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Did you know that Congress is working on a new plan to “distance” the US-Israeli relationship by slowing US aid to Israel and replace it with a “financial partnership”? A partnership which has the power to not only increase the amount of money and weapons the US sends to Israel but also future-proof it from being dismantled by future presidents and lawmakers?

And do you know who invented this plan that allows members of Congress to become more independent from Israel?

Let the words of GOP Rep. Marlin Stutzman speaking on CNN enlighten us all: “This was actually something that came from Prime Minister Netanyahu.”

This, and a whole slew of other remarks that will make your skin crawl were topics of what many people are calling the antisemitic events of the year! The American Jewish Committee’s Global Forum, where Zionists gave speeches on and cheered for things that, if we had said them, would get us immediately kicked off YouTube for being antisemitic.

From bragging that the “Jewish coalition” spent five million dollars to oust Thomas Massie and control US elections, to explaining that Jews can now use AI to “manage and control” social media content, to laughter at John Fetterman’s celebration of Israel’s pager attacks in Lebanon that killed and blinded children and civilians, it was one antisemitic trope after another.

And no condemnations from the Fraudfather over at the ADL yet…

This week at the Emmy Awards for News, student journalist Santiago Campos won CBS’s Mike Wallace Memorial Scholarship. Here’s what he said in his speech:

“While I want to thank CBS News for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to also acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace.

As corporate elites take hold over the very pipes through which our information flows, journalism that serves the people becomes increasingly harder to come by, yet ever more crucial. And what people want is the truth.

So if at any time you hesitate to utter the word genocide or remain silent in the face of blatant lies, remember to ask yourself: who is this for? I hope you choose us.”

There is currently an existential battle over the future of journalism, with pro-Israel billionaires like the Ellisons and Jeff Bezos attempting to suck up media outlets and install pro-Israel activists like Bari Weiss, Jake Tapper, and Jeffrey Goldberg into positions of power, taking on the rapidly accelerating explosion of independent media, which has brought on the mass exodus of viewers from corporate news outlets like CNN, Fox News, and the New York Times.

With young journalists like Santiago boldly taking the side of independent journalists, the corporate elites may not stand a chance.

Also in this Friday Free-for-All: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin thinks he can shut down international flights to sanctuary cities during the World Cup, Fraudfather/ADL head Jonathon Greenblatt tries to talk away a mass shooting at a San Diego mosque, and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz wants Democrats to get credit for being more Israel-first than Donald Trump.

It’s a sickening week as always, but with a bright twist that gives us some hope. Keep on supporting independent journalism and catch the full episode here:

This week, Kentucky GOP Rep. James Comer went on Newsmax, the furthest to the right a cable news network can be, to discuss the US’s sudden increased aggression against Cuba, and proceeded to say the wrong thing so many times that even the Newsmax host Rob Finnerty sounded like he could be hosting Useful Idiots.

Read this excerpt from the interview, then we’ll talk:

Finnerty: This Cuba thing -- people struggle with how this is America first when gas is $4.55 a gallon right now.

Rep. Comer: You’re absolutely right, but at the end of the day, Cuba has always been a national security threat. We’ve been negotiating with Cuba since before I was born! The negotiations have gone nowhere, Cuba’s leader is at the end of his lifespan, the Cuban people clearly, unlike maybe the Iranian people, want a regime change in Cuba.

Finnerty: But do you really think Cuba’s a threat?

Rep. Comer: If some country went in and loaded Cuba with the same drones Iran had when we first started bombing Iran, then yes I think it could be a threat. The CIA’s on the ground as we speak. We’ve to be on guard because of the new types of warfare that’s out there with these new drones and technology.

Finnerty: I’ll be honest, to me this just sounds like we’re trying to make the case to attack Cuba. I don’t buy it. It sounds like a false flag operation.

Katie and Aaron have about a million ways to mock this dude.

First, who has been negotiating with Cuba? The US has famously refused to negotiate, choosing instead to strangle them with an embargo and destroy their economy with murderous sanctions. That’s what could be called the exact opposite of negotiation.

Second, when he says Cuba’s leader is at the end of his lifespan, what is he talking about? President Miguel Díaz-Canel is 66 and at a quick glance seems to be healthy. Which means that unless that’s some weird mafia-style riddle threat, Comer thinks that Raúl Castro is still the president of Cuba. He doesn’t know the leader of the government he’s trying to run a regime-change against!

Third, (and yes we’re still only on his first answer) did he just admit that the Iranian people, against every talking point that the Trump Administration and their bosses in Israel have worked so hard to convince Americans of, don’t want regime change? The Newsmax host stares at his guest as Comer accidentally undoes a year of propaganda. And it only get’s crazier: