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CNN’s @brikeilarcnn: Some of @GlennYoungkin’s messaging was “dog whistle racism”

@KirstenPowers: “1,000 percent"
@brikeilarcnn @GlennYoungkin @KirstenPowers CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson (@niaCNN) on Va.: "We see the enduring power of the culture wars. It is essentially white identity politics that works for Republicans."
@brikeilarcnn @GlennYoungkin @KirstenPowers @niaCNN MSNBC’s @JoyAnnReid: Exit polls show voters motivated by “education," “which is code for white parents don’t like the idea of teaching about race”
@brikeilarcnn @GlennYoungkin @KirstenPowers @niaCNN @JoyAnnReid Rep. @JacksonLeeTX18 on Va.: “Racism raised its ugly head and the Republican candidate used it very aptly. He followed the Trump playbook — use race and get a win. And that’s very sad."
@brikeilarcnn @GlennYoungkin @KirstenPowers @niaCNN @JoyAnnReid @JacksonLeeTX18 .@cornellbelcher on Va.: Critical Race Theory is the latest iteration of “school bussing” and “welfare queens”

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Jul 26
Which media personalities fare the worse in Fauci's diary? Some standouts.

We can start w/ professional CNN journalist @DanaBashCNN emailing Fauci quotes about how "Jim Jordan trips over his own asshole trying to debate Anthony Fauci." Image
Then we've got CBS's chief medical correspondent @DrLaPook asking Fauci to prep him for his own interview on CBS Morning News, then mentions Fauci several times on air. Fauci notes both facts approvingly. (LaPook would later produce the glowing 60 Minutes profile that Fauci says drove Trump "over the edge" p. 406 area.) In other words Fauci laundered his own PR via "journalist" LaPook, who was only too happy to allow himself to be used.Image
The @WaPo, bowing to Fauci, allowed itself to be censored. In Jan. 2020, @bylenasun calls to check a tip that the Chinese pressured Tedros not to declare a public health emergency. Fauci tells her it's nonsense & writes: "I probably stopped her from writing the story." He adds that Sun said she came to him because he's "in all the important meetings." [Note that this isn't definitive proof he killed the story, but Fauci seems to think so]Image
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Jul 25
Anthony Fauci, writing in his diary in March 2020, clearly loving life:

"Big front page article abut me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyoperbole [sic] to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable peson [sic] in the world.

"Countless profiles on me in multiple media. I cannot even read all the things that are written abuyt me since I am so busy….seriously. POTUS seems to be enamored of me even though I am taking the spotlight away from him. We are developing a very unique and interesting relationship. The entire secret service corps is coming over to me and chatting. They let me into the first gate without even checking ID."Image
Fauci, April 2020: "Continued crazy stuff: Petition to name me “Sexiest Man Alive”; videos games named after me; Fauci Bobblehead; dishes in redstaurants [sic] named after me, and on and on." Image
Fauci, April 2021, recounting being celebrated at a pizza restaurant at American University: "I walked out of the restaurant with Andre Jacobs, my security man, and the entire population of people who are eating outdoors at
Al Dente and Chef Geoff’s burst into a prolonged round of applause. It was really quite charming."Image
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May 7
If the DoJ still pretends to care about enforcing the law equally, Tony Fauci must be indicted for lying to Congress.

A thread, with receipts. 🧵

1 - MASKS: Feb 5, 2020. Private email to former HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell:

"The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus… Masks are really for infected people."

Months later, the same Anthony Fauci was on TV recommending double-masking, demanding mask mandates, and insisting "the science had evolved."

The science hadn't evolved. He was just now trying to use masks to soften up the public for an eventual vaccine rollout.

In a deposition under oath about this & related topics, he said "I don't recall" 100+ times.Image
2 - GAIN OF FUNCTION: Sworn testimony, May 2021:

"The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology."

This was false.

The HHS Inspector General report (January 2025) confirmed NIH grants to EcoHealth Alliance funded research at WIV that met the federal definition of gain-of-function research of concern.

UNC virologist Ralph Baric confirmed in congressional deposition that the NIH-funded EcoHealth research in Wuhan resulted in a "gain of function phenotype."

Fauci hid behind a 2014 NIH carve-out that — by design — excluded what he was funding. (h/t to @RandPaul for continually holding his feet to the fire on this) x.com/tomselliott/st…
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Feb 15
Wouldn't it be wild if we find out Qanon was ... Jeffrey Epstein?

And that the whole thing was a plot designed to make the idea of an elite child sex trafficking ring so ludicrous, so dangerous, that we must purge the internet of such "fake news," lest we want more Pizzagate tragedies? 

Hear me out. 

In 2013, Epstein meets with the 4chan founder the day before the platform drops its infamous /pol board, which became a hive for "far right" memes and eventually Qanon. (Of note, 4chan's founder says the timing is a coincidence and he regrets his relationship w/ Epstein.)

The meeting came via Bill Gates' adviser/Epstein's friend, Boris Nikolic, who marveled of these platforms' exploitability to Epstein: "the potential for manipulation is huge." Nikolic linked a WaPo article discussing how 4Chan had been exploited to launch cyberattacks and fuel a “hive mind” mentality. justice.gov/epstein/files/…

Later in 2013, Epstein emails Joi Ito, Martin Nowak, and Joscha Bach on the importance of narratives people can emotionally invest in: "the deception of the individual is necessary for the survivability of the group... A nation needs heroes. A hero is someone who is dead, for the benefit of the group. deception between different hierarchies... work hard to become successful, benefit for the org, not you" justice.gov/epstein/files/…

We also see in these files Epstein spending a fortune manipulating online perceptions of his operations. 

In 2012, he hired Reputation Changer LLC for a comprehensive "Reputation Clearing Action Plan.™" The proposal explicitly states the goal was to "suppress negative listings that can render them nearly invisible" and achieve "full control and maintenance of Jeffrey Epstein's major search engine results to avoid permanent public embarrassment." justice.gov/epstein/files/…

Reputation Changer used a "proprietary Reputation Management and Real-Time Linking System™" designed to "push negative content about you or your brand off of the first page of the major search engines and out of general public view" [Page 7]. Their analysis showed that 95% of web users don't search past page 1, making first-page dominance crucial.

The firm identified specific "negative keywords" including "Jeffrey Epstein" and monitored search results showing problematic content like:"Jeffrey Epstein kept a diary of his under-aged victims - Telegraph""Jeffrey Epstein: How the Hedge Fund Mogul Pedophile Got Off Easy""Jeffrey Epstein: This Isn't A Sex Offender, It's An Offender!" [Page 6]2016: Wikileaks begins DNC drops. This is the first time the public encounters the kind of depraved behavior we've since learned overlaps with the Epstein files. 

Soon thereafter, Epstein is emailing his lawyer with the idea of mixing fake, extreme emails into the real ones: "What a trick could be played," he writes. justice.gov/epstein/files/…

2017: Feds turn up heat (supposedly) on Epstein, around which time the Qanon drops begin. The conspiracy theory's focus on elite child trafficking networks directly mirrored the allegations against Epstein. 

Also of note: News of Epstein's death was posted to 4chan more than half an hour before it became public, leading the NYCFD to investigate if someone leaked. This indicates the platform's potential use for seeding narratives as part of larger psyops. 

The Epstein files also include an email from a redacted source (although I can see it's his friend, the late author Edward Jay Epstein) with CIA Document #1035-960 from April 1967 marked "PSYCH" for Psychological Warfare Operations, which provided instructions for "media assets" on how to label critics as "conspiracy theorists." Epstein responded: "great, i would frame it and highlight the words our ploy" (emph. added). (I also can't help but note: Edward Jay Epstein was a published author whose most famous book skeptically examined the Warren Commission report; he would have been well experienced to help manufacture fake Qanon posts, but THIS IS PURE SPECULATION.)  justice.gov/epstein/files/… 

Also of significance is Ghsillane Maxwell's prominent role in Reddit. Maxwell's Reddit account The account "accumulated 14,993,132 Karma since March 11, 2016," per the FBI, and "served as an influential moderator for many subreddits. This is an extraordinary amount of karma indicating either highly popular content, or more likely, systematic posting. justice.gov/epstein/files/…

The FBI noted "gaps in posting surrounding the death of Ghislaine Maxwell's mother (Elisabeth Maxwell), suggesting the account's activity correlated with real-world events in Maxwell's life. Unsurprisingly, Maxwell used the account to try persuading people toward more lenient attitudes on child sex trafficking, posting links like:

"Falkvinge: Three strong reasons child porn must be re-legalized in the coming decade"
"Girl steps in front of man's car. He grabs her arm and lectures her about traffic safety. Result? He is now a convicted sex offender"

Finally, the Qanon craziness ended up playing a role in Maxwell's trial. During one of the proceedings, "Qanon activists" began interrupting proceedings, and her lawyers used the apparent risk of Pizzagate/Qanon violence to insist she be granted bail. 

OF COURSE, I have identified NO SMOKING GUN that Jeffrey Epstein was surreptitiously running the Qanon psyop. But there is certainly a lot of circumstantial evidence that overlaps with his own strategic interests. 

Ultimately, in the Qanon conspiracy, Trump was the hero who was secretly arranging to have pedos lined up & arrested. In reality, he doesn't seem particularly interested in us pulling this thread any harder. Opinions as to why will surely differ.Image
Btw I found the emails showing Epstein’s interest in psychological operations via @IanCarrollShow’s ridiculously clutch @Thewebb_io (which btw seems to be shadowbanned as it doesn’t appear in X searches)
@IanCarrollShow @Thewebb_io Another curiosity: Did you know the Pizzagate shooter was recently killed in a police shooting? cbsnews.com/news/pizzagate…
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Feb 6
Thread: Epstein emails related to he & his friends' enthusiasm for pizza ... Image
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"major pizza lunch in the afternoon downtown" Image
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"Please let me know what you find out about the pizza place." Image
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Oct 17, 2025
Flashback: In 2013 @AmbJohnBolton said @Snowden "ought to swing from a tall oak tree"
In 2017, John Bolton, commented on Hillary's illegal server, saying if he used a private email server, he'd be prosecuted.

Varney: “You were ambassador to the United Nations. You dealt in secret material. I’m sure you did. If you played fast and loose with it, what happened to you?”
BOLTON: “Look if I tried to set up my own separate email communications system it would have been leaked to ‘The Washington Post’ and ‘The New York Times’ simultaneously with my asking for it. If I’d going ahead and set it up I think I would be liable to prosecution."
@AmbJohnBolton @Snowden In 2023, Bolton commented on Trump: "He was kind of a collector of things that he thought were of interest to him for some reason or another, clippings, mementos, classified documents. And it was very disturbing."
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