been disproven and we suggest you read our response to that.”

But neither OCCRP nor anyone else disproved Drop Site’s allegations and Drop Site stands by them. And the evidence does not support OCCRP’s claim of journalistic independence….

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February 5, 2025 - Hillary Clinton is dinged twice by new Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a Twitter/X exchange about DOGE

I know you’re lashing out because DOGE is uncovering your family’s obscene grifting via USAID, but I won’t let you lie and distort facts. The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before Trump took office, and the air traffic controllers were always exempt from Trump’s civil service buyouts.

The previous administration shamelessly used USDOT as a slush fund for the Green New Scam, throwing away money and resources on wasteful environmental and social justice projects rather than updating our nation’s antiquated air traffic control systems and other critical infrastructure.

I’m returning this department to its mission of safety by using innovative technology in transportation and infrastructure. Your team had its chance and failed. We’re moving on without you because the American people want us to make America’s transportation system great again. And yes, we’re bringing the 22-year-olds with us.

February 5, 2025 - Seventeen State Attorneys General unite to challenge Biden's pardon and vow to prosecute Anthony Fauci

Seventeen state attorneys general have formally requested aid from Republican congressional leaders to delve deeper into the origins of COVID-19 and explore possible legal actions against Dr. Anthony Fauci at the state level.

This concerted effort, spearheaded by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, aims to circumvent the preemptive pardon issued by Joe Biden on his last day in office, which sought to shield Fauci from federal prosecution.

This pardon covers any federal offenses Fauci may have committed between January 1, 2014, and the date of the pardon.

“President Biden’s blanket pardon of Dr. Fauci is a shameful attempt to prevent accountability,” said Attorney General Wilson.

“We are fully prepared to take appropriate action to ensure justice is served if our findings indicate violations of state laws.”

The state attorneys general emphasize that the federal pardon does not preclude state-level legal actions and are actively seeking further details from Congress to facilitate state investigations and potential prosecutions.

In a forceful letter addressed to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, the attorneys general praised Congressional efforts to uncover potential misconduct and urged cooperation to pursue any violations of state laws.

The letter reads:

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 2/5/2025)  (Archive)

February 6, 2025 - New Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent lays to rest media rumors about DOGE following the money at Treasury

February 6, 2025 - DOGE: The USAID funding system is designed with multiple layers of plausible deniability; Creates new tool to counter the secrecy

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Individuals seem intent on preserving the status quo. Why?

I used AI to help come up with the clearest explanation of the Uniparty possible.

The Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) is a coalition of three organizations:

✅ International Republican Institute (IRI) – Aligns with center-right and conservative political groups.
✅ National Democratic Institute (NDI) – Works with center-left and progressive groups.
✅ International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) – Focuses on electoral integrity and administration.

USAID:
💰 CEPPS operates under funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to promote democracy, elections, and political party development worldwide.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), another USAID entity, also supports IRI and NDI, along with other initiatives globally.

In summary: USAID and NED provide funding, CEPPS (via IRI, NDI, and IFES) implements programs, and IRI/NDI engage with political parties abroad, mirroring the U.S. Republican and Democratic Party structures.

h/t X22Report

February 7, 2025 - Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly blocks DOGE from accessing Treasury data

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (Credit: public domain)

On Thursday Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly decided she was the true elected leader of the United States and she blocked the the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from obtaining access to ‘sensitive‘ Treasury Department payment records for a period of time.

Kollar-Kotelly is very upset that President Trump, Elon Musk, and the DOGE investigators were finding billions of dollars in fraudulent payments in their investigation of the federal government.

Kollar-Kotelly decided she must take action and she put a stop to this fraud-finding operation.

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in her order that Treasury officials “will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained within the [Treasury] Bureau of Fiscal Service.”

Here is a link to the order here.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 2/07/2025)  (Archive)

February 7, 2025 - Trump revokes Joe Biden's security clearances and stops his daily intelligence briefings

(Donald Trump/Truth Social, 2/7/2025)

February 7, 2024 - U.S. taxpayers are funding an obscure news agency through USAID called Internews Network; There are 467 grants totaling $476.4 million

Internews launches the Media Viability Accelerator, September 2024 (Credit: public domain)

This is way bigger than the Politico scandal.

U.S. taxpayers have been funding an obscure news agency called Internews Network for years.

Internews is funded heavily by the U.S. government, primarily through USAID. There are 467 grants for Internews totaling a whopping $476.4 MILLION on the USASpending.gov website.

These massive figures track with Internews’ Form 990s, where it discloses tens of millions of dollars in government grants every year.

What is Internews? The organization claims to be an “international nonprofit” that supports “independent media” in emerging democracies and uses media as a tool to reduce conflict.

A government supporting “independent media” is obviously a contradiction in terms so something else must be going on here.

The National Endowment for Democracy, founded in 1983 by Ronald Reagan to promote “democracy” worldwide, but since hijacked by globalists and leftists, has also given significantly to Internews through its Center for International Media.

NED was briefly defunded in 1993 by Republicans, but currently its budget is estimated to be a massive $330 million a year. Trump had proposed slashing NED’s funding in 2018.

Internews is listed as a recipient of NED’s contributions. For example, the NED’s media initiatives through CIMA was at least $18.7 million in 2015 and Internews was one of the listed recipients.

NED has been strongly associated with engineering “colored revolutions” around the globe, and by extension, so is Internews. They are both involved in nearly ever hotspot on the planet: Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Cambodia, Afghanistan… the list goes on and on.

Who used to sit on the Board of Directors for National Endowment for Democracy? None other than Victoria Nuland, who was the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2021 to 2024.

Who ran USAID from 2021 to 2025, which funded Internews? Samantha Power.

If you look at Internews Agency’s board you realize these are not your average “journalists.”

Jeanne Bourgault is President and CEO of Internews and is an agenda contributor for the World Economic Forum. (Credit: LinkedIn)

Jeanne Bourgault has been leading Internews as President and CEO since 2019, according to its official website. She joined the organization in 2001 and has been instrumental in expanding its programs to over 100 countries, focusing on supporting local media and ensuring access to “trustworthy information.” Before her tenure at Internews, Bourgault worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), including a three-year assignment at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

Meera Selva currently serves as the Chief Executive for Europe at Internews. She previously directed the Journalist Fellowship Program at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, again from the website.

Jodie Ginsberg served as the Chief Executive of Internews Europe from 2019 until 2022. Prior to this role, she was the CEO of Index on Censorship, a London-based freedom of expression organization. Ginsberg began her career as a journalist with Reuters, the website notes.

Get the picture?

This is, of course, nothing new. The U.S. government’s funding of media operations and so-called journalists across the world has a long history.

During the mid-’70s, in the aftermath of Watergate, two congressional investigations – the Church and Pike committees, after Sen. Frank Church and Rep. Otis Pike – uncovered covert U.S. government operations in foreign countries.

They confirmed that that the CIA funded journalists (both foreign and American) and the U.S. government was subsidizing foreign print media, radio and television outlets – something the Soviets were also doing.

The CIA also ran Project Mockingbird, a covert operation to influence and manipulate journalists and to disseminate propaganda and control public perception.

Declassified documents and investigative reports suggest that the CIA has long engaged in media manipulation, particularly during the Cold War era.

As former CIA Director William Colby once put it, “The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”

The CIA appears to have reorganized after having been exposed by the Church Committee in 1975. Those media manipulation operations seem to have been redirected through the State Department and USAID.

It is high time for another “Church Committee” to expose the U.S. government’s attack on free speech and independent media in the United States and throughout the world.

February 7, 2025 - Trump fires Colleen Shogan, head of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Colleen Shogan (Credit: public domain)

President Donald Trump fired Colleen Joy Shogan, the head of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

This is the same agency that targeted Trump over so-called “classified documents” lawfully stored at Mar-a-Lago.

“At the direction of President Trump, the Archivist of the United States has been dismissed tonight. We thank Colleen Shogan for her service,” Sergio Gor, director of the Presidential Personnel Office said on Friday evening.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 2/07/2025)  (Archive)

February 8, 2025 - USAID and Internews Networks orchestrate global media control

USAID-Funded Internews CEO Jeanne Bourgault pushes for global advertising “exclusion list” to censor “disinformation” at the World Economic Forum.

Like what they did to 𝕏?

“Disinformation makes money. We need to follow that money. We need to work with the global advertising industry because a lot of those dollars go to pretty bad content, and so you can work really hard on exclusion lists or inclusion lists and really try to challenge the global advertising industry to focus their ad dollars towards the good news.”

Notably, Bourgault’s call for global ad boycotts coincided with a widespread advertising boycott targeting Elon Musk’s 𝕏, which has been at the forefront of defending free speech online.

USAID has funneled $472 million to Internews and $68 million to the WEF, where both groups collaborate on censoring the internet.

Is this a good use of American taxpayer funds?

USAID-funded Internews went from funding media organizations with George Soros to overthrow governments in Eastern Europe to calling for advertising boycotts to censor free speech online.

This is a textbook example of U.S. regime change tactics being redirected against domestic populism and American citizens.

In the 1990s, Internews partnered with the Soros Foundation to fund media organizations in post-Soviet nations, playing a pivotal role in the color revolutions of the 2000s in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine.

During Georgia’s Rose Revolution, Internews funded and trained journalists at Rustavi-2 TV, the leading channel driving the uprising.

“Media was very good at informing the public about what was going on, and it had a huge role in calling people onto the streets.” – Marc Behrendt, former Internews director for Georgia

By 2003, in Ukraine, Internews had conducted 220 media training programs, trained over 2,800 journalists, and produced more than 220 television and 1,000 radio programs. It also funded Telekritika, an online outlet that played a central role in the 2004 Orange Revolution.

After Brexit and Donald Trump’s election in 2016, Internews—now working with the USAID-funded World Economic Forum (WEF)—shifted its focus to pushing advertising boycotts to suppress online dissent.

What was once a U.S.-funded operation to overthrow foreign regimes is now being used to silence American citizens and dismantle Trump’s populist MAGA movement.

The Price Tag?

USAID has funneled over $470 million in taxpayer dollars into Internews.

The dissemination of information has long been a battleground for ideological and political power. Control the narrative, and you control the minds that shape the future. Internews, a nonprofit organization that positions itself as a champion of independent media, is in reality one of the most insidious forces in global information warfare. With its extensive reach—boasting the training of 100,000 journalists in over 100 countries—Internews operates as an international media cartel, shaping narratives that align exclusively with far-left ideologies while undermining conservative movements worldwide. It functions as an enforcement mechanism for progressive orthodoxy, cloaking itself in the rhetoric of free press and journalistic integrity while methodically silencing dissent.

One might initially dismiss such claims as hyperbolic, but the evidence is staggering. In Ukraine alone, Internews has trained 5,000 journalists. Globally, it has indoctrinated 38,000 media educators, reporters, and fact-checkers on the purported mission of combating “misinformation”—a term increasingly deployed to delegitimize viewpoints that deviate from left-wing narratives. Behind the benign facade of media training lies a targeted effort to shape public discourse by ensuring that only select ideological perspectives receive legitimacy. Internews does not seek merely to report the news but to curate what is permissible as news.

Internews’s funding sources betray its true objectives. It is no accident that USAID, the CIA’s tool for ideological influence operations, provides up to 90% of Internews’s budget. USAID’s historical entanglement with regime-change operations and the promotion of progressive social policies should alone raise suspicions about the kind of “independent media” that Internews claims to support. But even more telling is the financial backing from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, a network infamous for bankrolling leftist movements under the pretense of fostering democracy. The confluence of Soros’s globalist agenda and USAID’s interventionist ethos ensures that Internews operates not as a neutral media entity, but as a propaganda wing for international leftism.

Internews has played a direct role in creating political upheavals across the world, particularly in Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, and Afghanistan. In each of these nations, CIA and USAID foreign policy interests have leveraged Internews to foster dissent, support opposition movements, and ultimately engineer instability. By flooding these regions with Internews-trained journalists and media networks, the organization has been instrumental in shaping narratives that align with U.S. geopolitical objectives, undermining sovereign governments in favor of pro-Western factions.

Former high-ranking U.S. officials, including Victoria Nuland and Samantha Power, have been key figures in overseeing agencies that fund Internews, reinforcing its ties to globalist foreign policy objectives. Nuland, in particular, played a pivotal role in utilizing Internews to control Ukrainian media. Under her direction, Internews and USAID effectively took control of 9 out of 10 major media companies in Ukraine, ensuring that local reporting adhered to a strict pro-Western and anti-Russian agenda. These media outlets became entirely dependent on Internews and USAID funding, with their reporters trained and guided by Internews operatives. It is no coincidence that Internews-backed journalists were instrumental in organizing the Maidan protests and the broader color revolution that ultimately led to regime change in Ukraine.

A closer examination of Internews’s role in narrative control further unravels its claims of neutrality. The organization is heavily involved in determining which news outlets are deemed purveyors of “misinformation”—a label that has become a convenient pretext for censorship. It does not merely flag content for scrutiny; it pressures advertisers to withhold funding from outlets that fail to conform to its ideological litmus test. By leveraging financial strangulation, Internews ensures that conservative, nationalist, and libertarian perspectives are systemically deplatformed. This economic coercion is an insidious means of silencing dissent, executed under the guise of maintaining journalistic integrity.

Perhaps most chilling is Internews’s alignment with the climate alarmist movement and its role in controlling COVID-19 reporting. It is not content to allow open debate on climate science and policy; rather, it rigidly enforces a doctrine of climate panic. Skepticism of radical environmental policies is summarily dismissed as misinformation, and journalists trained under Internews’s programs are conditioned to treat dissenters as heretics. Similarly, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Internews played a pivotal role in suppressing alternative viewpoints. Under pressure from USAID and the CIA—despite the latter’s own knowledge that the virus originated from the Wuhan lab—Internews pressured media outlets to reject the lab leak theory outright. It also worked to delegitimize alternative treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, ensuring that only government-approved pharmaceutical solutions received coverage. Furthermore, it actively pressured media to deny any vaccine-related side effects, insisting that the vaccines were safe and effective even as evidence emerged to the contrary. Mask mandates were similarly promoted without question, despite internal knowledge that they were ineffective in stopping the spread of the virus. In doing so, Internews abandoned the core tenets of journalism—objectivity, balance, and inquiry—and embraced advocacy masquerading as reporting.

The broader implications of Internews’s work are deeply concerning. It does not simply train journalists; it manufactures ideological foot soldiers. By embedding itself in media infrastructures across the world, Internews serves as a de facto Ministry of Truth, determining what can be said, who can say it, and what the public is permitted to believe. This is not media freedom—it is media subjugation.

The conservative resistance to Internews must be steadfast. Exposing its financial underpinnings, its ideological biases, and its coercive tactics is essential to reclaiming journalistic integrity. The first step is to challenge the notion that Internews is an impartial organization. It is not. It is a politically motivated entity with a clear mission: to eliminate opposition to the progressive agenda and to ensure that future generations inherit a world where the left’s narratives are the only ones that remain.

Those who care about genuine press freedom must recognize the true nature of Internews. It is not a beacon of independent journalism, but a hegemonic force in media manipulation. Its pervasive influence must be countered with unwavering resolve, lest the very concept of free thought become a relic of the past.