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Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
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May 19, 2023 • 11 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
This is state propaganda.

The Washington Post should be ashamed of itself. Image
We pre-bunked the FBI and Washington Post propaganda yesterday:

Here are the public servants and whistleblowers that the Washington Post is helping the FBI and Democrats persecute for thought crimes:
Garret O'Boyle:

— Combat vet. Honors grad in criminology/law. Highest FBI review. Given award for work against anti-abortion extremism

— Says FBI asked him to open bogus "violent extremism" cases

— Says FBI forced him to relocate and sell his home before firing him on his… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImageImage
Marcus Allen:

— Won 2 medals for 2 Iraq tours. Top secret clearance since 2001. Condemned criminal activity on J6

— FBI stripped him of security clearance & accused him of "conspiratorial views" for sharing info that questioned J6 narrative

— Never allowed to defend himself ImageImageImageImage
Stephen Friend:

— 9 years as FBI special agent, 5 years SWAT, 5 years as police officer. Investigated 200 violent crime cases.

— Blew whistle on J6 abuses & FBI persecution of citizens as "domestic terror threat"

— FBI suspended w/o pay & leaked private medical info to NYT ImageImageImageImage
We only have some of the information. Perhaps FBI will present some information that these men did something wrong.

But they haven't done so, and all of the information that has emerged to date suggests that they are being persecuted for exposing FBI abuses of power
It is impossible to overstate the importance of having our most powerful law enforcement organization be apolitical and nonpartisan.

Throughout FBI's history, there have been instances of grotesque abuses of power for political purposes, most notably that of Martin Luther King.
In those instances, Democrats and Republicans came together to clean house. The parties agreed they didn't want a politicized FBI

That's apparently no longer the case. The Democrats appear to want a politicized FBI and are persecuting FBI whistleblowers

They've lost the plot
Media coverage of these FBI whistleblowers has been appallingly one-sided. They take the word of FBI as gospel. This isn't "news reporting". This is state propaganda. ImageImageImageImage
Please keep your eyes on these whistleblowers. We must not allow the FBI/Democrats/WaPo/media persecute them.

Here's a link to a video of the full hearing yesterday, and each of their testimonies:

judiciary.house.gov/committee-acti….

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Jan 29
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Files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical.

American Medical Association, The Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and thousands of doctors worldwide rely on WPATH. It is considered the leading global authority on gender medicine.

And yet WPATH’s internal files, which include written discussions and a video, reveal that its members know they are creating victims and not getting “informed consent.”

Victims include a 10-year-old girl, a 13-year-old developmentally delayed adolescent, and individuals suffering from schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses.

The injuries described in the WPATH Files include sterilization, loss of sexual function, liver tumors, and death.

WPATH members indicate repeatedly that they know that many children and their parents don’t understand the effects that puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries will have on their bodies. And yet, they continue to perform and advocate for gender medicine.

The WPATH Files prove that gender medicine is comprised of unregulated and pseudoscientific experiments on children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults. It will go down as one of the worst medical scandals in history.
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Jan 28
The office of Calif. Gov. @GavinNewsom said that none of the $50M in taxpayer money would be used to protect criminals from deportation. But then, when pressed, the "officials could not make the guarantee." Nor could they say how they'd prevent the money from being abused. Image
One of the main reasons the LA fires became unnecessarily catastrophic is because @GavinNewsom and @MayorOfLA defunded fire prevention and fire fighting. They instead spent hundreds of millions to increase homelessness, who cause over half of all LA fires
@GavinNewsom @MayorOfLA .@GavinNewsom & @MayorOfLA defunded firefighting because they are obsessed with their own careers and backed by an anti-civilization political party. And now, instead of dealing with all of the catastrophes across California, waiting to happen, they're fighting Trump.
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Biden pardoned Fauci. He says it’s not an admission of guilt. But if Fauci were innocent, no pardon would be needed. The evidence suggests Fauci helped create the Covid pandemic, and then covered it up. The investigation must go forward. All Covid & Fauci Files must be released.
Fauci led an aggressive disinformation effort to discredit the lab leak hypothesis. If the Covid virus didn’t escape from the lab, why did he deliberately spread false or misleading information about it? Why did he repeatedly interfere in the investigation?
Fauci played the media like a fiddle. They called the lab lead a “conspiracy theory.” Then, documents showed that Fauci’s main allies had sought to insert a furin cleavage site in the exact place where it exists on the Covid virus. Reason #7,969 for why the legacy media is dead.
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Jan 17
Strong words from LA fire fighters to the chief: "[I]f you had done things right... fatalities would have been reduced, property would have been saved....the preventive systems... were nonexistent... We attribute this to... lack of experience, arrogance, inability to lead..."
Another good scoop by @RichMcHugh @NewsNation

Excellent video segment too:

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Jan 15
January 2: National Weather Service (NWS) warns of “extreme fire weather conditions” in Los Angeles

Jan. 3: NWS repeats warning in special LA briefing

Jan. 4: LA Mayor Karen Bass flies to Ghana on junket

Jan. 7: LA goes up in flames as Bass poses for photos at cocktail party Image
January 2: "...extreme fire weather conditions... Potential Fire Weather Risk" Image
January 3: "Critical Fire Conditions... fire season will continue in to the New Year!" Image
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Jan 9
Over the next few weeks you’re going to hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there’s nothing that could have been done to prevent the fires from destroying Los Angeles.

Those will be lies. They could have prevented them. Governor Newsom cut the funding for preventing forest fires and failed to build sufficient water resources for fighting fires. Mayor Karen Bass cut $17.5 million in funding for the Los Angeles Fire Department and then went to Ghana even though she knew of the risk of catastrophic fires.

It’s true that California, in general, and Los Angeles, in particular, are fiery places. It’s true that the Santa Ana winds made the fires worse.

But Newsom and Bass have known about those hazards for all of their careers and failed to deal with them. Their rank incompetence and lack of leadership are shocking and scandalous.

It’s hard to overstate how badly they screwed up water management. LA firefighters haven’t had the water they needed. Newsom hasn’t built the new water reservoirs that Los Angeles needed. And Newsom even cut the budget for water infrastructure projects last year.

Why is that? Part of the reason is that they were focused on other things. Making the fire department more racially diverse. Climate change. Homelessness.

And the reason they were focused on those things is because those are what the radical Left that controls the Democratic party wanted them to focus on.

Year after year, they do nothing while focusing on things like trans and Trump and climate and ignoring the things that really matter to the people of California.

The Democrats in California aren’t like Democrats in other states. They are radicals. I would know, since when I was a young radical I moved to California for that reason.

As many of us get older, we become more moderate. We become more practical. We understand firefighters and police officers are necessary. We are reminded of the importance of things like safe streets and hard work and good schools.

But more than that, I saw the consequences of radical progressive policies on the environment, homelessness, crime, education, water, and everything else. Violent criminals, in particular, are devouring Los Angeles, Oakland, and the rest of California.

The people who control the Democratic Party in California worship books about Los Angeles, like City of Quartz by the Marxist author Mike Davis. In that book, Davis claims that the problem in Los Angeles is that too much money goes to things like firefighting to protect wealthy neighborhoods.

They did the same thing on crime and homelessness. They failed to provide adequate funding to the police. They weakened the laws that allowed for burglaries and robberies. They subsidized homelessness, attracting homeless people from around the United States to camp illegally and start fires.

Over half of the fires in places like Los Angeles and Oakland are caused by the homeless committing arson, often out of some petty revenge.

We don’t know what started all of the fires, but at least one started within the housing subdivision. Others may have started in the interface between housing and wildlands. Or it could have been started by the homeless.

Whatever the case, California and LA didn’t invest enough in preventing fires because they were distracted by radical Left causes.

When Rick Caruso ran for Mayor against Karen Bass, he called for increasing the fire department’s budget.

A big part of the reason he lost is simply because he was white. I watched focus groups in 2022 and the most racist people were white liberals in Los Angeles. When they discussed the mayoral race, the white people overwhelmingly said they couldn’t vote for a white man and had to vote for a black woman because she was black.

The Latino men and women in separate focus groups were much less racist. They wanted to know about their policies.

It was the radical Left that invented the racist idea that white people alive today should feel guilty about things white people did in the past. Racist white guilt led people in Los Angeles and California to vote against a guy who would have prevented those fires.

And so, over the next few weeks, when you hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there’s nothing they could have done to prevent the fires from destroying Los Angeles, don’t believe them.

It’s time for California to grow up and move beyond the juvenile Leftism that has destroyed the state and destroyed Los Angeles. We can’t trust our leaders to run anything. It’s not just incompetence. It’s that they really don’t care.

It’s time for Californians to demand new leaders — ones who aren’t beholden to the radicals who control the Democratic Party. .
Called it. Here's @MayorOfLA claiming that the $17.5 million she cut from the budget " really did not impact what we've been going through over the last few days."
The LA Fire Chief disagrees. Last December she said her department was "facing unprecedented operational challenges due to... budgetary reductions" that had "affected the Department's ability to maintain core operations" including "fire prevention..." and "the Department's capacity to prepare for... large-scale emergencies, including wildfires..."

Couldn't be any clearer.Image
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