'MSM Panics After Nick Shirley Bombshell As CBS Pledges To Start Reporting Real News'

 CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil addressed viewers in what appeared to be a pre-recorded promotional segment aimed at repairing more than a decade of reputational damage and announcing changes to the program. He acknowledged that the corporate media outlet had "missed the story" too often and, in doing so, had lost the trust of Americans.

"On too many stories, the press has missed the story, because we've taken into account the perspectives of advocates rather than the average American. Or we've put too much weight on the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you," Dokoupil said in the two-minute video published early on New Year's Day.

Dokoupil continued, "So here's my promise to you: You come first. Not advertisers. Not politicians. Not corporate interests. And yes, that does include the corporate owners of CBS. I report for you, which means I tell you what I know. When I know it, and how I know it. And when I get it wrong... I'll tell you that too."

Dokoupil basically admitted that CBS and much of the MSM-industrial complex functioned as little more than PR firms for the highest bidder. We saw this with the Hunter Biden laptop story, Covid origins, Joe Biden's mental health, and the list goes on. Quite frankly, the American people dumped MSM many years ago in favor of alternative outlets.

"On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."

That changes now. The new CBS Evening News… pic.twitter.com/NKdvRJjYCS

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) January 1, 2026

Nothing new here.

Dokoupil's promise to viewers comes as CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss plans to overhaul the broadcaster as part of a broader review of standards and procedures, according to a recent Axios report.

Weiss' overhaul of CBS is bold and noble, and so is Dokoupil's promise to actually report the news, but we'll believe it when we see it. CBS has gotten many of the top stories of the past decade wrong, often by design to protect politicians, special interests, or to allow advertisers to influence the news cycle.

We remain skeptical that MSM can be overhauled to report real news rather than function as a public relations firm. That skepticism was reinforced earlier this week, when MSM outlets rushed to Minneapolis to discredit citizen journalist Nick Shirley's bombshell reporting on suspected Somali-linked fraud, coverage that appeared less like an investigation and more like protection of the Democratic Party and special interests that stand to benefit from the alleged schemes.

X users called out CBS' reporting earlier this week...

🚨 JUST IN: CBS attempts to discredit Nick Shirley by showing there were actually *FOUR* children at ABC Learning Center the day he visited…

But what CBS ACTUALLY did was PROVE HIM RIGHT.

Babysitting 4 kids while the federal government pays you for 40 KIDS is FRAUD.

This… pic.twitter.com/EHocIPOdxC

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 31, 2025

Ratioed.

MSM was radio silent...

The biggest news story in the world…

These “news” outlets still have not covered Nick Shirley and his Somalia fraud bombshell on the biggest Media platform on the planet..

WaPo
NBC News
MSNBC
CBS News
NYT
CNN
PBS
NPR
ABC News

The Legacy Media is the enemy of the people. pic.twitter.com/0Vv5l5jDAG

— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 30, 2025

To rebuild trust, Weiss should host a segment about everything CBS has gotten wrong over the past decade. 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/msm-panics-after-nick-shirley-bombshell-cbs-pledges-start-reporting-real-news

Russia said to ask US to halt pursuit of fleeing oil tanker

 The Russian government made a formal request to the United States to stop the pursuit of an oil tanker currently fleeing the US Coast Guard after attempting to reach Venezuela, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing two individuals familiar with the matter.

According to the report, the request was delivered to the State Department and the White House Homeland Security Council on New Year's Eve. The vessel allegedly departed from Iran and travelled to pick up oil from Venezuela when the US forces tried to intercept it. The US authorities claim that no national flag was flown on the tanker, making it a stateless vessel.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Russia-said-to-ask-US-to-halt-pursuit-of-fleeing-oil-tanker/65416045

US warns China over military drills near Taiwan

 The United States Department of State issued a statement on Thursday urging Beijing to "exercise restraint" and "cease its military pressure on Taiwan," alluding to the recent military drills conducted near the island.

The State Department noted that China should not "increase tensions unnecessarily" with its actions, but engage in dialogue. "The US supports peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and opposes unilateral changes to the status quo, including by force or coercion," the statement read.

US President Donald Trump said that he does not worry about the drills and stressed that he has a good relationship with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/US-warns-China-over-military-drills-near-Taiwan/65416060

French post targeted in cyberattack

 La Poste, France's postal service company, shared in a statement on Thursday that it came under a cyberattack.

All of its information systems, including the official website, are inaccessible. "Parcel tracking is unavailable, but delivery is still possible. The distribution of parcels and mail continues, as does the collection of items at post offices," La Poste said.

The company was also targeted by a cyberattack on December 22, 2025.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/French-post-targeted-in-cyberattack/65415295

Maine mom asks SCOTUS to intervene after school allegedly hid child’s gender transition

 by Greg Richter 

The mother of a teenage girl in Maine is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case of a public school allegedly affirming the child's gender as male without telling her.

Attorneys from the Goldwater Institute representing Amber Lavigne argue in their court petition that the school violated her right to involvement in the decision:

In December 2022, Petitioner discovered a chest binder in her 13-year-old child’s room. After speaking with her child, she learned that a social worker at her child’s public school had given her child the binder and that others had “socially transitioned” the child by using a different name and pronouns. No one from the school informed Petitioner of these decisions, and despite a written policy requiring parental involvement in such decisions, school officials have repeatedly said that school staff violated no policy by withholding this information. Petitioner sued the School Board, alleging the existence of an unwritten policy allowing employees to make these decisions without informing parents, which violated Petitioner’s fundamental right to control and direct the education and upbringing of her child. The First Circuit dismissed Petitioner’s claims, however, determining that there was a more probable “alternative explanation” than the existence of an unwritten policy.

 

Last July, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court's decision, Fox News reports.

“This situation is really about my parental rights being violated,” Lavigne said. “It’s about a social worker who had never even had a conversation with me encouraging my child to keep secrets from me.”

Regardless of whether the school had a written or unwritten policy, parents are the ultimate authority on how their children should be raised. The only time any outside entity should be allowed to legally step in is in cases of abuse. Many on the Left may believe a parent's right to raise children as their actual physical gender is somehow “abuse,” but the opposite is true: Pre- or pubescent children are not mature enough to make life-altering decisions without the input of those who care about them most — their parents.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/maine_mom_asks_scotus_to_intervene_after_school_allegedly_hid_child_s_gender_transition.html

Greatest Threats Facing A Culturally Fractured America

It would appear inarguable that our country and the West are facing significant challenges to our continued dominance, effectively even our existence as an intact civilization. However, if we analyze the threats, we see that there are solutions...if we have the will to put them into effect.

Samuel P. Huntington defines a civilization as “A cultural entity.” He contends that civilizations are the broadest and most comprehensive cultural groupings to which humans belong—larger than nations, ethnic groups, or religious communities.

America is the core state of Western Civilization. When we forget who we are, we lose our ability to adhere to the very concepts that bind us together as a people:

• History
• Language
• Cultural traditions
• Institutions
• Religion (the most critical factor)

Typically, a country’s fortunes are determined by its level of integration. Thus, a civilization’s success depends on its cohesive propensity to innovate, adopt best governance practices, encourage family growth, promote universal education, and adopt a widely accepted moral code that builds on the best practices inherent to our Western Civilization. Values that include the rule of law, individual independence, and merit, in the hope that a rising tide of innovations from those individuals raises all boats.

Unfortunately, the expression “Diversity is our strength” began in the Clinton administration. The opposite is true. Diversity is the enemy of civilization, as it injects chaos into what had been well-ordered and familiar “family ties” that every civilization relies on to both order society and establish commonality of interest, a necessity for a stable and thriving civilization.

The corollary to the diversity crowd is the isolationist or American Firster crowd. They, in turn, are unable to point to any time in our history where we prospered by walling ourselves off from the world. The West depends on a robust balancing of our internal needs and the requirement for reciprocal trade, defending our interests and not allowing any other nation the opportunity to dominate us, either politically, militarily, or economically. That has been the key to our success since our founding!

Waiting in the wings are other expectant civilizations that see their time coming at our expense in a zero-sum view. Three of the seven other major civilizations jealously covet what we have achieved and believe they will inevitably inherit what we have through what they see as our inevitable decline. They are:

Confucian—fundamentally China

• Islamic—competing and cooperating Muslim-dominated countries
• Slavic-Orthodox—Primarily Russia

A country in decline is like a wounded animal. China and Russia (two different cultures) both share certain factors that mitigate against them being belligerent and dangerous. Both countries have slowing growth rates that threaten their stability. Both are run by dictators who value their citizens’ lives less than their long-term objectives, including empire-building. Neither country upholds the universal worth of individuals over that of the state, an almost alien principle to us.

However, they are also rational actors; we can likely deal with them. Their most fundamental attribute is a need to survive. Therefore, they are unlikely to do anything that would undermine internal stability. Not a guarantee, but it’s as good as we can get from our vantage. That leaves us with our third civilization.

Islamic countries remain the wild card. There is no single Islamic country that holds sway over any of the others. Muslim nations (more accurately, tribes and clans) can be thought of as planets orbiting our Sun. From time to time, the orbital mechanics involved influence one another as gravity draws or repels different Muslim sects and countries. It is an incontrovertible fact that Muslims kill Muslims more often and with just as much emotion as any infidel.

There are five major sects: Shi’a and Sunni are predominant, but there are many variations of belief and little reconciliation. In “The Clash of Civilizations,” Huntington writes:

The Muslim world is fragmented because it has no single dominant “core state” capable of providing leadership, enforcing norms, or mediating conflicts.

And,

The Islamic world shows higher levels of violent conflict than other civilizations. This is not a moral judgment but a statement of reality, likely due to the clan- and tribal-based nature of Islamic countries.

All the foregoing points out that the West’s many challenges and enemies cannot be wished away or simply outlast the moment. Better-organized, more determined enemies and frenemies covet what we have. We possess the level of technical and economic superiority they believe is possible for them, without any of our social baggage.

I believe that in a world with an unlimited number of threats and opportunities, we need two things to endure. First, we must fix our society and its culture to give it a better chance to endure. Second, we must never surrender the high ground or the West’s military dominance that protects us from the unknown and, frankly, the unknowable. Until that time comes, everyone should understand the need for the West to remain militarily dominant.

God Bless America!

Author, Businessman, Thinker, and Strategist. Read more about Allan Feifer, his background, and his ideas to create a better tomorrow at www.1plus1equals2.com.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/01/the_three_greatest_threats_facing_a_culturally_fractured_america.html

Politico reporter seemingly suggests Somalis right to shoot citizen journos who ask too many questions

 

by Olivia Murray

Josh Gerstein is Politico’s “Senior Legal Affairs Reporter” and he might be the biggest piece of work in mainstream media, or maybe just the dumbest. No doubt upset that the Somali fraud in Minnesota has been exposed on a grand scale, he recently took to X to seemingly suggest that Somalis have a right to shoot citizen journalists for asking too many questions about their daycare scams:

Now, I’m not a “senior legal affairs reporter” and even I know that Minnesota doesn’t have stand your ground laws. Without any actual knowledge though, any moderately aware or intelligent person could have assumed as much: it’s a state where Democrats control almost all aspects of the political system, so naturally, it’s a state that’s probably not too friendly toward the Second Amendment and law-abiding gun owners.

But, all it took was one internet query to understand the full scope of what’s legally permitted and what’s not: Considering Minnesota does not have stand your ground laws, there is a “duty to retreat” for anyone feeling like they’re in a threatening situation, meaning that you “must try to escape danger if it’s safe to do so before using deadly force.” There is a caveat though as the state does recognize a Castle Doctrine, which does not compel a “duty to retreat” if you’re inside your home, car, or business and facing a life-or-death threat.

So, for someone who’s supposed to be a “senior legal affairs” expert, what gives? Classic Castle Doctrine said that if you’re on my property, I can shoot. However, since 1971 when the Iowa Supreme Court ruled on Katko v. Briney, the rule has been that if people are fleeing or are in an out building where they manifestly do not pose a threat to the homeowner, homeowners aren’t supposed to shoot them; the SCOTUS declined to take up the case, meaning the ruling stood and became legal precedent.

Asking questions and recording , like what Nick Shirley did, could in absolutely no way be perceived as an intention to harm, or a threat to anyone’s safety. He’s about as docile and mild-mannered as a person could be. When Gerstein got community noted, he tried to walk-back his initial post, saying this:

An idiot? Plain evil? Maybe both? What we know for sure is he’s a total gaslighter.

Politico should be held criminally and civilly liable if anything happens to a single citizen journalist at the hands of a Somali.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/politico_reporter_seemingly_suggests_somalis_have_a_right_to_shoot_citizen_journalists_for_asking_too_many_questions_about_daycare_scandal.html