That incredibly brazen, glaringly politicized and complete reversal in "public health advice" was a major turning point for me, as it was for many, in trusting health authorities.
What Fauci did in declaring the "lab leak" theory off-limits is way worse.
AOC, 12/2020, on Antifa activists menacing politicians in public: Activists *should* be impolite. "The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable."
AOC, last night, to protesters confronting her for funding Biden's proxy war: I won't answer you! "You're being ruude!"
As always happens whenever a crisis is declared, many people decide that abuses of power and civil liberties assaults don't matter given the gravity of the cause. That's what happened with the first War on Terror and it's happening with the 1/6 Committee:
Meanwhile, the foreign policy adviser of Bernie Sanders -- who joined every Dem in voting for BIden's $40b war package - continues the tradition of Dems going to the TNR to scold the left (he singles out Lula and Chomsky) for being insufficiently pro-war:
The NYT -- usually on board with bipartisan DC war policies -- began signaling resistance when this great news article on the House's approval of Biden's $40b, noting how most lawmakers were too scared to ask questions or voice their long-standing views:
On the weekly getcallin podcast I co-host with qaomene , we'll examine the controversy over Roe v. Wade and the leaked draft, as well as Lula's comments about Ukraine and why the Globo South rejects the US/NATO view on Ukraine.
Given the CIA's traditional role in Brazil (overthrowing its democratically elected center-left government in 1964, then training and supporting the brutal 21-year-old military dictatorship that followed), this new CIA directive is producing interesting responses in Brazil:
Does it require a particular degree? Is there some licensing board or official certification issued? What credentials, scholarship or accomplishments are needed to justify someone being lavished with this pompous label?
These so-called #NeverTrump GOP operatives and neocons started off pretending they were still the same conservatives as always, just horrified by Trump.
But now they have jettisoned almost every view they held, with no explanation, and are full-fledged Dems and nothing more.
Yesterday was a flagship day in corporate media. It was the day they were forced to explicitly state what has long been clear: they not only favor censorship but desperately crave and depend on it.
Even if Musk doesn't buy Twitter, never forget what yesterday revealed.
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice today banned the secure app Telegram from operating in all of Brazil, citing its failure to obey prior court orders to ban users from the platform and asserting the prevalence on Telegram of hate speech and disinformation
Given that intense rage over the anodyne NY Times Editorial is somehow into its fifth day or whatever, I'd like to ask those who deny that censorship mania and authoritarianism have consumed the liberal-left to reconcile that denialism with this extremely stark 2021 polling data:
Ukraine's President Zelensky suspends 11 opposition parties, using the same rationale Putin invokes when doing so: they're subversive, with ties to foreign enemies. One of the parties has 10% of elected seats in Ukraine's parliament:
