On Wednesday, Hennepin County District Attorney Mary Moriarty defended her decision not to file charges against a Minnesota state official who caused over $21,000 worth of damage to six Teslas, because doing so would compromise “public safety.”Dylan Bryan Adams, a fiscal policy analyst for the Minnesota Department of Human Services, was <a href="https://www.thegoldreport.com/news/dem-staffer-who-caused-21k-worth-of-damage-to-teslas-avoids-charges" id="">arrested</a> this month for damaging the Teslas. Leftists across the nation have been doing so to protest Elon Musk, prompting President Donald Trump to vow to prosecute such vandalism as domestic terrorism.But Moriarty, whose campaign was funded by Leftist billionaire George Soros, has refused to prosecute Adams and will instead enter him into an adult diversion program. Diversion programs are designed to keep criminals out of the justice system by offering activities such as counseling and community service. The decision drew public outrage, including from Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, who expressed frustration that Adams is evading charges.<h2 id="">DA: ‘Why aren’t we talking about gun violence?’</h2>Moriarty defended her decision on Wednesday by telling reporters that it was for “public safety,” claiming that Adams would commit more crimes if he were convicted as a felon.“If [defendants] go through the traditional system and they have a felony conviction on their record, they are much more likely to come back and commit a new crime,” Moriarty said at a press briefing. “That is because a felony conviction destabilizes their lives; they may lose their job, lose their housing and it can just lead to future criminal activity.”Adams’ <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-adams-5340196b" id="">LinkedIn profile</a> indicates he has not been terminated and remains employed by the state.“We are very much focused on public safety,” the DA continued. “Now . . . there are some people who want people to have felony convictions. That’s fine if that’s what they want, but that is not about public safety.”Moriarty then dismissed the subject entirely, saying “gun violence” is a more pressing issue.“I think the puzzling thing about this is that that is a low-level property crime, and so why aren’t we talking about gun violence?” she asked the press.Adams’ arrest came a month after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz told attendees at a rally that seeing Tesla’s stock decline gives him a “boost.”“Some of you know this. On the iPhone, they’ve got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day — $225 and dropping,” crowed the failed VP candidate, who went on to suggest that Tesla owners remove the company’s symbol from their vehicles. “And if you own one, we’re not blaming you. You can take dental floss and pull the Tesla thing off,” he said.‍

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Virginia Giuffre, the most prominent victim and accuser of the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, has reportedly died by apparent suicide.Epstein was first registered as a sex offender in 2008 when he was convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution. He was arrested again in 2019 for running a child sex trafficking ring that was understood to be frequented by the world’s most powerful elite. The billionaire’s various homes, where the trafficking of child sex victims like Giuffre took place, were frequented by figures such as England’s Prince Andrew, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, former CIA Director William Burns, Democrat megadonor Reid Hoffman, and many others. Giuffre has claimed she was trafficked to Prince Andrew. None of Epstein’s “clients” have been identified.&nbsp;Epstein died in prison while awaiting trial. His death was ruled a suicide despite evidence pointing to murder.<h2 id="">‘In no way, shape or form am I suicidal’</h2>Now Giuffre is said to have also committed suicide, leaving behind a husband and three children.“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia,” her family said in a statement to NBC News on Friday. “She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.”Giuffre publicly stated in a 2019 social media post that she was not suicidal.“I am making it publicly known that in no way, shape or form am I suicidal. I have made this known to my therapist and GP- if something happens to me- in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quieteted [sic],” she wrote on Twitter, which later became X.Last month, Giuffre was admitted to a hospital after being involved in a car crash with a school bus. She posted a selfie in her hospital bed and wrote that doctors had given her “four days to live,” though she was released from the hospital a week later.<h2 id="">Epstein victim Juliette Bryant: ‘Virginia was not suicidal’</h2>Giuffre’s death prompted another Epstein accuser, Juliette Bryant, to say she is not suicidal.“I am not suicidal, and I never, ever will be,” Bryant said in a video she posted to X on Saturday, along with a screenshot of Guiffre’s tweet denying her suicidality. “I also do not do any drugs.”Bryant then alleged that several other Epstein victims have died “suspiciously,” including a woman named Carolyn Andriano who was found dead of an apparent drug overdose in May.“I AM NOT SUICIDAL AND NEVER WILL BE. VIRGINIA WAS NOT SUICIDAL EITHER,” Bryant emphasized in a caption above her video.<div data-rt-embed-type='true'><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">I AM NOT SUICIDAL AND NEVER WILL BE VIRGINIA WAS NOT SUICIDAL EITHER 😢 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EPSTEIN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EPSTEIN</a>… <a href="https://t.co/klHYX4G7HX">pic.twitter.com/klHYX4G7HX</a>&mdash; EPSTEIN SURVIVOR - JULIETTE ROSE BRYANT🌈❤️⚔️ (@JulietteBryant) <a href="https://twitter.com/JulietteBryant/status/1916129134901919883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><h2 id="">Where is the Epstein client list?</h2>Giuffre’s death has reignited calls to release the Epstein files containing the names of the sex trafficker’s clients. President Trump previously instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to release the files, but the documents she released so far have not named any abusers. When asked last week for an update on the release of the Epstein client list, President Trump deferred to AG Bondi.“I don’t know, I’ll speak to the attorney general about that. I really don’t know,” the president <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/22/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-release/" id="">told</a> Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese. “I know that we’ve done the RFK, the Kennedy, Martin Luther King is out there very shortly, so we’ll find out. But . . . we’ve really really announced, we’re doing them in full transparency.”‍

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Bill Rice, Jr., Brownstone InstituteFor a while now I’ve been worried Substack would become a major target of the Censorship Industrial Complex for the hideous and dangerous crime of allowing free speech.This <a href="https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/03/substack-user-revolt-anti-censorship-stance-neo-nazis" id="">story from The UK newspaper the Guardian</a>, which was picked up by Citizen Free Press, might be significant or at least bears watching.Here are the key excerpts with a few of my editorial comments added:“The email newsletter service <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/substack" id="">Substack</a> is facing a user revolt after its chief executive defended hosting and handling payments for “Nazis” on its platform, citing anti-censorship reasons.”Comment: I seriously doubt this is a serious “user revolt,” but that’s the way it will (and already has been) portrayed.“… In <a href="https://substack.com/@hamish/note/c-45811343" id="">a note on the site</a> published in December, the chief writing officer, Hamish McKenzie, said the firm “doesn’t like Nazis,” and wished “no one held these views.”“But he said the company did not think that censorship – by demonetising sites that publish extreme views – was a solution to the problem, and instead made it worse.”Comment: Hip-Hip-Hoo-ray! Thank you, Hamish.“… Some of the largest newsletters on the service have threatened to take their business elsewhere if Substack does not reverse its stance.”Comment: This is the way these censorship movements always start – accuse someone (or an entire writers’ platform) of being “Nazis,” “extremists,” “racists,” or “science deniers”… which is usually enough to get the deplatforming started.Now we should all be on the lookout for more stories along these lines. If the Democrats were still in charge of the House of Representatives, we’d have hearings on the “Nazi Substack” with the usual statements of outrage that this platform hasn’t been banned yet.“… On Tuesday Casey Newton, who writes Platformer – a popular tech newsletter on the platform with thousands of subscribers paying at least $10 a month – became the most prominent yet.“Rolling out a welcome mat for Nazis is, to put it mildly, inconsistent with our values here at Platformer,” <a href="https://www.platformer.news/p/openais-news-blues?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2" id="">he said today</a>. “We have shared this in private discussions with Substack and are scheduled to meet with the company later this week to advocate for change.”Comment: Always follow the money. Questions: Who’s funding or pushing Platformer to deplatform free speech … and why?“…. Other newsletters have already made the jump. Talia Lavin, a journalist with thousands of paid subscribers on her newsletter The Sword and the Sandwich, moved to a competing service, Buttondown, on Tuesday. “We’ve left Substack behind, after its founders stated, in no uncertain terms, that they’re not just OK with, but in principle supportive of, having loads of out-and-out Nazis on their platform,” <a href="https://buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich/archive/new-year-new-platform-putting-your-money-where/" id="">she wrote</a>.Comments: I for one did not know that Substack had “loads and loads of out-and-out Nazis on their platform.”But even if it does (which it doesn’t), I say (at least from what I know now), let them post away. The only Nazi-like techniques I see influencing any important narratives come from the government and its many fascist partners.Also, why didn’t this article give us some excerpts from some of these “Nazi” Substack authors? For example, are these posters calling for the extermination of the Jews? If these newsletter sites are advocating murder or violence, kick them off, but I don’t know that they are. Also, how many subscribers do these sites have? Out of the tens of thousands of Substack authors and 30+ million Substack subscribers, how many are Nazis?As usual, we get shocking charges with no examples given of alleged shocking speech.We also learn from offended journalist Talia Lavin that her Substack site had grown to “thousands of paid subscribers.” Apparently, Substack was very popular and lucrative for anti-Nazi’s like Ms. Lavin.(I wish I had “thousands of paid subscribers.” In fact, I’ve recently begun to wonder if my paid and total subscriber numbers are being sabotaged by some kind of nefarious and secret Censorship Industrial Complex operation.) <h3 id="">Ah, the Money Quote…</h3>“… Substack declined to comment on Newton’s remarks. The site has been consistent in its opposition to content moderation, telling the Guardian in 2022 that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/27/anti-vaxxers-making-at-least-25m-a-year-from-publishing-on-substack" id="">moves to silence vaccine sceptics would not work</a>.”Comments: Here, I suspect we get to the real issue and the real goal. These groups allegedly offended by “Nazi hate speech” are no doubt really incensed because Substack hasn’t “silenced vaccine skeptics” … yet.Good for Substack’s executives defending the vaccine skeptics, who I’d argue made Substack a popular and important speech platform all by themselves.What Substack’s enemies really want is the type of life-saving “content moderation” we get from more-virtuous speech platforms like Facebook, which employs more than 15,000 “content moderators,” as well as the ingenious algorithms and AI that nix unauthorized speech without human effort.The vast majority of Substack authors don’t receive any advertising support. If we did, we’d already be hearing calls for advertiser boycotts.<h3 id="">Hang Tough, Substack. We Need You.</h3>Anyway, I thought it was a matter of time before a concerted and Machiavellian effort commenced to scuttle Substack as we’ve come to know it and rely on it.Since the executives at Substack are now being inundated with calls to censor its users, I hope many Substack authors and subscribers reach out to this vital company’s leaders and implore them to “not go wobbly” in this existential fight to preserve a few places where free speech still exists.By now, nobody should be naive. The real goal is to shut Substack (as we’ve known it) down &nbsp;– which must mean the truth bombs its correspondents are launching every day are starting to hit too close to key targets.Republished from the author’s <a href="https://billricejr.substack.com/p/and-so-it-begins">Substack. </a>Published under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. </a>For reprints, please set the canonical link back to the original Brownstone Institute <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/the-assault-on-substack-takes-predictable-shape/">Article </a>and Author.<a href="https://brownstone.org/author/bill-rice/">Bill Rice</a>Bill Rice, Jr. is a freelance journalist in Troy, Alabama.

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Most American medical schools remain in the throes of woke culture, says a new report, which leads to many of them embracing harmful ideologies like diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and “weight inclusivity.”The <a href="https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CRITICAL-CONDITION_Speech-First-Medical-Schools-Report.pdf" id="">report</a>, published by nonprofit Speech First and first <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/medical-schools-nationwide-promote-weight-inclusivity-in-ongoing-dei-push/" id="">reported</a> by National Review, found that out of 54 medical schools investigated by Speech First, 99% enforce discrimination against Whites.“Students are required to adopt a worldview that frames whites as inherently racist and physicians as agents of social reform, tasked with addressing historical injustices against minority groups,” said the report.<h2 id="">Gender ideology</h2>Eighty-nine percent of medical schools enforce compliance with gender ideology, which requires dismissing biological science and supporting “gender-affirming care” for children, or what ethical doctors refer to as medical mutilation. These include puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, double mastectomies, and genital surgeries, interventions that irreversibly sterilize and castrate children. Although scientific evidence <a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1736443508/AFLDS_White_Paper_PAGES_docx_151d82c3c4.pdf" id="">confirms</a> that these harms are irreversible, medical students are falsely told they are not.“Students must commit to affirming gender identity as superseding biological sex, with required practices such as performing or supporting gender-affirming medical procedures—even for children. Policies and mandatory rotations ensure that dissenting views are silenced,” the report explained.<h2 id="">Weight inclusivity</h2>A third of the medical schools Speech First analyzed also embrace weight inclusivity. This ideology views obesity not as unhealthy but as a body type to be accepted and celebrated. Faculty and students alike are warned against being “fatphobic” and are trained to use euphemisms like “larger people” to describe patients who are overweight or obese. The University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School teaches students to allow patients to opt out of being weighed. The University of Vermont, in its Weight-Inclusive Nutrition (WIN) program, describes it thusly:<blockquote id="">A weight-inclusive approach to health contends that weight is not an important indicator of health, people of all sizes can be healthy, and it is not possible for everyone to reach a ‘normal’ weight. In this approach, weight is not seen as a health behavior, so health/nutrition interventions are not designed to impact one’s weight, but rather to encourage health behaviors such as rejecting diet culture, eating a wide variety of food, listening to one’s hunger/satiety cues, respecting one’s body, and moving one’s body in a way that feels good.</blockquote><h2 id="">Anti-White racism</h2>Many medical schools begin demanding DEI compliance during the admissions process by requiring applicants to make statements about “diversity” and “inclusivity” in their applications. Some admissions committees also discriminate against White applicants, which has been shown to impact medical standards.&nbsp;Officials at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, for example, have <a href="https://www.thegoldreport.com/news/ucla-officials-blame-diversity-for-shocking-decline-in-medical-competence-says-report" id="">blamed</a> the school’s illegal diversity practices for an alarming drop in medical competence among students. The school’s acceptance rate was just 1.3% in 2023, which was reserved for the crème de la crème. But while a 3.8 GPA and an MCAT score in the 88th percentile might be a standard for White students, the school has been openly admitting Black and Hispanic students who fall short of that standard. Since then, the medical school has plummeted from 6th place to 18th place in medical research, a 300% drop. In some cadres that were admitted, over 50% of the students failed standardized medical tests after their clinical rotations. The national failing rate is 5%."I have students on their rotation who don't know anything," a UCLA admissions committee member said. "People get in and they struggle."Applicants for faculty positions at these medical schools must also demonstrate their observance of DEI and gender orthodoxies.&nbsp;Many medical students pledge their commitment to DEI in statements added to their Hippocratic Oaths, which contain vows to view medicine through the lens of “anti-racism,” to “advance health equity,” and the like.“This should raise urgent concerns about academic freedom, viewpoint discrimination, and the erosion of scientific rigor and medical excellence— threatening the future quality of healthcare in the United States,” Speech First’s report says.<h2 id="">Most medical schools are woke</h2>A report published last month by the nonprofit Do No Harm contained similar findings. The organization analyzed the mission statements of 155 medical schools nationwide between 2021 and 2024. It found that 77% were committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology in 2024, up from 68% in 2021. Over those three years, 78 schools had altered their mission statements—36 made them more "woke," 32 maintained the level of "wokeness," and 10 reduced their commitment to "woke" orthodoxy.“These results indicate that between 2021 and 2024, dozens of medical schools scrambled to rewrite their mission statements to signal how committed to woke values they were. They were not scrambling to signal how focused they were on science,” said Do No Harm. “As our previous research on woke and scientific terms in medical school curricula indicates, the dramatic rise in emphasis on wokeness is inevitably pushing out the focus on scientific rigor in medical education.”<h2 id="">Trump targets DEI in medical schools</h2>Immediately upon his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/" id="">executive order</a> withholding federal funds from institutions that impose DEI ideology. Last week, he signed another <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/reforming-accreditation-to-strengthen-higher-education/" id="">executive order</a> taking specific aim at the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), which accredits medical schools and requires them to implement woke ideologies like DEI. LCME, which is run by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the American Medical Association (AMA), requires medical schools to “engage in ongoing, systematic, and focused recruitment and retention activities, to achieve mission-appropriate diversity outcomes among its students.”“American students and taxpayers deserve better, and my Administration will reform our dysfunctional accreditation system so that colleges and universities focus on delivering high-quality academic programs at a reasonable price,” said the EO. “Federal recognition will not be provided to accreditors engaging in unlawful discrimination in violation of Federal law.”‍

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