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Chris Courtney

@ChrisCCourtney

Father, Husband, Cubs lover, surf fan, Combat Sports enthusiast. SLU Alumni #LionUp Opinions are my own

Baton Rouge, LA Katılım Ocak 2013
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Chris Courtney
Chris Courtney@ChrisCCourtney·
@LeaderJohnThune Stop fucking around and bring the Save Act to floor for a vote. If you don’t you are no better than the Dems and just as crooked.
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Eduardo Menoni
Eduardo Menoni@eduardomenoni·
🇮🇹 | Giorgia Meloni: “Dijeron que destruiría Italia, pero se equivocaron. El empleo está en un nivel récord, nuestra economía está creciendo, la inmigración ilegal ha disminuido un 60 % y estamos ampliando la libertad en todos los aspectos de la vida de los italianos.”
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ⁿᵉʷˢ Barron Trump 🇺🇸
🚨 IT’S OFFICIAL: The SAVE Act has been UPGRADED. Nationwide voter ID AND proof of citizenship to vote are now in the bill, and Rep. Chip Roy and Sen. Mike Lee are launching an AGGRESSIVE push to force a floor vote. This is the line in the sand. The Senate MUST take this up immediately. No delays. No excuses. No backroom games. Secure elections are non negotiable in a sovereign nation. PASS THE SAVE ACT 🇺🇸
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Reverend Jordan Wells
Reverend Jordan Wells@WellsJorda89710·
🚨 EVIL: Leftist protesters chanting 'DROP IT! DROP IT! DROP IT!' at young conservative moms cradling their BABIES outside a TPUSA Faith event. One creep even snarled at a mother: 'F* that child... That sht’s gonna be gone, trust me.' 🤮 All because these families dared to attend a church gathering. This is the unmasked face of the modern Left: attacking innocent kids, mothers, and faith itself. Soulless. Demonic. America needs to SEE this. Disgusting doesn't even cover it. 😡👶🙏 #TPUSAFaith #LeftistInsanity #ProtectOurKids"
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna@RepLuna·
If the Senate does not pass the SAVE Act and/or schedule a date for a vote by the time we return, I have enough votes from other members to shut down the floor of the House. We are not going to play games—especially given that half of the Republicans in both the House and Senate are concerned about their reelection and want the floor open for their messaging bills. They are not allowed to hide behind the president and his agenda while knifing the American people in the back. They need legislation for their elections, so they MUST pass the SAVE Act. Election integrity is the most important issue in this country for the future of our nation.
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ThePersistence
ThePersistence@ScottPresler·
I want to make something clear to Republican House & Senate members: The American people don’t want to hear that you WON’T introduce legislation b/c you think it won’t pass. We EXPECT you to vote on bills, so we can find out who’s with us & against us.
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Stephen L. Miller
Stephen L. Miller@redsteeze·
So to catch you up on events: - Protest group chased two innocent dudes out of a diner. - Attacked an innocent guy on the street who was actually with them. - Harassed an innocent guy with an SUV and demanded to see his ID. - Blocked an innocent guy because of his rental car plates - Have now stormed into church services. And I haven't seen a single Minneapolis police officer in any of the previous week's video footage.
Brian Allen@allenanalysis

BREAKING: Protesters disrupted a Cities Church service this morning in Minneapolis after alleging one of the church’s lead pastors is an ICE agent. Footage is from Don Lemon’s livestream. @Donlemonbsky

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Michael Shellenberger
Michael Shellenberger@shellenberger·
On March 15th, 2021, an anonymous Twitter user asked Harvard Medical professor Martin Kulldorff a question. “Do you think younger age groups and or people who have already had the virus need to be vaccinated?” Who is Martin Kulldorff? He’s a Harvard Medical School professor for 21 years, a well-known Swedish biostatistician who developed widely used software for disease mapping, the co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration on how to deal with the COVID pandemic, and an advisor to the world’s leading health organizations. What he said was that “Thinking that everyone must be vaccinated is as scientifically flawed as thinking that nobody should get COVID. Vaccines are important for older high-risk people and their caretakers. Those with prior natural infection do not need it, nor do children.” Natural immunity. Is it a myth — a “conspiracy theory” — that once you have been sick from a virus, then you won’t get sick, or as sick, again? In fact, we’ve known for 2,500 years that natural immunity is real. “The same man was never attacked twice, never at least fatally,” wrote Thucydides, describing the plague of Athens. He observed that recovered individuals could safely nurse the sick without falling ill themselves. And yet Twitter censored Martin Kulldorff’s tweet. “Learn why health officials recommend a vaccine,” read a warning that Twitter employees put on it. For most people, the Tweet cannot be replied to, shared or liked. In other words, Twitter had decided that this professor at Harvard Medical School was wrong, and that natural immunity wasn’t really something that could protect you from COVID. Jay Bhattacharya, who’s currently our Director of the National Institutes of Health, and thus one of the highest-ranking public health officials in the world, was a Stanford epidemiologist before that. Twitter put him on a “Trends Blacklist.” Not long before we discovered this, we were told that shadow-banning was a conspiracy theory, because Twitter had said it didn’t shadow-ban. Now the European Commission is trying to censor the entire global internet. They want to put a 140 million Euro fine on X. They want to end anonymity, which was what allowed that question of Kulldorff to be asked. They want to use a “Democracy Shield” program to shield the Commission from democracy. And the Commission wants to impose “chat control” so they can read your private messages. It just gets worse and worse. Unsubstantiated and likely false claims of Russian government election interference through TikTok and social media were made in Romania and in the Czech Republic. Truth is not something that anybody holds as a possession and rather emerges through dialogue. We’ve known that since Plato and Socrates. We need free speech for science, public health, and national security. It’s essential to journalism, democracy, and human freedom. Free speech enabled civilization; censorship threatens it. This is the only political cause that I would die for. And yet there is currently an active coordination between Stanford, Brazil, Australia, and others to impose what I think we can call, without exaggeration, global totalitarianism. They’re pushing for digital identification that will end anonymity online. Why is that? Why are these guys behaving in this way? When Elon Musk took over Twitter on October 28th, 2022, unprecedented insight into multiple secret government mass censorship efforts emerged from this exploration. We had unlimited access to Twitter files. They revealed that the mainstream news reporters, who don’t deserve the name, were demanding censorship. No true journalist demands censorship of his fellow journalists. What emerged from this was an understanding of something we call the “Censorship Industrial Complex,” which directly grew out of the military industrial complex and was run by active or former intelligence community officials who often operate under that banner. It led to multiple congressional investigations and hearings, and it spread across every social media platform. So we now know the censorship that occurred, not just at Twitter, but at YouTube, at Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms. What is the Censorship Industrial Complex? The model isn’t that complicated to understand. The government chooses people whom they call “researchers” to serve as censors. These are government-funded individuals who often come from the intelligence community and foreign policy establishment. They work at non-governmental organizations funded by governments or at universities funded by governments. They conduct “fact checks” to serve as “trusted flaggers.” These “trusted flaggers” demand censorship by social media platforms. It’s all done in secret. They’re looking to censor narratives. This is essential because, as decades of good cognitive science have shown, people understand and retain information through storytelling. We think in terms of stories, not bullet points. And so they were out to censor whole narratives. From the Stanford censorship project on COVID, the “Virality Project,” they said they wanted to censor “true stories” of vaccine side effects. Why? Because it might “fuel hesitancy.” In other words, they want to control your behavior. They don’t want you to receive true information that might lead you to not get the vaccine. If that isn’t totalitarianism straight out of 1984, I don’t know what it. These people were on the verge of passing legislation in the United States that would’ve authorized the National Science Foundation to choose these “researcher” censors. I’m presenting slides to Europeans and the world for situational awareness into what totalitarian politicians and bureaucrats have planned because this is still going strong. Stanford helped the US government censor COVID dissidents, and then they lied about it. You might be detecting a pattern. They’re really not interested in censoring “misinformation.’ They’re very interested in censoring true information. The censors flagged an Israeli preprint which came out in December, 2020 and found, lo and behold, that natural immunity is a real thing. In fact, it’s more protective than the vaccine. But the censors flagged somebody’s Google Drive. “See the following Google Drive links being used to compile testimonies about vaccine shedding, Covid videos, showing side effects and whatnot.” Google then removed that content from that person’s Google Drive. You don’t control your Google Drive. Contrary to Stanford’s claim that the project did not ask social media platforms to remove any content, they privately said they did. And we know that many hundreds of thousands of tweets and Facebook posts were removed, even though they were a hundred percent accurate. In fact, in 2021, Stanford’s “Virality Project” flagged accurate claims that the World Health Organization did not recommend vaccinating children. The people who spread the misinformation are the people demanding the censorship. They claimed Covid couldn’t have come from a lab, that the Covid vaccine prevented infection, and that natural immunity didn’t exist. The only solution to hate speech and misinformation is free speech. If you censor false information, how would anybody get the true information? The whole point is the debate. They lied when they said false information travels faster than true information. It’s a completely bogus study and involved six seconds of content on Twitter. Who are these people? As of 2020, there were so many former FBI employees at Twitter that they called them “Bu alumni.” They created their own private Slack channel and a crib sheet to onboard new FBI arrivals. Intriguingly, we discovered that the general counsel of the FBI — arguably the second most powerful person of the FBI, or maybe the first, if you think, consider that what their actual job is to decide what the FBI can and can’t do — resigned from FBI in early 2020 and went to Twitter to take the deputy general counsel role. Isn’t that interesting? Somebody in one of the most powerful legal positions in the world would take a junior legal role at a social media company. Why would that be? This email popped up when we were going through Twitter files and it really jumped out at us. It’s from the director of policy at Twitter. “We have seen a sustained if uncoordinated” — supposedly — “effort by the intelligence community to push us to share more information and change our API policies. They’re probing and pushing everywhere they can.” The Hunter Biden laptop censorship occurred later that year. The FBI and the intelligence community discredited accurate, factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both before and after the New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14th, 2020. How could the FBI spread false information about something that nobody knew about? Because the FBI had Hunter Biden’s laptop, which showed his family’s massive influence peddling scheme. It consisted of accepting tens of millions of dollars, including from the Chinese government. The FBI had been sitting on that laptop since December of 2019. They had been given it by the computer repair store owner, who had been given the laptop by Hunter Biden, likely because he dropped it in his bathtub or in the pool, when he was on one of his many crack and alcohol benders. The government strategy is always the same: spread disinformation first, then demand censorship of accurate information on the basis of it . “The FBI came to us in the summer of 2020,” Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan two years later, “and they were like, ‘Hey, you should be on the alert. We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in 2016. There’s about to be some kind of dump.’” In the summer of 2020, the New York Post had not published the story about the Hunter Biden laptop. It would only come out in October. We see something very interesting show up in the Twitter files: the Aspen Institute, an intermediary between the intelligence community and the public. It’s known as a Davos-style gab fest in the United States. It’s also the place where intelligence community operations are run. They hosted a workshop to train reporters and all of the social media’s top censorship officials, known as “trust and safety officials,” how to deal with a story they would hear in the future relating to Hunter Biden and Barisma. A few months earlier, the Stanford Cyber Policy Center had published a report attacking what we in the United States call the Pentagon Papers Principle. The Pentagon Papers Principle says that if a government official gives me, a journalist, a bunch of Pentagon documents showing that we’re losing the war in Vietnam, I, as a journalist, can publish them, and not risk prison. That was decided in a famous Supreme Court case in 1971. Stanford argued that, really, we should get rid of that principle, which may be the most important investigative journalism principle in the United States, and said, “You should cover the person who leaked the materials, not the leaked emails.” In other words, you should cover and expose the whistleblower. The person who exposed the Pentagon Papers is the real bad guy, not the DOD, CIA, and presidents who had lied to us for over a decade. Stanford was training the journalists and the social media trust and safety officers in how to cover a story that had not yet come out. This is known as “pre-bunking,” and it’s also part of the European Union strategy to shield themselves from democracy. When the Hunter Biden story appeared October 22nd, Twitter’s trust and safety censorship official said it didn’t violate its terms of service. There’s nothing illegal about any of this. The Supreme Court has made it very clear that you’re allowed to report on information that’s been leaked to you. At that moment, the former FBI general counsel, Jim Baker, argued vigorously that Twitter really needed to censor it. Baker won and they censored the story. It’s not that we didn’t hear about the Hunter Biden laptop story when it came out. I certainly did. But we had the impression that there was something wrong with it, that it was not really the whole story. And so many of us dismissed it. What they had done was a psyop on this major story. They had changed our perception of the story. And it worked. It worked on me, it worked on everybody I knew. What is the role of the intelligence community of social media companies? The former CIA people are the head of elections at Meta, and Google’s head of trust and safety. Former and current CIA officers have a history of spreading misinformation and promoting the Russiagate conspiracy theory. We now know that between 2018 and 2023, there were 36 people from the CIA 68 from the FBI 44, from the National Security Administration and 68 from the Department of Homeland Security who had moved to work at the social media platforms. This is not unique to the United States. My colleague Cecilia Jilková, the daughter of famous Czech dissidents, discovered that European Union officials claimed, days before the European elections in 2024, that a “pro-Kremlin website” was spreading propaganda and were paying off European politicians. That was the headline in Politico. We wrote to them and asked, “Where’s the evidence of this? Just go ahead and share the evidence to support your accusation days before the European parliamentary elections.” Nobody was arrested. They never produced the evidence. The former Czech president, Václav Klaus, who was accused of this, said, “We don’t even know what the ‘Voice of Europe’ is.” Another Czech politician said, “How could I have known it would be a security threat? At the time I gave the interview, they weren’t on any list.” Another said, “If they’re such a big threat, why did the European Parliament let the Voice of Europe’s journalists inside?” Nobody responded. Nobody talked to us. This was a disinformation campaign carried by Politico, which, in my view, is a suspect publication. In the spring of 2022, Barack Obama went to Stanford to give a speech at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center run by Michael McFaul, his former ambassador to Russia. Obama said misinformation harms democracy and urged support for legislation in Congress that would empower government-appointed researchers to serve as “trusted flaggers.” Six days later, the Department of Homeland Security rolled out their Disinformation Governance Board. What a coincidence that they got Obama to frame the issue for them. Facebook in 2021 censored accurate vaccine information so the White House would help it to get data from Europe. In addition to removing vaccine misinformation, wrote Facebook to the White House, we have been focused on reducing the virality of content discouraging vaccines that does not contain actionable misinformation. White House said jump, and Facebook said how high? Why did they do it? Why would they voluntarily censor? This also emerged from the Facebook files. Nick Clegg on the left wrote an email to his colleagues. He said, “My sense is that given we’ve got bigger fish, we have to fry with the administration, e.g., data flows, it doesn’t seem like a great place for us to be.” Data flows. What’s he talking about? He’s talking about billions of dollars worth of business that he has to, that they would have to pay the European Commission for if they didn’t have the support from the Biden administration to lean on the European Commission. In other words, this was a shakedown by the White House of Facebook and it worked in France, the country of Liberté. Turns out it has a special role.... Please subscribe now to support Public's defense of free speech, watch the full video, and read the rest of the article!
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@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸
@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸@Chicago1Ray·
SAY HER NAME - DeCara Thompson This man is asking everyone if they know (19) yr old DeCara Thompson who was mu'rdered, r'aped, and thrown over a bridge, by Hugo Hernandez- Mendez, an illegal from Guatemala No coverage like that of Renee Good No ($1.5M) raised for her You people out there demonstrating, your moral compass is f'd up, why weren't you out there for Miss Thompson I have a daughter, and God forbid something happens to her, but something does, I guarantee that person won't see justice, via the justice system, justice would come another way, i promise you that
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𝕊𝔸𝕃𝕋𝕐 𝔾𝕀ℝ𝕃
Granny created an Instagram and red-pilled millions. Bolsheviks killed 60 million Christians.
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𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎
🔴 Reportedly Pounak, Tehran, now. I'm asking every major account to please amplify optimistic messages and news, as a counterbalance to only doomsday casualty news. People are out and fighting for their lives. Don't scare them into going home.
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Vivid.🇮🇱
Vivid.🇮🇱@VividProwess·
BREAKING: The people of Iran are bravely uprising against the Islamic regime for the 15th night in a row. They are demanding freedom. We need to be their voice. Make it go viral. Repost this.
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Tyler Ratcliff
Tyler Ratcliff@TylerRatcliff17·
Possibly the funniest skits SNL ever came up with. The pen is mightier🤣🤣
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Black Media Hub ✊🏿
Black Media Hub ✊🏿@BlackMediaHub·
Eddie Murphy impersonates James Brown in front of him 😂
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Marlin, Esq
Marlin, Esq@nostalgiafkninc·
Announcer: “We will not be playing the national anthem. Let’s play ball.” Americans: “Step aside, commie.”
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Iran Spectator
Iran Spectator@IranSpec·
⚠️ 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 ⚠️ 🇮🇷 | MASSACRE FOOTAGE HAS BEEN LEAKED FROM IRAN! We can see armed forces gunning down unarmed civilians in the streets. REPOST, RETWEET, RETWEET!
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Vivid.🇮🇱
Vivid.🇮🇱@VividProwess·
This is historic. Iranians are bravely flying the real flag of Iran, the Lion and Sun flag, in the heart of their own country as they stand up against the Islamic regime. The media is completely ignoring this. Share it. Make it go viral.
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Liza Rosen
Liza Rosen@LizaRosen0000·
t.co/dkzcM9EWhL The free world is turning a blind eye to the Iranian people fighting to free themselves from Islam. Please share; don’t let anyone ignore the first-ever nation to be de-Islamized. This is a dire warning to the West: the price to regain freedom from Islam is the blood of countless innocent men, women, and children! Stop the Islamization of the West! Deport all diplomats of the Islamic Republic and stand for freedom with the people of Iran!
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Libs of TikTok
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok·
LIFE HACK: To avoid getting shot by law enforcement officers, don’t try to run them over with your car. Follow me for more great tips!
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Thomas Sowell Quotes
Thomas Sowell Quotes@ThomasSowell·
“The totalitarian mindset behind the liberal vision shows through in innumerable ways. There are no institutions in America where free speech is more severely restricted than in our politically correct colleges and universities, dominated by liberals.” — Thomas Sowell
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