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Democrats' online safety 'expert' humiliated in Congress with her own tweets threatening judges

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:01 UTC
Nancy Mace Alejandra Caraballo
During a hearing on Tuesday of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Nancy Mace grilled witness Alejandra Caraballo, who had advocated for violence against Supreme Court Justices, on whether extremist rhetoric on social media is a threat to democracy.

Mace first asked the five witnesses "is rhetoric on social media a problem and a threat to our democracy," to which all five witnesses said yes. Caraballo is a transgender person who teaches at Harvard's Cyberlaw Clinic.


Comment: See: "The 6 justices ... Should never know peace again": Harvard instructor calls for people to "accost" justices in public

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AOC climate doc redefines 'box office bomb,' averages $81 per theater in dismal opening weekend

Virginia Kruta
The Daily Wire
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:01 UTC
AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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A climate change documentary aimed at promoting Green New Deal initiatives — and featuring Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — gave new meaning to the term "Box Office Bomb" with its dismal opening weekend.

Director Rachel Lears is behind the documentary, titled To the End, which debuted over the weekend in 120 theaters. The total box office haul for opening weekend was a less-than-stellar $9,667, according to Box Office Mojo.

Lears' previous offering, Netflix's Knock Down the House, also prominently featured Ocasio-Cortez and earned high marks from critics — Rotten Tomatoes gave it a critic score of 99% fresh. Viewers were not as kind, giving the film a rating of just 11%.

Comment: Is this really a surprise? Who's going to spend money to be lectured by the likes of AOC and the climate-change brigade?

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The Fifth Estate: The Twitter files, a dangerous alliance of powers, and technology's nature brings the industry home

Mike Solana
Pirate Wires
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:24 UTC
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Dangerous alliance. In 1787, Edmund Burke said there were "Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there [sits] a Fourth Estate more important than they all." The notion of some vital power beyond our government was imported to the New World, and today constitutes a core belief of the American liberal: there is no free people, we're often told, without a free press independent of congress, the courts, and our president. But throughout the 20th Century thousands of media outlets gradually consolidated, and by the dawn of our internet era only a few giants remained. These giants largely shared a single perspective, and in rough agreement with the ruling class the Fourth Estate naturally came to serve, rather than critique, power. This relationship metastasized into something very close to authoritarianism during the Covid-19 pandemic, when a single state narrative was written by the press, and ruthlessly enforced by a fifth and final fount of power in the newly-dominant technology industry.

It was a dark alliance of estates, accurate descriptions of which were for years derided as delusional, paranoid, even dangerous. But today, on account of a single shitposting billionaire, the existence of the One Party's decentralized censorship apparatus is now beyond doubt.

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Rate of detransition among 'trans' youth higher than activists claim

Mia Ashton
The Post Millennial
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:01 UTC
Kinnon Ross MacKinnon trans presentation
In pediatric gender clinics all over the West, parents are often told two things. The first is that if they don't affirm their child's identity and consent to experimental puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, their child is at a high risk of suicide; and the second is that almost no one regrets the decision to medically transition.

There is no solid evidence to support the former, and new emerging data revealed at a recent conference appears to discredit the latter.

At the Re/Detrans Canada event held last month at York University in Ontario, researcher Kinnon Ross MacKinnon gave a presentation which included recent studies that show detransition rates far higher than the oft-cited "less than 1 percent" statistic that proponents of gender-affirming care for minors are so fond of repeating.

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Musk invites Stanford epidemiologist to Twitter to help doc discover why firm suppressed his account for speaking out against COVID lockdowns

Vanessa Serna and James Gordon
Daily Mail
Mon, 12 Dec 2022 23:24 UTC
Bhattacharya
Epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was placed on a blacklist held by Twitter after he argued Covid lockdowns would harm children
A Stanford professor who claimed he was blacklisted by Twitter during the pandemic for opposing the COVID-19 lockdowns because some thought his ideas were too dangerous, has met with Twitter CEO Elon Musk to discover what led to his ban.

Epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was placed on a blacklist held by the social media platform after he argued Covid lockdowns would harm children.

On Sunday, Bhattacharya revealed how he spent Saturday at Twitter's San Francisco HQ after being invited to meet with Musk and uncover more about the blacklist he was added to.

'Twitter 1.0 placed me on the blacklist on the first day I joined in August 2021,' the professor tweeted. 'I think it was my pinned tweet linking to the @gbdeclaration that triggered the blacklist based on unspecified complaints Twitter received.'

Twitter 1.0 refers to the firm's censorious initial incarnation, before free-speech fan Musk bought it earlier this year.

Bhattacharya is a tenured professor at Stanford, who previously co-authored a letter in 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration, which stated how the lockdowns were damaging.
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Ex-Navy SEAL who detransitioned warns transgender teens: 'You need to slow down'

Joshua Rhett Miller
New York Post
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:16 UTC
Chris Beck
© Chris BeckChris Beck and his fiancée, Courtney, in a 2022 photograph.
A former Navy SEAL who came out as transgender and has since detransitioned is warning young Americans to exercise extreme caution when considering gender affirming surgery — saying "you need to slow down."

Chris Beck, a decorated Navy vet who served on SEAL Team Six, made headlines in 2013 with "Warrior Princess," a biography detailing his 13 deployments, Purple Heart and Bronze Star during an illustrious 20-year military career — as well as his desire to live as a woman, Kristin Beck.

But nine years later, the 56-year-old veteran is saying his decision "destroyed my life" and is a cautionary tale that parents and teens mulling gender reassignment surgery should closely heed.


Comment: Keep this in mind when trans propagandists cite studies concluding that "gender-affirming care" is essential, because it "saves lives" -- the evidence for which is that those on the receiving end of the scalpel report feeling happier after their surgeries. Ask them again in 5 to 10 years and the answer might not be so rosy.


"I would've gone about my life and never said a word," Beck told The Post in an exclusive interview Monday. "But right now, there are doctors doing surgery on 12-year-old children and that's unacceptable."

Beck, who underwent facial surgery and breast augmentation, said he has gender dysphoria — often described as a feeling of unease over one's birth gender. He said he was authorized for hormone therapy by the Department of Veterans Affairs after just one meeting following his 2011 retirement and took the treatment until 2015.

But, Beck added, he never considered himself transgender.
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Photo leaked in Twitter Files reveal Twitter staff had access to private direct messages

Noah Griffith
TrendingPolitics
Fri, 09 Dec 2022 18:48 UTC
Libs of TikTok, Twitter Files, Twitter backend
After volume two of the Twitter files was released on Thursday night, Twitter users began to point out something inside of the photos that suggest that Twitter staff may have full access to private messages.

Journalist Bari Weiss dropped "part 2" of the bombshell "Twitter Files" that exposed the corruption that ran deep within Twitter under the former management. But after close examination, there appear to be even worse things at play in the Twitter Files series...

The photo was posted on Twitter at 7:36, just after the initial launch. The photo itself revealing the potential breach of privacy was found in the 16th tweet Weiss posted in the series, which contained damning evidence of the tech-giants ethics through the years.

Comment: This shouldn't be surprising and people should have already taken it as a given that literally everything one writes and does on a social media platform is tracked, logged, and stored. However, the type of access Twitter staff had and the legality of it may lead to some interesting lawsuits down the road.

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Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried busted in Bahamas, charged with defrauding investors out of $1.8B

Emily Crane and Lee Brown
NY Post
Mon, 12 Dec 2022 21:03 UTC
Sam Bankman-Fried
© Getty ImagesSam Bankman-Fried
Accused crypto crook Sam Bankman-Fried has been busted in the Bahamas — accused of "massive, years-long fraud" that defrauded investors out of $1.8 billion through "a house of cards" built "on a foundation of deception."

The fallen 30-year-old FTX mogul was arrested Monday night after the Bahamian government received formal notification from the US of charges against him.

The US attorney for the Southern District of New York is expected to charge him Tuesday with wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy and money laundering.

As he awaited his first appearance before a magistrate in the Bahamas on Tuesday, he was separately charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

"We allege that Sam Bankman-Fried built a house of cards on a foundation of deception while telling investors that it was one of the safest buildings in crypto," SEC Chair Gary Gensler said while revealing the civil complaint.
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200 'planet-saving' activists vandalize cement factory in southern France


RT
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 14:15 UTC
LaFarge
© Getty Images
A cement factory belonging to the Lafarge company in Bouc-Bel-Air, France, has reportedly suffered significant damage after a group of eco activists trashed the facility, citing air pollution concerns. According to French news broadcaster BFM TV, up to 200 people stormed the property late Saturday.

The attackers, who call themselves the 'Action Lafarge' group, reportedly used a number of methods to damage the factory, such as sabotaging incinerators, electrical systems and devices, cutting cables, spilling bags of cement, damaging vehicles and construction equipment, breaking windows and spraying graffiti. The group wrote in a press release:
"Here in Bouc-Bel-Air, the ovens that have been targeted, long fed by industrial waste and tires, are now a symbol of greenwashing. The air pollution is considerable and has been repeatedly denounced by all the press and local residents. However, the chimneys still spew their venom. Lafarge is one of the largest polluters and producers of CO2 in the country." The group vowed to "continue to dismantle" Lafarge's infrastructure in order to put an end to "colonial eco-capitalism."
Francois Petry, general manager of the cement manufacturer, has denied the allegations of polluting and instead called the facility a "state-of-the-art factory" in the field of carbon-free materials. He noted that the recent attack not only hindered local operations, but weakened the progressive approach across the entire industry.


Comment: This massive uptick in 'eco activism' is clearly well-funded and coordinated.

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Fauci lied, people died - Musk


RT
Mon, 12 Dec 2022 03:44 UTC
Fauci
© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesDr. Anthony Fauci
"My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," the new Twitter boss has announced

Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk triggered a social media firestorm on Sunday after suggesting that US Covid-19 czar Dr. Anthony Fauci should be investigated and prosecuted for allegedly lying under oath about the funding of research at a Wuhan lab in China.

In what initially appeared to simply be a humorous dig, Musk also posted a meme showing the retiring White House chief medical adviser whispering "Just one more lockdown, my king" in President Joe Biden's ear.

However, after Fauci's name was propelled to the top of Twitter's trends with over 600,000 mentions, Musk apparently felt the need to elaborate why he thought the controversial face of America's response to the pandemic should be investigated. He said in response to one critic:
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