so far, i’ve been able to confirm about half the accounts suspended posted links to the jet tracker thing in violation of the new doxx’ing policy. unclear just yet about the rest, but i think it’s safe to say the rule is for real. https://t.co/8MDCG19kNO
“Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee are alleging in a newly released report that there are “indications” that COVID-19 could be tied to China’s biological weapons research program and “spilled over” to the general human population during an incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The information was released in a minority staff report by members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday night.
“Contrary to the implication of the [Intelligence Community’s] declassified report, based on our investigation involving a variety of public and non-public information, we conclude that there are indications that SARS-CoV-2 may have been tied to China’s biological weapons research program and spilled over to the human population during a lab-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” a summary of the report states. “The IC failed to adequately address this information in its classified Updated Assessment. When we attempted to raise the issues with the IC, it failed to respond.”
In a declassified assessment on the origins of COVID-19 by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in October 2021, the report states that SARS-CoV-2 was “probably not a biological weapon,” adding, “We remain skeptical of allegations that SARS-CoV-2 was a biological weapon because they are supported by scientifically invalid claims.”
Wednesday’s report released by House Republicans also alleges that its investigation “revealed serious shortcomings with both the classified and declassified versions of the Intelligence Community’s,” and states that the omissions “likely skewed the public’s understanding of key issues and deepened mistrust.”
“The Committee believes the IC downplayed important information relating to the possible links between COVID-19 and China’s bioweapons research based in part on input from outside experts,” the report states, adding that the intelligence community “refuses to be transparent with the Committee regarding which experts it relied on.”
Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, told Fox News Digital that Americans deserve answers regarding the origins of COVID-19
“The American people are owed answers about the origins of COVID-19. Our report states that COVID-19 may have been tied to China’s bioweapons research program and that the Intelligence Community (IC) withheld key information from the American public’s authorized elected officials, deepening public mistrust,” Wenstrup said. “Our findings also show that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bears more responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic than what has been publicly known or transparently communicated to the American people.”
WATCH: Fox News’ @BillFOXLA has new figures on the impact of the impending termination of Title 42 asylum rules: “A source tells Fox the DHS is projecting there will be between 9,000 and 15,000 illegal crossings every single day. Right now we’re averaging 7,000 per day.” pic.twitter.com/G8QxmdMs4O
On the ground in Juarez, MX for @townhallcom and thousands of people are waiting to be processed after illegally crossing the Rio Grande. They are building fires to keep warm.
The scene on the US side of the border reminds me of the Del Rio bridge crisis from last year. pic.twitter.com/bhVHniRNEH
NEW: A look at the situation in El Paso, TX right now, where a huge line of hundreds of migrants who have crossed illegally into the US are waiting to be taken into Border Patrol custody. Most expect to be released into the US. Many will be. CBP & local shelters overcapacity. pic.twitter.com/QDoyAzVRth
For years, the CDC's "fast facts" website on gun violence included a reference to the range of estimates on how often guns were used in self-defense (60,000 to 2.5 million per year) and a link to a CDC review of studies on the topic. https://t.co/tKmo3v3BNg
Despite initially standing by its description, the CDC held a private meeting with the advocates and ultimately agreed to remove the reference and link to its own paper. FOIAd emails don't show the agency requesting input from any other outside sources before making the change.
However, the Gun Violence Archie's Mark Bryant focused more on the effect he believes Kleck's estimate has had in preventing new gun restrictions. He said he wanted it to be "killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again." pic.twitter.com/IW6lbd3tE9
Boehner, and “leaders” like him are the reason R party sucks so much. Useless whiners.
Seriously, try to imagine Nancy Pelosi crying over a John Boehner portrait while announcing to chuckles that her kids are Republicans. You can't. That's because many of those elected to represent conservatism can't even do so in house.
Pre-@elonmusk, Twitter was a lovely place where spies, govt spies & counter-spies, ostensible spy-catchers, & dingbat Marxiwoke employees were all one big happy family.
The only “constituency” not represented? Ordinary, patriotic Americans and those not living in coastal cities https://t.co/gQfzjs3K1U
The group the domestic terrorist suspects belong to have an organizing and fundraising presence on Twitter: @defendatlforest, @jail_support & @atlsolfund. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation launched a raid following escalating violent attacks by members of the autonomous zone. https://t.co/tfdB0a23Mr
Most of the domestic terrorist suspects arrested at the Atlanta autonomous zone are from out-of-state. Nicholas Dean Olson comes from Bennington, Neb. He too was photographed for the Open Society Foundations-sponsored puff piece in The Guardian. https://t.co/U4eGsdXgYupic.twitter.com/fxXglrsR1y
The shocking events at the far-left autonomous zone south of Atlanta have been developing since last year & escalated recently into a number of serious arson attacks. The story has been ignored by national & international press, though the Georgia governor did comment briefly: https://t.co/0rAXc9xll5
Francis M. Carroll, 22, came all way from Kennebunkport, Maine, to allegedly commit domestic terrorist acts at the autonomous zone in south Atlanta. https://t.co/jmxUuxhRfkpic.twitter.com/9MulgaBr45
Far-left account Atlanta Jail Support is raising funds to help the domestic terrorist suspects in addition to other violent suspects. It is part of the far-left ecosystem that uses Twitter to promote cash campaigns for violent suspects. It ends up incentivizing criminality. pic.twitter.com/M3V66SyCUe
In the months leading up to the anti-terrorism raid by the GBI on Tuesday, militants part of the @defendATLforest autonomous zone had been carrying out a campaign of terror. They committed assaults, arson attacks, property destruction & even a carjacking. https://t.co/6rw9DOR8kR
Twitter banned conservatives at will every day for years and the media didn’t care. A handful of libs get temporarily suspended last night and it’s a leading story on every corporate media site. The only appropriate response to this spectacle is simply to laugh at these clowns. pic.twitter.com/9wrTRq0AfE
Declaring Rachel Levine "Man of the Year" is a violent threat, but posting Elon Musk's location in real time, so a guy dressed in black bloc can chase his two-year-old son, is free speech?
Another difference is that when I was suspended 10 times for misgendering or COVID misinformation or whatever, Yoel Roth wasn't in the scrum explaining his decision, like Musk is doing right now. If lack of transparency is your beef, tweet at him and he might just respond.
If all that is too complicated, how about this: Elon Musk is reacting badly to a direct threat to his family, whereas Yoel Roth systematically suspended anybody who expressed political opinions he didn't like.
I have to say watching all the wild Sneech-like switching back and forth between "LOL build your own Twitter" and "Muh Twitter free speech, Congressional hearings NOW" has been quite entertaining
The funny thing is whenever a blogger banned a commenter there might be some grousing about it, but nobody started screaming about how the blogger was an authoritarian crypto-fascist hellbent on destroying the First Amendment, because obviously that would make you sound insane
BREAKING: @ElonMusk just hopped on Spaces with a group of journalists and informed them the same doxxing rules apply to them and they aren’t special pic.twitter.com/SaYFWxZVpJ
So journalists Tweeting @elonmusk’s live location led to a stalker jumping on the hood of his son’s car… the way he suspended their accounts, you’d think someone had been misgendered.
“On August 1, 2020, President Trump told a reporter on his way to Marine One, “We’re looking at TikTok. We may be banning TikTok. We may be doing some other things. There’s a couple of options…we are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to TikTok.”
Red China owns TikTok through its myriad fake companies, all of which are controlled by the communist party.
The left quickly attacked Trump. Jennifer Granick of the ACLU (Annoying Club of Loser Unworthies) quickly denounced the move.
She said, “Banning an app that millions of Americans use to communicate with each other is a danger to free expression and is technologically impractical. With any Internet platform, we should be concerned about the risk that sensitive private data will be funneled to abusive governments, including our own. But shutting one platform down, even if it were legally possible to do so, harms freedom of speech online and does nothing to resolve the broader problem of unjustified government surveillance.”
A federal judge kept Trump from kicking TikTok out.
The ACLU changed its tune once Trump no longer was president.
It warned on April 14, “Last month, TikTok users started a seemingly innocuous trend that highlights the irises in their eyes. Users show their eyes up close, then use a high resolution filter to show the details, patterns, and colors of their irises. What started as a new filter in response to the popular TV series “Euphoria” has turned into a rapidly-growing trend: More than 700,000 videos have been created in the span of around a month. However, as these videos proliferated, so did concerns about people inadvertently exposing their unique biometric identifiers to collection through automated scanning of these iris images. Such scanning is a form of biometric technology similar to face recognition and fingerprinting.
“Despite TikTok users expressing concern, the company has not answered critical questions, including whether TikTok has partnered with companies selling iris recognition technology, whether they’re harvesting this sensitive data, where it’s being hosted, or what they might use this data for. The lack of transparency is a big part of the problem.”
Oh, if there were only some way the American government could stop TikTok from stealing our personal data.
With Trump out of the way, Republicans are making moves to block TikTok on government devices. Republican governors in Maryland, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Nebraska blocked TikTok. Indiana sued TikTok last week.
The Senate voted unanimously to block TikTok on federal devices.
Trump was right.
Democrat Senator Mark Warner of Virginia said, “As painful as it is for me to say, if Donald Trump was right and we could’ve taken action then, that’d have been a heck of a lot easier than trying to take action in November of 2022. The sooner we bite the bullet, the better.”
Marco Rubio, who co-sponsored the Senate action, said, “There is no more time to waste on meaningless negotiations with a CCP-puppet company. It is time to ban Beijing-controlled TikTok for good.”
Rubio gets it. The problem goes well beyond TikTok. He cut to the chase. We should stop wasting time trying to negotiate with CCP-puppet companies.”
Wandering Views 
The shoe is now on the other foot, and they just can’t deal with it… 🙂
Turns out threatening his family was a bridge too far for Elon.
Weird, right? Because that’s what they kept telling Trump and conservatives. 🙂
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What!
I’ve been told this is crazy talk, conspiracy theory level stuff.
“COVID origins ‘may have been tied’ to China’s bioweapons program: GOP report
House Republicans state that the virus ‘spilled over’ to the human population”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/covid-origins-may-have-been-tied-chinas-bioweapons-program-gop-report
“Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee are alleging in a newly released report that there are “indications” that COVID-19 could be tied to China’s biological weapons research program and “spilled over” to the general human population during an incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The information was released in a minority staff report by members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday night.
“Contrary to the implication of the [Intelligence Community’s] declassified report, based on our investigation involving a variety of public and non-public information, we conclude that there are indications that SARS-CoV-2 may have been tied to China’s biological weapons research program and spilled over to the human population during a lab-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” a summary of the report states. “The IC failed to adequately address this information in its classified Updated Assessment. When we attempted to raise the issues with the IC, it failed to respond.”
In a declassified assessment on the origins of COVID-19 by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in October 2021, the report states that SARS-CoV-2 was “probably not a biological weapon,” adding, “We remain skeptical of allegations that SARS-CoV-2 was a biological weapon because they are supported by scientifically invalid claims.”
Wednesday’s report released by House Republicans also alleges that its investigation “revealed serious shortcomings with both the classified and declassified versions of the Intelligence Community’s,” and states that the omissions “likely skewed the public’s understanding of key issues and deepened mistrust.”
“The Committee believes the IC downplayed important information relating to the possible links between COVID-19 and China’s bioweapons research based in part on input from outside experts,” the report states, adding that the intelligence community “refuses to be transparent with the Committee regarding which experts it relied on.”
Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, told Fox News Digital that Americans deserve answers regarding the origins of COVID-19
“The American people are owed answers about the origins of COVID-19. Our report states that COVID-19 may have been tied to China’s bioweapons research program and that the Intelligence Community (IC) withheld key information from the American public’s authorized elected officials, deepening public mistrust,” Wenstrup said. “Our findings also show that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bears more responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic than what has been publicly known or transparently communicated to the American people.”
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The gaslighting never ends.
Meanwhile, over in reality…..
Everything they say is a lie.
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The CDC is now just another useless political operation for Democrats.
There’s more, click a tweet and keep reading.
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Boehner, and “leaders” like him are the reason R party sucks so much. Useless whiners.
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Remember kids, Antifa is just an idea….
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Yep.
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One of these things is not like the other.
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The hypocrisy is just astounding.
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Again?
You don’t say…. 🙄
“Trump was right about TikTok”
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/12/trump-was-right-about-tiktok.html
“On August 1, 2020, President Trump told a reporter on his way to Marine One, “We’re looking at TikTok. We may be banning TikTok. We may be doing some other things. There’s a couple of options…we are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to TikTok.”
Red China owns TikTok through its myriad fake companies, all of which are controlled by the communist party.
The left quickly attacked Trump. Jennifer Granick of the ACLU (Annoying Club of Loser Unworthies) quickly denounced the move.
She said, “Banning an app that millions of Americans use to communicate with each other is a danger to free expression and is technologically impractical. With any Internet platform, we should be concerned about the risk that sensitive private data will be funneled to abusive governments, including our own. But shutting one platform down, even if it were legally possible to do so, harms freedom of speech online and does nothing to resolve the broader problem of unjustified government surveillance.”
A federal judge kept Trump from kicking TikTok out.
The ACLU changed its tune once Trump no longer was president.
It warned on April 14, “Last month, TikTok users started a seemingly innocuous trend that highlights the irises in their eyes. Users show their eyes up close, then use a high resolution filter to show the details, patterns, and colors of their irises. What started as a new filter in response to the popular TV series “Euphoria” has turned into a rapidly-growing trend: More than 700,000 videos have been created in the span of around a month. However, as these videos proliferated, so did concerns about people inadvertently exposing their unique biometric identifiers to collection through automated scanning of these iris images. Such scanning is a form of biometric technology similar to face recognition and fingerprinting.
“Despite TikTok users expressing concern, the company has not answered critical questions, including whether TikTok has partnered with companies selling iris recognition technology, whether they’re harvesting this sensitive data, where it’s being hosted, or what they might use this data for. The lack of transparency is a big part of the problem.”
Oh, if there were only some way the American government could stop TikTok from stealing our personal data.
With Trump out of the way, Republicans are making moves to block TikTok on government devices. Republican governors in Maryland, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Nebraska blocked TikTok. Indiana sued TikTok last week.
The Senate voted unanimously to block TikTok on federal devices.
Trump was right.
Democrat Senator Mark Warner of Virginia said, “As painful as it is for me to say, if Donald Trump was right and we could’ve taken action then, that’d have been a heck of a lot easier than trying to take action in November of 2022. The sooner we bite the bullet, the better.”
Marco Rubio, who co-sponsored the Senate action, said, “There is no more time to waste on meaningless negotiations with a CCP-puppet company. It is time to ban Beijing-controlled TikTok for good.”
Rubio gets it. The problem goes well beyond TikTok. He cut to the chase. We should stop wasting time trying to negotiate with CCP-puppet companies.”
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