Inside the Biden Administration’s Censorship of Everyday Americans

Plus, Politico reporter who cried over Trump's election now covers his presidency

Sep 30, 2025

Former CISA director Jen Easterly (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

You’ve probably never heard of the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), established in 2018 to protect our election systems. The Biden administration used it to censor the social media posts of Americans who didn’t have Jimmy Kimmel’s ability to fight back.

A Senate report released Monday sheds new light on the Biden administration’s successful efforts to work through social media companies to stifle dissent, aka “misinformation,” as CISA director Jen Easterly put it.

“In one particularly extreme case, the elections office in Loudoun County, Virginia, flagged an unedited video of a county official ‘because it was posted as part of a larger campaign to discredit the word of’ that official,” our Aaron Sibarium writes. “The report”—which a CISA-funded nonprofit forwarded to Twitter—”noted that the poster was ‘connected to Parents Against Critical Race Theory.’”

CISA also sought to evade oversight of its activities: “In 2021, for example, as part of an audit of the agency’s anti-disinformation efforts, the DHS Office of Inspector General repeatedly asked CISA for the names of its social media contacts. The agency declined to provide that information and warned its contacts at social media companies about the probe.”

We await Kimmel’s monologue—and liberal Hollywood’s collective outrage—about these abuses of government power.

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Cheyanne Daniels covers the White House for Politico. In the olden days, the job required a veneer of neutrality.

These days, less so. Daniels—a former “race and politics reporter” for The Hill—said in a social media post she cried when Trump was elected in 2016 because she knew “horrible things were to come.” She cried “once again” when Trump was “defeated,” though “for a very different reason.”

Now, well, she’s just calling balls and strikes. In the past week, Daniels has covered “everything from the White House’s comments on a potential government shutdown to Trump’s attempts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine,” our Collin Anderson reports. Neither she nor Politico responded to requests for comment, though Daniels did lock down her X account after we reached out for comment.

Mazel tov to ABC News political correspondent Rachel Scott for marrying the wokest man alive. Her new husband, Elliott Smith, made his career as a “social justice organizer” railing against inequality. They wedded at a lavish California estate, where Scott donned three designer bridal outfits, all of which were captured by a celebrity photographer and featured in Vogue.

Scott and Smith tied the knot in front of guests that included Disney CEO Bob Iger. The bride told Vogue she simply “could not pass up” the opportunity to wear a “black-based navy blue crystal-embroidered dress by Falguni Shane Peacock, styled by Eleanor Schain,” as one does. The wedding also featured “a traditional Native American ceremony in honor of Elliott’s Ramapough Lenape heritage,” though it’s unclear whether that included a land acknowledgment (the wedding venue stands on the traditional and ancestral home of the Chumash people).

“The glossy coverage has raised eyebrows in media circles given that Scott and her new husband, Elliott Smith, are liberal activists whose ideological allies tend to resent such extravagant displays of wealth and privilege,” our Andrew Stiles writes. “Scott interned at the White House during the Obama administration before pursuing a career in liberal journalism. Smith is a professional activist who also served in the Obama administration. As a staffer at the Environmental Protection Agency, he reportedly ‘contributed to the agency’s environmental justice initiatives.’ He is currently an administrator for student engagement at Yale University.”

In other news:

Donald Trump, with Bibi Netanyahu by his side, unveiled an ambitious Gaza peace plan that starts with disarming Hamas. If the terrorists refuse, Trump said Bibi has his “full backing” to “finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas.”
The New York Times on the Trump DOJ’s indictment of James Comey: “If the precedent set by Mr. Trump takes hold, America may be entering a period when each new administration takes aim at the last one in a cycle of retaliation, a what-goes-around-comes-around pattern more familiar in authoritarian countries than in developed Western democracies. Even presidents more restrained than Mr. Trump may succumb to the temptation to follow at least some of his example.” Unprecedented! We must have missed the piece when it was written in the era of Biden lawfare.
Speaking of the Times, 1619 Project mastermind Nikole Hannah-Jones is out with her first piece in three months, decrying the public mourning of Charlie Kirk as “unsettling” and falsely asserting the conservative activist said young black women “don’t have the brain processing power.”

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