America’s loss of self-control
It’s not only that our culture is more emotional and violent; it’s that those behaviors are now considered virtuous. America’s news is filled with stories of rage-driven violence. Just the other day, there was a tragic story about a father of six killed in a road rage incident. It didn’t
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Memorializing the Twitter Files XXI – How to Find Russian Disinfo Anywhere
Under Senate pressure, Twitter adopted tests for finding “Russian” related sites that became simple ideological tests and that were further exploited by third-party groups to advance censorship. Note: For an Index to the Twitter Files, see here. 1/ #TWITTERFILES 21 How to Find Russians Anywhere Pt.1 – PROJECT OSPREY –
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Memorializing the Twitter Files XX – The Information Cartel
The alliance to censor and control information was widespread almost beyond the imagination. In what looks like a plot for the series 24, the alliance was a conspiracy across social media that involved academics, journalists, intelligence operatives, military personnel, government bureaucrats, NGO workers and more. “1.TWITTER FILES #20 The Information
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Memorializing the Twitter Files XIX – Covid-19, The Virality Project, & Censoring “True Stories”
The Virality Project was a coordinated effort to monitor billons of social media posts by Stanford University, federal agencies, and a slew of (often state-funded) NGOs, and to censor any posts, whether or not factually true, that did not support the government narrative about the need for, and the safety
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Memorializing the Twitter Files XVIII – The Censorship-Industrial Complex
Matt Taibbi’s Statement to Congress about a partnering of state agencies like DHS, FBI, or the Global Engagement Center (GEC), along with “NGOs that aren’t academic” and an unexpectedly aggressive partner, commercial news media – to form a “Censorship-Industrial Complex on social media. 1. TWITTER FILES: Statement to Congress THE
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Memorializing the Twitter Files XVII – Obama’s GEC, New Knowledge, & Govt Blacklists
The Global Engagement Center is an interagency group “within” State, including FBI, DHS, NSA, CIA, DARPA, Special Operations Command (SOCOM). It unlawfully produced government-sponsored blacklists targeting conservatives. Disinformation is the counterterrorism mission, rebranded for domestic ideological enemies. 1. TWITTER FILES #17 New Knowledge, the Global Engagement Center, and State-Sponsored Blacklists
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Memorializing the Twitter Files XVI – A Media Experiment
The MSM makes a single request by President Trump to censor a tweet a major story, but the MSM wholly ignores all requests to censor coming from the left on a vastly greater scale, such as 300 separate requests for censorship from Maine’s Senator Angus King. TWITTER FILES #16 Comic
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Fox News & the MSM Will Falter As Tucker Carlson & Elon Musk Rise
Fox News will hemorrhage viewers for its treacherous decision to silence Tucker Carlson, all the while Carlson and Elon Musk will be taking a wrecking ball to progressives’ control of mainstream media. Note: A version of this post appears at American Thinker With their decision to take Tucker Carlson’s show off the
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2023-04-27 Bookworm Video Podcast
Short bits about the “fascist” label, evil Republicans, and Don Lemon, before I address the gal suing Tucker.
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Why the Second Amendment matters
I don’t usually share emails, but this one is so good about the types of Americans who legally own guns, and why we need those guns, that I couldn’t resist.
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Fox News’ Bud Light Moment
Fox News fired Tucker Carlson without any explanation or obvious malfeasance on the part of Tucker. If Fox wanted to cut ties with those many viewers who have looked at Fox as the lone champion of fair reporting and center / center-right opinion, they could not have chosen a more effective way to do it than this.
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Sunday laughter: Tom Jones and Burt Reynolds having fun
Just to lighten your day, I have three videos — two of Tom Jones and one of Burt Reynolds — that I hope make you smile or even laugh.
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Phenomenal: A talk between Vivek and James Lindsay
If you listen to nothing else this weekend, listen to a talk between Vivek Ramaswamy and James Lindsay. It will blow your socks off. We’ve been watching this play out for decades: The left coopts institutions, leaving conservatives with nowhere to go. For leftists, it’s been a never-fail tactic, so
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Keep an eye on this space — and open thread.
My site was down yesterday which, ironically, was my free day, and I had all sorts of writing ideas. However, I still have those ideas, so keep an eye on things here for the next couple of days, because I’m hoping very much to have fresh content. In the meantime,
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