The choice of US Attorney General is the most consequential personnel decision President Trump can make right now. Everything else — immigration, the economy, foreign wars, government waste, fraud, elections — depends on it. None of those problems can be solved while the people running the government’s law enforcement apparatus are the same class of lawyers who built and maintained the current system. That is the central question raised by President Trump’s announced intention to nominate Todd Blanche as the next Attorney General.

Conservative commentator Mike Davis penned an endorsement of Blanche. He went on Steve Bannon’s War Room to make the same point. But a close examination of Davis’ points shows that Blanche is a terrible choice for Attorney General and that President Trump needs to consider an alternative.

One of President Trump’s defining campaign promises — arguably the most important — was to drain the swamp. The premise of that promise is that the federal government has been captured by a class of people who serve themselves, their donors, and their institutional relationships rather than the country. As our country currently stands, if you oppose the government, the government can designate you a terrorist, strip you of your constitutional rights, charge you with a vague crime, throw you in jail, destroy your name in the media, and drag you through a legal process you cannot afford and have almost no chance of winning. The DOJ coerces plea deals. It brands people felons, sends them to prison, and takes their means of earning a living and their reputation. There are no meaningful safeguards to prevent any of that. If it hasn’t happened to you, it is only because you haven’t yet given them a reason. The attorney general sits at the top of that system. The choice of who fills that role is critical.

President Trump’s past Attorneys General

It is beyond dispute that President Trump has not chosen well in the area of Attorneys General. Jeff Sessions was a failure from the first day. Rod Rosenstein was the enemy within. Bill Barr did nothing and ultimately betrayed the president. Most recently, Pam Bondi did not even move from Florida to Washington. Her deputy, Todd Blanche, ran the DOJ during Bondi’s tenure. Every Bondi failure is Blanche’s failure.

Given that history, President Trump’s supporters – the people who supported him since he walked down the escalator – need to make their voices heard and help guide President Trump to make a good decision so we can get an AG who will actually drain the swamp.

500 days without draining the swamp

On the day Mike Davis published his endorsement of Blanche, Blanche’s team put out a post on X titled “500 days of winning.” It lists nine items his team considered their greatest accomplishments. None of them address draining the swamp. None of them address the ongoing weaponization of the justice system. None of them include mass firings of corrupt prosecutors, consequences for officials who abused their offices, or any investigation into the DOJ’s documented practice of coercing plea deals from defendants. That reflects the priorities of the DOJ under Todd Blanche, and tells us that if he is confirmed, we will get more of the same and the swamp will not be drained.

Blanche’s resume is disqualifying

In Mike Davis’ endorsement of Blanche, he points to his legal experience. It is worth examining.  Davis frames Blanche’s early career as one of “public service and sacrifice.” The first items Davis points to are federal clerkships in the Southern District of New York. These jobs are not “public service.” Federal clerkships are appointments that law students intensely compete for because they allow young lawyers to form close relationships with sitting judges — relationships that can be professionally useful for the rest of a career. Law firms pay significant signing bonuses and grant deferments to associates who take them. They are a rare privilege, not a sacrifice. It’s not different than saying going to Harvard is “public service.”

More relevant than the nature of the clerkships is who the judges were. In New York, federal judicial appointments require sign-off from the home state senators under the blue-slip rule. New York’s senators have been Democrats for decades — Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton to name two. Blanche clerked first for a judge appointed by President Obama, then for a Trump-appointed judge who could only be appointed after being approved by Chuck Schumer. These judges are his mentors. They are products of the very system that the voters who elected President Trump repudiated. Those formative relationships do not disqualify Blanche on their own, but Davis presents them as a credential. They are, at best, a reason for caution.

Ten years as an Obama prosecutor at SDNY

After his clerkships, Blanche spent roughly a decade as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York — the entirety of which ran through the Obama years. He was an Obama DOJ prosecutor. To understand what that means, consider what happened during that time. The SDNY prosecuted Dinesh D’Souza. D’Souza had given $20,000 to a friend running in a New York Republican primary, a doomed race. He could have given the same amount legally through a different vehicle. There was no victim. He was investigated and arrested, held on $50,000 bail — more than the value of the alleged crime — and eventually coerced into a plea deal. The prosecution tarnished his reputation permanently, cost him his Second Amendment rights, disrupted his life, and ran up enormous legal bills. It came, suspiciously, shortly after he released a film critical of Barack Obama. President Trump later pardoned him, explicitly acknowledging the prosecution as weaponization.

That happened while Blanche was at SDNY. And D’Souza is only the most prominent case. It is reasonable to assume there were others. During the Trump administration, left-leaning DOJ attorneys publicly resigned en masse rather than serve under a president they opposed. Blanche had no such objection to serving Obama’s DOJ. This should be disqualifying. It would be roughly analogous to President Biden appointing Rudy Giuliani as his attorney general. That would never happen. There is no reason that President Trump needs to appoint Obama prosecutors to the highest levels. There are alternatives.

Wilmer Hale

Davis says that after his time at SDNY, Blanche “became a partner at a prestigious New York law firm.” He conspicuously does not name the firm. It was WilmerHale.

WilmerHale is the same firm where Robert Mueller was a partner before he departed — taking a team of WilmerHale colleagues with him — to lead the special counsel investigation of President Trump. These were Todd Blanche’s colleagues, maybe even his friends. Being a partner at Wilmer Hale should be disqualifying.

The revolving door between federal prosecutor offices and white-collar defense firms is itself one of the central problems with the “justice system.” Defendants pay enormous fees to firms that advertise their roster of former prosecutors, hoping those relationships will produce better outcomes. This is the arrangement that needs reforming. Blanche is a product of it and incapable of reforming it. He has taken no steps of reforming it in the last 500 days when he had the chance.

It is also worth noting that President Trump issued an executive order regarding WilmerHale on March 27, 2025, just weeks after taking office. The order stated:

WilmerHale engages in obvious partisan representations to achieve political ends, supports efforts to discriminate on the basis of race, backs the obstruction of efforts to prevent illegal aliens from committing horrific crimes and trafficking deadly drugs within our borders, and furthers the degradation of the quality of American elections, including by supporting efforts designed to enable noncitizens to vote. Moreover, WilmerHale itself discriminates against its employees based on race and other categories prohibited by civil rights laws, including through the use of race-based ‘targets.’ WilmerHale is also bent on employing lawyers who weaponize the prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process and distort justice. For example, WilmerHale rewarded Robert Mueller and his colleagues — Aaron Zebley, Mueller’s ‘top aide’ and ‘closest associate,’ and James Quarles — by welcoming them to the firm after they wielded the power of the Federal Government to lead one of the most partisan investigations in American history. Mueller’s investigation epitomizes the weaponization of government, yet WilmerHale claimed he ’embodies the highest value of our firm and profession.’ Mueller’s ‘investigation’ upended the lives of public servants in my Administration who were summoned before ‘prosecutors’ with the effect of interfering in their ability to fulfill the mandates of my first term agenda. This weaponization of the justice system must not be rewarded, let alone condoned.

That is President Trump’s own assessment of the firm where his nominee for attorney general spent years as a partner, “raking in millions.” Mike Davis somehow forgot to mention that small detail in his endorsement.

The defense of President Trump

Davis argues that Blanche sacrificed his career to defend President Trump. The facts do not support that framing. First of all, it’s not as if Blanche represented President Trump pro bono. He likely made millions representing President Trump. Moreover, Blanche did not sacrifice. He made a calculated decision that representing President Trump was an avenue to political advancement if Trump won the 2024 election. That gamble paid off. This can hardly be considered acting out of principle.

In fact, this character defect should be a disqualifier. What Mike Davis is telling us is that Blanche, a lifelong Democrat, was willing to switch teams when it served him personally. We’ve experienced that with so many, including Mike Pence, Bill Barr, and others.

There are so many qualified attorneys who were with President Trump through thick and thin for years, and truly sacrificed, including being the victims of weaponization themselves. Why would he choose someone who only profited from President Trump’s victimization, and has shown that he will jump ship the moment the weather begins to change?

Moreover, as Davis himself acknowledges, Trump avoided prison not because of Blanche’s legal skills. Blanche lost the New York case on every count. It was a complete shutout – Government 34, Trump zero. President Trump did not avoid jail because he had good lawyers. He avoided jail because of his loyal voters who rejected the legal system that Blanche is a product of and that Blanche has taken zero steps to reform in the last 500 days.

His failed tenure as Deputy and Acting AG

Speaking of which, let’s examine the problem of weaponization and how what Blanche has done about it in the last 500 days when he was in charge.

Lawfare is not exclusively a Democratic problem. It is a deep state problem that crosses party lines and is currently ongoing. As just one example, we are seeing it now applied to people who oppose data centers, who are being labeled terrorists by the same apparatus that labeled school board parents terrorists. The problem is institutional, not partisan. A nominee who frames weaponization as something Democrats do, rather than something the system does, is distracting from the problem and has no intention to fix the system. Blanche took no steps to investigate how this happened and ensure Americans that these tools of prosecution against political enemies won’t be abused.

Under Blanche’s tenure — first as the de facto head of DOJ under Bondi and then as acting AG — the DOJ continued the prosecution of Dr. Kirk Moore, a doctor who helped patients avoid the consequences of Biden-era mandates, for months into the Trump presidency. There have been no consequences for the prosecutors who continued that case. The Dr. Moore case happened to generate enough attention such that Pam Bondi, when she heard about it, immediately declared it weaponization and dropped the case immediately with the stroke of her pen and without any further investigation other than what she learned from posts on X. Think about that. How many thousands of other cases of weaponization are ongoing that they don’t even require investigation to determine that they are weaponization? But these cases are ongoing under Blanche and he has made no efforts to identify and end these ongoing injustices that are occurring in his name and under his watch. How can he sleep at night knowing that there may be thousands of lives that he can save with the stroke of a pen? This is not someone who should lead the DOJ during this critical time.

Moreover, there were no consequences for the prosecutors who continued these weaponized persecutions. If you abuse such awesome and devastating powers, there should be one strike and you’re out. But nobody was fired following the Dr. Moore dismissal. Blanche did not even order an investigation into the prosecutors to see if there are other weaponized cases. In fact, the DOJ just ignored the whole incident and moved on as if everything is fine. But it’s not fine. We need someone who understands the problem of weaponization and makes it the number one priority.

The Epstein fiasco that fractured the Trump base also happened under his watch. This should also be a disqualifier by itself. The base deserves someone who will look at the whole matter with a fresh set of eyes.

Under Blanche, the DOJ continues all of its weaponization tactics, including silencing criminal defendants from going to the public with their side of the story. Just a few days ago, his DOJ successfully petitioned a court to sanction a criminal defendant for going on television to allege that his prosecution was politically motivated. The DOJ’s practice of using press releases to publicly destroy defendants before trial has continued without reform.

No meaningful effort has been made to investigate how many Americans were wrongly coerced into plea deals. There have been no mass firings of prosecutors who weaponized the government during the Biden years. There are no bar complaints or other consequences. The narrative that DOJ is fine and that what happened under Biden was the work of a few bad apples is allowed to stand — because these are Blanche’s professional colleagues, and that is how people in this system protect the system.

I know this from direct experience. I served in DOJ and attempted to bring documented, ongoing cases of weaponization to Blanche’s attention for review. I was asked to resign. I spoke about this in my interview with Brandon Straka from #walkaway.

If anything should disqualify him it is his handling of the riots in Newark that are ongoing. Merrick Garland showed that if Trump supporters get out of line there will be no mercy. They hunted down J6 grammas up until January of 2025 and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Trump supporters are justifiably terrified to attend gatherings after J6. Yet look how antifa and these other groups riot and attack federal officers with impunity. They act as if they know with certainty that Blanche’s DOJ will not give them the J6 treatment.

Biden’s DOJ acted so harshly against its political enemies, that Trump supporters are afraid even to engage in lawful First Amendment protected activity. But Blanche fails to take any meaningful action, so antifa is not afraid to violate the law night after night.

When it mattered, Blanche was nowhere to be found

Mike Davis speaks of Blanche’s courage. But Blanche was nowhere to be found when real courage and sacrifice were needed.

I was a January 6 defense attorney. When those defendants needed help, I left stable employment and took their cases, mostly for free or for nominal fees. They were people who supported President Trump and whose constitutional rights were being trampled. What they went through was far worse than anything President Trump personally endured through his legal proceedings.

Where was Todd Blanche during that period? He “raking in millions” as a partner at fancy law firms. He was a high-profile federal criminal defense attorney. He had resources. He had a platform. He had connections. But he chose not to use any of it for the J6ers or other victims of weaponization who couldn’t pay his exorbitant fees. He was there for millionaires and billionaires, but had no time to help Americans. He only switched teams when he saw an opportunity to make money and bet on President Trump’s voters putting President Trump back in office.

Those small number of attorneys who fought weaponization during the Biden years did it with no money, no institutional support, no access, and no reinforcements. Todd Blanche was not one of the people who showed up. President Trump should seek out a candidate who actually sacrificed during the Biden years.

Conclusion: Blanche is not the AG we need

Todd Blanche’s career is the typical mediocre elite career path: clerkships, federal prosecutor, a partnership at a white-shoe law firm, and then a politically calculated pivot when circumstances created an opportunity.

The people who followed that path are the culprits who produced the system that Trump voters repudiated. The people who benefited from that system, and whose professional and personal relationships are embedded in that system, will not dismantle that system. They will manage it and protect it.

If Blanche is confirmed he will continue to run out the clock, constantly putting out some empty red meat and telling us that judgment is just around the corner. Any day now Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Anthony Fauci will be perped walked. Just keep watching TV. It’s happening any day. Trust the plan.

President Trump has a narrow window to put someone in the Attorney General’s office who will actually begin the work of dismantling the police state. Todd Blanche’s record as acting AG and as deputy AG shows that he is not that person. His background shows why.

I challenge Mike Davis to respond to any of the factual points raised here. His endorsement rests on credentials that, on examination, argue against Blanche’s nomination rather than for it.

The base that voted for President Trump deserves to have this nomination examined honestly before it is confirmed. This may be the last opportunity to get an attorney general who will take the first real steps toward dismantling the institutional apparatus that has been used against ordinary Americans for years.

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UNITED NATIONS — When Jeff Bartos appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2025 for his confirmation hearing, he was warned that the job he was seeking might not exist. 

The Pennsylvania businessman, former political candidate and endurance athlete had been nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as U.S. ambassador for United Nations Management and Reform — a title that has long sounded aspirational in a building famous for bureaucracy.

During his confirmation hearing, Bartos recalled being greeted with a dose of skepticism.

"UN reform? That's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one," lawmakers told him.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION COULD LEAD TO BUDGET CUTS, LEADERSHIP SHAKEUP AT UN

Less than a year later, Bartos believes the impossible is beginning to happen.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, the Trump administration official laid out an ambitious campaign to reshape an institution critics say has become bloated, inefficient and increasingly disconnected from its founding mission.

The effort comes at a pivotal moment for the United Nations. The stakes extend well beyond budgets. As the U.N. confronts a cash crunch, prepares to choose its next secretary-general and faces growing scrutiny from the administration, the debate over reform has become a battle over the institution's future: whether it remains on its current course or undergoes its most significant restructuring in decades.

UN FACES SEVERE CASH CRISIS AS TRUMP ADMIN RAMPS UP PRESSURE ON WORLD BODY

Secretary-General António Guterres has repeatedly warned of a growing liquidity crisis as the organization struggles with delayed member-state payments, including billions owed by the United States. At the same time, the Trump administration has made clear that future funding and support will be increasingly tied to reforms.

Bartos argues that pressure is already producing results.

Sitting at the U.N. headquarters, he points to what he calls historic achievements: roughly $570 million cut from the U.N.'s regular budget and 2,900 positions eliminated through negotiations among all 193 member states.

"Again, never happened before in 80 years," Bartos said.

"$570 million cut to the regular budget, approximately 3,000 posts cut. Unanimity. That's by consensus. All 193 countries had to come together."

For Bartos, the achievement is particularly striking because many diplomats viewed meaningful reform as impossible.

AMBASSADOR MIKE WALTZ LAYS OUT ‘AMERICA FIRST’ VISION FOR US LEADERSHIP AT THE UN

"I promised you we wouldn't let you down," he recalled telling Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch months after his confirmation.

The reforms represent only what Bartos describes as a "down payment." The next phase is already underway.

As member states negotiate peacekeeping budgets for the coming year, the administration is pushing to reduce spending, streamline missions and eliminate programs it believes no longer serve their intended purpose.

One example, Bartos said, involves changing how the U.N. reimburses countries that contribute equipment to peacekeeping missions.

Previously, reimbursement was largely based on whether equipment was present.

"The methodology that the U.N. used to reimburse troop-contributing countries for equipment was: 'Is it there?'" Bartos said.

The United States pushed for a simple change: "You get reimbursed when the equipment is put into action to do work."

The reform could save roughly $30 million annually, according to U.S. estimates.

For Bartos, however, the dollar figure matters less than what it represents.

"It's a culture change," he said. "Being efficient, being respectful of every dollar, thinking about the taxpayers who fund all this."

That mindset is driving the administration's next major targets: employee compensation and pensions.

Bartos argues that the U.N.'s pension system and benefits structure consume resources that could otherwise be directed toward humanitarian operations.

Not everyone at the United Nations agrees with Bartos' assessment. U.N. officials argue that many of the reforms predate the Trump administration and were already being pursued under Secretary-General António Guterres.

"From day one, the Secretary-General has been committed to reforms," U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric told Fox News Digital and added, "A few days ago, on 28 May, the Secretary-General told Member States that they need to act on structural reform, saying, "Genuine reform requires tough choices. This is no time for complacency, self-interest, or foot-dragging."

The UN80 initiative is Guterres' flagship reform effort, aimed at cutting duplication, reviewing mandates and making the UN system more efficient.

Still, Bartos argues the pace and scope of reform changed dramatically once the United States began applying pressure through budget negotiations and funding discussions.

"The U.N. is at a decision point," Bartos told Fox News Digital.

The debate comes as the organization faces mounting financial pressure. Dujarric said Guterres remains deeply concerned about ongoing liquidity challenges caused by delayed payments from member states, including the United States.

"Unlike a government, the U.N. cannot borrow or print money," Dujarric said, warning that the organization is expected to execute programs with funds it has not received while also returning unused funds at the end of the year.

Earlier in 2026, Guterres urged member states either to pay their assessed contributions in full and on time or overhaul the U.N.'s financial rules to prevent what he described as the risk of financial collapse.

The reforms are unfolding as the U.N. begins preparing for one of the most consequential transitions in years: the search for a successor to Guterres, whose term expires at the end of 2026.

According to Bartos, reform has become a central topic in discussions with prospective candidates.

The administration hopes the next secretary-general will embrace efforts to reduce bureaucracy and return the institution to what Bartos repeatedly describes as a "back-to-basics" approach.

The challenge, he acknowledges, is enormous.

Yet Bartos insists the experience has prepared him in unexpected ways.

Before entering government, he completed two Ironman triathlons while balancing work and family life.

"It's discipline, planning, prioritization," he said. "It's not dissimilar to budget negotiations."

The comparison may sound unusual, but it reflects how Bartos views the job: not as a sprint, but as an endurance race requiring patience, persistence and long-term thinking.

The mission also carries a personal dimension.

TRUMP REMOVES US FROM UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, BANS UNRWA FUNDING

After two unsuccessful statewide campaigns in Pennsylvania — first as the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in 2018 and later as a candidate in the state's 2022 Republican Senate primary — Bartos said he had largely stepped away from politics before returning to public service following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel. 

Bartos recalled his wife urging him to get involved: "You've spent your life working on these issues. You need to do something."

He ultimately joined efforts to help elect Trump and later accepted the U.N. role.

Now, after tackling what many considered the first impossible mission — reforming the United Nations — Bartos is preparing for what may prove an even harder challenge.

Bartos said he was recently tasked by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz with helping lead efforts to combat what the administration views as entrenched anti-Israel bias across the U.N. system, including agencies, special rapporteurs and investigative bodies.

The debate intensified following the publication of the U.N. secretary-general's annual report on conflict-related sexual violence, which added Israeli security forces to the report's blacklist of parties credibly suspected of patterns of sexual violence in armed conflict. Israel rejected the allegations and announced it would suspend engagement with Secretary-General António Guterres' office.

ISRAEL ACCUSES UN OF PLACING IT ON SAME SEXUAL VIOLENCE BLACKLIST AS HAMAS TERRORISTS, SEVERS TIES

Responding to the report, Waltz told Fox News Digital that the UN has failed to address what he described as a longstanding pattern of institutional antisemitism.

"The U.N. was built in the wake of World War II and the Holocaust, and yet, remarkably, it continues to be weaponized against the Jewish people and Israel," Waltz said. "Whether it's a U.N. official regularly referencing Israel as a 'stain on humanity' and attacking American companies for doing business with Israel, or reports that spread misinformation and propaganda, this antisemitism is completely unacceptable."

"It's been over a year since the secretary general signed off on an 'action plan' to fight antisemitism at the institution — it would be nice if the institution actually used it," he added.

Bartos argues that anti-Israel bias has become embedded across multiple U.N. bodies and says the administration is working to dismantle what he calls that infrastructure through diplomacy, funding decisions and engagement with the next generation of U.N. leadership.

"There is not a day that goes by that we're not working on that," Bartos said.

The United Nations rejects accusations that it has ignored antisemitism within its ranks.

Dujarric told Fox News Digital that the secretary-general launched a formal Action Plan to Combat Antisemitism in January 2025 aimed at tracking antisemitism within U.N. structures and evaluating whether the organization's policies and actions are effectively addressing the problem.

Dujarric also disputed suggestions that Guterres directly controls some of the U.N. bodies most frequently criticized by Israel and its supporters. 

"The U.N. mechanisms that you allude to, including human rights mechanisms, are created by and accountable to Member States," Dujarric said. "The Secretary-General has no authority over them."

"It is very important for Member States to actively engage in these mechanisms if they have concerns about their content and tone," he added.

"The U.N. is at a decision point," Bartos concluded. 

Whether the institution changes enough to satisfy its largest financial contributor remains one of the most consequential questions facing the organization — and the man charged with answering it insists the work is only beginning.

For generations, the Chicago Bears have been as much a part of Chicago as deep-dish pizza, Wrigley Field, and the city’s towering skyline. But after years of political wrangling, stalled negotiations, and legislative failures, the iconic NFL franchise has officially taken a major step toward leaving Illinois.

On Friday, the Bears announced that their Board of Directors voted to advance plans for a new stadium development in Hammond, Indiana, a move that could eventually take the team out of Illinois for the first time in the franchise’s 106-year history.

The decision came just days after Illinois lawmakers adjourned their legislative session without approving incentives that team officials said were necessary to keep the project in-state. Bears leadership has repeatedly argued that tax certainty and infrastructure commitments were critical to moving forward with a massive stadium investment.

In a statement, Bears Chairman George McCaskey and President Kevin Warren declared that a “world-class stadium project” in Hammond could transform the region and connect Northwest Indiana with Chicago’s South Side and surrounding communities.

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Der Staatsschutz ermittelt wieder mal in einem “Einzelfall”: 26-jähriger Afghane soll die Kölner Synagoge ausspioniert haben. Der Fall sorgt in der Domstadt und weit darüber hinaus für erhebliche Unruhe unter jüdischen Mitbürgern. Der Mann war am  21. Mai Mitarbeitern der jüdischen Gemeinde an der Roonstraße durch auffälliges Verhalten aufgefallen: Er soll mit seinem Smartphone Aufnahmen […]

Eigentlich sollte die Brandmauer die Rechten schwächen – nun sind diese stärker denn je. Vor allem CDU und CSU sollten umdenken, wenn sie es mit der Demokratie ernst meinen. Ein Kommentar von Werner J. Patzelt.

Dieser Beitrag Union und AfD Reißt die Brandmauer ein! wurde veröffentlich auf JUNGE FREIHEIT.

Eine Studie zeigt, dass gut zahlende Handwerksbetriebe häufig produktiver und attraktiver für Fachkräfte sind. Experten sehen jedoch keine einfache Kausalität zwischen Löhnen und Produktivität. Entscheidend seien Organisation, Qualifikation und Prozesse.

US-Vizepräsident JD Vance kritisiert die britischen Behörden nach dem Tod des Studenten Henry Nowak scharf. Ein Video zeigt, wie der schwer verletzte 18-Jährige nach einer Messerattacke in Handschellen gelegt wurde. Die britische Regierung weist politische Instrumentalisierung des Falls zurück.

In einer funktionierenden Demokratie sollte eigentlich eine Informationsfreiheit herrschen. Doch mittlerweile dominiert das Prinzip der Informationskontrolle. Jedoch nicht nur Regierungen verfolgen dieses Ziel, sondern ganz offensichtlich auch Big Tech.

Lange Zeit galt in den westlichen Demokratien das Prinzip, wonach man den Bürgern eine relativ umfangreiche Meinungsfreiheit zugestand, die nur durch wenige begrenzende Gesetze (z.B. zum Schutz vor Verächtlichmachung, Beleidigung und dergleichen) eingeschränkt wurde. Wer Falschnachrichten – also offensichtliche Lügen – verbreitete, musste sich entsprechend verantworten. Es war das System des sogenannten „Debunking“. Man wurde für solche Falschnachrichten oder gezielte Desinformation getadelt und gegebenenfalls auch juristisch belangt.

Mittlerweile jedoch gewinnt das Prinzip des sogenannten „Prebunking“ an Popularität. Dabei handelt es sich um eine Idee, die Menschen bereits vorab gegen bestimmte nicht erwünschte Narrative und Behauptungen quasi zu „immunisieren“. Man könnte dies auch eine gezielte Indoktrination nennen. Dies soll laut einem aktuellen Whitepaper zur Bekämpfung von „Desinformationen“ im Vorfeld von Wahlen des European Media and Information Fund (EMIF) durchgeführt werden, welches auch die deutsche Nachrichtenagentur dpa verbreitet.

Diese Institution ist jedoch keineswegs unabhängig oder neutral, sondern Teil eines „Faktenchecker“-Netzwerks ganz im Dienste des herrschenden Systems – und erhielt zudem von Google eine Anschubfinanzierung von 25 Millionen Euro. Mehr noch hat sich diese Organisation ganz offen der Bekämpfung von angeblicher „Desinformation“ verschrieben – wobei sich die Definitionen darüber, was als solche gelten soll und was nicht, von Leuten mit ganz bestimmten Vorstellungen dazu vorgegeben wird.

Derselbe Konzern also, der über die im Westen dominierende Suchmaschine und das größte Videoportal (YouTube) verfügt, sowie mit dessen eigenen Ranking-Algorithmen über die Sichtbarkeit von Webseiten und anderen Webinhalten bestimmt, beteiligt sich nun also auch an Projekten, welche zunehmend proaktiv die Meinungen und Ansichten der Bürger lenken wollen. Das Ziel lautet: Umfassende Informationskontrolle. Eigentlich würde man solche Maßnahmen eher in autoritären Staaten vermuten, doch nun wird dies auch in den sogenannten „liberalen, westlichen Demokratien“ immer stärker umgesetzt.

Künftig sollen nicht nur reaktive „Faktenchecks“ über den angeblichen Wahrheitsgehalt von konkreten Informationen, Behauptungen und Meldungen urteilen, sondern die Menschen bereits vorab ganz gezielt darauf „vorbereitet“ werden, ganz bestimmte Argumente, Zweifel oder Narrative als potentiell „problematisch“ wahrzunehmen. Darunter laut dem Whitepaper unter anderem in Bezug auf Wahlen die Zweifel an Briefwahlen, jegliche Diskussionen über Wahlpannen, die Kritik an Umfragen oder auch Behauptungen über Wahlmanipulationen. Dies wird von den EMIF-Leuten als „typische Desinformationsmuster“ bezeichnet.

Damit werden jedoch fundamentale Grundprinzipien der Demokratie verletzt. Wie kann es nämlich sein, dass man den Bürgern kritische Fragen zu den Wahlabläufen, den Auszählungen, den Umfrageergebnissen, oder auch den Parteien und Kandidaten quasi untersagen will? Jedes System ist fehlerhaft, doch irgendwelche potentiellen Probleme und Missstände anzusprechen soll nun problematisch sein? Damit degradiert man das Wahlvolk zum bloßen Stimmvieh, das zwar seine Stimme (möglichst im Sinne des Establishments) abgeben soll, jedoch keine kritischen Fragen mehr stellen darf. Nicht die Demokratie selbst soll dabei geschützt werden, sondern die vorherrschenden Narrative.

Dazu wurde quasi eine geschlossene Informationsarchitektur errichtet, in der die Algorithmen der Suchmaschine entscheiden, was die Menschen zu finden haben, die „Faktenchecker“ über den angeblichen Wahrheitsgehalt entscheiden, solche Prebunking-Projekte wie jenes von EMIF festlegen was als „verdächtig“ gilt und natürlich die Social-Media-Portale darüber bestimmen, was überhaupt verbreitet werden darf. Denn ungeachtet dessen, dass es durchaus Desinformation und Falschmeldungen gibt, bleiben wichtige Fragen offen: Wer stellt die Definition darüber auf und wer kontrolliert denn eigentlich die Kontrolleure? Und mehr noch: Warum mischt sich Google überhaupt in die Wahlprozesse ein?

Die Wählergruppe „Stimme für Volksentscheide“ setzt sich mit Nachdruck für die Einführung verbindlicher bundesweiter Volksentscheide in Deutschland ein. Ziel ist es, die direkte Mitbestimmung der Bürgerinnen und Bürger deutlich zu stärken und politische Entscheidungen näher an den Willen der Bevölkerung heranzurücken – transparenter, legitimer und bürgernäher.„Demokratie lebt von Beteiligung“, betont die Initiative. Während Wahlen längst […]

Die Brandmauer steht – zumindest, wenn es um die AfD geht. Dabei gab es Verschiebungen im Parteisystem bereits in der Vergangenheit. Und da dauerte es nicht so lange, bis die Neulinge am Kabinettstisch Platz nehmen durften.

Dieser Beitrag AfD wird immer stärker Wem nützt die Brandmauer, Genossen? wurde veröffentlich auf JUNGE FREIHEIT.

Ein internationales Grabungsteam hat gestern den Fund eines fast 4.500 Jahre alten, versiegelten Grabes nahe der Stufenpyramide von Sakkara bekannt gegeben. Da Grabräuber die Kammer über die Jahrtausende nie fanden, ist sie in einem makellosen Zustand. Das Ganze ist wie ein Brief aus der Vergangenheit an die Gegenwart. Und wir erkennen, dass der heutige Kampf [...]

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Open University’s first Blavatnik Award laureate, Paz Biniamini, studies cosmic bursts and neutron stars; says science must 'be done on international level' regardless of politics

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Am Tag der Organspende vervielfachen Medien eine Tattoo-Aktion aus Münster. Aus Aufklärung wird moralischer Druck. Schweigen ist trotzdem keine Zustimmung, weder heute noch 2030.

In Deutschland sterben pro Jahr rund 1.000 Menschen, die der Entnahme ihrer Organe zugesagt hatten. Das sind zu wenig für den Bedarf jener gut 8.000 Erkrankten, die auf fremde Organe angewiesen sind. Der Tag der Organspende soll für eine höhere Spendenbereitschaft sorgen. Die Infostände stehen dieses Jahr in Leipzig.

Der Verband der Familienunternehmer fordert, die Sommerpause des Bundestags auszusetzen. Reformgesetze sollen schneller beraten und beschlossen werden, um Unternehmen zu entlasten. Kritik gibt es an Deutschlands Standortbedingungen und Investitionsklima.

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