AT Graphic, Photo by Gage Skidmore*†
 Elon Musk |
4/28/22
"Sen. Josh Hawley referred to the board as a 'disgrace' ... 'They didn't need a 'Disinformation Governance Board' until @elonmusk threatened their control over the narrative,' TX Rep. Congressman Troy Nehls tweeted."
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 DHS Secretary Mayorkas |
4/28/22
"It’s George Orwell’s dystopian “1984” come alive. A government-sanctioned Department of Disinformation supposedly aimed at rooting out lies, but actually, instead, at its own root, advancing the lies the government wants told."
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 Elizabeth Spiers |
4/28/22
"The hypocrisy of America’s self-appointed culture-protectors this week is breathtaking. They really seem not to realize that what they’ve been seeking for years isn’t an end to speech abuses, but a monopoly on them."
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 AT Content |
4/25/22
"'Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,' Musk said in a statement included in the press release announcing the $44 billion deal."
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4/25/22
"leftist 'verified' accounts on the platform once again went into meltdown mode at the prospect of the Musk, the self-described free speech absolutist, taking over."
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4/24/22
"Macron likes to feel he can read the political climate. It would be typically canny of him, having pivoted right in the build-up to this election, to go left in its aftermath. He’s an empty vessel ideologically
..."
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4/24/22
"after he [Musk] disclosed last week that he now has $46.5 billion in financing, Twitter is taking a fresh look at the offer and is more likely than before to seek to negotiate, people familiar with the matter said"
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4/24/22
"America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and partly the poet Homer's land of the Lotus-Eaters."
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 Florida Governor DeSantis |
4/22/22
The now-dissolved status granted Disney "the privilege of creating its own regulations, building codes, and other municipal services... The arrangement has also shielded Disney from significant tax burden."
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 AT Content, Photo by Belle Co |
4/22/22
"reintroduction of a transit mask mandate comes the same day Philadelphia lifted its short-lived, three-day revival of an indoor mask requirement as Americans go on living with the virus."
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 Chris Wallace |
4/22/22
"'Apparently Americans were not willing to fork over three whole dollars for a daily dose of Humpty Dumpty or the occasional interview from political swamp creature Chris Wallace,' said host Sean Hannity"
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4/21/22
"CNN+, the network's overhyped online streaming service, is shuttering a month after it launched as a result of beyond disappointing subscription numbers and daily viewers."
CNN+ debuted March 29; it will end April 30.
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AT Content via RNC
 DARPA, Arlington, Virginia |
4/21/22
"newly discovered email from The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [DARPA] to a Georgia Tech researcher with the subject line “Mueller case” casts doubt on DARPA’s denials."
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4/14/22
"'I don’t care about the economics at all,' Musk responded ... wants to convert the platform to an open-source algorithm where users could review the code, instead of
'having tweets sort of be mysteriously promoted and demoted with no insight.'"
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Glenn Greenwald, Substack
4/14/22
"Musk has repeatedly denounced Twitter's increasingly heavy-handed
& clearly ideological censorship ... his intention to restore free speech to the platform
... the mere possibility
... has sent censorship-dependent liberals into spasms of panic
..."
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 Senator Feinstein left |
4/14/22
"they had to reintroduce themselves to Feinstein multiple times during an interaction that lasted several hours ... Feinstein, 88, repeated the same small-talk questions, like asking the lawmaker what mattered to voters"
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 Security Council Dpty. Chm. Medvedev |
4/14/22
"Finland, which shares a 1,300-km (810-mile) border with Russia, and Sweden are considering joining the NATO alliance. Finland will decide in the next few weeks"
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4/14/22
"Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield is the premier global developer ... they plan on initiating a “radical reduction of financial exposure to the U.S. in 2022 and 2023” and operate their European locations only."
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 Former Reddit CEO Ellen K. Pao |
4/14/22
"At the end of the day, the free-speechers really just want to be able to use racist slurs. ... They really don’t care about sharing new ideas or encouraging freedom other than the freedom to harass other people off the platform."
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4/13/22 "The price of lumber dropped
to $829 per 1,000 board feet on Tues., the lowest mark for the commodity in 2022
... Rising mortgage rates and growing inflation were cited as causes for the slip, along with a decline in home renovations."
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 Chris Wallace |
4/13/22
"we have reports that Chris Wallace, who was supposed to be one of the faces of CNN+, is having daily mental breakdowns over the disastrous launch. People are saying he's threatening to walk away."
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4/12/22
"The city’s beleaguered subway riders were reeling Tuesday after the mass shooting on a Brooklyn train — with some saying the latest horrific crime has convinced them to quit the transit system for good."
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OPINION Wall Street Journal
4/12/22
"White House aides were out in force on Monday warning that Tuesday’s inflation report would be ugly and blaming it on Vladimir Putin. No doubt that beats blaming your own policies. But inflation didn’t wait to appear until the Ukraine invasion
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 Photo by Kurt Sunkel |
4/12/22
"Trafalgar Group found in its National Issues Survey on Disney, which was sponsored by the Convention of States Action, that more than 68 percent of Americans are less likely to do business with the entertainment conglomerate"
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4/12/22
"Investment and projections for CNN+ are expected to be cut dramatically in response to a low adoption rate ... The news giant was initially planning to invest around $1 billion in the service over the next four years.
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4/12/22
"They have to scare the crap out of [the Democratic base] ... [The Democrats] can’t motivate them on the basis of hope or their pocketbooks or any of these accomplishments. They have to scare the crap out of them.”"
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4/11/22 "Few areas of the country have
seen inflation as bad as in the South, where prices have risen
across the 16-state region by an average of 8.4% ... year-over-year inflation of 8% in the Midwest, 8.1% in the
West and 6.6% in the Northeast"
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4/11/22
"Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday that 'of course' Ukraine 'can win this' ... the other possibility must also be considered: Russia can win as well. And if it does, the consequences for the
U.S and the world could be catastrophic."
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4/11/22
"By turning down the appointment, Musk is now free to expand his stake in Twitter. If Musk had accepted the seat on Twitter's board, he would have been limited to a maximum stake of 14.9% in the company."
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 Oscar Schindler - wikimedia commons |
4/11/22 "Reinhard died early Friday and was laid to rest Sunday in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv ... She was one of 1,200 Jews saved by German businessman Schindler after he bribed Nazi authorities to let him keep them as workers in his factories."
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4/11/22
"everything is still in play for the second round. The old certainty of republican discipline to block the far right seems less sure. Many left-wing voters find Macron unpalatable at best. Turnout therefore becomes a key ..."
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4/11/22
"Everything wrong with journalism and our media was on display last week at the University of Chicago, where the Atlantic held what they threatened would be an annual conference on 'Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy.'"
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 Miranda Devine |
4/10/22
"If the grand jury in Delaware investigating Hunter Biden’s business ventures does its job properly, it will be pulling on the threads that lead to the president, and already there are signs that is happening."
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 Salazar |
4/10/22
"'We want safety for our families, order at the border, and a growing economy,' the Florida Republican says of Latinos in the U.S.
... 'He has no plan to solve the issue at our southern border
...'"
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4/7/22
"Musk has not articulated what he wants to do as a new board member
but he has telegraphed his intentions ... he polled his 80
million followers on whether the site adhered to the principle
of free speech, and the majority voted 'no.'"
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 Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear |
4/7/22
"Andy Beshear vetoed a bill 'that would ban transgender athletes from participating on girls’ school sports teams from sixth grade through college,'
... Kentucky Senate passed the bill 26-9 ... state House
approved the bill 70-23"
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 John Brennan & Michael Hayden |
4/6/22 "At best, the public statement
was a reckless attempt by you & your co-signatories to
erroneously opine about purported election interference. At
worse – & more likely – the public statement was a deliberate & coordinated effort to mislead..."
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 Utah Governor Spencer Cox |
4/6/22
"The Republican leader – who presides over one of the reddest states
in the country – has energetically supported some of the most
radical aspects of woke ideology."
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4/5/22
"Hunter Biden and his business partners embarked on an aggressive
campaign to score millions of dollars in 'life changing'
business with oligarchs in both countries who had an interest in
his father's policymaking business"
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 Michael Sussmann |
4/5/22
"bombshell claim was made in a 48-page motion filed late Mon.
arguing for the admission of additional evidence ahead of
Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann’s pending trial for
allegedly lying to the FBI."
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 Musk at Tesla factory in Germany |
Wall Street Journal
4/4/22
"little is known about Mr. Musk’s intentions. The Tesla Inc. chief executive has previously reveled in the attention from his more than 80 million Twitter followers, and criticized the service broadly."
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4/4/22
"Ukraine earns about $2 billion in transit fees from the Russian use of its pipelines to move gas to Europe. Russia, and Putin’s cronies in particular, obviously make even more than that."
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4/4/22
"president’s son is living in the exclusive location and pursuing his art career, even as critics call for a special counsel to take over the investigation into his alleged influence-peddling, which is documented on his infamous laptop, now verified."
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4/4/22
"The question arose after the witness was shown a piece of evidence
while appearing in secret before the panel in Wilmington, Del.,
a source familiar with the proceedings told The Post."
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4/4/22
"Woke capitalism is a pox on the democratic process. Now the left is less interested in toppling the boss class than it is in begging bosses to meddle in democratic politics and put those pesky politicians in their place."
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4/3/22
"135-year-old family business near Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, fell under attack after a 2016 incident in which the owner’s son confronted three black Oberlin students who were stealing wine from the store"
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 Trans Biden appointee Rachel Levine |
Elite colleges shun conservative speakers; Biden officials, liberals take center stage at graduation
4/3/22
"None of the nation’s eight Ivy League universities – Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Brown and Dartmouth – has invited any conservative to speak as they return from pandemic-driven virtual ceremonies."
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4/2/22
"'We are in the midst of a real crisis. The violence directed at law
enforcement officers is unlike anything I’ve seen in my 36 years
of law enforcement,' National FOP President Patrick Yoes said in
a Friday statement."
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Glenn Greenwald, Substack
4/2/22
"... which you fulfill by never criticizing them. Corporate journalists have license to use their huge platforms to malign, expose and destroy anyone they want.
Your moral duty: sit in respectful silence and never object."
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4/2/22
"Chris Wallace’s new show is called “Who's Talking to Chris Wallace.” The better question is, who’s listening?" In a promo for the show "Wallace utters one sentence, 'We have a lot to talk about.'
That's it."
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4/2/22
"Flight tracker FlightAware showed more than a thousand delayed flights on Southwest shortly after 9 a.m. ET, with 179 cancellations. Passengers reacted to the changes on social media ..."
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4/1/22
"Ivanka Trump has done it again. On the heels of helping deliver 1 million meals to Ukrainians stuck in the war-ravaged nation, the former first daughter has organized enough medical aid to fill several massive C-130 Hercules cargo jets."
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 Psaki |
4/1/22
"Psaki will host a show for MSNBC on NBCUniversal's streaming platform, Peacock. She will also be a part of live programming on MSNBC's cable network
... but she will not be hosting the 9 p.m. hour replacing Rachel
Maddow ..."
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