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From Beyond the Trees in the Other Forest (CTH):
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Perot Conservative
December 24, 2022 1:50 pm
Merry Christmas to all. We knew this before many others. Tomorrow Matt may have another big Twitter Dump.

Twitter Files update, Matt Taibbi:

TK News by Matt Taibbi

Notes on a Friday Night
A few delirious reflections at a crazy month’s end
Matt Taibbi

“…A group of us spent the last weeks reading thousands of documents. For me a lot of that time was spent learning how Twitter functioned, specifically its relationships with government. How weird is modern-day America? Not long ago, CIA veterans tell me, the information above the “tearline” of a U.S. government intelligence cable would include the station of origin and any other CIA offices copied on the report.

“I spent much of today looking at exactly similar documents, seemingly written by the same people, except the “offices” copied at the top of their reports weren’t other agency stations, but Twitter’s Silicon Valley colleagues: Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, even Wikipedia. It turns out these are the new principal intelligence outposts of the American empire. A subplot is these companies seem not to have had much choice in being made key parts of a global surveillance and information control apparatus, although evidence suggests their Quislingian executives were mostly all thrilled to be absorbed. Details on those “Other Government Agencies” soon, probably
tomorrow….”

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/notes-on-a-friday-night?utm_campaign=post

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California Joe
December 24, 2022 12:50 pm
Ukraine Update 12/24/22

Russia reports it’s forces are deep into Bakhmut. Russian Forces have taken Andrevekna and Ukraine heavily losing the war of attrition.

https://youtu.be/CALYNeGScbw

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marymorse
December 24, 2022 12:20 pm
Reply to Winston
NYT wishes people were tweeting about that, rather than Bidens, Burisma, Blue Star Strategies, and the Atlantic Council:

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Also, looks like Burisma was a partner of the Atlantic Council as well. And that the dismissal of the investigation in Burisma and Zlochevskyi was key for this partnership to happen… That explains why Biden had the prosecutor fired…https://t.co/AriXeyQS1a

— Broken Media (@ComeOnSense4) December 24, 2022

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/atlantic-council-board-member-under-federal-investigation-for-illegal-lobbying/
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RICO ‘em all
December 24, 2022 1:18 pm
Reply to Alex1689
Musk also tweeted this from Matt Taibbi:

Sometime in the last decade, many people — I was one — began to feel robbed of their sense of normalcy by something we couldn’t define. Increasingly glued to our phones, we saw that the version of the world that was spat out at us from them seemed distorted. The public’s reactions to various news events seemed off-kilter, being either way too intense, not intense enough, or simply unbelievable. You’d read that seemingly everyone in the world was in agreement that a certain thing was true, except it seemed ridiculous to you, which put you in an awkward place with friends, family, others. Should you say something? Are you the crazy one?

I can’t have been the only person to have struggled psychologically during this time. This is why these Twitter files have been such a balm. This is the reality they stole from us! It’s repulsive, horrifying, and dystopian, a gruesome history of a world run by anti-people, but I’ll take it any day over the vile and insulting facsimile of truth they’ve been selling. Personally, once I saw that these lurid files could be used as a road map back to something like reality — I wasn’t sure until this week — I relaxed for the first time in probably seven or eight years.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/notes-on-a-friday-night?r=5mz1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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