The Presidential Records Act prohibits altering official transcripts, which is what the White House did. And the alteration makes no sense. The White House is now claiming Biden was referring to the racism of Trump's supporters, but the transcript refers to "his supporter's." These manipulations come after:

— media falsely claimed comic at Trump rally called Puerto Ricans garbage

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— owner of WaPo @JeffBezos pledged to earn back lost public trust

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— prosecution of Trump under Presidential Records Act

This is disgraceful. Whatever you think of the joke made at MSG, it was about literal garbage, not people.

https://twitter.com/gabegutierrez/status/1851407148535750873

Puerto Rico has been struggling with a solid waste problem for more than a decade, as @AOC of all people should know.

https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1850716103993176220

All the major elements of the FBI & CIA conspiracy to interfere in the 2020 election on behalf of Joe Biden are now confirmed:

— FBI had the Hunter Biden laptop in Dec. 2019 & knew it "was real" immediately

— FBI, spying on Giuliani, knew he would give the laptop to media

— FBI ran a disinformation campaign in the summer of 2020 to "prebunk" the story with journalists & social media companies, both directly and through Aspen Institute, by falsely claiming Russians were planning disinfo relating to Hunter Biden

— "Former" FBI General Counsel turned Twitter Dep. Counsel, Jim Baker, convinced colleagues to censor the NY Post story after they had determined that it had *not* violated Twitter's Terms of Service

— CIA Director Gina Haspel approved, within a few hours, a disinformation campaign by 51 "former" CIA and other Intelligence Community leaders who falsely claimed the laptop was Russian disinformation

The result was that millions of voters thought the laptop was fake and never learned that Joe Biden oversaw a vast influence-peddling scheme involving China, Ukraine, and other nations, with his son and brother, until after the election.

These are high crimes for which people should go to prison.

x.com/shellenberger/… The evidence was already overwhelming that the FBI and CIA conspired to interfere in the 2020 election and violate the Constitution.

The new, spectacular reporting by former CBS investigative journalist @C__Herridge confirms that the FBI knew the laptop was authentic immediately.

The whistleblowers went to Herridge because they knew they could not trust the news media, which participated in the 2020 disinformation operation and continues to do the bidding of the FBI and CIA today. Both organizations and the media are rotten to the core.

Please re-post this thread and email it to your friends and family. They need to understand that some of the top investigative journalists in the country, IRS whistleblowers, Twitter Files, and documents subpoenaed and released by Congress prove the conspiracy by FBI and CIA.

The American people must know that the FBI, CIA, and legacy news media are a clear and present danger to the American people and to democratic republic.

Additional information here:

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All in last few hours:

- Leaked Dem memo shows “fascism” label isn’t sticking

- White House caught manipulating migration data

- More voters say Trump justified in challenging 2020 election results

The wall of lies is rapidly crumbing

The Woke totalitarians are spiraling. In response to subscribers quitting Washington Post, @JeffBezos has doubled down, saying he will hire more conservative writers.

The media are claiming that a comedian at the Trump rally today made a racist joke about Puerto Ricans. He didn’t. He was poking fun at the island’s infamous trash problem. The media are acting ignorant about it but they have covered it for years —> Look:

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The media say Trump lied when he told Joe Rogan that industrial wind turbines are killing whales, but he didn't. In fact, it's worse than Trump said. If the wind industry continues with its boats, noise, and vibrations, it will make the North Atlantic right whale extinct. This isn't a matter of opinion. This is the conclusion of the world's leading whale researchers and what the boat tracking data and sonar data both show.

The evidence is in this documentary, "Thrown To the Wind," below, with all supporting data and research here:

saverightwhales.org/media

This is incredible. After Senator @RandPaul started asking questions about why DHS was doing a large scale cyber exercise in Atlanta on Election Day, DHS postponed the entire event, blaming "disinformation." DHS is one of our most corrupt, politicized, and totalitarian agencies. Thank you, @RandPaul for being a tireless defender of freedom.

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The media & @KamalaHarris say they have evidence that @realDonaldTrump admires Hitler & hates Latinos. They really don't. And the fact that they've made Hitler their closing argument isn't just desperate and shameful, it's proof that the Democrats are now a totalitarian party. Kamala Harris’ Hitler-Focused Closing Argument Is A Shameful Stain On Her Party

Democrats are the party of mass censorship, the weaponization of the CIA, FBI, and DHS, and the politicization of everything. What does that sound like to you?
Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to deliver remarks before departing the vice president’s residence on October 23, 2024 in Washington, DC. Harris spoke on former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's recent comments on former U.S. President Donald Trump, including that he fits “into the general definition of fascist” and wanted the “kind of generals Hitler had”, in a series of interviews published Tuesday. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump is a fascist who sells out America, says Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in a new advertisement released yesterday. “John Kelly, a four star Marine general, has told us Trump said, ‘Why aren't my generals like those of Hitler's?’” Harris says over images that look like a Republican is holding up a Nazi salute to Trump. “He admires dictators.”

The ad comes on heels of what was ostensibly a new revelation of what Trump said to Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, in a major piece called, “TRUMP: ‘I NEED THE KIND OF GENERALS THAT HITLER HAD,” by The Atlantic magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.

But Goldberg’s revelation wasn’t new. On August 8, 2022, the Washington Post published a story headlined, “Trump wanted ‘totally loyal’ generals like Hitler’s, new book says.” Journalist Amy Wang wrote a near-identical article to the one that Goldberg wrote.

“President Donald Trump once told a top adviser that he wanted ‘totally loyal’ generals like the ones who had served Adolf Hitler,” reported Wang, “unaware that some of Hitler’s generals had tried to assassinate the Nazi leader several times, according to a new book about the Trump presidency.”

Both the Goldberg story and the two-year-old Wang piece were based on claims made by Kelly and Kelly alone. Nobody else has verified them. And the Kelly claims received abundant coverage when the book Wang referred to, The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, by the New York Times’ Peter Baker and the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser, was published in 2023.

As such, the Atlantic article was the first of a coordinated pivot by the Harris campaign back to making “Trump = Hitler” her closing argument to the American people.

On Tuesday, ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR and hundreds of other news media around the world reported on Kelly’s claim as though it were new.

On Wednesday, Harris gave a supposedly “surprise speech,” saying, “It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans. This is a window into who Donald Trump really is, from the people who know him best.”

Also on Wednesday Harris repeatedly denounced Trump as a fascist and Hitler-like in a Town Hall with CNN. Then yesterday, Harris launched two new ads highlighting Kelly’s claim that Trump is a wanna-be Hitler.

Laurene Powell Jobs both owns The Atlantic and is a major donor to the Harris campaign. "It's clear that if we want to change the narrative,” she said at a 2018 Atlantic event, “we have to change the narrator," referring to Trump.

The Atlantic has become the publication of choice for Democrats and Intelligence Community (IC) intermediaries and an ostensibly “former” CIA employee to demand mass censorship.

Goldberg’s article in the Atlantic also quoted Trump calling a slain Mexican-American solider a “f— Mexican,” after having previously offered to pay for her funeral, in an Oval Office meeting.

But Goldberg did not name a single source in his article, while all named individuals in the room at the time deny that Trump ever said such a thing.

“The Atlantic hit piece is a lie,” said the translator of the meeting with the soldier’s parents. “President Trump had zero interest in the cameras. He met with the Guillén family privately for twenty minutes and offered the press gaggle solely if it would assist them in honoring Army Specialist Guillén and raising awareness about her case.”

Guillén’s attorney Natalie Khawam said, “After having dealt with hundreds of reporters in my legal career, this is unfortunately the first time I have to go on record and call out Jeffrey Goldberg@the Atlantic: not only did he misrepresent our conversation but he outright LIED in HIS sensational story.”

There are other red flags in Goldberg’s story. He told CNN that Trump calling Guillén a “f— Mexican” is something that “tracks with everything that we know about the way he speaks,” but he did not say this in his article and offers no evidence to support his claim that those two words are uniquely Trumpian.

Goldberg’s claim that someone in the Oval Office meeting wrote down that Trump had called Guillén a “f— Mexican” stretches credulity. Why would someone have done such a thing and in front of so many people crowded in the Oval Office? Were they worried they wouldn’t remember that Trump had said such an outrageous thing?

And there is evidence that Goldberg deliberately misrepresented the meeting. Ben Williamson, the spokesman for Meadows, said he told The Atlantic that Trump “absolutely did not say that” but the Atlantic claimed Meadows said he “didn’t hear Trump say it.” Williamson shared his text message to the Atlantic as proof of his claim.

When CNN confronted Goldberg with what Meadows said, he said, “We've seen this pattern again and again and again. They deny, deny, deny, and then it comes out as true.” Goldberg then cited as an example another one of his claims: that Trump had called slain soldiers “suckers and losers.” But no independent evidence has ever come out that Trump said such a thing.

Public sent a direct message and email on Tuesday, asking Goldberg about these discrepancies and challenges to his reporting; he did not respond.

It is not obvious why Harris is pivoting back to attacking Trump as a fascist and would-be Hitler. After all, the Democrats and the media shifted away from the Hitler-fascism message after the public started to turn against the lawfare against Trump, after the Butler assassination attempt, and after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris. If the Hitler-fascist framing has lost much of its power, why is the Harris campaign returning to it now?

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First Brazil and now the EU say they will seize the assets of @ElonMusk's companies. A President Harris would do the same. They know it's illegal. They know it looks bad. They don't care. They know they can't rule the world without mass censorship and total information control. They've been preparing us mentally for weeks, months, and years. Recently it was Gates, Clinton, and Kerry. Before that, it was Obama, Biden, and Harris. Before that it was Aspen, Harvard, Stanford, the UN, the WEF, the EU, and IC intermediaries.

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You might think the war on free speech in other nations has nothing to do with you, but it does. Global elites, including Biden and Harris, are trying to censor the whole Internet. And now the Biden administration is implicated in the persecution of Brazil's free speech leader. Biden Administration Implicated In Brazilian Court’s Attack On Congressman Fighting Censorship And Corruption

Federal Police investigation of libertarian Marcel Van Hattem marks new stage in Lula government’s authoritarian turn
President Joe Biden (left); Congressman Marcel Van Hattem (center); Brazilian President Lula (right)

In March, Public published the “Twitter Files - Brazil,” which revealed demands made by Brazil’s Supreme Court that independent journalists and policymakers, including a 38-year-old libertarian congressman named Marcel Van Hattem, be banned not just from Twitter, today X, but all social media platforms.

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the same justice who temporarily banned X and froze Starlink’s assets, had accused Van Hattem of spreading election misinformation. And yet the video in question had nothing to do with the election, and had been posted on Instagram but not X.

Since then, no member of Brazil’s Congress has done more to expose censorship by that nation’s Supreme Court and denounce corruption in President Lula’s government than Van Hattem.

Van Hattem’s censorship and his denuciations of corruption have made him famous nationwide. He has become a prominent and popular face of Brazil’s free speech movement. At a recent demonstration against censorship in São Paulo, hundreds of people asked to take selifes with him. On Instagram and on X, Van Hattem has 1.5 million and 1 million followers, respectively.

Now, amid a broad crackdown on free speech, the Lula government appears to be retaliating against Van Hattem. Brazil’s Federal Police are investigating alleged insults made by Van Hattem against one of its officers. They are doing so despite explicit constitutional protection of Congress members' speech.

“This is the first time in history a Brazilian judge has ever ordered the investigation of a member of Congress for something he said in the Chamber,” Van Hattem told Public.
Congressman Van Hattem taking selfies with fans in São Paulo at a free speech demonstration on September 7, 2024 (author photo)

If the Supreme Court finds that Van Hattem knowingly made false claims about Shor, he could face prosecution for defamation or slander.

That would be considered a radical step in Brazil because its courts have respected the separation of powers for decades and have treated Congress’ parliamentary immunity as sacrosanct.

“The Supreme Court has gone after politicians before,” said Van Hattem, “but it hadn’t until now violated the sacred and constitutionally protected right of the people’s elected representatives to speak.”

The Federal Police report says Van Hattem’s speech displayed “a possible purpose…. To embarrass, humiliate, and offend DPF Fábio Shor, all this because he apparently disagreed with his professional investigative performance….”

But Van Hattem’s concern wasn’t merely “performance.” In his August 14 speech, Van Hattem accused Federal Police officer Fábio Alvarez Shor of having produced “several absolutely fraudulent reports against innocent people,” which, if true, are violations of the law.

Legal scholars expressed alarm at the Supreme Court’s violation of parliamentary immunity. “The investigation of @MarcelVanHattem is abusive and unconstitutional,” wrote constitutional law expert Andre Marsiglia on X yesterday. “Article 53 of the Federal Constitution states: ‘any words spoken by congressmen are inviolable.’”

The exact language of Article 53 is “Deputies and Senators enjoy civil and criminal inviolability [immunity] on account of any of their opinions, words and votes.”

That broad protection, Marsiglia says, includes alleged insults of the police.

As such, the Lula government and Supreme Court risk fueling the anti-corruption and pro-free speech movements and undermining their own legitimacy in the eyes of the public. Why is that? And given that Van Hattem has been denouncing the Lula government and Supreme Court for years, why did they decide to go after him now?

The media say we must give the government more power to fight misinformation online. We must not. The only way to fight misinformation is through free speech. What the media really want is the power to censor us. And it's easy to see why: very few Americans trust them. For years, governments and mainstream media corporations worked hand-in-glove to censor social media platforms. After @elonmusk bought Twitter, that changed. Ever since, they've been on the warpath, demanding the power to censor X and demonizing the First Amendment.

California regulators have blocked @SpaceX launches because they disagree with @elonmusk's politics. This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment and a gross abuse of power, even in increasingly totalitarian California. The California Coastal Commission rejected SpaceX's proposal to increase rocket launches for political not environmental reasons. Just look at what they said

— “We’re dealing with a company, the head of which has aggressively injected himself into the presidential race,” said CCC Chair Caryl Hart.

— “This company is owned by the richest person in the world with direct control of what could be the most expansive communications system in the planet,” said another commissioner.

— “Elon Musk is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] while claiming his desire to help hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet,” said another one.

The media says CBS didn't do anything wrong in editing what Kamala Harris said on "60 Minutes." But it did. It made her sound articulate. By contrast, in 2020, CBS "60 Minutes" made Trump look ridiculous by *falsely claiming* Hunter Biden's laptop couldn't be verified. AP basically admits that "60 Minutes" made Harris sound more articulate but then insists it was done with the best of intentions. But the 2020 interview and the misinformation "60 Minutes" spread shows that CBS was completely biased.

The US government says it is not hiding a secret UAP (UFO) program. But dozens of whistleblowers say it is. And now, a new whistleblower has come forward to reveal what the government is hiding, including the name of the secret program, which is revealed here for the first time. Pentagon Is Illegally Hiding Secret UFO Program From Congress, Whistleblowers Allege

New government whistleblower reveals, for the first time, the name of the Unacknowledged Special Access Program (USAP) for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs)
General Lloyd Austin testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing to be the next Secretary of Defense on January 19, 2021. (Photo by GREG NASH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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One of Congress’ most important responsibilities is oversight of the executive branch in general and the military and Intelligence Community (IC) in particular. The first article of the United States Constitution specifies this responsibility. This role ensures that powerful governmental entities operate within the bounds of the law, uphold democratic principles, and remain accountable to the American people.

This responsibility extends to classified programs like Special Access Programs (SAPs). By law, the Department of Defense (DOD) must notify the “Gang of Eight” (the chairpersons and ranking members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, and the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate) and/or the relevant congressional committees about their existence.

The National Security Act of 1947 requires that covert operations and Compartmentalized Access Programs (CAPs) by intelligence agencies, including the military intelligence community, be reported to Congress. Specifically, the President must provide a written finding that justifies covert action and submit it to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.

While the military and IC may limit the amount of detail shared with Congress, the Constitutional and legal responsibility remains. Sunshine remains the best disinfectant. Readers are, of course, welcome to disbelieve the whistleblowers and the evidence they provide of UAPs. I do not claim to know what they are.

There is, however, a growing body of evidence that the government is not being transparent about what it knows about UAPs and that elements within the military and IC are in violation of their Constitutional duty to notify Congress of their operations.

Over the last four days, a Pentagon spokesperson repeatedly promised to respond to Public’s questions but did not do so. We will update this article with their response should they decide to provide one.

— Michael

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There is no evidence that any non-human or extra-terrestrial intelligence has visited Earth, according to a May 2024 report by the office the Pentagon created in 2022 to study unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), formerly called UFOs.

The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office AARO “assesses that the inaccurate claim that the USG is reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology and is hiding it from Congress is, in large part,” the report concluded, “the result of circular reporting from a group of individuals who believe this to be the case, despite the lack of any evidence.”

The former Director of AARO has since resigned his position and has repeatedly dismissed and ridiculed the topic, claiming that talk of the phenomenon is due mainly to a small group of individuals in the grip of a rumor-based religion.

But critics say that AARO’s 63-page history of the US government’s investigation into UAPs since the end of World War II was riddled with factual errors and poor referencing, including to Wikipedia. And the document was missing historical information that appeared in the 117-page “UAP Timeline” document created by a former or existing US government intelligence officer that Public published last year.

Christopher Mellon, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under President George H. W. Bush, wrote a lengthy rebuttal, concluding, “this is the most error-ridden and unsatisfactory government report I can recall reading during or after decades of government service.”

And major political figures, including Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, have vouched for the credibility of UAP witnesses and whistleblowers.

“I’ve interviewed solid people,” said former president Donald Trump in September, “great pilots for the US Air Force, et cetera, they’ve seen things that they cannot explain.”

Former President Donald Trump being interviewed by his son, Don Trump, Jr., about UAPs

Trump has said repeatedly that the government has information about UAPs that it has not released. In 2020, during a podcast with his son, Donald Trump, Jr., Trump said, “I won’t talk to you about what I know about it, but it’s very interesting.”

In June of this year, Trump said that the government has information about UAPs that it has not released. "I have access,” he said, “and I speak to people about it. I've had actually meetings on it. And they will tell you there's something going on.”

In 2021, former CIA Director John Brennan said, “I think some of the phenomena we may be seeing continue to be unexplained and might be some type of phenomenon that results from something that we don’t yet understand and could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life.”

The same year, the current Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, said UAPs could constitute human intelligence (NHI).

In 2023, a high-ranking former intelligence officer named David Grusch testified to Congress that the US government had retrieved spacecraft of nonhuman origin and bodies, which US government insiders told Public was accurate.

In July 2022, the Intelligence Community Inspector General concluded that Grusch’s complaint that “elements” of the IC had withheld or hidden UAP-related information from Congress “to purposely and intentionally thwart legitimate Congressional oversight of the UAP Program” was both “credible” and “urgent.”

At the time, Charles McCullough III, the first Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, who the US Senate had confirmed for his job in 2011, represented Grusch.

That does not mean that extraterrestrial beings occupy or are operating the UAPs, nor that the US government and military contractors are hiding crashed alien spacecraft or bodies, as some former astronauts, former IC officers, and former military leaders claim.

There are other explanations for UAPs. Current dominant alternative theories, including those put forward by AARO, are that UAPs are some kind of natural phenomenon we don’t yet understand, like ball lighting or plasma. They could also be part of some new US or foreign government weapons program, such as drones, aircraft, balloons, CGI hoaxes, or birds.

Other UAP skeptics say that some combination of government disinformation and social contagion, like the Satanic panic of the 1980s or the Salem witch trials, among UAP believers in the US military are driving the phenomenon.

Is it possible that the Pentagon and CIA are still playing disinformation games with the American people to cover up unacknowledged programs? Or that intelligence and security agencies, as well as politicians, are creating a UAP hoax to frighten the public? And is it possible that whistleblowers are fabricating parts or all of their testimony?

The US Air Force allegedly used disinformation against a UFO buff in the past to cover up a weapons program. Something similar could be happening today.

However, no available evidence supports that theory. And so, while this possibility should not be ignored, for it to be true, it would require a complicated conspiracy with unclear motivations.

As Senator Rubio noted last year, “Most of [the UAP whistleblowers] have held very high clearances and high positions within our government. So, you do ask yourself: What incentive would so many people with that kind of qualification – these are serious people – have to come forward and make something up?”

Rubio also said that individuals in “high clearances and high positions within our government” with “firsthand knowledge” of UAPs were “fearful of harm coming to them.”

Grusch and other UAP whistleblowers say the government retaliated against them and tried to stop them from going public.

Last year, Senator Gillibrand said, “There's a lot of fear and so I don't know if we'll ever get to the bottom of it. I don't know if we'll ever get the information about Special Access Programs that are ‘need to know,’ only that Congress has not [been] read in on. I'm trying to get to the bottom of it.”

The training and experience of many UAP witnesses and whistleblowers, including in the US IC and military, undermine facile dismissals of all these individuals as cranks and grifters.

In 2021, John Ratcliffe, the Director of National Intelligence under former President Trump, said that UAP demonstrated “technologies that we don’t have and, frankly, that we are not capable of defending against.” And, Ratcliffe said, U.S. intelligence analysts had “high confidence” that foreign adversaries were not behind the famous “Tic Tac” UAP that four Navy Pilots encountered over the water.

Last October, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the DOD published their 2023 Annual Report on UAPs. It said that “many reports from military witnesses do present potential safety of flight concerns, and there are some cases where reported UAP have potentially exhibited one or more concerning performance characteristics such as high-speed travel or unusual maneuverability.”

Finally, many videos and photographs cannot be easily dismissed, and people have reported similar UAPs before drones, aircraft, and CGI existed or were widespread.

And now, existing and former US government officials have told members of Congress that AARO and the Pentagon have broken the law by not revealing a significant body of information about UAPs, including military intelligence databases that have evidence of their existence as physical craft.

One of these individuals is a current or former US government official acting as a UAP whistleblower. The person has written a report that says “the Executive Branch has been managing UAP/NHI issues without Congressional knowledge, oversight, or authorization for some time, quite possibly decades.”

Furthermore, these individuals have revealed the name of an active and highly secretive DOD “Unacknowledged Special Access Program,” or USAP. The source of the document told Public that the USAP is a “strategic intelligence program” that is part of the US military’s family of long-standing, highly-sensitive programs dealing with various aspects of the UAP ‘problem.’”

Public is revealing its name here for the first time.

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On Sept 27 @nytimes accused @elonmusk of being “misleading” for criticizing a new California law to censor parody. “The laws have exceptions for parody” said the Times

Five days later a judge ruled the law unconstitutional. Why? Because it banned a video clearly labeled “PARODY”
On Oct 5, three days after the judge’s ruling, @nytimes published the false Sept 27 accusation in its *print* edition.

The @nytimes has still not corrected its *misinformation* or, assuming it knew on Oct 5 that the accusation was wrong, *disinformation.*

https://twitter.com/mikebenzcyber/status/1842508542923669888

Bill Gates two weeks ago, John Kerry last week, and Hillary Clinton today — all demanding government censorship of X. Hard to see this as a coincidence. They appear to be laying the groundwork for totalitarianism. Our democratic republic is in danger.

https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1840414629866172795

This should terrify all who love their freedom.

https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1840414629866172795

California's recent ban on election-related "misinformation," including political parody, is unconstitutional, a federal court has just ruled. Free speech, not censorship, is the solution to bad info. Wonderful repudiation of totalitarians @GavinNewsom @KamalaHarris & @Tim_Walz Judge John A. Mendez of the United States District Court of California directly addresses the "Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY, shared by @elonmusk , that led @GavinNewsom & California legislature to enact the unconstitutional censorship legislation.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1836265669631053838

Tim Walz just spread misinformation in service of making the case for government censorship. He said it’s illegal to yell fire in a crowded theater. That’s a myth. The expression refers to a *nonbinding* claim in a 1919 Supreme Court opinion that was *overturned* in 1969. Tim Walz had previously claimed that it was illegal to spread misinformation about elections. It’s not. How could it be? If you let the government to censor disfavored views on elections, how would we ever know if the government stole an election?

https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1830741329678348704

It may seem like what's happening in Brazil has nothing to do with us, but it does. Brazil is a test case for the kind of censorship Kamala Harris wants to impose in the U.S. How do we know? Because we've caught her and Biden funding it. Over the last two years, my colleagues and I have documented multiple illegal operations by United States government agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

We documented how the CIA, its allies, and intermediaries created the Russia collusion hoax, ran tightly organized efforts to take control of censorship and content moderation at Twitter and other social media platforms, and interfered in the 2020 election by approving the publication of a letter from 51 former CIA and other Intelligence Community officials, which falsely claimed there was evidence that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.

We reported on the FBI’s persecution of employee whistleblowers, its inadequate investigation of an alleged pipe bomb on January 6, and its illegal interference in the 2020 elections by spreading disinformation about and encouraging censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Finally, we have documented how DHS, which Congress created after 9/11 to combat terrorism, ran multiple operations to spread disinformation, demand censorship, and interfere in elections. These efforts involved current or former members of the US Department of Defense, the British Ministry of Defense, and the CIA. We reported that DHS also created so-called “public-private partnerships” with censorship groups like the Stanford Internet Observatory.

Now, my colleagues and I have discovered that US government agencies, including the FBI and known intermediaries with the CIA, have been funding pro-censorship advocacy and advising the Brazilian government on how to engage in censorship.

This matters to me personally because the Brazilian government is currently persecuting me for exposing its illegal censorship and for denouncing its transformation into a dictatorship. The Federal Police wrote two reports about my alleged crime of publishing the Twitter Files - Brazil, which exposed illegal government censorship. President Lula’s Administration followed this up with a report by the Attorney General, recommending my prosecution.

But it should matter to all Americans because it is a gross abuse of power by the Kamala Harris-Joe Biden administration and further proof that the so-called Deep State agencies of the US government are pushing for illegal censorship and other totalitarian attacks on core American freedoms.

The good news is that many people are waking up. A few weeks ago, hundreds of thousands of people protested in Brazil in one of the largest free-speech gatherings in history.

And now, members of Congress are demanding an end to funding for censorship in Brazil. “The Biden-Harris Administration has weaponized U.S. foreign assistance programs and other means to promote censorship in Brazil and crack down on free speech that would be protected under our U.S. Constitution here at home,” said Rep. Chris Smith today. Smith is a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who chaired a congressional hearing to examine Brazil’s incipient totalitarianism last May.

Rep. @Jim_Jordan and @RepMariaSalazar co-sponsored the "No Funding or Enforcement of Censorship Abroad Act" (HR 9850). The Act would:

1.              Prohibit foreign assistance to entities that promote censorship of speech that would be protected speech in the United States;

2.              Prohibit foreign assistance to entities that back the Brazilian government’s censorship directives to U.S. internet companies;

3.              Prohibit U.S. law enforcement cooperation with foreign countries to “cause, facilitate, or promote online censorship” of political speech; and

4.              Prohibit U.S. law enforcement cooperation with Brazilian government censorship directives against internet companies headquartered in the United States.

“The House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have uncovered how the FBI under the Biden-Harris Administration facilitated a foreign government’s censorship requests against Americans,” said Rep. Jordan. “This bill is critical in stopping foreign government censors from using the DOJ or the FBI to silence disfavored views.”

“The United States needs to uphold the principles of its constitution and stand by its citizens whenever they face censorship abroad,” said Rep. Salazar....

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Massive Free Speech Victory!

Ireland's government has abandoned its proposed hate speech law, which would have allowed the police to enter homes and search phones and computers for wrongthink

This is wonderful news that gives us momentum to beat back totalitarianism worldwide! Big congratulations to @FreeSpeechIre and @griptmedia, which did so much to raise global awareness of this awful, totalitarian proposal

https://x.com/FreeSpeechIre/status/1746854766032846910

“The White House issued a rare rebuke of Brazil Tuesday for banning the country’s residents from accessing X in a free-speech struggle with the platform’s billionaire owner Elon Musk.”

Finally! Yes, this is real

“When it comes to social media, we have been very clear that we think that folks should have access to social media. It’s a form of freedom of speech,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in response to a press-briefing question from reporter Raquel Krähenbühl of Brazil’s TV Globo.

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