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  1. Cardinals Pick Up 5th-Year Option For Paris Johnson Jr.

    Paris Johnson Jr. was the first draft pick for Monti Ossenfort as Cardinals GM, and the left tackle…
    #France #FR #Europe #EU #Paris #DarrenUrban #Darren'sBlog-V2 #FeaturedArticles #HomePage-NewsHeadlines #MegaFeed #parisjohnsonjr.
    europesays.com/france/6615/

  2. Darren Chaker (darren-chaker) explores AI-forensics: detecting deepfakes, algorithmic bias & digital evidence integrity. Combining First Amendment expertise with OSCP/EnCE certifications to protect constitutional rights in the AI era. Counter-forensics meets machine learning. darrenchaker.com #AIForensics #DigitalRights #DeepfakeDetection #CyberSecurity #FirstAmendment #darren-chaker-court-records. 😍

  3. Darren Chaker (darren-chaker) explores AI-forensics: detecting deepfakes, algorithmic bias & digital evidence integrity. Combining First Amendment expertise with OSCP/EnCE certifications to protect constitutional rights in the AI era. Counter-forensics meets machine learning. darrenchaker.com #AIForensics #DigitalRights #DeepfakeDetection #CyberSecurity #FirstAmendment #darren-chaker-court-records. 😍

  4. ♦️Edgar Uihlein Jr.’s second child, #Dick, born in 1945, grew up in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Bluff and got the same sort of blue-blood education
    (Phillips Andover, Stanford)
    as his father (Hotchkiss, Princeton).

    Amid the social upheavals of the ’60s, #Dick #Uihlein didn’t waver:
    He married Liz before graduating from college in 1967,
    joined the family business and immersed himself in conservative politics.

    He worked on the 1969 Illinois congressional campaign of Phil Crane, who won a crowded Republican primary in an upset on a hardline anti-tax and anti-communist platform.

    In one of the only interviews he’s ever given, Dick Uihlein told National Review in 2018 that he got his politics from his father,
    who often went by Ed.

    At the family breakfast table growing up, Uihlein recalled,
    “My father would talk about the importance of capitalism and the evils of socialism.”

    Dick said that same year that
    “my father shared many of the same values that I have, conservative values.”

    Dick and Liz Uihlein continue to revere Edgar Jr., who died in 2005.

    Dick Uihlein named the family foundation after his father, and it now sends♦️ tens of millions of dollars to right-wing institutions.

    Among the recipients of the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation’s grants are the
    ♦️ #Federalist #Society and think tanks that have pushed misleading claims about the 2020 election, such as the #Conservative #Partnership #Institute
    and the
    #Foundation #for #Government #Accountability,
    as the Daily Beast reported.

    Tucked in toward the back of the Uline catalog released this summer,
    sent out to millions of homes and businesses,
    was a long tribute to the “wise” Edgar Uihlein Jr.

    “Father Uihlein, the head of the family, had a towering presence, and we respected his values,” wrote Liz Uihlein under a picture of her husband and father-in-law,
    recalling “frequent dinners at his house, where business, issues of the day, fishing muskies and, always, politics were discussed.”

    She ended on a note of nostalgia tinged with bitterness:

    “Living your life and raising your kids were easier in an easier time.
    There was no legalized marijuana, defund the police or social media.

    We, like so many families, were raised with a sharp moral compass.

    The rules were the rules, but it was OK.”

    The Uihleins’ political giving reflects these longings for a bygone era.

    Dick Uihlein is a major funder of the #American #Principles #Project,
    which runs ads attacking what it calls “#transgender #ideology,” #abortion and the teaching of “#critical #race #theory.”

    Last year, Uihlein weighed in on ♦️recalling four school board members in a small town north of Milwaukee because of their support for COVID-19 #safety #protocols and “#equity” training for teachers.

    More recently, in his home state of Illinois, Uihlein has spent more than♦️ $50 million to back the Republican gubernatorial candidate #Darren #Bailey, who has drawn criticism for saying the #Holocaust “doesn’t even compare” to the toll of abortions and for accusing Democrats of “putting #perversion into our schools” for adopting a sex ed bill that includes information about gender identity and same-sex couples.

    The Uihleins were huge beneficiaries of a tax provision promoted by Sen. #Ron #Johnson, R-Wisc., that was included in the Trump tax overhaul and are continuing to support the Wisconsin senator and fund attack ads against his opponent.

    For all the Uihleins’ dismay at the disorder they see consuming the country, there is one domain where they can exert near total control.

    Former employees of Uline told ProPublica the couple’s traditionalist politics govern the smallest details of how the company is run.

    For new staffers, it begins with the #dress #code in the employee handbook:
    Women are not permitted to wear pants except as part of a pantsuit or on Fridays;
    hose or stockings must be worn except during the warmer months;
    dresses “that are too short” and corduroy of any kind are strictly prohibited.

    The handbook defines “tardy” as one minute past an employee’s scheduled start time.

    Just four personal items are allowed on employees’ desks,
    with maximum dimensions of 5 inches by 7 inches.

    One former staffer at Uline’s headquarters recalled a coworker who was forced to remove several drawings done by his young child.

    “Liz would walk up and down the aisles, and if your desk looked off, you’d be written up,” he recalled.
    #Uline #Dick #Liz #Uihlein #Doug #Mastriano #Jim #Marchant #election #falsehoods #antisemitic #speech #Edgar #John #Birch #Society #fluoridation #segregation #Edwin #Walker #George #Wallace

  5. Video: Darren Till, Luke Rockhold get physical, separated by slew of security in first Misfits staredown

    Things were heated between former UFC fighters Darren Till and Luke Rockhold ahead of their boxing match at…
    #NewsBeep #News #Boxing #Boxingnews #by #darren #fighting #first #front-page #get #in #latest-news #luke #misfits #MMA #of #Physical #rockhold #Security #separated #slew #Sports #staredown #till #UK #UnitedKingdom #video #Videos
    newsbeep.com/uk/19829/

  6. BBC事實核查:X的新定位功能如何曝光了「海外」美國政治帳戶?

    BBC News 中文 2025-11-26 16:00:00 CST
    X平台新地理位置功能,揭露眾多政治帳號所在地不實,引發誤導營利疑慮。此舉使平台付費驗證的公信力與帳號真實性受到質疑。
    https://www.thenewslens.com/article/261604
    #MAGA #VPN #民主黨 #定位功能 #社群平台 #事實核查 #Darren Linvill #政治帳戶 #Alexios Mantzarlis #美國 #x #川普 #蘇格蘭 #網軍 #假資訊 #伊朗 #美加 #共和黨 #Nikita Bier

  7. O.k...that feels a little better after hanging out and talking with a bunch of similar minded people! Great to hear everyone's experience with Darren too...he impacted many people with his life's doings.

    Good to see everyone!

    Amazing turnout at @coffeeoutside today!

    200+ people I'm guessing??

    #yeg #coffeeoutside #Darren #DrDagly

  8. A Trump State Department official has, on a number of occasions, called for the 💥sterilization of “low-IQ trash”
    Secretary of State Marco Rubio has appointed #Darren #Beattie to be the
    acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs,
    a senior role that represents American foreign policy to the world.

    In May 2024, Beattie wrote on X:
    “Population control? If only!”
    “Higher quality humans are subsidizing the fertility of lower quality humans,” he added,
    calling it the “Foundational reality of social and political life in the post-war West.”
    In January 2023, he wrote:
    “The hierarchy of taboos is interesting. The horrific practice of 2nd trimester abortion is legal in some places and well within Overton window of public discourse.
    But idea of offering feral populations financial incentives for voluntary sterilization is completely taboo.”

    In October of that year, he responded to a video of people in a neighborhood in Atlanta, saying:
    “When a population gets feral, a little snip snip keeps things in control. Could offer incentives
    (Air Jordans, etc.).”
    He again questioned abortion rights in March 2021.
    “Interesting moral universe we live in where abortion is celebrated, but the notion of giving smart people incentives or cash to start families is so far out of Overton window no sitting politician of either party would dare advocate it,” he said.
    independent.co.uk/news/world/a

  9. Marco Rubio’s new undersecretary is extreme even by MAGA standards

    The Trump administration this week appointed #Darren #Beattie
    — who has repeatedly expressed hostilities toward the U.S. government and sympathy for several of America’s adversaries
    — as acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy.

    In this role, Beattie would help lead the nation’s diplomatic outreach and messaging
    on issues including counterterrorism and violent extremism.

    Beattie himself has shown many times that he holds views that are extreme
    — even by mainstream MAGA standards
    — and sees a utility in propagating false conspiracy theories.

    The new State Department hire
    — who reports to Secretary of State Marco Rubio
    — is a former instructor at Duke University who worked as a speechwriter for President Donald Trump during his first administration.

    Beattie lost his job with the Trump White House in 2018
    after CNN reported he spoke at an
    "H.L. Mencken Club" conference two years earlier.

    The niche political gathering,
    which regularly drew notable white nationalist speakers and attendees,
    featured Beattie on a panel that included the founder of a racist anti-immigrant website.

    After Beattie resisted pressure to resign following the revelations about his appearance,
    the Trump White House unceremoniously fired him.
    yahoo.com/news/opinion-marco-r

  10. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will appoint #Darren #Beattie, a speechwriter in President Donald Trump’s first term, as acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, two people briefed on the plans said.

    Beattie has been a vocal critic of broad swathes of American foreign policy
    and represents a dramatic step away from the establishment Republicanism Rubio long embodied:

    In a widely-circulated essay on the site he founded, Revolver, Beattie compared the “color revolutions” that Western democracies backed in Eastern Europe in the 1990s and 2000s to
    “the coordinated efforts of government bureaucrats, NGOs, and the media to oust President Trump.”

    Beattie, who has a PhD in political theory from Duke University, where he also taught,
    was fired in 2018 after attending a conference with white nationalists.

    He was appointed by Trump in 2020 to a the "Commission for the Preservation of American Heritage Abroad",
    a move that the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, called “outrageous” at the time.

    The commission works with other governments to preserve sites related to World War II and the Holocaust.

    It’s unclear whether Beattie will be nominated to fill the undersecretary role on a permanent basis, and he declined to comment on the post.

    A State Department spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to an inquiry
    semafor.com/article/02/02/2025