Free speech is a foundation of our country. It was hijacked and twisted to suppress contrary views. Garbage bureaucracy. Garbage social media.

Twitter censored accurate COVID information that conflicted with federal sentiments, new files show

“…Both the Biden and the Trump administrations worked with Twitter during the COVID pandemic, suppressing contrarian advice from doctors, the latest installment of the Twitter Files shows…”

Related:

Judge approves $10M class-action settlement over mandatory COVID shots

Lake Erie is cold!

It is time for a new Republican congressional leadership. Paleo-Republicans should not be in leadership roles.

Border Patrol union boss rips McConnell for funding border security overseas, defunding at home

The federal bureaucracy is a Democrat bureaucracy working on behalf of Democrats…

“Conspiracy Theorists…Attempting to Discredit the Agency”: The FBI Attacks Critics Objecting to its Role in Twitter’s Censorship System 

“…It is not clear what is more chilling: the menacing role played by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Twitter’s censorship program or its mendacious response to the disclosure of that role. This week saw another FBI “nothing-to-see-here” statement to the release of files detailing how it actively sought to suppress the Hunter Biden story before the 2020 election, gave millions to Twitter, and targeted even satire or tiny posts that did not conform with its guidelines.

The releases document what some of us have long alleged: a system of censorship by surrogate or proxy. The FBI has largely shrugged and said that there is nothing concerning about over 80 agents working on the censoring of posters, including many American citizens.

In the latest statement, the FBI stated it did not command Twitter to take any specific action when flagging accounts to be censored:

“We are providing it so that they can take whatever action they deem appropriate under their terms of service to protect their platform and protect their customers, but we never direct or ask them to take action.”

The files shows a previously undisclosed back channel of contacts where the FBI nudged Twitter to censor posters and Twitter proceeded to do so…”

A stopped clock is correct twice a day…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was the lone Democrat in Congress to oppose the $1.7 trillion federal spending bill

Focus on supplying power and heat to American citizens, not green absurdities fashionable in the moment.

Death toll climbs, over 1M without power amid bitter cold on Christmas Eve

 

Surprise! How could that happen?

String of errors in federal statistics favoring Democrats raising concerns of manipulation

“…Prominent among these erroneous numbers was the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ reported overestimate of second quarter job growth by a sizable margin…”

Turns out a lot of the science was garbage…

GREATER EXERCISE ACTIVITY IS TIED TO LESS SEVERE COVID-19 OUTCOMES, A STUDY SHOWS

Remember follow the science?

Crackdowns on Lone Surfers and Paddleboarders Threaten to Erode Respect for Law Enforcement Even Further

Former police officer arrested in park for throwing ball with daughter due to coronavirus social distancing rules

Coronavirus: San Clemente Fills Skatepark With 37 Tons Of Sand After Skaters Ignore ‘No Trespassing’ Signs

Shocking moment cops arrest mom for taking kids to playground during coronavirus outbreak

NJ Can Shut Down Gym That Defied Coronavirus Closure, Court Rules

As Rioters Destroy New York, Cops Kick Jewish Families Out of a Playground

Hat tip to Ed Driscoll

This is leadership. What we have now is base politics. War presents unending opportunity for grift for Washington paleo-Republicans and Democrats

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1606041729353674753

Sen. Kennedy on the omnibus spending bill…

Stupid incompetence or willful trickery?

Game-changer? Huge Revelation in Kari Lake’s Election Challenge Trial

“…It was, perhaps, a small miracle that Kari Lake’s election challenge was allowed to go to trial, but the tough part still lies ahead: proving beyond a reasonable doubt (Count II) that ballot printer problems on Election Day were intentional, designed to affect the results of the election—and that they, in fact, did—and (Count IV) that additional votes were allowed to be counted in violation of the County Election Manual.

On Wednesday, Lake’s team took a huge step toward doing that.

When asked by Lake’s attorney Bryan Blehm if the county knew on Election Day how many ballots had been submitted by the voters, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer testified that they did not. According to Richer, individual polling places did not tally the number of votes cast — an apparent violation of state law.

This is significant because Lake’s lawsuit claims, among other things, that between Nov. 9 (the day after Election Day) and Nov. 11, the number of votes the county reported having counted in the election increased by nearly 25,000 — which exceeds Katie Hobbs’ alleged 17,000-vote victory.

“Highlighting the chain of custody failures … is the fact that two days after Election Day was completed, Maricopa County found more than 25,000 additional ballots, whereas properly followed chain of custody procedures would require Maricopa County election officials to know the exact number of ballots submitted by the day after Election, November 9, 2022,” Kari Lake’s attorney explained in their legal brief.

“On Election Day, it would’ve been easy for you to figure out how many ballots you received,” Blehm told Richer.

“Well, we had to get them all in and it was quite a process throughout the night,” Richer claimed.

“You can look at the forms and add the numbers. Correct?” Blehm asked.

“They’re not counted at the individual loading locations,” Richer explained. “They are counted when they get back to MCTEC [the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center] and then they are recounted at Runbeck.”

“Does anybody know, when those ballots leave the voting centers, how many are in the bins?” asked Blehm.

“When the early ballots leave the voting centers, no, they are not counted at the voting centers,” Richer admitted

“Nobody knows how many [ballots] are in the bins when they arrive at MCTEC. Correct?” Blehm asked.

“Correct,” Richer said.

According to the state election procedures manual, each voting location is required by law to record the number of votes cast there and record them in an official ballot report. This ensures that the total number of ballots they record matches the number of people who claim to have voted.

Former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett told The Western Journal that Maricopa County should have known the total number of ballots on Election Day, or at the very least by the next day.

It appears that Maricopa County did violate the law; they didn’t have a tally of the votes cast before they were counted. Why would there be such a blatant violation of the law, unless it was to ensure there was no official tally of votes cast to compare to the number of votes counted?…”

President Trump on immigration…

There are responsible Republicans, their number is dwindling.

Congress is a dysfunctional mess.

FTX/Alameda was a cynical fraud by old-fashioned con-men

Two Executives in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Plead Guilty to Fraud

“…Caroline Ellison, the former chief executive of Alameda Research, and Gary Wang, a founder of FTX, are cooperating in the federal criminal case against Mr. Bankman-Fried…”

“The FBI deliberately interfered not one, but two separate presidential elections… There have got to be repercussions for that.”

Doug Santo