She just scorched the Democrats on CNN of all places during its New Year’s Eve coverage. Later, she doubled down via her podcast.

And she wasn’t done. She just excoriated California Democrats for their role in the raging west coast wildfires.

If you donate to cali fire relief efforts, that's rad, BUT IT'S INSANE THAT ANYONE HAS TO DONATE their hard earned money to a state that gets so much tax money from its citizens. We've normalized charities and kind people stepping in when the state government fails.

— Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) January 9, 2025

That’s not how your average Hollywood celebrity acts. At least not until recently.

The term “red pilled” comes from the 1999 film “The Matrix.” The Keanu Reeves blockbuster showed people waking up the real world, not the false narratives peddled by the elites. […]

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Last year, MRC Free Speech America found for the third year in a row that NewsGuard rated left-leaning media sites 26 points higher on average than right-leaning media sites. But recent MRC research shows that NewsGuard also continues to rate foreign state propaganda higher than several U.S. media sites. NewsGuard attempted to deny its anti-free speech behavior in a recent letter to the Federal Communications Commission, but MRC research shows otherwise.

For instance, NewsGuard gives a Qatari state media outlet a score of 82.5/100: Al Jazeera English. Al Jazeera is funded by and answerable to the Qatari government, which actively harbors Islamic terrorists. Al Jazeera also gives voice to pro-terrorist propaganda, particularly Hamas. Even NewsGuard had to admit that Al Jazeera had promoted egregiously false information about the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, including by falsely blaming Israel for a Gaza hospital explosion, which was actually caused by a misfired Hamas rocket. The New York Times also perpetuated this same falsehood along with several other outlets, for which MRC Free Speech America lambasted NewsGuard for still doling out perfect scores to them at the time.

NewsGuard also admitted that Al Jazeera “promotes violent Islamism, antisemitism, and anti-Americanism, and that it harshly covers government at odds with Qatar,” but ultimately concluded that this applies more to the Arabic version of Al Jazeera than the English version. The Middle East Media Research Institute accused Al Jazeera of complicity in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks after it aired “exclusive” clips of the massacre, enthusiastically describing the terrorist onslaught as collapsing the “settler walls” and “arrogant occupation army.”

Another state media outlet that receives a higher rating than some U.S. right-leaning media sites is CGTN, a Chinese Communist Party state media outlet. While NewsGuard does not give CGTN a very high score at 39.5/100 — warning that it “severely violates basic journalistic standards” — the so-called media ratings firm still gives CGTN a higher score than at least three American media sites. Global Times, like CGTN, is a Chinese state media site. NewsGuard gives Global Times a credibility rating of 39.5/100. While NewsGuard does disclose the extreme bias of Global Times, including its justification of the ongoing Uyghur genocide in China, it does not mention the fact that Global Times has repeatedly threatened other nations with war, including Australia, the United States and Taiwan. […]

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In a Dec. 24 press release, Hochul’s office bragged about alleged “Online Safety Legislation.” One bill in particular, S895B/A6789B, “Requires Social Media Companies To Disclose Their Terms of Service Relating to Hate Speech.” But “hate speech” is a vague and easily abused term, often weaponized by anti-speech leftists like Hochul and Big Tech censors as justification for draconian censorship.

In the release, Hochul’s office detailed how the S895B requires social media companies to inform users about terms of service, while also requiring social media “to submit to the [NY] attorney general certain terms of service reports,” and offer “remedies for violations.”

MRC Vice President for Free Speech America Dan Schneider set the record straight:

“We have all seen how the New York AG uses and abuses her office. Her ‘suggestions’ to the Big Tech platforms are really demands that, if not complied with, will result in her bringing all kinds of cases against them. If they don’t censor enough political speech, these tech companies can expect to be sued for not complying with business records laws, not enforcing enough diversity requirements, or not tying their shoes correctly. This is thuggish legislation designed to silence political opposition from the right. It is un-American and unconstitutional.”

Disturbingly, Assembly member Grace Lee (D-District 65) praised the legislation in the release while citing COVID-19 speech as justification for the Orwellian legislation. Lee hysterically whined about “hate and disinformation spread[ing] like wildfire” online and railed against Big Tech platforms for not censoring enough. “These companies have a responsibility to protect users from this hate, but have failed to do so,” she said. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the Murthy v. Missouri lawsuit have both revealed that the federal government pressured social media companies to censor free speech about COVID-19, including humor and satire. […]

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