Elon Musk and Twitter reached a deal on Thursday.

Musk is the official owner of Twitter.

Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $54.20 per share – or about $44 billion.

“Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and finance chief Ned Segal have left the company’s San Francisco headquarters and will not be returning, sources said.” – According to CNBC.

Vijaya Gadde was also fired on Thursday.

BREAKING: After officially closing the deal to purchase Twitter, Elon Musk immediately fired

– CEO Parag Agrawal
– CFO Ned Segal
– Head of Trust & Safety and Legal Vijaya Gadde.

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 28, 2022

Insider reported:

Elon Musk is now the owner of Twitter.

Thursday evening, Twitter and Musk formally closed on the billionaire’s offer to take the company private by paying $54.20 per share, equal to about $44 billion, sources close to the deal told Insider. Musk made a U-turn on the offer in October, after spending months trying to pull out of the agreement. The same evening, Musk also ousted CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal the sources said.

Musk has been at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters this week, meeting with workers and holding impromptu discussions with them in the cafe, Insider reported. An all-hands meeting is expected to take place on Friday.

As a result of the new deal, Twitter’s lawsuit against Musk over the $44 billion purchase will come to an end after Twitter files for the case to be dismissed in the Delaware Court of Chancery, University of Michigan business law professor Erik Gordon said.

Recall, Vijaya Gadde, an immigrant from India who hates the First Amendment, was behind the censorship of conservatives and Trump supporters.

“I’ve never met a national politician in the U.S. who is so ill informed, evasive, puerile and deceptive as Trump.” https://t.co/Wv1tXKGWAF

— Vijaya Gadde (@vijaya) March 27, 2016

Vijaya Gadde was responsible for the censorship and banning policies at Twitter. She is famous for this and apparently took great pride in it.

Vijaya Gadde

In her role she allowed the Ayatollah of Iran to promote hate speech on the platform but she took down the account of the leader of the free world, President Donald Trump.

Good riddance.

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Lina Hidalgo

The plot thickens.

Texas – Far-left Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo not only got busted trying to award a one-person firm an $11 million no-bid ‘Covid outreach’ contract, it turns out the real intent of the contract was to pay for a political data mining operation to help Democrat campaigns.

Recall, Lina Hidalgo is currently under investigation for awarding one of her political cronies an $11 million no-bid vaccine outreach contract.

Hidalgo’s top three staffers were indicted in April after prosecutors expanded the investigation into an $11 million ‘vaccine outreach contract’ awarded to one of the judge’s political cronies.

Hidalgo’s Chief of Staff Alex Triantaphyllis and Policy Director Wallis Nader along with co-defendant Aaron Dunn were charged with misuse of official information and tampering with government documents in connection with the canceled vaccine outreach contract.

Judge Lina Hidalgo with her Chief of Staff Alex Triantaphyllis

Invoices from 3 highly focused software companies prove the so-called ‘Covid outreach contract’ had nothing to do with Covid.

Approximately $1.4 million of the $11 million contract was spent before Lina Hidalgo panicked and canceled the contract and only $200,000 of it was returned.

The money was used to buy voter lists to maximize Democrat turnout.

This was all on taxpayer money!

Fox 26 Houston reported:

While Hidalgo maintains neither she nor her staff did anything wrong, financial documents recently obtained from the Harris County Auditor by FOX 26 contributor Bill King shed new light on the real intent of the “outreach” contract.

Something of particular interest is the invoices from three highly focused software companies.

“All of them were Democratic campaign operations. They were all companies that specialize, that provide data services to Democratic campaigns that obviously has nothing to do with COVID. All of them brag about what a great job they did identifying Democratic voters and getting them to the polls,” said King.

Rice University political analyst and pollster Mark Jones is absolutely convinced Hidalgo’s COVID outreach campaign was camouflage for a largely political operation using public dollars to maximize Democratic turnout.

“They were spending a million dollars buying voter lists and likely voter lists from Democratic consulting firms which you don’t use for COVID outreach, you use for mobilizing get-out-the-vote efforts for campaigns,” said Jones.

The records provided by the auditor indicate Harris County has recovered only $200,000 of the $1.4 million paid out before and after Hidalgo canceled the contract under heavy public pressure.

Lina Hidalgo knows she may be indicted next which is why she has been lashing out at District Attorney Kim Ogg, also a Democrat, and trying to smear her investigation as a ‘political vendetta.’

“I expect this political exercise to continue through Election Day. [Kim Ogg] will have me indicted. Or name a ‘special prosecutor’- an illusion of independence since those are still beholden to the DA. She did that before in a political prosecution that went nowhere. I’m not deterred.”

I expect this political exercise to continue through Election Day. She’ll have me indicted. Or name a “special prosecutor”—an illusion of independence since those are still beholden to the DA. She did that before in a political prosecution that went nowhere. I’m not deterred. https://t.co/M9tT1wC0Bn

— Lina Hidalgo (@LinaHidalgoTX) May 18, 2022

More on this new development from Fox 26 Houston:

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Konnech CEO Eugene Yu was arrested earlier this month in Michigan in connection with “theft of personal data.”

The alleged stolen data belonged to poll workers and was the subject of TrueTheVote’s “PIT” in Arizona last August, where Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips singled out the company.

During the PIT conference, Phillips and Engelbrecht alleged they were cooperating with the FBI in Michigan about data being sent overseas by this company.  The investigation quickly started to turn on them after the FBI started to distance itself from the investigation.

Journalist “incognito” Kanekoa has covered this company and researched them better than anyone.

Here is the link to the LA County website.

The theft of data only impacted the election workers, alleges Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon.  The LADA seized hard drives and other digital evidence from the Michigan software firm with the assistance of Meridian Township Police in MI.  The LADA is seeking Yu’s extradition to Los Angeles.

Following the CEO’s arrest Fairfax County in Virginia announced they have stopped using Konnech’s PollChief election officer management software.

True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht and investigator Gregg Phillips were hauled into court earlier this month by lawyers representing Konnech who are suing Catherine and Gregg for defamation.

In what was a strange twist, the court case started just days after the CEO of Konnech was arrested on October 4th.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt demanded the conservative nonprofit group disclose their sources of the information central to the case, about sensitive poll worker data managed by Konnech Inc.

After Konnech sued True the Vote last month for defamation, Hoyt ordered True the Vote to turn over any Konnech data the organization still had and disclose the name of the individual who’d helped them obtain it.

Gregg and Catherine have refused to “burn” their source for the Konnech reporting.

Tonight Gregg Phillips posted on Truth Social that they have until Monday to deliver the name of their source for the Konnech reporting or face jail.

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Cody Hiller is a physical education teacher at a high school in southern Illinois, north of Marion.

Last week he was suspended for refusing to follow orders and allow a girl to change clothes in the boys’ locker room.

Last week Mr. Cody Hiller, a Physical Education teacher for 14 years at West Frankfort High School in Illionois refused to follow orders and let a girl into the boys locker room. Mr. Hiller was removed and put on disciplinary leave.

Cody Hiller went on and told his story to Brannon Howse on Frank Speech on Wednesday.

Exclusive First Interview: Illinois PE Teacher and Chrisitan Cody Hiller Suspended For Refusing to Allow A 14 Year Old Girl Change In The Boy’s Locker Room https://t.co/jJZMXgz5JO

— CountrySalvage (@JFulleman) October 27, 2022

This letter from a parent at the school was sent to Sherronna Bishop at Frank Speech. She shared this with The Gateway Pundit earlier today.

On Monday the girl was sent into the boys locker room without any warning to the boys.  Joseph (a student) saw her and left the area saying I’m not changing with a girl in here it’s not right. I spoke with the school and the superintendent’s office and they said there is nothing they can do. Today he went Into the locker room and the girl was in there he told her from across the room you should not be in here and you are not a boy.  Another boy got up and shoved and cussed at Joseph.   Another student came in and broke things up.  No punches were thrown.  Joseph is on the scholar bowl, Beta Club, National Honor Society, youth and government, band, the wrestling team, is at the top of his class, and was chosen and won of the senior of the month by the faculty. Joseph has no absences this year and a GPA for this quarter of 5.51 on a 5 point scale.  Joseph was taken directly to ACR while the other kid who put his hands on him was not.  I was called by the school and told the situation.

At this point, I was not happy with what was going on and my wife went to the school and signed him out. I called Donkin to discuss the situation and after 33 minutes of conversation, nothing was resolved. I asked him how it was legal to have an 18-year old boy with his wiener out in front of a 14-year old girl?   And was told it was OK because it was a locker room and people are expected to be in various stages of undress. If your 14-year-old daughter (a minor in the eyes of the law) is changing in her bra and an 18 yr old boy (an adult) walks into the locker room with no warning and drops his pants in front of her, exposing his penis, she is not expected to say anything and if she does she will recieve ACR as punishment for discrimination.

Evidently, this administration does not care about your children’s safety and will not stand up for what is right. To send a minor girl into a boys’ locker room without warning and expect none of them to say anything not even out of shock for the situation is completely unreasonable.  I was told that they didn’t give the kids a heads up this was happening or give them an alternative to avoid the situation before they sent her in because they didn’t want to discriminate against her and bring attention to her. But instead, they just expect to send her into a locker room with no response. and when a perfectly reasonable response happened my son gets ACR (discipline).  Meanwhile, the boy who I’ve told has been in several fights was not punished until my wife came to the school and made a comment as to where the other boy was.

Your sons and daughters are not safe in the locker rooms at their own high school. All it would take is one wrong look or someone with a grudge against another and they could be in the middle of sexual harassment case.  Or worse, if one is an adult and the other is a minor you could be listed as a registered sex offender.

Why would we set our children up for this danger and exposure?  I am hoping that I am not the only one heartbroken by this situation or the only one thankful for the Teacher who was willing to stand up for the safety of our children even though it may cost him his job.  He is a good man in my book, and evidently in our school system that is a bad thing.  What is right has become wrong and your kids are paying the price.  Joseph is expected to serve his punishment and was told because of his ACR (discipline) he would be kicked out of the BETA Club.  And Joseph is expected to change the rest of the year in an alternative space for Phys Ed.

I am asking everyone who does not want your children exposed to please come to the school board meeting tomorrow night at 6 and voice your concerns. Please pass this on to anyone you feel will stand up for the safety of our children.

Last night at the school board meeting over 225 people showed up to support tips teacher and express concern over this insane school policy.

Cody Hiller joined Brannon Howse on Frank Speech on Wednesday to tell his story.

Exclusive First Interview: Illinois PE Teacher and Chrisitan Cody Hiller Suspended For Refusing to Allow A 14 Year Old Girl Change In The Boy’s Locker Room https://t.co/jJZMXgz5JO

— CountrySalvage (@JFulleman) October 27, 2022

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Arizona Democrat Gubernatorial Nominee Katie Hobbs was caught ducking questions about a recent break-in at her campaign office after she accused her opponent, Trump-Endorsed Kari Lake, of causing or coordinating the incident.

The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that Katie Hobbs pointed the finger at Kari Lake, who is destroying Hobbs in the polls.

Arizona’s Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate Katie Hobbs Claims Someone Broke Into Her Campaign Office

Kari Lake responded to Hobbs’ claims at a campaign event last night, calling it “absurd” and “Jussie Smollett part 2”. “I can’t believe that she would blame my amazing people or blame me for something like that,” said Lake. “I don’t even know where her campaign office is. I’m assuming it’s in a basement somewhere, because that’s where she’s been campaigning.”

The Media just couldn’t help but ask about ridiculous allegations made by @katiehobbs yesterday

Here’s my response: pic.twitter.com/eQRTJD2vYT

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) October 27, 2022

An arrest has already been made, according to Phoenix Police.

An arrest has been made regarding a commercial burglary that occurred near Virginia Avenue and Central Avenue on October 25, 2022. More information will be released later today. pic.twitter.com/j7Ch7F1WD9

— Phoenix Police (@PhoenixPolice) October 27, 2022

Now, Katie Hobbs has an egg on her face and doesn’t want to talk about it.

When a reported confronted Hobbs about the break-in at a Planned Parenthood event in Arizona, Hobbs refused to answer.

As Lake noted, “this comes AFTER arrest was made and NO political motivation confirmed.”

Reporter: What was taken from your campaign office, and do you have reason to believe this was politically motivated?

Hobbs: I’m not talking about the break-in today. I’m not talking about the break-in.

Reporter: It’s kind of a big deal though that your office was broken into.

Hobbs: I think access to safe and legal abortion is kind of a big deal and that

Reporter: Do you have reason to believe this was politically motivated?

Hobbs Staffer: We’re not going to go beyond the statement at this time.

AFTER accusing my team of coordinating a Watergate style break-in of her office, Katie Hobbs has now flip-flopped and DOES NOT want to talk about the crime

This comes AFTER arrest was made and NO political motivation confirmed. pic.twitter.com/lb7YAwl3eN

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) October 27, 2022

Shortly after, Kari Lake announced the following “Emergency Press Conference” set to begin momentarily at 3:30 pm outside her own campaign HQ.

This is another desperate and failed attempt by Katie Hobbs.

Watch the press conference live below.

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These people are stone-cold crazy.
On Thursday Kamala Harris insisted that diesel buses are affecting children’s ability to learn.

This is the left’s new front in their war on fossil fuels and American dominance in the world.

They will lie and cheat without hesitation to get their way, no matter how destructive their policies are for America’s middle class.

Kamala Harris: “Today, 95% of our school buses are fuelled by diesel fuel, which contributes to very serious conditions that are about health and about the ability to learn.”

Just crazy.

“95% of our school buses are fuelled by diesel fuel, which contributes to very serious conditions that are about health and about the ability to learn.”

~ Kamala Harris

pic.twitter.com/OpNVubBBmz

— James Melville (@JamesMelville) October 27, 2022

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A biological male child rapist and murderer who identifies as a transgender woman has been released from prison in New York.

Synthia China Blast, born Luis Morales, and his boyfriend Carlos Franco, kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered 13-year-old Ebony Nicole Williams in 1993.

The two men were both members of the “Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation” gang.

Williams had a history of running away from home. On the fateful day she met Blast and Franco, she had been missing from her home for less than 24 hours.

The duo kidnapped her and took her to an apartment, were they slashed her body and raped her.

According to a 1996 report from the New York Daily News, “Bronx Prosecutor William Hrabsky said the two held the girl captive in a Hunts Point apartment, Morales raping her and repeatedly slashing her body. Franco was charged with killing the girl after breaking her neck.”

Reduxx reports, “Blast repeatedly raped Williams, and he and Franco tortured the young girl further before stabbing her in an attempt to kill her. Realizing she was still alive after having been slashed by Blast, Franco then stomped on the child’s neck until it was broken.”

“After extinguishing the fire, attending detective Sergeant Michael Garvey noted that there had been no means of identifying Williams as she was completely naked, and had been badly mutilated,” the report added.

“All I saw was that her hair had been worn in corn rows,” Sergeant Garvey said at the time.

Police said that the child’s body was put in a box and dumped on the Sheridan Expressway before being set on fire.

“The suffering that this poor child went through is beyond belief and puts this crime in the category of monstrous and barbarous,” Hrabsky said.

Blast claimed innocence in court, but had bragged about the crime to his friends — some of whom testified against him during the trial.

“Following his detention, Blast became a noted advocate for incarcerated trans people’s rights, successfully demanding the state of New York provide him with feminizing hormones in 1999, and suing the state in 2003 after having been refused sex reassignment surgery,” Reduxx reports. “Blast repeatedly became a media sensation for his sexual exploits while in custody, beginning a romantic relationship with Heriberto ‘Eddie’ Seda, a convicted serial killer who had sought to murder one person of each zodiac sign as an homage to San Fransisco’s infamous Zodiac Killer. Blast and Seda’s relationship was dotingly covered by the New Yorker in 2004, who even commissioned a portrait photograph of the couple.”

Blast fantasized about being a “real woman” in order to have babies that would be raised as serial killers.

“I met my friend, lover and infamous husband… the NYC Zodiac Serial Killer,” Blast told the New York Daily News. “My sweet serial killer is a lady’s man now. Only if I was a real woman I could bring about little future serial killers to terrorize NYC like my husband did. How [New Yorkers] would of loathed the Zodiac Children.”

Blast and Franco had both received sentences of 25-to-life for the murder — but were not charged for the rape.

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It’s 2022 but it feels a lot like 1984, doesn’t it?  According to Project Veritas on Truth Social, an FBI whistleblower has leaked a document that suggests “Misinformation” and “Disinformation” are “Election Crimes”.

This colorful document titled “2022 Midterm Elections Social Media Analysis Cheat Sheet” that was leaked to Project Veritas is reminiscent of an exposé The Gateway Pundit published back in August.  The basis of the exposé article was the discovery of contracts from the Department of Homeland Security with an organization called the EI-ISAC not only to secure elections at the county level at the behest of the DHS.  That same non-profit was also subject to a report titled “The Long Fuse” that talks about a portal to allow government officials access to social media conglomerates to censor anything they deem “misinformation” or “disinformation”.

The pamphlet defines “misinformation” as “false or misleading information spread mistakenly or unintentionally” and “disinformation” as “false or inaccurate information intended to mislead others.  Disinformation campaigns on social media are used to deliberately confuse, trick, or upset the public.”

The leaked document from Project Veritas does state “For the following to fall under federal jurisdiction, the following must involve one or more federal candidates on the ballot…”  It is unclear if that means the candidate must be involved, or it could be “mis” or “dis” information involving an election with a federal candidate.

The absolute irony of all of this is the grossly misleading statements and censorship made not only by the federal and local governments, but also by the Mockingbird media regarding the 2020 election and the COVID-19 virus and vaccines, while honest information was being censored on social medial platforms globally.

BREAKING: FBI Whistleblower LEAKS “2022 Midterm Elections Social Media Analysis Cheat Sheet” to Project Veritas#FBILeakshttps://t.co/uyUS4AP0Sa

— The Ghost of CC (@BrianCC52407264) October 27, 2022

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More lies!

Joe Biden on Thursday traveled to Syracuse, New York to deliver remarks on Micron’s plan to invest in CHIPS manufacturing.

Biden falsely claimed gas was over $5 per gallon when he took office in January 2021.

“The most common price of gas in America is $3.39, down from over $5 when I took office,” Biden said.

Biden also falsely claimed “the price of inflation is down, real incomes are up, and the price of gas is down.”

More lies!

Inflation is 8.2% and real wages have been wiped out by rising prices.

WATCH:

Biden: “The most common price of gas in America is $3.39, down from over $5 when I took office.”

The price of gas was $2.33 when Joe Biden took office. pic.twitter.com/3MD4qighrA

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 27, 2022

Gas was $2.39 per gallon when Joe Biden was installed in January 2021.

chart courtesy of Zero Hedge

Gas prices skyrocketed because of Joe Biden’s war on domestic energy production.

Joe Biden will get away with lying about gas prices because we don’t have a real media.

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In a press release from VoterGa on Thursday, we learned the Georgia Supreme Court has issued a ruling that will impact at least one major election challenge in Georgia and potentially others throughout the United States.  The timing of this decision is significant:  there is only 8 days remaining before Georgia State law will allow for the destruction of 2020 election evidence.

The case that may be impacted is Favorito et al v. Cooney et al.  This case was dismissed on Oct. 13, 2021 by Judge Brian Amero using the aforementioned case, as well as Wood v Raffensperger.  Judge Amero stated the following in his Order Granting Motion to Dismiss:

“Petitioners lack standing to pursue their state equal protection and state due process claims. Under both federal and Georgia law, the three requirements plaintiffs ‘must meet to have standing are “(1) an injury in fact; (2) a causal connection between the injury
and the causal conduct; and (3) the likelihood that the injury will be redressed with a favorable decision.” (Sons of Confederate Veterans, 2021)

and

“Petitioners have failed to allege a particular injury.  An injury is particularized when it ‘affects the plaintiff in a personal and individual way.‘” (Wood v. Raffensperger, 11th Circuit, 2020)

At the time, the former was the opinion of the Georgia Court of Appeals.  But yesterday, the Georgia Supreme Court heard the Sons of Confederate Veterans case and opined:

“Because the Georgia Constitution is the source of the judicial power of state courts, federal standing requirements do not control our analysis.“

This is a significant blow to the precedent used to dismiss Favorito’s case back in October 2021 where Judge Amero cited the Appeals decision that implied federal and state law defined the requirements for a plaintiff to bring a case.  The Georgia Supreme Court has determined the state requirements are not necessarily subject to the federal requirements because state law is subject to the Georgia Constitution.

In the Supreme Court decision, Justice Peterson opined that “a plaintiff must have cognizable injury that can be redressed by a judicial decision.”  However, Justice Peterson goes on to state that the injury does not need to be individualized (as Judge Amero cited in his dismissal):

Courts are not vehicles for engaging in merely
academic debates or deciding purely theoretical questions. We “say
what the law is” only as needed to resolve an actual controversy. To
that end, only plaintiffs with a cognizable injury can bring a suit in
Georgia courts. Unlike federal law, however, that injury need not
always be individualized; sometimes it can be a generalized
grievance shared by community members, especially other
residents, taxpayers, voters, or citizens.

It goes on to state:

When a local government owes a legal duty to its citizens, residents, taxpayers, or
voters (i.e., community stakeholders), the violation of that legal duty
constitutes an injury that our case law has recognized as conferring
standing to those community stakeholders, even if the plaintiff at
issue suffered no individualized injury

In the October 2021 dismissal of Favorito’s case, Judge Amero also stated that “Petitioners have failed to allege a particularized injury.”  Remember, Judge Amero cited Wood v. Raffensperger from the 11th Circuit Court that stated:

“An injury is particularized when it ‘affects the plaintiff in a personal and individual way.’”

This opinion should have a substantial impact on the Favorito et al v Wan case that is pending writ of certiorari before the Supreme Court.  From a Press Release published by VoterGA:

It confirms arguments made by Petitioners in the Fulton County counterfeit ballot case known as Favorito et
al, v. Wan et al. That case, originally entitled Favorito et al, v. Cooney et al was dismissed after 10 months of
hearings for lack of standing. The dismissal came after the county hired criminal defense attorneys to prevent
petitioners from inspecting ballots.

The two citations given to dismiss Favorito’s case have now been addressed in a separate ruling by the Georgia Supreme Court.  It is imperative that the evidence from the 2020 election is preserved immediately with a lingering state mandate expiring in 8 days calling for the preservation.

Here is the press release by VoterGA.org

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