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23 Dec, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Amazing: Fox Business' @MariaBartiromo mistook an animal rights activist as the CEO of Smithfield -- one of the planet's most toxic corporations for public health, environment, labor abuses and treatment of animals -- and interviewed him about Smithfield, as CEO, for 6 minutes:
Some of the most brilliant, inventive and courageous activism is done by these activists to expose the unparalleled evils of factory farms like Smithfield. Whatever you think of family farms, these petri dishes of disease and torture are their opposite:

theintercept.com/2017/10/05/fac…
Please follow & support @DxEverywhere, the group behind this. Their young activists face felony charges all over the US for the "crime" of exposing what happens in factory farms. I interviewed @DxE_Matt in Aug about the last amazing Smithfield hoax he did

LOL:

msn.com/en-us/money/sm…
Don't let your entertainment over this outstanding activism obscure the vital truth that it conveyed: factory farms are probably the single greatest threat to new pandemics because of how foul and unhygienic their largely unregulated practices are:

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
For those asking: the full 6-minute video of the Fox Business interview of animal rights activist @DxE_Matt as the Smithfield Foods CEO can be seen here:

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How come the people who always talk about the sanctity of "norms" are always the ones most eager to abolish the longest-standing and most fundamental norms?

Also, I don't think one can say that it's just one party who has abused the pardon power for corrupt ends:
The presidential pardon is a vital tool for correcting grave injustices perpetrated by a mix of Congress and prosecutors. Without it, Alice Johnson & scores of other non-violent offenders would still be in prison. So would this great Louisville activist:

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Like every government power, it's subject to abuse. Among the worst recent pardons: Bush 41's of his Iran-contra aides to protect himself; Clinton's of Marc Rich & his own half-brother (but not other drug offenders); Trump's of Blackwater killers & random corrupt GOP politicians.
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23 Dec
With Biden's New Threats, the Russia Discourse is More Reckless and Dangerous Than Ever

greenwald.substack.com/p/with-bidens-…
"The US media demands inflammatory claims be accepted with no evidence, while hacking behavior routinely engaged in by the US is depicted as aberrational.

The NSA reporting enabled by Snowden by itself proved that the NSA spies on virtually anyone it can - including Russia."
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greenwald.substack.com/p/with-bidens-…
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23 Dec
It is genuinely astonishing that after all these years, and all the outright lies Kristol has told, that gullible people treat his claims about secret conversations he had with anonymous sources -- ones which *always* perfectly coincide with his political agenda -- as credible.
As long as you serve the establishment's agenda of militarism and corporatism, there's nothing you can do - no lie big enough, no claim false enough - to lose credibility.

They'll scapegoat a Judy Miller if things get too glaring, but she's an Oracle of Truth compared to Kristol
Bill Kristol has never been anything other than a tawdry neocon propagandist and never will be. Yet he's now literally one of liberals' most trusted and cherished pundits, a regular MSNBC guest, a social media star to Dems.

They have the spokesman that movement deserves.
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That would be awkward.
What kind of monstrous country goes around hacking into and spying on the government agencies of other nations?

It's unthinkable, rogue behavior that must be punished.
"The lack of self-awareness in reactions to the Russia breach is astounding. The US has no principled basis to complain about the Russia hack since the U.S. government hacks foreign government networks on a huge scale every day" - @jacklgoldsmith

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21 Dec
What about the argument that because African-Americans and Latinos are harder hit by COVID, they should go before old whites? Doesn't this justify Rubio getting one?

Also, AOC, almost 20 years younger than Rubio, got vaccinated yesterday. Same people angry she went to the front?
We need and expect Congress to work, including by passing a COVID relief package. Anyone who society demands leave their house to work for the good of everyone should have priority to get a vaccine (such as Rubio, AOC, etc.), along with the highest-risk populations.
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Anyone who works in journalism has heard for years that Rukmini Callimachi's reporting - not just on "Caliphate" but many stories - was shoddy, unreliable, unethical and often false. @ErikWemple examines how and why top NYT editors ignored these concerns:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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So ironic - and revealing - that the NYT being forced to retract much of its award-winning "Caliphate" podcast came days after the Guardian op-ed warning of the dangers of "sinister" podcasts spreading "disinformation" - meaning not the NYT but Joe Rogan.
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