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27 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
In a London court this morning, the Biden Admin is appealing a ruling from a UK Judge that rejected the US request to extradite Assange to the US, on the ground that his physical and mental health cannot endure US prisons. Follow @richimedhurst reporting on the hearing today:
The Biden Admin's attempts to extradite Assange to the US to imprison him for life for his reporting - and their ongoing success in keeping him imprisoned pending appeal - is the worst assault on western press freedom by far. That only independent journalists care speaks volumes.
In February, virtually every press freedom and civil liberties group urged Biden to cease the prosecution of Assange, warning it was a grave threat to press freedom. He ignored them, and few cared, because feigning concern for press freedom ended in 2021:

nytimes.com/2021/02/08/us/…
Also reporting live on the Assange hearing, as usual, is @kgosztola. It's amazing that to really follow the court case that is the greatest US assault on press freedom by far in the west, one must rely on independent journalists with little budget:

Joe Biden sent his DOJ lawyers to a UK courtroom today to demand that one of our generation's most consequential journalists be kept in harsh prison conditions, as his health deteriorates, to be prosecuted for his reporting.

But at least Biden doesn't post rambunctious tweets.

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29 Oct
The ADL has very strong opinions about a documentary that has not yet aired and that they have not yet seen. It's legitimate to comment on *the discourse* that emerges from others who have seen something you haven't, but condemning a program that hasn't aired is madness.
The reason this Fox program on 1/6 is provoking such fury -- aside from the fact that 1/6 has taken on quasi-religious significance for liberals and is the basis for their second War on Terror -- is questions about what the FBI knew in advance and what its role was are taboo.
It's an established fact that the FBI engineered right-wing groups to join a plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer. It's an established fact that the FBI had at least two informants at the Capitol (NYT). It's established fact that FBI had its hooks in the 3 key groups associated with 1/6.
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28 Oct
Greg Kelly's Newsmax show now beats 3 different CNN shows in the ratings: Don Lemon's 11pm show and both the 6am and 7am hour of CNN's "New Day." 🤣
Equally amusing is that CNN is not only incapable of exceeding 1 million total viewers for any of its shows - including prime-time - but also now can't even exceed 750,000!

My last Rumble interview was watched by 1.4 million people, with zero corporate backing & no cable access Image
There's also a lot here to mock regarding MSNBC's disappearing audience as well but I try, mostly out of pity, to limit my tweets about the rapidly evaporating corporate liberal media to two tweets a week.
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28 Oct
To say @lessig is no fan of Cruz or the GOP generally is a huge understatement.

Yet even he sees the headlines from the Daily Beast and other liberal outlets claiming Cruz "defended" the Nazi Salute are such blatant lies that he had to denounce it. They fabricate constantly:
This headline from DB & @justinbaragona is pure, 100% fabrication, complete fake news, disinformation, whatever you want to call it.

But there will never be any Twitter or Facebook bans of it or labels or whatever, let alone retractions, because it serves the right ideology. Image
Unsurprisingly, this viral lie came from the epicenter of media fabrications, the fabulist virus himself:

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26 Oct
What matters with dog experimentations is the US Govt is using taxpayer funds to conduct gruesome, morally reprehensible and medically useless experiments on canines. Liberals seem desperate to claim it's not Fauci's fault - just the agencies he controls - but that's secondary.
The idea that Fauci doesn't know that these experiments are going on and lacks the power to stop them is laughable. This has been an activist issue for decades within his agencies.

But even if liberals need to defend Fauci, the experiments should still immediately be banned.
This video is from the great @beaglefreedom, which rescues beagles after the government declares them useless (most are killed). This shows one of the beagles -- like most, "devocalized" so they can't make noise" -- stepping on grass for the first time:

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26 Oct
Judge Amy Berman Jackson releases a 1/6 defendant from pre-trial prison, where has been held since March, after he writes a letter promising that he has changed his political views and now hates Trump. The judge directs his father to keep Fox and MSNBC off in the house. Thread:
Trump "is not a leader and should be ostracized from any political future, what he honestly needs to do is go away! -- 1/6 defendant Thomas Sibick, writing a letter renouncing his political views on Trump, to be released from pre-trial prison.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
He should have been made to throw darts at a picture of Trump's face before he was released, to prove he really meant it. Maybe Judge Berman Jackson will consider that for the next defendant seeking to be released from this harsh prison despite having been convicted of no crime.
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26 Oct
After the behavior of the corporate media over the last 5 years -- an endless string of lies and deranged conspiracy theories to promote a clear agenda -- people are right to assume they're lying.

When CNN gets caught in lies, it either denies it or won't even acknowledge it:
As just two examples:

1) CNN lied about Joe Rogan so blatantly even Sanjay Gupta admitted it. Then they forced Gupta to backtrack.

2) CNN lied about the Biden emails being "Russian disinformation," and won't *even acknowledge* the proof in @SchreckReports' new book proving this
In the weeks before the 2020 election, almost every corporate outlet disseminated a blatant CIA lie: that the Biden family emails were "Russian disinformation."

A new book from a POLITICO reporter has the proof that the emails are authentic and *they won't even mention it*.
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