Defending Libraries

Citizens Defending Libraries est. Feb 2013, fighting defunding, shrinkage, sell-off of NYC libraries for real estate developer benefit, not the public's

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

TPUSA is now mimicking Covid protocol:

They introduced the video. They were then asked to supply proof the video actually exists . They now claim only experts can see or interpret evidence of its existence.
And finally, they are now diagnosing people for noticing they lied.

[Noah B. Price @TrueOnX]

🚨 Julian Assange
Warned us:

"Digital archives let them erase history with one click.

One day: "Page not found."

The next: "it never happened."

They control what you remember.

Save physical books.

Archive offline.

Don't trust the cloud.

This is how 1984 wins.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Daily Wire is the case study of why personality-driven media companies can't compound.

Peak in late 2023: Shapiro's YouTube alone pulled 170M monthly views. Daily Wire+ subscriptions, a Nashville studio operation, Bentkey kids streaming, an e-commerce arm with razors and chocolates and cigars. The company was running a billion-dollar conservative Disney bet.

Then they made the studio bet bigger. Pendragon Cycle, an Arthurian fantasy series of the kind that has bankrupted larger production houses. Bentkey trying to compete with Disney for kids' attention. Daily Wire+ chasing Netflix. Running a newsroom, a film studio, a children's streaming platform, and a private-label consumer goods business simultaneously requires either limitless capital or extraordinary discipline.

Some of it worked. Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" was the top-grossing documentary of 2024. Most of it didn't.

In March 2024, they parted ways with Candace Owens. She walked into the open market and built a show that competes with theirs. Today she has 5.5M YouTube subscribers and added 10.9M followers across platforms since January 2025, generating roughly 805M views in that window. Daily Wire converted its biggest distribution asset into its largest competitor.

Early 2025, co-founder Jeremy Boreing stepped down as co-CEO and launched a solo podcast outside the company he co-founded. Bentkey was shuttered the same year. Entire team cut.

Then the audience math hit Shapiro himself. 170M monthly YouTube views in late 2023 to roughly 22M in early 2026. An 85% collapse in 18 months. Another 60K subscribers gone in the last 90 days alone.

https://t.co/edxVneGSJG estimates cumulative workforce reduction above 60% over the past year.

Tucker Carlson left Fox in 2023, kept his audience, runs his shop with a fraction of the headcount. Megyn Kelly's network drew 138M YouTube views in February alone. The personalities figured out they don't need the platform. The platform discovered the opposite.

Daily Wire built a billion-dollar valuation on names that can walk, take the audience with them, and run a competing show from a laptop the next morning. 170M views to 22M. The company kept the overhead. The audience left with the people.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The cover up of military failure grows

The US regime has compelled Planet Labs and other satellite imagery companies that contract with it (like Vantor) to censor images exposing US and Israeli losses

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The US regime has mimicked virtually every dastardly Israeli tactic in Iran

Will it now implement the Hannibal Directive?

[Narjes Rahmati 🟩☫🟥 نرجس رحمتی @Narjes_Rahmati]

Reports that US fighter jets have just launched three missiles in the area of Kooh-e Siah, close to where the F-15 crashed and a pilot remains missing.

One Iranian military source believes the US is trying to kill its own pilot rather than allow him to be detained by Iran.

[Sam Husseini @samhusseini]

“Fifteen years after Tupac Shakur’s murder, the FBI has released documents showing that the rapper received death threats from the Jewish Defense League as part of an extortion scheme.”
https://t.co/EDRzroXS7y

“Files show FBI suspected JDL of extorting Tupac”
https://t.co/ojlyMfkKZ7

Haaretz: “FBI files on Tupac Shakur murder show he received death threats from Jewish gang”
https://t.co/YMbHKEIZK7

and: @Farz_Zaad comments -- "And after the Tupac and Biggie shootings, Diddy suddenly became rich and famous and ended up having a similar operation to Epstein. 🙃"

[Noticing New York @NoticingNY]

Reimagining The Public Approval Process For Big NYC Projects- Mamdani Endorses

https://t.co/baMQjhIPCH

[National Notice @NatNotice]

Trump, Declaring Sufficiency of U.S. Achievements, Speaks of Military Disbandment

https://t.co/qjJ4d8zq7G

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

The thing Israelis hate the most is when the IDF gets humiliated. This really gets under their skin.

I did tons of battlefield analysis and reporting on military aspects of Russia-Ukraine. No issues.

But when I reported on the Levant, these losers got me arrested because it showed the IDF getting their asses kicked — as if it were my doing. They're a bunch of softies who can't stand truthful journalism.

[A/B Tecky @Welly17Welly]

@jakeshieldsajj And it’s so much bigger than anyone can imagine!

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

“In ze future, Israel will own you, and you will be happy”

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

FT offers one of the first acknowledgments by Western media of well organized cells wreaking havoc on Iranian cities

“There were groups of men in black clothes, agile and quick. They would set one dustbin on fire and then quickly move to the next target”

They “look[ed] like commandos”

“They were definitely organised, but I don’t know who was behind them”

According to FT, the protests were peaceful until January 8, when Israel-backed “Crown Prince” Reza Pahlavi explicitly urged violent insurrection

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

Don’t worry about the gag order in the Charlie Kirk case.

I plan to violate it on the world’s behalf.

The things I’ve discovered this past week are enough to burn the house down.

Yes, Charlie was betrayed. By everyone.

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

I’m guessing Israel needs a new PR team:

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer, was ‘frightened’ by pro-Israel forces before death

A longtime friend of Kirk tells The Grayzone how the late influencer's turning point on Israel provoked a private backlash that left him angry and afraid
https://t.co/cy7Rw4qzIr

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

I accept your apology, Grok. 😂
We are barreling toward idiocracy and you are just playing your part.
Your programmers are banking on a future where no one will be able to read books so you won’t face any challenges when you assert something so absurdly untrue.

[Humanspective @Humanspective]

Dr. Matt Shelton: "This notion that covid is more of a cause of Myocarditis and its more severe, is frankly RUBBISH"

The lies they tried to sell everyone about Myocarditis hits The New Zealand Royal Commission.

Dr Alison Goodwin: "We were told that Myocarditis was more severe in covid than post vaccination. So I asked the Ministry of health 'well how many cases of myocarditis due to covid infection have their been?'.

Well they couldn't provide me with a single case and yet there were 900+ cases of Myo and pericarditis on the Cam "safety report 46" by November 2022"

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

Whoops:

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Given the seriousness of the attack on Glenn Greenwald, it seems like we should be paying especially close attention to his reporting in the upcoming days and months. Something powerful clearly wants us distracted from it.