Day: May 1, 2025

Robby Starbuck Sues Meta for Defamation Over its AI Generating ‘False’ Statements About Criminal Ties to J6 and More, Says Their Apology Isn’t Enough

Rachel Alexander
Robby Starbuck

Meta Platforms Inc., previously Facebook, issued a statement on Tuesday apologizing to filmmaker and former congressional candidate Robby Starbuck after he sued the company for defamation over statements its AI generated that Starbuck criminally to J6. However, Starbuck said in a post on Thursday that the apology wasn’t enough.

In his complaint, which was filed on Tuesday, Starbuck said Meta AI claimed that he was charged with a crime from J6 after entering the U.S. Capitol and filming video — but Starbuck was not at J6. Starbuck’s complaint contained numerous statements from Meta AI that he said were also false, including that he is a Holocaust denier, white nationalist, and suggested that his children be removed from him and placed with someone who doesn’t object to transgender children and DEI.

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Tennessee Highway Patrol Officer Says Kilmar Abrego Garcia ‘Hauling These People for Money’ in Body Camera Footage

Tom Pappert
Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Body camera footage obtained by The Tennessee Star on Thursday as the result of an Open Records Request filed with the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS) reveals Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) officers discuss their suspicion that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was “hauling these people for money” during the November 30, 2022 traffic stop of the vehicle he was driving in Cookeville, Tennessee. 

It also shows the moment THP released Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran citizen deported by the Trump administration in March, at the instruction of the “Biden-era FBI.”

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Vehicle Driven by Kilmar Abrego Garcia in TN 2022 Traffic Stop Registered in Texas, Where Human Smuggler Who Owned it Lived in 2019

Tom Pappert
Garcia traffic stop

A response to two Open Records Requests filed by The Tennessee Star with the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS), the agency that oversees the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP), revealed that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driving a vehicle registered in Texas when he was stopped in Cookeville, Tennessee on November 30, 2022 and suspected of human trafficking.

Though the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed the vehicle driven by Abrego Garcia was registered to Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, a convicted human smuggler who was arrested in 2019 on a trip from Houston, Texas, to the east coast, much of the information about the vehicle was redacted in the Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) report generated by the Tennessee Highway Patrol for The Star.

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Terrorist-Designated Jalisco Cartel, Now Active in Tennessee, Faces New Sanctions Under Trump Treasury Department

Tom Pappert
Cesar Morfin Morfin

The U.S. Treasury Department and Secretary Scott Bessent placed new sanctions on individuals accused of involvement with Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, or the Jalisco Cartel, a Mexico-based criminal organization that is active in Tennessee and across the country.

A Thursday press release explained the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned three Mexican nationals and two Mexican entities for their alleged involvement in what the Treasury described as, “a drug trafficking and fuel theft network” linked to the Jalisco Cartel.

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Records Delay Sparks Concerns Tennessee Department of Safety is ‘Concealing’ Role in Releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia During 2022 Traffic Stop, Reporter Says

Kaitlin Housler
Tennessee Highway Patrol

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security’s continued withholding of materials requested by The Star of the 2022 traffic stop in Putnam County of Kilmar Abrego Garcia by Tennessee Highway Patrol officers raises concerns that the state agency is avoiding releasing potentially embarrassing records related to its involvement and cooperation with Biden-era policy failures.

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Legislation Would Codify Trump Order Barring Decertifying Colleges over DEI

The Daily Signal
Jim Banks

A Republican senator wants to codify President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting unlawful diversity, equity, and inclusion discrimination in higher education accreditation.

Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., was set to introduce a bill Wednesday barring accreditors from requiring colleges to adopt race- or sex-based standards for admissions, hiring, leadership, or special commendations.

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Ford CEO Says Construction of Tennessee Factory Continues, Company’s Focus on U.S. Production Means ‘Different Exposure for Tariffs’

Tom Pappert
Jim Farley

Ford CEO Jim Farley said on Wednesday that the automobile company is continuing production of its new factories in Tennessee and Ohio despite economic uncertainty amid President Donald Trump’s trade policy, arguing that the company’s American facilities offer a “different exposure for tariffs” compared to other car companies. “We’re building new plants in Ohio and Tennessee,” said Farley when asked by CNN host Erin Burnett whether the Trump administration’s policies would bring manufacturing back to the United States. “We’re number two to Tesla in electric vehicles and number three in hybrids behind the Japanese competitors.” Ford’s BlueOval City factory began development in 2021, and is slated to begin production this year, with full production of next-generation electric vehicles to start in 2027. “Whether it’s a V8 F-150 or an EcoBoost F-150, we want people to have choices. We’re building two brand-new factories in the U.S., and we’re already the most American company,” Farley added. The remarks by Farley come as the executive previously suggested Trump’s tariffs aimed at Canada and Mexico would have a “huge impact” on the American car industry. “There is no question that tariffs at 25% level from Canada and Mexico, if they’re protracted, would have a…

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Commentary: Education Battles Get National Attention

American Greatness
classroom

Two critical education issues have reached the U.S. Supreme Court. One involves Montgomery County Public Schools, one of the nation’s largest school districts. A group of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim parents is arguing that the Maryland school district violated their First Amendment right to religious freedom when it refused to allow them to opt their children out of LGBTQ-themed lessons.

The case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, illustrates the growing tension between sex-obsessed schools and the rights of religious parents, who are challenging the Montgomery County School Board’s decision in 2022 to approve more than 22 LGBTQ+ books for classroom use, including works like “Pride Puppy,” “Intersection Allies,” and “What Are Your Words.”

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Election Integrity Group Finds Laws Were Broken in Maricopa County’s 2020 Election, Including 200,000 Mismatched Signatures

Rachel Alexander
Counting Ballots

We the People AZ Alliance (WPAA) has been investigating voting irregularities in Maricopa County in recent elections, and issued a video earlier this month going over problems with the signature verification on ballot affidavits from the botched 2020 election. WPAA found that out of 1.9 million ballots, 10 percent or about 200,000 had “egregiously” mismatched signatures, and another 10 percent had poorly matched signatures that violated the state’s guidelines for acceptance.

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Attorney Bryan Blehm, a member of WPAA who previously represented Kari Lake in her election challenges, said during the presentation that then-Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer didn’t do anything to stop signature reviewers from clicking “approved” on every signature verification screen as fast as a new screen came up. He noted that 20,000 ballots were accepted that came in after the election was over, which violated the law. 

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New Documentary Investigates Illegal Immigration on Arizona’s Border with Mexico

Rachel Alexander
Arizona Mexico Border

Veteran journalist and Trump campaign operative Steve Cortes released a documentary this month, Deport the Danger: Arizona’s Border Crisis Exposed.” He visited the state and interviewed journalists, elected officials, and relatives of the victims of the Biden administration’s open border policies, exposing how bad crime had become related to illegal immigration.

Cortes said during the documentary, “It is a true bipartisan failure with the open borders radicals, co-opting both the Dems and the Republicans, with the leftists seeking masses of new voters and the supposed conservatives bowing down in supplication to the business magnates who demand a constant flow of cheap labor to undercut American citizens in the job market. Of course, Joe Biden accelerated all of this madness to a record degree, and his radicalism was assisted by allies across the country, mayors and governors who prioritize an extreme agenda over the safety of U.S. citizens, corrupt governors like Katie Hobbs right here in Arizona.”

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