Brownstone Institute has been tracking a little-known federal agency for years. It is part of the Department of Homeland Security created after 9-11. It is called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA. It was created in 2018 out of a 2017 executive order that seemed to make sense. It was a mandate to secure American digital infrastructure against foreign attack and infiltration.

And yet during the Covid year, it assumed three huge jobs. It was the agency responsible for dividing the workforce between essential and nonessential. It led the way on censorship efforts. And it handled election security for 2020 and 2022, which, if you understand the implications of that, should make you spit out your coffee upon learning.

More than any other agency, it became the operationally relevant government during this period. It was the agency that worked through third parties and packet-switching networking to take down your Facebook group. It worked through all kinds of intermediaries to keep a lid on Twitter. It managed LinkedIn, Instagram, and most of the other mainstream platforms in a way that made you feel like your opinions were too crazy to see the light of day.

The most astonishing court document just came out. It was unearthed in the course of litigation undertaken by America First Legal. It has no redaction. It is a reverse chronicle of most of what they did from February 2020 until last year. It is 500 pages long. The version available now takes an age to download, so we shrunk it and put it on fast view so you can see the entire thing.

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-spies-who-hate-us/

EDWARD DOWD

What a morning in the Okavango Delta looks like 🥹🐘

Mokolwane Camp - Botswana

National Geographic

💲🇨🇭🇷🇺 About $7.9 billion in private assets have been frozen in Switzerland as part of sanctions against Russia.

Switzerland will never again be able to claim the status of a neutral country and a country as a platform for any peace negotiations.

Israel travel advisory map
https://redd.it/1hjz5h0
@r_mapporn

"For some reason, a number of men consistently confuse SSH rank with morality. They can’t seem to wrap their heads around the obvious fact that high status men whom men admire and to whom women are attracted often will do very bad things of which they do not approve, despite the fact that criticizing the awful behavior of various celebrities is a regular pastime for people of their judgmental kind."

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-bad-sigma

A Russian UGV platform sets up a mine barrier somewhere in the zone.

#info
#UGV

Two new meta-analytic studies involving thousands of children and college students show that anxiety has increased substantially since the 1950's. In fact, the studies find that anxiety has increased so much that typical schoolchildren during the 1980's reported more anxiety than child psychiatric patients did during the 1950's. 

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2000/12/anxiety
2000 source 😱

"The most notable impact of the absence of the legacy media and its virtue-signalling academic pets was that we got to have an actual, robust, masculine, no-holds-barred debate for the first time in at least a decade. The familiar shame-and-ostracize tactics were tried – mainly by centre-right classical liberals who have been trying to force-meme ‘woke right’ for months now – but fell entirely on deaf ears, and served mainly to marginalize the people resorting to such tricks. Instead, the debate focused on verifiable fact, on peoples’ direct experiences, on logical argument, and yes, on rhetoric and memes. Ordinary anon accounts with a few hundred followers were ratioing some of the worlds’ most powerful people, without any intermediation by gatekeepers."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-153824031#:~:text=The%20most%20notable,intermediation%20by%20gatekeepers.

"All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier noscript, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with the ethos of the journal and preclude maintaining the quality and integrity fundamental to JHE’s success.”

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/evolution-journal-editors-resign-en-masse-to-protest-elsevier-changes/

U.S. Crop distribution.
https://redd.it/1hod4t8
@r_mapporn

"Kickstarter has been shown to have no consistency in the way they apply their terms of service on their platforms. After banning several conservative creators, they are now allowing a card game glorifying killing billionaires after the recent horrific shooting."

https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/after-banning-multiple-conservative