Freedom of Speech is Designed to Protect Political Minorities.

The first amendment is not a weapon wielded by the rich and powerful. Many of these people of influence are apprehensive of the protections offered by the First Amendment, because the First Amendment is a limitation on their ability to shut the rest of us up. Greg Lukianoff, CEO of FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) explains why the First Amendment is especially important for political minorities and those who are victims of political opression:

You only need a special protection for freedom of speech, like the First Amendment, for people who are either unpopular with power or unpopular with the majority. This is why revolutionary figures like Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela all championed freedom of speech. It's why John Lewis, someone I was, I got to meet actually because he was in my neighborhood a lot. The great John Lewis, civil rights icon, he would argue. He would often say that without freedom of speech, the civil rights movement would have been a bird without wings. They understood that free speech was not the weapon of the powerful. It is the best check on power ever invented.

Consider visiting the website of FIRE, a completely non-partisan nonprofit organization, dedicated to free speech for all. You can spend days at the FIRE site reading about the most important free speech cases in the United States, as well as warning about the many people from across the political spectrum that FIRE has represented.

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Dusting Off the Covid Playbook for Measles

I follow Sayer Ji on X because he has been especially good at connecting the dots on the purported measles "emergency" closely. He has also drawn close comparisons to the government actions surrounding the COVID pandemic.

Are these government interventions really about disease? At first glance, that claim seems plausible. COVID and measles are really diseases, but the risks of these diseases are minuscule compared to many other pressing national priorities. Should society be worrying about two flu deaths, even if they were real deaths (especially one under the Biden administration 10 million or more bedded immigrants poured over the borders without regard to their vaccination, history or disease history). Even Anthony Fauci admitted that Covid was essentially as dangerous as the flu:

As he was going on comedy shows and testifying to Congress early on that Covid was “ten times deadlier than flu,” he actually co-published a scientific paper stating the opposite: Covid was about like a bad flu season."

What are these medical emergencies really about? The government is acting as a hyper-aggressive sales rep for the pharmaceutical industry. They want to force you to put vaccines in your arm, even if Pfizer only followed the participants of the clinical trials for two months before declaring the experimental vaccines to be safe and effective.  That problem, of course, pertains to Covid, but it is highly relevant given that it is an indication of the lack of credibility of Pharma.

Some people will question this, asking why one would question whether measles vaccines are critically necessary for all Americans. Of course, we are dealing with the average American, who has an extremely short attention span resulting from the lack of a rigorous education. As a nation, we have been proven incapable of running cost-benefit analyses. Consider first, that vaccines virtually nothing to do with the enormous decrease in measles death from 1900 to the present day:

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Pennsylvania is Not Concerned about two Children “who Died due to Measles”

Of a ruptured spleen is different than dying of measles. And Pennsylvania cannot find a second death at all. But. Sayer Ji has dug deeper than most and found that this seems to be a weaponization of a health department intent on pulling down the current administration (and RFK, Jr). This bashed announcement. Was not about concern for dying children. This is entirely political theater.

Sayer Ji: "The New York Times opinion page just confirmed the facts I documented today — and called a "conspiracy theory" last week. A NYT physician — writing from a pro-vaccine frame — calls Pennsylvania's refusal to release the death data "hard to justify," the "completely preventable" claim "too definitive," and describing a newborn as "unvaccinated" (when no infant is even eligible) "disingenuous... to scare and shame."

That's the classification dispute and the withheld evidence I laid out with primary sources hours ago on Substack: "The 'Measles Death' Message Was Loaded" . . . The Times examined the botched announcement. It didn't look at the funding behind the campaign that weaponized it — the pre-tested poll and the two dark-money operations behind it. That's my separate reporting."

See: "EXCLUSIVE: The "Measles Death" Message Was Loaded Before the Evidence Was InPennsylvania blamed RFK Jr. for two "measles deaths" it can't show measles caused. The attack was poll-tested a week earlier — by two operations running on separate, hidden money."

If this sounds like deja vu, it is.

This is not an allegation that anyone knew, in advance, that two people would die. It is the plainer and more unsettling observation that a standing apparatus — a poll fielded a week earlier, a purpose-built anti-Kennedy unit staffed nine months before, a message already selected for maximum partisan effect — does not require foreknowledge of a death to convert that death into a national weapon within hours. It only requires that the machine be built and waiting. It was.

And the death at the center of it was not what the podium said it was.

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The Modern “News” Cycle

When you hear the phrase "the new cycle," it makes you think about something that's pretty simple. Curious Reporters) find something interesting and report on it. Later, if something changes about that thing, it seems interesting. They were reported on those changes. It's based in curiosity and a desire to keep the rest of us updated about interesting things in the world. But is that how the new cycle actually works? Sharyl Atkisson describes a surreal, modern version of the news cycle:

Here's one problem.

"News" has turned into the following:

The NYT and others:

1. Misreports/are grossly wrong in the moment.

2. Much later, they bring up the rear and admit the things long after most everybody else already knew.

3. Then, people treat the admission as if the thing many knew all along is now, suddenly, true. And only really valid now that the media has belatedly agreed.

4. Nobody reforms or demotes the reporters or outlets who got things so wrong to begin with. This is the pattern with Covid, Covid vaccines, and Fauci, of course, but also many other topics.

Reacting to Jimmie Dore's recent comment:

Still can’t believe that The New York Times ADMITTED & PRINTED that the "conspiracy theorists" were right about COVID and that Fauci and the "experts" LIED to the public.

What’s even more disturbing is how many people I know in Hollywood who are completely ignoring all this & don’t have the decency to APOLOGIZE to the people they viciously slandered & attacked for being skeptical of BiG Pharma & government during COVID.

I can forgive the people who acted like monsters & we’re wrong about Covid, but they’ll NEVER forgive me for being right about Covid.

Both of these remind me of Matt Taibbi's term "bomb holing."  Here's how he describes it:

This technique of using the next bombshell story to push the last one down a memory-hole — call it Bombholing

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COVID Shots and Potential Miscarriages

Public health officials, including Falchi, made public statements that is safe for pregnant women to get the Covid shot, despite the fact that pregnant women were excluded from the Covid shot trials. At a minimum, corporate media should be all over this story. They should be racing each other to get to the bottom of this.

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