U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is looking to shake things up when he takes over as chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and his sights are set on a key cog in the regime’s censorship machine. Paul, a fierce critic of the government’s abuse of civil liberties, will be in a position to take on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency that has been outed for playing an integral role in the shutting down of free speech on social media and could finally face accountability now that voters have stripped Democrats of total control over the federal government. “I’d like to eliminate it,” Paul told Politico, referring to CISA. “The First Amendment is pretty important, that’s why we listed it as the First Amendment, and I would have liked to, at the very least, eliminate their ability to censor content online.” “While it’s unlikely we could get rid of CISA, we survived for what, 248 years without them,” the senator added. “I think a lot of what they do is intrusive, and I’d like to end their intrusions into the First Amendment.” Senator Paul also said “Everything is on the table” when asked about how he may reorganize the cybersecurity agency’s powers when the next Congress begins its work with the Senate now back in the GOP’s hands. “There needs to be more scrutiny, and we will have hearings where [CISA officials] will have to come in and defend the meetings that they were having with social media [companies],” he added, according to Politico. CISA’s current chief rejected any suggestion that the agency engages in censorship. “CISA does not and has never censored speech or facilitated censorship. Such allegations are riddled with factual inaccuracies. Every day, the men and women of CISA

A number of prominent advertisers have returned to Twitter/X, marking another brutal defeat for the censorious left. These advertisers — including Comcast, IBM, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Lionsgate Entertainment — paused their advertising campaigns in November of 2023 after leftist censors made a fuss about their ads appearing next to allegedly “hateful” content. “From January to September 2024, marketing intelligence platform MediaRadar found that these brands collectively spent less than $3.3 million on X,” according to AdWeek. The $3.3 million in spending marked a whopping 98 percent drop from the $170 million that the brands spent on Twitter/X advertising in 2023. BREAKING: Major advertisers are making their comeback to ! IBM, Disney, Comcast, Discovery, Warner Bros, and Lionsgate are coming back on the platform. pic.twitter.com/89ko6IHWxx — DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) November 15, 2024 It’s believed the decision to resume advertising is based on Musk’s close ties to President-elect Donald Trump. “X’s owner now has the ear of the president-elect, a man who has a long history of helping his friends, and punishing his enemies,” Max Willens, a senior analyst at Emarketer, told AdWeek. “Sending at least a trickle of ad spending toward X may be seen as good for business, albeit in an indirect way.” FYI, Trump does in fact NOT have a history of punishing his enemies. Current President Joe Biden, on the other hand, does. Elon Musk responds to political ‘weaponization’ of DOJ against SpaceX for not hiring refugees https://t.co/y1AZdnt6eY pic.twitter.com/dpw0283SYa — BPR (@BIZPACReview) August 29, 2023 The Financial Times has also obtained confirmation that the return to X is linked to Musk’s ties to Trump. “Lou Paskalis, chief executive of marketing consultancy AJL Advisory and a former media executive at Bank of America, said some marketers were likely to reallocate spending back to X as ‘political leverage,’ such