Former fact-checker and magazine writer w/ bylines in @nytimes + others.

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Mayhem as NYPD arrested the wheelchair killer at the NYCHA building where he lived with the young lady he killed. Residents yelled " bring him out in a gurney" and then attacked him. Totally wild.
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Residents want his scalp. Looking for justice
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Replying to @chiIIum
Word is that everyone in the building knew it was him since Friday. They were pissed that he hadn't been arrested yet and many of them knew the girl.
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Residents and neighbors taunted and lunged at the murder suspect, who is accused of shooting 31 year old Yazmene Williams in the head and dumping her body in the garbage. Cops id'd the wheelchair killer days ago but he was freely rolling about until now.
Residents want his scalp. Looking for justice
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Todays NYC protest schedule, brought to you by the People's Forum and your local DSA. They're prob mad @nytimes bc they published a story about where ppl's frm gets its $. NYC DSA is working with a well-funded org closely linked to Chinese gvt propaganda ops.
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On Friday, the body of "Yazzy" Williams was found in the garbage on 27th St near 3rd ave. A man in an electric wheelchair pulled her up the block and left her there. Today, NYPD arrested him but the neighborhood wanted some instant justice. backstory:
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His name is Richard M. Fierro, and he should be honored as a hero.
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Students at Hillcrest HS in Queens who rampaged last week against their Jewish teacher were not radicalized in a vacuum. NYC Board of Ed enabled a local Brooklyn board to spearhead recruitment of NYC students into the citywide anti-Israel protests a couple of weeks earlier. 1/
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Replying to @JoshWalkos
It almost sounds like she has to write a query to her inner database in order to generate a thought. I'm really curious what she means about the "shape of a sentence."
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Replying to @LethalityJane
The vet who took down this twisted killer in the gay Colorado nightclub is a hero. He should be officially honored as such. If only he was at Uvalde.
An Army veteran with two bronze stars was hanging out at a gay bar in Colorado called "Q" with his wife and family when a sick freak starting shooting patrons with a military rifle. He goes into action and stops the killer. Give him another medal. nytimes.com/2022/11/21/us/co…
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Replying to @MZHemingway
OMG!!! Are you saying that Stephen Colbert was involved in the planning and execution of the attack on the Capital? This is stunning. What are your sources?
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Replying to @Yea_Im_LikeThat
He had a prosthetic leg and ppl around are saying he really didn't need the wheelchair.
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Their agenda is to "defeat Israel", "dismantle capitalism here in the US" and "create the chaos that is required of us in the moment in history" In NYC, the US Left is merging with Chinese interests to push a this agenda.
New Yorkers should be more upset that a radical org is calling for the destruction of America from their CCP funded midtown office.
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Replying to @ianmiles
She is telling athletes: You are there to compete but we are not here to protect. If you speak out, you're on your own.
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Replying to @ScottHech
This was petty and unnecessary and publicly known about before the eclipse. Kathy Hochul should not have allowed it.
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Replying to @Blac4903Milton
He's gonna have big trouble at Rikers
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Just confirmed with a detective that the body came on the dolly that's tied to the fence with the red strap. Somebody rolled him along 27th before tying him to the scaffolding and leaving him there like an abandoned dog.
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Replying to @RevereCA2VA
If this was in 2020, they would say he died of "covid"...lol
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Replying to @Studio28nyc @nypost
A woman at the scene said a group of young ladies came at 5pm Sunday and set up this memorial. They said the girl was shot in the head before being dumped there and that she was not from the neighborhood. Officers on duty at @NYPDnews pct 13 said they could not provide details.
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Thread of how a school board in Brooklyn allied with a CCP affiliated org to recruit their students into pro palestinian protests.
Replying to @Studio28nyc
CEC-D14 partnered with The People's Forum, which organized the adult side of the citywide protests. It's media wing produced video from Fort Hamilton HS in Brooklyn. Ppl's Forum is believed to be a front for Chinese propaganda operations. 4/ a quick take loom.com/share/a86494aedbb04…
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Replying to @alexandrosM
If something like this had happened with Biden at the podium, everyone on the right would be claiming "false flag"
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As an ex bodega worker and current new yorker, I find it deeply disturbing that Jose Alba has to sit one more second in that shithole Rikers. He was cornered by a street thug and in fear of his life. Was he supposed to just sit there? #freeJoseAlba nypost.com/2022/07/06/nyc-bo…
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A lot of ppl on the scene were saying things along those lines.
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NYCHA is $40 bil in the hole on capital repairs and has a $35 mil operating deficit. Yet Chuck Schumer, Eric Adams and Mark Levine celebrate spending $25mil taxpayer$ to install Ebike stations at projects? Where are the adults? nitter.app/MarkLevineNYC/status/1… gothamgazette.com/city/11879…
NEW: E-bike charging stations coming to NYCHA developments. Will be outdoor, rapid-charging, 173 stations at 53 NYCHA sites. Installation begins end of 2023. This will avoid the fire risk of e-bikes charging at home overnight. nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-…
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Lotta ppl round here said the same thing.
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So the WIV and U of Texas lab agreed to a memory hole clause, with broad scope and which can be invoked at the request of either party. It's sickening. With which other labs in the US does WIV have such an agreement? Doesn't it violate UT retention policies?
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Those who want to know what could have led to an anti Jewish riot at Hillcrest HS could start by examining the actions of the NYC school board for district 14 and their relationships with organizations like the People's Forum. NYC parents and politicians should be asking.
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So the CCP is able to use a US tax exempt organization as a front to help mobilize mobs of protesters in New York and DC. The experiment seems to be working.
Pro-Chinese Communist Party group is shown to be behind pro-Hamas protests in US, @dcexaminer reports. washingtonexaminer.com/news/…
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Replying to @Kapikap1
Holiday weekend body dumping extravaganza
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So an official body of NYC Board of Ed openly collaborated with a suspected front for Chinese influence ops to inject divisive politics and ideology into the student body at NYC public schools. The system seems to be clearing the path to radicalizing its own students.
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An Army veteran with two bronze stars was hanging out at a gay bar in Colorado called "Q" with his wife and family when a sick freak starting shooting patrons with a military rifle. He goes into action and stops the killer. Give him another medal. nytimes.com/2022/11/21/us/co…
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Replying to @Jusrangers
Denmark BANS the CV vaccine for anyone under 18. Think about that. Do they know something ppl on our side won't admit?
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Replying to @JCAndersonNYC
When I moved to NYC from "murder city" Detroit in 1990, NYC felt like a safe haven. After 30yrs of roaming NYC, first random attack was June of 2020. Two more since. No serious injuries, but...random violence is not sth I experienced here before 2020. Detroit in 1990 was safer.
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The office of the Community Education Council for District 14 in Brooklyn worked with far left, ideologically driven organizations to lead training and mobilization of city schoolkids into the anti-Israel, pro-Palestine protests that took place citywide on Nov 9. 2/
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After converting NYC HS kids into mass marchers for Palestine, CEC14 Pres Tajh Sutton is now standing behind the mob that hunted down a Jewish teacher at Hillcrest HS. @NYCSchools chancellor calls this a teachable moment. The class has questions. 🖐️ 1/🧵
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This NYC nonprofit is a key organizer mobilizing the pro Hamas, anti Israel mobs in DC and NYC. It is also part of a wider a collaboration btw the US far left and China/CCP agitation operations. China is flexing on our streets. nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world…
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CEC-D14 partnered with The People's Forum, which organized the adult side of the citywide protests. It's media wing produced video from Fort Hamilton HS in Brooklyn. Ppl's Forum is believed to be a front for Chinese propaganda operations. 4/ a quick take loom.com/share/a86494aedbb04…
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Replying to @ImpunityCity
This is just a couple of blocks from Bellevue, OCME and the massive men's shelter. We were trying to figure out what that body bag actually is. Whoever dumped him went to a lot of trouble to double bag him like that.
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Replying to @JCAndersonNYC
I managed restaurants in Manhattan for more than 10 yrs. Me and my staff would have kicked this guy to the curb within 5 mins. Nobody should be scared of a freak like him. Protect your business and keep going.
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People around say he didn't really need the wheelchair and was able to walk when he wanted to.
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On their IG page, CEC-D14 provided its official government email as the means of contact for organizing students into the protests. It was the only government body listed amongst the sponsors of the student walkout. 3/
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Replying to @GabNYC2021
Totally agree. Anyone on the west side of Manhattan who feels that way should vote for Maria Danzilo: @Maria4Dist6 Maria's opponent is in denial about the crime wave. He was one of the chief architects of BAIL REFORM. Need I say more? Public safety #1. Please vote for Maria.
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Are you for real? Please explain the conspiracy theory.
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Interesting thing you point out that they target distinctly American brands and work to take them down. They're pernicious.
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Maybe white guy @JeffHillinChina could learn something from the amazing singer @CeeLoGreen, who posted his thoughts on the subject on Instagram a couple of months back.
The amazing singer/songwriter @CeeLoGreen posted on Instagram a clear message to his followers. China is a threat to ALL of us. Ceelo's "Crazy", which he performed as Gnarls Barkley, has become a pandemic theme for a lot of people. Thank him for keeping it 💯!
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The entire point of this extremely long puff piece is to deliver the conclusion, a typical CCP response to criticism: Shi is the victim of anti-China racism coming from "hypocritical" Western democracies which she once believed were "wonderful" but have "lost the high ground."
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Replying to @yuhline
Your problem imo is that you don't seem to suspect that the problems you've had as a crime victim are at least partly the result of the anti-public safety agenda you so strongly support. The real life consequences of this have now become everyone's problem, including yours.
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If this had happened in 2020, what are the chances the NYC medical examiner would have reported this death as "presumed covid?" 🤔 @Wood_House76
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Replying to @MikeBenzCyber
As the head of the Harvard Corp, Penny Pritzker led the effort to place Claudine Gay in the role of Harvard Pres in July, 2023. In Sept, Joe Biden appointed Penny Pritzker as the State Department's Special Representative for Ukraine's Economic Recovery. Just sayin.
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Replying to @Noise327
Seems like a bad SNL skit. Troubling that so many ppl gave this guy their $
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A reporter from CBS just told me that the medical examiner confirmed that the decedent was a 30 year old woman and determined that she had been shot in the head.
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The most balanced piece I've read on the topic from NYT. Very well-written too. But notably missing is any mention of the lead role taken by @NYTScience in squelching consideration of the lab leak. It's kind of a big omission, imo.
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CEC14 recruited NYC student marchers as part of citywide effort led by the People's Forum, an alleged front for Chinese gvt propaganda ops. Does it concern the Chancellor that an official body of @NYCSchools worked with a hostile foreign power on this? nypost.com/2023/12/02/metro/…
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ppl in NYC understandably don't want to be reminded of the 2020 Covid lockdown period, but this person is asking some serious questions about it. 👇
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Why don't you instead focus on crime rates in NYC?
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Replying to @scotub
Whenever someone uses personally insulting language or put-downs to discredit a logical argument, it's a sign that they have no argument.
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Replying to @RezaC1
Maria Danzilo (@Maria4Dist6) is our best shot at unseating Hoylman. Hoylman spouts nonsense in support of criminals and lives in a fantasy world. Maria advocates common sense solutions to real world problems. If public safety is your concern, vote for Maria! Say it, Reza!
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Replying to @cattleguy92
How many additional workers were shifted from other tasks to just dealing with all those bodies? There must have been an extra 1500 or so in that timeframe. Must have been traumatic for them. Where is their testimony?
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Replying to @XVanFleet
This is a great question. If "severe punishment" includes public ostracism and financial penalties, our "red lines" are whatever the Leftist culture warriors and their govt allies decide they are. Our system has been primed for a Chinese style crackdown. Eyes on election 2024.
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Replying to @thackerpd
I believe Apoorva Mandavilli suffers from a bad case of the Woke Mind Virus. Should we pity her?
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Replying to @Byron_Wan
Daryl Morey was the GM of the Houston Rockets when he tweeted support of protesters in HK, Oct 2019. China punished the NBA for the tweet. NBA's problems with China started w the Morey tweet. This is why it's ironic that Rockets are the team to waive @EnesFreedom
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You and @KatherineEban are providing a great service. Your work makes clear that the real conspiracy re: the LL is the high-level disinformation campaign/decoy narrative intended to wipe out the LL argument altogether. Accountability for those behind it would be great to see.
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Excellent presentations from all. I particularly liked @FilippaLentzos comments. Is there a recording or transcript available? Was @JamieMetzl in the audience? Either way, thank you all for your efforts.
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Replying to @Yea_Im_LikeThat
Young, zombie corporate types from well-off backgrounds pay around $3500/mo for a decent studio or 1 bedroom in Kips Bay. They order delivery bc they don't know how to shop or cook. They mostly focus on their phones or appear to be lost in thought.
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Replying to @queens_parents
Let's be clear. Paullette is saying that the teacher at Hillcrest HS had it coming. She approves of the attack bc the teacher "historically disenfranchised" students causing "years of harm." So it's ok for students to attack teachers if they believe they've been harmed? Wow.
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Replying to @TishJames
A military veteran at the drag show (at a gay club called "Q") saved other patrons lives by stepping up. We should honor him with a medal of valor or something like it.
An Army veteran with two bronze stars was hanging out at a gay bar in Colorado called "Q" with his wife and family when a sick freak starting shooting patrons with a military rifle. He goes into action and stops the killer. Give him another medal. nytimes.com/2022/11/21/us/co…
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The Caixin article is archived here: web.archive.org/web/20200227… The Straits Times ran a similar story from Caixin which is pretty damning: "As early as Dec 27, a Guangzhou-based genomics company had sequenced most of the virus" straitstimes.com/asia/east-a…
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nah, i'm 6'.
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Replying to @AliRogin
If this assessment holds up, the US and NATO need to step up. The West has superior electronic warfare capability - use it. Disrupt Russian comm channels. Jam their signals. Break their internet. Put our satellites to work for the Ukraine military. This is bare minimum imo.
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They even had a baton to rely on but instead they let their security guy risk serious injury. Gave him no backup at all. This is not the crew I'd want to hang out with. Pathetic.
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Replying to @Davidolmsted2
This has nothing to do with illegals
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Replying to @ryangrim
The Times' coverage of the covid origin is so one sided that it can only be interpreted as a deliberate attempt to mislead. McNeil was on it b4 they fired him for dubious reasons while another "science" writer called LL theory "racist". Multipronged effort to suppress this story.
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If your book is as obtuse as your thread with nate silver, no thanks. I'll stay away.
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The best way NYC residents can fight back against this BS is to vote for candidates like @Maria4Dist6 and @dany_egorov who will try their best put a stop to these travesties. They are looking out for those of us who care about the personal safety of everyone in NYC.
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If Jay Varma is ever forced to testify under oath, somebody should ask him about scale of deaths that occurred in NYC hospitals, even as admissions dropped precipitously. 12,500 ppl died in NYC hospitals in April of 2020 🤔 woodhouse76.com/p/presentati… @Wood_House76 #VarmaGate
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CEC14 used its official logo, web presence and nyc.gov email to promote the mass student walkout on Nov9. For CEC14 to engage in political activity, COI rules require they receive permission in writing from DOE. Did DOE grant CEC14 permission to sponsor this?
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"foreign competitors found the city of 11 million people 'like a ghost town', and so many cases of a mysterious virus afflicted the Canadian team that a quarantine section was set up on their military flight back home." dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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Let's also not forget the tenants of WTC 7. Must have been a pretty convenient collapse for those involved. Dept of Defense CIA SEC IRS Secret Service NYC Dept of Emergency Management as run by Rudy Giuliani. + more
Here is the tenant list according to the official report of the collapse of Building 7 released 7 years after the fact. It's on page 51 of the report. govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVP…
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Is it a coincidence that Covid spread just in time to shut down the protests in Hong Kong and seize control of the legal and information domains there? OR maybe that was the point from the beginning. I would put HK at #1 on this list. france24.com/en/video/201908…
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Replying to @davidgmandel
Sounds like the same category of behavior as DARVO or gaslighting.
#DARVO is a useful way of recognising patterns that may be present in behaviour you’re experiencing. D(eny) - the abuser denies things they’ve said/done, call you crazy or accuse you of making things up to the point that you start to doubt yourself. Also known as gaslighting.
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@washingtonpost featured this just below the fold today. By contrast, I do not yet find mention of this anywhere on @nytimes . Perhaps @NYTScience would rather ignore it given their unscientific dedication to repressing the very idea of a LabLeak? washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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Hard to understand why kga would use his valuable attention to throw shade on Josh Rogin at this point. Can't find out more bc he blocked me. Decided he's a bit sensitive atm. Don't be too hard on him, he's had a bad week. (Loved ones should take away his Twitter, tho.)
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Replying to @NYCProgressives
Actually, you have not place in our city. Take your gang friends and get out of here...
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His name is Richard M. Fierro and he should be honored as a hero for stopping the carnage at the Colorado nightclub.
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People need to take into account the role of the Chinese government in facilitating pro Hamas street protests in New York. Thanks to @RepStefanik for bringing it up Note to @Jkylebass @TheDragonFeeder @Bzubyk @BoycottHegemony
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Replying to @yuhline
Idealism and utopianism is not practical policy. Considerate, law abiding ppl like me should be able to walk the streets of NYC without concern over hostile interactions with strangers or dodging ebikes. Kinda like it was before bail reform and the Dem/Socialist supermajority.
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Looks like past episodes are still up on Spotify. open.spotify.com/show/5Y7rOG…
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Replying to @R_H_Ebright
Did I read this correctly? The CIA had to bribe six of their own officers on the "COVID Discovery Team" so that they would agree to report that C19 did not originate at a Wuhan lab, when in fact they concluded that it likely did? Wow. If true, I wonder who else they paid off...
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Given the extreme CovidZero actions by the CCP in Shanghai - faceless men in hazmat suits drag people away to quarantine camps while caging others in their own buildings; prohibiting food deliveries; killing pets in front of their owners - this is way beyond Covid at this point
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@billyBostickson @Rossana38510044 @TheSeeker268 @lab_leak With straight faces, when questioned about their role in the origin of Covid19, the official comeback of the Chinese government is that Covid19 came from the US military labs at Fort Detrick. tedoehmke.com/china-is-losin…
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It takes some serious re-framing to equate what Colbert's crew did with what happened on Jan 6. Colbert was armed with cameras looking to film a skit. The Jan 6 "trespassers" were armed with weapons looking to overturn an election or hang the VP. It's called "intent". Look it up.
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You are right. But funny how those passports remained intact so they could be "discovered" by someone, isn't it? Massive conflagration from jet fuel brings down multiple buildings, but a paper passport of a terrorist is conveniently found on the street?
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It "saddens" me to see that the president of @GWtweets could actually claim to be "personally offended" by the tasteful messaging of @badiucao. It also saddens me to see over and over again the extent to which American higher education and science bows to China's POV.
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The protestors who shut down the port of Oakland were led by AROC, a nonprofit contractor to SFO public schools that helped NYC parent councils organize student walkouts late last year. AROC had support from local union members and the Oakland DSA.
We shut down the Port of Oakland for Palestine! “I’ve worked at the port for ten years, + I can say for a fact that there was no business as usual out here today. How could there be in the middle of a genocide?” - Jimmy Salameh, longshoreman w/ILWU Local 10. #StopArmingIsrael
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His name is Richard M. Fierro and he deserves to be recognized for his service to our country and to his community.
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Noticed a huge uptick in a new crop influencers trying to weigh in as instant experts in the origin debate since the Slack messages were released. Here's another one who parachuted in thinking he knows better than everyone else.
I’m unaware of these 10+ rigorous, data supported argument for a natural #OriginOfCovid Surely you don’t mean the 2022 market papers that didn’t have access to any of the complete datasets or methods which were later confirmed to be biased by the Chinese CDC head.
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Doesn't the SEC have possession of the Signet database? Must be some interesting things in there. Didn't FTX Alameda have some special account with Signature?
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Has any epidemiologist done a study on why Covid killed young ppl in NYC at 3x the rate of the rest of the country? Was there a peculiar NYC-only strain, or is it the data that's infected? Someone should want to know.
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