The Wren Collective's corruption of the courts (09-30-2025--Hour3)

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For example San Antonio, Texas, the Ren Collective quote developed and implemented prosecutorial policies for the Da Joe Gonzales all without a public contract. No public contract. You're entering into a deal with this provider of services and you're not doing a public contract. And this woman Brand is her last name, again with a Dickenzian name. She's the comms person for this for Ren collective and her last name is Brand. Okay, so she becomes basically the shadow communications director and senior advisor despite other people holding those roles who are on the public payroll. So she's now doing the work of these people that the taxpayers are funding. But they're not, I guess using the DA isn't using those people, they're using this far left Soviet era organization. The group wrote policies eliminating cash bail that were adopted by prosecutors in Virginia, Texas, and Florida, a policy that resulted in Portland not charging left wing rioters and now we know why. Right, So this was the ren and Collective operating in Portland and we're seeing the results of it to this day right where these people are engaged in violent dare I call it insurrection against the government on a daily basis, attacking federal officials, threatening people, assaulting people, and they're all just walking free and they suffer no punishment. And this is why this is where it came from. They also did a sex work policy to mitigate the many harms and abuses plaguing sex workers, who often also struggle with poverty, discrimination, and marginalization by declining to prosecute prostitution. They would hold weekly calls with the now former because he got thrown out of office the San Francisco DA Chasa Bowden and I talked about him the other day. Right. He was the one whose parents were sent to prison for bombings and such with the weather underground, and so he went to live with Bernardine Dorn and William Ayres, who also happened to launch the political career of Barack Obama literally in their house, held a fundraiser for him when he first ran for office. That Chase about it, But the ren collective is shrouded in secrecy. The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund said many prosecutors refused to even turn over communications with their group under the public record laws. Some demanded up to fourteen thousand dollars to cover the cost of complying with the Feyer request, and others produced responses that omitted communications that the law enforcement group knew existed. So you have DA's that are refusing to comply with the Foyer laws or therewithholding information that is discoverable, you have to produce this stuff. But they're like, oh no, no, we don't have to do that. So the ren Collective, as I mentioned earlier, they have a for profit arm and a nonpro arm. The nonprofit arm is structured as a fiscally sponsored project of a larger nonprofit the shell of a group dedicated to pushing Soviet films in the United States before the fall of the Communist block. That's who they operate under. That intermediary serves as a black box, preventing its donors and its staff salaries from being directly disclosed. But the larger group, which was once known as the American Soviet Film Initiative, has reported millions of dollars in funding from do you want to guess? The usual suspects that Oil, Heiress Schustermann, George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg's wife Priscilla, and a woman named Carrie Tuna, who, as I understand it, is a phenomenal singer. She can carry it. Okay, never mind, Carrie Tuna is actually the wife of Facebook co founder Dustin muck Moskovitz. Another major funder, Arnold Ventures, The charity of former and Ron executive John Arnold. Arnold Venture's former COO now works at REN. Records show that even as billionaires wrote checks so the nonprofit could provide shadow government workers free of charge, which the Ren Collective then used to gain access to their offices. Brand who worked for Ren Collective would sometimes later ask the das to pay an identically named for profit firm. One contract obtained by the Law Enforcement Group showed that the money fifteen thousand dollars a month from the office of LA District Attorney George Gascon went to REN COLLECTLLC, and that contract was awarded without competition. Right, so we're giving you this free service, and we're doing it through this one arm, and so we get to hide all of our donors and hide all the work and we don't have to say anything about that. But then we're like, you need to pay us for some service over here on the nonprofit side, and that's fifteen grand a month. WREN may have pulled the same bait and switch on Minneapolis Prosecutor Mary Moriarty. In May, the Department of Justice said it was investigating Moriarty for civil rights violations after saying that charging decisions would take into account they suspect's racial identity. That's not allowed. You can't you can't not charge people with crimes based on their skin color. Do you not see the problem with this idea? The following month, Moriarty asked the Board of Supervisors for approval to pay a REN Collective one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to counteract misinformation a PR firm, so they operate as a PR firm for them. The group works hand in hand with a second group that steers Soro's prosecutors after their election. This one's called Fair and Just Prosecution FJP. They're founding executive director Miriam Krinsky. She resigned last year the day that The Daily Wire published documents showing her staff accused her of racism and said she hypocritically called the police on them. She was replaced by Aramis Ayala, a black former Orlando prosecutor who is married to a member of the Ren Collective's board. It's like usaid all over again. It's the same model. Game on week one starts now and every touchdown brings you closer to a payout. With Draft King sports Book and official sports betting partner of the NFL. This isn't just football, it's touchdown fireworks anytime. TD rushes live bets that ride every momentum shift. At DraftKings, every play is your next shot to win. Will the Panthers win? Will we even get a touchdown? New customers bet just five dollars and get three hundred dollars in bonus bets instantly, plus get over two hundred dollars off NFL Sunday ticket from YouTube and YouTube TV. So your season starts now. Download the Draft Kings sportsbook app and use code Pete to get three hundred dollars in bonus bets instantly when you place your first bet of five dollars or more plus over two hundred dollars off NFL Sunday ticket from YouTube and YouTube TV. 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One of the donors to the Ren Collective David Menshell, a Portland activist who has funded the campaign of radical das across the country. Menshell was a top donor to the Portland DA Mike Schmidt in twenty twenty. After he won the election, Menschell connected Schmidt with a woman named Jessica Brand, a former public defender who now runs the Ren Elective. One of the collective's employees, Amy Weber, wrote in an email to Schmidt quote we do this work without any billing or publicity. These policies will be yours, right, So they're laundering this stuff. Do you remember the left and the media, but I repeat myself, their outrage over an organization called ALEC. Do you remember that, the American Legislative Exchange Council And what was ALEX their egregious behavior? What was it that they were attacked for for drafting legislation and giving it to state legislatures Because ALEC was conservative is conservative, and so they would draft these model legislation bills, and they would hold conferences and they would you know, teach lawmaker is like how to effectively create legislation, how to advance your priorities and strategies and all of that stuff. And they were open, like they put all their stuff on their website. They talked about the model legislation like they didn't hide any of this. They were saying, these are conservative bills that we would like to see past. We've drafted these things up, and we will work with people to help them draft them for their own states. And this was outrageous. ALEC is corrupting all of the politics and all of our state governments and stuff. But here you have an organization that's literally doing the same thing, but doing it all on the download, so you never know, So you don't know who's funding them, and you don't know which policies are actually coming from your DA or coming from this REN collective. These policies will be yours, is what she said. It soon became apparent that Menschel would be funding Ren for its quasi govern mental work with conditions, though Weber. Amy Weber, one of the employees at REN Collective, in an email, told Menchell quote, I spoke to Dave Dave Menchell, and all he needs is for us to give him a final scope of work, right, So they want proof that, like we're giving you this stuff now, we want to make sure that you're actually following through on it, because if you don't follow through on it, then we're going to withhold funding. We're not going to give you money for your campaigns or anything. Another donor to the Ren Collective is Stacy Schusterman. She is an oil heiress. Wren stands at the ready anytime soft on crime policies create a mess for prosecutors as well. Do you remember the father of the girl, the father who was dragged out of the school board meeting because his daughter was raped by a gender fluid boy in the school bathroom, and the prosecutor Bhuddha bibirage bibret bibarije whatever, try to jail the father. Meanwhile, the boy went on to sexually assault a second girl, and so in Loudon County, that Virginia prosecutor went after the father and REN asked whether quote, you would like some communications support. REN Collective then went on to form a relationship with that prosecutor's office that included drafting quote diversion policies which involved even lighter penalties for crimes. So they act as your comm's shop. And by the way, these DA's offices they have comm's people, So you're paying a salary for people to do this work. And meanwhile, the getting this quote free service from the Rent Collective. Influence groups do not have to convince legislators to change law if they can just put prosecutors who simply decline to enforce them. And this is what George Soros found out, who, by the way, is also a donor. I know you're shocked to the REN Collective, right, of course he is. The report says the Node of this donor backed prosecutor influence operation is the ren collective the substance of those policies, from abolishing bail, releasing dangerous offenders, declining to prosecute narcotics charges, shoplifting, prostitution and rioting, meanwhile increasing prosecutions of law enforcement officers, all have had serious consequences for public safety. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life, and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video. 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The Ren Collective never heard of the organization until I read this at the Daily Wire by Luke Rosieck how a lefty Soviet influence group formed a shadow government in prosecutor offices. Very extensive article. I skimmed through the actual source material here, which is from the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund that actually did the Foyer requests and got all of the emails and went through the campaign finance filings and all sorts of stuff in order to track these connections. For example, San Antonio, Texas, the REN Collective quote developed and implemented prosecutorial policies for the Da Joe Gonzales all without a public contract, no public contract. You're entering into a deal with this provider of services and you're not doing a public contract. And this woman, Brand is her last name, again with a Dickenzian name. She's the comms person for this rang for Rent Collective and her last name is Brand. Okay, so she becomes basically the shadow communications director and senior advisor, despite other people holding those roles who are on the public payroll. So she's now doing the work of these people that the taxpayers are funding, but they're not, I guess using the DA isn't using those people. They're using this far left Soviet era organization. The group wrote policies eliminating cash bail that were adopted by prosecutors in Virginia, Texas, and Florida, a policy that resulted in Portland not charging left wing rioters and now we know why. Right, So this was the ren and collective operating in Portland, and we're seeing the results of it to this day right where these people are engaged in violent dare I call it insurrection against the government on a daily basis, attacking federal officials, threatening people, assaulting people, and they're all just walking free and they suffer no punishment. And this is why, this is where it came from. They also did a sex work policy to mitigate the many harms and abuses plaguing sex workers, who often also struggle with poverty, discrimination, and marginalization. By declining to prosecute prostitution, they would hold weekly calls with the now former because he got thrown out of office the San Francisco Da Chasa Bowden and I talked about him the other day, Right, he was the one whose parents were sent to prison for bombings and such with the weather underground, and so he went to live with Bernardine Dorn and William Ayres, who also happened to launch the political career of Barack Obama literally in their house, held a fundraiser for him when he first ran for office. That Chase about it. But the REN Collective is shrouded in secrecy. The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund said many prosecutors refused to even turn over communications with their group under the public record laws. Some demanded up to fourteen thousand dollars to cover the cost of complying with the Foyer request, and others produced responses that omitted communications that the Law Enforcement Group new existed. So you have das that are refusing to comply with the Foyer laws or therewithholding information that is discoverable. You have to produce this stuff. But they're like, oh no, no, we don't have to do that. So the REN Collective, as I mentioned earlier, they have a for profit ARM and a nonprofit ARM. The nonprofit ARM is structured as a fiscally sponsored project of a larger nonprofit, the shell of a group dedicated to pushing Soviet films in the United States before the fall of the Communist block. That's who they operate under. That intermediary serves as a black box, preventing its donors and its staff salaries from being directly disclosed. But the larger group, which was once known as the American Soviet Film Initiative, has reported millions of dollars in funding from do you want to guess? The usual suspects that Oil Heiress Schustermann, George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg's wife Priscilla, and a woman named Carrie Tuna, who, as I understand it, is a phenomenal singer. She can carry it. Okay, never mind, Carrie Tuna is actually the wife of Facebook co founder Dustin muck Moskovitz. Another major funder Arnold Ventures, the charity of former and Ron executive John Arnold. Arnold Venture's former COO now works at WREN. Records show that even as billionaires wrote checks so the nonprofit could provide shadow government workers free charge, which the Ren Collective then used to gain access to their offices. Brand who worked for Ren Collective would sometimes later ask the das to pay an identically named for profit firm. One contract obtained by the Law Enforcement Group showed that the money fifteen thousand dollars a month from the office of LA District Attorney George Gascon went to Rent Collective, LLC. And that contract was awarded without competition. Right, so we're giving you this free service, and we're doing it through this one arm, and so we get to hide all of our donors and hide all the work, and we don't have to say anything about that. But then we're like, you need to pay us for some service over here on the nonprofit side, and that's fifteen grand a month. Wren may have pulled the same bait and switch on Minneapolis Prosecutor Mary Moriarty. In May, the Department of Justice said it was investigating Moriarty for civil rights violations, after saying that charging decisions would take into account they suspect's racial identity. That's not allowed. You can't you can't not charge people with crimes based on their skin color. Do you not see the problem with this idea? The following month, Moriarty asked the Board of supervisors for approval to pay REN Collective one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to counteract misinformation a PR firm, so they operate as a PR firm for them. The group worked hand in hand with a second group that steers Soro's prosecutors after their election. This one's called Fair and Just Prosecution FJP. Their founding executive director, Miriam Krinsky. She resigned last year the day that The Daily Wire published documents showing her staff accused her of racism and said she critically called the police on them. She was replaced by Aramis Ayala, a black former Orlando prosecutor who is married to a member of the Ren Collective's board. It's like usaid all over again. It's the same model. So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and before he died, my mom and my dad took care of him as he got worse. Forty years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family. 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This is the wren wr N collective, So not the band I did not even know there was a band Ren collective. The once celebrated Boston social activist named Monica Cannon Grant has now pleaded guilty to defrauding donors, including Black Lives Matter, out of thousands of dollars that she used as a personal piggybank. The forty four year old pleaded guilty to eighteen counts of fraud related crimes that she committed with her late husband while operating their Violence in Boston group, or the vib Or as I call it, the vib The activist scammed money, including three thousand dollars, from the BLM group while claiming it was to help feed children and run protests like one in twenty twenty in the Summer of fiery but mostly peaceful riots. Canon Grant also conned her way into getting one hundred thousand dollars in federal pandemic related unemployment benefits, which she used to pay off her personal car loan as well as her car insurance policy, but she has now confessed to transferring funds to personal bank accounts to pay for rent, shopping sprees, delivery meals, visits to a nail salon, and even a summer vacation to Maryland. The charges involve a maximum sentence of decades behind bars, but prosecutors are seeking a far more lenient punishment, with a max of two years in prison, according to The Boston Herald. Now this woman her activism earned her numerous local accolades, including the Boston Globe Magazine's Bostonian of the Year award and a Boston Celtics' Heroes among Us award both in twenty twenty. The activist and her husband were arrested in March of twenty twenty two. Vib Or vib shut down in July of twenty four and her husband was also federally charged in this case, but he got killed in a motorcycle crash in March of twenty twenty three in the charges against him were dropped after that. And then there's this. This is a fellow by the name of Gregory Jackson Junior. He is the former deputy director of Joe Biden's Office of Gun Violence Prevention. And he appeared at a Senate hearing on crime. This was the Senate Judiciary Committee. And you know, Democrats are able to call a witnesser to themselves. Republicans bring their witnesses. Democrats can call a few witnesses too, and so this is who they brought to testify at this hearing. And you are going to hear Josh Hawley make this man sound like a. Fool prorective approaches, which is what this says. This is so typical of what the Democrats do. Now after your policies have transparently failed and led to the deaths of millions of Americans. Now you say you've never heard of defunding the police. Your own report recommends it on page after page after page. Let me ask about something else. You say. Here's what you say we ought to invest in instead of funding the police. Here's what we ought to invest in. We need to invest in programs that acknowledge the need for safe space initiatives. Yes, led by lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender nonconforming people. What's too spirit? Well, look, I don't know. You guys will pull in some interesting This is from your rep. If you look at the report, the focus is on investing in violence intervention outreach workers. You say that you shouldn't invest in the police, but we ought to invest in two spirit community programs that acknowledge to spirit, and you're not going to that. We're not going to discriminate against any nonprofit. What is spirit? What is to spirit? You say, don't fund the police, but do fund programs that create save spaces for two spirit people? What what is? I just want to know. I don't know what that is. I have no idea with that. Well, honestly, I'm not uh completely aware of the language he wrote the report. But what I'm telling you is that what we what is a two spirit individual? I mean, really, I'm saying, this is your policy, this is your policymaker's playbook. You are the witness called by the Democrats on this committee, so I assume you reflect their views. Well, you don't want to fund the police, you want to fund saved spaces for two spirit individuals. What is a too spirit person? I feel like I'm looking at a two faced individual because you talk about redun. No, sorry, you're looking at somebody who's reading you your own words, and I'd like to hear an answer. Here's the answer. The answer is you don't have any solutions. You want to invest in gobbledegook and take away money from police officers who actually keep our community safe. There you go. So that was it. So you know, this guy was completely dare I say it, frustrated tip of the hat there to our illustrious sheriff. So he resorted to name calling. Right, that's what this guy did. He resorted to name gong. I'm looking at two faced so he doesn't know what a two spirit is. He doesn't know. I would be hard pressed to tell you what it is either I think it is something like that the indigenous population that was here before the Europeans came over, like the Native American population that some of them identified as two spirits, indicating that they had this idea that they were both man and woman in the same body. And so it's totally like trans or something. I think that's what it is kind of related to. Don't even know. It really hasn't taken off, you know, like other acron letters of the acronym, but you may see it sometimes as two S two spirit. But I wonder if he used the ren collective also because if they're just handing off the boilerplate language, right, and that's what was going on obviously, you know, Joe Biden wasn't reading this report. He wasn't putting this stuff together. I mean, he was getting ice cream, He wasn't doing this kind of work. They just they just offloaded all of this work to the minions, to the bureaucrats, to the activists that populated these offices, and this boilerplate language obviously made its way into the report that this individual was responsible for writing. And he has no idea what the two sl or twos is, doesn't even know. Matt Whitlock, Republican comms guy, used to work for the Republican Senatorial Committee, Senator Arren Hatch, Senator Mike Lee. He points out here that Democrats are going to be haunted by their crazy twenty twenty positions for years to come. Yeah, as they should. And we saw it yesterday and I talked about it yesterday with that congressional hearing in Charlotte. Right, you guys ran on messaging and we're banging the drum to defund the police and to do all of these crazy criminal justice policies. You are still doing it, and it is toxic and you are going to pay the price for it. 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