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BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors Resigns After Her $3M Housing Portfolio Was Revealed

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors is stepping down as executive director of the organization amid controversy over her $3 million property portfolio.  

Cullors, who has been at the helm of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation for nearly six years, announced the news on Thursday.  

The 37-year-old activist told The Associated Press that she is leaving to focus on other projects, including the upcoming release of her second book and a multi-year TV development deal with Warner Bros.

‘I’ve created the infrastructure and the support, and the necessary bones and foundation, so that I can leave,’ Cullors  stated. ‘It feels like the time is right.’

However, her departure comes after it was revealed last month that she has amassed a $3 million property portfolio, despite describing herself as a trained Marxist”. 

Cullors faced fierce backlash over revelations about her personal spending – including the recent purchase of a $1.4 million home in a ritzy L.A. neighborhood. 

It caused many to question what percentage of BLM donations were actually going towards social justice programs.

However, she insists her resignation has been in the works for more than a year and has nothing to do with the personal attacks she has faced. 

‘Those were right-wing attacks that tried to discredit my character, and I don’t operate off of what the right thinks about me,’ Cullors told the Associated Press. 

Last month, she described the criticism as ‘racist and sexist’ smears deliberately put out by the ‘right-wing media’. 

But it wasn’t just conservatives who pressed Cullors over her finances.

The head of New York City’s BLM chapter called for an independent investigation into the organization’s finances after revelations about the property portfolio surfaced. 

‘If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you have to ask how much of her own personal money is going to charitable causes,’ BLM organizer Hawk Newsome told The New York Post. 

‘It’s really sad because it makes people doubt the validity of the movement and overlook the fact that it’s the people that carry this movement.’  

 Meanwhile, it was also revealed that a jail reform activist group founded by Cullors  spent $26,000 for meetings and ‘appearances’ at a luxury Malibu resort.

Reform LA Jails paid $10,179 for ‘meetings and appearances’ at the Calamigos Guest Ranch and Beach Club, and a further $15,593 at the Malibu Conference Center, which is owned by the resort, between July and September 2019.  

A single night in a two-bedroom ‘cozy ranch chic’ suite in July costs $1,200, and guests at the 200-acre resort have access to a private five acre beach on the Malibu coast.

After the spending was revealed by the Daily Caller, former Fox host Megyn Kelly Tweeted: ‘BLM must stand for… Babes Lounging in Malibu? Big Loads of Money? Blatant Lies about Marxism?’ 

The BLM foundation revealed in February that it took in just over $90 million last year, following the May 2020 murder of George Floyd, a black man whose death had the hands of a white police officer inspired global protests. 

The foundation said it ended 2020 with a balance of more than $60 million, after spending nearly a quarter of its assets on operating expenses, grants to black-led organizations and other charitable giving.

Critics of the foundation contend more of that money should have gone to the families of black victims of police brutality who have been unable to access the resources needed to deal with their trauma and loss.

Cullors and the foundation have said they do support families without making public announcements or disclosing dollar amounts.

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Joe Biden DID Meet With Son Hunter’s Business Interests

Report confirms Burisma exec thanked him for ‘opportunity to meet your father’

While Joe Biden was campaigning for president and scandals involving his son, Hunter, kept surfacing, he assured Americans, “I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses. Period.”

That’s despite a recent investigation by the Daily Wire that revealed Hunter Biden had his fingers in business pies in Saudi Arabia, Ivory Coast, Oman, Qatar, Taiwan, Zimbabwe, Greece and Mexico, in addition to his highly publicized business dealings in China and Ukraine while is father was vice president.

Further, Breitbart has reported he took 411 trips across 29 countries during the years his father was vice president, including 23 flights in or out of Joint Base Andrews, where Air Force Two is stationed.

Now the New York Post confirms that Joe Biden actually met with Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakhstani business associates of his son’s “at a dinner in Washington, D.C., while he was vice president.”

The report reveals that confirmation is from records on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop.

The report said the dinner was April 16, 2015, at the private “Garden Room” at Café Milano in Georgetown.

The day after, Vadym Pozharskyi, an executive of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, sent Hunter Biden a noting thanking him for introducing him to his father, the Post documented.

“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together,” Pozharskyi wrote. “It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.”

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Most Christians Are Frauds, Chilling Study Suggests—Only 6% Live Out A Biblical Worldview

Although a majority of American adults identify as Christian, only six percent of Americans actually live out a biblical worldview, according to a shocking new study. Partially in response to this finding, the Family Research Council (FRC) is launching the Center for Biblical Worldview, directed by David Closson, in order to encourage Christians to live out their faith authentically. The Center will feature the work of veteran public opinion researcher George Barna and theologian Owen Strachan.

“Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper once remarked that there is not one square inch over which Jesus Christ does not cry, ‘Mine!’ Kuyper’s point is that the lordship of Jesus extends to all aspects of reality and our lives,” Closson told PJ Media on Wednesday. “Unfortunately, this crucial insight has been largely forgotten today, even by many in our churches where we have a diminished understanding of Christ’s lordship.”

“But Paul is clear about the scope of Christ’s lordship; it includes everything. Colossians 1:16 says, ‘For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.’ This has implications how we think about our resources and material blessings,” Closson explained. “If all things exist and are sustained by Christ, they are His already.”

“I’m afraid we have lost the biblical concept of stewardship, which teaches that everything we have is a gift from God and is to be used for His glory,” the director lamented.

In coordination with the launch of the Center for Biblical Worldview, FRC commissioned a survey of 1,000 American adults. The survey found that while 51 percent of adults claim to have a biblical worldview, only six percent of them actually answered worldview questions in a manner consistent with the Bible. Only nine percent of those who identified themselves as Christians answered the questions correctly.

Closson provided five of the key worldview questions to PJ Media.

Researchers asked, “Which of the following do you consider to be the best indicator of a successful life?” Respondents chose from these options (biblical answer in bold):

-Fulfilling our potential through the application of our intellect and the scientific method

-Consistent obedience to God

-Experiencing the highest possible levels of consciousness and unity with the universe

-Experiencing personal happiness or freedom

-Living a healthy and productive life, without economic oppression

-Being a good person

Only 29 percent of respondents chose “consistent obedience to God” over fulfilling one’s potential, experiencing personal happiness, being a good person, and other options.

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Natural News and other independent media outlets were RIGHT all along, as “mainstream” media suddenly admits to lab origins of covid-19

Natural News was one of the first publications in the world to report on the lab origins of SARS-CoV-2, even when the “mainstream” media conspired to downplay the possibility. For over a year, the agenda-driven “mainstream media” suppressed the lab leak theory and labeled it “conspiracy theory.” Now CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times and the rest of the mainstream liars are admitting to the lab origins of covid-19 and asking questions about gain-of-function coronavirus research.

Overnight, an “insane, unhinged conspiracy theory” that was censored from the internet and labeled “harmful disinformation” suddenly became a “serious and plausible possibility for which rational evidence exists.” Disgraced fact-checking organizations such as PolitiFact are now removing all evidence of their phony fact checks on the subject matter. After smearing and censoring independent journalists, the “fact checkers” are suddenly agreeing with Natural News and other real, investigative journalists. So where are the apologies?

The Washington Post claimed the lab theory was “misinformation” for over a year, but now says covid “accidentally” escaped a Chinese lab. Even the Huffington Post called the lab theory a “toxic conspiracy theory” a year ago – dismissing any investigative reporting on the issue. Was this coordinated suppression of information just denialism or were these disgraced media outlets covering for their criminal friends in government? An investigation should be conducted into the reasons why these media outlets suppressed information about coronavirus engineering, which took place for many years with the intent of designing new vaccines and surveillance testing for the viruses they were engineering.

Mainstream media is a tool to cover for the criminals who funded, approved and subverted moratoriums on gain-of-function research

From the start of the covid-19 scandal, the mainstream media was used as a tool of propaganda to cover for Dr. Anthony Fauci and lie about the government’s participation in unethical coronavirus gain-of-function engineering at the University of North Carolina, New York’s EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

Natural News, Info Wars, War Room: Pandemic and other independent media sources continued to publish investigative news reports on this serious subject matter, despite being censored, “fact-checked” and flagged for “covid-19 misinformation.” Facebook and Twitter removed any information on the lab leak and blocked the Chinese scientist who testified that COVID-19 was engineered in a lab. The mainstream media mocked the lab leak theory, even though the Trump Administration had obtained evidence of Wuhan virologists falling severely ill just before the Wuhan outbreak began. The Associated Press, NPR, and CNN were quick to mock President Trump when he revealed on May 1, 2020 that the administration had “a high degree of confidence” the virus escaped from a lab. Today these same mainstream media propagandists are trying to appear like they were out in front of the issue all along.

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Department of Labor: Jobless claims drop to 406,000

Results better than economists had forecast.

The number of Americans filing new unemployment claims dropped to 406,000 last week as the economy continues to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Department of Labor.

The Bureau of Labor and Statistics figure released Thursday represented a decrease in the number of new jobless claims compared to the week ending May 15, when 444,000 new jobless claims were reported. Economists expected Thursday’s jobless claims number to come in at 425,000, The Wall Street Journal reported.

“I think there’s still a lot of pain out there, but the good news is that it really looks like the economy is kicking into overdrive, and I do see positive signs for the job market,” Beth Ann Bovino, S&P Global Ratings chief U.S. economist, told the WSJ.

Thursday’s figure represented the lowest level for initial jobless claims since March 14, 2020, when the Labor Department reported 256,000 new claims, according to the report.

Roughly 15.8 million Americans continue to collect unemployment benefits, according to the report.

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How US 2020 Election Audits are Moving Forward in Arizona, Georgia, & New Hampshire No Matter What

The US 2020 election controversy is continuing to haunt the nation, with partisan and civil enthusiasts launching re-examinations of ballots despite the Democratic Party’s smearing the initiative as an attempt to undermine the public trust in Joe Biden’s win.

Arizona, Georgia, and New Hampshire have recently proceeded with audits of the 2020 voting results. However, none of these efforts will change the outcome of last year’s race.

Arizona

Arizona auditors have been examining 2.1 million ballots cast and 385 tabulators in Maricopa County since 23 April. Although the county has already held two forensic audits, in February 2021 the Arizona GOP won a case in which it sought a third recount and examination of election equipment in Maricopa. Last November, Joe Biden won it with a margin of roughly 45,000 votes.

So far, over 500,000 ballots have been reviewed by a team of independent auditors hired by the state’s Senate. Auditors have already stumbled upon various issues, including missing passwords and allegedly deleted databases as well as controversies surrounding the chain of custody and ballot organisation.

he Maricopa Board of Supervisors vehemently denied any inconsistencies related to election procedures and processes, urging the Senate GOP to halt the ongoing audit.

After the auditors refused to back down from their claim that the county destroyed evidence by deleting an election database, the Maricopa officials threatened to file a defamation lawsuit against them. County officials specifically told Senate President Karen Fann and those involved in the audit to preserve all records related to the effort, including emails and text messages, computer files, cellphones, and other devices, according to NBC News.

Georgia

Meanwhile, on 21 May a judge green-lit the unsealing of 147,000 mail-in ballots cast in the 2020 November election in Georgia’s Fulton County which was decisively won by Biden last November.

Last year, a group of voters organised by Voter GA, a volunteer coalition of citizens and organisations advocating open and secure election procedures, filed a petition requesting a forensic inspection of mail-in ballots from the 2020 election. The petitioners cited an allegedly abnormal vote increase for Joe Biden as well as similarly abnormal reduction in Trump’s tabulation, among other issues. It is expected that representatives of state officials and petitioners will meet at the Fulton County ballot storage location on 28 May.

“From day one I have encouraged Georgians with concerns about the election in their counties to pursue those claims through legal avenues”, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told The Epoch Times in an email. “Fulton County has a long standing history of election mismanagement that has understandably weakened voters’ faith in its system. Allowing this audit provides another layer of transparency and citizen engagement”.

The media outlet remarked, however, that Raffensperger asked the judge last month not to grant petitioners access to the physical ballots. 

New Hampshire

On 11 May, an audit team started a forensic examination of the 2020 election results in Windham over alleged election night machine malfunctions. In contrast to the two aforementioned audits, the recount is not related to the 2020 presidential race and was requested by a Democrat.

Last November, all four Windham state representative seats went to Republicans. Kristi St. Laurent, a Democratic candidate who lost a November race by a paper-thin margin of 24 votes, appealed for a recount arguing that either election machines were incorrectly programmed or a significant number of ballots were double counted during the counting process. Previously, a hand recount revealed that St. Laurent lost 99 votes while GOP candidates received 300 additional votes.

In April, New Hampshire’s Republican Gov. Chris Sununu authorised a forensic analysis and a comprehensive recount of the 2020 election votes in Windham with a focus on AccuVote machines scanning. On 17 May, independent election auditors examining vote discrepancies suggested that machine scanners could have interpreted the fold lines as a vote when they go through a “vote target”, or a candidate’s name on the ballot, according to WMUR.

​”Throughout New Hampshire, you’re using the same voting machines, the AccuVote, and in principle, it could be an issue”, said auditor Philip Stark as quoted by the media outlet. “It really depends where the folds are in relation to the vote targets”.

While examining this hypothesis, the auditors tweeted earlier this week that one machine at a school indicated that only 28 percent of 75 votes for each GOP candidate were actually counted.

​Despite the apparent controversy involving voting machines, one of the auditors, Harri Hursti, confirmed to CNN that their review has not found any proof of “widespread fraud”.

According to the Associated Press, the push for reviewing the 2020 election results is spreading across US states, with officials in Michigan’s Antrim County debating a review of their voting machines on 25 May, although last week a judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking a statewide election audit in Michigan.

For his part, former President Donald Trump is calling upon the GOP to support local initiatives:

“Why aren’t Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republicans doing anything about what went on in the 2020 Election?”, Trump asked. “How can the Democrats be allowed to get away with this? It will go down as the Crime of the Century! Other States like Arizona, Georgia (where a judge just granted a motion to unseal and inspect ballots from the 2020 Election), Michigan, Pennsylvania, and more to follow”.

Biden Orders US Intel To ‘Analyze’ Information On Possible Wuhan Lab Leak

Sleepy Joe admits that one intel agency is ‘leaning toward’ the lab leak scenario being most likely.

After being slammed for shutting down a Trump State Department investigation into the origins of COVID, and then indicating there would not be any investigation, Joe Biden has now claimed that he tasked the Intelligence Community with looking into the matter in March, and has now again asked for a ‘redoubling’ of their efforts and a new report in 90 days.

A statement by Biden claims that the findings in March did not constitute ‘sufficient information’ to come to any conclusion on the origin of the virus, but it does admit that at least one element of the intelligence community believes that the virus leaked from the lab in Wuhan.

The claim that just one element of the IC ‘leans toward’ the lab leak theory does not coalesce with reports from a year ago in which senior intelligence sources suggested that most of the 17 agencies in the US believed the coronavirus came from a Chinese lab.

At the time, however, the sources said the agencies were still looking for a ‘smoking gun’.

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Trump Issues Memorial Day Warning to Americans

Former President Donald Trump released a statement on Thursday to blame President Joe Biden for rising gas prices as Americans prepare to celebrate Memorial Day.

“With Memorial Day Weekend coming up, tomorrow people start driving in the biggest automobile days of the year,” Trump said in the statement.

“I’m sorry to say the gasoline prices that you will be confronted with are far higher than they were just a short number of months ago where we had gasoline under $2 a gallon,” the former president added.

Trump used the increase in gas prices to highlight his own efforts as president.

“Remember as you’re watching the meter tick, and your dollars pile up, how great of a job Donald Trump did as President,” the former president said.

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted about the nation’s increased gas prices in March, noting a 28 percent increase in the first two months Biden was in office.

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USA Today removes the word ‘male’ from op-ed about trans athletes… and apologizes for using ‘hurtful language’

USA Today has been accused of capitulating to the woke mob after it edited out the word ‘male’ from an op-ed arguing against allowing transgender people to compete in women’s sports, reportedly without the author’s consent.

The outlet published a piece last week penned by Chelsea Mitchell, one of four female high-school athletes who filed an unsuccessful lawsuit last year challenging Connecticut’s decision to allow biological males to compete in girls’ athletics.

The champion runner wrote that she was deprived of multiple titles and awards because she had been forced to compete against athletes with “an enormous physical advantage: a male body.”

In her op-ed, she retold the “devastating” feeling of losing to “male runners,” saying that such experiences made her feel as if her body “wasn’t good enough” to overcome the physiological advantages enjoyed by her transgender competitiors. 

She noted that in Connecticut, two transgender athletes who began racing in girls’ track in 2017 were able to win 15 women’s state championship titles over a three-year period. These same titles were held by nine different girls in 2016. 

But Connecticut officials are “determined to ignore” why the two runners enjoyed such success, Mitchell argued. 

“[M]ales have massive physical advantages. Their bodies are simply bigger and stronger on average than female bodies. It’s obvious to every single girl on the track,” she wrote.

Mitchell closed the op-ed by vowing to continue to fight for “all female athletes,” stating that she and her co-plaintiffs are appealing the court ruling that struck down their complaint.

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Patrick Byrne Defends His 2020 Election Claims, Describes Trump’s Missed Opportunity To Stop The Steal

Stew Peters asked hard questions about the seemingly fanciful claims made by those in the Stop the Steal movement, and received full answers from Patrick Byrne.

Radio host Stew Peters interviewed former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, now the founder of The American Project, about Byrne’s bombshell claims regarding potential foreign involvement in what he describes as the theft of the 2020 presidential election from President Donald Trump, and asks what Byrne believes President Trump could have done differently to remain in office for a second term.

Since November 3, Byrne has become a central figure in the Stop The Steal movement, and has made claims about election theft in six cities residing in battleground states that conspicuously flipped from President Trump to Joe Biden during late night hours, in some cases after observers were sent home due to spurious reasons or blocked from viewing the vote counting.

Peters specifically asked if Byrne is working with the FBI or federal government in his attempt to expose what he believes happened in 2020, Byrne replied, “I am not only not working with the FBI or the federal government, I suspect I’ve angered a lot of people there.” He then suggested, “I wouldn’t be surprised if they make it a crime… I’m investigating this as a journalist, maybe they’re going to come out and say the First Amendment doesn’t apply. I’m not working with the FBI and if anything I can tell you that the Washington authorities would love to block all this and make it go away.”

Peters specifically asked if Byrne is working with the FBI or federal government in his attempt to expose what he believes happened in 2020, Byrne replied, “I am not only not working with the FBI or the federal government, I suspect I’ve angered a lot of people there.” He then suggested, “I wouldn’t be surprised if they make it a crime… I’m investigating this as a journalist, maybe they’re going to come out and say the First Amendment doesn’t apply. I’m not working with the FBI and if anything I can tell you that the Washington authorities would love to block all this and make it go away.”

“I knew about, let’s call it the Italian Job, probably by November 10,” said Byrne. “I’ve been aware and played some background role and other than that I don’t want to comment on the Italian Job. I don’t know myself for sure what to believe, the whole case can be made without the Italian Job.” He added, “I can’t say anything definitive one way or another. I’ve left that matter.”

Peters then asked a viewer’s question about why he is publicly supporting President Trump and why he aided his efforts to expose credible claims of widespread voter fraud and election interference despite not voting for him. “If we let a rigged election stand, that’s our last freedom. We will never be a free nation again. This is the end, I really think the American Republic may be coming to an end if we don’t get this straightened out,” Byrne told Peters.

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