Al Perrotta is still traveling with Christians Engaged.

I hope you’re drinking your coffee iced. It’s over 100 degrees here in Texas, so reasons for leaving the house at all are rapidly diminishing. Speaking of houses, the White House has made it clear who’s the most valued single employee.

Who’s the Highest Paid Official in the White House?

As the National Pulse reports:

The White House payroll has hit historic highs under President Joe Biden, and the most highly remunerated staff member is his Monkeypox Co-ordinator Demetre Daskalakis, who The National Pulse first revealed as a Satan-and-occult-obsessed gay man who recently donned bondage gear for a speech at a biomedical conference.

Daskalakis, who is 50 this year, joined Biden’s White House staff less than a year ago. In that brief time, he has earned himself a salary of $260,718 – the highest in the White House apart from the President himself.

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Daskalakis and his partner Michael MacNeal launched a “goth” gym together in New York, based in a former gay nightclub that in turn had taken over an old church in Manhattan: Monster Cycle.

The duo often post Satanic imagery, as well as Christ-desecrating content. Daskalakis recently appeared for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as part of their “Out and Proud” event.

That night club was once a beautiful Anglo-Catholic church, whose owners were foolishly naïve when they sold it to strangers. Now it’s a den of depravity, perhaps even as bad as the Biden White House. But hey, don’t get excited. There’s nothing strange going on in America. No sign of “principalities and powers” as far as the eye can see.

Whoops, Fauci Was Never Legally Re-Appointed

HHS secretary Xavier Becerra knows how to exceed his authority, for instance in his effort to force Catholic hospitals to kill unborn babies. But he doesn’t apparently understand how to actually do his job. The Gateway Pundit notes:

An investigation led by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) uncovered a failure to properly reappoint 14 National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, as required by law.

The investigation, which began in March 2022, has brought to light a series of concerning issues surrounding the reappointment process and has raised questions about the validity of actions taken by these officials during their unauthorized tenure.

Rodgers (R-WA) revealed on Monday that 14 NIH employees, including former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, were not lawfully reappointed to their positions in December of 2021, as required by law.

“We have uncovered that Sec. Becerra failed to follow the Constitution and the law to reappoint top NIH officials when their terms expired in December 2021. As a result, 14 NIH officials held unlawful positions and exercised authority they didn’t have,” Rodgers wrote.

Laws? We don’t need no stinkin’ laws. And if you don’t zip it, the FBI might show up on your doorstep, with “assault rifles” aimed at your kids.

Guess Who’s Censoring Your Speech Online? Veteran Deep State Spooks

Journalist Glenn Greenwald might be one of the last few honest liberals out there. He really believes the slogans about “free speech” and “open debate” that media mavens once repeated — before they decided to focus on keeping speech “safe” from “misinformation” that might “do harm.” Greenwald has doggedly burrowed into the backgrounds of the censors who manage opinion on social media monoliths. See Creative Destruction Media for the digest:

Former security state operatives occupy the highest positions at Big Tech internet platforms, and are responsible for censoring political content and limiting public debate, Glenn Greenwald reported on Tuesday.

Americans have been aware of security state efforts to control media narratives since the 1970s, when the Senate’s Church Committee exposed the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, Greenwald told listeners of his podcast, “System Update.”

Under that program, CIA agents covertly infiltrated and influenced the nation’s largest news organizations.

Project Mockingbird’s exposure greatly embarrassed the media and the government, as the CIA is forbidden from targeting the American public, Greenwald said.

Over the past decade, a series of whistleblowers revealed the U.S. security state has again amped up its covert targeting of American citizens, particularly since the start of the post-9/11 War on Terror.

News that intelligence agencies spied on Americans or infiltrated the news media was considered scandalous just over a decade ago.

But today, things have changed, Greenwald said. In fact, it has become common for top news outlets to openly hire former U.S. security state agents to report and comment on the news.

And in the last few months, the Twitter files and the latest Missouri v. Biden decision made clear how aggressive the censorship regime has become.

I’d love to see what Twitter has to say about this, but I was permanently banned for criticizing Trans ideology, and now Twitter’s “rate limiting” prevents me from even reading other people’s tweets. So, nice to live in a free country, isn’t it?

Along The Stream

Don’t miss Part Two of my conversation with Jason Jones about what’s really going on in Ukraine, and the follies of both the warmongering Establishment and the weirdly pro-Putin movement that has emerged among some conservatives.

And later this morning, Al has a surprising and moving update on Day Two of Christians Engaged in Washington. “Congressman are People Too.” He says the day took a twist that he did not expect.

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”