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Jan 19 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

Authoritarian China to Olympic athletes: Don't speak out about politics while you're here, or you may face punishment (i.e., don't mention how we wrecked Hong Kong's democracy or are conducting an ongoing genocide in Xinjiang).
washingtonpost.com/sports/olympic…

Meanwhile, the health-tracking smartphone app that Olympics attendees must download has security flaws that expose personal data. The app’s code has a list of political keywords & lets users report “politically sensitive" content, a cybersecurity research group says.

Related, how Hitler conducted the 1936 Olympics. "At the Winter Olympics in the Bavarian resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Hitler reluctantly agreed to remove antisemitic signs under pressure from the president of the International Olympic Committee." ushmm.org/collections/bi…

Also, Olympic athletes, Beijing doesn't want you to talk about old Chinese Communists who try to coerce you into sex. washingtonpost.com/sports/olympic…

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Nov 1, 2021

For the 1st time since 9/11, every early-warning US anti-terror center—all 80 of them—had info of a terror attack on Washington at 1 pm Jan. 6. 300 US officials attended a call 2 days before the attack on the US Capitol. Why didn’t they stop the violence? washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…

48 hours before the bloody attack of the Capitol, a senior US official “asked the city’s health department to convene a call of D.C.-area hospitals and urged them to prepare for a mass casualty event. Empty your emergency rooms, he said, and stock up your blood banks.”

A Dec. 20 FBI tipster said the violent terrorists believed they had “orders from the President,” used code words such as “pickaxe” to describe guns and posted the times and locations of four spots around the country for caravans to meet the day before the joint session.

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Oct 29, 2021

The bump happened when the flight attendant was moving through the cabin.
She apologized.
The first-class passenger got up—and punched her in the face. She was hospitalized for broken bones.
washingtonpost.com/transportation…

"Hedrick said the union also is looking into an incident that occurred Wednesday in Honolulu. During the incident, a passenger allegedly spit at and slapped a flight attendant while exiting an airplane."

“It’s not just the masks,” Hedrick said. “Our passengers have changed. Their behavior on our flights, the safety of our flight attendants, the safety of our passengers — every day is being threatened here.”

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