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13 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
"Ro Khanna, that’s nice" -- the extremely wealthy Nancy Pelosi, mocking her own colleague for urging that economic relief be passed to provide economic suffering in a pandemic to people who are suffering:
Here's the video of the above exchange. On top of everything, it's kind of hilarious that Pelosi claims that CNN -- **CNN** -- serve as apologists and propagandists for the Republicans.

This is simply unbelievable. Watch until the end. Not sure I've ever seen a performance quite like this, especially given what's at stake:

She feeds them.
Just made this the ringtone on my phone.

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15 Oct
Look carefully at what Twitter is saying to justify censoring the Biden story. If applied consistently, it’d mean that some of history’s most consequential journalism — the Pentagon Papers, WikiLeaks’ war logs, Snowden docs, Panama Papers, our Brazil Archive — would be banned. Image
So much of the important journalism you read is based on a source providing to journalists “content obtained without authorization.”

Beyond the above examples, why doesn’t Twitter ban links to the NYT’s stories based on Trump’s tax returns, “obtained without authorization?”
Please don’t be deceived. The authoritarian mindset expressed below — celebrating mass censorship of journalism they dislike — is absolutely a significant strain in current US liberalism, which is why so many of them cheered the stunning censorship yesterday: Image
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14 Oct
You're seeing the immense, unchallengeable, unaccountable power of Silicon Valley giants over the flow of information. Imagine if Google joins in.

What's so amazing is that they never wanted this role. It was foisted on them by people, led by journalists, demanding they censor:
The NY Post story was a minor, largely redundant report even if the docs are real.

The extreme act of censorship by tech giants to suppress it, cheered on by journalists, is a major story of historic proportions.

They always had this undemocratic power; today they used it.
Releasing the private pictures of Hunter Biden is disgusting. That serves no legitimate purpose. But the Burisma emails are of obvious public interest. Has anyone even alleged that those emails are anything other than authentic?

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14 Oct
If foreign hackers working for, say, Iran or Venezuela or China hacked into the Trump Organization and obtained authentic & incriminating docs and gave them to media outlets with the explicit goal of defeating Trump, does anyone think media outlets would hesitate to report them?
Journalists have one core function: to provide the public with true information about powerful people and entities that pertains to the public interest.

The minute they start promulgating guidelines to allow them to abstain or refrain from doing that, journalism is corrupted.
It’s appropriate for partisan bloggers or operatives to use Twitter to try to bully, coerce, shame journalists out of reporting negative information on their candidate. That’s their role.

Just like it’s the role of journalists not to let Twitter popularity shape their reporting.
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11 Oct
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.
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10 Oct
The scene today in COVID-ridden Brazil, in the city of Belém, where a new Havan department store -- owned by one of Bolsonaro's primary funders and most loyal supporters, @luciano_hang -- opened with Hang present, encouraging more and more crowds:

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):
And oh: this happened on the same day that Brazil passed 150,000 deaths from COVID, with just over 5 million confirmed cases:

www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2020…
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9 Oct
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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