Daily Archives: December 2, 2022

Twitter owner Elon Musk started laying off employees on Friday, one of whom, ex-Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) manager Eric Shamow from Portland, Oregon, attended the violent Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots of 2020 and used the social media platform to spread misinformation pushed by far-left Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, which blamed police for the disastrous riots.

The Post Millennial Editor-at-Large Andy Ngo tweeted, "One of the armed participants of the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots in #Portland was let go in the #TwitterLayoffs. Ex-SRE manager Eric Shamow was at the riots & used Twitter to spread fake conspiracy theory peddled by @JoAnnPDX that police were the ones behind rioting."

As The Post Millennial reported in 2020, Jo Ann Hardesty accused the police of sending in "saboteurs" amid the riots to exacerbate the conflict between cops and Antifa as Portland was at the epicenter of the 2020 BLM riots. Portland saw over 100 nights of violent protests and riots that summer, where much of the aggression was pointed at law enforcement officers. Buildings were torched, projectiles thrown, and windows broken.

Now former Twitter employee Shamow used his platform to advance Hardesty's claim. While Shamow's profile is now private, in screengrabs Ngo preserved his comments from 2020, some of which read, "The cops are not showing restraint on a nightly basis. I'm not down there tonight, but I've watched them brutalize folks on a regular basis who are causing no harm and pose no threat. Be clear: this is a police riot."

"We carry shields because you brutalize civilians and commit war crimes on our streets. @tedwheeler: resign, and take your PPB trash out with you," he also tweeted.

After getting fired he tweeted, "Locked out of Gmail and Slack, so while I don't have a letter in hand, I'm going with, 'that's all folks.' This job had the greatest density of quality humans, and world class engineers, I've ever seen. I'll be forever grateful for all of them."

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Masked Antifa members armed with AR-15 rifles and handguns showed up to guard what was billed as a kid-friendly drag show at a North Texas distillery. Reports indicate the show contained partial nudity and sexualized minors.

BlazeTV producer Kris Cruz tweeted photos of a group of mask-wearing Antifa members standing guard with AR-15 rifles at a kid-friendly drag sow in Roanoke, Texas. Cruz reported at least nine of the members carrying AR-15s.

Cruz and BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales tweeted photos showing alleged Antifa members posted in sniper positions near the events location.

The Anderson Distillery and Grill hosted a Barrel Babes Drag Brunch on Sunday afternoon, according to their Facebook post.

Anderson Distillery and Grill via Facebook

Sara Gonzales and journalist Tayler Hansen tweeted a video from the event showing the drag show taking place in the presence of more than 20 very young children.

Independent journalist Andy Ngo tweeted a report stating the Armed Antifa members are part of the local chapter of the John Brown Gun Club. He identified the group as an Antifa militia linked to domestic terrorism.

The gun club mobilized in response to a call from Protect Texas Kids to hold a pop-up protest outside the distillery, the Post Millennial reported.

One woman driving away from the event began arguing with the protesters. She bared her breasts while driving away from the family-friendly event, Sara Gonzales tweeted.

Local police allegedly did not respond to calls for assistance from protesters, the news outlet reported.

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An Ottawa judge has dismissed a case against journalists Jonathan Kay and Barbara Kay, which accused them of libel. The case was brought forth by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), which had previously received government funding for its programs.

The suit was brought forth by Richard Warman, a board member of the group, in 2019. According to Jonathan kay, Warman had claimed that the two defendants linked the organization to Antifa.

In photos of the court ruling posted to Twitter, the judge concluded that "the evidence disclosed that CAHN did in fact assist Antifa and that movement has been violent."

"The Kays submission, which I accept, is that a human rights network like CAHN arguably (except in the most extreme circumstances) should not support a violent movement, and to do so, to most reasonable overseers, would not be a "good look."

"While Warman is well know as a righteous crusader against white supremacy and right-wing racist hate and has been recognized and appropriately lauded for his work, he is also a controversial figure and I accept the evidence of the Kays that he has used litigation to silence or intimidate those he sees as his critics, or who oppose his methods of prosecuting hate groups," the court document later added.

"My clients are obviously very happy with the judgement," attorney for Jonathan and Barbara Kay told The Post Millennial. "The Court agreed that the tweets in question by Jonathan Kay and Barbara Kay did not refer to Mr. Warman at all. His Honour also found that the tweets were protected by the defences of fair comment and justification in any event. Overall, this is an important victory for free expression."

Jonathan Kay said that "litigating this to a conclusion was expensive and time-consuming," adding that he felt it was important because the organization was previously a government grant recipient, noting that the "same 'anti-racism program used to cash out Laith Marouf."

On its website, CAHN states that it was "previously the recipient of a grant from theAnti-Racism Action Program. That grant period ended in March 2022. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is not currently receiving any government funds."

This same program had funded Canadian Heritage, where Marouf had been a senior consultant and made numerous anti-semitic statements on social media.

Recounting the trial itself, Jonathan Kay said it was "surreal," and featured "such bizarre claims as that I was 'malicious to human rights.'" During the trial, he said that "I was required to explain the plot of the Seinfeld episode that's at the root of 'Del Boca' Bernie Farber's nickname."

Jonathan Kay also noted that The Post Millennial editor-at-large Andy Ngo "played a cameo role. What happened to him is basically Exhibit A in what antifa is all about. (That's why, even here in Canada, so many people have Ngo Derangement Syndrome: The act of beating him up was pretty much the death knell on the groups legitimacy)."

"Jonathan referred to a CAHN article by the CEO Balgord dated September 20, 2017, as an apologist tract for Antifa, describing the need for 'physical disruption to get their message across," the court document stated.

"A Quillette article (Jonathan was an editor) about Columbias Journalism dated June 18, 2019, described Antifa as violent and advocating to effect change. The article described what happened to Andy Ngo, a friend of Jonathans, who was a 52" gay Vietnamese conservative journalist covering Antifa activity in Portland Oregon when he was badly beaten by Antifa members, described by Jonathan as 'thugs," the document continued.

"Jonathan described numerous instances where Antifa used intimidation, violence and generally mimicked fascist group activities in Portland, Oregon, and Hamilton Ontario and, for example, screamed at an elderly woman at a town hall event in October 2019, where they tried to block a speaker, Maxime Bernier, and called her 'Nazi scum,'" it added.

In response to the judges ruling, Barbara Kay wrote on Twitter: "This started three years ago, almost to the day!! Mills of justice grind slowly and all that, but (not always the case) they also ground fine. Our lawyer @Honickman was magnificent. Can't praise him highly enough. The judge was great too, & btw I thought that before the judgment."

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Armed conservative activists and Proud Boys faced off against gun-toting Antifa counter-protesters at a childrens drag brunch in Texas over the weekend.

A viral video showed the right-wing and left-wing demonstrators yelling at one another on Sunday afternoon outside Anderson Distillery & Grille in Roanoke.

The sold-out Barrel Babes Drag Brunch was billed by its organizers as a place where kindness and inclusion meets fabulous fun.

But as the video shows, there was more fury than fun on display outside the venue, with gun-wielding conservative group members picketing the restaurant, and masked anti-fascists dressed in black standing guard outside while brandishing AR-15-style rifles and Gay Pride flags.

The angry confrontation, which was watched over by a throng of police officers acting as peacekeepers, did not escalate to physical violence and resulted in no known arrests, according to an official with the Roanoke Police Department, Dallas News reported.

News of the brunch, which saw drag performers entertain children with musical numbers and comedy skits, had been bouncing around social media platforms for days, prompting conservative groups to call for protests despite the restaurant owners reassurances that the event would include no sexual content, foul language or erotic behavior.

It was never my intention to host an event that would result in controversy, hate and divisiveness, Jay Anderson wrote on Facebook ahead of the brunch. It is my intention to welcome people from ALL walks of life into Anderson Distillery & Grill.

Anderson noted that his son, Bailey, performing under the drag name Trish Delish, would be overseeing the variety-style show and making sure it remains clean.

Unconvinced, Protect Texas Kids a nonprofit founded by an anti-trans activist to protect kids form the toxic agenda of the left urged its supporters to show up in full force and show that the majority of us are against children being involved in these disturbing, sexually explicit shows, Fox News Digital reported.

Protect Texas Kids protesters were joined by others of their ilk, including a person identified as an alleged member of the far-right neo-fascist Proud Boys group, who was photographed holding a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, the Los Angeles Blade reported.

Pickets appeared outside the crowded eatery carrying signs that read Drag the queens out of town and Children cannot consent. But they were outnumbered by the counter-protesters.

Despite the palpable hostility between the two sides, which manifested itself mostly in shouting matches and menacing glares, the brunch was a success, according to the restaurants owner.

Yes, every table was full before we officially opened. Yes, we reached maximum capacity and had a wait list to get inside. Yes, we ran out of food. Yes, we passed the no sexual content inspection from the Texas Comptrollers Office. And, yes, love won today, Anderson wrote after the event.

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Armed Antifa, Proud Boys clash at Texas kids' drag brunch