No one is safe! Be afraid! Are we ready to outgrow this kind of messaging?

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In the COVID era gestalt, “Safety” means social control through fear. Fear is the instrument of tyranny. What happened to the daring and imagination that built this country? Can’t we aspire to something higher than safety?

Most Democrats agree that the 2001 election was stolen from Al Gore. In 2005, I wrote an award-winning article for Rolling Stone showing how the deceptive use of Diebold voting machines in six Ohio counties constituted massive and consequential election fraud, possibly stealing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… It serves no point to keep arguing over the integrity of past elections. The important thing, that we can all agree on, is the project of implementing an impervious and trustworthy election system.

Following @mtaibbi’s terrific reporting on the Durham investigation. This is no partisan skirmish. It is about the political weaponization of the FBI to destroy a candidate and then a sitting President. It’s about a matrix of lies so elaborate as to make a mockery of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… @mtaibbi

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1659676788333719552

Maybe there is another way to raise up the middle and working class besides just taxing the rich. Take a look at the chart in this article. #Kennedy24

qz.com/union-membersh… The top share of income going to the top 10% has increased from 35% in 1945 to more than 45% today. Union membership has declined in the same period from 33% to about 10% — its lowest level since the 1930s.

Yesterday, President Biden announced Dr. Monica Bertagnolli as his intended nominee for Director of the NIH. Guess what? From 2015-2021, Bertagnolli received more than 116 grants from Pfizer, totaling $290.8 million. This amount made up 89% of all her. research grants.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Does this mean Dr. Bertagnolli is personally corrupt? Not at all. But it does mean that she will probably represent the viewpoints and priorities of the pharmaceutical industry. That is how agencies are captured.

Close to 700 former officials now work for defense contractors. That’s what Elizabeth Warren has exposed in her aptly titled report, “Pentagon Alchemy: How Defense Officials Pass Through the Revolving Door and Peddle Brass for Gold.” Thank you @SenWarren.

warren.senate.gov/oversight/repo… The “revolving door,” operates way beyond the defense industry. People shuttle back and forth between industry and the EPA, the FDA, the CDC, the FCC, the USDA... pretty much every regulatory body. I’ve seen it first hand in my dealings with Big Pharma and corporate polluters.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

ERRATA: Apologies for my earlier tweet reporting that the U.S. had installed nuclear-capable Aegis Missile systems in Ukraine. This was incorrect. The U.S. installed the Aegis batteries in Romania and Poland. According to former top NATO military planner Col. Douglas Macgregor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… At the very least, policymakers should carefully consider this perspective, to balance out the relentless warmongering and myopic Russophobia of the foreign policy establishment. I do not condone Russia’s invasion. The point here is not to excuse, but to understand the full set… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Here is a picture of me with my uncle, whose wisdom affected me profoundly. Today, these words of his are especially relevant: “A nation that is afraid to let its people judge truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” As a Senator, Joe Biden voted for the Assassination Records Act of 1992, requiring that all documents related to the killing of JFK be released by 2017. But President Biden is still keeping thousands of pages heavily redacted, including 44 pages related to a shadowy CIA agent and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

People who work hard should be able to support their families. That's why I am supporting the Writers Guild strike. The streaming companies are making huge profits while most of the writers, even of popular shows, are barely getting by in what has turned into a gig economy.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… I have no problem with corporations seeking a profit. That is their role. But we learned back in the 19th century that capitalism is inhumane if labor doesn't exercise collective bargaining power.

The financial censorship of political enemies is something we’re used to seeing under authoritarian regimes. No one was surprised when Russia froze more than 100 bank accounts tied to opposition leader Alexei Navalny. But Canada did it too, locking more than 200 accounts of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… It’s not outlandish to imagine that even here in America, your bank account could one day be frozen because of your politics, or comments you’ve made on social media.

After all, in 2010, Paypal, Visa, and Mastercard suspended WikiLeaks, at the behest of the U.S. State… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Cryptocurrencies, led by bitcoin, along with other crypto technologies are a major innovation engine. It is a mistake for the U.S. government to hobble the industry and drive innovation elsewhere. Biden’s proposed 30% tax on cryptocurrency mining is a bad idea. 🧵 Yes, energy use is a concern (though somewhat overstated), but bitcoin mining uses about the same as video games and no one is calling for a ban on those. The environmental argument is a selective pretext to suppress anything that threatens elite power structures. Bitcoin, for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Bailouts create perverse incentives for banks to make reckless swings for the fences with depositors' money, knowing they will pocket vast windfalls when they connect and that the taxpayer will bail them out when they miss. #Kennedy24 I understand the rationale for the rescue of First Republic Bank. The problem isn't this specific bailout. It's a system of too-big-to-fail institutions that requires bailouts in the first place. #Kennedy24

It is dawning on mainstream figures like Anthony Fauci that their Covid policies were a public health disaster. Lots of us are angry about the mandates, the lockdowns, the censorship, the insanity. But we need to avoid the toxic quagmire of retribution and blame and focus on… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Of course, officials who betrayed the public trust must not be allowed to hold power. I will remove them from their positions and, if laws were broken, my attorney general will prosecute.

Most people who get into political office run on the same platform and they say they’re going to “Drain the Swamp.” And I think most of them believe it. They’re going to clean up corruption, and rein in these agencies. Most of them say that honestly, and I believe that in most cases, they’re earnest about it. Then they get into office and they become paralyzed. Some of them become co-opted by the corporations that helped them get elected.

Today I sent a letter to @SecretaryPete Buttigieg calling on him to investigate the spike in near-misses and narrowly averted airline accidents resulting from pilots incapacitated by health emergencies since 2021.

Read my letter here: childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/upl… Here are the 12 questions I ask in the letter:

1. Will recent incidents involving the incapacitation of pilots in flight be fully and thoroughly investigated, including whether the medical issues the pilots experienced were vaccine-related?