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You can help @ByronDonalds by having a rally there.
Imperial Polk Co loves their Governor.
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Ready to have your mind blown?
Senator John Kennedy on Elon Musk and DOGE exposing USAID, “I'll tell you what Mr. Musk discovered. I find it fascinating. He discovered:
- The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan
- He found that we are giving money to Yemen
- He found that we are giving money to Syria
- He found that the USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion
- He found that the USAID gave money to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. Our money, taxpayer money
- He found that the USAID gave money to a transgender clinic in India. “I didn't know that. I bet you the American people didn't know that”
- He found that USAID gave $1.5 million to a Serbian LGBTQ group, they got $1.5 million to QUOTE, “advanced diversity, equity, inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities”
- They found that USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world
- They gave $122 million of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations
- According to this report in Mr. Musk, the USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas
- He found that we gave $2 million, USAID did, for sex changes in Guatemala
- He found that we gave $20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
- He found that we gave $4.5 million of taxpayer money to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan
- He found that we gave $10 million, USAID did, of meals to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group called the Nusra Front
- Mr. Musk found that we gave $7.9 million of taxpayer money to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language. (The USAID took 8 million bucks and gave it to a bunch of journalists in Sri Lanka to teach them how to avoid binary gendered language)
- USAID gave $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica
- They gave $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem
- They gave $1.5 million for quote, art for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus
- Another $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia
- $8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal
“I could go all night and many of my colleagues are upset. They're really mad at Mr. Musk. Hell, I think we ought to give him a medal”
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If you’re not keeping up with this new revelation of Noah’s Ark, you are totally missing out.
Instead of being angry about this blatant fraud, let’s just focus on Trump banning a few news media sites known for fake news….
WOAH 🚨 Dr. Oz just announced that in just one year under the Biden Admin, 1.1 million people enrolled into Obamacare with NO SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER and NO ID, they were all enrolled into full benefits
During this one year, 100% OF PEOPLE ENROLLED HAD NO SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER
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He disabled automatic firmware updates — and explained why.
This one surprised the owner. Why would you turn off updates?
"TV manufacturers push firmware updates that can change your settings, add new ad placements to the home screen, re-enable tracking features you already turned off, and sometimes even degrade performance. Samsung once pushed an update that re-enabled ACR for users who had turned it off. LG has added new ad modules to the home screen via firmware updates."
He set the TV to notify about updates but not install them automatically: Settings → Support → Software Update → turn off "Auto Update."
"Now when an update is available, I check online forums first. If other users report that it re-enables ads, resets privacy settings, or causes bugs — I skip it. If it's a genuine security patch or a feature improvement — I install it manually."
He said most people think firmware updates on a TV are like phone updates — always good, always necessary. They're not.
"Your phone updates to fix security flaws and add features you want. Your TV updates to add advertising channels you didn't ask for and re-enable data collection you already turned off. They are not the same thing. Treat TV updates with suspicion until you've confirmed what's in them."
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He changed the Color Temperature from "Warm2" to "Warm1."
Most TVs ship with the color temperature set to "Cool" or "Standard," which gives the image a blue-ish tint. It makes the screen look bright and punchy in a store. In a living room, it makes everything look sterile and unnatural.
"The international standard for color temperature in video mastering is D65, which is a slightly warm white. 'Warm1' on most TVs gets you closest to that standard. 'Cool' mode makes everything look like it's being lit by a dentist's office."
He switched to "Warm1."
"The first thing people say when I change this is: 'That looks too yellow.' Give it 24 hours. Your eyes are calibrated to years of overly blue screens — your phone, your laptop, your TV. After a day on Warm1, you'll go back to Cool mode and wonder how you ever watched it that way. Everything looks like a hospital waiting room."
He said professional colorists, editors, and filmmakers all work on monitors calibrated to D65 — which matches Warm1.
"If you want to see what the movie actually looks like — the way the director signed off on it — Warm1 is the answer. Cool mode is adding a filter to every frame that was never supposed to be there."
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He turned off "Noise Reduction" and "Digital Clean View."
These settings sound like they should help. They don't.
Noise Reduction and Digital Clean View (Samsung's name for it) are processing features that attempt to remove grain and visual noise from the image. On paper, that sounds good. In practice, it smears away fine detail and makes everything look soft, waxy, and artificial.
"On a 1080p DVD from 2006, maybe. On 4K HDR content from Netflix or a Blu-ray? These filters are actively destroying detail. They're smoothing over textures, wiping out film grain, and making $200 million cinematography look like it was shot through a smudged window."
He turned both off: Settings → Picture → Expert Settings → Digital Clean View → Off. Noise Reduction → Off.
"Film grain is intentional. It's part of the look. Directors and cinematographers spend months getting the texture right. Noise Reduction wipes it all away and replaces it with digital smoothness that looks like a video game cutscene from 2010."
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He adjusted the Backlight separately from Brightness — and explained why they're not the same thing.
Most people think "Brightness" controls how bright the TV is. It doesn't. Not the way you think.
"Brightness" in TV settings actually controls the black level — how deep or washed out your blacks look. Turning it up doesn't make the picture brighter. It makes the dark parts of the image lighter and milkier. It ruins shadow detail and makes everything look faded.
"Backlight" is the setting that actually controls how much light the panel puts out.
"He had his Brightness at 80 and his Backlight at 50. That's completely backwards. I set Brightness to around 45–50, which gives deep, accurate blacks. Then I set Backlight to 75–85, which gives the panel its full luminance. The picture went from flat and washed out to rich and punchy in 2 seconds."
He said this is the most misunderstood pair of settings on any TV.
"Samsung, LG, Sony — they all label these the same confusing way. Brightness sounds like it should control brightness. It doesn't. Every person I've ever calibrated a TV for has these two settings backwards."
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He turned off all built-in advertising and data sharing.
Beyond ACR, most smart TVs have additional advertising and data-sharing settings scattered across the menu system.
Samsung: Settings → General → Privacy → toggle off "Interest-Based Advertisements."
LG: Settings → General → System → Additional Settings → Advertisement → toggle off "Home Screen Promotion" and "Personalized Advertising."
Roku/TCL: Settings → Privacy → Advertising → toggle on "Limit Ad Tracking."
"Your TV's home screen shows you ads. The screensaver shows you ads. The app menu shows you ads. You paid $1,500 for this thing and it's serving you banner ads like a free mobile game. You can turn most of them off. You just have to find the 3 different menus they're hidden in."
He said this is why smart TVs are so cheap now.
"The TV is the delivery vehicle for advertising. The cheaper they sell the hardware, the more units they move, the more screens they have serving ads and collecting data. You're not the customer. You're the product. A $400 TV isn't a deal — it's a data collection device you volunteered to put in your living room."
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He turned off ACR — Automatic Content Recognition — the biggest privacy setting most people have never seen.
This is the one that matters most for privacy. And it's the one TV manufacturers bury the deepest.
ACR is a technology built into almost every smart TV. It takes a screenshot or audio fingerprint of what's on screen every few seconds — whether you're watching cable, streaming, using a game console, or even displaying a laptop via HDMI — and sends that data back to the manufacturer.
"Your TV is literally watching what you watch. It knows you watched 14 minutes of a cooking show, switched to the news for 6 minutes, then watched 2 hours of a true crime documentary. It logs all of it. Then it sells that behavioral profile to advertising companies who use it to target you with ads on your phone, your laptop, and your other devices."
He said this isn't a conspiracy theory. It's in the terms of service.
Here's how to turn it off:
Samsung: Settings → General → Privacy → Terms & Policies → toggle off "Viewing Information Services."
LG: Settings → General → System → Additional Settings → toggle off "Live Plus" and check "Advertisement" settings.
Sony: Settings → Device Preferences → Samba Interactive TV → toggle off.
Vizio: System → Reset & Admin → toggle off "Viewing Data."
TCL/Roku TV: Settings → Privacy → Smart TV Experience → toggle off "Use Info from TV Inputs."
"Every brand calls it something different. Every brand buries it in a different menu. None of them make it easy to find. That's not an accident. Your viewing data is worth more to them than the margin they made selling you the TV."
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He turned off the Eco Sensor / Ambient Light Detection.
Most modern TVs have a light sensor that automatically adjusts the screen brightness based on how much light is in the room. Sounds smart. In practice, it ruins the picture.
"The eco sensor dims your TV to save power — which sounds nice until you realize it's cutting your peak brightness by 30–40%. That $1,500 panel is capable of stunning HDR highlights and deep contrast. The eco sensor is muzzling it to save Samsung 3 cents of electricity per month."
He turned it off: Settings → General → Power and Energy Saving → Ambient Light Detection → Off. Also turned off "Brightness Reduction" and "Motion Lighting."
"Your TV was built to hit a certain peak brightness. That's part of what you paid for. The eco sensor is sandbagging your own hardware. Turn it off and let the panel do what it was designed to do."
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He turned off Motion Smoothing — the "soap opera effect."
This is the setting that makes every movie look like it was shot on a home video camera from 2004. And most people don't even know it's on.
Motion smoothing — called "Auto Motion Plus" on Samsung, "TruMotion" on LG, "Motionflow" on Sony, "Motion Clearness" on Hisense — artificially creates extra frames between the real frames of a movie.
Movies are shot at 24 frames per second. It's what gives film that cinematic, slightly dreamy quality. Motion smoothing interpolates fake frames and pushes it up to 60 or 120fps, which makes everything look hyper-smooth and unnaturally sharp.
"This is why Tom Cruise recorded a public video begging people to turn this setting off. It makes every $200 million blockbuster look like a daytime soap opera. It makes dramas look like security camera footage. It makes behind-the-scenes documentaries look more cinematic than the actual movies."
He turned it completely off.
Settings → Picture → Expert Settings (or Advanced) → Auto Motion Plus / TruMotion / Motionflow → Off.
"The moment I turned it off, his jaw dropped. He said 'That looks like a movie theater.' I said 'It always looked like a movie theater. Your TV was just adding a layer of fake smoothness over every frame.'"
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He switched the Picture Mode from "Vivid" to "Cinema" or "Filmmaker Mode."
This is the single most important setting on any television — and almost every TV ships with it wrong.
Out of the box, most TVs default to "Vivid," "Dynamic," or "Standard." These modes crank up the brightness, oversaturate the colors, and boost the contrast to make the screen look eye-catching on a showroom floor under harsh retail lighting.
"Vivid mode is designed for one purpose: to make you look at that TV instead of the 40 other TVs next to it at Best Buy. It makes skin tones orange. It makes blue skies neon. It makes everything look like a cartoon. And then you bring it home and watch it like that for 5 years."
He switched it to "Cinema" mode (Samsung) / "Filmmaker Mode" (LG, Sony, Vizio).
"The difference is immediate. Skin tones look like skin. Blue skies look like blue skies. Colors are accurate instead of exaggerated. You're finally seeing what the director and colorist intended. For 3 years, he'd been watching every movie through a filter that made everything look like a screensaver."
He said this one change is the reason people walk into a calibrated home theater and say "Why does your TV look so much better than mine?" The answer is almost always: picture mode.
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A guy bought a $1,500 Samsung TV 3 years ago.
He watched Netflix. He watched YouTube. He watched sports on the weekends. He thought the picture looked fine. He assumed that's just what a modern TV looks like.
His friend, a home theater installer who's calibrated over 2,000 TVs for a living, walked into his apartment, looked at the screen for about 5 seconds, and said:
"You're watching everything in demo mode. The motion smoothing is on. The eco dimmer is cutting your brightness by 40%. Your TV is taking a screenshot of your screen every 30 seconds and selling your viewing data to advertisers. And you're watching a $1,500 panel in the same picture mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent lights to make TVs pop on a showroom wall."
He changed 9 settings in 12 minutes.
The picture looked like a different television. The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. The TV stopped spying on him.
He told him: "I install TVs in homes that cost $2 million. And I install TVs in apartments that cost $1,200 a month. You know what they all have in common? Nobody has changed the default settings. Every single TV I walk up to Samsung, LG, Sony, TCL, Hisense is running in a picture mode designed to look good in a store, not in your living room. And every single one is collecting data about what you watch and selling it to third parties. Out of the box."
He said TV manufacturers make more money from your data than they do from the TV sale itself.
"That's why a 65-inch 4K TV costs $400 now. The hardware is sold at a loss or near-zero margin. The profit comes from tracking what you watch, when you watch it, and how long you watch it then selling that behavioral data to advertisers. Your TV is a surveillance device that also shows movies. And the settings to stop it are buried 6 menus deep on purpose."
Here are the 9 settings he changed:
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BREAKING: Former New Mexico Democrat House leader Sheryl Williams Stapleton CONVICTED of 31 felony charges for diverting millions of dollars of school funds to her friend’s company and receiving kickbacks
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UPDATE: Tik Tok has taken down both this 11 minute video AND the short reel…
CAUGHT INSIDE MINNEAPOLIS POLLING BOOTHS: Minnesota Poll Workers Tell O’Keefe, Dressed in Muslim Garb, & @camhigby, in a Burka, That They Can Vouch for Eight Unregistered Voters Without ID, Allowing Them to Vote in Minnesota Primary Election
Election worker says, “You’re the ID,” referring to the registered voter serving as identification for the people they are vouching for.
Election worker confirms O’Keefe’s question about unregistered voters being vouched for: “I can vouch for them. They are not registered… That’s okay. That’s fine. Yeah!”
Election worker explains that a registered voter in the same precinct can vouch for up to eight people: “If you’re all in the same precinct and you are already registered, you can vouch for them as ID. Eight people.”
More reports coming soon from the Justice League. @realmuckraker @anthonyjrubin @camhigby @ctznjusticelg
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This is Grammy-winning artist Pras Michel shaking hands with Barack Obama in 2012.
Just officially reported to prison to begin a 14-year federal sentence after prosecutors proved he helped funnel millions in illegal foreign money into Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.
The operation: Prosecutors proved Michel accepted more than $100 million from Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho in a covert influence scheme tied to influencing U.S. elections.
The laundering network: Michel used straw donors to secretly route foreign cash into Obama’s 2012 campaign, bypassing federal election laws designed to prevent foreign influence in American elections.
The verdict: A federal jury convicted him on 10 criminal counts, including conspiracy, money laundering, witness tampering, and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.
In other words: Barack Obama colluded with a foreign power to illegally influence and rig the 2012 presidential election in his favor.
