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Eighteen Years Ago Today, Journalist Gary Webb Was Murdered After Exposing CIA Drug Trafficking - CovertAction Magazine
On December 10, 2004, the body of journalist Gary Webb, 49, was discovered in his home near Sacramento after a moving company worker found a note posted to his front door that read: “Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance.” Webb’s death was listed as a suicide, but Webb was found..."
On December 10, 2004, the body of journalist Gary Webb, 49, was discovered in his home near Sacramento after a moving company worker found a note posted to his front door that read: “Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance.” Webb’s death was listed as a suicide, but Webb was found..."
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Eighteen Years Ago Today, Journalist Gary Webb Was Murdered After Exposing CIA Drug Trafficking - CovertAction Magazine
On December 10, 2004, the body of journalist Gary Webb, 49, was discovered in his home near Sacramento after a moving company worker found a note posted to his front door that read: “Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance.” Webb’s death was…
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Liz Harrington's thread on the election fraud in Arizona.
https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1601386586964643842?s=20
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https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1601386586964643842?s=20
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NEW from Matt Taibbi's (paywalled) Substack
✂️Everyone involved with the project, including myself as well as Bari Weiss and Michael Shellenberger, has editorial control.
We’ve been encouraged to look not just at historical Twitter, but the current iteration as well. I was told flat-out I could write anything I wanted, including anything about the current company and its new chief, Elon Musk.
If anything, the degree of openness on that front freaked me out a little initially, being so far from any other experience I’ve had.
In our initial meeting, Musk talked about how he thought a “full confessional restores faith in the company,” and everything I’ve seen since seems to confirm he’s sincere about his desire for full open-kimono transparency with the public.
He says we’re “welcome to look at things going forward, not just at the past,” and until I run into a reason to believe otherwise, I’m taking him at his word. I’d be crazy not to, considering the access we’ve already been given.
This is a historic opportunity, and I think we’re all trying to treat that opportunity with the appropriate respect, which among other things means staying as focused as we can be on the documents, and trying to make as much sense of them as we can, as quickly as we can.
...a major subtext of the Twitter Files project is what a burn it is on conventional/corporate media, whose minions tried for years to turn Twitter into a giant conformity machine, and cheered each new advance in censorship and opinion control.
Those same people now have to watch in helplessness as one horrifying revelation after another spills out, guerrilla-style, into what was not long ago their private playground. This, too, couldn’t be scripted better. It’s like sending an intercontinental shit-missile screaming into the dais of the White House correspondents’ dinner at 15,000 m.p.h....
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✂️Everyone involved with the project, including myself as well as Bari Weiss and Michael Shellenberger, has editorial control.
We’ve been encouraged to look not just at historical Twitter, but the current iteration as well. I was told flat-out I could write anything I wanted, including anything about the current company and its new chief, Elon Musk.
If anything, the degree of openness on that front freaked me out a little initially, being so far from any other experience I’ve had.
In our initial meeting, Musk talked about how he thought a “full confessional restores faith in the company,” and everything I’ve seen since seems to confirm he’s sincere about his desire for full open-kimono transparency with the public.
He says we’re “welcome to look at things going forward, not just at the past,” and until I run into a reason to believe otherwise, I’m taking him at his word. I’d be crazy not to, considering the access we’ve already been given.
This is a historic opportunity, and I think we’re all trying to treat that opportunity with the appropriate respect, which among other things means staying as focused as we can be on the documents, and trying to make as much sense of them as we can, as quickly as we can.
...a major subtext of the Twitter Files project is what a burn it is on conventional/corporate media, whose minions tried for years to turn Twitter into a giant conformity machine, and cheered each new advance in censorship and opinion control.
Those same people now have to watch in helplessness as one horrifying revelation after another spills out, guerrilla-style, into what was not long ago their private playground. This, too, couldn’t be scripted better. It’s like sending an intercontinental shit-missile screaming into the dais of the White House correspondents’ dinner at 15,000 m.p.h....
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Elon Musk @elonmusk
Twitter is both a social media company and a crime scene
Twitter is both a social media company and a crime scene
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Media is too big
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🚨 Lt. Col. Theresa Long Shares the LONG List of COVID Vax Injuries She is Seeing Clinically in Our Military
“I’ve seen three strokes, trans-ischemic attacks, massive clot to the spleen and liver, spinal tumors, brain tumors, sarcoidosis, lupus, cognitive impairment, myocarditis, pericarditis, avascular necrosis of the hip requiring total hip replacement without history of trauma or underlying coagulopathy, I see a shocking suppression of the immune system that is pervasive, and increased liver enzymes”
https://rumble.com/v1zrszg--lt.-col.-theresa-long-shares-the-long-list-of-covid-vax-injuries-she-is-se.html
@ChiefNerd
“I’ve seen three strokes, trans-ischemic attacks, massive clot to the spleen and liver, spinal tumors, brain tumors, sarcoidosis, lupus, cognitive impairment, myocarditis, pericarditis, avascular necrosis of the hip requiring total hip replacement without history of trauma or underlying coagulopathy, I see a shocking suppression of the immune system that is pervasive, and increased liver enzymes”
https://rumble.com/v1zrszg--lt.-col.-theresa-long-shares-the-long-list-of-covid-vax-injuries-she-is-se.html
@ChiefNerd
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In a series of tweets, Taibbi showed that Twitter's Elections & Crisis Response Patrick Conlon was pushing for the removal of jokes and content by conservatives on the platform.
Prior to his term at Twitter, Conlon worked in intelligence for the US Department of Defense.
Conlon acitvely worked to silence these accounts by saying the jokes were a violation of the terms of service.
On January 6, 2021, the day of the Capitol riot and Trump's last rally as president, held at the Ellipse, Trump tweeted out to supporters to tell them to disperse from the Capitol.
"These are the things and events that hapepn when a sacred landslide election victor is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home wiht love & peace," Trump wrote. "Remember this day forever!"
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Prior to his term at Twitter, Conlon worked in intelligence for the US Department of Defense.
Conlon acitvely worked to silence these accounts by saying the jokes were a violation of the terms of service.
On January 6, 2021, the day of the Capitol riot and Trump's last rally as president, held at the Ellipse, Trump tweeted out to supporters to tell them to disperse from the Capitol.
"These are the things and events that hapepn when a sacred landslide election victor is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home wiht love & peace," Trump wrote. "Remember this day forever!"
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✂️Shellenberger said the internal communications showed that Twitter leadership had decided to pursue a change of policy “for Trump alone, distinct from other political leaders,” and that they expressed “no concern for the free speech or democracy implications of a ban.”
Shellenberger said that, following the events of Jan. 6, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was facing growing internal and external pressure to ban Trump from the platform.
Trump was demonized among Democrats, which was the political preference among most of Twitter’s staff and senior executives.
“In 2018, 2020, and 2022, 96%, 98%, & 99% of Twitter staff’s political donations went to Democrats,” Shellenberger said.
Voices pressuring Dorsey to remove Trump after the events of Jan. 6 included former First Lady Michelle Obama, tech journalist Kara Swisher, and the Jewish NGO Anti-Defamation League, among many others, Shellenberger noted.
As Dorsey was on vacation during the national crisis, he “delegated much of the handling of the situation” to senior execs at the time: Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, and Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s former head of legal policy and trust.
Roth had publicly acknowledged his anti-Trump views on Twitter many times. He had posted in 2017 that there were “ACTUAL NAZIS IN THE WHITE HOUSE,” in reference to President Trump.
Shellenberger said Roth was “excited to share” that Dorsey approved a decision for Twitter to introduce a new policy that would allow it to permanently ban users who are considered a “repeat offender for civic integrity.”
“The new approach would create a system where five violations (‘strikes’) would result in permanent suspension,” according to Shellenberger.
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Shellenberger said that, following the events of Jan. 6, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was facing growing internal and external pressure to ban Trump from the platform.
Trump was demonized among Democrats, which was the political preference among most of Twitter’s staff and senior executives.
“In 2018, 2020, and 2022, 96%, 98%, & 99% of Twitter staff’s political donations went to Democrats,” Shellenberger said.
Voices pressuring Dorsey to remove Trump after the events of Jan. 6 included former First Lady Michelle Obama, tech journalist Kara Swisher, and the Jewish NGO Anti-Defamation League, among many others, Shellenberger noted.
As Dorsey was on vacation during the national crisis, he “delegated much of the handling of the situation” to senior execs at the time: Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, and Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s former head of legal policy and trust.
Roth had publicly acknowledged his anti-Trump views on Twitter many times. He had posted in 2017 that there were “ACTUAL NAZIS IN THE WHITE HOUSE,” in reference to President Trump.
Shellenberger said Roth was “excited to share” that Dorsey approved a decision for Twitter to introduce a new policy that would allow it to permanently ban users who are considered a “repeat offender for civic integrity.”
“The new approach would create a system where five violations (‘strikes’) would result in permanent suspension,” according to Shellenberger.
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Thousands of pediatricians convened in Anaheim, Calif., in early October for the American Academy of Pediatrics’s (AAP) annual conference. The group, which boasts 67,000 members in the United States and around the world describes itself as "dedicated to the health of all children."
So some audience members were shocked when Dr. Morissa Ladinsky, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, lauded a transgender teenager for committing suicide.
In an address about "standing up for gender-affirming care," Ladinsky eulogized Leelah Alcorn, an Ohio 17-year-old who, in Ladinsky’s words, "stepped boldly in front of a tractor trailer, ending her life," in 2014, after leaving a suicide note that "went viral, literally around the world."
Ladinsky’s remarks were captured on video by a horrified onlooker, Oregon pediatrician Dr. Julia Mason, who expressed outrage on Twitter that Ladinsky was "glorifying suicide," an act she described as "unprofessional and dangerous."
That isn’t just Mason’s opinion. Technically speaking, it is also the official stance of the AAP, whose website for parents, healthychildren.org, explicitly warns that "glorifying suicide" can have a "‘contagious’ effect" and inspire others to take their own lives.
Reached for comment, Ladinsky expressed "regret" about her choice of words and said it was "never my intent" to glorify self-harm.
But how did this esteemed doctor wind up telling a group of physicians that a teen had, as she put it, "boldly ended her life?"
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So some audience members were shocked when Dr. Morissa Ladinsky, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, lauded a transgender teenager for committing suicide.
In an address about "standing up for gender-affirming care," Ladinsky eulogized Leelah Alcorn, an Ohio 17-year-old who, in Ladinsky’s words, "stepped boldly in front of a tractor trailer, ending her life," in 2014, after leaving a suicide note that "went viral, literally around the world."
Ladinsky’s remarks were captured on video by a horrified onlooker, Oregon pediatrician Dr. Julia Mason, who expressed outrage on Twitter that Ladinsky was "glorifying suicide," an act she described as "unprofessional and dangerous."
That isn’t just Mason’s opinion. Technically speaking, it is also the official stance of the AAP, whose website for parents, healthychildren.org, explicitly warns that "glorifying suicide" can have a "‘contagious’ effect" and inspire others to take their own lives.
Reached for comment, Ladinsky expressed "regret" about her choice of words and said it was "never my intent" to glorify self-harm.
But how did this esteemed doctor wind up telling a group of physicians that a teen had, as she put it, "boldly ended her life?"
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