50 years ago, Big Sugar quietly paid three scientists to point the blame for chronic heart disease at cholesterol and saturated fat.

Millions of people died as a result.

Here’s how Big Sugar has been lying to Americans since 1965: In 1967, a study identified the true culprit behind the diabetes and heart disease epidemics: sugar.

(Not saturated fat or cholesterol…)

So why didn't this evidence become common knowledge?

Ever wondered how a single lie could deceive Americans and drag the country into war?

I present, the story of Nayirah — a young lying girl, responsible for sooo many deaths. Sordid details in the 🧵 October 1990: Nayirah, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, delivers harrowing testimony in front of Congress. Oxygen tanks unplugged, babies left to die—sounds horrific, right?

Well, Congress thought so, too. This testimony was a key factor in pushing the U.S. into the Gulf War.

This is the kinda kid you get when you read @tuttletwins as a family 🇺🇸🚀 Original video:

https://twitter.com/cboyack/status/1696508336345153691

For those asking for an update:

- Jaiden decided to go back to school today. With his patch will in place. He said he'd do a sit-in if necessary to protest.

- Two law firms have stepped forward to assist as necessary to fight the viewpoint discrimination.

- Lots of media interest. Mom and son will likely be on Hannity tonight, other outlets covering too

- No known response yet from the school or district offices

- Colorado governor tweeted about it, disagreeing with the school. (No word yet if he'll pick up a phone and tell them to knock it off.)

- Jaiden sent me a video telling me his favorite Tuttle Twins book 🎉 (It's the Creature from Jekyll Island.)

- He is campaigning to be school president. The tri-corner hat is part of his shtick. Super patriotic kid! UPDATE: "due to unforeseen circumstances" the school suddenly cancelled its Back-to-School night tonight. 🧐

Meet 12yo Jaiden who was kicked out of class yesterday in Colorado Springs for having a Gadsden flag patch, which the school claims has "origins with slavery."

The school's director said via email that the patch was "disruptive to the classroom environment."

Receipts in the 🧵 They cited @USEEOC, which admitted that the flag "originated in the Revolutionary War in a non-racial context"…

But then said "However, whatever the historic origins and meaning of the symbol, it also has since been sometimes interpreted to convey racially-tinged messages…"

I recommend books often. Here are three I often share that few people have heard of:

1. The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State
2. From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State
3. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Details below… 1. The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State

Written by Auberon Herbert in 1885. Packs a huge punch, analyzing what gives men the right to rule over one another. So impactful, very worth reading.

Buy it here for $1 https://t.co/Mouwidywmflibertas.org/product/the-ri…

🧵

10 years ago, 33 armed cops showed up with a battering ram to enter the Wunderlich family's home for the crime of homeschooling.

Officers had a court order to remove their children from the home.

This happened in Germany, which has banned homeschooling since 1938. The Wunderlichs were not permitted to speak to their crying children before they were carried away, nor were they told where the children would be relocated.

The children were later returned, ordered by the state to attend government school.

A cocktail that could cost you your life? In the Roaring Twenties, amidst jazz and flappers, this was a chilling reality.

The culprit: the US government.

🧵 below… During Prohibition, the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages were illegal.

But that didn't stop thirsty Americans. Bootleggers began stealing millions of gallons of industrial alcohols to repurpose into drinkable spirits.

A group of fringe extremists once proposed, during the peak of the Cold War, that the President of the United States authorize a false flag event to kill Americans and blame it on Cuba in order to anger Americans and increase support for invading Cuba.

So who was this group? At the time, Americans largely opposed an invasion into Cuba for fear that it would spark WWIII. This group wanted to shift public opinion, so they thought a false flag was the best option available.

William Penn (founder of Pennsylvania) has an epic story:

- Expelled from Oxford for criticizing the Church of England and rebelling against forced worship

- Kicked out by his father and deprived of his inheritance

- Taken in by some Quaker families

Continued below… - Arrested for attending a Quaker meeting

- Authored religious pamphlets attacking the Church, prompting the Bishop of England to secure an order of imprisonment to lock him up until he recanted

- Placed in solitary confinement in an unheated cell, threatened w/ a life sentence

Executive Order 9066. Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the forcible internment of people of Japanese ancestry following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Within three months, 110,442 people of Japanese descent were rounded up. More than two-thirds were US citizens. There were no allegations of actual disloyalty against any of these individuals, nor was there a legal remedy whereby they could appeal the deprivation of their property and liberty.

True. But most people misunderstand consent completely — it has to be explicit.

Three bad examples in the 🧵 below 1. “If you don’t like it, leave!”

If you choose to live under a govt, you consent to its rule, these people say.

This assumes the authority itself is legitimate—that a govt can do what it wants and that those who live within its claimed borders give implied consent to be ruled.

There's a reason I picked Woodrow Wilson as one of the "modern villains" in our @tuttletwins guidebook for teens…

Four reasons (of many) below… 🧵 @tuttletwins Wilson signed into law the Federal Reserve Act, bringing the Creature from Jekyll Island to life—a private banking cartel that has devalued the dollar by 97%+.

Illustration from our @tuttletwins kids book about it. tuttletwins.com/creature

This country needs a lot more jury trials (95% of cases are resolved through prosecutorial plea deals)…

and a lot more jury nullification.

There's a fun history behind jury nullification that hardly anyone knows about. Story below… 🧵 The jury’s power to judge the justice of a law itself dates back to the Magna Carta, when the king was forced to pledge that he would punish no person for a violation of
the law without the consent of his
peers.

But things really took off in 1670…

Remember when Bush claimed that terrorists “hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other”?

🧵 below… He also claimed that “America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.”

Both claims are preposterous and nothing more than propaganda.

Why did/do so-called terrorists "hate us"?

Lots of folks getting animated over this. Let’s add some clarification.

I didn’t, and don’t, condone cheating per se—I was explaining my attitude about learning at that time in my life. It is what it is.

🧵 cont’d

https://twitter.com/cboyack/status/1634269053190656016

For me, trying to understand how I developed that approach and attitude (which I no longer have) leads me to the conclusion that I made.

The incentives were messed up, as were the expectations: by the system, by the teachers, by my parents. And myself!

I had a public speaking class in college and we were told to prepare something humorous one week.

I decided to share the story of when I crapped my pants at high school. Lots of laughter — one guy literally fell off his chair convulsing.

I got an A. Short version (sans humor):

- At marching band practice on a far-away field

- Got the gurgles

- Ran to campus (awkwardly), didn't make it

- Was wearing white corduroy shorts (it was 1997)

- Cheerleaders walked by right as the diarrhea… released

- White shorts turned brown

I don't revere Abraham Lincoln. I think he was a tyrant.

Among other things, he:

- suspended the Constitution and habeas corpus

- launched a military invasion w/o consent of Congress

- imprisoned thousands of citizens without trial

Continued below… - shut down hundreds of opposition newspapers and imprisoned dozens of their owners and publishers

- censored all telegraph communication

- nationalized the railroads

- confiscated firearms

- interfered with elections using federal troops

- deported his most outspoken critic

In 1940, 64 Jehovah's Witnesses were assaulted in a small Illinois town by a mob upset that they would not salute the flag.

It wasn't an isolated incident. An estimated 1,500 Witnesses were assaulted in 335 separate attacks that year.

All of this because of a 3rd grader… 👇🏽 In September 1935, young Carleton Nicholls stood for, but refused to recite, the Pledge of Allegiance.

The Nicholls family were Jehovah’s Witnesses, and their church’s president had argued that reciting the pledge was tantamount to worshiping a graven image.

"My children are homeschooled."

"Aren't you worried that they won't be socialized?!"

This is a really, really stupid objection—and a backwards one to boot.

Flip the question. What type of socialization do kids typically get in government schools? Socialization in govt schools:

- widespread bullying
- drugs and alcohol abuse
- disrespect
- sexual promiscuity
- vulgarity and lewdness
- violence
- theft
- rebelliousness
- cliques and outcasts
- conformity
- authoritarianism
- mediocrity
- boredom
- indoctrination

The danger of collectivism is that it snuffs out creativity and passion in the pursuit of conformity and compliance. .@GadSaad's study showed that where a country falls on the spectrum between individualism and collectivism continuum affects creativity.

"We found that the individualists came up with many more ideas."

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…