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6 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) Speaks Out On Reining in Big Tech and Why Many House Members Refuse

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As House Republicans vocally denounce Big Tech in media appearances, many simultaneously use their power to impede legislative reform.

I spoke with @RepKenBuck about what explains this disparity between their words and actions and what needs to be done.

The politics of antitrust legislation to finally reform Silicon Valley monopoly power has been fascinating and confusing. Many Dems -- who receive large funding from Big Tech -- join with GOP lawmakers who still oppose government efforts. Meanwhile, a bipartisan coalition grows.
Congressman Buck has become one of the most informed and thoughtful opponents of Silicon Valley monopoly abuses. I really enjoyed our 30-minute discussion about the prospects for real reform and whether this reflects a broader political realignment.

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8 Jul
This is American liberalism right here: in its purest expression.

One of MSNBC's most popular hosts - a former Bush/Cheney spokesperson - devotes a whole segment to defending NSA and lamenting distrust in it. She brings on 2 ex-FBI officials, who now work for MSNBC, to do it:
The political faction that is pro-FBI, pro-NSA, pro-CIA -- and whose media is delivered to them by a mix of security state officials, ex Bush/Cheney operatives, and neocons -- is American liberalism.

Just watch that clip to see the authoritarianism of this movement.
If having your newsrooms filled with ex-security state operatives, FBI agents, CIA officials, and Generals -- all of whom are paid employees -- to reflexively defend the FBI, CIA and NSA isn't "State TV," what is?
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8 Jul
Pretty sure I'll be watching that montage in my 80s and enjoying it just as much as I did the first 100 times I saw it.
Remember when Rachel Maddow was so excited she got Avenatti to come on the air to talk about his secret client, Julie Swetnick, who had utterly unhinged and dubious allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, and Maddow treated it as an earth-shattering scoop?

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8 Jul
The Capitol Police, Armed With $2 Billion in New Funding, Expanding Operations Outside of D.C.

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AOC and two other Squad members -- who spent months chanting "Defund the Police" -- had the power to stop this. They originally agreed to vote "no," but instead voted "present" at the last minute to avoid angering Pelosi. @AOC was particularly craven here:
The unleashing of a newly empowered law enforcement and "intelligence" agency now spreading to other states, commanded by Congress, has been enabled by one tactic: the weaponization and exaggeration of the events of January 6 and the supposed grave domestic threat it reflects.
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7 Jul
Tucker Carlson adds more specifics and more reporting to corroborate his claim that the NSA was not just spying on his email communications but using them to leak to reporters. I'll be on tonight at 8 pm ET discussing these claims.
The media dynamic we're seeing here is the same as with the Julian Assange prosecution. You would expect journalists to lead the way in denouncing the prosecution of a journalist and wanting answers to whether the NSA spied on another journalist. But they don't do either.
One reason is they are petty hacks who can't see principle: they don't regard Assange or Carlson as one of them & thus don't care what's done to them.

But the real reason is they're authoritarians: they revere DOJ & NSA - the security state - and thus reflexively side with it.
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7 Jul
Eu me pergunto se a pessoa que falsificou este documento foi a mesma que falsificou o documento bitcoin - pretendendo mostrar que paguei hackers russos - postado por o Pavão Misterioso porque muitos dos principais erros são exatamente os mesmos.
Alguns dos erros óbvios no documento Peacock Mysterious bitcoin são discutidos nesta checagem de fatos - muito semelhante ao do CPI:

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Depois que @Biakicis promoveu o documento bitcoin forjado do Pavão, eu postei este, onde você pode ver muitos dos mesmos erros do documento CPI falso com muita clareza:

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7 Jul
So @cenkuygur made a video last night purporting to respond to me that's so unhinged he's trending and being attacked by his own viewers. *Amazingly*, he 100% ignored the main point that caused me to weigh in: they falsely accused a journalist of being "paid by the Russians":👇
Cenk can rant and rave and sweat and breath as heavily as he wants and it will never erase what he and @TheYoungTurks shamefully did. All his sweat cannot distract from the only issue that matters: they fabricated serious accusations against a journalist:

As for the new costume Cenk is donning -- stalwart defender of women -- remember that his own group, @justicedems, kicked him out for past misogyny, and @BernieSanders had to retract his endorsement for Cenk's Congressional run, when he came in like 18th place with 14 votes:
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