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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Christian satire site The Babylon Bee is considering legal action after the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed the names of anonymous contributors who write for Not the Bee, the satire site’s real-news partner. “We are considering all our options, including legal action,” Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon told The Daily Signal in a text message Wednesday. The SPLC—a far-left organization that brands mainstream conservative and Christian groups with a “hate group” label and puts them on a hate map alongside the Ku Klux Klan—reached out to Not the Bee writers for comment. Dillon revealed the outreach in a post on X Tuesday. “The discredited, scandal-ridden smear factory known as the SPLC is about to publish a hit piece doxxing several of our ‘Not the Bee’ writers who wished to remain anonymous so they could speak freely, without fear,” he wrote. “The SPLC extracted sensitive information from our site, then used that information to contact our writers directly.” Dillon said the SPLC went digging for the information “because they’re left-wing activists masquerading as journalists.” “They did it because they lack principles,” he added. “They did it because they’re vindictive bullies who’ve admitted their aim is to ‘completely destroy’ individuals and organizations they disagree with by making them pay a steep price for speaking freely.” Dillon acknowledged that since he’s a public figure, he accepts that getting attacked “comes with the territory.” “What I won’t accept is the doxxing and smearing of our staff because they said some things the SPLC doesn’t like,” he added. The discredited, scandal-ridden smear factory known as the SPLC is about to publish a hit piece doxxing several of our “Not the Bee” writers who wished to remain anonymous so they could speak freely, without fear. The SPLC extracted sensitive information from our site, then used… pic.twitter.com/toQLfga5SU— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) November 19, 2024 ‘Publicly Viewable Source Code’ The SPLC’s Megan Squire and Creede Newton published the names of the anonymous writers Tuesday afternoon in a post titled, “Inside the Beehive.” Squire and Newton claimed that they discovered the information by accessing Not the Bee’s “publicly viewable source code,” which exposed “contact information for several dozen authors, including the real names of many of the most prolific pseudonymous content creators.” “The source code, visible to anyone with a web browser and not requiring an account on the site to view, also revealed email addresses, IP addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, social media accounts, subscription and payment information, and more,” the SPLC writers added. It remains unclear what legal claims the Babylon Bee may have against the SPLC. In a statement to The Montgomery Advertiser, the SPLC condemned the work of Not the Bee, claiming that it “has no place in our society.” “The SPLC is committed to transparency and is dedicated to protecting the safety of trans and genderqueer individuals when they are publicly attacked,” the SPLC said. “Hateful content like the material created by Not the Bee writers works to dehumanize transgender individuals, the entire LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities, and people of color. This divisive commentary has no place in our society.” The SPLC did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the possibility of facing legal action over the story. This article will be updated with any response. ?THE LEFT'S ENFORCER: The Southern Poverty Law Center has taken aim at Not the Bee, the real-news partner of The Babylon Bee. The SPLC is threatening to doxx the people who write for Not the Bee, to reveal their identities to expose them to ridicule and ostracization.The… pic.twitter.com/xAhC1yMOBJ— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) November 19, 2024 The post SEE YOU IN COURT? Babylon Bee Weighs ‘Legal Action’ After SPLC Doxxes Anonymous Writers appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A new book out this week gives a blueprint for freedom-loving governors to fight back and stop the waste of taxpayer money subsidizing public universities that are cesspools of Marxism and propaganda undermining Western civilization.  This book, which supplies a path out, is titled “Storming the Ivory Tower: How a Florida College Became Ground Zero in the Struggle to Take Back Our Campuses,” It is a firsthand account from Richard Corcoran, president of New College of Florida, a public liberal arts college in Sarasota, Florida. Corcoran has become to leftist university establishments what then-Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was to teachers unions in 2011, when he reformed them in his state.  Author, filmmaker, and activist Chris Rufo, who sits on New College’s board, wrote the forward to Corcoran’s book. The two were hand-selected by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, to reform the flailing college. New College of Florida, founded in 1960, devolved over ensuing decades into a cauldron of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), and critical race theory or CRT. These and other woke ideologies undermine the purpose of a university: to teach students how to think freely.  New College collapsed into an indoctrination center for progressive talking points, which led to dropping retention rates, enrollment numbers, and test scores. Before Corcoran took over on an interim basis in January 2023, the school was on track to shutter entirely without DeSantis’ intervention.  Corcoran proved to be a tip of the spear against leftist indoctrination while serving as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and as the state’s education commissioner. Corcoran had worked closely with DeSantis and the Florida Legislature during the COVID-19 pandemic to reopen schools—and keep them open—and to remove mask mandates for students. He also had improved Florida public education by helping abolish Common Core, expand civics instruction, and ensure parental rights are respected in classrooms. New College of Florida needed similar reforms when Corcoran first took the reins in early 2023. In 2017, total undergraduate enrollment was 838; it fell in 2018 to 808. The downward trend continued, with enrollment at 703 in 2019, 646 in 2020, and 633 in 2021, before a slight rise to 671 in 2022. Student morale at New College was depleted. Many students, including those who dropped out, reported feeling targeted by doctrinaire mobs that required dogmatic fealty to woke doctrine.  New College wasn’t alone. Corcoran, who became New College’s president in October 2023 after nine months as interim president, notes that among liberal arts colleges across the nation, for every eight Republican professors there are 100 Democrats. This environment enables cancel culture, the shouting-down of speakers on campuses, and infantile “safe spaces” filled with the secular theologies of CRT and DEI. “In the last 10 years, DEI offices have been used to build a fiefdom within the public sector, spreading these radical ideas through administrative bureaucracies,” Corcoran writes in “Storming the Ivory Tower.” “Parts of this basically untried theory were thereby embedded somewhat whole-cloth into these institutions, which often enforced complete obeisance to a philosophy that in many ways undermines modern constitutional thought,” he adds. Corcoran was attacked by the national press, including The New York Times—which he should wear as a badge of honor—for returning New College to its roots of rational inquiry.  Corcoran also faced down mobs of online and in-person protesters—current and former students—who opposed his efforts at every turn, spewing vitriol in every venue possible. This didn’t deter him from shutting down New College’s DEI office and bringing sports programs to campus. These were cardinal sins, according to woke students and alumni, who were furious. I saw a small taste of this when Corcoran invited me to speak this spring on campus about my book on mental health and recovering from childhood trauma—a wholly nonpartisan topic. A swarm of anti-Corcoran haters lobbed a barrage of hateful messages toward New College’s president and me.     Now, less than two years since Corcoran took the helm of New College of Florida, he’s turned the enrollment nosedive around and is breaking new records. He implemented protections for free speech and restored physical safety. The latter included countering antisemitism on campus amid the rising onslaught of anti-Jewish sentiment following Hamas terrorists’ massacre of about 1,200 Jews on Oct. 7, 2023, in southern Israel.  The need for campus reform is urgent and massive. During the 2020-21 school year, public colleges and universities in the U.S. spent $450 billion.  That’s an astronomical amount of taxpayer money that, in many cases, is used to pit students against their parents, common sense, and reality. “Storming the Ivory Tower” provides the template for other states to follow New College of Florida. Will any of them courageously follow suit? Carrie Sheffield is a senior policy analyst at Independent Women’s Voice. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Call Your Governor: Florida College Shows How to Reform Woke Public Universities appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Michigan Democratic lawmakers have sponsored a bill to remove the state’s ban on teaching abortion as a “method of family planning” from the sex education curriculum. State Rep. Rachel Hood, D-Grand Rapids, introduced an overhaul of Michigan’s sex ed standards, crossing out the sentence: “Clinical abortion shall not be considered a method of family planning, nor shall abortion be taught as a method of reproductive health.” Hood and 21 other Democratic co-sponsors want to add “information about the effectiveness and safety of all contraceptive methods approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration in preventing pregnancy” into the sex ed curriculum. That likely means she wants teachers to discuss with students the abortion pill, which was approved by the FDA in 2000. Their bill, introduced Nov. 12, says teachers of sex education should provide “nonbiased information about all legally available pregnancy outcomes.” “The information described in this subdivision must include the importance of prenatal care and the laws of this state that address an individual’s rights and responsibilities related to childbearing and parenting,” the bill says. In Michigan, abortion is legal up to birth. Hood’s legislation would add “information about resources related to sexual and reproductive health, reproductive health care, sexual assault and partner violence, how to access those resources, and minors’ and adults’ legal rights to access those resources” to sex ed standards. “Reproductive health care” is often a euphemism for abortion. Furthermore, if the bill were to pass, students would learn to “[a]ffirmatively recognize that individuals have different sexual orientations and gender identities and, when discussing or providing examples of relationships, be inclusive of various gender relationships.” Hood did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. The bill is currently in committee. The post Michigan Democrats Want to Teach Minors About Abortion as ‘Family Planning’ Option appeared first on The Daily Signal.

I know that we’ve all heard that too much chocolate (or that chocolate in general!) can be bad for you. There is some truth to that, but when it comes to dark chocolate, you're actually eating healthy. It may seem shocking to some that dark chocolate is a superfood, but it's true! Why You Should be Eating Dark Chocolate When searching the store for chocolate, try to find some that is at least 70% cacao or cocoa for optimal benefits. Chocolate this dark is loaded with antioxidants. These antioxidants neutralize free radicals that wreak havoc on our body, causing us to become sick. Antioxidants also protect the body from any further damage the radicals may cause. Dark chocolate even has the potential for cancer prevention! It’s good for cholesterol levels, improves cognitive function, and the flavanols present are amazing for heart health. Here are 7 delicious recipes that call for the use of dark chocolate. Enjoy! Dark Chocolate Waffles This delicious chocolate waffle recipe is amazing. Warm, chocolatey waffles topped with powdered sugar and a dollop of whipped cream are great for breakfast or a snack. Chocolate Almond Smoothie This creamy almond smoothie is amazing and a great addition to breakfast – or anytime! The combination of almond milk and almond butter is a bigger added health benefit. Dark Chocolate Mousse Delicious, decadent chocolate mousse is an incredible dessert. It's easy to make and only takes a little over an hour to complete and then eat! Chocolate Avocado Truffles These truffles are incredible! The ripe avocados provide the creamiest texture to this delightful treat. You would NEVER know that there is even any avocado present. Five ingredients and 20 minutes of your time and enjoy! Southern-Style Chocolate Gravy | Chocolate for breakfast? It’s true, proving once again that chocolate for breakfast is acceptable. Pour this gravy over some warm flaky biscuits and yum! Flourless Dark Chocolate Zucchini Brownies This recipe is vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free friendly. It's an amazing alternative and tastes scrumptious. Wash it down with some cool almond milk and feel good about it. Chocolate Lover’s Pizza Pizza for dessert is a thing!! This chocolate lover’s pizza has an incredible graham cracker crust topped with dark chocolate and nuts. This recipe is delicious, but in addition to the nuts I like to add some juicy cherries or strawberries. I hope you’ve enjoyed this weeks addition of the Superfood Series. And now you know that dark chocolate is not only delicious but good for your health too. Happy Cooking! Do you have any favorite recipes that call for dark chocolate? Feel free to share your thoughts, opinions, and recipes in the comment section. Want to keep eating healthy? Check out these 16 healthy dinner recipes under 600 calories! Follow us on facebook, instagram, pinterest, and twitter!

WaPo Wonders: Why Won't Trump Let 'Deep State' Vet His Nominees?

Charlotte Klein at New York magazine unloaded the terrible financial news at The Washington Post: "Even before 250,000 digital readers unsubscribed from the Washington Post in protest, the paper was on track to lose at least as much money as it lost last year: $77 million." Isn't that chump change for billionaire owner Jeff Bezos? It certainly gives him a reason to push changes, which she calls a "crackdown." “Mind-blowing,” as one staffer put it. “The level of anger is through the roof, and fear is also through the roof. There’s huge concern that Bezos is going to pull the plug.” That's unlikely, Klein suggests, but Bezos "and his already controversial publisher pick, Will Lewis — seems determined to fix the paper, whether the current staff likes it or not." Interim executive editor Matt Murray and managing editor Matea Gold are the two internal candidates for the executive editor job. The search is "expected to conclude by the end of the year."  Klein claims the Post staff are mixed on Murray: He came in and instantly seemed more engaged in the journalism than [Sally] Buzbee—talkative in news meetings, shooting notes about headlines—which was a big and welcome change. But several staffers told me he was, frustratingly to them, a company man during the endorsement mess, telling staff in a meeting that he didn’t know how many subscribers were lost and to buck up for the changes ahead. “Completely the wrong message,” one staffer said. “The message should be we’re not doing anything different journalistically, and I’m going to be out there defending you guys.” The newsroom was looking for someone to rally around—as they have been since Marty Baron left—and Murray instead, in their view, stuck close to the boss. The Post rank and file wants to go to war again on Trump, and never mind Baron lamely claiming they weren't at war. If you read the paper, you see the daily aggression. No one should tell them to put down their axes.  The boss also angered people by demanding staffers must return to the office full-time by June 2025. That's five years after the pandemic hit its stride. One anonymous grumbler told Klein the new office policy “felt punitive...like a response to the outcry to them driving us in the ditch with that lack of endorsement. And if that wasn’t the intention, then they certainly missed the boat on the optics of that, too.”  “These aren’t changes that will help us compete in the 21st century,” one staffer said, recalling how Lewis, who dared to tell the newsroom that “people are not reading your stuff” and that their “audience has halved in recent years” back in June. “He has not asked for a single change that in any way seems designed to improve our business plan,” the staffer claimed, and instead “has contempt and derision for the newsroom.” With employees being told they must be back in the office five days a week (hankies out), "some of the Post's most marketable journalists are looking to get ahead of that, seeking out opportunities at other outlets even as the grind of the new Trump administration begins."

ABC, CBS, and NBC have shown a disturbing aversion to covering the murder trial of Georgia student Laken Riley by an illegal immigrant. In five days, they spent nearly four times less coverage on the flagship newscasts about Riley versus the manufactured and partisan obsession over the October 27 remark by a pro-Trump comedian that Puerto Rico was a “floating island of garbage.” From Friday, November 15 through Tuesday, November 19, the networks dedicated 20 minutes and 33 seconds to the Riley trial across their top morning and evening newscasts and Sunday morning talk shows. That paled in comparison to the nearly 78 minutes (77:42) whining about the so-called joke from Tony Hinchcliffe during President Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally. To capture an equal number of newscasts, NewsBusters included coverage from October 27 to November 1. CBS led the way with 31 minutes and 25 seconds on what one could be refer to as garbage-gate, thanks in part to a lengthy segment by correspondent Lilia Luciano (which aired on both CBS Mornings and the CBS Evening News) hoping Hinchcliffe’s remark would cause fellow Puerto Ricans and Hispanics writ large to abandon Trump. ABC came in second with nearly 24 minutes (23:42) and NBC only a minute behind (22:35). As we wrote at the time, the networks were apoplectic about the Trump rally and Hinchcliffe’s quip, which ABC’s Good Morning America deemed “dark,” “filled with grievances,” “incendiary,” “outright racist,” “profane,” and “vulgar.” When President Biden referred to Trump supporters on October 29 as the real “garbage,” the networks were trapped in conceding Biden committed a gaffe but blamed Hinchcliffe for having started this hullabaloo. As for Riley’s murder at the hands of a reported Tren de Aragua member, ABC’s newscasts — Good Morning America and World News Tonight — fetched nearly half the total at eight minutes and 19 seconds. Between CBS’s newscasts CBS Mornings and the CBS Evening News, Riley’s trial drew only six minutes and 34 seconds. NBC fell even further back with a measly five minutes and 40 seconds over five days on Today and NBC Nightly News. Worse yet, only three of the five days received coverage. Nothing from the Sunday morning talk shows (ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation, and NBC’s Meet the Press). The November 15 NBC Nightly News clutched its pearls when covering the trial, boasting that the illegal immigrant’s defense attorney whined “people have used this case for their own personal gave gain, financial gain, political gain.” The show also pointed to a March interview Riley’s father did with NBC in which he said he’s “angry” his “daughter’s name” has been brought up in our political sphere. Correspondent Priya Sridhar conveniently left out that Riley’s mother and stepfather attended a Trump rally and blamed the country’s open southern border for Laken’s death. Thanks to The Atlantic and The New York Times, the coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC of John Kelly’s anti-Trump media crusade also towered over Riley’s trial with over three times more coverage. Kelly’s declaration of Trump being a fascist and Hitler enthusiast drew nearly 65 minutes (64:39) on the morning, evening, and Sunday morning news programs with a remarkable 60 percent of that tally (39:05) coming courtesy of the assiduous Trump haters at ABC. At least Riley’s name was mentioned by ABC, CBS, and NBC. Searches on Nexis and Snapstream revealed two other young women allegedly murdered by illegal immigrants — Rachel Morin and Jocelyn Nungaray — yielded few results on the flagship morning, evening, and Sunday political talk shows. Along with both women having been mentioned on the June 21 and October 16 NBC Nightly News, Morin came up June 16 on CBS’s Face the Nation. At the Republican National Convention, all three carried President Trump’s acceptance speech, which had a passage memoralizing them as victims of the border crisis. Two days earlier, family members spoke of their memories, which ABC and CBS had the decency to air. One could argue history had repeated itself. 11 years ago, the murder trial of Phildelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell received scant attention on these same networks and the liberal media writ large. Then-Washington Post Sarah Kliff said it all, deeming it merely a “local crime” story.

Former Coca-Cola lobbyist Calley Means first caught Liz Wheeler's eye when he spoke out about the company using “racism” to force the government into putting its product on the food stamps program. “I thought, ‘What an extraordinary story. This exemplifies the corruption, the ideological corruption, the financial corruption, that is in our health care industry. This revolving door between Big Food and Big Pharma and the federal government,’” Wheeler says. Now, Means is an adviser to RFK Jr. in the Make America Healthy Again movement that’s taken America by storm. “I’ve gone from when President Trump first came down that golden escalator ten years ago thinking he’s a threat to democracy to believing that this election is by far the most important victory of our lifetime and, I think, a historic moment in American history where I’ve never been more excited about a president being elected,” Means tells Wheeler. Wheeler is also thrilled by what’s to come. “By marrying ‘Make America Great Again’ with ‘Make America Healthy Again,’” Wheeler explains that RFK Jr. and President Trump are telling those with autoimmune diseases, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity that “you don’t have to suffer this.” And RFK’s plan to ensure they don’t have to suffer as they have been is the best part. “We’ve heard a couple of promises from Bobby in the past couple days. One of my favorite ones is that he’s going to take all the nutritional scientists out of HHS and either fire them on day one, or if he’s not allowed to fire them, he’s going to build a new headquarters for them in Guam,” Wheeler says. While the latter part of RFK’s statement was a joke, his plans to reform the American health care system are as serious as it gets. “We’re going to return to science,” Means says. “I think what bad interests have realized is that there’s nothing higher-level in society than an NIH study. And I’ve actually, Liz, had conversations in the past three days with the senior-most members of the NIH who are defending the institution publicly, who are saying this is an absolute and utter dumpster fire.” “There’s huge DEI regulations and parameters around what can and can’t be said, a feeling of absolute assault on academic freedom, and from what I’m hearing, when you add it up, eighty to ninety percent of NIH grants and funding goes to pharmaceutical R&D,” Means explains. “We’re going to get any type of ideology out of our scientific guidelines,” he continues. “And that’s the key to everything.” Want more from Liz Wheeler?To enjoy more of Liz’s based commentary, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.