Julie Laffer

Defender of my little part of the universe. Speaking up & standing up for what I believe in. Rock Chalk, Let's Go Royals, How 'bout them Chiefs!

[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

Tonight, Travis Kelce recorded his 100th career receiving TD, including playoffs.

Congratulations, Trav! 🎯

[Julie Laffer @JulieLaffer]

@50501Mmovement and Boots On The Ground (Midwest) @JCCCtweet

Way to show up and show out Johnson County Kansas! 10/18 No Kings Day was amazing, inspiring and PEACEFUL!

[Julie Laffer @JulieLaffer]

@johncusack Pro-life party, huh? Funny how that compassion evaporates when a death sentence is involved. He preached sanctity of life, then grins at the spectacle of executions. Guess some lives are sacred just not the ones that don’t serve his ego. Fucking twats, the whole party!

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

NEW: Over 400 artists including Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Robert De Niro, Selena Gomez, Tom Hanks, Ben Stiller and Meryl Streep have signed a letter in response to ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show: “This is a dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation. This is unconstitutional and un-American. The government is threatening private companies and individuals that the President disagrees with. We can’t let this threat to our freedom of speech go unanswered.”

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Israeli-Aligned Billionaires Seize TikTok in Battle for U.S. Narrative Control

The White House has announced that the forced sale of TikTok will be finalized this week. The new ownership led by Larry Ellison - the largest individual donor to the IDF - will take control of U.S. user data and the algorithm which the White House says will be "retrained".

Ellison, who made his fortune developing Oracle - a database system he originally built for the CIA - already controls CBS, Paramount, MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, Nickelodeon (which makes kids shows) as well as Channel 10 in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK. Ellison is also expected to finalize control over Warner Bros. Discovery (including CNN, HBO and the Discovery channel) before the end of 2025.

Even before the forced sale is finalised, censorship of TikTok content critical of Israel, including of the deal itself, has reached extreme levels as the platform moves to align with its prospective new owners. Fox – a Murdoch asset - is also seeking to join the Ellison consortium, a move that could enable cross-promotion between Fox and TikTok, further tightening the Israeli-aligned information bubble.

Disapproval of what Israel is doing in Gaza has risen to 60% of the US population, nearly double the approval rate of 32%.

The U.S. still has over three years of Trump left. Israeli-aligned Jewish billionaires control OpenAI, Google, Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, Palantir, CBS, HBO, and most of Conde Nast (Reddit, Vogue, The New Yorker, Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair) as well as numerous Hollywood studios, regional papers and radio stations.

Europe, meanwhile, remains largely absent, offering little real competition in the information space. Its one real success story? Telegram, which it managed to comprehensively alienate after France arrested its founder, supposedly for not handing over enough user data.

Will the EU and other U.S. allies align with the “Israelified” TikTok algorithm, or attempt to create a politicised alternative of their own?

Decentralised alternatives like Keet and Nostr offer strong resistance to censorship but are still young. Larger platforms like Telegram and Rednote carry serious risks of censorship, including eventual sell-off to other interests. For users the sweet spot may be to use both. One for political reliability, the others for a (politically temporary) audience.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

DONNIE J. AND KaroLYIN’ LEAVITT WILL HAVE THEIR (LITTLE) HANDS “FULL” TODAY. WHOOPS. I, GAVIN CHRISTOPHER NEWSOM, AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR (MANY SAY), WILL HOST THE GREATEST PRESS CONFERENCE OF ALL TIME. AFTER THAT — “THE MAPS” WILL SOON BE RELEASED. VERY MUCH ANTICIPATED. HISTORY MADE. THE GOP’S RIGGED GAME IS OVER!!!! THE PEOPLE RETAKE CONGRESS. YOU'RE WELCOME, AMERICA! LIBERATION DAY!!! THAT IS WHAT MANY ARE CALLING IT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. — GCN

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING — AND I AGREE — THAT I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM (AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR) DESERVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. WHY? BECAUSE OF THE “MOST INCREDIBLE MAPS IN THE HISTORY OF MAPPING” (EVEN COLUMBUS). THESE MAPS WILL END THE “VERY RIGGED” ELECTIONS, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN (MAGA!!!), RETAKE CONGRESS “FOR THE PEOPLE”, AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. NOBODY ELSE COULD HAVE DONE THIS — CERTAINLY NOT THE “SELF-PROCLAIMED” MASTER DEALMAKER DONALD “TACO” TRUMP (TINY HANDS) WHO MISSED “THE DEADLINE” AND LOST (SAD!). PEACE THROUGH MAPS — NO ONE HAS EVER THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE. I AM THE “PEACE TIME” GOVERNOR NOW, STOPPING “POLITICAL WARS” BEFORE THEY START. HARMONY, UNITY, EVEN LOVE. THE NOBEL COMMITTEE HAS GIVEN THIS AWARD TO LESSER PEOPLE FOR MUCH LESS. I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, ACTUALLY EARNED IT. THE WORLD WILL BE SAFER, KINDER, AND FRANKLY MORE “BEAUTIFUL” BECAUSE OF MY MAPS. GIVE GAVIN THE NOBEL, MANY ARE SAYING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GCN

[Julie Laffer @JulieLaffer]

@Pacosith @mishacollins STFU and educate yourself before you post such stupid shit.

[Julie Laffer @JulieLaffer]

@Really_ok_then @nicksortor @JBMIANYC Acceptance is always good, but your hate is pitiful. Narrowminded, bigoted beliefs must make your life miserable. Why are you worried about those who are LGBTQ anyway? It's not a cult like MAGA, they don't recruit and spread absolute BS about things they don't fully understand.

[Julie Laffer @JulieLaffer]

@JBMIANYC @nicksortor Indoctrinated for being accepting of others? There is nothing about the message that is grooming. It teaching others that we are not all alike and that's ok. I'd rather live in world if acceptance than it being hate filled with people like you.

[Julie Laffer @JulieLaffer]

@JBMIANYC @nicksortor This is inclusiveness.

[Julie Laffer @JulieLaffer]

@nicksortor Being inclusive is NOT grooming. And just because you don't agree with something, doesn't make it wrong. Get over yourself @nicksortor
It's SICKENING to see your POV blasted like this. What are you so worried about happening?

[Julie Laffer @JulieLaffer]

@everfidelis @GuntherEagleman Lmao, calm down...it didn't even smudge his orange face paint. He's fine.

[Julie Laffer @JulieLaffer]

@RonnieRadke I love your music, truly. I hate the bad taste of the reference in this post.

[Julie Laffer @JulieLaffer]

@SethDuncan92 @KCTV5 They won't stay paid long. Instead of laying them off, they should be offered comparable jobs.

[Julie Laffer @JulieLaffer]

@BIGMOMMYCOOL @TMZ DeeDee doesn't deserve revenge.

[Julie Laffer @JulieLaffer]

@NikiHan32691558 @TMZ Allergy bands, Patient ID band, Baby ID band, likely a "fall risk" band if she had an epidural or C-section...there are bands for everything.

[Julie Laffer @JulieLaffer]

@elonmusk @StephenKing Elon, why does it matter?

[Julie Laffer @JulieLaffer]

@JacobBaker613 This is ignorant. Stop posting random pics when you don't know if it's even him. Your attention seeking actions are going to get an innocent person hurt with this shit.