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Citizen Journalist, Nonreligion, Science. Facts matter. Citizens with insights are the new journalists. It's an Info War and the other side got a head start.
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Jan 24, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
Reagan > Murdoch
1/ Roy Cohn introduced Rupert Murdoch to Reagan to get his support for Murdoch's growing media empire. Reagan's FCC head Mark S. Fowler led the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.
consortiumnews.com/wp-content/upl… 2/ Fowler also relaxed media ownership rules to extend TV licenses from 3 to 5 years and increase the number of AM, FM and television stations a broadcaster can own from seven to 12.
pbs.org/moyers/moyerso…
reaganlibrary.gov/archives/topic…
Jan 23, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
👏👍Keep’em coming!
“Charles McGonigal, who was the special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, is under arrest over his ties to Oleg Deripaska…” news.yahoo.com/former-top-fbi… Great news. We gotta root these ppl out. One by one. So happy to see this.

“McGonigal is charged with violating U.S. sanctions by trying to get Deripaska off the sanctions list.”
Jan 22, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read
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“The proposal includes permanently banning mask requirements throughout FL, prohibiting vaccine and mask requirements in schools, prohibiting Covid passports in the state and prohibiting employers from hiring or firing based on Covid vaccines…”
theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j… 168/
“Even a mild case of COVID-19 can increase a person’s risk of cardiovascular problems for at least a yr after diagnosis…rates of many conditions, such as heart failure and stroke, were substantially higher in people who had recovered from COVID-19…”
nature.com/articles/d4158…
Jan 22, 2023 25 tweets 5 min read
Sep 19, 2022 18 tweets 5 min read
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“What we saw—rather than a cooperative global strategy (to fight covid) —was basically each country on its own. National leaders deciding…the strategy & the fates of their countries in an incredibly haphazard way.”
washingtonpost.com/health/2022/09… 153/
Aug 17, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
NYC! RIZZO.
May 7, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
Oct 27, 2021 9 tweets 3 min read
131/ “The Trump White House’s prioritization of election year politics over the pandemic response—even as cases surged last fall—is among the worst failures of leadership in American history,” said Rep. James E. Clyburn…”
washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10… 132/ Declassified US intelligence report on COVID-19's origins says both natural transmission and lab leak theories remain 'plausible'
news.yahoo.com/declassified-u…
Jun 25, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read
“At the center of the scheme was an unusual cast: a former British spy connected to the security contractor Erik Prince, a wealthy heiress to the Gore-Tex fortune and undercover operatives like Mr. Maier and Ms. LaRocca who used Wyoming as a base…” “It is also a sign of how ultraconservative Republicans see a deep need to install allies in various positions at the state level to gain an advantage on the electoral map.”
Apr 4, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
The new route will run from Indianapolis (East) to the IN/OH border. The 2nd phase will run from Indianapolis (West) to the IL border.

Mar 26, 2021
Facebook Completes Data Superhighway Linking Its Midwest & East Coast Data Centers
datacenterknowledge.com/facebook/faceb…

@zipillinois @leesgirl9
Mar 27, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
3 Chicago ties just in this one tweet. Hanssen started in Chicago as rookie cop. Barr worked at kirkland & ellis. Opus dei first opened in u.s. down the street from u of chicago. chicagotribune.com/sns-spyarrest-…
Feb 3, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
111/ “WHO investigators visited a research center in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus, with one member saying they’d intended to meet key staff and press them on critical issues.”
apnews.com/article/879837… 112/ thedailybeast.com/trump-team-sup…
Jan 31, 2021 70 tweets 20 min read
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Science and Religion 2/ Joe Biden announced a week before he became president that he was keeping Francis Collins as director of the National Institute of Health (NIH), the world's largest biomedical research agency.
reut.rs/2XMEcfw
Nov 4, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
In case ur interested in the various ES&S machines used for voting in Kentucky. elect.ky.gov/Resources/Page… And Kentucky partners w/ Scytl for election results reporting.
scytl.com/en/customers/c…
Oct 29, 2020 7 tweets 3 min read
1/ Trump's Genocide
@realDonaldTrump

"The Trump Administration's Family Separation Policy: Trauma, Destruction, and Chaos"
Committee on the Judiciary U.S. House of Representatives
October 2020
judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/… 2/ "Within weeks of taking office, Trump announced several executive orders and policy initiatives to severely limit immigration to the United States."
Sep 28, 2020 7 tweets 3 min read
Uhhh. Other members of the Blackstone Legal Fellowship. Come on ppl. Glendon & Meese?!? This is all part of their plan. SO OBVIOUS. Image en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackston…
Sep 20, 2020 99 tweets 30 min read
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Liberty's legal enablers 2/ Almost three years ago, Salen Churi and Brian Tochman were at a Koch brothers private retreat for donors when they announced they were launching Trust Ventures.
Sep 19, 2020 13 tweets 3 min read
Sep 5, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
#Voatz
“Massachusetts-based Voatz filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, arguing that only security researchers with clear permission should be authorized to probe systems for vulnerabilities.”
cyberscoop.com/voatz-cfaa-sup…
Aug 25, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
“A se­nior Chi­nese gov­t of­fi­cial en­listed the help of (Elliott Broidy), a top fundrais­ing of­fi­cial at the RNC, to lobby the Trump ad­min­ in 2017 to re­turn a Chi­nese busi­ness­man liv­ing in the U.S. who has long been sought by Bei­jing...”
wsj.com/articles/new-d… “It also said Broidy sought the help of then-AG Jeff Ses­sions, with a memo in­clud­ing con­tent drafted by Mr. Sun, tout­ing an “op­por­tu­nity for sig­nif­i­cantly in­creased” law-en­force­ment co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the U.S. and China if the U.S. de­ported Mr. Guo...”
Aug 23, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read