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11 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is a spectacularly good event from April, 2002 — just 7 months after the 9/11 attack — with Gore Vidal, where he speaks about the US, war, terrorism, civil liberties. Highly recommended: reminder of what public intellectuals did before social media:

Speaking of Vidal: not sure why some historically ignorant journalists suddenly decided to pretend they were experts in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, but Vidal was the journalist who best knew McVeigh. This iconic Vanity Fair essay is amazing:

archive.vanityfair.com/article/2001/9…
That essay by Vidal — a lifelong leftist, but a critically minded & informed one — goes way beyond Oklahoma City/McVeigh to Waco, Ruby Ridge, CIA/FBI lies, & the civil liberties erosions of the 90s in the name of “domestic terrorism.” Vidal would never survive Twitter. Read that.
If Vidal were writing in the age of Twitter, he’d last about a week. Some op-ed writer with the NYT or WPost would take a snippet from an article of his (probably that Vanity Fair essay), proclaim he’s a white supremacist, the tweet would go viral, and that’d be the end of that.

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10 Oct
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Here's another angle of the madness created by Luciano Hang today (his Twitter account, @luciano_hang, is currently suspended worldwide by order of Brazil's Supreme Court, for spreading Fake News for Bolsonaro (video by @BelemNoticiass):
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Newly obtained docs FOIA'd from the Dept of Agriculture reveal how factory farm industry groups surveil and initiate reputation-destroying campaigns against veterinarians & other industry critics.

Tomorrow on SYTSEM UPDATE, debuting at 11 am, on @TheIntercept's YouTube channel.
One of the industry ringleaders of these campaigns of intimidation and reputation-destruction against veterinarians and activists who denounce the abuses of factory farms is @AnimalAg & its VP, @BuckeyeHannah, who boast of their surveillance program against activists.
Tune in for the debut SYSTEM UPDATE episode tomorrow at 11 am where we'll review these newly documents in detail, demonstrate how these industry groups use intimidation and surveillance tactics to punish critics, and how Dr. Heath has been specifically targeted for her critiques.
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9 Oct
So much of the most impactful Trump-era “reporting” has been proven fraudulent — Cambridge Analytica, Alfa Bank & the Steele Dossier are just the latest — but media outlets don’t want to know because they profited greatly, sold books, & showered themselves with Pulitzers for it.
Even the Russiagate-friendly NY Times now essentially acknowledges, buried deep in articles, that the Steele Dossier was a fraud. But it goes far beyond that: there was massive abuse of power & disinformation from FBI & CIA as part of the 2016 Russiagate investigation & few care.
That the FBI fraudulently obtained warrants to spy on a US citizen is a far bigger scandal than anything Russiagate revealed. But media outlets are uninterested in abuse of power by FBI/DOJ & CIA because they were the key partners to these agencies in spreading disinformation.
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7 Oct
The documentary “Mighty Ira” — about the life of Ira Glasser, who lead the @ACLU from 1978 to 2001, including when it defended the right of Nazis to march through Skokie — is exceptionally good. Debuts on Friday. Trailer here:

The film has obvious relevance to many contemporary debates, particularly given the wavering commitment to free speech among sectors of the liberal-left. If you’re someone who doubts the mission of defending free speech even for toxic reactionary groups, this film is vital.
“Mighty Ira” highlights why many civil rights leaders supported ACLU’s work in defense of free speech rights of racist groups - knowing they’d be next if censorship prevailed. It also explores why free speech has long been a vital leftist - and specifically Jewish leftist - cause
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New study confirms even further what has long been known: a key cause for future pandemics is the animal agriculture/factory farm industry. It’s a menace on all levels.

If we don’t find new ways to feed ourselves as a species quickly, this will worsen:

independent.co.uk/news/health/co…
As this excellent @NRO article documents, the bravery and efficacy of animal rights activists — taking on one of the most powerful and toxic industries in the world, which harm humanity and the planet on every level — deserves far more attention.

nationalreview.com/2020/10/the-an…
For decades, animal rights was considered even on the left to be a fringe, trivial cause. It’s increasingly recognized that it’s central to every major challenge humanity faces: not even really a left-wing cause any more. Its activists are among the bravest & more studied I know.
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1 Oct
When it comes to the actions by the world’s most powerful governments, I’d rather hear what they have to say than have newspapers protect me from it. We should just explain to adults that when a newspaper publishes someone’s opinion, it doesn’t mean they agree with it:
When the Obama Admin seized the right to target US citizens for assassination with no due process, and then went on an unprecedented orgy prosecuting whistleblowers for espionage — 2 of the gravest civil liberties threats in decades — I wanted to hear from them justifying it.
Same when Bush/Cheney set up worldwide torture camps as CIA black sites, kidnapped people off the streets, created a due-process-free island prison, etc. Media should tell us how they defend it.

Same reason the US media blackout of Al Qaeda explaining 9/11 was a disservice.
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