AOC -- who ran her 2018 primary campaign based on a vow to wage war against the Democratic Party DC establishment -- announces her support for Joe Biden's re-election in the Democratic Party primary, on the day he announced cluster bombs for Ukraine✊:
https://t.co/NHWLrGOosa
New autopsy shows Georgia police pumped 57 bullet holes into climate activist Manuel Terán while they were sitting in a forest with arms raised. The state's two "progressive" Senators remain silent.
Lack of courage and a failure of leadership.
@ossoff@SenatorWarnock
Here's @BenBurgis, whose leftist credentials cannot be reasonably disputed, arguing that the leaker of these Pentagon documents is heroic because these documents reveal hidden facts Americans should know:
https://t.co/VkVO5MAcVb
GUARDIAN: The Biden Admin is being increasingly pressured to drop the persecution of Julian Assange -- by Australia's PM, by Brazil's new President-Elect, by the 5 major news outlets that partnered with Assange, by *every* press freedom group in the West:
https://t.co/IJx5AIgAUW
These docs show what we already knew, but offer new, specific proof:
1) Dems explicitly demand more censorship from Big Tech.
2) Dems have an open line to do it.
3) Twitter knew it was lying when censorsing the Biden story days before the 2020 election
https://t.co/PUjxrTB0VS
As a reflection of how twisted and inverted our politics have become, in order to be a good "liberal" or "leftist," one now much demand that the internet be censored by Silicon Valley monopolies.
To oppose this abuse of monopoly power somehow means you're on "the far right."
If we project out to a year, that would be $120 billion each year to fuel the US proxy war in Ukraine.
That's roughly 1/8 of the entire US military budget for the year: by far the world's largest.
Congrats to Raytheon, General Dynamics and CIA!
https://t.co/gDnfyebElv
US funding for war in Ukraine in 9 months:
Mar: $ 13.6 billion
May: $ 40b
Nov: $ 37.7b: Biden's new request
That $ 91.3 billion is 33% more than Russia's *total military spending for the year*
It's *double* the US's average annual expenditure for its own war in Afghanistan
The verified brand situation is getting out of control. Quick thread of twitter blue brands, and brands who might be pissed off at Elon right about now.
Docs show Facebook and Twitter closely collaborating w/ Dept of Homeland Security, FBI to police “disinfo.” Plans to expand censorship on topics like withdrawal from Afghanistan, origins of COVID, info that undermines trust in financial institutions. https://t.co/Zb3zmI1dQF
The people who work for the newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos and who write for the magazine controlled and funded by Laurene Powell Jobs are very worried this morning about the unprecedented crisis we face of billionaires buying and controlling the flow of news and information.