ANOTHER WIN FOR THE NCLA, WHICH EMAILS THIS PRESS RELEASE:

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a ruling today of vast importance for the millions of Americans who have experienced government-induced censorship on social media and for all Americans who care about the First Amendment. Judge Terry A. Doughty ordered Dr. Anthony Fauci and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to respond to document requests by the New Civil Liberties Alliance in conjunction with the Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general on behalf of plaintiffs in State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al.

The breadth and extent of the government’s censorship activities has turned out to be massive, and far exceeded that disclosed by the federal government in response to initial court-ordered discovery made public last week. Instead, the scope of this censorship enterprise was divulged by social media companies in response to the court order, and revealed that nearly a dozen federal agencies and around 100 federal officials have been working behind the scenes to suppress private speech through pressure exerted on social media companies for years. NCLA is representing plaintiffs—two of whom are world-renowned epidemiologists—who had been censored on social media for publicly expressing views about Covid-19 that diverged from the White House’s approach.

More discovery is needed to uncover the full scope of this unconstitutional censorship regime. In his ruling, Judge Doughty stated that “the requested information is obviously very relevant to Plaintiffs’ claims,” and “Dr. Fauci’s communications would be relevant to Plaintiffs’ allegations in reference to alleged suppression of speech relating to the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origin, and to alleged suppression of speech about the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns.” Among other things, Dr. Fauci must: “identify all Communications with any Social-Media Platform that relate to the Great Barrington Declaration, the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, the original signers of the Great Barrington Declaration, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, Dr. Scott Atlas, Alex Berenson, Dr. Peter Daszak, Dr. Shi Zhengli, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, EcoHealth Alliance, and/or any member of the so-called ‘Disinformation Dozen.’” Jean-Pierre’s communications as White House Press Secretary—which encompass the communications of her predecessor, Jennifer Psaki—were also described as “relevant” to the plaintiffs’ claims, so she, too, must submit responses to similar questions.

NCLA anticipates that further discovery will provide a fuller snapshot into the extent of the federal defendants’ social-media censorship activities, and whether NCLA’s clients were silenced at the direction of Dr. Fauci and others in the White House, which will support and reinforce the plaintiffs’ allegations.

NCLA released the following statement:

“We know from the previous round of discovery that efforts to censor the speech of those who disagree with the government on covid policy have come from the top. Americans deserve to know Anthony Fauci’s participation in this enterprise, especially since he has publicly demanded that specific individuals, including two of our clients, Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, be censored on social media. It is time for Dr. Fauci to answer for his flagrant disregard for Americans’ constitutional rights and civil liberties.”

— Jenin Younes, Litigation Counsel, NCLA.

Here’s the order. Background here: NCLA Suit Uncovers Army of Federal Bureaucrats Coercing Social-Media Companies to Censor Speech.

AD TOUTING DESANTIS’ LEADERSHIP EARNS PRAISE, EVEN FROM SOME ON THE LEFT:

A new ad for Ron DeSantis that features ordinary folks praising the Florida governor for his leadership on a host of business, education, and cultural issues during the COVID pandemic is drawing praise from across the political spectrum.

The 60-second ad, released by the Sunshine State GOP, has blue-collar Floridans, school-age teens, and senior citizens all thanking DeSantis for keeping the state open for business while other governors closed businesses and schools. DeSantis is up for re-election in November and polls show him with a widening lead over Democrat challenger Charlie Crist.

“He saved our jobs,” says a waitress.

“And kept us going,” ads a cook.

A car mechanic addresses DeSantis directly, saying, “They tried to shut us down and you saved our business.”

DeSantis famously refused to shut down Florida or impose the mask and vaccine mandates seen in other states in 2020.

And it’s a real money saver for DeSantis — it won’t take much to repurpose this ad for a presidential run…

This is a phenomenal ad for the governor who did a better job with covid than any politician in America. pic.twitter.com/5lPTIFqcCZ

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 6, 2022

Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle in Florida: DeSantis War Room is just wondering why Charlie Crist’s running mate Karla Hernández-Mats would delete something like this.

MEGAN FOX: Here’s Why You Should Lawyer-Up Before Sending Your Kids Back to School. “I have a back-to-school ritual that I think goes a lot further toward having a good relationship with your public school district right off the bat instead of waiting for problems to crop up.”

IT’S UNDENIABLE AT THIS POINT: Group highlights crime and Left’s ‘love affair’ with crooks in preelection push.

FROM D. L. CAMPANILLE:  Fire’s Maiden.  #CommissionEarned

Don’t mess with dragons. Especially cute little ones.
Princess Eloisa has an idyllic life. Plenty of fresh air, a beautiful old manor house, and an adopted family who adores her. That is, if she doesn’t think about living in hiding, a greedy murderous uncle, a father killed in war, and losing her mother soon after.
But now, with the secret arrival of an injured baby dragon, life is about to get… interesting. He’s trying so hard to be fierce, in spite of nearly dying.
Eloisa has been dragging home hurt creatures most of her fourteen years. How was she supposed to know this little guy was a real dragon? Or that his enemies would dwarf her own?
Add in an evil wizard, powerful Fae, and a very upset mama dragon.
Soon she’s on the run, with few friends, all her enemies after her, and some allies nobody in their right mind could trust. At least she’s got her dog, all one hundred and fifty pounds of shaggy black loyalty.
If the little dragon will stop trying to roast him, and if nobody catches them.

SO, HE’S JUST GOING TO RUN WITH THIS ONE:  Nuclear 201: Targeting, Take 2.

THE DNC HAS TEAMS OF CRACK CAMPAIGN CONSULTANTS BUSY WORKING ON THIS:  2 planes nearly collide in midair above Orlando airport.

They’re trying to figure out how it’s all DeSantis’ fault.

IT JUST MEANS HE’S AFRAID OF US:  Biden Demeans MAGA Voters in Vile Labor Day Speech, Including Recycled Lies About January 6.

Ultra MAGA! Assemble!

EH: Court Forces Fauci And Jean-Pierre To Answer Questions Under Oath And Produce Documents In Biden-Big Tech Collusion Case.

THE FIRST OLYMPIC GAMES I WAS EVER AWARE OF: 50 Years On, Remembering The Munich Olympics Massacre.

CHILE LIBRE:  Chile Rejects Super Progressive Constitution.

FREE, COMPLETE SHORT STORY (HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DRAGON AWARDS):  Winning The Dragon.

I WISH THE FRAUD DENIERS WOULD SHUT UP:  Those “election deniers”.

THE WOKE JUST WON’T LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE:  Today’s blacklisted American: Fire chief fired for attending a Christian-affiliated leadership conference

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  The evidence continues to pile up: The government’s strongarm policies against COVID were utter failures.

GOOD:  Libs of TikTok returns to Twitter, threatens lawsuit if removed permanently.

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Special Master Order Reveals Biden’s Direct Involvement In Trump Raid And Six Other Bombshells.

YOU COULD PUT A PERIOD AFTER LYING:  Hillary Keeps Shamelessly Lying About Her Emails.

AND THERE ARE A LOT OF SANE:  POLL: Majority of Americans say Biden’s anti-MAGA speech was ‘designed to incite conflict’.

THE SANE ARE LOOKING FOR THE EXITS:  I’m A Democrat Who Thinks Biden’s Anti-Democratic Rhetoric Has Gone Too Far.

WITH DNC IN MIND, CITY BANS CARRYING URINE, FECES: Poop and pee fueled the huge algae bloom in San Francisco Bay. Fixing the problem could cost $14 billion.

After an unprecedented harmful algae bloom first turned San Francisco Bay a murky brown color and then littered its shores with dead fish, many people assumed it was yet another climate disaster to add to the list, along with extreme drought, wildfires and heat waves.

While scientists suspect climate change played a role in triggering the bloom, what fueled it is not a mystery. Algae blooms need food to grow, and this one had plenty: nutrients originating in wastewater that the region’s 37 sewage plants pump into the bay.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: San Francisco is facing a commercial real estate crash which will impact city coffers. “Peak office” is probably real, but so are the reasons — crime, homelessness, high prices and taxes — mentioned in the article.

OPEN THREAD: Hello.

SHE’S RUNNING: Hillary Clinton says she will never run for president again.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on threats to democracy.

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe speaks with White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about what President Biden can do to curb threats against democracy in the wake of his speech last week.

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RASCOE: In his speech, the president also expressed concerns about the outcomes of elections being honored. What exactly is the Biden administration doing to ensure that the outcomes of the November elections are not undermined by false claims of voter fraud?

JEAN-PIERRE: Well, you know, I can’t get into politics from here from this particular position that I am as a government official. But what we believe is that if he used that moment to call that out — right? — he used that moment — the importance of free and fair elections and how that is very much part of our democracy and telling people, you know, there’s a — it’s time to stand up. It’s time to make sure that folks make their voices heard. And so that’s what the president was trying to make sure — that people understood this inflection point.

And you cannot have an extreme part of a party. And he didn’t say mainstream Republicans, right? He believes there are mainstream Republicans who believe in protecting our democracy. But there are these extreme part of the party, that MAGA party, that we need to call out when we see that our democracy is under attack, when we see that our freedoms and our equality is under attack. He believes as president, he has the — he has the biggest bully pulpit. And it is important to him to make sure he has the loudest voice as we speak about democracy. And that’s what he used that moment to do.

The calls of democracy being under attack are coming from inside the house! ‘Stolen’ elections and collusion: Karine Jean-Pierre’s Twitter history:

Notably, Jean-Pierre was not asked about her election denying past until today, and fumbled her response: Karine Jean-Pierre Struggles When Confronted with Her Record of Election Denial.

“I knew this was coming, I was waiting Peter when you were going to ask me that question,” she said, in response to a question from Fox News reporter Peter Doocy during the White House press briefing.

Jean-Pierre dismissed the questions as not relevant.

“Let’s be really clear, that comparison that you made is just ridiculous,” Jean-Pierre replied.

She claimed that she had since stated that Trump and Kemp won their elections.

Jean-Pierre immediately pivoted to the January 6th riots.

“Let’s not forget about what happened on January 6th 2021 when we saw an insurrection, a mob that was incited by the person who occupied this campus, this facility at this time,” she said.

It’s telling that she thinks only someone from Fox News would ask her about her election-denying threats to democracy, and not having a better response prepared in advance.