[Red State] Taste her bitter liberal tears
Twitter has suspended the account of Washington Post activist Taylor Lorenz, who is known for doxing Chaya Raichik, who operates the Libs of TikTok account. No reason has yet been given for her suspension.
Lorenz became the subject of controversy after she exposed Raichik’s identity and residence as part of a hit piece on the Libs of TikTok account due to its exposure of medical clinics that perform "gender-affirming care" on minor children. Lorenz, as well as other progressives, accused Raichik of promoting violence against the transgender community and medical professionals who perform questionable surgical treatments on children.
The media activist had recently scrubbed her Twitter account, and there were only three tweets visible on her account at the time of her suspension.
In her most recent tweet, Lorenz was asking Twitter CEO Elon Musk for comment on a story related to his decision to suspend seven other media activists for revealing his real-time location on the platform. He has since restored their accounts. She took to TikTok to inform her audience about her suspension.
...and now China has all her information. Though given Twitter’s lack of security under previous management, they probably already had it.
BREAKING: Taylor Lorenz- the person who doxxed me was just suspended from Twitter pic.twitter.com/guCz7io6Ng
[RedState] By all appearances, Bill Crawford wasn’t a hero. He was just a janitor at the Air Force Academy. He grew up in Pueblo, Colorado, about 65 miles from the Academy in Colorado Springs.
In Pueblo, Mr. Crawford learned to box to defend himself. He was nondescript and a bit shy. Mr. Crawford did his job sweeping and mopping floors, emptying trashcans, and cleaning bathrooms. The cadets were polite of course. They would say “hello” and perhaps make small talk with the janitor, but they were studying aeronautics, trigonometry, physics, and learning to fly supersonic war machines – there was little to be learned from Mr. Crawford. He was a janitor after all.
In 1976, Crawford was an older man, but at 58 he wasn’t at “retirement” age either. He was still in pretty good shape. Trim and fit looking he might sweep floors for another decade or more. To the cadets, Mr. Crawford was just another face in the crowd of a lot of faces on campus. You saw him. You passed him in the hallways and you might say “good afternoon.” There were more important people to pay attention to.
Also in 1976, James Moschgat was a cadet in his third year at the academy. That year, he was studying the Allied campaigns in Italy during WWII. The battle to secure mainland Italy was a long and bloody slog. Moschgat was reading an account about an attack on Hill 424 and specifically about a man awarded the Medal of Honor on 13, September 1943. The fighting was intense in the hilly county near Altavilla, about 30 miles north of Salerno. The Medal of Honor winner Moschgat was reading about was a private named William Crawford. The account said Crawford was presumed KIA and the Medal of Honor was given to his father, posthumously. In Moschgat’s history book, he saw a photo of Crawford. Moschgat did a double-take. He thought that the photo looked a lot like the man he knew as Mr. Crawford, the janitor. Moschgat shared his discovery with other cadets and they, as a group, approached Mr. Crawford. When the janitor was asked if that was him in Italy and if he won the Medal of Honor, Mr. Crawford admitted that it was him. “Yup that’s me,” Crawford said. After his heroics fighting Germans soldiers, his final act of heroism was to stay with a wounded comrade, rather than leave him alone. Crawford was captured and spent the rest of the war as a POW. While a prisoner, Crawford’s boxing skills came into play. A Nazi guard picked a fight with Crawford, and Crawford knocked the guard into unconsciousness.
He was asked why he never mentioned that he was a war hero. He shrugged it off.
“It was one day in my life,” he said, “and it happened a long time ago.”
Because Crawford was presumed dead and the Medal of Honor was awarded “posthumously,” Crawford had never been honored with a ceremony. In 1984, that changed.
President Reagan gave the commencement speech to the 1984 graduating class at the Air Force Academy, and Crawford was finally honored. President Reagan put Crawford’s Medal of Honor around his neck. Crawford was in uniform too. It turns out that Crawford served 25 years in the Army and retired in 1967 as a Master Sergeant.
Moschgat, the cadet who discovered the janitor’s “secret,” went on to serve over two decades flying several fighter types including the F-4 and F-16 with 60 combat missions. He retired as a full colonel.
Moschgat turned President Reagan’s leadership comments into leadership points. Here is the 10th and final point
Life is a Leadership Laboratory. All too often we look to some school or PME class to teach us about leadership when, in fact, life is a leadership laboratory. Those you meet everyday will teach you enduring lessons if you just take the time to stop, look and listen. I spent four years at the Air Force Academy, took dozens of classes, read hundreds of books, and met thousands of great people. I gleaned leadership skills from all of them, but one of the people I remember most is Mr. Bill Crawford and the lessons he unknowingly taught. Don’t miss your opportunity to learn.
Bill Crawford was a janitor. However, he was also a teacher, friend, role model and one great American hero. Thanks, Mr. Crawford, for some valuable leadership lessons.
Here is President Reagan’s speech to the graduating class of 1984. Mr. Crawford’s Medal of Honor ceremony begins at minute 19.
Video at the link.
Crawford’s MoH citation reads:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy near Altavilla, Italy, 13 September 1943.
When Company I attacked an enemy-held position on Hill 424, the 3rd Platoon, in which Pvt. Crawford was a squad scout, attacked as base platoon for the company. After reaching the crest of the hill, the platoon was pinned down by intense enemy machine-gun and small-arms fire. Locating 1 of these guns, which was dug in on a terrace on his immediate front, Pvt. Crawford, without orders and on his own initiative, moved over the hill under enemy fire to a point within a few yards of the gun emplacement and single-handedly destroyed the machine-gun and killed 3 of the crew with a hand grenade, thus enabling his platoon to continue its advance.
When the platoon, after reaching the crest, was once more delayed by enemy fire, Pvt. Crawford again, in the face of intense fire, advanced directly to the front midway between 2 hostile machine-gun nests located on a higher terrace and emplaced in a small ravine. Moving first to the left, with a hand grenade he destroyed 1 gun emplacement and killed the crew; he then worked his way, under continuous fire, to the other and with 1 grenade and the use of his rifle, killed 1 enemy and forced the remainder to flee. Seizing the enemy machine gun, he fired on the withdrawing Germans and facilitated his company’s advance.
We should never “judge” people by what they do for a living. Take the time to know them. You might find a hidden hero.
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I've met several Medal of Honor recipients. They are all the most stunningly ordinary guys you could find. The one thread that they have/had is they all once said "Nope, not today" and then did something special (or stupid, according to which ones you talk to).
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Great inspirational story. Crawford is a modest and humble man.
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^ and comfortable in whom he knows who he is. A great place. The most impressive people rarely need to explain themselves
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Working late at the office a young hispanic couple would come in, empty the trash cans, vaccum the carpet, then leave.
The wife appeared ashamed when I watched them. So each time I worked late and after they finished their tasks I thanked them both. From that point on she worked side by side with a sense of pride.
[Military] He was assigned to a roving demolition squad nicknamed the "Death Squad" for its high casualty rate. Serling experienced combat in the Battle of Leyte and in Manilla in intense urban warfare. The randomness of the death he saw, and likely some type of survivor's guilt, lingered well after the war, according to his family. He witnessed one of his fellow platoon mates, Melvin Levy, killed when a food crate being air-dropped to their location landed on Levy's head while he was telling a joke to the platoon.
[JPost] "Please don't kill me"
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to appear in court in The Bahamas on Monday to reverse his decision to contest extradition to the United States, where faces fraud charges, a person familiar with the matter said on Saturday.
[AlAhram] The Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us... said Friday it is buying 3 million barrels of oil to begin to replenish U.S. strategic reserves that officials drained earlier this year in a bid to stop gasoline prices from rising amid production cuts by OPEC and a ban on Russian oil imports.
President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity, except maybe for abandoning Afghanistan... withdrew 180 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve starting in March, bringing the stockpile to its lowest level since the 1980s. The purchase, to begin in January, will start to replenish the reserve and is likely to be followed by additional purchases, officials said.
The Energy Department called the purchase ``a good deal for American taxpayers'' since the price will be lower than the $96 per barrel average the U.S. oil was sold for. The replenishment also will strengthen U.S. energy security, the department said in a statement.
The purchase price was not announced, but benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude oil was selling at $74.50 per barrel late Friday.
Gasoline prices, meanwhile, averaged about $3.18 per gallon on Friday, down from $3.74 a month ago and just over $5 per gallon at their peak in June, according to the AAA auto club.
Tapping the reserve is among the few things a president can do by himself to try to control the inflation that makes Americans poorer and often creates a political liability for the party in control of the White House.
Global oil prices were rising even before Russia invaded Ukraine last February. When Biden announced a ban on Russian oil imports in early March, he acknowledged it would come at a cost to American consumers.
The administration completed the release of 180 million barrels in October. The reserve now contains roughly 400 million barrels of oil, down from more than 600 million in late 2021, according to the Energy Department.
The reserve was created after the 1970s Arab oil embargo to give the United States a supply that could be used in an emergency.
Contracts for the purchase will be awarded by Jan. 13, with deliveries to an SPR site in Texas expected in February.
Didn’t President Trump top it off last time when oil prices were half they are now, mostly from American suppliers? This time the cost will be higher, and more of what we buy will come from foreign suppliers like OPEC and Venezuela. So when it’s sold next time, the profit to the federal treasury will be considerably smaller. Way to support those who privately deem themselves America’s enemies, Joe!
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Forbes wrote: President Trump did propose to top off the SPR when the Covid-19 pandemic was crushing oil demand. In March 2020 President Trump directed the Department of Energy to “fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to its maximum capacity by purchasing 77 million barrels of American-made crude oil.” ... However, 1). The directive was never carried out; and 2). The SPR was already within 13% of its highest-ever level when that directive was issued.
A bureaucracy that defies the Executive should be fired. Immediately. Hope President DeSantis gets that.
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I am SO reminded of the $.5M sales of Hunter's 'artwork' as a scheme to wash payments. I wonder if the Burisma Group will be brokering oil sales through it's many shells.
#4
Skid, if they're buying oil from Venezuela they're more or less buying it direct from Lukoil, Rosneft, and Sinopac. They don't need a Ukrainian intermediary (which they more or less control as an additional step).
It's a very thin veneer over writing a check directly to Putin.
#6
As I recall, Schumer & the gang shut down DJT's 'top off' initiative in 2020, when oil was at ~$24/bbl (similar to 1999/2000).
The SPR was already within 13% of its highest-ever level when that directive was issued.
But that's misleading as we could have actually filled it beyond the '13% of its highest-ever level'.
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I have an idea: do the replenishment in the dead of winter to create an artificial demand at the refinery level. Nobody uses oil in the winter for anything anyway.
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Nobody uses oil in the winter for anything anyway.
"We just turn our NEST thermostat to the heat temp we want and it heats up. Mostly. Lately we get an error message. F*ck it's cold"
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[Red State] I wrote earlier about the incredible closeness of the contact between the FBI and Twitter, with the FBI having regular contact with people at Twitter flagging tweets for their attention. Not criminal tweets mind you, or anything with which you would think that the FBI should be concerned. But things including jokes about when election day was as part of dealing with "election misinformation." So instead of going after BLM/Antifa organized rioters or child predators, they’re spending time flagging jokes on our dime.
In addition to the 80-person team of social media-oriented FBI agents, regular contacts to flag tweets, and weekly meetings between the FBI and other executive agencies, it turns out that there were still more deep connections between the FBI and Twitter.
We know about former FBI general counsel James Baker who went on from the FBI to join Twitter as its deputy general counsel in June 2020. Elon Musk fired him after he allegedly vetted the Twitter files without the permission of the upper management.
But it turns out there were many more people. More than a dozen former FBI officials went on to hold critical positions impacting important decisions at Twitter, including being "close to company leadership directly involved in censoring The Post’s Hunter Biden coverage in October 2020."
Matthew Williams was a senior supervisory intelligence analyst who was in the FBI for 15 years. He was also a Democratic donor. He joined Twitter the same month as Baker. He served as "senior director of product trust, revenue policy, counsel systems & analytics at Twitter." He noted this made him "co-lead of Trust & Safety." That would mean that he was making decisions along with Yoel Roth, the former head of Trust and Safety, so that was a very weighty position.
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Pretty obvious what was going on here. Also pretty obvious it was going on elsewhere. How could one assume otherwise? An "all of the above" approach was surely in play. Unfortunately, not a fok'g thing will likel be done about it.
Do I need to post a Dominion voting machine or Ray Epps graphic with that ?
[NY Post] Twitter’s top ranks were riddled with ex-FBI agents and executives, stitching the company even closer to the federal agency now under fire for leaning on Twitter to meddle in the 2020 elections.
More than a dozen former feds flocked to the company in the months and years prior to Elon Musk’s purchase of the social network in October.
The Post found FBI influence was considerably more significant than just James Baker, the FBI’s former general counsel who later worked in the same role for Twitter. He was recently fired by Musk for interfering in the billionaire’s efforts to come clean about past transgressions at the company.
The news comes on the heels of the latest Twitter Files disclosures which show how the agency dedicated dozens of agents to pressuring the company to remove political tweets it found objectionable.
In some cases, the former G-men and -women held positions that would have put them close to company leadership directly involved in censoring The Post’s Hunter Biden coverage in October 2020.
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[RedState] By all appearances, Bill Crawford wasn’t a hero. He was just a janitor at the Air Force Academy. He grew up in Pueblo, Colorado, about 65 miles from the Academy in Colorado Springs.
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed 
[NY Post] Twitter’s top ranks were riddled with ex-FBI agents and executives, stitching the company even closer to the federal agency now under fire for leaning on Twitter to meddle in the 2020 elections.
