Lindsay Stevens

Communications specialist. Travel and Food enthusiast. Dog mom. Contact: [email protected]

[Lindsay Stevens @LSPRSF]

This is wild.

[Kate Clark @KateClarkTweets]

New from me: There’s a cohort of AI startups that have never had to try to raise money. Instead, VCs are going to wild lengths to get their attention.

One investor folded origami cranes into a mosaic of AI startup Decagon’s logo and hid a term sheet inside. Others are offering Ferrari rides, private jets, and some extravagant gifts. Silly times in Silicon Valley, again:
https://t.co/cMQMaf7iHB

[Seán Ono Lennon @seanonolennon]

I am completely dispassionate about covid and vaccines. I am quadruple vaxxed myself. That may turn out to have some complications, and it may not. I made my choice for personal reasons (my mother is 92). It is an interesting topic. That's all. But calling anyone an 'anti vaxxer' or 'extreme right' because of questioning this stuff to me is a red flag. Being anti vax was THE default view point of EVERY single left wing hippie who raised me in the 70s. It has nothing to do with right or left. Some people think amethyst crystals will heal you. That's their opinion, I don't care.

There is interesting data indicating a possible link between Covid and long term immune responses to other viruses, and there is ALSO interesting data suggesting it could be the vax doing it. Could be neither or both or just one.

I have zero emotional investment either way. People who make this a political issue, or even an emotional issue, are annoying af. We're talking about science and research here, and we should be able to ask questions and cite studies on all sides of all arguments without being shamed or insulted.

Again, I don't care what turns out to be the truth. I just want to know. Covid may have been made by interacting with bats, or by a 14 year old hacker living in the Hollow Earth in a spaceship. The vax may be worse or better than initially claimed. Lord Xenu may or may not be circumcised.

I just want to know, but have no investment in what the answer should be. The fact that people are unable to discuss this without getting upset is basically just goofy on all sides.

There are reasonable and unreasonable people on both the left and the right. My feed is very good evidence of this fact. If you are of the unreasonable persuasion please leave me the fuck alone.

Thank you.

[Anna Matson @AnnaRMatson]

@NicoleShanahan @SenCortezMasto Does she think we are stupid?

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[Nicole Shanahan @NicoleShanahan]

To the intern who thought they could lie and get away with it: the receipts don’t lie. @SenCortezMasto, you’ve raked in hundreds of thousands from Big Pharma while pretending not to be their friend. This isn’t just hypocrisy—it’s betrayal. I probably hear from more of your constituents than you do at this point, and I can tell you that by opposing RFK’s nomination, you’re making it clear that their health isn’t your priority. Nevadans won’t forget this in three years. And neither will I.

[CONNEQT Health @conneqthealth]

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[Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati]

🔥 IF YOU LOST YOUR HOME IN THE FIRE, READ THIS!

Los Angeles allows you to immediately get your property tax cut to ONLY cover the land if the building is gone.

And if you buy a new house you can move your property tax basis to the new house.

Do ASAP!

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

There have been zero cases of bird flu from drinking raw milk. I beleive these are scare headlines because this is a cultural flashpoint when public health authorities should be worried about soda machines in nearly every school.

I’m not attacking pasteurization but there are demonstrable health benefits from drinking raw milk (including a decrease in childhood asthma and allergies) with what I consider limited risk. Either way, Americans should have the freedom to make an informed decision - instead of the federal government banning interstate sale of raw milk and encouraging childhood drinking of sugar (18% of food stamp dollars).

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[Lindsay Stevens @LSPRSF]

@Holden_Culotta We are so boring!

[Amaryllis Fox @amaryllisfox]

Of the top eight dental score countries in the world, only one fluoridates its water.

The overwhelming majority of European countries do not fluoridate their water.

Chile and Brazil, ranked #36 and #47 in dental outcomes globally, have the fifth and seventh highest fluoridation rates.

Can we please stop with the dental hygiene myth when even Newsweek reports that fluoridation lowers our children's IQ?

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[Lindsay Stevens @LSPRSF]

@AnnaRMatson Omg I’m so sorry this happened to you! And yes, take it as far as you can!

[Lauren Lee @laurenlee]

I feel like I’m watching the NFL draft.

I’ve never seen this level of public interest in cabinet picks.

Usually, it’s just DC elite squabbling over who gets what. The rest of the country doesn’t really care.

Whatever’s happening…. It’s not politics as usual.

Something is changing.

The people are awake.

[MAHA PAC🗽 @MAHA_PAC]

Incredibly powerful. 🤯

Democrats are IGNORING desperate pleas from parents across this country.

Kamala has been SILENT on the issue of chronic disease.

Yet she continues to subsidize poison in our food and push Big Pharma!

WE’VE HAD ENOUGH.

This election, we hope you’ll join us in voting to Make America Healthy Again.

[MAGA Posts @MAGAPosts]

@CollinRugg This is what happens when liberals manage your cities and towns

[Klay Thompson @Thompsonklay]

@BillAckman @RobertIger @ABC @KamalaHarris For so long these people in positions of power have been able to get away with a level of corruption that is truly profound entirely unchecked, until there is complete transparency and accountability things will only continue to get worse.

[Amaryllis Fox @amaryllisfox]

This post ends with a sincere question for Harris supporters.

First, please watch (or re-watch) this clip of Kamala Harris discussing regulation of speech on X.

The Facebook "rules" Harris describes relate to compliance with government censorship, as outlined by Zuck in his recent letter to Congress. Meta was pressured by the White House to block thousands of political posts, including jokes and satire. Including true but inconvenient facts. Including a laptop containing evidence that a presidential candidate may have had business dealings with hostile governments.

Incidentally, if the 2020 Biden campaign had not been concerned that the information on his son's computer could cost them the election, Blinken wouldn't have called Deputy CIA Director Mike Morell to ask for a letter discrediting the laptop as Russian disinformation. Morell himself testified to Congress that his intention in providing the letter was to help Biden win.

Of course, it's now been established in court that the laptop was authentic and the Russians had nothing to do with it.

Zuckerberg points to this deception from the intelligence community -- and the accompanying demand to censor all posts and private DMs about the laptop -- as improper. And while Zuck doesn't go so far as to call this "election interference," it's clear that Blinken and Morell both felt the lie and the censorship were necessary to salvage Biden's chances, or they wouldn't have made the considerable (and illegal) effort.

I mention the laptop not to litigate whether its contents would have changed your vote, but because you should have had the right to make that decision for yourself. Back in 2020. Before the election in question.

Such manipulation is the predictable result of the "rules" Harris insists X follow in this clip.

History and common sense dictate that when we give an intelligence agency the right to censor speech, they wield it to protect their favored leader, their funding, their wars, their control.

Questioning the government has long impacted the trust scores of Chinese citizens, restricting the radius from home they can travel, limiting the jobs they can take, and increasing the interest rates they must pay on their loans.

AI-driven facial recognition dings a Chinese citizen for even spending time with someone whose score is too low, weaponizing social isolation to force compliance with the government narrative.

While that may seem like a far-removed Orwellian nightmare to most Americans, we've already seen shades of it here at home. Two years ago, PayPal updated its terms to deduct $2,500 from users' bank accounts if PayPal decided the user was spreading misinformation. The word "misinformation" was removed following criticism from Elon Musk and others, but the clause "misleading information" still remains.

This summer, the former Director of NSA joined the Board of OpenAI. And over the last year, the US intelligence community launched its HIATUS program to log the names and ID numbers of US citizens posting anonymously on social media, relying on AI to analyze their underlying sentence structure like a unique, stylistic fingerprint.

The T-BERT program takes censorship to the realm of Minority Report, predicting in advance which social media users are likely to become untrustworthy, facilitating "pre-censorship" programs to silence those who might challenge the narrative before they even do so. Its lead scientist noted in her initial findings that accounts using words like "government" and "media" were more likely to post misinformation in the future than accounts that used words like "birthday" and "weather."

Can't make this stuff up.

And it's not just your digital speech that these programs challenge. No, they also threaten your real-world bank account and bodily liberty.

In Canada, those expressing support for peaceful protests against Covid mandates had their bank accounts frozen, resulting in at least one imprisonment due to inability to pay alimony.

Last month in France, the CEO of secure messaging app Signal was pulled off an aircraft and arrested after refusing to give governments blanket access to all its users' private messages.

In Britain, several UK citizens were recently jailed for ten months to two years over Facebook posts criticizing tax expenditures on undocumented migrants. In at least one case the offending post was private, invisible to anyone but friends.

And in Brazil, X has been banned altogether, simply because it refused to comply with political censorship directives. Anyone who accesses the site from Brazil now faces crippling financial fines.

It was this last ban that prompted the question Kamala Harris answers in this video.

So, having sworn to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, was Kamala's answer that she would die for any American's right to free expression?

I'm afraid not.

Her answer was that we who post on X are "directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation. And that has to stop."

This should send a chill down every American spine.

Whose "oversight and regulation" do you want policing your daily speech?

Sure, you may trust Kamala Harris, but what about whomever comes next? Are you certain you want to give every future president the power to silence you? Even if it is a leader you loathe? A leader who loathes you?

I cannot make it make sense.

And so here is my question.

For those still planning to choose Kamala Harris -- could you describe what Harris offers that you value above your right to speak what you believe?

For those who vote blue no matter who, could you explain how supporting the Democrats will improve your life more than losing the right to express yourself will diminish it?

For those planning to stay home out of disappointment with the available options, could you share why you see abstention as worth losing your first amendment protections?

And for my MAHA 🤝 MAGA community, could you describe why you are voting in favor of free speech when you know that many will use it to post views you find abhorrent?

We'll see whether this post is, itself, de-amplified. But if you're reading this, please take a moment to respond.

I promise to consider and reply with utmost respect.

There is no more important conversation we Americans must have before we cast our vote.

[Amaryllis Fox @amaryllisfox]

For those asking how, as a former Democrat, I could support Robert F Kennedy Jr’s endorsement of President Trump, please try to consider the following with an open mind:

Tens of millions more Americans slipped into poverty on the Biden/Harris watch, with 2022 sending more Americans into poverty than any year for the last half century. More Americans were incarcerated, became homeless, committed suicide, and died of overdoses under Harris compared with Trump. Hundreds of thousands more people around the world died from war and violence. The nuclear clock moved closer to midnight last year than at any time since its creation in the 1940s.

By virtually every measure of impact on regular people’s everyday lives, the Democratic Party has failed.

The only categories in which they remain clear winners are speechwriting, marketing, shaming anyone who dares consider an alternative, weaponizing the courts, and controlling both the mainstream media and domestic intelligence services.

Give it time. If you haven’t seen this already, you will.

I too was a lifelong Democrat, but the truth is that the party I believed in no longer exists. It’s like saying you still trust Boeing because it was a trustworthy brand in the 90s. Since then, all the key personnel and parts have been switched out to maximize profit with minimal concern for the people they serve and catastrophic results. Boeing still has its same brand name, as do the Democrats, but everything under the hood has been cheapened and broken for personal gain.

There is too much at stake in this election to vote for a team jersey, slogans or vibes.

Harris talks about lifting up working people and yet has overseen a record slide into poverty.

She talks about democracy but Zuckerberg just confirmed her White House put undue pressure on FB to censor American speech.

She talks about making insulin affordable while allowing food companies to mass poison our people with addictive chemicals illegal in Europe, creating the very obesity epidemic that requires that insulin in the first place.

She talks about affordable housing, having printed hundreds of billions of inflationary dollars to send weapons to ukraine, producing the very rate hikes and supply chain disruptions that have made the housing shortage so acute.

She talks about choice over one’s body while threatening to deprive Americans of their income if they do not submit to an experimental vaccine that does not prevent transmission.

She talks about protecting the climate but her Administration blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, generating more emissions than any other event in recent history.

She talks about believing women but advocates for them to be silenced the moment they describe their babies’ autism experience.

She calls for economic recovery while proposing price controls and taxes on unrealized gains that will cripple innovation and investment for decades into our shared future.

Look, buying a product based on appealing packaging once is an understandable mistake. But if that product then made you sicker, poorer, and less safe, would the deceptive branding really convince you to buy it all over again?

Letting go can be hard, especially in the face of peer pressure and social bubbles. But no brand loyalty is worth four more years of censorship, poverty, and war.

MAHA x MAGA is for any American who puts their neighbor and their country over their brand affinity for a party that demands their blind loyalty while failing their most urgent daily needs. 🇺🇸❤️

[Nicole Shanahan @NicoleShanahan]

I’m not a Kamala Democrat.
I’m not a Trump Republican
I’m an INDEPENDENT American who is endorsing ideas, not a person or a party. I will continue working to give a voice to the voiceless and bring power back to the people.

[Tammy Bruce @HeyTammyBruce]

An open letter to Kerry Kennedy:
You people are awful. Despite your family's checkered past and horrible behavior of so many of the men, Americans have stood with you out of loyalty, sentimentality, and too often, grief. Despite the questionable establishment of your family's wealth, the treatment of Marilyn Monroe, the general womanizing, the abandonment of Mary Jo Kopechne to her death, allegations of rape, one could go on and on, but the point is your family has stayed loyal and protective of family members who have done the most appalling of things. But the moment one of your own acts on his conscience for this country you attempt to throw him to the wolves and publicly condemn him. Never a word for the trail of abused or abandoned women left behind by a Kennedy, but because one of your men supports Trump in an effort to make the lives of Americans better, that alone is beyond the pale. In your ugly treatment of your brother you reveal the rot that has broken the hearts of the American people so many times over the years. Beyond that, the economic destruction of American families is something your family would never truly understand. You are not touched by the worry about having enough gas to get to work, or whether or not you can afford eggs this week, if you'll be safe walking your own neighborhood, or if your child will be safe in their urban public school or even if they will know how to read and write while collecting their diploma. You keep doing civil rights work and public service virtue signaling. But in the meantime, make a pledge to not keep doing damage as Americans are simply looking for a way to reclaim their own futures, the safety of their families, and knowing that maybe, just maybe, they can leave their children a little better off w a future they can rely on. The condition of this country should shock everyone, even if their name is Kennedy. We know it at least shocks one of you who, like us, has had enough of the fear and hopelessness assigned to us for generations. Americans are happy to see Bobby on our side as we refuse to comply and will not go gentle into the catastrophes to which we are expected to succumb. Instead, with Trump and all who join us, we will fight, fight, fight!

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

🚨CNN cut away from RFK Jr's speech as he was explaining how the DNC rigged the primary, replaced their candidate with one who didn't receive a single vote, and how the media covered up for it and censored him.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

% of Registered Voters:
- 33% are Democrat.
- 35% are Independent.
- 32% are Republican.

Could Trump + RFK Jr be too big to rig?