Docs show Facebook and Twitter closely collaborating w/ Dept of Homeland Security, FBI to police “disinfo.” Plans to expand censorship on topics like withdrawal from Afghanistan, origins of COVID, info that undermines trust in financial institutions. interc.pt/3Dq6TDB

The sheer number and broad variety of easily decidable propositions that are now mysteriously *not* being neutrally adjudicated by journalists, scientists, academicians and public hearings is, I believe, unprecedented. Try naming a few. I found it staggering as an exercise.

1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

1. THREAD: The Twitter Files, Part Six TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY

1. TWITTER FILES PART 8 *How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign* Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations.

Remember that Sherman Antitrust Act was a couple pages long. Sarbanes-Oxley, passed in wake of Enron scandal, was a few hundred pages and people complained about its length and complexity. This just isn’t a democracy at all.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed sua sponte to rehear Soule v. CT— a case brought by 4 female athletes against Connecticut for allowing male-born athletes to compete against them. The 2d Cir dismissed this 2 months ago for lack of standing. Very rare to see this occur.

The biggest synchronised meme complex the world has ever seen, instantaneously transmitting current Anglo-American ideology globally via its information sinews and networks, would like you to castigate the past for being oppressively “colonial.”

44.To recap: America’s information mission went from counterterrorism abroad, to stopping “foreign interference” from reaching domestic audiences, to 80% domestic content, much of it true. The “Disinformation Governance Board” is out; but truth-policing is not.

An exceptional, even brilliant, column from Gerard Baker "Worse still is that there has been no accountability for the architects of the debacle. With Olympic chutzpah, many of the intellectuals who advocated it are still out there, lecturing..." 1/ wsj.com/articles/two-d…

This article eloquently crystallizes everything that we have known about these policies for three years. These bills are not about creating affordability, they never were. An excellent read, we agree! #CTPolitics eastoncourier.news/2023/03/21/dec…

Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage bbc.in/3LWmznN

Trying to imagine a moral system in which a teenager holds off murdering someone until the authorities given an all-clear on leaving the house.

I’m in the Telegraph today on the follow-on consequences of Bostock : telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/2…

2nd Circuit, sitting en banc, finds that non-transgender female high school athletes have standing to sue Connecticut for Title IX sex discrimination over the state's inclusion of transgender female athletes in track and field competitions. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isys…

“Christopher Rufo, with the assistance of an eldritch sorceress, cast a time-traveling spell that forced the embattled Harvard President to serially plagiarize. The Pentagon has reportedly briefed President Biden on similar preternatural threats to his own academic record.”

Why US can’t have nice things (Or, the problem with a low-trust high-regulation society) unherd.com/2024/01/why-am…

The T***** Sw*** discourse is so sublimely unhinged AND inconsequential that it has succeeded in making me regret how much time I spend on this app. I will be taking a break to ponder why anybody would waste time scrolling thru the half-baked emanations of underemployed morons.

Now that rate cuts are off the table, interest on US debt - currently the second biggest government outlay at $1.1 trillion - will surpass social security and become the single biggest US expense before the end of 2024 at $1.6 trillion.

I’m in. Today I’m announcing my campaign for governor of my home state of Connecticut. I know our state deserves better than sky-high electricity bills and taxes, and jobs leaving our state. With a positive change, the best days can be ahead of us. Together, let’s change