RIT Professor of law, journalism, & public policy; 2001 Pulitzer; 4 bestsellers; DCReport co-founder; 8 grown kids, aka Mr. Jennifer Leonard for 42 yrs.

Rochester NY
Joined July 2011
David Cay Johnston retweeted
Elderly man arrested in Britain for “causing anxiety” with a social media post. This is insane. Thank God there is a constitutional right to freedom of speech in America!
British police capture and arrest an elderly man because some of his social media posts caused someone anxiety.
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Watch this to understand more
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David Cay Johnston retweeted
🛡️ VERITAS 🛡️ 🛡️ ÆTERNUM 🛡️
As a Jew who grew up in a country governed by an extreme right wing party - replete with anti-semitic remnants of a wartime Nazi party - I am very sensitive to extreme right wing rhetoric. So when Elon Musk endorsed the AfD, I was puzzled, even alarmed. Wasn't the AfD practially a Nazi party? That's what I had been assured was the case, in multiple MSM pieces - and I failed to fact check. accepting this trope blindly. Then I read the AfD "Manifesto for Germany" (Link to the manifesto, provided by @alojoh - thanks, AJ! - posted below). I read it end-to-end. Frankly, I was stunned! This manifesto absolutely accorded with my upbringing, which I describe traditional western liberalism. I strongly urge all thinking people to AND to read Elon Musk's own reasons for backing the AfD (see thread posted below). After reading these pieces, let me know your honest take. If you simply respond negatively from the gut, I will know, and you will be challenged! AfD manifesto posted here by @alojoh - xitter.cf/alojoh/status/18… Elon's article published below, with sources fully attributed.
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David Cay Johnston retweeted
Yet more shameful conduct by the legacy media
It is really important that more people are becoming aware of the mass rape gangs which were (and still are) allowed to operate in the UK. The first time we interviewed a survivor I tried my best to get the mainstream media to talk more about it to no avail. If you want to know more about it you can watch our interviews with survivors and also a policewoman whistleblower here:
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Exactly. Time for Reform.
Talk is cheap. The Conservatives had 14 years in government to launch an inquiry. The establishment has failed the victims of grooming gangs on every level.
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Absolutely
These appalling rape gang cases of girls as young as 11 shame our country. Not only do the perpetrators need to be punished. So do the authorities who turned a blind eye in the name of not inflaming "racial tensions".
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Vote Reform. It’s the only hope.
The mass rape of tens of thousands of girls across the United Kingdom by mostly Muslim men remains one of the biggest attempted coverups in modern British history The lenient sentences, the attempts to stop investigations and no authorities punished This shames our country😞
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A good read on the Trump-ABC settlement from leading publishing and media law expert @henry_kaufman20 xitter.cf/dcreportmedia/status/1…
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As we (finally) close the Matt Gaetz 'show,' @THSchwadron laments how, even in a culture as sex-obsessed as ours, it's mind-twisting to consider the character issues we choose to ignore in selecting our leaders. dcreport.org/2024/12/26/clos…
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Let's see how strongly, if at all, @elonmusk believes in free speech:
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Daughter Bonk captured an early White Christmas outside our dining room. (David Cowles caricatures of @ms501c3 and me on right.)
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And sister Molly with the pond and formal patio behind her outside the living room window.
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Last week, @realDonaldTrump nominated @pnjaban, a Trump loyalist and election denier as the person to head Civil Rights enforcement. As @THSchwadron writes, that's like putting a fox in charge of the hen house. dcreport.org/2024/12/18/trum…
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