Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter, $TWTR, deal is headed toward a close at the end of week, likely on Friday, per BI.

The Bulwark people are trans activists now? No one thinks that’s weird?

I’m not sure what it’s supposed to show that Abramson first used the word “Russiagate” with his usual conspiratorial glee, then later decided suddenly that it was birtherism to use his own terminology. Is that a “receipt” that he’s crazy? A perfect self-satire? What exactly?

« Russiagate » was actually the term embraced by the hardest-core BlueAnon nuts before the story fell apart. Just like « Deep State, » the term’s origin story is being rewritten.

This is even dumber. You can hate Trump all you want, but his opposition to Nord Stream wasn't about 'blaming America.' On the contrary it was a nationalist move, bluntly telling Europe it would pay (literally) if it chose Russian gas over American LNG.

One of the dumbest consequences of Russiagate is stuff like this - people believing there was romance/synergy between Trump and Putin when Trump was imposing sanctions to try to stop Russia's top geopolitical objective, the pipeline.

Trump was a constant opponent of Nord Stream. He said it would open up Europe to “extortion and intimidation' and imposed stiff sanctions on companies that worked on the pipeline, including European ones - sanctions the Biden administration clawed back.

“We have made clear to the Russians that pipeline is at risk if they move further into Ukraine” was a quote from what current White House official, last January 14th? Answer below:
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What other retired general said about the likelihood of Russia blowing up Nord Stream, “It’s the closest thing to a smoking gun… without the direct proof?” See below: taibbi.substack.com/p/who-blew-up-…

Which retired general went on TV and said, regarding the Nord Stream sabotage, “We have to conclude without the evidence... that Russia is the likely cause of it”? See below: taibbi.substack.com/p/who-blew-up-…

This great new video by Matt Orfalea shows just how much of the history of America's bellicose opposition to the Nord Stream project was either whitewashed or misrepresented after the pipelines were sabotaged:

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Transcript: 'America This Week' with @WalterKirn and @Mtaibbi
On muzzling the new Citizen Kane, the lettuce-life of Liz Truss, occupying England, and more:
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The United States made stopping the Nord Stream pipeline a centerpiece of its foreign policy for nearly a decade. All that history mysteriously vanished the instant the pipelines exploded. More here, with a great new video by Matt Orfalea
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Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipelines? 'Russia, Russia, Russia!'
New video by Matt Orfalea on Nord Stream propaganda:
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Listen to this article: America This Week
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Musk rouses ire of national security machinery, ho-hum nuke talk progresses, a journalist and tons of crabs disappear, Liz Truss outlives fruit flies, three finance headlines, and more:
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WSJ writers Rebecca Ballhaus, Brody Mullins, Chad Day, John West, Joe Palazzolo and James Grimaldi deserve major kudos for their series of exposes about ethically dubious official trading. taibbi.substack.com/p/america-this…

Your choice for Britain’s next Prime Minister?

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America This Week: October 16-22, 2022:
Elon Musk rouses ire of national security apparatchiks, ho-hum nuke talk escalates, a journalist and tons of crabs disappear, Liz Truss outlives (barely) fruit flies, three finance headlines, and more

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