This is the 8th Festivus Report Rand Paul has released. The national debt is above $31 trillion

"This is the eighth #Festivus Report @SenRandPaul has released since entering the Senate. The national debt is above $31T. The "debt has risen so rapidly that @USCBO projects that, within the next 30 yrs, there's not a single year in which the federal budget will balance." #ampFW https://t.co/ZHB3xOw8pq

— FreedomWorks (@FreedomWorks) January 2, 2023

Shame on Republicans who claim to be against big government yet voted for the omnibus

Even with the nation’s finances in shambles, @SenateGOP joined Biden to pass yet another gargantuan year-end spending bill filled with pork, and beefy increases for nearly every federal agency. Shame on Republicans who claim to be against big government. #ampFW pic.twitter.com/4uXqbLoF9x

— FreedomWorks (@FreedomWorks) January 1, 2023

We will win

I’m an optimist. I don’t think powerful political elites can ever fully crush the spirit in people to be free. That their newly exposed efforts to kneecap us are so extreme tells us they are afraid that we will rise up, again and again. That we will win. https://t.co/Td4dQ1XAnM

— Matt Kibbe (@mkibbe) December 31, 2022

'In the absence of evidence, dogma ruled the day'

At a time when the country needed Fauci’s NIAID to work, it didn't. The agency failed to pivot its mammoth research infrastructure to give doctors &policymakers the medical evidence they needed in real time. In the absence of evidence, dogma ruled the day. https://t.co/nvO85Z5M5M

— Marty Makary MD, MPH (@MartyMakary) December 30, 2022

School Choice is one of the most important issues of our time

Many children are in school environments that are not healthy for them. #schoolchoice is one of the most important issues of our time.https://t.co/Bq9hlDjbCB

— Lauren Daugherty (@lauren4liberty) December 29, 2022

'To be totally frank, almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true'

“To be totally frank, almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true.” – @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/qMmVtQyP5U

— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) December 28, 2022

'Gain-of-function' should be called 'bioweapon' research, as the function referred is death!

“Gain-of-function” should be called “bioweapon” research, as the function referred is death! What was the name changed to this time?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 28, 2022

Latest Twitter Files show that experts who dissented from CDC were censored

National Review reports, “During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Twitter’s leaders bowed to government pressure to censor information that was true but inconvenient, suspended medical professionals who disagreed with establishment views, and relied on bots and foreign contractors to moderate complex scientific topics, according to the newest edition of the Twitter Files…

23. After Twitter took action, Kulldorff’s tweet was slapped with a “Misleading” label and all replies and likes were shut off, throttling the tweet’s ability to be seen and shared by many people, the ostensible core function of the platform: pic.twitter.com/Qa1HpaEray

— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022

Zweig reported, Twitter did suppress views, including the views of doctors and scientific experts whose opinions ‘conflicted with the official position of the White House,’ ‘differed from CDC guidelines,’ or were ‘contrarian but true.’

Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a Harvard Medical School epidemiologist, tweeted views at odds with U.S. public-health authorities and the American Left (‘the political affiliation of nearly the entire staff at Twitter’), Zweig’s report noted. One of his tweets about vaccines was flagged by a moderator as ‘false information,’ even though it was essentially an expert opinion, and in line with vaccine policies in several other countries. ‘Yet it was deemed ‘false information’ by Twitter moderators merely because it differed from CDC guidelines,’ Zweig reported."

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Take social media platforms out of the moderation game

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The only solution is taking platforms out of the moderation game. The content-layer of the internet should be moved to neutral protocols. *You* should be the one who decides what you can read. Not a company. Not a government. https://t.co/DMyMr9RCtQ

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 24, 2022

The tip of the iceberg

We're always looking at just the tip of the iceberg. pic.twitter.com/CtEkxyhkgL

— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) December 27, 2022