Michael Tracey
@mtracey
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Roving journalist, friend to all dogs [email protected]
Joined March 2009
ANNOUNCEMENT! I have officially joined the land of Substack. It was probably inevitable. But I'm very excited about the opportunities the platform affords. And most of all, looking forward to making insufferable people's heads explode
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They always strangely leave out another country that's receiving a large amount of money from the US.
We sent $250 billion to Ukraine. And yet we can’t get water to fight fires in California.
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Congratulations to Lake County, California for managing to tabulate a grand total of 30% of the vote nine days after the election
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Every time I walk into a restaurant with my mask affixed for 30 seconds before being seated, then spend 45 minutes unmasked eating and drinking, and then affix my mask again for 30 seconds while leaving, I give thanks for how many thousands of lives this practice has surely saved.
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I am very confused about what conservative cultural and moral values are supposed to be at the moment.
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I’ve been wearing a nice big Star of David necklace this entire time at Columbia, and oddly experienced no “Anti-Semitic Harassment.” It’s almost like the people who claim to experience such “harassment” deliberately go around trying to provoke it for social media clout
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Downtown DC is essentially under military occupation and nobody in our bold, adversarial watchdog media apparently finds this odd.
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Key difference between Dem and GOP claims of election fraud: Dem claims get amplified eagerly by every organ of mainstream establishment opinion (see 2016). Conversely, GOP claims are subject to a barrage of disclaimers and censorship declaring them authoritatively to be false.
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Purging the sitting President from his primary communications platform is absolute authoritarian lunacy.
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Imagine saying this to a manual laborer when your job is to sit around chatting about politics.
Ben Shapiro: "No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem."
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Lead sponsor of the TikTok bill, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) admits the real reason they're rushing to ban TikTok -- because it's "becoming the dominant news platform for Americans under 30" and the US government doesn't control it like other platforms
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Do you have any evidence that this person is incompetent at her profession? The bio also says she's a 22 year vet of the LAFD, and was previously Battalion Chief, Assistant Chief, Deputy Chief, and Chief Deputy. These cheap swipes based on identity traits are getting tiresome.
Meet Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley. She boasts about being the first female and LGBTQ fire chief in the LA Fire Department. Promoting a culture of DEI is her priority. Does this make you feel safer?
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Anyone else notice that there's conspicuously little information in the public domain about how Israel's ground invasion of Lebanon is going?.
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GOP free speech: You can say "retarded" again, but you can't protest Israel.
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Cop shoots an unarmed woman point-blank in the throat but we're all supposed to be sending Thoughts & Prayers to traumatized Members of Congress whose workday was interrupted for a couple hours.
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The former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett just confirmed what any rational observer could've surmised: Russia and Ukraine reached a preliminary agreement during the early phase of the war — "Both sides very much wanted a ceasefire," Bennett said — but the US "blocked it".
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I’m currently at Princeton wearing my Yarmulke, waiting to be inundated with all the vicious anti-Semitism we’re told has overtaken our once-great Elite American Universities. I’ll let you know if I survive 😭
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Netanyahu says Trump "emphasized" to him that the ceasefire is "temporary," and Israel will have "full backing" to resume the war in Gaza. He says Trump has decided to "lift all the remaining restrictions" on US munitions, allowing Israel to resume the war with "tremendous force"
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Twitter policy in 2015, before media/activists lobbied for the company to become a giant online daycare center: No direct threats of violence. Beyond that, Twitter doesn't mediate disputes between users, or remove "offensive" content. If you feel a law was broken, contact police
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Paid by who? The famously deep-pocketed pro-Palestinian lobby in the United States? 😂.
@mtracey The protesters and organizers are paid.
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Utterly bizarre assertion from Margaret Brennan. She claims the Nazi Holocaust occurred because "free speech was weaponized" in Germany, thus making Vance's comments all the more worrisome. Recasting the Holocaust as a consequence of excessive free speech is just totally bonkers
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Italy: holds democratic election.Pundits: this is a frightening blow to democracy.
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Trump won Starr County in South Texas, which is 96% Latino, by 16 points. In 2016, Trump lost the county by 60 points. If anyone knows of a precedent for a **76 point** electoral swing over the span of eight years, I'd love to hear about it.
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Ukraine president just blamed the US for stoking "panic" about an allegedly imminent Russian invasion, and insists that the situation today is basically the same as a year ago. Odd that US is hyping an invasion threat more than the actual country that would supposedly be invaded.
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The new corporate authoritarian liberal-left monoculture is going to be absolutely ruthless -- and in 12 days it is merging with the state. This only the beginning.
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You cannot create an "alternative" to Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter at this point, they are collectively more powerful than most if not all nation states.
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2014 is not ancient history. Can someone please explain why this was not portrayed at the time as a morally abominable statement?
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It's pretty weird that the leaders of France, UK, Canada, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and New Zealand all felt they had to immediately weigh in on a US Supreme Court decision that has zero effect on them.
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Never seen any of these newly released Thai hostages on any of the posters plastered everywhere
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This "NJ woman" moved to Israel, joined the military, worked in the IDF social media unit, and was living on a soldier commune. But to the casual headline reader, just an unsuspecting "NJ woman"
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Maybe I'm nuts but I can't get over how the President announced we're all on the verge of Armageddon and everyone just proceeds basically as normal.
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I knew it would be widely denied that prominent liberals floated an Electoral College coup in 2016, which is why I contemporaneously saved a bunch of examples
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To me the wildest story of 2020 is still that the most widespread and destructive riots in at least 50 years occurred and it basically got covered up.
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Sooooo are we all just going to forget now that Washington, DC was put under military occupation based on a "threat" that was never substantiated and never materialized.
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Hope we can all agree that Dems would've reacted totally calmly and rationally if Trump tried to unilaterally coerce millions of unwilling adults (disproportionately POC) to submit to the injection he pioneered.
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The Mississippi law that the Supreme Court upheld today bans abortion after 15 weeks. France bans abortion after 12 weeks.
Abortion is a fundamental right for all women. It must be protected. I wish to express my solidarity with the women whose liberties are being undermined by the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Whether you hate Alex Jones is beside the point. Do you love the fact a handful of tech monopolists have the power to simultaneously purge him from the internet?.
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Pretty funny that a former president's speech has generated exponentially more anticipation and hype than any speech by the current president.
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@David_Leavitt @Target So you decided to publicly shame a random Target worker because you’re mad about a toothbrush.
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Did anyone notice that nobody brought up Trump's impeachment at the Dem Convention. Frantically portrayed as of earth-shattering, world-historical importance at the time, but apparently didn't even warrant a mention 🤔.
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This is the quietest that Donald Trump has been perhaps in his entire life 😂.
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Call it "whataboutism," I don't care: it's impossible to take seriously this sudden newfound concern for "war crimes" coming from some of the same exact people who never gave a crap about similar or worse "crimes" committed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, etc.
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Unclear if Trump ever really planned on following through with a genuine Afghanistan withdrawal -- but if he did, and it went approximately like it's going now, you know there would've been a five-alarm-fire media meltdown about how this is all according to the plan of Putin.
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Ben Shapiro: Keep working, dammit!. 68-year-old American: But I would rather do leisure activities and spend time with my grandchildren. I was a roofer for 30 years!. Ben Shapiro: That's anti-Semitic!.
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Someone's going to have to explain why the people who were the most hyper risk-averse toward a respiratory virus are now the most cavalierly risk-tolerant toward nuclear destruction.
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At the urging of JD Vance, I read the relevant court document. It does not say this person was a "convicted MS-13 gang member." So did Vance not actually read the court document he was hectoring others to read, or is he knowingly making stuff up?.
My comment is that according to the court document you apparently didn’t read he was a convicted MS-13 gang member with no legal right to be here. My further comment is that it’s gross to get fired up about gang members getting deported while ignoring citizens they victimize.
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None of this is about “safety,” it’s about purposely inflating a threat in order to assert political and cultural dominance.
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Asked the Guardsmen why they are standing around with unloaded rifles. “I don’t know, I’m just doing what I’m told”
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The new TIME interview with Biden is an utter disaster. Here is a thread with the soul-crushing lowlights
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Bernie Sanders just voted YES on funding the US proxy war in Ukraine to the tune of $40 billion. So now it's officially on the record that every national politician associated with the activist "Left" is completely on board with escalating the war. That's what the "Left" is now.
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Kamala "skipping" Netanyahu's address, but meeting him privately while she and her staff resolutely affirm her commitment to the Biden/Harris approach of full-bore "support" for Israel, is a good early example of meaningless political gestures that reinforce the policy status quo.
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If the New York Times or anyone else thinks "liberty" needs to be "saved" in Ukraine, have they noticed Ukraine itself has imposed martial law, barred men from leaving the country, and consolidated state control of the media? Or are these considered liberty-enhancing measures now
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Alex Jones has been doing the same thing every day for well over a decade, but Facebook, YouTube, and Apple all decide within hours that he suddenly violates their "community guidelines." Sure, OK.
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Jimmy Carter in 2013 said he met several times with Hamas leadership and they would be willing to accept the existence of Israel -- but Netanyahu was intent on imposing a "one-state solution," which would make negotiations impossible and be "a disaster for Israel"
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Does anyone seriously think that if Trump had won the election (only came down to 42,918 votes in three states) there wouldn't have been widespread claims of fraud, wild conspiracies, Electoral College challenges, and huge protests in DC that could be said to "incite" violence.
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I'm not kidding when I say Mueller's non-vindication could cause serious mental health episodes. People are so emotionally invested in this, it's insane. I don't blame regular citizens who fell for it; I feel bad for them. I scorn and detest the politicians + media responsible.
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Joe Rogan says Biden, Warren, and Mayor Pete tried to get on his podcast and he turned them down. "I like Tulsi and I like Bernie, that's it. Everybody else can eat shit.". LOL.
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The most extreme, coordinated corporate censorship offensive in modern history and liberals/leftists are in a mindless celebratory stupor. Pathetic shills.
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Good to know we'll be able to receive regular updates from the new Taliban government on Twitter, but to get updates from Donald Trump you'll have to go elsewhere.
کابل ښار تر مدیریت لاندې دی، د اسلامي امارت ځانګړي قطعات د امنیت د تأمین په موخه د ښار په مختلفو برخو کې ځای پر ځای شوي. عام خلک د مجاهدینو په ورتګ خوښي ښیي او له امنیت څخه راضي دي.
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The amount of outright lying going on right now about the TikTok bill is unusual even by Washington, DC standards. They're about to pass one of the most momentous acts of state censorship in US history, and they continue to lie and insist they're not actually doing this.
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Posting "Vladimir, STOP!" has to be the funniest of all possible strategies for ending the Ukraine war
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Have you noticed the same people passionately demanding gun control are also passionately demanding that giant amounts of uncontrollable, untraceable guns be indiscriminately dumped into Eastern Europe.
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They want him impeached again, convicted, and removed not for some high-minded civic purpose -- but to punish and humiliate him and his followers.
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Update: my Yarmulke blew off my head in a gust of wind and a student in a Keffiyeh ran over and returned it. Terrifying stuff!!! 😂
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FOX NEWS host Harris Faulkner turns to Condoleezza Rice this morning and says, "When you invade a sovereign nation, that is a war crime" -- Rice nods in solemn agreement. Just incredible. Establishment factions are going all-out leveraging this to whitewash their own past actions
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Govs. DeSantis and Youngkin are both enacting abortion bans that start at 15 weeks, which means that Florida and Virginia will still have more liberal abortion laws than virtually all of Western Europe.
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Jan 6 defendants have long argued that the initial entrants were peaceably escorted into the building by Capitol Police, and therefore had no reasonable expectation that their conduct was unlawful . This video, suppressed for almost 3 years, confirms it.
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Democrats might want to take a look at the UK for insight on how voters react when one party is perceived to be overturning an election result.
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"Romania straight up cancelled the results of a presidential election based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency." This statement from JD Vance is obviously 100% correct, and anyone 'offended' by it is offended by a straightforward description of what transpired.
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Tulsi has ~170,000 individual donors. Two national polls this week alone put her at or above the required threshold (but they're not "approved" by the DNC). She's ahead of Beto, Yang, Klobuchar, Booker, and Castro in New Hampshire. Excluding her from the debates is a total joke.
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Sorry to break it to you, but Trump was spot-on with this one: “They say the ocean will rise 1/8 of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years, but don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries with one shot. Something is wrong with their thinking”.
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Haven't heard a single elected Democrat express the slightest degree of apprehension about the most extreme oligarchic censorship purge in modern history.
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In the span of 24 hours, Biden has declared that US troops are headed to Ukraine, and declared his intention to impose regime change on Russia. Really doing a fantastic job.
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Wave a magic wand and suddenly anti-lockdown protesters are no longer "COVID deniers" or conspiracy theorists when they happen to be in China.
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The “Squad” position that Biden is both complicit in an ongoing “genocide” and totally fit to serve another four years as president is really special.
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Anyone who celebrates the "de-platforming" of the sitting President from social media -- likely the most extreme thing which has happened over the past day -- is a naked authoritarian who craves the punitive authority of tech companies to carrying out their political bidding.
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AOC casually drops the term "environmental racism" like she expects anyone other than an extremely narrow band of creepy activist-brained losers to even know what the fuck she's talking about.
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If able-bodied people are bombastically in favor of sending others to go fight in a war they claim to believe so strongly in, it's perfectly logical to ask whether they personally are willing to go fight, because it tests whether their beliefs are really as strong as they purport.
“Go volunteer to fight” isn’t a logical argument in a foreign policy debate, it’s an emotional one.
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I don't think it's accurate that "silence" automatically equals "complicity" or "violence." Sometimes people are "silent" because they have complicated views about a complicated subject, and decline to mindlessly repeat whatever cliches you are trying to force down their throat.
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Just a few items confirmed by the leaked docs:. - Zelensky ordering attacks inside Russia.- Presence of US/NATO special forces in Ukraine.- US spying on top Ukraine officials.- Ukraine attacking Belarus. But everyone's ENRAGED the government is no longer concealing these things.
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Wait, people are actually arguing that the pilot put lives in danger by repeating a political joke meme? 🤣.
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I think the media has done a very poor job informing voters that Joe Biden is exhibiting obvious signs of rapid cognitive decline.
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As someone who spent two months covering the aftermath of the most widespread riots in at least 50 years, this never-ending fixation with illusory organized "white supremacist" groups couldn't be more absurd. It's 99% a media invention totally disconnected from reality.
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Twitter's stated rationale for banning Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn, and others -- "behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm" -- is extraordinarily creepy and could be used against virtually anyone if the powers-that-be decided it was politically necessary.
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The primary constituency served by a federal vaccine mandate is affluent, vengeful neurotics whose sense of comfort depends on the Government coercing their perceived cultural inferiors into compliance.
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Netanyahu declaring invasion: "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible". 1 Samuel 15:3. "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass"
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David Petraeus said today that if a "tactical" nuke is used in Ukraine, the US will immediately launch all-out conventional war on Russia. No thought given to consulting Congress or the public first -- they've already decided ahead of time to launch World War III. So that's that.
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We know the US Government always told the complete truth about the USS Maine, the RMS Lusitania, the USS Greer, the Gulf of Tonkin, Iraqi babies in incubators, WMDs, etc. So there's every reason to believe they're telling the complete truth about the Nordstream pipeline explosion.
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Imagining an alternate universe where Trump ordered a massive, unprecedented military occupation of Washington, DC in order to quell protest ahead of his Second Inauguration. I'm sure the media would've just sat back and meekly accepted it.
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Declaring that a country has a “biblical right” to seize certain territory is crackpot religious nuttery that somehow becomes totally normal and acceptable in this one particular context
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WikiLeaks = relentlessly attacked for publishing verified, authentic info .BuzzFeed = cheered for publishing what appears to be a total sham.
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Media members who once denounced the deployment of military force to American streets as the rawest incarnation of violent fascism have now joined together to cheer the military occupation of Washington, DC.
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Tweeted just hours before Zelensky unilaterally banned 11 opposition parties -- impressive.
Ukraine may be the first example in human history of a country that under the pressure of war is becoming *more* tolerant and *more* liberal.
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Hey @tedlieu: there is no clause in the First Amendment that permits the government to constrain political speech because it allegedly makes Jewish students "feel unsafe." Maybe instead of bloviating about freedom in Ukraine all the time, try upholding basic freedoms in the USA
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Jokes aside, why did so many activists and pundits suddenly decide that driving 30 minutes from Illinois to Wisconsin was an act of profound moral consequence? It's really weird.
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