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Cal Berkeley undergraduate and graduate levels completed 20 years ago/Interdisciplinary Student and Freelancer; Fluent in Tamil

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@innocence @eji_org @CA_Innocence @FLA_Innocence @MidAtlanticIP @GaInnocence @InnocenceIL @IdahoInnocence @verainstitute @SentencingProj @NACDL @CivilRights @TheJusticeDept @NICJR01 @ChristinaSwarns @EvidenceProf @VanJones68 @maryfromfamm @FixCrimJustice @NOLACityCouncil

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#ProSe #CivilRights #Section1983 #NinthCircuit #AccessToJustice #LegalAI #FederalCourts #LawReview #AIandLaw #JudicialAccountability #StanfordLaw #CaliforniaLawReview #ACLU #WrongfulProsecution #RecordIntegrity #ProSeRights #AppellateCourt #LegalTech #OpenRecords #ShadowDocket

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#ProSe #CivilRights #Section1983 #NinthCircuit #AccessToJustice #LegalAI #FederalCourts #LawReview #AIandLaw #JudicialAccountability #StanfordLaw #CaliforniaLawReview #ACLU #WrongfulProsecution #RecordIntegrity #ProSeRights #AppellateCourt #LegalTech #OpenRecords #ShadowDocket

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@elonmusk I feel you: https://t.co/GLpwnN5PI2

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Thank you for your inspirational messages. And your online courses. I want to let you know that it's very difficult to deal with Oyo customer service. I have visited your Las Vegas hotel casino for a few years. I have been trying to make suggestions for improvements that are very easy and cheap, The whole time. But nobody ever takes those suggestions seriously! Customer service tries to call, to reply to some emails- at some odd time; and then never ultimately responds to emails. For $500 you could fix the toilet paper 🧻holders, For example! Nobody seems to care about customer service at the Las Vegas property, no matter how many emails you write.

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@LAPDHQ The institutional betrayal from your 1990s era is a permanent stain on public trust. When "star detectives" like Michael Douglas Brambles operate as violent predators committing armed robberies and kidnappings, and contemporaries like Mark Fuhrman boast about fabricating evidence, the entire system is guilty of enablement.This isn't a matter of a few bad apples; it is a structural failure of accountability. When your officers decide the "ends justify the means" and use the badge as a shield to play god, they destroy the rule of law. Cultivating a culture where peers are too intimidated to speak up creates the perfect camouflage for sociopaths to prey on the public.Decades later, cold cases and DNA re-analysis are still exposing the absolute wreckage left behind by your department's historical lack of oversight. True justice requires an absolute dismantling of the Blue Wall of Silence, continuous psychological scrutiny, and a total end to the protective immunity that allowed these monsters to thrive in plain sight.#LAPD #PoliceMisconduct #AccountabilityNow #PoliceReform #MarkFuhrman #ColdCase #SystemicCorruption #JusticeForSurvivors

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@RealAlexJones
Alex Jones was a provocative political commentator, not the commander of an armed force. He encouraged listeners to question official accounts and remain open to possibilities because governments and institutions sometimes mislead the public. However exaggerated or irresponsible some of his rhetoric may have been, skepticism and speculation are not equivalent to directing criminal conduct.
On January 6, Jones expressly called for peaceful political action, told demonstrators not to fight police, and attempted to redirect the crowd toward peaceful speaking activity. He did not command anyone to breach the Capitol, attack an officer, or overthrow the government. His references to “battle,” “warfare,” and “1776” were political and metaphorical unless the surrounding context demonstrates an intentional command to commit a specific and imminent unlawful act. Under the constitutional incitement standard, heated advocacy cannot be converted into criminal incitement merely because other people later acted unlawfully.
Likewise, Jones did not tell listeners to stalk, threaten, or harass Sandy Hook families. Anyone who independently committed such acts remained responsible for that conduct. That does not necessarily defeat separate defamation claims based on Jones’s own broadcasts, but it does defeat the simplistic accusation that Jones personally ordered a campaign of harassment. The fair conclusion is therefore not that every statement he made was correct or harmless, but that he should not be falsely portrayed as having commanded the Capitol violence or expressly directed the harassment of Sandy Hook vics.

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@SenRandPaul
Senator Paul, recent disclosures show that your warnings about Fauci, COVID origins, NIH funding, and gain-of-function research deserved far more serious attention than they received. Fauci’s own records show that scientists raised the possibility of deliberate insertion in early 2020, even as challenges from Congress were later dismissed as conspiracy theories and a waste of time. �
But part of the credibility problem is Kentucky itself. A senator demanding accountability in Washington represents a state whose own government applies its gravest laws with glaring inconsistency. That hypocrisy makes the public distrust the messenger even when the messenger is right.
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is fighting to execute Ralph Baze for murdering Sheriff Steve Bennett and Deputy Arthur Briscoe as they attempted to serve warrants. Yet Coleman’s office withdrew the death penalty for Steven Sheangshang, a lifelong repeat felon who deliberately murdered Deputy Caleb Conley during a warrant-related traffic stop, fled, shot Thomas DiLeonardo, stole his vehicle, and continued a violent crime spree. Sheangshang pleaded guilty to 14 felonies but received life without parole plus 70 concurrent years. �
These are comparably aggravated officer-murder cases handled in radically different ways by the same Commonwealth. Kentucky seeks execution in the older case while granting a guaranteed-life plea in the newer case, despite overwhelming evidence, another surviving shooting victim, and an extensive criminal history.
“Finality” describes the convenience of the plea bargain. It does not explain the unequal application of Kentucky’s highest punishment.
If Kentucky wants the country to credit its leaders when they expose federal deception, Kentucky must demonstrate the same consistency and accountability at home. Why is Coleman fighting to execute Baze while his office removed death from the table for Sheangshang? The public deserves a direct answer.

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@nytopinion
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@nytimes
The New York Times says Fauci’s diaries are not a “smoking gun.” I think that framing is misleading.

A smoking gun does not always mean finding a written confession saying, “The virus leaked from this laboratory on this date.” Evidence can also become powerful through inference, proximity, scientific context, funding records, professional knowledge and the elimination of competing explanations.

Think of it this way: if investigators repeatedly search for smoke at the market and cannot establish a convincing fire there, while a laboratory studying dangerous coronaviruses sits nearby, the laboratory cannot simply be treated as irrelevant. No smoke at the market does not automatically prove a laboratory leak—but it makes serious investigation of the laboratory more important, not less important.

Fauci’s private notes matter because they show what leading officials and scientists were discussing, fearing and evaluating behind the scenes. The important question is not whether his diary contains a movie-style confession. The question is whether his own professional concerns, combined with the research history, funding relationships, unusual characteristics of the outbreak and weakness of the market-origin evidence, point toward a laboratory-related possibility.

The evidence that senior officials understood the laboratory issue was serious while the public was repeatedly encouraged to treat it as fringe speculation.

The United States funded and supported coronavirus research involving American institutions, intermediaries and Chinese collaborators. Whether every project technically satisfied every disputed definition of “gain of function” is less important than the larger responsibility question: why was potentially dangerous virus research being supported in a facility that may not have had sufficient safeguards?

This does not mean China alone should be demonized. Scientific collaboration crossed national borders. American funding, American priorities and American researchers were part of the broader system. If a laboratory-associated accident occurred, responsibility would not begin and end at China’s border.
China also has an enormous positive economic relationship with ordinary Americans. Chinese manufacturing has made televisions, tools, clothing, electronics, furniture, household goods, solar products and countless other items dramatically more affordable and available. American incomes are higher than decades ago, while many manufactured products cost only a fraction of what comparable products once cost.
For a major consumer or household, the added purchasing power created by inexpensive imported goods can amount to thousands—or even tens of thousands—of dollars in value over time. Across the country, that consumer benefit can reach hundreds of billions of dollars. It is not a literal cash payment or legal settlement, but it is real economic value delivered through industrial productivity and trade.
Lift or reduce tariffs on Chinese consumer goods. Allow Americans to buy affordable Chinese electric vehicles and other high-value products. Expand trade routes. Let competition lower prices and improve living standards. China benefits by selling more products, and American families benefit through greater purchasing power.
#NYTimes #FakeNews #Fauci #FauciFiles #FauciDiaries #COVID19 #Coronavirus #PandemicOrigins #LabLeakTheory #WuhanLab #WuhanInstituteOfVirology #GainOfFunctionResearch #NIH #NIAID #EcoHealthAlliance #Science #Biosecurity #LaboratorySafety #PublicHealth #GovernmentTransparency #FreedomOfInformation #InvestigativeJournalism #MediaBias #MediaCriticism #CorporateMedia #FollowTheMoney #FollowTheEvidence #Accountability #China #ChinaTrade #USTrade #Tariffs #EndTheTariffs #FreeTrade #ConsumerPrices #Inflation #ElectricVehicles #BYD #GlobalEconomy #India #PandemicAccountability #InternationalCooperation #PeaceThroughTrade

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@nytimes #FauciDiaries #LabLeak #GainOfFunction #COVIDOrigins #MediaAccountability

The New York Times says Fauci’s diaries aren’t a “smoking gun”—but that misses the point. If the market evidence shows no credible “smoke,” serious journalism should investigate the nearby lab and U.S.-funded research, not protect official narratives.

A modern, independent newspaper challenges administrations. It doesn’t dismiss uncomfortable evidence because the diary lacks a written confession explaining exactly when, where, and how a leak occurred. Absence of a confession is not absence of evidence.

Stop branding legitimate scrutiny as misinformation. Follow the evidence, disclose the funding, examine the research, and tell readers what remains uncertain.

#NewYorkTimes #FakeNews #FollowTheEvidence #Journalism #MediaBias #Transparency #Accountability #WuhanLab #NIH #EcoHealthAlliance #PublicHealth #InvestigativeJournalism #FreedomOfThePress #ChinaTrade #EndTheTariffs

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@lio_rub @NoaMagid You're mixing apples and oranges/can't you tell the difference between gorilla fighters and civilians? Perhaps you should stay offline.

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@AshleyDCan @XMoney Anybody concerned about how a card looks is concerned about what other people think and that is a fundamental weakness and handicap that only show Business people need to have

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@American_P69 Not necessarily, I'm sure there's many great innovators that didn't find a suitable partner

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@Amazon @Blinkforhome Your XR Plus "upgrade" is a defective disaster. Spent $172 on hardware that constantly drops offline and fails to capture a single video. Bought this for security against a known threat, but your junk hardware destroyed my working system and my peace of mind. Four days of troubleshooting a broken product. Unacceptable. #BlinkSecurity #AmazonFail #DefectiveTech #TechSupport

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@nytimes

Saying that Lindsey Graham didn't give up on what he believed is completely false; they're just speaking this way because he passed away recently ‼️
He gave up on his criticism of Trump; he gave up on upholding Christian values and respecting the human rights of innocent civilians-he no longer cared about preventing collateral damage ‼️
He never looked for a better way he just spoke rhetorically ‼️
These men are basically paid entertainers ‼️

JD Vance Is ‘Entirely Plastic’ https://t.co/eLVLfjcn5j

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@SenTomCotton You don't represent the whole United States. You represent some post Confederacy plantation cotton picking state

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@Victoria00025 You seem to think it was glorious to be a subject or a peasant in the days of Queens 🏯

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@Excellentsalvic Another silly experiment that will cause the Democrats to flop