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May 16, 2023 9 tweets 5 min read Read on X
After our hiatus, we're returning tonight to @SystemUpdate_ at our regular time: 7pm ET, live only on Rumble.

Our return is in conjunction with a new, long-planned, exciting major ad campaign we're launching today to show what our program has done and where we're taking it:
For tonight's show, we'll examine the deeply incriminating findings of the Durham Report for the FBI and Russiagate; everything Twitter: from Turkey to Tucker; and I'll share some thoughts on the life and death of David Miranda.

This is how you know the Durham Report is major:
It's very hard to know when to return. There's no right time or perfect way.

But I'm following the example of my kids, who were adamant in returning to school yesterday despite my concerns it was too early.

I figure if kids demand to go to school, there's likely wisdom in it.
I'm more excited about Rumble than ever as one of the few platforms devoted to free thought.

They just signed 2 of the biggest streamers: @KaiCenat and iShowSpeed. The lie that it's a right-wing site is crumbling: its cause is empowerment of voices, not propagating an ideology.
The anger over Twitter's censorship in Turkey is baffling. Every Big Tech platform has done that.

Brazil has forced Big Tech to censor conservative politicians upon threat of being banned in Brazil, and they obeyed.

People only cared because Biden and NATO want Erdoğan gone. Image
It's extremely rare for a platform to accept being banned in an entire country instead of obeying unjust censorship orders.

One of the only times: France ordered Rumble to ban RT, and CEO @chrispavlovski decided they'd rather be unavailable in France (as they now are) than obey
I'm still hoping Twitter fully lives up to Musk's commitment to preserve all legal free speech. It's vital. Serious strides have been made, but we'll see if that continues.

Rumble has repeatedly shown how serious they are – to protect free speech and empower independent voices.
Over months, Rumble has signed some of the largest and most influential Gen Z creators. They just bought Callin and now have @DavidSacks on its board.

I've seen first-hand how serious they see this as a cause and the explosive growth that follows.

On a personal note: Rumble has been limitlessly supportive since our family's health crisis began, encouraging me always to take as much time as I need away.

I'm excited and proud to be on it, and to return tonight with a new @SystemUpdate_.

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Aug 27, 2025
The shooter also praised Anders Breivik and Brenton Tarrant (anti-Muslim mass shooters); commemorated murdered wife of white separatist Randy Weaver and Timothy McVeigh; "Kick a spic"; cited Waco.

The need to instantly impose a clear ideology on mentally ill killers is stupid. Image
This platform is filled with countless pundit and influencer-types trying hard to claim the shooter was motivated by whatever ideology or group they most hate:

It was anti-Zionism! It was leftism! It was far-right racism.

Many, perhaps most, mass shooters are principally ill.
See also👇. You can turn the shooter into whatever you want if you try hard enough:

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Jul 22, 2025
Please watch this. If you're American or British, you're paying for the mass famine Israel has been imposing and continues to impose on Gaza.

Alex de Waal is a leading famine scholar who has worked on most recent famines. Listen to what he says here about starvation in Gaza:
More here from Waal -- if you can bear to listen to it -- on exactly what the IDF and US are doing to block food from entering Gaza, and the reason why Stage 5 famine and dying of starvation is one of the worst ways a human being can perish:

The French Press Association issued a statement on how they have had journalists die in war zones -- but never of starvation.

Several of their Gazan colleagues can no longer work due to severe malnutrition.

This century's worst crime against humanity:

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Apr 2, 2025
Yale's "Fascism expert" Jason Stanely -- Yale's "Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy" (does anyone now who that is?) -- explains why he's fleeing the US in fear withYale's Timothy Snyder and his wife Marci Shore -- to Canada, which he calls "the Ukraine of of North America." Image
He says Canada is Ukraine beacaue it's a bastion of freedom and nobility threatened an by authoritarian neighbor.

The absolute narcissism and melodrama of these people: there are those whose civil liberties are threatened. Celebrated, rich Yale professors are not among them.
Extra gross that Snyder is very wealthy by heralding himself the world's leading warrior against fascism. His book implores others not to "anticipatorily obey" Trump.

2 months into Trump's term, he flees the US as if he's an underground #Resistance leader in occupied France.Image
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Mar 8, 2025
If Joe Biden had announced that any private universities that allow criticism of him or Dems shall immediately lose all federal funding -- while keeping the funding if they allow criticisms of Trump -- would that have been constitutional since no school has the right to funding?
How about if Biden cut off all federal funding to universities that deny the validity of the trans identity or the existence of multiple genders -- on the ground that such teaching incites violence against trans people and is hate speech?

Would that have been constitutional?
The only tactic needed to induce support for censorship is train people to believe the views they hate are violence.

Anti-trans activists are inciting violence and calling for genocide, etc.

Opponents of Israel's war on Gaza are calling for genocide and must be censored, etc. etc.
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Mar 4, 2025
During the Dem primary campaign, one of RFK Jr.'s core issues was free speech and opposing censorship. Then he became known for wanting to combat chronic disease.

So what does he use his first month for? Threatening universities which allow protests against Israel on campus:
Note: you're free to protest the US on campus. You can protest any country or group: just not Israel.

And of course this censorship - like all censorship - is justified the name of stopping hate speech and keeping one group "safe": as if they're being relentlessly attacked.
Every government in the world -- including the most repressive and tyrannical -- "protects free speech" for the views they like.

It's the views they most hate that are targeted. And the most sacred issue for many in the Trump Admin is Israel: that is what's therefore shielded. Image
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Mar 1, 2025
There's nothing stopping Germany or the EU from funding war in Ukraine until the end of eternity if they wish, or sending their citizens to Ukraine to fight Russia.

But the German Greens -- the worst of the worst -- are emblematic of European liberals: all posturing, no action.
British pundits prance around as if they're Churchill, and Macron walks around like he's a tough guy, and German Greens and other vague Berlin liberals posture as if they're the paragon of compassion: all while they rely on the US to finance wars, fight and protect them.
Zelensky begged and begged Westerners to get off line and stop tweeting with their blue-yellow emojis and instead go to Ukraine to help them fight the Russian Army, knowing he couldn't win without non-Ukrainians volunteering to fight. Very, very few did.

theguardian.com/world/2022/feb…
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