Last week, I wrote an article about Alex Jones and his custody battle, and yesterday the jury reached a verdict on this battle. To make a long story short, Alex Jones lost custody of his children, but that’s a gross oversimplification.
According to My Statesman, the Travis Country jury ruled in favor of Alex Jones’ ex-wife Kelly. As of writing this article, the Jones children, aged 9, 12, and 14, will live with their mother, and their father will have limited visitation rights, at least until the children adjust to living with their mother. However, the adjustment process might be difficult, as Kelly Jones’ attorney Robert Hoffman claims Alex Jones committed parental alienation, i.e., he tricked his children into hating their mother, effectively brainwashing them.
“Mr. Jones is like a cult leader,” explained Hoffman. “The children appear to be cult followers, doing exactly what daddy wants them to do.”
Kelly Jones wants her family to participate in a program to undo the purported parental alienation. Furthermore, Kelly Jones’ lawyers are trying to take away all of her ex-husband’s visitation rights, as they feel contact with him could undermine attempts to undo the brainwashing. And, in the state of Texas, parental alienation is a serious allegation and can affect the outcome of a custody battle.
Kelly Jones feels that the case was a victory for all parents whose children are subjected to parental alienation. “I am so grateful to God that he has kept me and my family strong through this,” stated Kelly Jones. “I just pray that from what’s happened with my family people can really understand what parental alienation syndrome is and get an awareness of it and we can stop this from happening in the future.” She is also thinking of writing a book on the subject to help spread awareness of parental alienation.
While Alex Jones just finished his custody case, he is already embroiled in another court case. The owner and founder of Chobani Greek Yogurt, Hamdi Ulukaya, is suing him for slanderous and defamatory comments, accusing Jones of lying about Chobani intentionally hiring refugees who have tuberculosis and are more likely to commit violent assault. I have no doubt that Jones is questioning his chances of winning the Chobani case given the results of the custody battle. Depending on how many more people decide to sue Alex Jones, we soon might see the end of Alex Jones’ radio career, and by extension Infowars, in the very near future.
Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, is traveling to Washington, D.C., to meet with Republican lawmakers who will probably lead committees that regulate the tech sector.
Republican representatives Jim Jordan of Ohio, Darrel Issa of California, and Cathy McMorris Rogers of Washington are among those with whom Cook has booked meetings.
The meetings were probably planned several weeks, if not months, beforehand. Top conservatives have criticized Apple since the beginning, and many of them have joined with Twitter CEO Elon Musk in their recent dispute with Apple.
Jordan has publicly expressed his support for Elon Musk, as Bloomberg notes.
When the GOP wins over the House in 2023, Jordan is also set to serve as chair of the House Judiciary Committee. The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s chairman is most likely to be McMorris Rodgers.
They both will play a key role in developing the GOP’s technology policy agenda for 2023.
What is particularly on the agenda is unclear. Even when he is not called to testify about big tech, Cook travels to Washington, DC, on several occasions each year.
The goal is to make sure marginalized people are considered in environmental decisions.
According to Reuters, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established a new office to assist underserved communities in coping with the additional responsibilities of pollution and climate change. 200 EPA workers from the Washington headquarters and 10 regional bureaus will work in the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights.
“The establishment of a new office dedicated to advancing environmental justice and civil rights at EPA will ensure the lived experiences of underserved communities are central to our decision-making while supporting community-driven solutions,” remarked Kamala Harris, vice president of the US.
As part of a $60 billion investment in environmental justice, one of the main responsibilities of the new office will be to supervise the distribution of $3 billion in grants for environmental justice that were made possible by the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act. Additionally, it will ensure that other EPA initiatives adhere to President Biden’s Justice40 initiative, which aims to ensure that 40% of certain government spending go to underserved communities. Finally, it will assist localities in obtaining funds, upholding human rights legislation, and resolving environmental disputes.
The opening of the new office took place in Warren County, North Carolina, the scene of demonstrations against the disposal of toxic waste there in 1982. While the 22-acre dump was not stopped as a result of the civil disobedience actions and arrests that followed, the current environmental justice movement was born. Participants remembered the protests’ 40th anniversary last week.
The competition between Pewdiepie and T-Series has been going on for quite a while. I say this mostly because if Pewdiepie was in the middle of a smear campaign, I would certainly believe that it was all a ploy by T-Series in order to make him lose popularity. However, it seems like T-Series doesn’t have to do much as Pewdiepie is no stranger to getting himself into trouble.
So, what did Pewdiepie do this time? Well, in his most recent edition of “Pew News,” a semi-satirical series where Pewds offers his own take on news events or YouTube discussions, he dedicates the last portion of the video to shouting out smaller YouTube creators he enjoys watching. One of those creators is E;R (otherwise known as “EsemicolonR”), an essayist who often includes anti-Semitic, sexist, homophobic, and cruel language in his videos.
At least that’s what TheVerge and so many outlets/other YouTubers are saying. I took a look at E;R’s content and saw mostly meme videos about political stuff. The guy even made a tribute to Tay AI. You can see a whole documentary made about this by Internet Historian down below:
However, the subjects tackled in the videos can be a bit more problematic because of the current political climate with Pewdiepie. As such, we can assume that a lot of people don’t find this very funny and even reprehensible. Especially when the US is caught in the middle of tension thanks to laws like FOSTA, which are an indirect cause of Tumblr’s collapse right now.
Ever since Pewdiepie has made the shoutout, the channel has gained over 15,000 Subscribers. Of course, this also means that the ire of the people who are against him has risen even more. As such, we’re in this situation where Pewdiepie has gotten himself into trouble yet again despite knowing that the current situation is tense. I guess some people will never learn.
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