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Apr 18, 2023Liked by Michael Shellenberger

Thank you so much Michael for your continued, hard work and honest reporting. You are a national treasure. I always sing your great work to my colleagues/family/friends & urge them to sign up to your Substack.

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Open source journalism, at its finest. And its important.

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I just hope you are not infiltrated. My trust in the government is below zero.

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Best of luck on this initiative Michael! I have my doubts that free people can defeat the leviathan but at least we may bring this to the consciousness of the majority of people out there who don't know, don't care, and/or support the leviathan.

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Whistleblowers should also download the app and create a free Protonmail account to ensure end to end encryption. Best wishes in knocking down the alarming protofascist capture of our public institutions.

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Michael, thank you for taking on this criticality important task. If we don’t bring an end to this blind, follow-the-leader syndrome that has invaded once independent minds hope will be lost for generations.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your hard work and the risks that you are willing to take for our democracy. You are a true warrior. We are so grateful for your service.

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It seems to me like the most direct way to attack the censorship industrial complex is through legal challenges on First Amendment grounds. The Twitter files showed the federal bureaucracy using money and their implicit power, directly and through proxies, to censor Americans.

The nothingburger crowd will say that Twitter and Facebook are private operations that get tons of viewpoint input from everywhere, including governments, and they have the freedom to act on it or not. This needs to be tested in court.

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Love to join you, alas my Nato, Atomal, Top Secret clearance ran out in 71, when I left the front lines of the Cold War in N. Italy. Stories one could tell. I am following you and Matt, and others who are fighting the misinformation battle. Will support you in any way I can. I love the reporting on San Francisco as well. I sure miss the City, as it was in the early 60's and until it turned the Communist corner, great place to grow up, you couldn't pay me to go there now. George Washington H.S. '64

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Let's just hope there exists principled Americans with integrity working for OUR corrupt government and the GONGO groups that will FINALLY step up and be counted. This shit has got to stop. The 4th estate must function properly and outing whistleblowers is the opposite of that role.

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Our government has become predatory. It must be stopped. Only direct action from each and every one of us (or, those of us who oppose oppression and re-enslavement/serfdom) can reverse the tide. Thank you Michael!!

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good job guys.

one of my first thoughts when the scope of the Twitter Files were revealed was, why haven’t any whistleblowers come forward yet?!? why did it take 44 Billion dollars from Musk to find this out?

there must be hundreds of skeptical folks at tge institutions

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Thank you for all you’re doing to protect out liberties Michael!!

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I hope you get enough material from this request to write a book to get this information out to a large number of people.

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I have been following the politics of the City for some time, since I visited 6 years ago, a sad situation and I agree with you on all points you have mentioned. I lived in Seattle for 25 years. They were always trying to be San Francisco and for a while it worked well. Classically Liberal, non-judgmental, booming economy and serious people looking for solutions to serious issues. Unfortunately, the craziness engulfing the City has taken over Seattle and created an urban nightmare. In both cities, no one cares about real solutions for the problems faced by the urban poor of any stripe, lots of rhetoric but no action to change the downslide.

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God bless you Michael!

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