Greatly enjoyed speaking with, and learning from, @karaafrederick @MikeBenzCyber yesterday @Heritage @OversightPR "Weaponization of U.S. Government Symposium" emceed by @jasoninthehouse and organized by @MHowellTweets youtube.com/live/gSG21eAqc… I wanted to amplify a few points core to the discussion yesterday in a thread.

First, it's critical to understand CISA's role as nerve center of fed-led speech policing. The switch from targeting foreign malign actors to domestic Wrongthinkers; re-characterization of tweets critical of Official Narratives as national security threats to be neutralized via censorship; and the fact the Censorship Regime emerges from the powerful and secretive national security apparatus are all vital points to understand and internalize weingarten.substack.com/p/full-testimo…

🧵My impression walking out of SCOTUS yesterday, having witnessed oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri was demoralization. The Censorship Industrial Complex proved itself in the case to have cajoled, coerced, and colluded with social media platforms to censor Wrongthinking Americans en masse, and yet that the government's "partners" abridged clear protected political speech wasn't clearly presented and argued. Whether we will retain anything resembling a First Amendment likely hinges on Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett. Herein, a thread I will update as I parse the transcript🧵 nypost.com/2024/03/18/opi… Multiple times the U.S. government lamented how the plaintiffs in the case were using the courts to "audit" their efforts to conspire with social media platforms to censor us on the Hunter Biden laptop story, election integrity and outcomes, and COVID. Unmentioned is that without Murthy v. Missouri we would've never known about this conspiracy to kill our First Amendment. Is the government's issue with the audit or with what the audit revealed about its depredations?

🧵On Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections From Mass Illegal Immigration
With America having suffered an invasion by design under President Biden, @elonmusk and others have grown conscious of how the influx of illegal aliens impacts our political system. What follows is a brief thread on this illegitimate practice and how Democrats have fought tooth & nail dating back to the Trump years to maintain it -- including last night in striking down a @SenatorHagerty-led amendment The Constitution calls for a census count to apportion representatives -- to determine the number of House seats and therefore presidential electors granted each state -- based on the "whole number of persons in each state excluding Indians not taxed." That count is also used to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding annually. Do illegal aliens count? thefederalist.com/2019/02/21/don…

🧵The Ultimate Thread on Biden’s Betrayal of Israel
The notion that President Joe Biden is a stalwart supporter of Israel, let alone acting in the best interests of the U.S. in the Middle East, is and has been a complete and total canard.

This Big Lie, propagated by the administration and its mouthpieces, provides cover for what amounts to an anti-American plot to put the screws to Israel, as part and parcel of an effort to make the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, Iran, the regional hegemon.

Since Oct. 7th – a Holocaust-in-a-day perpetrated by Iran’s proxy Hamas – despite initial rhetoric to the contrary and the continued provision of munitions (for now), the Biden admin has shown in word and more importantly deed that it is doing everything it possibly can within political reason to slander, stymie, sabotage, and ultimately imperil the very existence of our chief ally in the Middle East.

Now the Biden admin is going in for the kill shot: A push to force the Jewish state to effectively lose the war to Hamas, free hundreds if not thousands of jihadists, and reward a Palestinian Arab population overwhelmingly supportive of the Oct. 7 massacre and Hamas with a state in a bid to “sue for peace” with Iran -- threatening Israel's very existence in exchange for purported "normalization" with Arab powers.

What follows is an effort to chronicle the Biden admin's treachery towards Israel.

This thread should serve as the death knell of the false narrative that Biden supports the Jewish state – and more fundamentally that he is representing the interests of the American people over those of our adversaries with the blood of our countrymen on their hands. 10/7/23: The very day in which Hamas executes the most deadly and barbaric attack on Israel in its modern history – raping, murdering, burning, mutilating, beheading, and taking hostage innocents totaling 1,200 dead and approximately 240 abducted – including among them ~40 Americans – U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs urges “all sides” including Israel “to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks.” It quickly deletes the message, but this reflexive response will prove revealing

https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1710599560001634458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1710599560001634458%7Ctwgr%5E21d17914bb03abe247cf314ebbd3bcb55db533f4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2F2436102%2Fus-office-of-palestinian-affairs-deleted-post-suggesting-israel-refrain-from-violence%2F

Surely mere mortals, and Donald Trump would get the benefit of the doubt Joe Biden does here justice.gov/storage/report…
Was Joe Biden's mind going as far back as 2017? justice.gov/storage/report…

Grab some popcorn: Special Counsel Weiss' office has responded to Hunter Biden's claims Delaware gun case should be dismissed:

1) For "selective and vindictive prosecution"
2) Because global immunity get-out-of-jail-free card from failed sham plea deal somehow remains in effect storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Yes, Hunter Biden's legal team really argued that his Dad's Justice Department is selectively prosecuting him because...Republicans are weaponizing the DOJ

The full transcript of the Dec. 5th @WaysandMeansGOP hearing with IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler is out waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/upl… .@JasonSmithMO: "Vice President Biden appears to have treated Air Force Two like a corporate jet, traveling to Ukraine and Mexico to advance Hunter Biden's business interests. Evidence from today's documents show right around the time of international trips, like those to Ukraine, Joe Biden was emailing his son and his son's business partner from private email accounts using aliases while Vice President."

So you're telling me that the great-aunt of the youngest American hostage -- and first American -- to be released by Hamas is a buyer of Hunter Biden's art, who was then appointed by Joe Biden to the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad? The swap of hostages for jihadists is likely to prove disastrous for Israel.

What this little girl endured and will endure for the rest of her life is unthinkable -- as is the case for all the hostages and their families.

That the Bidens' corruption makes this fact pattern at all salient is nauseating and disgusting.

New Revelation: Per a recent @JudiciaryGOP interview with former CISA Director Chris Krebs, the DHS sub-agency was flagging content to social media companies for potential suppression before CISA was established in Nov. 2018 judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subs…

.@JudiciaryGOP scrutinized disclaimers CISA put in emails flagging content for social media companies to consider purging, and found that lo and behold, the language was tailored to open the platforms to pressure of threatened reprisal from the likes of the FBI

EXCLUSIVE: Docs Shed New Light on Feds' Collusion with Private Actors to Police Speech on Social Media
@RCInvestigates we report on records showing the thousands of tweets and Facebook posts on topics from mail-in voting to aberrant election results that DHS' partner, the Election Integrity Partnership, flagged to platforms for censorship -- much of which they would suppress The evidence shows EIP – sometimes alongside DHS sub-agency CISA – pressuring platforms to target speech that included statements by then-President Trump; opinions about election integrity rooted in government records and even think-tank white papers; and speculative tweets from statesmen and everyday citizens alike. We detail a dozen of those instances, with reaction from the targeted including @MZHemingway @JMichaelWaller @RonColeman @ChuckDeVore

🧵THREAD: On the Fraud of 'Nakba' and the History of Israel You Aren't Supposed to Know
Excerpted from Shmuel Katz's "Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine" (1985)

"The Arabs are the only declared refugees who became refugees not by the action of their enemies or because of well-grounded fear of their enemies, but by the initiative of their own leaders. For nearly a generation, those leaders have willfully kept as many people as they possibly could in degenerating squalor, preventing their rehabilitation, and holding out to all of them the hope of return and of 'vengeance' on the Jews of Israel, to whom they have transferred the blame for their plight." "The fabrication can probably most easily be seen in the simple circumstance that at the time the alleged cruel expulsion of Arabs by Zionists was in progress, it passed unnoticed. Foreign newspapermen who covered the war of 1948 on both sides did, indeed, write about the flight of the Arabs, but even those most hostile to the Jews saw nothing to suggest that it was not voluntary."

It’s an unbelievable scandal that there was an Iranian spy ring in the Biden admin.

It’s an unbelievable scandal no one is pressing the Biden admin on it — particularly after Iran-Hamas initiated war shortly after details of spy ring leaked. When some "intrepid" reporter actually does ask relevant questions of the admin, expect the answer in re l'affaire Malley to be "We can't speak about an ongoing investigation." The American people simply cannot tolerate that answer. Congress must not tolerate that answer

Devon Archer Deposition Thread
I don't know about you, but in my "business" dealings I always try to ensure my Dad -- who I never refer to as Dad, but always cryptically in emails as "my guy," or "the big guy" -- comes along so I can get "credit" for it https://t.co/DSB4uG3MDjtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…






Q: What was the value that Hunter Biden brought to Burisma?
Archer: [T]he brand...was a large part of the value.

Q: [B]y "brand" you mean the Biden family, correct?
A: Correct.

@RepAndyBiggsAZ: When you say "Biden family"...you're talking about Joe Biden. Is that fair to say?… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

🧵Thread on Hunter Biden "investigation" IRS whistleblower hearing starts here:

Prepared testimony from Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and Special Agent "Mr. X" has dropped https://t.co/Z0xk2K4H4f https://t.co/u6ZRnOIdJVdocs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO…
docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO…
twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Here are mega-threads for background on the depositions each of the IRS whistleblowers gave @WaysandMeansGOP previously

https://twitter.com/bhweingarten/status/1672317274642849829?s=20

NEW @Weaponization REPORT: The FBI "on behalf of a compromised Ukrainian intelligence entity, requested—and, in some cases, directed—the world’s largest social media platforms to censor Americans engaging in constitutionally protected speech online." judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subs… The FBI "facilitated censorship requests to American social media companies on behalf of a Ukrainian intelligence agency infiltrated by Russian-aligned actors. In so doing, the FBI violated the First Amendment rights of Americans and potentially undermined our national security"

BIG BREAKING: On July 4th, in the most important free speech case to date challenging the mass public-private censorship regime imposed on America — Missouri v. Biden — a bombshell ruling for the plaintiffs just dropped.

Judge Terry Doughty declares motion for preliminary… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… .@AGAndrewBailey has pulled out some of the key highlights from this major ruling in defense of free speech and against America's mass public-private surveillance and censorship regime. I'll be threading my takeaways as well in tweets to follow

https://twitter.com/AGAndrewBailey/status/1676284957575245824?s=20

Hunter Biden's lawyer in lashing out at @RepJasonSmith and IRS whistleblowers chides WBs for not having "all the evidence" like federal prosecutors on case. Problem: According to the WBs, federal prosecutors withheld critical evidence from them, obstructing their investigation A lawyer may point out a technical difference here, but it's weird that Hunter's lawyer claims the IRS whistleblowers weren't told lying to Congress could lead to criminal charges. Testimony shows they were

BREAKING: I obtained a soon-to-be-released @Weaponization report on CISA collusion with Big Tech and "private" disinfo partners to silence Americans. I testified about these efforts before @HomelandGOP in May. Will report new revelations in this thread 🧵 https://t.co/hmWmW9oy9pweingarten.substack.com/p/full-testimo…
twitter.com/i/web/status/1… @Weaponization @HomelandGOP In the run-up to the 2020 election, even like-minded disinformation NGOs were stunned to find that CISA had transitioned from targeting foreign disinformation to domestic Wrongthink, per newly released e-mail evidence

🧵THREAD: Takeaways from unnamed whistleblowing IRS special agent testimony before House Ways and Means Committee counsel on the Hunter Biden investigation:

"So I'm sitting here in front of you right now terrified. In coming forward, I'm risking my career, my reputation, and the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… "I have reason to believe that there was gross mismanagement present throughout this investigation, that there was gross waste of funds relating to the tax dollars spent on investigating this case, and that there was an abuse of authority by DOJ Tax and the Delaware U.S.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

From the Shapley affidavit: "There is no reward for me for becoming a whistleblower. The only win for me is to not be fired or arrested or retaliated against." waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/upl… "After you hear my testimony, I believe you will understand why my conscience would not be silenced. My oath of office would have been unfulfilled if I did nothing. I went from a senior leader to a pariah, and the only thing that happened in between was that I blew the whistle. I… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

🧵THREAD: Real-time thoughts on @JudiciaryGOP hearing with Special Counsel John Durham on Russiagate report Rep. Nadler comes out attacking Special Counsel Durham as some kind of MAGA hack. Not sure that's the shrewd tactic here...