On FISA: Everyone should know about the Turner Amendment.
 
This part of the House bill gives the FBI the power to press even MORE individuals into helping facilitate government surveillance.
 
Could your landlord or your handyman be sharing your info with the FBI? Maybe. And who are we giving more power to by making FISA broader? The FBI. An agency that has repeatedly proven they don't deserve it.
 
Remember the Durham report? It found the FBI abused their power to open an investigation into the Trump campaign.

In June, a whistleblower came to me and @ChuckGrassley with docs exposing Biden’s plans for a Disinformation Board to suppress Americans’ speech. Now DHS has - under duress - turned over new emails that show more of what they’ve been hiding Sec Mayorkas told me under oath that the Disinfo Board hadn’t met yet back in May. But DHS emails reveal their Disinfo “Steering Group” held weekly meetings starting as early as February. The Board was up and running

Here’s the left wing radical the Senate is voting on today to run America’s nuclear policy - this is her accusing @GregAbbott_TX of trying to murder her sister with #covid19

https://twitter.com/katyhuff/status/1366892619817771011

Here she is attacking the police

I’ve been researching the record of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, reading her opinions, articles, interviews & speeches. I’ve noticed an alarming pattern when it comes to Judge Jackson’s treatment of sex offenders, especially those preying on children Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker. She’s been advocating for it since law school. This goes beyond “soft on crime.” I’m concerned that this a record that endangers our children

Wow, it’s getting hard to keep up with the liberal overlords’ rules. Now @Twitter says they’ll punish you for saying vaccinated folks can spread #COVID19, but in July, the CDC Director said “vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus.”

https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1471131585860849669

In August 2021, Anthony Fauci said vaccinated people can become infected with Covid and “can spread it at roughly the same rate as someone who is unvaccinated.” (8/5/21)

My sister is a doctor and a Navy vet. She spends her life serving others. This week, a Democrat group has come to her clinic during working hours multiple times to harass her and her patients, driving a billboard truck around the clinic - all because she’s my sister The group is called Really American PAC - funded by the Democrat site Act Blue. This is disgusting & cowardly behavior. If they have a problem with me, they can come to my office & take it up with me. But to target and harass my sister & those she serves is pathetic & shameful

No. What I say is that the Supreme Court changed course in 1911 and limited the reach of federal antitrust law, a major about face that helped entrench corporate power. Wilson’s antitrust reforms didn’t change this outcome, but built on it & worked within it

https://twitter.com/GiladEdelman/status/1390290615515156480

For that reason, I conclude “the new FTC ... emerged as a project to regulate and normalize the corporate behemoths rather than dissolve them.” Here again, I am following progressive scholarship, particularly Martin Sklar, whom I cite

A few further thoughts on the lefty unease with history on display in the @WIRED and @newrepublic write ups of my book. These folks try to take me to task for calling Woodrow Wilson a corporatist, a position the authors appear to dislike because Wilson was a Democrat There is some irony here. The fiercest critics of Wilson as a corporatist come from progressive historians, who have argued for decades now that Wilson was basically okay w/ monopoly power & corporate power more generally

.@JoeBiden & Dems are jamming through a budget that will be full of left-wing giveaways, risks Medicare funding and gives crumbs to working people. I’m proposing amendments to take on corporate power, which the Dems are too scared to touch. We need to start by axing tax breaks for corps that ship jobs overseas and cheat our laws every day

Some questions for the #BigTech moguls appearing today on the House side. @tim_cook does @Apple rely on forced Uighur labor in its downstream suppliers? Is @Apple #slavefree? .@sundarpichai is @Google still developing a search engine for the #China market? Will you guarantee @Google will never censor on behalf of the #CCP?

Utterly false. The female victims, none of whom spoke English, were freed, not charged. The participants in the ring were charged. I’ll never forget seeing the conditions in which the victims were kept -

https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1269239639304548353

Not allowed to leave the parlors, forced to eat all their meals & sleep in a small room they shared with other victims. I remember the pink suitcase of one young woman who had only just arrived (from Asia via California), spoke no English, & hadn’t even had time to unpack

Okay, let’s get some facts straight. This article perpetuates a distorted history of Section 230 that I notice is becoming common in some quarters. Myth: Under Section 230, tech platforms & other publishers are treated the same; no special treatment nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/… Uh, no. This mistake comes from lack of familiarity with the case law. Courts have interpreted 230 to allow platforms to alter & modify 3d party content *without being treated* like a publisher. Backpage, for example, was helping design 3d party content & still claiming immunity

THREAD/ Couple thoughts on these well taken points. First sentence below glosses over important tensions. Opening overseas markets/liberalizing trade on one hand & preserving peace / national security on the other are related but distinct goals

https://twitter.com/sdonnan/status/1263268497422983168

And my claim has been that in important respects, Bretton Woods, GATT placed the first in service to the second. Trade was meant to serve the end goals of national economic strength & domestic stability among member states

THREAD/ A few points in response. 1. My basic claim is that to confront #China economic imperialism & protect American security & Econ interests, the international system must be reformed. That includes the global economic system.

https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1258391141311033345

2. My second claim is that Cold War economic system and the 1990s-to present system are different & the creation of the WTO in ‘95 in many ways exemplifies this shift. After Cold War, Western Wilsonians aimed to create one global, liberal market. “Washington Consensus” drove this

How about those CHIEFS #ChiefsKindgom For those of us who grew up in #ChiefsKingdom, the wait has been long, but I have to say, I’m glad this win came when I could share it with my boys!

Remember all those Democrat attacks back during 2018 Senate campaign? Dems filed 10+ sep lawsuits/complaints against me to influence election. All failed. Today I responded to the state Auditor’s review of one of them. And I am very pleased w/ the audit’s conclusion #moleg As the MO Secretary of State concluded almost a year ago after investigating this himself, at length, there is no evidence of any misconduct by me or my office

This is truly shocking. Years and years of half truths and outright falsehoods washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/… This afternoon I sat down w/ the US Inspector General for Afghanistan reconstruction effort. Discussed @washingtonpost report. After our meeting, I am more alarmed, not less. What exactly is our objective in Afghanistan? No one seems to know

I’ve spent this afternoon at Bridgeport Crossing Apartments in St. Louis County. This is the neighborhood owned by TEH Realty, which this week I asked US Attorney & HUD to investigate. After seeing myself I can say conditions are shocking & landlord must be held accountable This is Holly David & her daughter. Holly moved to Bridgeport not long ago, trying to get her feet back under her. She used her savings to get this place. What she got instead was an apt w/ backed up sewage, black mold & broken windows. The landlord takes her $$ and ignores her

As #HongKong erupts in violence, I went to @CNASdc to talk about need for new departure in our foreign policy. We must end forever wars & put needs of our workers & middle class first. That means standing up to #China & resisting their new imperialism The foreign policy consensus of left & right for last 30 years is outdated and misguided. Our aim should be the prosperity & security of the American people, not nation building

With Mexico, enough is enough. US government should impose sanctions on Mexican officials, including freezing assets, who won’t confront cartels. Cartels are flooding MO w/ meth, trafficking children, & openly slaughtering American citizens. And Mexico looks the other way In SW Mo last two weeks alone, over 40 drug overdoses & multiple deaths from drugs coming across southern border. Story is the same all over the state. Cartels increasingly call the shots in Mexico, and for our own security, we cannot allow this to continue

Not what I said, @EWErickson. I said Facebook is shut out of China. Fact. I noted Facebook was willing to censor content to do business in China, also fact. And I reported that Zuckerberg compared Chinese censorship laws to rules against Holocaust denial theresurgent.com/2019/10/18/no-… Maybe you’re fine with those comparisons. I’m not. Maybe you’re fine with Facebook’s willingness to censor. I’m not. But let’s be honest about what’s going on here. You might want to review this nytimes.com/2016/11/22/tec…