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Lee Fang

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1. TWITTER FILES PART 8 *How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign* Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations.

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Lee Fang

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Bloomberg has been through a lot but Bernie telling him on live television that he individually didn’t earn that $60 billion, maybe his workers played a deserving part, must have been a first in his life.

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What a weird, defamatory statement from Devin Nunes here. I walked up calmly and asked a simple news question to the congressman. You can see everything I actually said and Nunes' trembling hand while he silently took my picture in the video I posted.

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This guy stalked me in hotel lobby after my appearance on ⁦ @foxandfriends ⁩ Saturday AM maybe he was in Vienna with @cnn #goodnightVienna

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Docs show Facebook and Twitter closely collaborating w/ Dept of Homeland Security, FBI to police “disinfo.” Plans to expand censorship on topics like withdrawal from Afghanistan, origins of COVID, info that undermines trust in financial institutions.

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Lee Fang

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Hating Elon Musk… for the simple reason his electric car company is successful and he tweets a lot… is the least interesting form of leftism.

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Lee Fang

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1. New piece from the TWITTER FILES. How the pharmaceutical industry lobbied social media to shape content around vaccine policy. The push included direct pressure from Pfizer partner BioNTech to censor activists demanding low-cost generic vaccines for low-income countries.

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Lee Fang

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Three different sources say a firm called "Shadow" developed the Iowa Dem caucus app. They haven't responded to comment, neither has Iowa Dem Party. The firm was paid by both Nevada & Iowa Democratic Party, disclosures show. Also by Mayor Pete's campaign.

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Holy shit, Boeing spent *$43 billion* on stock buybacks, helping more than double its stock price in 2017-2018, enriching shareholders, only to meltdown from its mass produced faulty planes and the current coronavirus crisis. Now they need a bailout?

Boeing Crashes: $43 Billion in Share Buybacks Turn into Existential Threat | naked capitalism

Can Boeing stave off a liquidity crisis?

www.nakedcapitalism.com

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The “Hamilton 68” dashboard was a high level scam to falsely accuse Russian influence behind everything. Their entire opaque system was a fraud, and virtually every media outlet fell for it. Everyone from NYT to Mother Jones should post a correction:

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9.Hamilton 68 was the source for stories claiming Russian bots pushed terms like “deep state” or hashtags like #FireMcMaster , #SchumerShutdown , #WalkAway , #ReleaseTheMemo , #AlabamaSenateRace , and #ParklandShooting , among many others.

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The class divide has never been so apparent in media. Many journalists grew up rich, went to $20k a year prep schools, are obsessed with fights over vocabulary, symbols, fringe boogeymen -- ignore crumbling public schools, unsafe streets, rampant poverty as secondary concerns.

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Taibbi confirms that Twitter exec Vijaya Gadde played a key role in suppressing the Oct. 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story. Gadde was later appointed by the Biden admin to an advisory role shaping the Department of Homeland Security's "disinfo" policy.

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23. The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role.

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Facebook and Twitter created special portals for the government to rapidly request takedowns of content. The portals, along with NGO partners used to censor a wide range of content, including obvious parody accounts and content disagreeing w gov pandemic policy.

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Jeff Sessions in 1999 speaking on the importance of prosecuting Bill Clinton over perjury allegations

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2. Twitter has claimed for years that they make concerted efforts to detect & thwart gov-backed platform manipulation. Here is Twitter testifying to Congress about its pledge to rapidly identify and shut down all state-backed covert information operations & deceptive propaganda.

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3. But behind the scenes, Twitter gave approval & special protection to the U.S. military’s online psychological influence ops. Despite knowledge that Pentagon propaganda accounts used covert identities, Twitter did not suspend many for around 2 years or more. Some remain active.

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Lol within about 15 hours from this tweet Bernie Sanders voted against a special inspector general audit of $117 billion in Ukraine war money/contractors.

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Somehow, we never have enough money for health care, education, or housing, but always have more than enough money for a bloated and wasteful Defense Department that cannot even pass an independent audit. It’s time to change our national priorities NOW.

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4. In 2017, a U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) official sent Twitter a list of 52 Arab language accounts “we use to amplify certain messages.” The official asked for priority service for six accounts, verification for one & “whitelist” abilities for the others.

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21. Here is my reported piece w/more detail. I was given access to Twitter for a few days. I signed/agreed to nothing, Twitter had no input into anything I did or wrote. The searches were carried out by a Twitter attorney, so what I saw could be limited.

Twitter Aided the Pentagon in Its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign

Internal documents show Twitter whitelisted CENTCOM accounts that were then used to run its online influence campaign abroad.

theintercept.com

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The emails and documents show close collaboration b/w DHS & private sector. Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (fired by @elonmusk last week) met monthly with DHS to discuss censorship plans. Microsoft exec texted DHS: "Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov't"

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8. One Twitter official who spoke to me said he feels deceived by the covert shift. Still, many emails from throughout 2020 show that high-level Twitter executives were well aware of DoD’s vast network of fake accounts & covert propaganda and did not suspend the accounts.

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Trump suspending mortgage foreclosures, demanding cash payments to Americans, now invoking the Defense Production Act to force private firms to produce needed supplies is incredible. Kind of a shell shock for anyone who reported on any economic policies in the Obama years.

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6. The CENTCOM accounts on the list tweeted frequently about U.S. military priorities in the Middle East, including promoting anti-Iran messages, promotion of the Saudi Arabia-U.S. backed war in Yemen, and “accurate” U.S. drone strikes that claimed to only hit terrorists.

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5. The same day CENTCOM sent the list, Twitter officials used a tool to grant a special “whitelist” tag that essentially provides verification status to the accounts w/o the blue check, meaning they are exempt from spam/abuse flags, more visible/likely to trend on hashtags.

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9. For example, Twitter lawyer Jim Baker mused in a July 2020 email, about an upcoming DoD meeting, that the Pentagon used "poor tradecraft" in setting up its network, and were seeking strategies for not exposing the accounts that are “linked to each other or to DoD or the USG.”

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14. In August 2022, a Stanford Internet Observatory report exposed a U.S. military covert propaganda network on Facebook, Telegram, Twitter & other apps using fake news portals and deep fake images and memes against U.S. foreign adversaries.

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7. CENTCOM then shifted strategies & deleted disclosures of ties to the Twitter accounts. The bios of the accounts changed to seemingly organic profiles. One bio read: “Euphrates pulse.” Another used an apparent deep fake profile pic & claimed to be a source of Iraqi opinion.

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15. The U.S. propaganda network relentlessly pushed narratives against Russia, China, and other foreign countries. They accused Iran of "threatening Iraq’s water security and flooding the country with crystal meth," and of harvesting the organs of Afghan refugees.

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10. Stacia Cardille, another Twitter attorney, replied that the Pentagon wanted a SCIF & may want to retroactively classify its social media activities “to obfuscate their activity in this space, and that this may represent an overclassification to avoid embarrassment.”

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18. The reality is much more murky. Twitter actively assisted CENTCOM’s network going back to 2017 and as late as 2020 knew these accounts were covert/designed to deceive to manipulate the discourse, a violation of Twitter’s policies & promises. They waited years to suspend.

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16. The Stanford report did not identify all of the accounts in the network but one they did name was the exact same Twitter account CENTCOM asked for whitelist privileges in its 2017 email. I verified via Twitter’s internal tools. The account used an AI-created deep fake image.

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13. Many of these secretive U.S. military propaganda accounts, despite detection by Twitter as late as 2020 (but potentially earlier) continued tweeting through this year, some not suspended until May 2022 or later, according to records I reviewed.

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Here's the full video of my interaction with Devin Nunes yesterday, along with the article we posted.

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19. Twitter’s comms team was closely in touch with reporters, working to minimize Twitter’s role. When the WashPost reported on the scandal, Twitter officials congratulated each other because the story didn’t mention any Twitter employees & focused largely on the Pentagon.

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11. In several other 2020 emails, high-level Twitter executives/lawyers discussed the covert network and even recirculated the 2017 list from CENTCOM and shared another list of 157 undisclosed Pentagon accounts, again mostly focused on Middle East military issues.

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12. In a May 2020 email, Twitter’s Lisa Roman emailed the DoD w/two lists. One list was accounts “previously provided to us” & another list Twitter detected. The accounts tweeted in Russian & Arabic on US military issues in Syria/ISIS & many also did not disclose Pentagon ties.

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Incredible, take a second and listen to this

CNBC

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The U.S. shouldn’t bail out billionaires and hedge funds during the coronavirus pandemic, Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says. “Who cares? Let them get wiped out.”

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20. The conduct with the U.S. military’s covert network stands in stark contrast with how Twitter has boasted about rapidly identifying and taking down covert accounts tied to state-backed influence operations, including Thailand, Russia, Venezuela, and others since 2016.

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FBI agent Laura Dehmlow was in communications w Facebook that led to the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 over the false allegation that it was “disinfo.” This year, she met w/ Twitter/DHS to stress “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.”

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17. In subsequent reporting, Twitter was cast as an unbiased hero for removing “a network of fake user accounts promoting pro-Western policy positions.” Media covering the story described Twitter as evenly applying its policies & proactive in suspending the DoD network.

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CIA planning docs show when they overthrew the Guatemalan president in 1954, they plotted planting "flying saucer" stories to distract the media. Another declassified study shows the Air Force misled the public in the 1950s about UFOs to conceal the CIA's spy plane testing.

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How does DHS justify its evolving mission from countering foreign terror groups to policing domestic "disinfo" on social media? Leaked planning docs show the agency argues false information is a source of radicalization & violence.

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If you own a racehorse, the coronavirus stimulus legislation has a tax break for you

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Twitter's former top attorney James Baker was formerly an FBI attorney who passed on fake dirt from the Hillary campaign’s operatives in 2016, alleging a secret online portal from Russia's Alfa Bank to Trump. Now attempted to shape the “Twitter Files.”

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@bariweiss The news that Baker was reviewing the “Twitter files” surprised everyone involved, to say the least. New Twitter chief Elon Musk acted quickly to “exit” Baker Tuesday.

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Bernie Sanders was the only member of the Dem Senate caucus to vote against Trump's Iran sanctions.

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On a day when Iran has been attacked by ISIS now is not the time to go forward with legislation calling for sanctions against Iran.

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Elizabeth Warren's chief strategist Joe Rospars is CEO of consulting firm Blue State Digital, which simultaneously provides services for the DNC, Joe Biden & Amy Klobuchar.

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Here’s the FBI just a month ago asking Twitter for *location* information on a bunch of Twitter users, including the conservative news site @RSBNetwork . The FBI asks Twitter to “voluntarily provide” info and helpfully suggests these users violated Terms of Service.

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an internal email from November 5, 2022, the FBI’s National Election Command Post, which compiles and sends on complaints, sent the SF field office a long list of accounts that “may warrant additional action”:

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Elon constantly kneeling before anything pro-Israel, including a foreign country smearing our youth and encouraging censorship, is absolutely pathetic.

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Nancy Pelosi to receive first genuine left-wing challenge in 30 years. Shahid Buttar, a progressive activist and attorney, advances to general election.

Nancy Pelosi to Receive First Genuine Left-Wing Challenge in 30 Years

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will face a spirited challenge from activist and attorney Shahid Buttar in the November general election.

theintercept.com

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The FBI pulled hundreds of agents off financial crime to War on Terror stuff in the 00's, resulting in missed signs of the financial crisis, incentives to invent terror plots. Now tons get assigned to social media so they inundate Twitter w/ takedown requests for joke accounts.

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Lol are you kidding me? Chaffetz also spent $738 of his campaign donor's money at the Apple Store. Hmm

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Lee Fang is on Tucker

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We have a severe pilot shortage delaying flights issues yet Congress just voted down an amendment for airlines to reinstate pilots who were fired or forced to resign because of vaccine mandates. Only one House Dem voted for it. Vote took place about 3 minutes ago on the floor.

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The 60 Minutes story might have benefitted from a more broad lens on vaccine contracts. Publix gave $100k+ to Gov. DeSantis. It's also worth noting Gov. Newsom has received $23 million in campaign & cause support from Blue Shield of CA, which he gave exclusive vaccine contracts.

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BLM organizer distributed guns, urged activists to become more militant and go on the offensive against the police. He was secretly paid by the FBI. The FBI stoked violence among naive young radicals in order to undermine them.

The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver's Racial Justice Movement

Mickey Windecker encouraged violence, accused Denver activist leaders of being police cooperators, and tried to draw demonstrators into elaborate stings.

theintercept.com

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Earlier this year, DHS launched a widely panned "Disinfo Governance Board" which it later shuttered following criticism. But the same agenda lives on w/ DHS sub-agency "CISA" which argues disinfo is a threat to American "critical infrastructure" #dhsleaks

June 22, 2022 DRAFT CISA Report

www.documentcloud.org

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The U.S. has an average wealth per capita that is more than double that of Taiwan, a country that can manage paid sick leave, rapid health testing, free food for quarantined people & sanitation supplies at every public transit & housing complex. Our problem is just political.

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The left isn’t losing everywhere. Lib-left coalitions have won recent elections and now govern in Denmark, Portugal, Spain. Worth exploring why.

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Surreal moment in Oakland. About 200 mostly black families rally with police to call for an end to the epidemic of gun violence. Mothers at the stage mourning recently murdered children. In the back, less than a dozen mostly white antifa protesters assembled to jeer them.

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Wall Street is pressuring key healthcare firms to hike prices over the coronavirus crisis. Audio here of bankers asking drug companies, firms supplying N95 masks & ventilators, to figure out how to profit from the Covid-19 emergency.

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This all started in early Oct. when Bill Ackman went ballistic and tried to ruin the lives of some 18 year old Harvard students, get them blacklisted over an Israel letter, and got upset university leaders didn’t help with this project, so he escalated — v pathetic news cycle.

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4. BIO, the lobby group that represents biopharma, including Moderna & Pfizer, wrote to the newly elected Biden admin, demanding the U.S. gov sanction any country attempting to violate patent rights and create generic low cost covid medicine or vaccines.

Drug Lobby Asks Biden to Punish Foreign Countries Pushing for Low-Cost Vaccines

Big Pharma is fighting for tight control over Covid-19 vaccine production, limiting availability worldwide while reaping billions.

theintercept.com

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Anita Dunn, the chief strategist of Biden's presidential campaign and his close WH advisor for much of his first 6 months in office ... finally, in Aug 2022, released an ethics disclosure. She secretly worked for Pfizer before joining the admin

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If you want details about how I go about my reporting, a little more about myself, and further documentation & discussion, I just started a Substack. Sign up here:

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DHS official working on disinfo noted, during an internal strategy discussion, that the agency should use third party nonprofits as a “clearing house for information to avoid the appearance of government propaganda.”

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Imagine if the U.S. was providing weapons & support to a nuclear armed ultra militarized Muslim ethnostate that was killing 32k Jews & demanding ethnic expulsion of 2 million other Jews. Would the pundits whining nonstop about protesters calling for peace have the same position?

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Vivek was way more interesting than most Republicans. Defending his Hindu faith to hostile evangelical voters without backing down an inch, taking on the permanent pro-war establishment, and confronting legacy media bullshit in ways that were equally entertaining and revealing.

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As evidence continues to mount that corporate and university DEI programs tend to increase racial hostility in a workplace, major companies across America are finally laying off DEI officers and getting rid of senior DEI roles.

The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer

“Everything is a battle.” Diversity executives hit the exits as company priorities shift.

www.wsj.com

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Matt Gaetz refusing corporate PAC money - rare for GOP - appears to allow more freedom for maverick positions. He bucks the establishment on unique votes like joining Bernie to end the war in Yemen and this leadership fight. Even if you completely disagree w him, seems notable.

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5. That brings us to Twitter. The global lobbying blitz includes direct pressure on social media. BioNTech, which developed Pfizer's vaccine, reached out to Twitter to request that Twitter directly censor users tweeting at them to ask for generic low cost vaccines.

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It's great U.S. corporations built up a huge cash reserve from Trump's tax cuts, then spent $1 trillion of it on stock buybacks and are now running into liquidity problems and need a bailout.

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This was an event with many, many members of the House Republican caucus. Several lawmakers spoke to us as they arrived or left the hotel for the NRCC fundraiser upstairs. No one was "stalked."

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Hamas would absolutely execute the 🏳️‍🌈 ACAB lefties cheering on horrific violence against Israelis if they lived in Gaza & US rightwingers blindly cheering on Israeli subjugation of Palestinians would rebel twice as violently if Americans were subjected to similar occupation.

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If the left tidal wave continues into 2018, which it probably will, it will be an extreme lost opportunity if there are no big transformative ballot initiatives on health care, taxes, labor, climate, criminal justice reform, and campaign finance. Progressives should aim big.

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Here’s a tweet I wrote four years ago

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Won't it be funny/sad when so many Intersectional-Identitarians start shilling for stop & frisk Bloomberg over Sanders?

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12. The Moderna/Pfizer-funded campaign included direct regular emails with lists of tweets to takedown & others to verify. Here's an example of those types of emails that went straight to Twitter's lobbyists and content moderators. Many focused on @zerohedge , which was suspended.

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Biden gave us the racist crack disparity sentencing, mass incarceration, Iraq War, bankruptcy bill and pushed to cut Social Security for decades. He’s a gaffe machine who constantly makes stuff up. All minimized by corporate cable news industry eager for a comeback kid narrative.

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3. But global drug giants saw the crisis as an opportunity for unprecedented profit. Behind closed doors, pharma launched a massive lobbying blitz to crush any effort to share patents/IP for new covid-related medicine, including therapeutics and vaccines.

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Dems: Russia paid Mike Flynn off via $45k in RT speaking fees Also Dems: Goldman Sachs didnt seek influence w/$675k in speaking fees to HRC

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There's nothing more pathetic than seeing so much of society give up any systemic solutions to big problems and focus obsessively on censoring content they don't like.

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Bloomberg singlehandedly disproving several decades of bullshit lefty postmodern theory about race and identity guiding political choices and confirming that money and class has primacy.

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Gadde was appointed to the DHS panel in December 2021 as part of a team crafting policy for "combating misinformation and disinformation impacting the security of critical infrastructure."

CISA Names 23 Members to New Cybersecurity Advisory Committee | CISA

CISA announced the appointment of the first 23 members of the Agency’s new Cybersecurity Advisory Committee, a group that will advise and provide recommendations to the Director on policies, progra...

www.cisa.gov

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The GOP list of economists supporting their tax plan includes an office assistant, a guy who doesnt seem to exist, and a bankruptcy attorney convicted of forging a judge's signature, among other shady names.

GOP's List of Economists Backing Tax Cut Includes Ghosts, Office Assistants, Ex-Felons, and a...

Paul Ryan has touted a list of economists who support the GOP tax cut, but the list holds up under scrutiny about as well as the tax plan itself.

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Tucker Carlson last week ripped big pharma spending hundreds of millions of dollars on TV ads and news outlets routinely parroting drug industry talking points. Is there a single example of a CNN, MSNBC or other Fox News host ever discussing TV advertising corruption?

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Kate Starbird referred to routine record requests I filed to her research institute as a DDOS cyber attack. Gov emails from her DHS partnership showed she wanted to invite a pharma-lobbyist group for content moderation. Maybe view her w/ some skepticism:

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X, formerly Twitter, only responded to 30% of the notes from researchers flagging misinformation in posts, says Kate Starbird, the leader of a misinformation research group.

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Shortly after this brief interaction with Nunes, he had a Capitol Police officer stationed at the event ask hotel staff for us to leave the hotel, which we obliged without hesitation. The man with the beard seen next to Nunes then left the hotel and followed us around the block.

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Bernie won the vast majority of Latinos in the Nevada primary, polls show he leads among Latinos, Asians, Arabs, and either leads or is in second w/ African American voters nationally, but MoveOn spokesperson on MSNBC just said Bernie's base is "mostly white and young"

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There's almost a medieval quality to a lot of political discourse. If you don't agree with every mainstream liberal opinion, then you're a conservative? They see the world in black and white.

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This is baldly inaccurate. @mtaibbi is not a conservative journalist, as anyone familiar with his work knows.

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At the congressional swearing in ceremony for the Tea Party wave, I saw David Koch leaving the building and got a short interview. Every other political interview Koch ever gave was carefully screened. This one wasn't.

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Pfizer executives explain to investors that people may need a third dose of covid vaccine, in addition to regular yearly boosters. The company will soon begin plans to hike prices given the "significant opportunity for our vaccine"

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I have a new feature on the history of neonicotinoids, a widely used insecticide that is pushing butterflies, dragonflies, bumblebees and other forms of insect life to the brink of extinction

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Here's Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch introducing the bankruptcy bill for a Senate floor vote in 2005, thanking Biden for years of tireless support for helping write and advance the legislation.

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Bloomberg campaign has now disclosed $400 million in broadcast, radio & cable ads, $42 million on Facebook ads, $36 million on Google ads, god knows how much on staff, research, & polling. Absolutely on its way to being a many-multi billion dollar effort at this pace.

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13. Notably, this massive push to censor and label covid misinfo never applied to drug companies. When big pharma wildly exaggerated the risks of creating low-cost generic covid vaccines, Stronger did nothing. The rules applied only to critics of industry.

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The biopharma sector employs more than 900,000 workers and supports 4.4 million U.S. jobs. Those jobs would be at risk if the #TRIPS waiver is extended to #COVID19 treatments. Read more about the real consequences of waiving commitments to protect IP:

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They're now going after yet another university president, MIT's Sally Kornbluth, who also declined to censor pro-Palestinian student speech. They are making it very clear this is about enforcing pro-Israel dogma, nothing else.

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Et tu Sally?

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6. Twitter's reps responded quickly to the pharma request, which was also backed by the German government. A lobbyist in Europe asked the content moderation team to monitor the accounts of Pfizer, AstraZeneca & of activist hashtags like #peoplesvaccine

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7. The potential "fake accounts" that Twitter monitored for protesting Pfizer? These were real people. Here's one the Twitter team flagged for potential terms of use violations. I talked to Terry, a 74 year old retired bricklayer in the UK on the phone.

Terry Brough #PeaceJusticeSocialism ✊

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Dear @AlbertBourla , @sbancel & #PascalSoriot , 9/10 people in poor countries are going to MISS OUT on a #COVID19 vaccine next year. Will @Pfizer , @BioNTech_Group @moderna_tx & @AstraZeneca #JoinCTAP to ensure that everyone, everywhere can be safe? We need a #PeoplesVaccine !

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The Brooklyn shooter suspect has a long history of black identity extremism, like lots of mass shooters. But many leftists simultaneously argue that this ideology doesn’t exist & FBI should ignore it *AND* if it does exist police are powerless to stop it. Kind of a contradiction.

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Journalism for a significant number of people means tweeting and publishing content that confirms the biases of an in-group on social media without any skepticism, any original information gathering or any fair minded pursuit of truth. There is no question why we’re so hated.

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Nordstrom in SF is closing over “rampant criminal activity,” following the closure of Whole Foods, Walgreens other shuttered stores for the same reason. Lost jobs, less tax revenue, increasing blight.

Nordstrom is Closing Downtown SF Stores, Citing Difficult Conditions

The closures of two Nordstrom locations in Downtown San Francisco end the company's 35-year presence in the city.

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Bernie desperately needs to not fall into the Corbyn trap of lefty ritualism. He doesnt have move an inch on any of his values or policies but he needs to come across as a normie, a patriotic American. Activist-speak is a filter for the well educated, not the broad working class.

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