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  1. Pinned Tweet
    11 Sep 2021

    The two decades since 9/11 have been a litany of American destruction by way of American self-destruction, with secret policies, secret laws, secret courts, and secret wars the US government has repeatedly denied, disclaimed, and distorted.

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  2. Feb 27

    I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, you concern-trolling ghouls. I've just lost any confidence I had that sharing my thinking on this particular topic continues to be useful, because I called it wrong.

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  3. Feb 21

    "A free press can be good or bad, but without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad." As someone called worse things by bigger names, lawsuits against newspapers over hurt feelings—and even false claims—are not the answer. Won't fix people, but will harm rights.

    1:15
    TUCKER: "Will you be suing any news organizations?" KYLE RITTENHOUSE: "We're looking at quite a few, politicians, athletes, celebrities, Whoppi Goldberg is on the list, she called me a murderer after I was acquitted... So is Cenk [Uyhur] from the Young Turks."
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  4. Feb 21

    I don't think I've ever seen anything like that.

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  5. Retweeted
    Feb 21

    ⚡️ begins his address to the nation regarding his decisions on

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  6. Retweeted
    Feb 20

    A police officer stopped me this morning near my hotel in Ottawa and told me that I was in a secure zone and as a journalist I was not allowed to take pictures. I hope he was misinformed or it doesn’t speak well of press freedoms in Canada.

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  7. Retweeted
    Feb 20

    More of this, please, and in more directions.

    VICTORY: Today we reached a strong settlement with the Baltimore Police Department following a court ruling finding BPD’s pilot aerial surveillance program, or "spy planes," unconstitutional.
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  8. Retweeted
    Feb 20

    Odd warning of possible terror attacks in Moscow and St Petersburg by the US embassy in Russia, which cites “media sources” – though a quick search reveals none. The Russian foreign ministry also seems unaware and asks: “what should we make of this?”

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  9. Feb 20

    "You cannot travel into the area unless you have proof of exclusion."

    Reminder that the Secured Area remains in effect. You cannot travel into the area unless you have proof of exclusion. Two people have just been arrested.
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  10. Retweeted
    Feb 19

    They got you fighting a culture war so you don’t fight a class war.

    Politics now ask you to define yourself by who you hate, rather than what you love.
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  11. Retweeted
    Feb 19

    Custodial financial services allow governments to freeze accounts first, and then sort out who is guilty or innocent later. Self-custodial financial services force governments to actually charge people with a crime before they can use pressure to freeze their accounts.

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  12. Feb 20

    The Federal government has not met the legal threshold to invoke the Emergencies Act. All people in Canada are currently subject to the federal emergency orders. They impose drastic limits on peaceful assembly and other constitutional rts. They are not geographically targeted.
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  13. Retweeted
    Feb 18

    The national invocation of the Emergencies Act to deal with the current situation is unconstitutional and sets a dangerous precedent.

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  14. Retweeted
    Feb 18

    Today, we filed an application for judicial review in federal court requesting an order quashing the Emergency Proclamation and the Emergency Measures Regulations and the Emergency Economic Measures Order. You can read it here:

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  15. Feb 20

    Governments claiming the authority to *freeze people's bank accounts* because they want to crush a protest movement is tyrannical and obscene. If you would oppose China or Russia doing it, you must oppose Canada doing it. Very glad exists.

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  16. Feb 19

    Politics now ask you to define yourself by who you hate, rather than what you love.

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  17. Feb 18

    This possibility is frankly so terrible to me it is difficult to even contemplate. I still remember red scars on the streets of Sarajevo, the "Sarajevska ruža" remembering those killed by mortar fire. Kyiv is bigger than Sarajevo. Than Grozny. Than Fallujah. Just unthinkable.

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    Biden is back to saying an attack on Kyiv is just days away.
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  18. Feb 17

    Harassing people over small political donations does not pass the public interest test. Did a ghoulish corporation or nefarious billionaire funnel $1,000,000 to protestors? Sure, expose them. But chasing down grandma over her pocket money is a reprehensible violation of privacy.

    The Washington Post is contacting people whose donation info was leaked and who gave as little as 40 dollars to the truckers to ask them why they did so Email provided to me by a source
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  19. Feb 17

    Context:

    brief Biden comments, per pool report: "My sense is that it will happen within the next several days."
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  20. Feb 17

    Another unequivocal claim by Biden that the question of war has been decided. I've been a huge skeptic, and I very much hope he's wrong, but he's putting generational credibility on the line in a way that worries even me. If he's right, stonewalling Minsk II is hard to justify.

    Q: Is Russia going through with it? Biden: "Yes. My sense is that it will happen within the next several days."
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