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It’s not just about this one crisis but past and future ones as well. Above all, this lesson concerns the desperate need for a new outlook that rejects the power of the legally privileged few to rule over the many under any pretext. https://brownstone.org

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Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 13h

May all your carrots grow long and straight. May tomato blossom end rot affect your Monsanto neighbor's tomatoes. May the coyotes be struck blind at your pasture chickens. May all of your culinary experiments be delectably palatable.
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The Food Emancipation Proclamation ⋆ Brownstone Institute

May all your carrots grow long and straight. May tomato blossom end rot affect your Monsanto neighbor's tomatoes.

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 13h

This is not about partisanship or ideology. It is about human life and if society can survive this onslaught of violence whether private or public. We must expose those who fund the unraveling of our society and see that they are stopped by legal means.
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Charlie Kirk: May He Rest in Peace ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Charlie Kirk had a gift for embracing critics, for refuting their arguments, for harnessing their hatred. He loved debate and he loved ideas.

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 21h

Daszak can plead ignorance on the meaning of gain-of-function research (he claims he does not “have a personal definition”), but there is a well-documented history demonstrating his obstinate pursuit of gain-of-function research at EcoHealth.
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Perjury: The Case Against Peter Daszak ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Though untruthful testimony pales in comparison to the crimes of the last five years, perjury may be the most effective charge to impose accountability on the wrongdoers behind the Covid Regime.

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 23h

[T]he vast number of sectors we think of as serving society are really serving mainly narrow interests at the expense of everyone else. Deep, middle, and shallow layers: that’s the structure of the system that is at war with freedom. brownstone.org/articles/ana...

Anatomy of the Shallow State ⋆ Brownstone Institute

The state consists of three layers. All play crucial roles to exercise and retain hegemony over the population domestically and globally.

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 23h

More free speech would have resulted in a better informed and better protected society.
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The Censorship Industrial Complex ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Censorship Industrial Complex: Big Media and Big Tech fell out of sync with material reality, explicitly censoring topics from social media

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 1d

He’s been criticized so heavily, he had to shut down his X account and hide on Bluesky.

Holden Thorp is paid over $700,000 and AAAS’s biggest single funder, from what I can tell, is the US federal government. Why are taxpayers subsidizing this kind of nonsense?
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NIH Director Details Crackdown on Fees Monopoly Publishers Charge ⋆ Brownstone Institute

National Institutes of Health Director Bhattacharya explains his latest policy to control monopoly science publishers.

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 1d

Babel isn’t just a story about tribalism. It’s a story about loss of stability & displacement to a new reality. It’s a metaphor for what’s happening not just between right & left, pro- & anti-narrative, but for what’s shifting in institutions, culture, & ourselves. brownstone.org/articles/tog...

Together, Apart ⋆ Brownstone Institute

What do all these "Babel moments" have in common? If we recognize the moment while we are in it, can we do something to change our course, to make the outcome less disastrous than it might otherwise b...

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 1d

While Gorski and Yamey provided no evidence that Koch money funded the GBD signatories, the BMJ still published their piece….The BMJ article is full of errors that ought to have never found their way into any publication,” wrote Martin Kulldorff in the Spectator. brownstone.org/articles/cov...

Covid Bias at the BMJ ⋆ Brownstone Institute

This week, Ioannidis and his colleagues published a paper on Covid-19 advocacy bias in the BMJ, concluding that the ‘BMJ had a strong bias.’

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 1d

"Perhaps most chilling is the complete absence of informed consent. The crisis revealed how quickly we abandoned our most sacred protections." brownstone.org/articles/how...

How Performative Activism Enabled Mass Persecution ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Reality engineering requires components. Covid era revealed how performative activism serves as machinery’s potent enforcement mechanism.

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 1d

The pandemic opened the curtain to expose the folly of expert worship. Experts are just as fallible and prone to biases, toxic groupthink and political influence as anyone else. brownstone.org/articles/fal...

Fall of the Experts ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Experts are just as fallible and prone to biases, toxic groupthink and political influence as anyone else.

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 1d

"No matter how low our opinion is of the 'expert' class, it’s clearly not low enough."
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Francis Collins Accidentally Reveals His Own Incompetence ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Collins acknowledged that public health profession paid "zero” attention to what trade-offs would be from restrictions imposed on public.

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 2d

Our most read article this month:
"The battle we kicked off with the Great Barrington Declaration is hardly over."
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The Coup, the Calamity, and the Conspiracy ⋆ Brownstone Institute

It's the ideas held in the public mind that drives this narrative of history, not ultimately industrial profits and not government power.

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, who knew there were so many cats here? Apparently BlueSky is filled with cats. Kinda like Tumblr back in the day?

cats, cats, everywhere!

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 2d

Five years ago or even two years ago, so much seemed hopeless. Brownstone Institute has undertaken the hard lifting to drive us away from dystopia back into hope for a better future.

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Brownstone Institute’s Struggle for a Better World ⋆ Brownstone Institute

So many institutions failed us for these terrible years. From under the rubble came Brownstone Institute to show the way out.

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 2d

Can anyone who has read Doddsworth’s essential A State of Fear, or read German government’s “Panic Paper” doubt the conscious & cynical desire by governments, who supposedly serve at the pleasure of the people, to inflict trauma on the populations of those countries?
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A Helpless, Weary, and Traumatized Populace ⋆ Brownstone Institute

The idea that governments might have capacity to assault their own populations with campaigns of information warfare seems rather far-fetched.

Brownstone Institute @brownstoneinst.bsky.social · 2d

Emails obtained through FOIA show that Fauci was alerted by January 27, 2020, that his institute had funded “among the biggest players in coronavirus work,” namely EcoHealth Alliance and its collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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Fauci's Lies Are Catching up with Him ⋆ Brownstone Institute

It turns out that Senator Paul did know what he was talking about, and it was Fauci that was lying and deflecting.