Trump named Stanford epidemiologist and staunch free speech advocate Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead a major branch of the Department of Health and Human Services.  Trump cited Bhattacharya’s prestigious career and his role in formulating the much-censored, COVID-19-era Great Barrington Declaration(which critiqued lockdown policies), when he announced Tuesday, “I am thrilled to nominate Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, to serve as Director of the National Institutes of Health.” He added, “Dr. Bhattacharya will work in cooperation with [Health and Human Services Secretary nominee] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the Nation’s Medical Research, and to make important discoveries that will improve Health, and save lives.” Bhattacharya gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic when he was censored for his critiques of draconian COVID-19 policies. Accepting the nomination, Bhattacharya tweeted, “We will reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy of trust again and will deploy the fruits of excellent science to make America healthy again!” Unlike former NIH director Francis Collins, who insisted that supposed “misinformation” spreaders like Bhattacharya should be censored and “brought to justice,” Bhattacharya has a documented record of backing free speech. Bhattacharya was one of the plaintiffs in the landmark lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration over government’s pressure on Big Tech to censor speech: Murthy v. Missouri. The original lawsuit referenced exclusive MRC research from its unique CensorTrackdatabase.  In a June 2024 interview on the Murthy case, Bhattacharya excoriated the dystopian attempts by the Biden administration to stifle speech online. “What I really want is that [sic] the government to get out of the business of regulating speech online,” Bhattacharya expressed. “I think that free speech online is a tremendous opportunity for a huge flowering of scientific discussion, of connections that will be made that would never otherwise be made, and the government suppressing that is a really, really bad idea.” But that’s not the only example of Bhattacharya’s pro-free speech bona fides. Bhattacharya gave a speech last April titled, “The End of Free Speech is the End of Science.” In 2022, he posted on  X, “censorship of scientific discussion permitted policies like school closures & a generation of children were hurt.”  The Great Barrington Declaration and its authors — including Bhattacharya — were censored across multiple platforms, including Twitter, Reddit and Facebook, as MRC’s unique CensorTrack database shows.  The Twitter Files also revealed that Dr. Bhattacharya endured a very targeted censorship effort by social media companies. Bhattacharya was placed on a “Trends Blacklist” as soon as he joined Twitter in 2021, and his request for verification was denied. Twitter shadow-banned the doctor, per the Twitter Files. Facebook also deleted the Great Barrington Declaration page in early 2021. Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on “hate speech” and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

On Monday, Scott Jennings, Shermichael Singleton, and Brad Todd — three of the four actual, bona fide conservative commentators on CNN’s payroll — took to the airwaves to react to President Joe Biden’s blanket pardon of son Hunter for any and all crimes committed in the last 10 years and, in addition to standing their ground, went postal on this “trash” “facade” created by a bunch of “liars.” The morning edition of CNN News Central fortunately had Scott Jennings on and, needless to say, he came locked and loaded, first noting this pardon was “a complete and utter failure by” the President and that he “never again” wants to hear liberals melting down about Donald Trump as having abused his office: ?WATCH: CNN's @ScottJenningsKY absolutely NUKES President Biden from orbit for pardoning son Hunter: "Joe Biden is leaving office making the strongest possible case for Donald Trump that anybody could possibly make it and that's that our government and our justice system is… pic.twitter.com/nust80rJEC — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 2, 2024 After hearing liberal commentator Karen Finney defend the pardon as a natural response to Republicans having spent years “trying to attack the President himself and go after his family,” Jennings uncorked a grab bag of leftist slogans about needing to defend democratic norms and other lies over the last four years (click “expand”):     JENNINGS: [L]isten, you guys can spend all day long trying to spin this, that this is Donald Trump’s fault that this is somehow caused by Donald Trump. “Oh, he’s appointing the wrong people.” “Oh, he did it. Oh —“ This is the worst possible thing a President could possibly do to his party and to the country to sit for a year and say, “I will not do this. I will not do this. The rule of law is sacred. We have to respect the justice system, juries. We have to respect juries. We have to respect the guardrails and the norms of our democracy.” These people are liars. “Inflation is transitory.” “Afghanistan is a success.” “The border is secure.” “Robert Hur is a liar.” “The videos are cheap fakes.” “Biden has a cold.” “He’ll never drop out.” “Oh, I’ll never pardon Hunter.” It’s all a lie. It is all a grift. Every American except the most partisan, brain rotted people are going to be outraged by this today. He is going to leave off — you think 38, 39 percent — FINNEY: Scott, hold up! JENNINGS: — job approval is bad? Just you wait. Just you wait. He’s disgraced — FINNEY: Scott, don’t — JENNINGS: — disgraced today. Outrageous. As Finney whined about Jennings “hurl[ing] names,” Jennings fired back she should “stand up for yourself” and “you don’t have to defend” the pardon. “You don’t have to die on this hill. You can say this is wrong because everybody knows that it is. Are you fine with the lying? Are you fine with him sitting before the election all year and lying to the American people? Are you fine with the lying about it,” he added. Jennings offered a mic drop after Finney claimed Biden wasn’t “lying” over the past year-plus when he said he wouldn’t pardon his son:       Do we not have the minutes — Joe Biden, Karine Jean-Pierre, how many minutes of tape do we have of both of these people telling the American people this will not happen? It’s — it’s a — I mean, we could play it all morning. It’s a lie and it’s a lie to benefit his own family and everybody who went on TV and said, “oh, look how — he’s the modern George Washington.” He’s drained every ounce of credibility from every surrogate. If Karine Jean-Pierre had an ounce of self-respect, she’d get off the plane in Africa today where they’re going so he can avoid the press — and resign. He’s drained all of her credibility and everybody else who has defended this. It’s draining, draining forever. Hours earlier, On Message founder and fellow CNN conservative Brad Todd told CNN This Morning viewers to notice the Hunter pardon includes the First Son’s chicanery with Burisma, predicting that since he now “doesn’t need the Fifth Amendment,” he might “tell us everything” without any fear of prosecution. On that note, he also predicted “[m]ore people will be pardoned by this — this administration who dealt with Hunter Biden”: CNN’s @BradOnMessage Todd: “There's no question a lot of Justice Department prosecutions are a result of the fact that the DOJ decides they can get press out of them. They are sensitive to media pressure. They're sensitive to political pressure. Joe Biden and Donald Trump are now… pic.twitter.com/XfQnxygAFE — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 2, 2024 Finally, Singleton squared off on CNN Newsroom with host Jim Acosta and liberal commentator Maria Cardona, making the case the issue begins and ends with Biden’s hypocrisy as a “ethical arbiter of maintaining our institutions”: ?CNN’s @MrShermichael Singleton UNLOADS on President Biden lying the American public in pardoning son Hunter: “I was a bit dismayed when the White House continued to say that the President wouldn't pardon his son. I just thought it was odd. I mean, going all the way back to… pic.twitter.com/WVPuLkCHZO — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 2, 2024 Singleton also took Biden to task for changing his tune, insisting for years he (and the American public) would respect our legal system to only discount it as having engaged in “a witch hunt against” Hunter. Acosta and Cardona tried to change the subject, invoking possible Trump pardons regarding January 6, but Singleton remained firm on the fact that the American public knew full well those might happen with a Trump presidency, but “ultimately still decided to elect” him after “compar[ing]” that “to other issues” (click “expand”):     SINGLETON: I think the American people had the opportunity to assess how significant this was to them, and they ultimately still decided to elect the former president — now President-Elect. ACOSTA: Do you think people voted to pardon the January 6 attackers? SINGLETON: No, no, Jim, that’s not that’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Donald Trump has made this argument throughout his campaign who he was going to pardon and I’m simply saying the American people were well aware of that. And they still voted for the President-Elect, so I’m not sure what significance is weighed on their minds when compared to other issues. CARDONA: That doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be taken into consideration. SINGLETON: I do think, however, though, when you are attempting to draw this moral contrast between President Biden and President-Elect Trump, that President Biden is somehow morally superior because he respects institutions and the rule of law after years of saying I would not pardon my son to ultimately doing it, that’s the issue. I think people, Jim, understand pardoning your son. ACOSTA: Yeah, but I — Sher — I hear what you’re saying, but — SINGLETON: I think people get it. It’s the constant lying that’s the problem. Later, Singleton concluded with this simple premise that, if the President hadn’t committed to weighing in and then pardoned his son, more Americans might have respected him. “He didn’t do that and that’s the problem for me, morally and ethically. You said you were going to do one thing and you decided not to. I get the reason behind why, but don’t — don’t lie to the American people. And he didn’t have to,” he argued. Singleton returned a few hours later for The Lead and, with far less time on-set, he uncorked a doozy opining on what he views as rancorous hypocrisy: WATCH: CNN’s @MrShermichael Singleton goes postal on the Hunter Biden pardon, saying this “facade” President Biden and Democrats created as “this great arbiter of morality and truth...protecting norms and institutions of our country” has proven to be utter “trash”... “Democrats… pic.twitter.com/G5GvSrvR1c — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 2, 2024 To see the relevant CNN transcripts from December 2, click here (for CNN This Morning), here (for CNN News Central), here (for CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta), and here (for CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper).

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A man who allegedly threatened elderly people with a chainsaw was shot and killed by police on Sunday morning. St. Charles police said they were called to an assisted living center in St. Charles, Illinois, at about 8:45 a.m. in response to a shirtless man using a chainsaw to try to cut down a tree. 'An unauthorized person briefly entered our community and was quickly stopped by responding officers.' Once they arrived, however, they were informed that the man had allegedly gone into the lobby of the center and was "confronting residents with the chainsaw." Police said they tried to de-escalate the situation but that the man kept threatening residents and also threatened police officers. They tried to use a Taser on him to no avail, and then one officer shot him. "An officer was then forced to fire his service weapon, striking the suspect," read a statement from police. Police said he was transported to Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Some of the residents were treated at the scene for minor injuries in addition to some police being treated. A statement from the River Glen of St. Charles assisted living center thanked police and said the center was cooperating with the investigation. "This morning, an unauthorized person briefly entered our community and was quickly stopped by responding officers. We are deeply grateful for the swift action of our team and law enforcement," the statement read. St. Charles is a suburb of Chicago of about 33,000 people. Video from the center can be viewed on a WBBM-TV news report on YouTube about the incident. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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