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KBJ doubles down: “My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.”
That is, quite literally, the entire point of the First Amendment—of the entire Bill of Rights.
"These people, if I'm being totally honest, they make me sick. They cannot think in any form of principle whatsoever."
@GGreenwald
eviscerates
@BenShapiro
's impressively hypocritical justification for
@RealCandaceO
's Daily Wire departure 👇
🚨 Brazil's Censorship Regime Becomes Even More Despotic
Monark, "Brazil's Joe Rogan," is now being criminally investigated and fined ~$75,000 for online conduct—fully silencing the once mega-popular podcaster without any due process.
This is what's coming for everyone.
The
Nikki Haley was outraged by Vivek Ramaswamy's suggestion that she was owned by corporate interests.
But after her stint in the Trump Administration, Haley's strained financial situation suddenly turned around—amassing a small fortune from the likes of Boeing & Barclays.
STUNNING: Secret Pakistan cable reveals explicit US pressure to remove democratically elected leader Imran Khan—which immediately followed.
In contrast with liberal hysteria over "Russian interference" in US elections, this is what *real meddling* in foreign govts looks like.
President Biden just appointed the multi-billionaire heiress Penny Pritzker – Obama's chief mega-donor – to oversee the profiteering plans in Ukraine of BlackRock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs: to "rebuild" the country with US funds once Raytheon and Boeing are done profiteering
Elon Musk is under fire, again, this time from neocons and corporate journalists insisting that his refusal to turn on Starlink satellites to enable an escalation of Ukraine's military actions amounts to a form of treason.
From where does this obligation come? Do we care that
🚨 Happening NOW: Murthy v. Missouri—SCOTUS hears arguments on US govt collusion with social media platforms to censor online speech.
A US judge has called this case "the most massive attack against free speech in United States' history."
Alito: "When I see the White House and
‼️ All Americans *need* to understand the Durham Report's dire implications for their democracy:
@GGreenwald
: "The most dangerous development of all in the US is that the Security State is fully liberated... to use their investigative powers to manipulate our politics, control
SUPERCUT: Rather than press the govt on the content within the Ukraine Docs leak, "journalists" used today's Pentagon briefing to demand that more be done to prevent future leaks.
This should be unthinkable—what kind of journalists push for *less* govt transparency?!👇
The New York Times just published a "leak" from the CIA on their decade-long "secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine"—framing this relationship as critical for countering Russia.
You'll notice that no NYT reporters are being arrested or put on trial for this supposedly
.
@RobertKennedyJr
explains why he changed his mind on Russiagate—and how that hoax was critical to the breakdown of US-Russia relations:
"Now I see that as the runway to the Ukraine War... that we were being propagandized to see the Russians as an existential enemy."
The Espionage Act of 1917—under which Donald Trump is currently being indicted—is a draconian law that has been cynically weaponized against whistleblowers and journalists for years, with cases skyrocketing under the Obama Administration.
From Woodrow Wilson to Julian Assange,
🔥🔥
@GGreenwald
slams out-of-touch establishment candidates at last night's GOP Debate:
"You saw these politicians—Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, Tim Scott, Mike Pence—who really sound like they're from the Republican Party of 2004-2012... I don't think they have any conception
.
@GGreenwald
: "I know it sounds like a sensationalist claim... but it's not—it's the only rational conclusion you can reach.
These news outlets lie on purpose, they are there to lie, to validate the liberal proclivities of their viewers... to show their viewers they are willing
‼️WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT‼️
@CBSNews
aired what can only be described as a sexually-charged homage to special counsel, Jack Smith—somehow delivered under the guise of a news program.
It's borderline pornographic.
.
@TuckerCarlson
: "Libertarian economics was a scam perpetrated by the beneficiaries of the economic system that they were defending...
I think you need to ask: 'Does this economic system produce a lot of Dollar Stores?'
And if it does, it's not a system that you want, because
.
@GGreenwald
rips apart Ketanji Brown Jackson's concern that the First Amendment could, in fact, limit government power:
"She believes... the free speech guarantee is an impediment to the government being able to to do things it needs to do...
I appreciate Justice Brown Jackson
KBJ doubles down: “My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.”
That is, quite literally, the entire point of the First Amendment—of the entire Bill of Rights.
It is bone-chilling to watch a US president brag about locking up huge numbers of peaceful protestors.
And Biden is simultaneously asking you to believe that *he* is the only hope for "saving democracy."
Two obvious & critical questions for Merrick Garland:
1. Why did David Weiss suddenly request to be made special counsel in Hunter Biden's case? They'd insisted for years this was unnecessary—What changed?
2. Why take the *same* prosecutor—one already credibly accused of
.
@RepThomasMassie
explains that—despite the predictable barrage of antisemitism accusations & AIPAC attacks—his opposition to funding Israel is based solely on a consistent application of his foreign policy view:
“I don’t support foreign aid… We are almost 34 trillion dollars
On Friday, an appellate court upheld the July ruling that the Biden administration had repeatedly violated Americans’ First Amendment rights by censoring free speech on social media platforms. Despite being one of the most important First Amendment victories in years, corporate
In response—predictably—the NY Times Pakistan correspondent
@SalmanMasood
spent his day attempting to discredit the report, lying about its source & retweeting detractors in DC think tanks.
It was a union of US journalists, pro-war think tanks, & Washington on full display.
STUNNING: Secret Pakistan cable reveals explicit US pressure to remove democratically elected leader Imran Khan—which immediately followed.
In contrast with liberal hysteria over "Russian interference" in US elections, this is what *real meddling* in foreign govts looks like.
🚨🚨 The EU has sent
@ElonMusk
an alarmingly authoritarian letter—exploiting Israel-Gaza to accuse X of spreading "illegal content & disinformation" and demanding they do more to meet the EU's "content moderation" standards.
In other words, "Censor what we want—or else."
Today, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange—one of the most consequential journalists of his generation—begins his final "live or death" extradition appeal.
And US "journalists" still refuse to cover this for what it is: The most extreme ongoing assault on press freedom in the West.
Prof. John Mearsheimer: "I think the Israelis would like to get us into a war with Iran... with Hezbollah...
I think the Israeli view—deep down—is that the bigger the war is, the greater the opportunity for ethnic cleansing."
"Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD" of MSNBC/TMZ fame would like for you to know that he's far too credentialed and elevated to bother debating RFK Jr.
OR
He's terrified that his atrocious, politically-motivated COVID record would be exposed.
A brief thread on his worst transgressions🧵
Elon Musk to boycotting corporate advertisers: “Go F*ck Yourself!”
That corporate "journalists" were shocked and horrified by this defiance of establishment power so perfectly encapsulates the fraud at the center of their increasingly irrelevant industry:
@GGreenwald
: "If
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@GGreenwald
: "The way to treat these Russell Brand accusations is the same way to treat accusations of these kind whenever they emerge in the media:
You do not jump & assume accusations from anonymous people—unaccompanied by evidence—is true, no matter how much you are
Glenn breaks down the allegations against Russell Brand—and one thing is abundantly clear:
He's been given absolutely no shot at due process by the media or the court of public opinion.
The Washington Post’s latest “disinformation study” – sponsored by the EU with an Omidyar-funded group that accuses Twitter of failing to censor "Russian propaganda" – is another in a long line of fraudulent attempts to justify censorship with pro-censorship demands.
Looking at
.
@JoeRogan
's recent exchange with a guest over possible Fed involvement in Jan. 6 betrays a key aspect of the prevailing liberal mindset:
These people simply have no reference for how deeply corrupted and abusive the FBI has been—and remains today.
Four times in the last week, Western elites blamed Russia for a diverse range of problems:
-Trudeau: My applauding an SS soldier was Moscow’s fault
-Hillary: When Dems lose, it’s Russia’s fault
-Fox News: Americans turned against the War in Ukraine because of Russian
"Regardless of past cases, if Trump broke the law, shouldn’t he face consequences?"
Actually no.
The law only has legitimacy if applied consistently—otherwise it becomes nothing more than a political weapon.
This is an obvious & obscene break with precedent 🧵
‼️ AOC escalates calls for censoring political opponents, using an appearance on Jen Psaki’s show to advocate for a Federal BAN on Tucker Carlson.
@GGreenwald
: “Like so much of what she says, it is not just authoritarian—but incredibly stupid and ignorant.”
Why was
@VivekGRamaswamy
the only candidate emphatically opposing more funding & weapons for Ukraine—despite deep opposition from GOP voters?
Vivek believes the donor class has a moral-superiority complex around Ukraine—& most politicians are simply puppets for their interests.
Media Matters just got caught pushing a demonstrable fraud to scare away advertisers on X.
It's the same thing they did to
@RumbleVideo
—And will continue to do to any online platforms committed to the free speech principles that permit dissent from establishment orthodoxy.
As Jeffrey Sachs points out, the media conveniently never mentions how the Ukraine war was completely avoidable, with Russia even reaching out to the US back in December 2021. It’s a fact even more important as support for the war deteriorates, which is why the media and neocons
.
@GGreenwald
: "You may be comforted by the fact that we, at least in the United States, have the First Amendment.
For a while, I was too.
But what the EU is saying, and they're in touch with the Americans all the time... Their plan is... to force these companies to change
Like it or not, Tucker Carlson’s show was a bastion of defiance from establishment Democrats *and* Republicans—and their ideology of endless war, militarism, and corporatism.
His departure from Fox removes not only cable's most popular host, but also its most radical dissident.
Jeffrey Sachs on *why* the US would continue pushing toward nuclear exchange with Russia—from 3 decades of aggressive NATO expansion to the war today:
"There are so many stupid people in our government, believe me... People who don't think, who are extraordinarily lacking in
Glenn breaks down the allegations against Russell Brand—and one thing is abundantly clear:
He's been given absolutely no shot at due process by the media or the court of public opinion.
It is astounding for Mitch McConnell to admit that he believes securing Ukraine's border is far more important than that of his own country.
@GGreenwald
: "No matter what you tell Republican voters about Donald Trump... they understand that the people who are running Washington
FINALLY. In a huge win for internet freedom, a Fed Court has barred the govt from coercing Big Tech to censor on its behalf.
The significance can't be overstated—A Fed judge has effectively stated:
1. This is happening.
2. It's unconstitutional.
3. It must stop. Immediately.
Moment of silence for government servants masquerading as journalists—like
@RyanJReilly
—who are now faced with the *very real* challenge of making their defense of a sprawling state censorship regime sound totally reasonable 🥲
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@GGreenwald
: "There is no group of people that would swallow and accept being occupied by a foreign military for decades and being denied the basic guarantees and dignity of self-governance, especially when that occupation is brutal and savage and designed to humiliate—as the
🚨 You'd really think it'd be a national emergency to figure out why US live expectancy is declining, its citizens drowning in debt, the fentanyl crisis ravaging communities, deaths of despair rising, etc.
Instead, Congress is focused on continuing to fund its endless wars.
.
@GGreenwald
on the obvious reason for
@RealCandaceO
's divorce from the Daily Wire:
"She is a person with a lot of influence on the American right... who has been encouraging people to question why it is that the United States is paying for Israel's wars...
And that's
.
@RandPaul
condemns reckless U.S. military instillations across the Middle East that needlessly put American men and women in harm's way:
"It's of no military-strategic value—But in the end, it ends up being sort of a tripwire to draw us into more and more conflict."
STUNNING: Left-liberals are claiming the CIA interfered in Brazil's 2022 election NOT to influence the outcome—but as a selfless defense of Democracy™️ abroad.
It's a perspective you can *only* have if you've never opened a history book.
And one the left *used* to reject.
.
@RandPaul
: "You can't have truth if one side is suppressed.
One of the biggest dangers we have coming up is having the government get involved in what is true, what is untrue, what is malinformation or misinformation or disinformation."
John Durham—held as one of the most respected & apolitical prosecutors in the country—just issued his earth-shattering report, documenting with extensive evidence how the FBI radically abused its power to sabotage the 2016 Trump campaign for their own political ends.
The fact
.
@GGreenwald
“It is difficult to think of a more vivid example of the warped priorities in Washington than what is happening right now inside the U.S. Senate.”
Democrats, led by Sen. Tammy Ducksworth of Illinois, are threatening to block disaster aid to Americans unless Ukraine
Question for anyone celebrating these indictments: What *exactly* did Trump do that was illegal?
If we’re going to start prosecuting presidents for crimes—Great—but that's clearly not what this is:
It's a one-time exception to bury the establishment's foremost political enemy.
“Julian Assange is one of the most consequential journalists of the last 50 years…
He has almost certainly broken more major stories than almost every single employee of the MSM outlets combined.
They don’t hate Julian Assange despite the fact that he’s broken so many stories,
Two Deeply Inconvenient Truths About Ukraine:
1) They have no democracy of any kind.
2) Zelensky is increasingly fighting with a conscript army, as his citizens desperately flee to avoid the draft.
🚨🚨 TikTok—suddenly and with no real explanation—permanently banned our show's account this week.
Our show and its content on that platform, almost exclusively, challenges the US govt/security state. If TikTok were acting at the discretion of the CCP, why is *this* the account
In Tucker Carlson interview, Putin absolutely denies what the US has been saying about his ultimate motive—to conquer territories beyond Ukraine:
"It is absolutely out of the question... It goes against common sense to get involved in some kind of a global war. A global war will
That nearly half of Nikki Haley's supporters would be fine voting for Biden tells you everything you need to know about her and her campaign:
The point is to preserve the uniparty, establishment-serving status quo in Washington 👇
.
@GGreenwald
and
@MTaibbi
on how “Free Speech” was deliberately turned into a “Far Right” slogan—providing cover for a sprawling galaxy of anti-establishment censorship 👇
“Any anti-Israel policy is an anti-Texas policy.”
“Free speech advocate”
@GregAbbott_TX
says he supports the First Amendment…but he’s calling for Pro-Palestine protesters to be imprisoned for constitutionally protected speech. What a "free" state!
🇺🇦 Jeffrey Sachs speaks with
@GGreenwald
on the US provocation of the Ukraine War—and the very real, ever-present possibility of nuclear escalation:
"This war was completely avoidable. The party in this conflict that actually sought diplomacy repeatedly was Russia.
Not
It's pretty ironic that an operative of the CIA's propaganda arm tried to cast
@GGreenwald
—a career-long opponent of these pernicious security agencies—as a "far-right" figure 🤷
It's also a fairly weak attempt to deflect from valid critiques of his shady employer,
@Bellingcat
.
"That's how the United States works.
You work hard. You give your tax money to the US. Your communities are crumbling. You often don't have health care. There are all kinds of deaths from despair.
And then multi-billionaire Pierre Omidyar gives money to Bill Kristol to try and
🇺🇦 This war in Ukraine was not "unprovoked." 🇺🇦
Jeffrey Sachs, long-time Washington insider, walks through a brief and important history of the decades-long prelude to Russia's invasion:
1. In the early 90s, the US promises Gorbachev that it will not expand NATO "one inch"
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@GGreenwald
: “Imagine how little dignity and self-worth you have to have, to have seen all of this happen—that the party to which you belong, that constantly tells you you have to vote for them to ‘save democracy,’ rigged the system and cheated to make sure that their preferred
Elon's eyebrow-raising pick for Twitter CEO, Linda Yaccarino, is putting her more ad-friendly policies into action—And it's sounding a lot like the old censorship regime:
➡️ New "brand safety" & "content moderation" tools
➡️ Deamplifying & repressing "lawful but awful" speech
➡️
They spent YEARS claiming that Trump's Hitler-esque border wall would stand as a monument to American racism and white supremacy.
It's a *genuinely amazing* turn to see Biden & blue-city liberals embrace "racist" MAGA policies the moment immigration touched their lives.
BIDEN BULDS THE WALL.
@PressSec
spent yesterday frantically denying/lying about their administration's obvious role in resuming the construction of Trump's border wall.
You almost feel bad for her 👇
The
@nytimes
—a paper owned by billionaire heirs—wants you to know that US spending is unsustainably high, and you should prepare yourself for tough cuts to Social Security & Medicare.
And also
The US must pour massive sums of money into Ukraine.
“GoFundMe does not care if you use GoFundMe to steal people’s funds, to defraud well-intentioned people, as long as your politics are correct…
GoFundMe is a fraudulent company, it exists to help people steal money if they have the ‘right’ politics, and to punish people who are
The life of Dianne Feinstein "is ending like it was conducted.
With complete corruption and deceit and dishonor and dishonesty, trying to harm as many people as possible purely for the benefit of herself and her wealthy comrades in the DC ruling class."
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@GGreenwald
: "This war is not saving Ukraine... Somehow, the countries we always say we're trying to save... instead end up being destroyed.
If I were a citizen of another country, the last thing I would want to hear is US leaders saying, 'We're coming to protect you.'"
Despite multiple indictments, Trump is more popular than ever—with a 46% lead over his nearest competitor.
And 77% of GOP voters are more concerned that the indictments are political than w/ Trump's alleged crimes.
It's a MASSIVE crisis of authority in the United States.
McCarthy is far too bland to warrant the outcry his ouster is receiving.
The truth is that this fight is about something far more fundamental—and threatening—to US power centers:
It's about whether our institutions are so corrupted they deserve to be burned to the ground.
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@GGreenwald
: "It is beyond dispute now that the primary tactic of the Democratic Party and their media allies for winning in 2024 is not to convince voters to vote for them, but instead to imprison their chief political opponent...
It is genuinely hard to imagine a more glaring
Remember when practically every institution of authority in the United States endorsed a false, fabricated conspiracy theory that came from the CIA to destroy an elected president—not for a week but for three years?
They want to memory-hole Russiagate; Don't let them.
As US public support for the war erodes, Zelensky and his spokespeople are now overtly threatening both the West and war critics. Zelensky has moved to full-on extortion, making threats about what might just happen if aid to Ukraine were cut off.
.
@GGreenwald
“He's essentially
The Biden DOJ is fighting back against a Federal Court's recent injunction BARRING them from coercing Big Tech to censor on their behalf.
Their stated defense, that they are simply "persuading" Big Tech for the "public good," is as false as it is revealing 👇
THE CTIL Files:
@MTaibbi
,
@Shellenberger
,
@GalexyBrane
just broke the biggest online censorship story since the
#TwitterFiles
, exposing the origins of the censorship-industrial complex following Brexit and Trump's election in 2016:
@GGreenwald
: "In the wake of those two events,
Among Democrat’s repugnant attacks on
@MTaibbi
and
@ShellenbergerMD
at yesterday’s House hearing, we should at least be grateful for
@RepColinAllred
, who had the decency to explicitly state their adoration for the US Security State & its oppressive online censorship regime.
"Every single human right—due process, conventions of asylum—have been abrogated in the case of Assange."
Australia is finally demanding the release of its citizen, Julian Assange, whose ongoing persecution by the US government is the single greatest threat to press freedom in
Nikki Haley—now rising as the GOP donor class favorite—has cheered on every major US intervention over the last 20 years, including Biden's war in Ukraine.
Which is exactly the point.
The establishment is *desperate* to restore the bipartisan, neocon consensus on war.
If you had said 3 months ago what Joe Scarborough said this week—that of course Ukraine cannot win, that they must negotiate—these *same people* would have tried to destroy your reputation.
"They don't care in the slightest about Ukrainians or Ukraine. It's all a game to them."
For going to Russia & possibly interviewing Putin—an entirely legal and journalistically valuable thing to do:
⚪ Adam Kinzinger called Tucker Carlson a "traitor"
⚪ Alexander Vindman said he was "aiding and abetting the enemy"
⚪ A viral tweet dubbed him a "valid Ukrainian
That Tucker is being branded a "Traitor" for visiting Moscow exposes one of the most malignant forces in US politics:
Opposing the Establishment's catastrophic foreign policy & endless wars—in any way—is guaranteed to bring widespread accusations of treason.
.
@ggreenwald
“They are attempting to seize the power to dictate what you can and cannot say, which political opinions you may and may not express, over virtually every consequential online platform, with very severe real-world consequences if you violate their decrees.”
The ADL
Joe Biden often evades questions on son's business dealings by focusing exclusively on his compassion for Hunter's struggle with addiction.
It's an especially grotesque approach given his long history of proudly throwing other people's children in jail for similar crimes👇
Rep. Mike Johnson in 2023: Says the unchecked power of intelligence agencies “keeps us up” at night.
@SpeakerJohnson
in 2024: Plots with the Biden administration to ensure these agencies can spy on Americans without a warrant.
What happened? 👇
**Is TikTok actually an agent of the CCP?**
Despite fear mongering claims from every US politician & media outlet, the US govt has a total stranglehold on TikTok’s “content moderation.”
It’s why they’ve banned any criticism of Zelensky—or bin Laden’s "Letter to America"👇
.
@GGreenwald
“The reason why Elon Musk is being targeted by the ADL as an anti-Semite and now being depicted as a traitor to his country, the United States… is not because necessarily they're angry about what he did in Ukraine, although they are, but more so because it's
What's happening in Gaza is not a "war."
It's a massacre by one of the world's most sophisticated militaries, backed by the world's superpower, against an almost entirely civilian population.
And the now-imminent risk of catastrophic famine was Israel's stated goal all along.
"I would honestly rather have some randomly chosen person from the phonebook run foreign policy for the United States."
@GGreenwald
tears apart Nikki Haley's foreign policy "experience" 👇
The case to remove Trump from the ballot was spearheaded by a liberal advocacy group, whose president
@NoahBookbinder
just called this Colorado decision:
"A huge moment for democracy."
@GGreenwald
: "This makes me physically sick... This is what every country we accuse of being
🚨 NEW POLL: Majorities of Americans now reject Biden's war in Ukraine—despite persisting high levels of support among Democrats.
Like it or not, Democrats have become the party ideologically aligned with endless war.
Tucker: "Twice now, you've described US presidents making decisions and then being undercut by their agency heads. So it sounds like you're describing a system that's not run by the people who are elected."
Putin: "That's right."
.
@GGreenwald
on the *real reason* the liberal establishment is desperate to prevent Joe Rogan from hosting a debate between RFK Jr. and Peter Hotez:
"The paramount tool of the liberal establishment is censorship and suppression of dissent... They know the public has lost faith
WATCH: Once evidence of US government censorship online became overwhelming, establishment Dems had to switch from denying it was happening to openly endorsing it.
@GGreenwald
: "This is demented. I cannot believe that any person thinks this way let alone a member of Congress,
The Vietnam War was sold on lies, from the Gulf of Tonkin to obscuring the reality on the ground—And they hid the truth behind a wall of classification to protect themselves.
It was Ellsberg's courageous decision to commit a felony that finally exposed the truth to the public.
It is *shocking* that the same “War on Terror” criminals in the US govt who:
- Invaded Iraq with multiple falsehoods
- Implemented the Patriot Act & warrantless mass domestic spying
- Bombed eight Muslim countries killing countless civilians
- Created due process-free prisons
‼️ URGENT & ALARMING: The House Intel committee's proposed surveillance bill is nothing but a trojan horse for online privacy/section 702 reform.
As
@SenMikeLee
explained last night, it would:
1) Extend the FISA 702 reauthorization period by an unprecedented 9 years
2) Fix