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Tracking down John Bell: how the case of the Oxford professor exposes a transparency crisis in government via
@bmj_latest
@OxfordUnion
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Perfectly normal for federal investigative body to demand the names of reporters interacting w/ a company. The entire world would be panicking if the President was a Republican, but this is a Democratic administration, so the NY Times will ignore this
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1) Twitter Files
#FauciPharmaFiles
Last December,
@elonmusk
sent out his viral tweet about Fauci.
Fauci went on Fox News and said he had "no clue what [Elon] was talking about."
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Remember, when Israelis snatch a Palestinian from their home, that person is a "prisoner."
When Palestinians snatch an Israeli from their home, that person is a "hostage."
Know the proper words.
Please join me in praying for the well-being and swift release of Laylan Nasser, a member of St Peter’s Anglican Church in Birzeit, in the West Bank, snatched from her family by Israeli troops at 4am on Saturday without giving any reason or saying where she is being held
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1. Twitter Files: Who Are the People Claiming RFK Jr. is “Disinformation”?
Let's look at what I found inside Twitter's internal documents.
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1. Twitter Provided Privileged Access to Banning Queen, Taylor Lorenz
#TwitterFiles
Twitter engineer walking me through their reporting system, "Wow! She's a heavy user."
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I am completely flabbergasted to find FDA and Pfizer allied in a legal battle to hide data.
Who could have ever predicted this but anyone with two brain cells?
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NEW EMAILS: Biden White House Behind Facebook Censorship of The BMJ’s Pfizer Investigation Months before The BMJ released investigation, Facebook emailed the White House they would take action against “true content” on vaccines /1
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It's almost like there's a single editor passing out the same assignment to every news agency.
Here's Canada.
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Fact checkers and disinformation academics check narratives, not facts.
Your facts can be accurate, but if you've got the wrong narrative, well ... Hate to tell you this: that's a "conspiracy theory" and you're gonna get "debunked."
Example: 439,845,457....
Anymore questions?
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3. The month prior, Taylor Lorenz got this tiny account banned. Surprise!
The account detailed Lorenz as a Manhattan rich girl, who attended Swiss boarding school, and whose uncle owns Internet Archive, thus erasing her past.
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1. New internal internal
#TwitterFiles
help explain why privileged reporter hate
@elonmusk
and Twitter 2.0.
Musk denied access to Twitter's formerly "trusted reporters" and allowed inside entree to more independent journalists.
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After
@elonmusk
showed his bias by hosting a Twitter Space w/ a Republican candidate, he confirmed his bias by hosting a Twitter Space w/ a Democratic candidate.
FYI: REPORTERS THINK YOU'RE STUPID!!!!
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4) But in an internal Twitter report in March 2021, the company revealed "Dr. Anthony Fauci did an account takeover for
@WHOCOVIDResponse
."
This runs contrary to Fauci's public statements and sworn deposition given on Nov 23, 2022.
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Twitter has been forced to censor at the requests of multiple governments. After Musk bought Twitter, Twitter continues to have to censor at the requests of multiple governments.
Genius boy
@mattyglesias
sees a story.
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1) The CDC is now warning CDC scientists that their finding on masks “is not scientifically correct” because they found N95 respirators aren't better than surgical masks.
This is how agency retaliation against scientists begins.
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5) According to this tweet, Fauci took over the White House COVID-19 Response account again, in April 2021.
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My piece in today's
@NYPostOpinion
: Democratic operatives have been targeting Musk since he took over the company and ceased censoring Americans.
They gin up flimsy reports that allege hate, then scream at advertisers.
@ggreenwald
@briebriejoy
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The White House claims they did not pressure social media companies to censor.
After Facebook refused to censor some accounts, WH official Rob Flaherty emailed, “Are you guys fucking serious? I want an answer on what happened here and I want it today.”
The Office of Digital Strategy is in amazing hands.
I’m over the moon that Christian and Patrick are joining the White House and that Tericka is getting promoted.
Three of the best, smartest, and kindest in the biz. Can’t wait to see what they do!
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STUDY IN "VACCINE"-PREMIER JOURNAL OF VACCINE RESEARCH
"Combined, there was a 16% higher risk of serious adverse events in mRNA vaccine recipients ... points to the need for formal harm-benefit analyses ... release of participant level datasets."
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6) Fauci was beloved by Twitter 1.0
Elon Musk tweeted last December that former employees had an internal Slack channel unironically called "Fauci Fan Club." (pssst, don't disagree w/ Fauci)
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14) Harvard's
@MartinKulldorff
who is suing the federal government for colluding w/ social media companies on censorship "Twitter should be a place for people to exchange ideas without censoring."
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13) Much thanks to
@TexasLindsay_
who helped collect and organise
#TwitterFiles
. We read and read, until our eyes bled.
More to come!
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NIH redacts their FOIA emails so heavily they read like magnet poetry.
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1. Why did Twitter censor Tucker Carlson? Better yet, who helped Twitter do that?
#TuckerTwitterFiles
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2. Shortly after
@elonmusk
bought Twitter,
@TaylorLorenz
got apoplectic, writing that Twitter was "opening the gates of hell" by letting banned accounts back.
(Take a wild guess what Taylor did the month prior....)
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11) During that same time frame, Twitter began working with Johnson and Johnson on a COVID-19 vaccine "marketing strategy" and with CVS pharmacy to promote approved narratives.
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1) WHO's leading vaccine official testified in court that she advised against
#COVID
passports & was ignored.
COVID vaccines didn't stop transmission; passports gave a false sense of security.
REMEMBER: truth about medicine always comes out in lawsuits.
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9) Twitter didn't just rely on the voices of prominent physicians like Fauci. Oddly enough, they also worked with Big Pharma companies and pharmacy chains to shape vaccine marketing campaigns.
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CDC Now Says COVID-19 Prior Infection Same as Vaccination, Let Us Now Commence the Great Misremembering With elections on the horizon is the CDC following “midterm science”? /1
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4. But did
@fearthefloof
violate Twitter's rules?
Nope. No ban evasion, abuse, harassment toward Taylor Lorenz, platform manipulation, or the sharing of personal information.
“The account was generally healthy and mostly conversational or commentary in nature.”
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3) Fauci made similar claims, during multiple exchanges, in a 7-hour deposition, where he denied using Twitter or even knowing how to access a tweet.
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7) Attorney Angela Sherrer, who left when Musk sought to buy Twitter, praised Fauci as "the leading trusted voice about the COVID-19 response in the United States."
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Going through the lawsuit against the government for coercing social media companies to censor free speech.
1) Government is not providing Anthony Fauci's communications
2) Why would Zuckerberg give Fauci his personal cell phone number in March 2020?
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8) Angela Sherrer was no small fry at Twitter. According to a deposition by FBI agent Elvis Chan, Sherrer was one of the attorneys he interfaced with on "disinformation" at Twitter.
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10) In December 2020, Twitter announced they would begin removing and labelling tweets that contained vaccine "misinformation" especially concerning COVID-19 vaccines.
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9. Several of Lorenz's past reporting targets tell me she seems to work in concert with her sources. After Lorenz doxed
@libsoftiktok
in the Post, Alejandra Caraballo sent Twitter a "private letter" to remove Libs of TikTok.
Lorenz quoted Caraballo in the Post that next month.
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"I had a high degree of confidence that the origins of COVID-19 were in the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
I don't know, but hearing the top intelligence official in the US say this sounds like news. Yet, no
#scicomm
reporting at
@Nature
@ScienceMagazine
or
@nytimes
?
WHY?
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2) "A lot of people are spouting out a lot of things about me and Twitter," Fauci told
@FoxNews
. "I've never had a Twitter account. I don't intend on having a Twitter account, and I've had nothing to do with Twitter. So I don't know what they're talking about when they say that."
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5. Nonetheless, Twitter suspended the account because it "violates the Twitter Media Policy."
The account then deactivated.
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7. Bragman played this all up on Twitter of course to call attention to himself, retweeting Bhattcharya's tweet, before people made fun of him for "doxing himself."
Manhattan rich kids playing at journalist are easily bruised, it seems.
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12) By the summer of 2021, Johnson and Johnson began a full court press to market a ton of their products on Twitter, including a controversial antidepressant.
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When someone says that censorship will protect democracy from fascism, well, that's kinda what a fascist would say.
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HAS HARVARD LOST ITS PRONOUNS?
Harvard has dramatically modified its Diversity, Equity Inclusion office. And disappeared their webpage for pronouns.
Google "pronouns at Harvard" & top hit redirect to
Archived page
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How many times did virologists say they were not making chimeric SARS viruses more deadly? How many???
Latest preprint shows they made a chimeric SARS-CoV-2 w/ Omicron S gene and ancestral SARS-CoV-2 backbone that showed 80% mortality in humanised mice.
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6. A month prior to that, Lorenz went after
@DrJBhattacharya
for tweeting an email by her friend and itinerant blogger
@WalkerBragman
. Bhattacharya tweeted a harassing email Bragman sent him and it had Bragman's contact info.
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Weber Shandwick Provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, While Staffing the CDC’s Vaccine Office
$50 million contract allows PR firm to be “embedded at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta as part of the Division of Viral Diseases team.” /1
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12. It's hard to understand Lorenz's concerns about doxxing when she has done this so many times herself. Here's one allegation in a defamation lawsuit by
@littlemissjacob
against Lorenz that is still working it's way through the courts.
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Senate investigators caught Fauci's right-hand man David Morens advising scientists to hide communications by emailing him at his Gmail.
Morens also admits not retaining documents, as required by law.
EMAIL: “CONFIDENTIAL WITHIN OUR SMALL GROUP, PLEASE”
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After consulting with my editor, and in response to numerous requests from reporters in different countries, we’ve decided to unlock last Tuesday’s article.
Even if we lose paid subscribers, this is in the public interest and important for public health.
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Remember when questioning lockdowns made you a "far right anti-vaxxer" who is "doing their own research"?
We just lived through four of the dumbest years in modern history.
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Anybody remember when saying "natural immunity is more effective than a vaccine" was cause for a ban on social media for spreading "disinformation"?
Antibodies derived from natural COVID infection are more abundant and at least 10x more potent than immunity generated by vaccination alone. That’s not something we should ignore, scientists say.
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13. Lorenz had more than special reporting access to get accounts banned. When Tucker Carlson did a piece ridiculing her, Twitter put out an alert-"We need to be careful with her."
I couldn't evidence that Twitter provided this support to other reporters. I never got it.
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NY Supreme Court rules in favor of city workers terminated for not getting the COVID vax. Court finds the vaccine did NOT stop spread of COVID and some workers had natural immunity.
Judge orders reinstatement of fired workers w/ back pay. …
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When the government works with social media to censor us, that's a "conspiracy theory" in the way that gravity is a "theory" after someone pushes you off a building.
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It was a valid subpoena. The question is not whether Hunter Biden can be held in contempt. Of course he can. The question is what to do with Eric Swalwell, the House member who facilitated not only contempt of Congress but a possible federal crime.
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17. Toufanian told me he sued Lorenz over the article, and she then began sending messages to gin up a DOJ investigation against him.
This email Lorenz is sending around is for an Assistant US Attorney in NY.
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White House Press Sec tried to blame school closures on ... get this ... Republicans.
This is some high level gaslighting and proof that evidence of school closures harms is rattling the White House.
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FDA refuses to update the Pfizer COVID vaccine label to note it does not stop transmission, nor to list side effects. FDA is industry's agency.
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Pfizer's PR firm, Weber Shandwick, sure is getting a workout trying to make this all go away.
More on Weber Shandwick: "WEBER SHANDWICK PROVIDES PR FOR MODERNA AND PFIZER, WHILE STAFFING THE CDC'S VACCINE OFFICE"
BREAKING:
Pfizer should compensate the vaccine injured says Cardiologist
‘The fines should be so large that pharmaceutical companies risk going bankrupt and senior executives should go to jail if they knew their medical intervention was going to cause harm’
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15. Lorenz has incredibly unorthodox (is that the right word?) reporting tactics. Here's an affidavit signed by someone she quoted in the article about
@littlemissjacob
FYI: this person was a minor.
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PFIZER BS: "Pfizer has not conducted gain of function or directed evolution research."
NEXT PARAGRAPH!!!
"... when a full virus does not contain any known gain of function mutations, such virus may be engineered to ..."
#gaslighting
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10. The letter was sent by Caraballo and several groups including the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a favored source in Lorenz essays on banning.
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8. Bragman's game is to constantly accuse people of being "Koch funded."
FYI: Soros funded me to give the plenary talk at a 2019 BMJ conference on investigative journalism, but that does not make me a "Soros funded" journalist.
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1) Chinese researchers who first mapped
#COVID
was being paid by Anthony Fauci.
How do we know?
Show me the documents!
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19. Neither Lorenz nor Cameron Barr with the Post responded to questions.
Thanks so much to
@TexasLindsay_
for helping to collect/organize these
#TwitterFiles
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Matt Taibbi’s TK News Joins the List of Media Outlets Alarmed at Facebook Censorship
Fact checkers don’t check facts, they check inconvenient narratives. Former FDA criminal investigator says FDA "complicit in fraud" by Pfizer. /1
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Hey
@chumphrey46
, this you asking Twitter to censor a Tweet? Is this what they taught you about free speech when you studied journalism at Northwestern?
How to violate people's 1st Amendment Rights?
@elonmusk
did you know the White House was doing this w/
@Twitter
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Democrats are more interested in uncovering
@mtaibbi
sources rather than looking at the emails that have been made public.
Instead of investigating government censorship, they are investigating Matt Taibbi.
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Sure is strange how all the "fact checkers" and "disinformation experts" avoid tweeting about Pfizer corruption.
Why is that?
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My interview with former CDC Director Robert Redfield on battles with Anthony Fauci, and why classified information will point to a lab accident in Wuhan
@DisInfoChron
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11. I asked Caraballo what came of the meeting w/ Twitter and to see the letter they sent. But got no response. I also don't know if Libs of TikTok was successful in getting Caraballo suspended for harassment.
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18. Toufanian later received a subpoena from the Southern District that reads like a rip and read of Lorenz's article.
The investigation dragged on for 3 years. He recently received this email to pick up his laptop that was confiscated. "I was never charged."
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.
@peterhotez
refused a $1 million-plus charity donation to crawl out of his MSNBC safe space to debate vaccines.
But Hotez knows the counter offer.
Pfizer spent over $43 million on his colleagues just in 2021, to keep the medical profession in their corner.
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14. Taylor also provided special support to a source in stories she wrote for the Atlantic, NY Times, and recently for the Post. When Jackson Weimer's account was suspended, Lorenz put this in front of Twitter.
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Should someone let the BBC's "misinformation" reporter know? Asking for a friend.
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1. “Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science,” Anthony Fauci said, blasting his critics during a 2021 interview about his advice on the pandemic.
So the NY Times confronted Fauci w/ an unimpeachable source: Anthony Fauci.
He still dissembled.
More on FAUCI VS.…
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Fauci admitted 6 feet social distancing "just sort of appeared" w/o scientific evidence.
Yale's
@gregggonsalves
promoted 6 feet in this legal filing. When you look at Gregg's footnote, the scientific evidence is-get this-a NY Times article.
#FollowTheScience
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16. Here's an affidavit signed by a Lorenz source for a NY Times story about Arya Toufanian
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The House
@Weaponization
committee has sent a target letter to
@Imi_Ahmed
his fake nonprofit Center on Countering Digital Hate to turn over documents.
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2. First thing I found was Twitter officials discussing action they were taking on
@RobertKennedyJr
b/c of a report put out by the Center for Countering Digital Hate
@CCDHate
CCDH's report was called "The Disinformation Dozen."
But was the report credible?
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5. It's run by a British political operative named Imran Ahmed, who wrote "New Serfdom" a book critical of free market ideology."
QUESTION 1: How did being a Labour Party political operative prepare Ahmed to rebrand himself as an expert in vaccines and disinformation?
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8. Note that Imran Ahmed released his report to coincide with Biden's vaccine rollout and congressional hearings w/ Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey.
QUESTION: Who is Ahmed working with?
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Totally normal in all democracies for federal police to offer a $1 million bounty for dirt on someone running for President.
Happens all the time.
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FDA is now all Fox News, all the time. Email sent yesterday to CBER, the biologics section at
#FDA
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TODAY'S JOURNALISM:
@ssnyderinq
published a hit piece based off anonymous complaints about tweet "likes." She followed up w/ a "win" when the college president was taken to task for daring to have an opinion outside academic orthodoxy.…
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9. Twitter placed a “Vaccine Safety” label on this tweet where Kennedy sent a letter to Biden. What is wrong with sending the President a letter?
How does this violate safety? It's just odd.
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I'm a U.S war veteran and any American member of Congress who puts on the uniform of a foreign nation should be fucking expelled. Get this guy out.
Rep. Brian Mast is wearing his IDF uniform for the GOP conference meeting today.
“Tlaib has her flag, I got my uniform.”
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2. During my trip to Twitter's HQ in San Francisco, I uncovered several documents that explain why reporters now hate Twitter 2.0
Musk fired their friends and cut off their privileged access.
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Peter Hotez once again screaming "antiscience" when he sees something he doesn't like.
This type of behavior animates a sector of the population w/ advanced degrees in science & medicine.
Think about that for a moment.
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Hey
@mcuban
, where you getting your facts to call
@joerogan
"bullshit"?
"[M]ost drugs approved by the FDA are under-tested for adverse drug reactions, yet offer few new benefits. Drugs cause more than 2.2 million hospitalizations and 110,000 hospital-based deaths a year.
Way to talk in generalities Joe. Not saying there aren't a lot of fucked up things about pharma. That's why we created . But to ignore that the same industry has saved who knows how many lives is bullshit and you know it.
It's also disrespectful to all…
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Senator Roger Marshall has notified NIH to preserve Fauci's records, in light to NIH lack of compliance w/ congressional oversight and
#FOIA
.
Senator writes: this includes personal email accounts, texts ... and burner phones.
Or just leak to me, guys!
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Health Affairs study is devastating.
Large majority of Americans believe political influence and private sector influence have compromised CDC recommendations and policies.
Americans have no trust in the CDC.
Read study here:
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1. Researchers Find No Evidence (Again!) Of Mask Effectiveness, Yet Self-Styled Experts Continue Promotion
My interview with Cochrane Review author Tom Jefferson, who says governments "don’t have the science to back up what they claim."
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1) Pfizer has spread so much vax misinformation that a regulator accused them of "bringing discredit" on the entire industry--the entire industry!!!
And the fact checkers keep looking the other way.
Let's look at the facts.
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