Badlands News Brief
Badlands News Brief
Horse Paste & A Couple of Bloodbaths
The News Cycle is almost impossible to track these days. At least, to do so fully.
That’s where we come in.
In the Badlands News Brief, the Badlands Media team hand pick news items of interest from the previous days to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community.
Many items feature original (and subjective) commentary. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see our writers’ Substack accounts and check out their other work.
Now, onto the news from the weekend that was…
Putin Vows Revenge For "Bloodbath" Moscow Attack, Points Finger At Help From Ukraine, As 11 'Terrorists' Captured
The official death toll from Russian authorities in the wake of Friday's terror attack on a Moscow concert hall has reached 133 killed, with some unofficial reports saying there could be as many as 140 or more… Three children are still in the hospital, with one in critical condition.
The mall and complex at the Crocus City Hall music venue appears to have burned for many hours through the night. Russia's Investigative Committee later said more bodies were recovered from be smoldering building. Importantly, authorities on Saturday announced the capture of four suspected gunmen, also amid unconfirmed social media videos purporting to show some of the detained alleged gunmen.
Eleven people total have been detained connected with the terror attack which the Federal Security Service (FSB) has said includes "four terrorists who were directly involved in the terrorist attack on Crocus." They are not Russian nationals, security services said.
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The four alleged gunmen were detained "not far from the border with Ukraine." This has raised suspicion in the Kremlin over Ukraine's involvement, despite the widespread media reports in the West that it was ISIS-K. As we noted earlier, Russian media has not echoed the Western reports highlighting an ISIS-K statement of responsibility.
Instead, in addressing the crisis President Vladimir Putin has vowed to punish the perpetrators of the barbaric terrorist act while also charging that Ukraine prepared a "window" to help the terrorists escape.
At one point during the five-and-a-half minute video address, Putin said: "All perpetrators, organizers and customers of this crime will suffer fair and inevitable punishment. Whoever they are, whoever guides them. I repeat, we will identify and punish everyone who stands behind the terrorists, who prepared this atrocity, this attack on Russia, on our people."
— Zero Hedge
Our Take: “The US Embassy in Moscow telling Americans to avoid large gatherings 48 hours before we’re told of a mass casualty terror attack in the city is some of the most on the nose Narrative Seeding yet.
Acceleration provokes Escalation. Escalation provokes Exposure. Exposure prompts Awakening.
As the world watches the collectivist west continue to poke the bear, the public calls for peace will rise.
Do we have any Peacemakers on deck?”
Texas National Guard confiscated knives from migrants who rushed border, one tried to grab gun: source
Authorities confiscated knives and shanks from migrants who surged the border wall in El Paso on Thursday, The Post has learned.
The swarm of migrants overwhelmed Texas National Guard soldiers who were arranging them into groups to be taken into Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) custody. During the chaotic incursion, at least one person also tried to grab a soldier’s firearm, a National Guard source told The Post.
“These people were willing to assault military,” the source told the Post. “They were willing to assault law enforcement. They have complete disregard for our laws.”
Some troops were treated at a nearby hospital for minor injuries.
The skirmish happened at Gate 36, a spot where potential asylum seekers congregate in the hopes of obtaining permission to remain in the United States. Located on US soil, Gate 36 is not an official point of entry and is not equipped to process asylum claims.
— NY Post
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Freddy Ivan Jandres-Parada, leader of La Mara Salvatrucha, arrested in California after 4 years on the run
Freddy Ivan Jandres-Parada, leader of La Mara Salvatrucha, was arrested in California after 4 years on the run. Also known as Lucky De Park View, he was arrested on March 7 by authorities in San Diego County. However, the information was not known until this week. He is expected to be presented before a federal judge in the coming days.
"One of FBI's Most Wanted Caught. Authorities say Fredy Ivan Jandres-Parada was a 'board of director' for MS-13, one of the most senior leaders in the violent gang. An indictment against Jandres-Parad was filed in December 2020 and was unsealed in January 2021," explained Court Watch who obtained the court documents.
Freddy Ivan Jandres-Parada was wanted for his alleged involvement in directing MS-13 activity in the United States, Mexico and El Salvador. He is among the most important leaders of MS-13 worldwide… According to the Department of Justice, MS-13 was formed by Salvadoran immigrants who came to the United States to escape the crisis in their home country. In that sense, the department explained that some of its members were trained in guerrilla warfare and in the use of military weapons.”
— VOZ Media
Our Take: “As Kate and I discussed on Saturday’s Raising a Nation, Biden signed the partial spending package Saturday, funding US Border Patrol and ICE, and bumping their budgets up by a combined $4B. Health and Human Services (HHS) received a $1B increase. HHS is the entity that (contracts with NGOs and) moves the criminal invaders and their trafficking victims throughout the interior.
This is important because the President is still asking for the supplemental spending packages to be passed on National Security and the Border. The DOD was also funded in the package, with a 5.2% pay increase for their people and other goodies.
You’d be forgiven for believing these supplementals are just money laundering endeavors, and Mike Johnson deserves kudos for preventing their passage to date.
Migrants have now, according to the media, rushed Gate 36, with weapons, and attempted to overthrow the government at the border. You’d also be forgiven for calling this an insurrection, or referring to the perpetrators as criminal invaders. Just don’t call them illegal, because that hurts the criminal invaders’ feelings.
Speaking of the invasion, the regime is patting itself on the back for catching one — out of 10+ million — of the criminal invaders who has evaded capture for four years. ‘Jandres-Parada has been charged with several terrorism offenses for his alleged role in numerous acts of violence against civilians, law enforcement and members of rival gangs, as well as for the distribution of drugs and for participating in extortion schemes around the world, as explained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service.’
But has Mr. Jandres-Parada had his asylum hearing yet? Poor little refugee…
The insanity of a government prioritizing entry of anyone and everyone, then being unable to locate dangerous criminals for four years — while those dangerous criminals engage in terrorism and harm citizens — is on full display for everyone to see.
I predict the regime uses these incidents to push for the border supplemental despite their recent $4B + $1B budget increases across agencies. It’s an easy prediction because it’s never been about securing the border.
They’re looting the treasury while enabling invasion. The good news is that it’s really obvious now. The bad news is that cornered animals are notoriously dangerous. Stay vigilant, everyone.”
'You don't have to suffer in silence': Surrey teacher confronts online harassment
Annie Ohana’s classroom is decorated with colourful and thought-provoking posters and flags. They’re part of Ohana’s curriculum at L.A. Matheson Secondary in Surrey, B.C., and meant to ignite dialogue amongst her students.
“We’ve had students tell us that those flags really mean something to them,” she said. “It represents them.”
While the flags and posters are embraced at the school, they’re also the reason Ohana was targeted online by Chanel Pfahl, a former high school teacher who – according to her bio on X, formerly known as Twitter – exposes “wokism” in Canadian schools.
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When asked for comment, Pfahl said in a direct message on X, “Any reasonable person who looks through (Ohana’s) thousands of posts on X will see that she is indoctrinating kids with radical woke ideology.”
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This isn’t the first time Ohana has experienced this kind of harassment, but it is the first time she’s spoken publicly about it and asked for help online(opens in a new tab).
“I think really the call out is to make sure that other teachers know it’s OK to ask for help,” she said. “You don’t have to suffer in silence.”
— CTV News Vancouver
Our Take: “It is an AWESOME advertisement for homeschooling and unschooling that these teachers are doubling down on using Critical Theory (Marxist radicalism).
It’s ‘harassment’ to point out that they are teaching using communist ideologies. So they use state media and state funded groups like the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (who collaborate with terrorist networks like ANTIFA) to cry about the ‘danger’ of them being opposed in any way at all.
Remember, there is no form of political or ideological opposition to these teachers that they won’t reframe as ‘hate on the verge of violence.’ They will only accept complete ideological. Nothing less. Behold the Anti-Hate rESurChEr cited by the state media.”
Neuralink shows the progress of its first patient with a brain implant
On Wednesday, Neuralink showed the progress of its first patient with a brain implant. The company shared a nine-minute video in which Noland Arbaugh, the first person with a mind-controlled chip, can be seen playing a game of chess on his computer.
In the post, Noland Arbaugh, a 29-year-old man who was left paralyzed from the shoulders down in a diving accident eight years ago, talks about the brain implant that allows him to play chess again, something he did not believe was possible until a few months ago. "It's crazy, really. It's great," he says in the video in which he can also be seen playing the video game "Civilization" as well as receiving Japanese and French classes.
The company founded by Elon Musk and dedicated to neural research installed the implant in Arbaugh in January. This trial has turned out to be a complete success. The procedure also allowed the patient to be discharged in just one day since, the doctors assured, no cognitive impairment was detected.
However, Arbaugh, who said that he can now move his computer mouse cursor, acknowledges that this is just the beginning of a long process: "There is a lot of work to do, but it has already changed my life. I don't want people to think that this is the end of the journey."
— VOZ Media
Our Take: “‘On Wednesday, Neuralink showed the progress of its first patient with a brain implant. The company shared a nine-minute video in which Noland Arbaugh, the first person with a mind-controlled chip, can be seen playing a game of chess on his computer.’
I am constantly fighting with myself over how I feel regarding AI, and Neuralink.
While I can certainly recognize and appreciate the merit and thought behind using such devices to help someone overcome debilitating neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s, Epilepsy, or Alzheimer’s - or even help people see after losing vision, or regain functionality of limbs after being paralyzed, I can’t help but wonder ‘what if.’
What if this technology falls into the wrong hands. What if this technology becomes smarter than us? What if it becomes sentient? What if it sends the wrong signal and causes someone to jump off a bridge?
For me, as much as I want to like this stuff and applaud it’s advances, there are just far too many red flags and what ifs for me to be comfortable with it.
Yes, this sort of technology could help humanity a great deal. Yes, this sort of technology could win up putting us in the kind of spot where Terminator and iRobot don’t seem so far fetched.”
FDA agrees to remove posts cautioning against the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed to take down social media posts and online materials cautioning against the use of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19, following a lawsuit filed by three doctors in 2022.
Initially dismissed, the case that was originally filed in 2022 received new life when the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals revived it and remanded it back to the lower court. Upon review, the lower court determined that only Dr. Mary Bowden, one of the original plaintiffs, had standing in the matter. Bowden emphasized that an article, titled “Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19,” failed to mention that doctors retained the legal authority to prescribe ivermectin despite the FDA's discouragement of its use.
The removed posts included one with the message “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it,” along with a link to an article discouraging the use of ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment.
The FDA has been given a three-week deadline to remove the material and social media posts from various platforms.
— Just the News
Our Take: “The regime screeched ‘horse paste!’ at the top of their lungs to discourage Americans from using a medication that would likely cure them, if taken at the appropriate time and as part of the appropriate regimen.
Many doctors — thousands of them — tried telling the people that there were effective treatments. Those doctors were banned from the public square, and many lost their medical licenses. At least one went to prison.
Yet, those thousands of doctors were correct.
The reality is that ivermectin would have prevented the emergency use authorization for the bioweapons. President Trump was painstakingly, every chance he got, telling Americans about this and other treatments. That’s important.
Effective treatments prevent dangerous experiments from being tested on the public at large, and that’s why the FDA and the CDC and the global health regime had to demonize what they knew to be effective covid treatments. ‘You are not a horse!’ they mocked, while signing up naive Americans for myocarditis and a sudden death lottery.
I’ve noticed in the past few days, since this news broke, the old lie that Trump told people to ‘inject bleach’ is making the rounds again. Joe Biden kicked off the deployment in an awkwardly edited campaign ad and, while it’s patently false, democrats everywhere are pushing it again.
In light of this revived falsehood, I expect we’ll get some truth about Hydroxychloroquine soon. Right on cue — that is, years after the truth community knew. Again.
Trump social media company will go public as DWAC shareholders approve merger
Shareholders in Digital World Acquisition Corp. voted Friday to approve a merger with Donald Trump’s social media company, a deal that could net the former president an eventual windfall of $3 billion or more.
The vote by DWAC shareholders comes about 2½ years after the so-called special purpose acquisition company announced plans to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group, the private firm that owns the Truth Social app platform.
It also comes as Trump faces the possibility that New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday will start trying to collect on a massive $454 million civil fraud judgment against him.
Shares in the newly combined company, Trump Media, could begin to be publicly traded next week under the stock symbol DJT, Trump’s initials.
— CNBC
Our Take: “The DWAC-TMTG merger resulting in a DJT stock ticker has to be one of the most based 5D chess moves made in the Info War so far.
The American public will now have the opportunity to be literal shareholders in an ideology, making them directly invested in the future direction of the country.
The America First culture swing is already on in full. When you add financial FOMO to that equation, things are going MAGAbolic.”
'The train is coming': Fani Willis has warning for Trump in wake of hearing to try to oust her
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Saturday that “the train is coming,” referring to her team’s preparation for the case against former President Donald Trump and his 14 co-defendants and whether she was slowed down by attempts to remove her from the case.
Willis, who avoided being disqualified from the election subversion case after more than two months of hearings and court action over her romantic relationship with her lead prosecutor, told CNN she was still working on the case during that time.
“While that was going on, we were writing responsive briefs, we were still doing the case in a way that it needed to be done. I don’t feel like we’ve been slowed down at all. I do think there are efforts to slow down this train, but the train is coming,” she said while attending an Atlanta-area Easter basket giveaway.
“We’re not going to miss or skip a beat because of all the noise or distraction on one case. We’re going to continue to do our work,” Willis said.
But the DA’s office still faces legal hurdles in the case over alleged efforts to overturn the former president’s 2020 electoral defeat. On Wednesday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee granted requests from Trump and his co-defendants to appeal the decision to allow Willis to continue prosecuting the case.
— CNN
Our Take: “Just a reminder that, in his disqualification order, Judge McAfee floated the idea that it was time to gag the DA’s office. If there wasn’t enough of a reason before this weekend, there certainly is now.
Willis has been disqualified from prosecuting cases before after publicly speaking about the guilt of the accused and, while McAfee didn’t DQ her, he did warn her. Trump Attorney Steve Sadow picked up on this immediately following Willis’ interview, posting on X, ‘Apparently Judge McAfee’s warning to Willis in his disqualification order about talking about the case in a public forum is simply being ignored. Does that surprise anyone??’
No Mr. Sadow, but it will be surprising if you don’t push to gag her. You now have everything you need for that motion.”
Motor City Bloodbath: Biden’s latest move just cost him Michigan once and for all…
Joe Biden might say his Corvette goes “vroom,” but it looks like his campaign has completely stalled out, not just in the Motor City but across the whole state of Michigan. President Trump is now cruising ahead with a commanding lead in the “Mitten” state, and after Biden’s recent policy decision, it seems like his chances are hitting a dead end. The Biden regime has proposed new emission standards requiring that 70 percent of all vehicle sales by 2032 must be electric.
Meanwhile, Ford and other car makers are cutting back on failed EV programs.
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Biden’s green agenda is dead in the water, but it seems as if nobody’s bothered to tell him. So, can we call this a bloodbath yet?”
— Revolver News
Our Take: “President Trump was already pulling ahead in nearly all polls in Michigan, and he has seemingly just gotten an unintended boost from the Biden administration, of all places.
On Friday, Resident Biden and his fakeministration proposed that 70% of all vehicle sales are to be electric by 2032.
This move coming as many manufacturers are giving up the ghost on EV’s and either ending their programs or cutting them down significantly to save costs.
From batteries that cost as much as a used car to tire wear 5x the rate of a gas driven car, an electric car future is simply not feasible at this point — and everyone seems to realize that fact except the screechy Climate-Karens on the left.
The bigger point here is that this proposed policy will almost assuredly hand Michigan to Donald Trump come November. He was already leading the polls by 8 points in Michigan before this insanely retarded move by the Biden Admin. We will have to wait and see how the numbers will reflect, but my guess is we see Trump jump out to a 12-15 point lead in MI soon.
One could say ‘It’s gonna be a bloodbath.’”
BONUS ITEMS
With World's Attention on Gaza, ISIS Is Making a Global Comeback
With much of international attention gripped by the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has been steadily ramping up operations across continents and setting the stage for a resurgence of global mayhem.
This latent threat came to life on Friday with ISIS claiming responsibility for a massacre targeting a concert held at Crocus City Hall outside of Moscow. It marked the deadliest militant attack on Russian soil since the 2002 theater hostage crisis in the capital.
Experts and officials warn the next operation could target virtually anyone, including U.S. citizens.
— Newsweek
Trump Defense Secretary Chris Miller claims Jan 6 committee threatened him into silence
Chris Miller, President Trump's former acting Defense Secretary, alleges that the now defunct January 6 committee threatened they would ‘make his life hell' if he kept up his claims that Trump did authorize National Guard deployment during Jan 6 2021.
The former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center explained that he was ‘fearful' of hostile measures used by the panel trying to stop him from publicly speaking about factual events that didn't align with their final report.
Miller has made claims that the members tried intimidating tactics, warning they would bring him in for hours of testimony if he kept defending Trump’s actions in television interviews.
Miller explained that at the time he was not equipped with the resources to continue to fight the committee and didn't want to deal with more depositions for speaking to the media .
— The Daily Mail
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I started using Horse Paste the first time I got the flu back in 2021. Despite the fact that it made my Libtard son's head explode it made me feel much better within 3 days. I take it still whenever I feel any kind of illness and within 24 hours I am Right as Rain.
Keep spreading the Truth.
God Wins!
God Bless!!!
The FDA doesn't just need to take down social media posts about horse paste. They need to post new ones that say they were WRONG. (It is too much to expect them to say lied.)
I'll even write it for you so all y'all need to do is copy and paste (ha-ha).