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THREAD: If you're watching @TuckerCarlson and unfamiliar w the Biden administration's first of its kind National Strategy on Countering Domestic Terrorism and where it fits in the admin's broader War on Wrongthink, I've been covering this vital, disturbing topic for the last year
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
1/13/21: If you accede to the view that anything that challenges the prevailing progressive orthodoxy constitutes violence, then you will take any means necessary to snuff it out https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/13/democrats-are-using-the-recent-capitol-riot-to-consolidate-power/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
2/11/21: Is the Biden administration planning to use the purported threat of "domestic violent extremism" (DVE) to justify a further crackdown on the First Amendment by Big Tech proxy? Yes. https://www.newsweek.com/will-free-speech-first-casualty-bidens-war-domestic-terror-opinion-1568088
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
2/15/21: Biden admin's planning to use full force of feds in pursuit of a new war. Its target? Americans. This countering DVE effort, declared in wake of Capitol riot, manifests media rhetoric about need to “deprogram,” “de-ba’athify,” drone Deplorables https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/15/bidens-domestic-war-on-terrorism-may-seek-to-criminalize-political-dissent/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
3/31/21: illiberal efforts are accelerating and expanding in 2021—supercharged using pretext of Capitol Riot—reflected in Wokeification of military, muzzling of contrarian media and impending execution of a war on DVE that could sweep up half the country https://www.newsweek.com/why-big-tech-censored-our-podcast-touching-2020-election-irregularities-opinion-1579647
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
4/22/21: In Woke America we increasingly inhabit, opposing prog agenda is tantamount to bigotry. Dem's modus operandi is to play up purported bigotry as pretext to savage/smear pol foes, run roughshod over rights, usurp power in name of virtue, "equity" https://www.newsweek.com/covid-19-hate-crimes-bill-thought-crime-bill-opinion-1585568
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
5/21/21: J6 Cmte's part of a rolling effort to exploit disgraceful actions of several hundred to further narrative up to half US constitutes would-be or actual terrorists, justify pervasive use of Ruling Class power to pursue em, hang it around necks of Rs https://www.newsweek.com/january-6th-commission-wrongthink-inquisition-opinion-1593500
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
5/23/21: Ruling Class has invested in collapsing narrative—J6 represented murderous, armed insurrection, threatening US. Yet exploitation of event to marginalize/malign up to half US, in slew of efforts posing threat to liberty/justice, continues apace https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-capitol-riot-narrative-is-collapsing-but-its-political-exploitation-persists_3826065.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
6/30/21: Biden admin's Domestic Terror Strategy codifies fed War on Wrongthink. It makes imposition of Wokeism NatSec imperative, using public safety to justify leftist domination of public policy, discourse, enforcing regime's ideology at point of gov gun https://www.newsweek.com/biden-domestic-terror-strategy-codifies-woke-war-wrongthink-opinion-1605341
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
7/2/21: Claiming half US loathed by Ruling Class is bigoted isn't new, nor is fear-mongering belief people should vote in person, w ID, on election day is rooted in bigotry. But linking views re elections to not only bigotry, but terrorism, is novel https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-capitol-riot-narrative-is-collapsing-but-its-political-exploitation-persists_3826065.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
7/16/21: Biden remarks on "protecting the sacred, const right to vote" advocated for nothing of sort. He was at his demagogic worst, maligning those who'd ensure vote integrity. Disturbing rhetoric in context of Dom Terror Strategy makes it more sinister https://www.newsweek.com/biden-voting-rights-demagoguery-made-more-sinister-domestic-terror-plan-opinion-1610299
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
7/16/21: The demagoguery, manufactured hysteria of the Ruling Class, and the tyrannical lengths to which it believes it must go to impose its will—using civil rights-imperiling force and coercion rather than persuasion—betrays weakness and authoritarianism https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-ruling-class-poses-the-very-authoritarian-dangers-it-claimed-trump-did_3903950.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
7/23/21: Ruling Class effort to control info sphere—monopolize Narrative—has been underway for years. What's changed is it's now policy for relevant state & private-sector power centers to jointly eliminate dissent, under pretext of public health, NatSec https://www.newsweek.com/biden-big-tech-covid-censorship-collusion-tip-ruling-class-spear-opinion-1612355
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/8/21: Totalitarian regimes classify dissent as dom extremism and, under guise of public health/safety, hunt dissenters w NatSec apparatus. It defends ruling regime. This is increasingly America under Joe Biden, Ruling Class avatar https://www.newsweek.com/biden-regime-uses-domestic-extremism-impose-its-rule-opinion-1636417
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/11/21: It's no coincidence DOJ heeded NSBA call for Biden admin to target parents critical of CRT, COVID policies in schools by labeling 'em domestic terrorists and mobilizing DOJ/FBI against em. Strategy for Countering Dom Terror mandates it https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/11/biden-administration-parents-who-oppose-racism-are-domestic-terrorists/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
1/3/22: 2021 closes as year of crackdown, when Ruling Class weaponized its powers to crush dissenters from Wokeist-Scientist orthodoxy in arguably most far-reaching, brazen, lawless assault on Americans by state and private-sector adjuncts in US history https://www.newsweek.com/2021-year-ruling-class-crackdown-dissent-opinion-1664757
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
1/6/22: J6 melodrama's part of info op by authoritarian Ruling Class to cast foes as threats to democracy (its power), use purported threat to justify whole-of-society crackdown on dissent. Ruling Class:dem as Fauci:Science. Neither may be challenged https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/06/democrats-cling-to-j6-mania-because-they-cant-appeal-to-facts-or-their-failed-policies/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
1/25/22: While Biden admin fixates on smearing political opponents as dom terrorists and effectively silencing, targeting, pursuing them accordingly, bona fide terrorists, foreign adversaries, violent criminals have been greenlit to act with total impunity https://www.newsweek.com/woke-weak-biden-punishes-americans-emboldens-adversaries-opinion-1671921
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
2/17/22: In Biden's America, attempting to cancel Joe Rogan is counter-terror policy. This is bc for ruling class, those who question regime on any matter of consequence pose threats to homeland, as per DHS's threat bulletin on mis- dis- malinformation https://www.newsweek.com/americas-ruling-regime-doesnt-fear-disinformation-it-fears-truth-opinion-1679940
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
4/7/22: The chilling effort to destroy the lives of Trump-defending lawyers is part and parcel of the War on Wrongthink https://www.theepochtimes.com/chilling-effort-to-destroy-trump-lawyers-epitomizes-americas-war-on-wrongthink_4388006.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
4/27/22: The Biden administration's equity action plans make Wokeism vital to both U.S. national security and foreign policy--further codifying the War on Wrongthink https://www.newsweek.com/biden-equity-plans-make-wokeism-core-us-national-security-opinion-1700866
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
5/12/22: The truth about the Biden administration's Disinformation Czar is exposed--revealing her to be the perfect representative of the anti-Wrongthink regime https://nypost.com/2022/05/12/you-couldnt-have-picked-a-worse-minister-of-truth-than-nina-jankowicz/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
6/6/22: The contrast in the cases of Michael Sussmann and Peter Navarro sends an unmistakeable message: The Ruling Class believes it can take out anyone, anywhere, anytime, on any grounds, while it is untouchable https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/06/justice-for-me-but-not-for-thee-why-sussmann-walked-but-navarro-was-shackled/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
6/7/22: Big Tech censors Jan. 6 journalism on heels of Committee show trial, reinforcing the point Wrongthink on elections constitutes a danger, and cementing Big Tech’s role as deputized Deep State info warrior https://nypost.com/2022/06/07/youtube-now-censoring-journalism-for-the-biden-administration/amp/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
6/10/22: The Jan. 6 Committee may be a sham, but it's a deathly serious one because it casts political opposition as terroristic, and seeks to probe and punish said opposition accordingly--hand-in-glove with the Department of Justice https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-jan-6-committee-may-be-a-sham-but-its-a-deathly-serious-one_4525373.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
6/20/22: Disinformation Governance Board, contrary to claims of DHS Sec. Mayorkas, was focused on domestic dissent on the most contentious of issues--namely election integrity and the Chinese coronavirus--and sought to deputize Big Tech as speech police https://www.newsweek.com/documents-show-dhs-wants-deputize-big-tech-speech-police-opinion-1716670
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
6/21/22: Other side of War on Wrongthink coin is that while Wrongthinkers are treated as terrorists, progressives engaged in political violence aligned with The Regime are treated with kid gloves. Justice = soft on prog crime, hard on thought crime https://www.theepochtimes.com/lefts-leniency-on-its-political-violence-demonstrates-its-devotion-to-injustice_4547996.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
8/8/22: War on Wrongthink crosses a new civilizational Rubicon, with the FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago. https://www.newsweek.com/fbis-mar-lago-raid-presents-time-choosing-regime-america-opinion-1731983
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
8/17/22: The Regime uses the Mar-a-Lago raid--an escalation in the War on Wrongthink--to further intensify it by casting itself as victim of the gambit rather than the aggressor, using victimhood status to persecute political opponents ever more viciously https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/17/in-its-war-on-trump-and-wrongthink-the-regime-just-delivered-a-death-blow-to-rule-of-law/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
8/22/22: Your Deep State, aided by its corporate media communications arm, would like you to know that its rank corruption, brazen intimidation, and chilling weaponization on behalf of our ruling administration aren’t the real danger to America. You are. https://www.theepochtimes.com/deep-state-plays-victim-in-mar-a-lago-raid-so-administration-can-keep-persecuting-wrongthinkers_4672503.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
9/23/22: We learned that the FBI rewarded serial Russian disinformation-spinner Igor Danchenko -- the key researcher behind the key document (the Steele dossier) behind the key effort to undermine candidate, and then topple President @realDonaldTrump (Russiagate), while it was punishing whistleblowing Special Agent @RealStevefriend for detailing myriad allegations of FBI malfeasance around January 6 https://newsweek.com/fbi-paid-russian-disinformation-while-punishing-patriot-opinion-1745574
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/11/22: The Woke medical establishment not only seeks to encourage interventions up to the mutilation of children's' bodies, but with it the mutilation of Americans' free speech rights in service of its lucrative "gender-affirming care" enterprise by calling on AG Garland to unleash the DOJ on foes of efforts to transition children https://newsweek.com/medical-establishment-wants-less-free-speech-more-mutilated-children-opinion-1750204
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/17/22: PayPal's proposed policy to fine "misinformation" promoters up to $2,500 per violation raises the specter of dystopia: a de-banked future—driven by de facto social credit scoring—that is quickly becoming our present https://www.newsweek.com/paypal-americas-pending-social-credit-system-opinion-1752074
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
10/27/22: Do Americans want the DOJ demanding they cooperate with free speech-stifling, unbelievably extensive fishing expeditions if they dare support policies with which the president disagrees? That prospect was put to the test in an Alabama courtroom. In a rare rebuke, a federal judge smacked down the DOJ for targeting conservative nonprofit Eagle Forum of Alabama with a stunning subpoena — punishing the wrongthinker on gender ideology by process and sending a chilling message to other dissenters from regime orthodoxy https://nypost.com/2022/10/27/bidens-doj-finally-got-a-legal-slapdown-for-targeting-a-group-opposed-to-mutilating-kids/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
11/9/22: New revelations about America's speech police forces illustrate the massive challenges facing anyone who would dare seek to rein in a rotted national security and intelligence apparatus hellbent on pursuing Wrongthinkers under the guise of "mis-, dis-, and mal-information" https://theepochtimes.com/new-revelations-about-americas-speech-police-illustrate-challenges-for-reformers-of-deep-state_4850771.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
11/25/22: The Democrats kicked off their 2024 presidential campaign by appointing a special counsel to pursue Donald Trump, an escalation in their political prosecution of him and a brazen act of election interference. This is where “our democracy” stands today: with its purported defenders engaging in the singularly anti-democratic act of siccing a hyper-politicized law enforcement apparatus on a candidate for the highest elected office, on dubious grounds, thereby subverting the political process by which we decide who represents us. https://theepochtimes.com/appointment-of-special-counsel-amounts-to-election-interference-and-sets-dangerous-precedent_4884195.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
12/9/22: The Twitter Files shine a spotlight on the revolving door between the Democrat-partnered Deep State and Democrat-dominated Big Tech -- which have used their disproportionate control over the pivotal area of speech to stifle political foes and attain ideological dominance https://nypost.com/2022/12/09/inside-revolving-door-between-democrat-deep-state-and-big-tech/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
12/25/22: The Twitter Files have provided stunning confirmation of a Deep State-Big Tech conspiracy to censor ideas and individuals deemed harmful to their shared ends — from protecting Joe Biden’s candidacy for president to draconian COVID-19 lockdowns — under the pretext of national security or public health. But Twitter was far from the only platform with the motive and means to purge dissenting voices from establishment orthodoxy. Nor was it the only such platform with a “Trust and Safety” (read: “censorship”) team helmed by former US intelligence officials, which met regularly with their former security-state employers to combat “misinformation” in the run-up to the 2020 election. https://nypost.com/2022/12/25/revelations-about-twitter-intel-ties-raise-questions-about-big-tech-other-sites/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
12/26/22: With its "move along, nothing to see here" response to the Twitter Files, the FBI gaslights the American people over the stunning—if unsurprising—evidence that it engaged in a conspiracy with Big Tech to silence Wrongthinkers in violation of the First Amendment. Meanwhile, in attacking those who refuse to be gaslit, the bureau is also telegraphing that it would respond to Congress investigating its hyper-politicization and weaponization with relentless information warfare. https://newsweek.com/fbi-gaslights-america-over-twitter-files-opinion-1769352
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
1/4/23: As stunning as the Twitter Files have proven in revealing a largely successful bid by the U.S. national security apparatus to manipulate public opinion at a mass scale by imposing a censorship regime on social media platforms, they are merely the tip of the iceberg for why the @Weaponization is needed. Consider this—by no means comprehensive—list of the many areas ripe for investigation: The national security apparatus' alleged inflation of the domestic violent extremist threat—under which they have effectively sought to equate "MAGA" with "terrorist." FBI's suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop and seeming unwillingness to pursue related probes, including into how the president might be implicated in corrupt foreign influence-peddling with our worst adversaries—while pursuing, along with the Justice Department (DOJ), the likes of James O'Keefe and Project Veritas over Ashley Biden's diary. The DOJ's pursuit of parents critical of draconian COVID-19 policies and Critical Race Theory. DOJ/FBI's targeting of pro-lifers while treating their attackers with kid gloves. FBI's alleged purging of conservative employees. DHS' attempted creation of a Disinformation Governance Board and broader persisting effort across agencies to police "mis-, dis-, and mal-information." FBI's deploying of entrapment schemes and use of confidential informants. DOJ/FBI's double standard in the pursuit of January 6 defendants versus summer 2020 Black Lives Matter rioters. The Mar-a-Lago raid. DOJ/FBI's hyper-political pursuit of Republican members of Congress, state legislators, and numerous others in connection with January 6. And then there is Russiagate itself and its subsidiary scandals, from the mass of illegal leaks to FISA abuse, the hyper-political prosecution of Michael Flynn and others, the Mueller special counsel's politicization, and recent revelations that the Department of Justice was snooping on congressional investigators. The targeting of Donald Trump and his allies, and the comparative non-pursuit of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and numerous other powerful left-leaning figures alone could fill years' worth of hearings. https://newsweek.com/twitter-files-tip-iceberg-needed-church-style-committee-opinion-1770948
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
1/9/23: We hear a lot about the illiberalism that prevails on college campuses and increasingly pervades the "real world"—where Wrongthink is not only castigated and censored, but even criminalized. However, it's another thing entirely to witness it up close and personal. I had occasion to spend time among the silenced, shunned, and canceled of the academy. What they said—or in some cases, conveyed through their silence—was profoundly disturbing. The impression they left about the state of our disproportionately influential elite academic institutions, and therefore what is to come in the disproportionately influential economic, cultural, and political institutions where their students will matriculate, is perhaps even more profoundly disturbing. https://newsweek.com/my-visit-silenced-shunned-canceled-academy-opinion-1772062
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
1/17/23: With the establishment of a Church-style @Weaponization committee, Congress now has a vital opportunity to hold America’s national security and law enforcement apparatus to account for its corrupt and lawless targeting of perceived political foes. The House Judiciary subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, will be fully empowered to investigate the deep state’s depredations across the entirety of the executive branch, covering the full panoply of assaults on our civil liberties, and to take steps to prevent it from ever inflicting such damage on our republic again. Given the massive scope of the already-known security state scandals, the stakes involved in putting said security state on trial, and the counterassault against the committee already underway, it is imperative that the panel operate in a highly strategic fashion to seize the critical opportunity at hand. To that end, its planners should give considerable thought to the following questions upfront. https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/17/for-the-sake-of-the-republic-the-church-style-weaponization-committee-must-answer-these-questions/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
2/14/23: Almost daily now, Americans see new evidence of a mass, public-private censorship regime—part and parcel of something resembling an American social credit system in which those who submit to ruling class orthodoxy are rewarded, and those who run afoul of it are railroaded. So when news broke recently that DirecTV was booting center-right network Newsmax, the fourth highest-rated cable news channel, from its lineup, the question naturally arose: Was this about politics, or was it strictly business? A deeper question also beckons: To what extent has politics so pervaded every facet of American life that a distinction can even be drawn between the two? https://theepochtimes.com/newsmax-versus-directv-and-americas-censorship-regime_5052006.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
3/6/23: The release of J6 footage via @TuckerCarlson elicits Ruling Class rage. Why? They can't handle your handling of the truth. That's the dirty secret behind their outrage over House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) decision to fulfill a commitment to release the 44,000 hours of January 6 footage the U.S. Capitol Police had been sitting on. The purpose of the release of the footage should be obvious: Americans deserve to know the unvarnished truth about the Capitol breach—an event that has been used to justify the Left's sprawling, civil liberties-eviscerating War on Wrongthink. https://newsweek.com/mccarthys-release-january-6-footage-offers-hope-clarity-opinion-1785550
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
3/14/23: .@Weaponization releases a stunning but unsurprising report on the FTC's targeting of @elonmusk over his purchase of Twitter and whistleblowing about its prior First Amendment-eviscerating coordination with the federal government https://www.theepochtimes.com/deep-administrative-state-depredations-exposed-in-ftc-investigation-of-musk_5118738.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
3/29/23: America's Ruling Class has stoked a moral panic over mis-, dis-, and mal-information (MDM), claiming the consumption of such content fuels threats to public health and safety among its political foes, and using the fear over such threats to justify a whole-of-society War on Wrongthink targeting said foes. An essential component of the Ruling Class's War on Wrongthink is the mass public-private censorship regime that Americans have had imposed upon us primarily by a Disinformation-Industrial Complex running from the Deep State to Big Tech to often government-tied MDM monitors. Now, it would appear the already sprawling Disinformation-Industrial Complex may be creeping into and coming to encompass your local elementary school—targeting your children. https://newsweek.com/disinformation-industrial-complex-coming-k-12-schools-opinion-1790694
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
3/29/23: In wake of collapse of SVB, and with authorities rushing to intervene and calm financial markets, a perhaps unexpected subplot emerged. On a Zoom call consisting of congressmen, their staffers, and officials representing the Federal Reserve, Treasury, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on the Sunday in which the agencies would publicly announce their “non-bailout” bailout of SVB – Democrat Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona raised a question. According to House Republican colleague @RepThomasMassie, Kelly asked agency officials “if there was a program underway on social media to censor information that would lead to a bank run.” Massie told @ShellenbergerMD that: I believe he [Sen. Kelly] couched it [the censorship inquiry] in a concern that foreign actors would be doing this…but he didn’t suggest the censorship should be limited to foreigners or to things that were untrue. The people from the three agencies couldn’t answer him and just sort of took a pass on the question. Sen. Kelly would clarify that on the Zoom call I said, ‘Hey, our foreign adversaries out there may have an interest in trying to undermine our banking system. Have we put in any protections, have we reached out to social media companies to see if this is something they’re thinking about?’ So that’s the question I asked. Accounts suggest Senator Kelly’s “ask” was more prescriptive. Regardless, in another time such a proposition might have been inconceivable. Rumor and innuendo have proliferated in financial markets – as in every other area of human life concerning contentious and substantive issues, particularly those involving power and influence – since time immemorial. But we are living in no ordinary time. Sen. Kelly’s position is consistent with the zeitgeist – with what is fast becoming our censorious new normal in which anything and everything that could be perceived to be “harmful” is ripe for silencing. That new normal was on display days earlier, when Shellenberger and fellow disaffected liberal journalist @mtaibbi delivered bombshell testimony before @Weaponization concerning the “Twitter Files.” The Twitter Files brought into stark relief one of the great scandals in U.S. history: that America’s Ruling Class erected a mass public-private censorship regime to wage war on dissenters from its orthodoxy, part and parcel of a broader domestic War on Wrongthink. Central to the censorship regime is what Shellenberger and Taibbi term the “Censorship Industrial Complex.” The focus of their testimony, a new installment of the Twitter Files released alongside it, and much that we have learned from prior installments and court cases demonstrates that for years now we have been operating in an information environment rife with government interference – interference in our elections and concerning our basic functioning as a society given the pervasive Chinese coronavirus-related interventions. To save “our democracy,” the national security apparatus and its administrative state partners, alongside Big Tech, corporate media, and a coterie of research organizations, “fact-checkers,” and NGOs – themselves often times government-funded and staffed with ex-government officials – have conspired to suppress ideas that challenge their own and silence the individuals who dare to espouse them. Like all good tyrannies, this one claims to do so for the benefit of its victims – to maintain public health and public safety, “defending democracy” by perversely adopting the authoritarian tactic of quashing free and open discourse. As a subsequent Twitter File release would reveal, our betters in fact went so far as to quash free and open discourse on accepted truths regarding the Chinese coronavirus when those truths undermined their favored narratives. If we are to overcome this censorship regime – an imperative if we are to live as a free people – it is critical to understand why it arose and how it has been institutionalized. https://docemetproductions.com/americas-disinformation-dystopia/
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
3/31/23: @mtaibbi speaks to @Weaponization, a subcommittee created for the purpose of exposing and holding to account weaponized federal agencies, about how a number of those agencies had conspired with each other and private sector actors to target their political opposition in arguable violation of the opposition’s First Amendment rights. That very day, a federal agency with the power to wreak unique havoc on its targets' lives dispatched an official to Taibbi’s door with a message. The stated message was that the journalist was to call the IRS. The unstated message needed no articulating: Expose federal government malfeasance such as authorities’ imposing of a mass public-private censorship regime on the American people, and you can expect a knock at your door from federal agents armed with the power to break you. https://theepochtimes.com/the-ominous-message-behind-the-taxmans-visit-to-journalist-matt-taibbis-home_5160626.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
4/3/23: DA Alvin Bragg brings a wholly contrived, baseless, unprecedented, abomination of a case against @realDonaldTrump that every other Trump-hating authority declined to bring. It’s an outrageous assault on the rule of law that “normalizes” the other bastardized cases likely to come from Georgia to Washington, D.C. in the perpetual coup against Trump and anyone else who dares to engage in the actual (thought)crime core to every Trump-related case: opposing our ruling elites. The indictment can never be undone. A precedent has been set: America, like every other tinpot dictatorship, now legally persecutes leaders when out of power. Its rulers, Beria-like, seek to lock the opposition in jail, to criminalize dissent by finding a crime to fit the man. Now, as another New York prosecution just showed, our ruling class not only pursues presidents but wins cases convicting political meme-makers. For generations, millions fled their ancestral homelands, penniless, and without knowing a word of English, to come to America in search of refuge from the very kind of regime ours has now become. There is nowhere else to flee. In attempting to destroy one man, our ruling elites have not only eviscerated the rule of law for us all, but also fundamentally transformed America into a Third World nation, and therefore fundamentally transformed the Western civilization that America has led. This is a world-historical calamity from which there’s no going back. And there’s no remedy. https://theepochtimes.com/trump-indictment-fundamentally-transforms-america-to-third-world-nation_5168510.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
4/7/23: Revelations from Missouri and Louisiana et al. v. Biden demonstrate that Americans have been funding their own censorship via a government-led Disinformation-Industrial Complex -- a censorship regime the government seems to be covering up https://www.newsweek.com/taxpayer-dollars-must-not-fund-government-led-censorship-regime-opinion-1792828
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
4/18/23: @Weaponization report shows Biden DOJ baselessly targeted parents concerned about their kids being indoctrinated in leftism in public schools as domestic terrorists. Zero investigations resulted in federal arrests or charges https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-biden-administrations-war-on-parents_5195934.html
@bhweingarten - Benjamin Weingarten
4/19/23: In their targeting of all from political memesters to parents and pious Catholics, the authorities have criminalized dissent, systematically eroding the First Amendment. There are literal thought criminals now https://www.theepochtimes.com/with-dissent-now-criminalized-free-speech-faces-a-big-chill_5204836.html
@ggreenwald - Glenn Greenwald
It's a cause of momentary celebration that the Department of Homeland Security was forced by popular anger to "pause" its Disinformation Board and the absurd #Resistance cartoon they hired to run it, but read this to see how angry WPost and @TaylorLorenz are that this happened:
@washingtonpost - The Washington Post
Homeland Security ‘paused’ newly created Disinformation Governance Board after its leader came under online attack https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/18/disinformation-board-dhs-nina-jankowicz/
@ggreenwald - Glenn Greenwald
Investigating and criticizing a Homeland Security official is now "harassment" and bullying, according to the WashPost and @TaylorLorenz. Only ordinary citizens can be investigated -- not high-level US Security State operatives. Them's the rules:
@ggreenwald - Glenn Greenwald
Summary of the rules from the WPost and @TaylorLorenz in case you're confused: -- High-level officials of the Department of Homeland Security: off-limits from investigation and criticism! -- Anonymous citizens who tweet bad ideologies: Dox, Unmask, Bang on relatives' doors!
@ggreenwald - Glenn Greenwald
In sum, a free press exists to unmask and punish private citizens with the wrong politics ("shoe-lace reporting"), not to investigate and scrutinize the beliefs, conduct and claims of powerful government officials ("harassment" and bullying).
@ggreenwald - Glenn Greenwald
Without having the US Government's Department of Homeland Security have a Disinformation Board run by Nina Jankowicz to decree truth and falsity, how will we know what we should believe and not believe? How can a democracy function without DHS telling us what is true and false?
@ggreenwald - Glenn Greenwald
Also seems odd that WPost allowed @TaylorLorenz (who, credit where due, broke the story of the DHS "pause") to write an entire article arguing Nina Jankowicz should be off-limits from criticism, without mentioning Jankowicz argued the same about Lorenz:
@wiczipedia - Nina Jankowicz
Disgusting; Glenn Greenwald's attack on @TaylorLorenz fueled a Tucker Carlson monologue last night. Online harassment against women is real, it is insidious, and it has offline effects. We have the receipts - and your back. 💪🏻https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/malign-creativity-how-gender-sex-and-lies-are-weaponized-against-women-online
@ggreenwald - Glenn Greenwald
Indeed, Jankowicz has a very long history of defending Lorenz and expressing solidarity for the trauma Lorenz suffers when her work is criticized. That's almost certainly where Lorenz got her version of events and seems like it should be disclosed when Lorenz defends Jankowicz.
@ggreenwald - Glenn Greenwald
The other bizarre aspect of the Nina-Jankowicz/@TaylorLorenz saga: Taylor depicts this poor, marginalized DHS official as the victim of "right-wing" disinformation, when the most devastating investigative piece on her was this one last week in @TheNation: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/meet-the-head-of-bidens-new-disinformation-governing-board/
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Fauci says “I can’t, as a scientist, ignore the historical perspective” that HIV came from the wild, and thus that Covid might have too. In fact, a good scientist would seek to disconfirm one’s experiences & biases. Instead, he sought to reinforce them. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opinion/covid-lab-leak-theory-disinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Anybody who says, “I represent science,” is anti-science. Science is a collective process by individuals who disagree. It is always provisional, always changing, and never represented by a single person. Fauci is arrogant, dogmatic, & authoritarian. https://www.axios.com/2021/11/28/fauci-republican-critics
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
This is anti-science: “Our main work over the last couple weeks has been focused on trying to disprove any type of lab theory,” said a researcher, Kristian Andersen. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opinion/covid-lab-leak-theory-disinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
"Trying to clean up disinformation by quashing ideas that somebody — a government employee, an academic think tank, a social media team — deems undesirable? This creates its own dangers. I’ve spent too many years in censored countries like Egypt, Russia and China to believe that our disinformation problem can be solved by monitoring speech and sorting out acceptable from unacceptable ideas."
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Fauci looks down on ordinary Americans. "He had, at other times, displayed a Hamiltonian distrust of ordinary people: when he admitted to lying about the benefits of masking because he feared panicked shoppers would buy up all the masks needed by frontline workers, or when he confessed to repeatedly nudging the herd-immunity target higher according to what he thought Americans could bear, apparently applying the boiling-frog theory to our collective tolerance for restrictions.... "It’s almost impossible to sort this out for the general public to understand.”
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
The individuals who self-selected to secretly censor the American people think they are better than you. They believe that, because they read The New York Times, they are experts in every subject. They are the most dangerous people in America. https://public.substack.com/p/the-most-dangerous-people-in-america
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Who are the censors? They are a familiar type. Overly confident in their ability to discern truth from falsity, good intention from bad intention, the instinct of these hall monitor-types is to complain to the teacher — and, if the teacher doesn’t comply, to go above them, to the principal. Such an approach might work in middle school and many elite universities, but it is anathema to freedom and is an abuse of power. https://public.substack.com/p/exposed-americas-secret-censorship
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
This piece by @Megankstack is one of the best things I've read on the will-to-censor by the self-appointed hall monitor class Glad to see it @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opinion/covid-lab-leak-theory-disinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Hopefully this is a sign that some within the mainstream media are rebelling not only against Fauci and scientism but also against the Censorship Industrial Complex.
@Theo_TJ_Jordan - Theo Jordan
It's painfully ironic that the left is clutching panties so hard about the right's political moves on academia when it as a whole became so consumed by rabid leftist ideology and repellent to conservatives and their views that our universities have to issue letters like this. https://t.co/HH6r6rBWri
@Theo_TJ_Jordan - Theo Jordan
I'll leave you with a simple question... Who controls our teachers unions? Are they political?
@Theo_TJ_Jordan - Theo Jordan
Is all this "reactionary" and "fascist" nonsense really just saying you like academia a whole lot more when the left is in complete domination of it? Yeah, I thought so. Reminds me a lot of this... https://t.co/HIMICM01pN
@Theo_TJ_Jordan - Theo Jordan
I can't get over the tone of this piece. It's "right-wing" dystopia that we can speak against the state? Or the namecalling? White supremacist, nazi, fascist, bigot, racist, homophobe, transphobe, put lives in danger, etc, none of that counts? Just the names you don't like, eh? https://t.co/az7FnSJF1j
@Theo_TJ_Jordan - Theo Jordan
H/t Steve for the letter link https://t.co/Pf0sI1oxK8
@sfmcguire79 - Steve McGuire
Now we need the university to act on it, as our new @goACTA survey of OSU students shows: https://t.co/RH8xWV9Uh2
@sfmcguire79 - Steve McGuire
54% of liberal students at The Ohio State University said it’s always or sometimes acceptable to shout down a guest speaker. Only 13% of conservative students said the same. From a new @goACTA survey of 2003 OSU students conducted by @CollegeInsights:
@the_redoubt - The Redoubt
Harvard Has Lost Their Minds Guest columnist @JCAndersonNYC Since its founding in 1636, Harvard University has been regarded as America’s premier institution of academic excellence and the gold standard of education. For centuries, their prestigious reputation has attracted the world’s brightest minds, offering graduates a pathway to many of the best jobs our country has to offer--including eight separate US presidencies. From Teddy Roosevelt to Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, Harvard played an integral role in nurturing some of the greatest minds in history. Despite all of this, any high school dropout with subpar vision can see that things at Harvard are not okay. Their recent behavior is akin to watching an academic institution suddenly decide to emulate scenes from Lord Of The Flies or Edward Norton in Fight Club when he punches himself in the face. If Harvard were a loved one, we would have them committed to a mental institution out of fear they are suicidal, and in need of serious help. Following the recent terrorist attacks committed by Hamas, the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee issued a press statement blaming the Jewish state for the atrocities that unfolded. 34 separate student groups co-signed the letter saying that Israel “is the only one to blame” in an incident that claimed the lives of over 1,000 people including the lives of 29 Americans. When one thinks of Harvard, the first things that come to mind are a mixture of the brightest minds in the country and the Ivy league imagery of a Ralph Lauren catalog, making it hard to imagine that an institution that defines American excellence and privilege would align politically with a terrorist group. All of this raises the question, what is causing Harvard students to hold such radical beliefs? Well, we could start by looking at their current course catalog, which is filled with exactly that. A breaking report from Manhattan Institute’s Chris Rufo (@realchrisrufo) shows that Harvard launched a course in 2021 to “Decolonize Harvard'' led by a non-binary Latinx academic with they/them pronouns who claims that Harvard is a settler-colonial, genocidal, and eurocentric institution that must be decolonized and would no longer be recognizable after the process was completed. Have they lost their mind? Yes, you read every last word of that correctly - Harvard is currently paying someone to teach a class to decolonize and ultimately dismantle itself. After Harvard began to take heat for expressing solidarity with the actions of Hamas terrorists, a dozen prominent CEOs banded together and promised not to hire any of the Harvard students who signed the letter. Even this was still not enough for Harvard to back down. Harvard President Claudia Gray doubled down after this incident, claiming "Our university embraces a commitment to free expression. That commitment extends to views that many of us find objectionable or outrageous." As we all would agree, freedom of speech is one of America’s most important values, which would lead one to believe her statement is a respectable answer, only if it were true. A recent report from http://thefire.org, ranked Harvard an impressive 0/100 when it comes to free speech on campus, proving the President’s noble support for the first amendment to be nothing more than gaslighting. Harvard’s deep institutional rot doesn’t stop at their recent support for radicalism, but can also be found in their recent hires, all of whom further illustrate their departure from things like truth, merit, and excellence. The recent hiring decisions involving Mayor Bill de Blasio, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and Brian Stelter raise serious questions about the institution's priorities, forcing us all to wonder if a commitment to progressive ideology is now the only thing that matters in the halls of higher education. While all three of these individuals are indeed notable names within mainstream politics, you would be hard-pressed to find people on either the left or right who would describe their professional track records as worthy of being championed. In fact, consensus across the aisle is that all three failed to do their jobs. Not one of them were guided by the oaths they swore or moral commitments to telling the truth, but appeared to be guided by their true north-star – their shared belief in far-left radical politics. Trust in mainstream media is currently at an all time low, and both Chicago and NYC are currently plagued by crime, looting, and disorder not seen in decades. De Blasio, Lightfoot, and Stelter all played integral roles in getting us here.Two of America’s greatest cities were destabilized under their leadership, while Stelter spent his days convincing the general public that things were going great and we should worry more about the dangers of conservative media. Despite the good years that occurred during Bill de Blasio’s tenure as Mayor, history will remember him as being the mayor who failed to rise to the occasion in NYC’s darkest moment since 9/11. Ceding the city to looters and instructing the NYPD to stand down during the George Floyd riots will forever be remembered as a stain on American history. Truth be told, the good years of his mayoralty had nothing to do with his ability to lead, but were the results of being handed a highly functioning city by his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg. His approach to governance left constituents from all walks of life in agreement that quality of life declined during his two terms as Mayor, an era where we lost our handle on critical issues such as crime, inequality, and homelessness. By extending a teaching position to de Blasio, Harvard appears to be rewarding his radical beliefs despite the harm he caused to NYC. Similarly, Mayor Lori Lightfoot's appointment to a teaching position at Harvard raises eyebrows considering it was clearly not based on her performance. While Lightfoot was campaigning to keep her job during the 2022 election, Chicago was approaching its third year in a row of a historically high murder rate that had not been reached in 25 years. With murder rates averaging between 700-800 per year, Chicago once again earned its title of being the murder capital of America under her leadership. By granting her a position at Harvard, the institution sends a message that it values leftist ideology over effective governance. Brian Stelter's inclusion on this list is particularly offensive given his dismissal from CNN over concerns surrounding his credibility as a journalist. The damage created by Stelter harms not only our cities, but the country as a whole. It brings into question Harvard's position on fundamental principles such as “is it even important to tell the truth?” Harvard's decision to offer him a teaching position stands at odds with thier commitment to upholding the highest standards of integrity. By extending this opportunity to Stelter, the university risks compromising its own credibility and diminishing the value of its educational offerings, simultaneously tarnishing the reputation of our country. Ask yourself the question: Does anyone seriously believe that Bill de Blasio and Lori Lightfoot are smart enough to teach at the best school in the world? If presented with Harvard level tests, does anyone think they could pass them? Then why on earth would these same people be qualified to teach there? Only one answer remains, and that is that Harvard is no longer interested in remaining the gold standard of education, but now serves as a breeding ground for left wing radicalism, and a soft landing pad for the movement’s most prominent fallen soldiers.
@wokal_distance - Wokal Distance
1/ I like Rikki, and I like the fire; they want liberal values to win. So do I. But, most of the major universities are actually anti-liberal, and fixing that is actually very difficult and no one seems to have a plan which is both realistic and efffective.
@wokal_distance - Wokal Distance
2/ The fact is many if not most of our universities are no longer liberal, and this trend is worsening. These institutions are populated by people who do not support or defend liberalism. The radicals who took over are not persuaded by our ideas. So now what?
@wokal_distance - Wokal Distance
3/ What @realchrisrufo is trying to figure out, and what I am also trying to figure out, is simple: "What is a realistic and effective strategy for fighting back agajnst the illiberal, authoritarian, leftists take-over of our Universities." And I ask everyone "What's the plan?"
@wokal_distance - Wokal Distance
@realchrisrufo 4/ The plans put fourth by most people are either ineffective, or unrealistic. The most detailed set of suggestions for university reform was put fourth by John Searle in his 1971 book "The Campus War." But that was 50 years ago, and I am not sure that strategy would work today https://t.co/BmMYm5Ug6x
@wokal_distance - Wokal Distance
@realchrisrufo 5/ As I am sure @RIKKISCHLOTT and @glukianoff are aware, Searle was the first faculty member at Berkley to join the free speech movement, and he spoke at those rallies in 1959 (pics below) Searle is an ardent Liberal and free speech defender. https://t.co/li61V9z6r0
@wokal_distance - Wokal Distance
@realchrisrufo @RIKKISCHLOTT @glukianoff 6/ As far back as 1971 Searle was concerned about how universities were being sieged by radicals, and in 1993 he wrote about this problem in great detail. I see very few people reading Searle on this in spite of the fact he is perhaps the most cited philosopher of his generation https://t.co/YO33xP2EwF
@wokal_distance - Wokal Distance
@realchrisrufo @RIKKISCHLOTT @glukianoff 7/ As much as I appreciate @Yascha_Mounk @ConceptualJames @HPluckrose @RIKKISCHLOTT @glukianoff @JonHaidt and others doing intellectual geneologies of wokeness, Searle saw all this coming...in 1993 The rest of us, and I include myself here, are embarassingly late to the party. https://t.co/qKaMVbo2rD
@wokal_distance - Wokal Distance
@realchrisrufo @RIKKISCHLOTT @glukianoff @Yascha_Mounk @ConceptualJames @HPluckrose @JonHaidt 8/ The problem here is far deeper than most people are willing to look. Searle pointed out just how deep the rot goes in several published academic articles in the 90's and also in his book "Mind, Language, and Society." He has the same diagnosis @realchrisrufo and I do...
@wokal_distance - Wokal Distance
@realchrisrufo @RIKKISCHLOTT @glukianoff @Yascha_Mounk @ConceptualJames @HPluckrose @JonHaidt 9/ Namely that the academic arguments put forward by the leftists activist-scholars and professors are spectacularly weak and are not out forward in the name of truth and inquirey..they are only put forward for the cynical purpose of achieving leftist political change. https://t.co/19XbzbJJUe
@wokal_distance - Wokal Distance
@realchrisrufo @RIKKISCHLOTT @glukianoff @Yascha_Mounk @ConceptualJames @HPluckrose @JonHaidt 10/ If that is correct, and I think it is, then @realchrisrufo and I are in good company in saying that the problem goes right to the bone of education, and it was cynical leftists laundering ideas who did it. The question is....what do we do about it?
@wokal_distance - Wokal Distance
@realchrisrufo @RIKKISCHLOTT @glukianoff @Yascha_Mounk @ConceptualJames @HPluckrose @JonHaidt 11/ Searle put forward an answer in 1971, but I'm not sure that is programme for university reform would be very effective today. Things are much worse, and I think a much stronger medicine is needed. The question remains "what do we do?" I am open to suggestions. /fin
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
After we wipe Stanford from existence, I’m gonna write a book about the depths of their treason. Title: “The Cardinal Sin”
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Representatives of a US government front group, "Stanford Internet Observatory," denied ever demanding censorship of anyone. They lied, and we have the proof. They got social media companies to censor accurate Covid information in a clear violation of the First Amendment. Bam. https://t.co/WzBPANPSSL
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
(Enjoy stealing that title.)
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
US Dept. of Homeland Security officials insist they didn't demand censorship, but they did. And now, newly released emails suggest they demanded the censorship of whole "narratives," just like CTIL's military contractors did, and thus interfered in the 2020 election. https://t.co/AnFZu6RhQm
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
US Government Officials Sought To Censor Narratives and Interfere In 2020 Election, Newly Released Emails Show Department of Homeland Security officials and contractors urged censorship not just of “disinformation” but of stories they didn’t like by @galexybrane & @shellenberger Yesterday Public and Racket published the first installment of the CTIL Files, documents that show the birth of the Censorship Industrial Complex through the work of military and government contractors in what they called the “Cyber Threat Intelligence League,” or CTIL, for short. The story went viral on X, formerly Twitter, and on Substack. All told, the story has been viewed millions of times. Now, newly released Department of Homeland Security (DHS) emails, obtained by the House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green and Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chairman Dan Bishop, suggest that the federal government’s methods of information control closely resembled those developed and promoted by CTIL. These methods amounted to an attempt at election interference. The trove of documents obtained by Public provides a window into the real motivations behind anti-disinformation work performed by DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Far from being about protecting truth and removing falsehoods, government-backed censorship has always been about narrative control. This censorship is part of a larger political influence operation to shape public opinion and quash dissent. US government officials deny this. In his deposition for the Missouri v. Biden censorship lawsuit, Brian Scully, the head of CISA’s Mis- Dis-, and Malinformation (MDM) team, insisted that the agency had merely engaged in “switchboarding,” not censorship. Switchboarding was a process in which CISA simply forwarded “misinformation” from election officials to social media companies. Scully and CISA claim they were not involved in companies’ decisions to censor content. The CISA-funded non-profit, Center for Internet Security (CIS), also sent alleged misinformation to social media companies. CIS has previously claimed that its definition of election mis- and disinformation did not include “content that is polarizing, biased, partisan or contains viewpoints expressed about elections or politics,” “inaccurate statements about an elected or appointed official, candidate, or political party,” or “broad, non-specific statements about the integrity of elections or civic processes that do not reference a specific current election administration activity.” But the DHS emails reveal that CISA and CIS did, in fact, consider such content to be subject to censorship. The emails show that CISA and its non-profit partners reported political speech to social media companies, including jokes, hyperbole, and the types of “viewpoints” and “non-specific statements” that CIS once claimed it would not censor. Using the pretext of “election security,” DHS sought to censor politically inconvenient speech about election legitimacy. Why were officials seemingly influenced by CTIL’s approach to disfavored narratives and “cognitive security”? What precisely was going on?
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
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@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Government-funded Stanford researchers said they didn't demand censorship, but they did. They even created this handy little graphic in a grant proposal. It shows how their disinformation "Incidents are routed to platform partners... for... takedowns" @mtaibbi https://t.co/CTPH8HaRAL
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Last March, after @mtaibbi and I testifed before Congress, Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) said it “did not censor or ask social media platforms to remove any social media content regarding coronavirus vaccine side effects.” That was a bald-faced lie. https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1722988472640618854?s=20
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Representatives of a US government front group, "Stanford Internet Observatory," denied ever demanding censorship of anyone. They lied, and we have the proof. They got social media companies to censor accurate Covid information in a clear violation of the First Amendment. Bam.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
@mtaibbi While we learned that SIO demanded censorship last month, today @mtaibbi discovered, thanks to his FOIA request, that SIO had put its creepy little censorship flow chart in its own grant proposal. In the name of "fighting disinformation," SIO spread disinformation about itself. https://t.co/NENsa6QzoO
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
The following is from @galexybrane & @NAffects These are some of the Virality Project’s most egregious, absurd, and anti-science censorship efforts: —After Krispy Kreme announced it would give free donuts to people who got vaccinated, the Virality Project alerted platforms about “criticism against Krispy Kreme’s vaccine for donut promo” and labeled such criticism as “general anti-vaccination.” — The Virality Project flagged a PDF of consolidated data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a national vaccine safety reporting system co-managed by the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration. (VAERS data is publicly available.) The Project noted that Google had removed the content after its report. — The Project flagged an Israeli pre-print that found natural immunity to be as protective as vaccination. “Please note this Israeli narrative claiming that Covid-19 immunity is equivalent to vaccination immunity,” Virality Project wrote to Twitter and Facebook, including the link to a tweet from Congressman Thomas Massie. — The Virality Project flagged a Lancet research article about the absolute risk reduction of Covid vaccines, calling it an “alleged authoritative source.” Facebook then labeled the article. — In one highly troubling instance, the Project flagged someone’s Google Drive. “See the following Google Drive links being used to compile testimonies about vaccine shedding, videos showing side effects, and PDFs detailing conspiracy theories,” the Virality Project wrote. “This was reported to us from one of our public health partners, who found that an individual commented on these links on their website.” The Project noted that Google removed the content. — On multiple occasions, the Virality Project sent platforms reports about resistance to vaccine mandates and lockdowns, such as the “Worldwide Rally for Freedom” and a TikTok trend to “raise middle fingers to vaccine.” The Project called this content “organized outrage.” — Contrary to Stanford’s claim that the Project did not “ask social media platforms to remove any social media content regarding coronavirus vaccine side effects,” the Virality Project repeatedly reported testimonials of vaccine injuries to Twitter and Facebook, including testimonials from healthcare workers. Accounts of vaccine injuries, the Project wrote to platforms, could “fuel vaccine hesitancy.” — When Pfizer claimed that its vaccine for children age 12 to 15 was 100% effective, the Project reported that “anti-vaccine groups” were expressing concerns about mandates for children and “disbelief at the 100% efficacy number.” — In June 2021, the Virality Project flagged accurate claims that the World Health Organization (WHO) did not recommend vaccinating children. In its communication with platforms, the Project flagged a tweet by journalist David Zweig that contained this claim. (The WHO has since changed the advice on its website.) — The Virality Project flagged jokes, including what it called the “Right-Wing & Anti-Vaxx Viral Trend” to say, "I Identify as Vaccinated." — According to Stanford, the Virality Project’s work “centered on identification and analysis of social media commentary relating to the COVID-19 vaccine, including emerging rumors about the vaccine where the truth of the issue discussed could not yet be determined.” Yet in its Jira system, the Virality Project expressed absolute certainty about the vaccine, called doubters “anti-vax,” and targeted individuals like Kulldorff who challenged CDC advice. The Project clearly aimed to control the vaccine narrative and prohibit questions about vaccine safety and efficacy.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Be sure to read the excellent new exposé of @stanfordio by @mtaibbi https://t.co/QRjMsLXQTU
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
And watch this video by @lwoodhouse where I explain how Stanford researchers tricked the public into seeing a partisan mass censorship initiative as an apolitical cybersecurity effort. https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1723493811119067611?s=20
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
The graphic shows a committee of experts deciding what people should be allowed to say and read online. The First Amendment and 100 years of Supreme Court rulings prohibit that role for government. Behind this graph is an authoritarian mind. https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1734414033078583375?s=20
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Government-funded Stanford researchers said they didn't demand censorship, but they did. They even created this handy little graphic in a grant proposal. It shows how their disinformation "Incidents are routed to platform partners... for... takedowns" @mtaibbi https://t.co/CTPH8HaRAL
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
Recent congressional hearings in the US have created a broader willingness to look at higher eds ideology problem. University leadership has reached an inflection point that I’ll try to explain here in simple terms. THREAD https://t.co/f8wMJT936w
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
I’ll start by drawing a comparison between a scientific theory & a Critical Theory (CT), which is the theoretical work that underlies DEI administrations, most student activism, & the disingenuous testimony we heard at the hearings. 2/n
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
A scientific theory emerges from the observation of facts. It’s a kind of story we tell about why certain groupings of facts show up the way they do. 3/n
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
There’s an expectation among scientists that if you familiarise yourself with a theory, you should be able to use its principles to predict something new & verifiable about the world. 4/n https://t.co/be0LeIXlHC
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
A CT, however, doesn’t hold itself to this expectation. Critical theorists claim that social science must integrate philosophy into its methods so that findings work practically toward a moral end. 5/n
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
Where the purpose of a scientific theory is to understand the world as it is, the purpose of a CT is to change the world into something it ought to be. These theories are active in nature & designed to create change. 6/n https://t.co/39xyaPcQkL
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
Critical Race Theory, Postcolonial Theory, & Queer Theory, among others, are large bodies of work devoted to criticising Western society. They seek to dissolve the social expectations, laws, & institutional practices they claim oppress outsider identity groups. 7/n
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
While some scholars working with CTs use the theoretical frameworks as starting points to do real research, the standards of the field have devolved so badly that a fundamentalism has emerged from their vast body of work. 8/n
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
They critique everything, from the way people form couples, to how buildings are designed. Their bottomless body of criticism is now decades old & is so influential that it has changed how the university views its purpose. 9/n https://t.co/I6AF0cmg42
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
The critical canon is taught to students before they’re given a chance to adequately understand the object of their ire & many imbibe so much of the abstract theoretical philosophy that it forms the basis of their relationship to reality. 10/n
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
These critical agents of change move from department to department applying their theory to any discipline they can convert to the cause. 11/n https://t.co/Q2BeVhjg5Z
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
Differing from scientific practitioners who attempt to disprove their starting assumptions, they begin with their conclusions & move into the field to accumulate proof & punish dissent. 12/n https://t.co/ffljclMgsK
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
There are many different CTs but they all follow base assumtions that bring them together into a single orthodoxy. https://x.com/MikeNayna/status/1719525047285744037?s=20 13/n https://t.co/NaM4l3MJZS
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
What explains this amorphous leftish coalition? It's not random - a particular ideological understanding of the world unites these issues. THREAD https://t.co/kktmouN7XZ
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
DEI administrators work tacitly with student activists to create an inhospitable environment for conservative academics who seek to defend & transmit the very norms the orthodoxy seeks to dissolve. 14/n https://t.co/3g2OPwoKaM
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
Conservatives have already lost the battle against the agents of change & pressure is increasingly applied to classical liberals who advocate for free speech & institutional neutrality. @peterboghossian 15/n https://t.co/Z2GTUTZTO4
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
In 2016, social psychologist @JonHaidt warned of a leadership schism, arguing that universities needed to decide & state openly their intent to be guided by the critical tradition ("change") or the liberal one ("truth") 16/n https://t.co/KGTRgdDYfM
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
Three camps appear to be emerging from the crisis. The classical liberals, who call for a return to neutral leadership & a truth-seeking mission. https://x.com/McCormickProf/status/1733606029814853830?s=20 17/n
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
The priestesses, who would like to continue to convert academic institutions into progressive cathedrals. https://x.com/CBradleyThomps1/status/1733529080828502141?s=20 18/n
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
And conservative postliberals who believe that value neutrality is a myth, a worldview will predominate any institution, & universities should return to their religious grounding. https://x.com/PatrickDeneen/status/1733900362996740121?s=20 19/n
@MikeNayna - Michael Nayna
Where this goes from here is anyone's guess but I do know the implications for society & culture will be profound. 20/20 https://t.co/ycO3XOhP90
@colonelkurtz99 - Colonel Kurtz -Controversy, Depp/MeToo/Manson Etc.
📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣 WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT UNIVERSITIES TODAY EX-COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR & PhD TELLS TRUTH ABOUT THE PROBLEMS YOU HAVEN’T HEARD OF … YET. (Reposting a final time for those who’ve been stirred up by the Harvard Claudine Gay controversies but don’t know that’s only the tip of the academia iceberg.)
@colonelkurtz99 - Colonel Kurtz -Controversy, Depp/MeToo/Manson Etc.
@colonelkurtz99 - Colonel Kurtz -Controversy, Depp/MeToo/Manson Etc.
—— 📢📢📢 I’m so pleased to have been published in The Daily Wire this morning because as a former college lecturer and PhD I have a lot to say about the current situation with Harvard, MIT, UPenn, Claudine Gay, but more importantly the state of modern academia in general. I’ve been waiting 20 years for donors like Bill Ackman @BillAckman to wake up and I hope he can broaden his focus to the problems I lay out in this essay. Full article linked in comments but it requires registering. I’ll post some of the best excerpts throughout the day here on Twitter. Check out my YouTube channel as well.
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, number one Gay Studies author
Why would they try to erase history? 🤔 Just like with the Cloward-Piven strategy, and the "Cultural Marxism" entry. https://t.co/J8FEimedVm
@DrJBhattacharya - Jay Bhattacharya
The current head of @NPR was formerly the head of Wikimedia. In her TED clip here, she tells us that a commitment to tell the truth is not the central occupation of wikipedia. No wonder it has become a propaganda workshop to smear truth tellers.
@DrJBhattacharya - Jay Bhattacharya
I once gave a small donation to Wikipedia. So foolish. Never again.
@DrJBhattacharya - Jay Bhattacharya
Wikipedia is still defaming me and the @gbdeclaration. Their support and parroting of public health misinformation is in part responsible for the crisis in education, economic instability, and many deaths caused by the lockdowns. https://t.co/1vyvB2I3pD
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
A Thread On jewish Controlled Opposition, A Tale As Old As Time. 🧵⬇️
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
✡️s have a well documented history of infiltrating, subverting, and demonizing organic Nationalist movements, and this is obvious to anyone paying attention. Here is a 🥯Palestinian🥯 woman that can't help but sneak in a "we don't like White people" at a UCLA protest.
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
In fact, they can frequently be seen bragging about their disgusting behavior, yet many for some reason can not seem to believe their own eyes or lack the courage to speak about it. https://t.co/RVMNZQFDvn
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
Here is a flier found in Germany, where there is an advertising law that requires the organizations that fund movements to display their name on propaganda. https://t.co/VBxxNqfbK0
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
Over and over throughout history, they have perverted righteous causes so that they can use their media, finance, and other organizations to control and profit from the outcome. https://t.co/evvebGMM4G
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
Do me a solid and find me another group of people that needs this many organizations to shape public opinion and punish wrongthink. Name another group that needs to pass legislation & ruin your livelihood for talking about what they are up to. https://t.co/fmwq3SNQaP
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
They write books proudly boasting about subverting your government. https://t.co/1AivMkjn74
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
They make promotional videos letting you know that both sides are bought and paid for. https://t.co/iLQdXYzOOg
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
And then they use their organizations to slander the ones that notice and discourage others from speaking up. https://t.co/fSm02hLlCB
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
They gaslight you when you call them out to their faces about things they've typed in their own words, as they did to @RealCandaceO here. https://t.co/jkK4M1Isho
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
They admit what we all know they are up to with chutzpah, and then call you anti-semitic and many other names for repeating it. https://t.co/Cbsp7nS75t
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
Their influencers profit off of running cover for them, stoking the fires of racial hatred, and pretending to fight the problems that they create. https://t.co/ZjPGOqn7le
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
They perpetrate and fund inorganic, raced based civil rights movements. https://t.co/3sAohHURhi
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
While using their control over the press to shapeshift and cause more hatred. https://t.co/WRuz2bbft8
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
And it isn't just their organizations doing it, it's all of them. https://t.co/iXYbNbcXFj
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
They've successfully made you believe the National Socialist movement is full of hatred, using Hollywood and Media to convince you we want anything more than our own homelands while encouraging other races to do the same. https://t.co/yVvQZzyfqA
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
When the reality is, the only hatred comes from them. https://t.co/jEllu5Crjx
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
(1/5🧵🥫🍝) Stalin’s 1941 “Torchman Order” No. 0428 Here’s some WW2 sauce they must have forgot to tell you. (WHOOPS!) You should read the whole post. 🤷🏼♂️ Did you know that at the beginning of the war, 🕎Bolshevist🕎 Stalin ordered his men to dress in ⚡️⚡️ uniforms and commit atrocities on civilian settlements “taking care to leave survivors who would report seeing ‘Germans’ perpetrating these acts” to “fuel hatred of the fascist regime”? He went on to order that anyone committing these acts of terror would be nominated for awards.
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
They infiltrate and subvert your religions, brainwashing Christians to "love their enemy" and think that you're supposed to "turn the other cheek" to people that want you extinct while calling them "our greatest ally." https://t.co/w07bcg7G7u
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
Jesus was not a jew, jews are not Israelites, and White Christians have always been God’s Chosen People. Sauce. ⬇️🧵🪡 https://t.co/bQRoJkvHMS
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
They tell you the quiet part out loud, and yet most people won't look deeper and figure out what they have always been up to and who the real enemy is. https://t.co/UkAjHyxUaI
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
There’s a reason all of the Communists, pedophiles, degenerates, and undesirables of society call everything fascist and Nazi. The NS movement has been their mortal enemy since the beginning. Germany was always the good guys. https://t.co/HQFUZGysRq
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
How much more do normies need to see with their own eyes before they come to the same conclusions the rest of us have and have the balls to talk about it openly? Tick tock. https://t.co/UJlTYWVaEr
@utism_ - Bullzeye 🎯⚡️
@threadreaderapp unroll
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
I feel like this makes me need to talk about Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign, although I don't claim to know what motivates Tucker Carlson on his strange turn lately (no accusation, judging by fruits). "Let 100 flowers bloom. Let 100 schools contend." 🧵 https://t.co/LI7flu6m0R
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
In 1956, Mao Zedong, believing he had brainwashed the population of China into deep socialist belief, and to make a liberalizing show in the wake of Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin, launched the Hundred Flowers Campaign, which encouraged free speech and criticism of the CCP.
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
It was one of Mao's greatest political miscalculations, as it turns out. Following a disastrous collectivization program called the Socialist High Tide. Over the course of several months, criticism grew and increased to where a real threat to CCP control arose.
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
There's an important lesson here: just a few months of halfway free speech almost dismantled a totalitarian regime. It didn't, though. In February 1957, Mao still encouraged the Hundred Flowers Campaign, but it was getting out of control, especially at the end of a bad winter.
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
Criticism got so heavy and people got so encouraged by it that across the countryside peasants were taking back their land and driving out the Communist cadres, often humiliating them in the process. Mao was in trouble, but he's a very cunning snake.
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
Mao revised the declarations of the Hundred Flowers Campaign to indicate that its real purpose was to smoke the snakes and opportunists out of their holes, and now he had caught them. In 1957, he announced his greatest purge yet: the Anti-Rightist Campaign.
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
Everyone who had spoken up was destroyed, one way or another, and quotas were set for "Rightists" so that many innocent people were also found and destroyed. After that, no one would dare criticize Mao or CCP, paving the way for the unchecked destruction of the Great Leap Forward
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
The Great Leap Forward killed at least 30 million people, maybe 50 million, and much of that could have been blunted if not for the silencing power of the Anti-Rightist Campaign, but Mao had turned one of his biggest blunders into one of his greatest consolidations of power.
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
What I'm seeing lately on the American/Western Right is a push to criticize our governments and our history counched in something like free speech: saying things we're "not allowed" to say, despite no state or corporate censorship at all, "just asking questions."
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
Let a hundred challenges to the taboos bloom. Let a hundred versions of history contend. Except, like with Mao after the fact, that's not quite right. The only interesting and "valid" things being said have to challenge the existing narrative and question the goodness of the US.
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
It's difficult to see this apart from being some kind of trap. Under the guise of freedom of speech, thought, and inquiry, large swaths of conservatives appear to be being led to question their countries, push revitalized counter-hegemonic war propaganda, and break taboos.
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
Will there be consequences for this speech? Almost undoubtedly, and not necessarily just from a potentially oppressive state apparatus. There are nullification campaigns afoot, and there's an election coming that's ours to lose. There's also the chance of losing by "winning."
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
Many good people are being led, it seems, to say things that are damaging to their belief in their country and its history, which is at minimum divisive and demoralizing. It will fracture communities and coalitions, maybe more. It may radicalize large groups to bad action.
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
I've hesitated to draw comparisons between the opening up of Twitter under Musk and the Hundred Flowers Campaign, but I can't avoid the parallelism here with this odd Critical America Theory campaign I see from many prominent voices on the American Right, including Tucker.
@ConceptualJames - James Lindsay, anti-Communist
I'm very suspicious of the softball interviews of wingnut characters with these kinds of views, which fail journalistic integrity, and that have been steadily marching over the last few years, not just from that platform but into other conservative institutions, as you know.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Democrats, liberals, and Leftists were pro-free speech in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, they're demanding censorship. This change has shocked me, but I finally feel I understand what's behind it: narcissism, counterpopulism, the managerial revolution, and the hunt for heretics. https://t.co/H3nJbrWEcW
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
A little over a year ago, I participated in a public event in London with Russell Brand and Matt Taibbi. While there, I expressed my bewilderment at the censorship we had uncovered. It wasn’t the first time. When Matt and I testified before Congress in February, I also described being disoriented. After all, growing up progressive in the 1980s and 1990s, free speech was a foundational value, both for radical Leftists like myself at the time and for more moderate liberals. To watch liberal and Leftist Democrats demand censorship right in front of me was jarring, to say the least. I wondered aloud, “What is going on?” And I kept wondering until I found some answers. I believe that my colleagues and I are now much closer to having a unified field theory of contemporary totalitarianism. We have published hundreds of articles so far on the censorship and other totalitarian tactics, including the weaponization of the FBI and CIA and the lawfare aimed at incarcerating Donald Trump, that we’ve been documenting. If I had to sum it up, I would say that there are at least four core drivers, all of which I described in a conversation I had yesterday with Russell.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
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@MidwesternDoc - A Midwestern Doctor
Many liberal outlets have begun calling to eliminate the Constitution. This is very similar to how they flooded us with stories about racism and funded DEI in 2013 after Occupy Wall Street took off—protecting the upper class by pitting everyone else against each other. A 🧵
@MidwesternDoc - A Midwestern Doctor
This biggest story of our time is the upward shift in wealth which has transformed America from a country where a single high school graduate could easily support a family and buy a house to one where both parents with college degrees can't imagine either.
@MidwesternDoc - A Midwestern Doctor
As the entire economy became unaffordable, people began protesting against the predatory upper class that was gobbling up its wealth for themselves. In response, they used a tried and true tactic—reframe a class issue into a race issue and pit the workers against each other.
@MidwesternDoc - A Midwestern Doctor
@DavidRozado has done remarkable work showing how our media was bought out in 2013 to push this divisive through saturating us with terms like "racism" "white supremacy" "sexist" "transphobic"
@MidwesternDoc - A Midwestern Doctor
In turn, the New York Times and The Washington Post were some of the most aggressive promoters of this ideology.
@MidwesternDoc - A Midwestern Doctor
Likewise, @DavidRozado showed how the academic press was bought out in 2013 to promote this narrative
@MidwesternDoc - A Midwestern Doctor
In turn, once it was established, with the help of corporate America and Blackrock, this was transformed into a push for DEI which has now eroded our most critical institutions (e.g., the military).
@MidwesternDoc - A Midwestern Doctor
Because of how much money there in fighting racism (but very little racism left), the DEI industry has had create more and more "racism" out of thin air. Here @MattWalshBlog and @jimmy_dore expose the DEI hustlers for the grifters they are.
@MidwesternDoc - A Midwestern Doctor
As a child, I was told the upper class would usher an era of economic feudalism where everyone would be forced to submit to their corporate masters to just barely survive. All of that came true, especially during the DEI and COVID era. https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-were-the-economic-consequences
@MidwesternDoc - A Midwestern Doctor
This graph, in short, explains why: •Companies like Blackrock are buying up America's housing while simultaneously forcing DEI on the country. •Kamala Harris keeps citing DEI to justify her election and refuses to provide a single concrete way she'll fix the economy.
@MidwesternDoc - A Midwestern Doctor
As the economy worsens, the upper class's sway over the people does as well. In turn, they've pivoted from labeling everything as "racism" to calling all dissent "political extremism" and now are going even further and trying to abolish the Constitution.
@MidwesternDoc - A Midwestern Doctor
For example, Peter Hotez, one of the chief apologists for the vaccine industry is continually hosted by the national to claim any skepticism of his industry is "far right extremism" or "deadly antiscience" law enforcement must be mobilized to silence. https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/peter-hotezs-war-against-science
@MidwesternDoc - A Midwestern Doctor
"Am I A Racist" exposes the grifters behind the DEI industry who are being subsidized by corporate America to create a national hysteria over non-existent racism. I believe if this movie was widely seen it would tip the election as this madness is what Harris is running on.
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
I’m hearing this anti free speech bs being parroted by pretty much every leading Dem & their legacy media puppets
@craigkellyXXX - Craig Kelly
Why is it that biggest spreaders of "Misinformation" over the past few years are the very same people that are now demanding the suppression & censorship of the free speech of those that would hold them to account ? https://t.co/KvrtNOGtij
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Many Democrats say they want to understand what happened. Few genuinely do. That's because, at some level, they know they're guilty of having participated in a witch hunt in which they falsely accused their fellow Americans, and even their friends & family, of fascism & racism. https://t.co/c88WMOeOqs
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Red Scare's @annakhachiyan is right: many of the people who loudly declared their fellow Americans racists and fascists are covert narcissists who now feel wounded and exposed by Kamala's defeat. At some level, they know they're guilty of witch-hunting and, per usual, are projecting. https://t.co/vfpCjp8z4l
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
People who spent years calling patriotic Americans brown shirts and worse are now saying it's time to be kind. This guy is not kind. Not at all. I'm for reconciliation; it's the higher road. But that can't happen until there's some acknowledgment of the deranged and psychopathic witch hunt the Woke carried out against innocent people for over a decade.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
For over a decade before the election of Trump, Left-wing groups like CAP, led by @johnpodesta & @neeratanden, and @mmfa started a witch hunt against climate heretics like @BjornLomborg @RogerPielkeJr and many others. It was like a dress rehearsal for the much larger witch hunt to come.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
@johnpodesta @neeratanden @mmfa @BjornLomborg @RogerPielkeJr In 2022, the Washington Post brought both witch hunts together when it tried to accuse @AlexEpstein of racism because — wait for it — he defended the right of Africans to use fossil fuels. https://t.co/Ye1qlKNxdS
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Nobody's more eager to move on from the last two decades of progressive witch hunts than me. But there can't be any moving on until there's some society-wide acknowledgment that a group of powerful elites systematically engaged in character assassination against not only their political enemies but dissidents, apostates, and heretics within their ranks. That witch hunt didn't emerge organically from the public. It was created from on high, starting with CAP and Media Matters, out of the idea that it was necessary to enact a progressive agenda. The news media fully participated. It proceeded to brainwash half the country into believing that their fellow citizens were racist, fascist, and phobic nature haters. The media creating the crudest caricatures of ordinary Americans, and the vast majority of Democrats bought into them. The psychopathy of social media, and the stupidity of mobs, enabled the witch hunt. There have been some excellent books published recently on the topic, but a full accounting of the cruelty and madness of the last decade has not yet been written. https://t.co/nhdL7xsA5m
@SwipeWright - Colin Wright
🚨BREAKING: The @nytimes and @business killed stories at the 11th hour covering new research on DEI pedagogy and its negative psychological impacts. The study showed that certain DEI practices increase hostility, authoritarian tendencies, and agreement with extreme rhetoric. 🧵
@SwipeWright - Colin Wright
The study was conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) in collaboration with Rutgers University. It investigated the psychological effects of DEI pedagogy, specifically trainings that draw heavily from texts like How to Be an Antiracist and White Fragility.
@SwipeWright - Colin Wright
The findings were unsettling, though perhaps not surprising to longstanding opponents of such programs. Using carefully controlled experiments, researchers found that exposure to anti-oppressive rhetoric consistently amplified perceptions of bias where none existed.
@SwipeWright - Colin Wright
In one experiment, participants read excerpts from Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi, juxtaposed against a neutral control text about corn production. Afterward, they were asked to evaluate a hypothetical scenario: an applicant being rejected from an elite university. Those exposed to the DEI materials were far more likely to perceive racism in the admissions process, despite no evidence to support such a conclusion.
@SwipeWright - Colin Wright
Those exposed to the DEI materials were also more likely to advocate punitive measures, such as suspending the admissions officer or mandating additional DEI training.
@SwipeWright - Colin Wright
The NCRI also analyzed anti-Islamophobia training materials to determine their effectiveness in reducing anti-Muslim prejudice and to examine whether they unintentionally skew perceptions of fairness, potentially reinforcing biases against institutions viewed as oppressors.
@SwipeWright - Colin Wright
"Following exposure to the texts, participants were presented with a controlled scenario involving two individuals—Ahmed Akhtar and George Green—both convicted of identical terrorism charges for bombing a local government building." "In the control group (corn), Ahmed’s trial was perceived as just as fair as George’s, indicating no baseline perception of Islamophobia. In the anti-Islamophobia content group (treatment), George’s trial ratings were not significantly different from the corn content group (control). However, participants in the anti-Islamophobia treatment group rated Ahmed’s trial as significantly less fair (4.92 vs. 5.25) than did those in the control group. The training led them to perceive injustice toward Ahmed despite the specifics of his situation being identical to those of George." "These results suggest that anti-Islamophobia training inspired by ISPU materials may cause individuals to assume unfair treatment of Muslim people, even when no evidence of bias or unfairness is present."
@SwipeWright - Colin Wright
The study also looked at DEI training on caste discrimination. Participants exposed to materials from Equality Labs—a prominent provider of anti-caste training—were significantly more likely to perceive bias.
@SwipeWright - Colin Wright
Those people were also more likely to endorse dehumanizing rhetoric, including adapted quotes from Adolf Hitler where the term “Jew” was replaced with “Brahmin.” The findings suggest that these programs may not only fail to address systemic injustice but actively cultivate divisive and authoritarian mindsets.
@SwipeWright - Colin Wright
Critics of DEI have long pointed to its lack of empirical support, and the NCRI study adds weight to those concerns. As troubling as the study’s findings are, its suppression may be even more consequential. The decision to withhold this research from public discourse speaks to a larger issue: the growing entanglement of ideology and information. The public deserves to know if the tools being deployed to foster “equity” and “anti-racism” are instead causing harm. As DEI programs continue to expand across schools, workplaces, and governments, the stakes could not be higher. Whether this research sparks a broader reckoning or remains buried will depend on whether institutions—and the media that hold them accountable—are willing to confront uncomfortable truths.
@SwipeWright - Colin Wright
Read more about this new report and the story to suppress it in my latest article: https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/why-was-this-groundbreaking-study
@thestustustudio - Stu Smith
Last week @GlennYoungkin did a media circuit declaring that "DEI is done at the University of Virginia." If that were the case, there wouldn't be a private workshop and seminar on "Decolonizing Your Syllabus" and "Seeing the Unseen: Identifying and Unlearning Colonial Paradigms in Higher Education" which is happening this Friday at UVA. What does Decolonial thought look like? Here are three professors, all from Virginia's Top 3 Public Universities, discussing Decolonial Theory. Meet the University of Virginia's Tiffany King, Virginia Tech's Bikrum Gill, and William & Mary's Stephen Sheehi. Do these professors sound like educators or radicals hellbent on destroying America? "In the moment that you grab the gun like Fanon says, you're no longer oppressed, you're now free. How do we teach that in the class? Just to say that in the class, my students' heads explode. Right? To tell them about violence, you know, as a revolutionary tool, as sometimes a revolutionary essential." "We actually need to crash the US settler state" "We must stand with the armed resistance and work right now to end this impunity by disrupting the flow of weapons to Zionist cause. The armed resistance will defeat Zionism if it was open battlefield." I can't tell you how many times I have heard it, "Decolonialization is not a metaphor." This Trojan Horse ideology has infected campuses all over America and this is what it looks like in Virginia. Stick around as we look at next week's event at UVA, how Decolonization creates Title VI complaints, and national security concerns related to this! 🧵
@thestustustudio - Stu Smith
Next Friday, The Center for Teaching Excellence at UVA is hosting University of Memphis professor and activist Amanda Lee Keikialoha Savage. As you can see, she will be holding at a seminar and doing a workshop as well. Both of these events are not open to the public. As you heard in the intro video, UVA's Professor King said, "Challenge what the settler state, the settlement of, the University of Virginia that we're on, which is still a plantation and has all of its plantation artifice up, right, and artifacts. I'm trying to really ride the wheels off of these institutional resources, and go for broke." Decolonial theorists actually see the university itself as a form of colonization. Frantz Fanon said, "Colonialism is a psychic and epistemological process as much as a material one." These academic activists see the university as a seat of power that continues to perpetuate inequality, exploitation, and colonial legacies. They believe the university doesn't prioritize Indigenous, Black, and marginalized voices and overly values Western epistemologies as the dominant knowledge systems. What do you seriously think is going to happen during this talk at a university founded by Thomas Jefferson? I have this archived just in case UVA deletes it -> https://cte.virginia.edu/programs/cte-speaker-series/upcoming-speakers
@thestustustudio - Stu Smith
If you look at Title VI complaints, Decolonial Theory often pops up. We could be here all day looking at these, but this complaint from Stanford is more than enough to illustrate my point. Decolonial theory in the classroom is pure abuse. "Students in this professor's classes report the professor asking where their ancestors were from and labeled them as a "colonizer" or "colonized." "I feel absolutely dehumanized that someone in charge of students and developing minds could possibly try and justify the massacre of my people. It's like I'm reliving the justification of Nazis 80 years ago on today's college campus." I know this will likely spark a debate on academic freedom, but it’s hard for me to view Decolonial Theory as anything other than a Trojan Horse, allowing radical activists to become professors and cultivate radicalized students. It promotes an ideology that places the burden of guilt on "colonizers," despite colonization being a universal phenomenon throughout human history. In doing so, professors are effectively othering students and fostering resentment. Once again, remember what UVA's Professor King said in the intro. "Some colleagues who are part of my chapter of Faculty for Justice for Palestine help us teach Palestinian liberation, right, to teach about resistance struggles, at this particular phase of Palestinian resistance in our classrooms and how to build community, with not just faculty, but students who are committed to this."
@thestustustudio - Stu Smith
In late September, the Virginia State Senate held a hearing focused on campus protests. Terrence Cole, then Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security (who is now working for the federal government), expressed concerns about the flow of money 'coming in and going out' from groups like Students for Justice in Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine. "Some of this funding is going to Hamas. Some of this funding is going to Hezbollah." The audience, largely composed of naïve activists, laughs off his comments, despite Cole having access to classified intelligence. We’re talking about radical student groups on campus funneling money to terrorist organizations, led by professors advocating for the "crash of the settler state" and urging students to see violence as a "revolutionary essential." It may sound like fiction, but this is Virginia in 2025. And yet, I’m supposed to believe that "DEI is done at the University of Virginia." The reality is, as a nation, we’re done if we don’t address this now.
@thestustustudio - Stu Smith
@TheRivethead @GlennYoungkin LOL, my alma mater called me tonight and I turned them down due to a FOIA request I did on them last year. I am pretty sure the campus events team approved the space and unlimited time for their encampment.
@thestustustudio - Stu Smith
@BienSurLaVerite @GlennYoungkin @SecRubio Here’s a thread where I summarize many other twitter threads I've done about him. This was posted the day after his arrest at the Virginia Tech encampment! https://t.co/zbAkTG0t4z
@thestustustudio - Stu Smith
@Chelsea87883298 @GlennYoungkin Feel free to send me a DM
@thestustustudio - Stu Smith
@renko_is @GlennYoungkin What do you think Thomas Jefferson would think of a professor at the university he founded making such a statement? She also oversees UVA's Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute, an 'intersectional studies collective.'" https://t.co/pvz2EjdI4O
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
Across the West, our civilization is threatened by a radical network of NGOs. These groups lie behind almost every crisis of our time—from mass censorship to mass migration. Tomorrow, we're going to expose their war on freedom of speech. 🧵 https://t.co/f2my8f4yxJ
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
In the internet age, information is power. The Left knows the stakes. That's why they've waged a decade-long, multi-billion-dollar campaign to control what you see and say online. I explained how their censorship operation works earlier this month: https://t.co/vNDBYyzQiT
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
The Left spent the past decade building a vast censorship enterprise. A shadowy network of NGOs, tech groups and governments working to censor the Left's enemies—not just in America, but across the West. Over the next four years, the GOP must expose + dismantle this system. 🧵 https://t.co/XH2EkdGaoM
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
This operation is a dangerous marriage of public and private power—a global system of security agencies, tech firms, activist groups, nonprofits, media orgs and government bureaucracies taking what they describe as a "whole-of-society" approach to censoring disfavored speech. https://t.co/L6mLLdhyTt
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
All of this is completely unprecedented. It's an entirely new, sprawling system of speech and thought control—far more powerful and far-reaching than anything we've seen the past, built with and for the new technology of the digital age. And most of it operates in the shadows. https://t.co/wzUlFSCaYx
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
The censorship enterprise is enabled by a vast ecosystem of "non-governmental organizations" (NGOs). These groups represent a fifth column in American politics—a shadow state that serves the interests of the ruling elite, with no accountability to the society it wields power in. https://t.co/RWL0w9nv5F
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
I went into detail about who these groups are, what they do, and how they coordinate with elites in government and elsewhere in my thread earlier this month. We'll get into it much more in tomorrow's hearing too. But let me briefly tell you why this is of such urgent importance.
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
In the 21st century, the internet is the new public square. This is where people get the information they need to understand the world. It's where they read, write, argue, and learn. It's where they shape the ideas that will define the future. It's where politics happens. https://t.co/oJ4xGrtP7E
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
That's why this fight matters. The fight for freedom of speech online is the fight for a free people's right to access, analyze, share and discuss information on their own terms, and to draw their own conclusions. In that sense, it's the fight for self-government itself.
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
The assault on free speech across the West isn't happening in a vacuum. It's inextricably connected to the war on our shared history, heritage, and identity. In other parts of the West—where the crisis is much further along—politicians admit this openly: https://t.co/wYgCtgEfr0
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
You heard the Australian Premier above: They need censorship to carry out their entire social agenda. In America, too, this is part of a much deeper war on *who we are.* It's a tool to silence the critics of the disastrous social transformation that the Left wants to carry out.
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
And—as we'll discuss tomorrow—it's all funded by your tax dollars. The sprawling labyrinth of leftist NGOs, nonprofits, foundations and activist groups that drive this agenda don't just work hand-in-glove with their friends in the federal bureaucracy; they're paid by them, too.
@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt
At our hearing, we'll be exposing all of this with three of the world's leading experts on the vast censorship enterprise—all of whom have been warriors for free speech: @MZHemingway, @JonathanTurley and @bhweingarten. Tomorrow. 2 PM. You won't want to miss this one. — End
@MarinaMedvin - Marina Medvin 🇺🇸
Brown University, an Ivy League school, permitted the publication of a paper that completely fabricates history, distorts reality, and helps terrorists. Listen— https://t.co/D7PFiKHryv
@MarioNawfal - Mario Nawfal
🚨🇺🇸 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SUSPENDS A STUDENT FOR 2 YEARS. THE CRIME? POSTING A PROFESSOR'S ANTI-WHITE RACIST TWEETS Student puts up flyers with screenshots of Professor Ashton Avila's public tweets, like: - "The only thing stronger than white fear is white guilt." - "Biden taking credit for all the things Obama did is peak white man." - "Yes, I want to walk into every room with the confidence of an average white man. I'd find the cure for cancer in a week." University's response? 2-year suspension for "threatening or endangering behavior" and "behavioral misconduct." The professor who openly hates white people? Still employed, still teaching, 0 consequences. The student who exposed the racism? Treated like a domestic terrorist. This is peak 2025 campus insanity: anti-white racism is not just tolerated, it's institutionally protected. The email even threatens permanent expulsion if the student returns to campus during the ban. This is a cult enforcing ideological purity by terror. The same universities that spent years screaming about "safe spaces" and "hate speech" just proved they only care about safety when the target is their approved victim groups. Source: University of Utah suspension letter, Ashton Avila public tweets, @libsoftiktok
