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Not only is there no evidence that the documents used by the NY Post were the by-product of "hacking" by Russia or anyone else -- Twitter's false excuse for banning discussion of the story -- the NYT has confirmed that the laptop was left and never picked up at the repair store:
In March, 2022 - almost 18 months after the election was over and the CIA, which invented this lie, got what it wanted: Biden's defeat - the NYT admitted the materials from the laptop were authentic and the story of how the NY Post obtained them was true:

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More proof of the key and most-overlooked point on the controversy of Big Tech censorship:

This is not being done autonomously by tech firms. The censorship is being coerced by the in-power Democratic Party, who explicitly wants more censorship online:

And, I'll bet anything, these extraordinary documents - showing the extreme pressure and collusion between liberal Twitter execs and Dem Party leaders to censor reporting on Biden - won't be reported by liberal outlets except to mock it and/or use DNC talking points to attack it.
Put another way, it's almost inconceivable to imagine NBC News, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post - let alone the shitty Brooklyn-based digital tabloids - to give voice to a single person to explain why these documents are so explosive and reveal grave corruption.
All the little employees of media corporations who don't do any reporting - just tattling on powerless citizens to get them censored - and who are the leading advocates for censorship, predictably attacking @mtaibbi and scoffing at his real reporting:

The whole sleazy, in-group liberal gang from NBC, Daily Beast, etc -- all the censorship advocates who think censorship advocacy is somehow compatible with journalism -- are furious that the the acts of their Dem Party allies in getting the Biden story censored are being exposed. ImageImageImageImage

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More from @ggreenwald

Apr 12
Here's the House roll call vote on whether to impose a warrant requirement on domestic spying (yes, the Constitution does that).

The vote was tied 212-212. Speaker Johnson -- despite years of claiming he favored warrants -- cast the decisive NO vote.

clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll1…
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Among the Dems voting NO on the warrant requirement, giving the US Security State what it wants:

Schiff, Pelosi, Clyburn, Wasserman-Schultz, Lieu, Dan Goldman, Raskin, Thompson (Jan 6 crew).

Among GOP voting NO:

Crenshaw, Lawler, Stefanik, McCaul, Turner, Gallagher.
I have not seen the US Security State or war machine not get what it wants in Washington.

In the face of mass abuse of surveillance power, they just got renewed warrantless spying power on Americans.

They now have Mike Johnson working to get them the $60b to send to Ukraine.
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Apr 7
Last night @elonmusk vowed to honor the endless, repressive and due-process-free censorship orders from Brazil's Judge Alexandre de Moraes.

The Judge has banned various journalists and members of Congress, among others, from social media.

This would be a huge deal for Brazil:
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Rumble last year also announced that it would refuse to comply. The platform was expending huge resources to constantly take down videos and ban users upon the endless, lawless orders of a single job.

Amazingly, Rumble is no longer available to anyone in Brazil, getting this: Image
In January of last year, we obtained one of the secret orders Judge Moraes issues to platforms. This one banned Senators, Congress members and journalists, and mandated secrecy.

No due process. We reported it here. Hard to overstate how extreme it is:

Read 7 tweets
Mar 26
UK Court hands Assange a partial victory in the Biden DOJ's attempt to extradite him.

US must provide explicit assurances that Assange 1) can raise a 1st Am defense, 2) will have the same rights as US citizens and 3) will never face the death penalty.

Deadline is April 16.
In the meantime, Assange remains in Belmarsh, the high security UK prison where he has been held for 5 years.

Every press freedom and civil liberties group in the West has urged Biden DOJ to drop this prosecution as a grave threat to press freedom:

The goal is not to bring Assange to the US.

Biden WH doesn't want the sideshow of a trial; daily protests; discovery into CIA; Assange on the stand; Biden as the first-ever president to imprison a publisher.

They want to kill Assange through conviction-free imprisonment.
Read 4 tweets
Mar 24
NBC negotiated a contract with Jen Psaki while she was White House Press Secretary.

ABC hired George Stephanopoulos -- directly from the Clinton WH, with no journalism experience.

All these networks hire operatives from the US Security State.

It never prompts this melodrama:
This is obviously such a more extreme case of mixing media and state:

Genuinely hilarious:

WSJ says MSNBC won't put Ronna McDaniel because it would upset their liberal hosts and audience.

MSNBC is drowning in political hacks, including Jen Psaki and Michael Steele.

But what they can't have is dissent regarding Trump.

wsj.com/business/media…
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Mar 19
How dare the US President weigh in on a war he has caused American citizens to finance, arm and support!

Look at the mentality of these Israel fanatics: the duty of American citizens is not only to finance Israel's military and wars, but also never question what Israel does:
Biden has devoted his career and adult life to being one of DC's most loyal and unyielding defenders of Israel (see below).

He voted to send billions over decades. After Oct 7, he armed Israel and demanded $17 billion more.

But nothing is enough:

One of Obama and Biden's last acts before leaving the WH was a record-breaking $38 billion aid package to Israel.

Biden has repeatedly had the US isolate itself from the world at the UN to protect Israel.

The bombs Israel uses in Gaza are given by Biden and paid for by the US. Image
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Mar 19
Perfect New York Times headline.

Perfect expression of predominant US liberal ideology.

Perfect illustration of the subservient relationship between corporate media and the US Government.

Yes, it's designed to be "playful": to humanize the most powerful agencies.

10/10
Just as "free speech" now codes as a right-wing value, so, too, do criticisms or denunciations of FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, etc.

Just check your favorite left-liberal politicians and/or media figures and see how rarely those entities are critiqued. They're seen as allies.
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