1/ Since Israel’s image is deteriorating rapidly in the US, with the only demographic maintaining a positive view after 18 months of bombing hospitals, refugee centers, schools, and charges being boomercons, I’d like to offer some advice free of charge to Netanyahu and the Hasbara office: 2/ Stop making it so obvious that you’re influencing our govt to take away our rights, especially free speech rights. We in America cherish our First Amendment rights, and nothing will turn allies into foes like open gloating about how you’re making sure people are deported, expelled, and thrown in prison for criticizing your ethnostate.
Alternatively, stop trying to take away our First Amendment rights.

1/ Here's how I know the gov't is coming next for US citizens who vocally oppose our support for Israel. The purpose behind the purges of noncitizens is ultimately to ensure continued US support for Israel by getting rid of people who might influence others on the subject. 2/ If the true aim was to get rid of criminals, then the subjects of these deportations would be criminals. Instead, they are guilty of nothing but engaging in protected speech, & are relatively compelling figures who stand a chance of persuading others (Khalil, Ozturk, Chung)

As Israel starves and bombs the population of Gaza to death, it's no surprise that its supporters are ramping up the propaganda machine. Journalists are Hamas. Mahmoud Khalil is Hamas. Everyone who exposes Israel's crimes is Hamas. This complaint is, by the way, the most absurd I've read. 1/ Plaintiffs claim that named Defendants, including Mahmoud Khalil, are responsible for the emotional distress they suffering as a result of the October 7 attacks because they are acting on behalf of Hamas. Ultimately, the "evidence" for this boils down to a social media post of SJP's on 10/7 announcing "we are back" 2/

1/ Those who supported Biden's censorship regime and celebrated SCOTUS's decision in Murthy v. Missouri, holding that the plaintiffs had failed to establish they had standing to challenge this regime, will now reap what they have sown. 🧵 2/ The Murthy plaintiffs rightly alleged that the feds' coercion of and collusion with tech companies to censor their speech violated their 1A rights. In a cowardly move, SCOTUS held that plaintiffs lacked standing b/c they couldn't prove that the gov't caused their censorship, as opposed to social media companies' independent content moderation determinations.

1/ I am obsessed w/@RealCandaceO's Becoming Brigitte. My initial reaction to the series was that I don't care much if Ms. Macron was born male. But after trying it, I have a different view: the show illuminates the corruption synonymous with political power in this day and age. 2/ It's worth noting that the issue has, I believe, been framed incorrectly. The core issue isn't really the French First Lady's biological sex, but the fact that the Macrons are not who they say they are and have been put into power by nefarious forces for nefarious purposes

The election results cannot be pinned on a single factor. But one of the key reasons the Dems lost is disgust with the sanctimonious, smug nature of the party base and their seething, palpable contempt for regular working Americans; 1/ they smear those who disagree w/them as misogynistic, racist or granny-killers; they don't respect core Constitutional principles, such as the right to speak freely; they believe they're superior to the common man and so should dictate what he sees, hears & believes 2/

The House Judiciary Committee released a letter yesterday from Mark Zuckerberg admitting that Biden Admin pressured Meta to censor speech about COVID. We already knew this from a plethora of emails demonstrating it but an explicit admission is always helpful. A few thoughts:🧵

First, it’s clear Zuckerberg is acknowledging Meta censored speech it wouldn’t have due to the government pressure. He tries to hedge by saying that the company’s choices were its own, while admitting the same decisions would not have been made with the benefit of hindsight.

The two cases "liberals" are freaking out about, Loper Bright and Jarkesy, demonstrate why these people are not actually liberals. Jarkesy held that if SEC charges you with offenses that involve civil penalties, which can be life-destroying, you get a jury trial 1/ SEC can't just try you in an administrative tribunal before a judge who works for SEC. The 7th Amendment obviously provides for a jury trial and liberals should embrace due process protections. But no, they're upset because such protections make things less efficient 2/

As many have likely seen, the Supreme Court found that plaintiffs in Murthy v Missouri lack standing, reversing the fifth circuit, with Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch . While disappointing, the decision is not devastating. It is premised on the fact a preliminary injunction 1/ Isn’t warranted because plaintiffs can’t show likelihood of future harm. The majority specifically said they weren’t expressing a view as to whether the fifth circuit correctly articulated the standard for when private conduct is turned into state action. 2/

On Friday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important decision holding that Jacobson v. Massachusetts does not apply to Covid vaccine mandates because that vaccine does not "prevent the spread." 1/ It's an argument @ToddZywicki & I made 3 years ago, & @AaronKheriatyMD put forth in a separate case (also in 9th Cir). Gov'ts have long argued, & cont'd to argue during Covid, that Jacobson stands for the proposition that any vaxx mandate is subject to rational basis review. 2/

One reason I'm a fierce defender of free speech is that I, the daughter of a Palestinian, grew up witnessing the silencing of criticism of Israel through false allegations of anti-semitism. 1/ I've remained silent for far too long b/c I, too, am terrified of being the recipient of such charges. I'm afraid of losing my job, harming my professional reputation, losing friends, and incurring wrath on this platform. But I have had enough. 2/

In 2022, California passed AB 2098, which punished drs for giving patients advice about Covid that bucks "scientific consensus," whatever that means. We (@NCLAlegal) sued on behalf of 5 doctors, including @TracyBethHoeg, @AaronKheriatyMD, @PeterMazolewski & @AzadehKhatibi 1/ On Jan. 25, 2023, we obtained a preliminary injunction in the Eastern District of California. The judge found that the law violated Plaintiffs' due process rights b/c it was unconstitutionally vague. After defendants faced a skeptical panel in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals 2/

A few words about today's argument in the Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri. Merely invoking the concept of "safety" does not justify government censorship. The last four years could not have illustrated that more clearly: eminent scientists were censored in the domains 1/ of their expertise, often at the behest of the government, resulting in public debate about covid policies being smothered. Just today, the New York Times admitted school closures were pointless and harmful. 2/

This article is so outrageous it warrants a 2nd thread. According to Politico, the Biden Admin claims that our lawsuit against the gov't for involvement in online censorship is a cause of rising anti-vaxx sentiment. This contention is specious at best 1/politico.com/news/2023/09/2… First, the injunction against the Biden Admin was not issued until July 4, and it has mostly been stayed pending further proceedings since then. At arguments and in briefing, the government has admitted that it continues to engage in the conduct we're challenging-- 2/

This article is so outrageous it warrants a thread; apologies for the rant. Summary of article: Biden admin and various "public health" officials blame the rise of the anti-vaxx movement on online mis/disinfo. This almost willful ignorance is stunning 1/politico.com/news/2023/09/2… I will speak only for myself here, though I know I'm not alone. Before early 2021, I had never considered NOT getting a vaccine. I certainly assumed if I had children, I would give them every vaccine recommended by their doctors. 2/

The Fifth Circuit just issued an excellent decision saying that the FDA acted outside of its delegated authority when it tweeted that people shouldn't take ivermectin. The decision is available below, & is applicable in censorship & vaxx mandate cases 1/
drive.google.com/file/d/1vbZ_Qn… The court recognized that government actors don't have unlimited free speech rights. This is the government's defense in Mo. v. Biden--that government officials/employees have a 1A right to express their opinions to social media companies. No. 2/

No, it’s not “immoral,” to want to have biological children. It is literally what we’re wired for biologically. The radical left has become fundamentally anti- human. We’re supposed to deny our most basic, biological urges to socialize, procreate 1/ wired.com/story/ethics-c… even the observable realities of biological sex in some quest for a robotic, antihuman utopia. 2/2

303 Creative is not a blow to LGBTQ rights, as the MSM is portraying it. Nor is it the gateway to segregation or discrimination against minorities. It ultimately holds that government can’t force individuals to endorse ideas or utter speech that violates their consciences 1/ This is a position liberals should be on board with. To quote the opinion itself: “the First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think as they wish and not as the government demands.” 2/

So the covidian narrative is that the lockdowns saved lives even though 1.2 million people died and/or anyway there were no real lockdowns, you just maybe couldn’t go to the gym for a couple months, and civil liberties are a silly right wing concept. Exhibit 1

It’s incredibly disturbing to me that the public has moved on from the covid era without any acknowledgment of just how egregious the civil liberties violations were; how damaging the restrictions were to children, the poor and working class, the elderly, the mentally ill 1/ those who live alone, and those who have substance abuse problems; and the utter pointlessness of the suffering power hungry bureaucrats inflicted on us. But then I realized: maybe such reckonings don’t occur for a generation or so. 2/

In a scathing statement, Justice Gorsuch described covid restrictions as possibly "the greatest intrusion[] on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country." He recognized that gov't "pressured social-media companies to suppress information about pandemic policies.. with which they disagreed." @DrJBhattacharya @MartinKulldorff @MarkChangizi @danielkotzin @michaelpsenger @akheriaty @HealthFreedomLA