Top Story
RESTRICT Act: TikTok Panacea or Digital Patriot Act?
S. 686 - RESTRICT Act (US Congress)
VPN Users Risk 20-Year Jail Sentences in the US Under New RESTRICT Act (Crypto News)
The Administrative State
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Elections
Energy & the Environment
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From the Academy
Americas Rising Generation of Censors Stanford and Davis Show the Success of the Anti-free Speech Movement (Jonathan Turley)
Columbia Law Students Call Kavanaugh A Rapist, Egged On By Radical Academic Department (The Daily Wire)
Peer Review as Shadow Cancelling (Quillette)
Stanford Law & DIE Dean Further Criticized
This Law Professor Took on Nixon and Trump. Now He’s Facing Off Against Stanford Law School Students (Washington Free Beacon)
Healthcare & Global Public Health
None this week.
SARS-CoV-2 & The COVID Pandemic
None this week.
High Courts
Jacob Chansley Released from Prison After Being Sentenced to 41 Months on Jan 6 Charges (The Post Millennial)
SCOTUS Protective Details & US Marshall Training (Sen. Katie Britt)
Trump Is Indicted, Becoming First Ex-President to Face Criminal Charges (NYT)
International News
China and Brazil have Reached a Deal to Trade in Their Own Currencies, Ditching the US dollar as an Intermediary (Unusual Whales)
Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin Defeated in Tight Election (Independent)
France Mandates Influencers to Label Filtered Images, Bans Promotion of Plastic Surgery (NY Post)
New EU Measures Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (EU Parliament)
Legislatures
National Sovereignty & Defense
None this week.
Tech
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin Liquidity Hits 10-Month Low Even With the Price Surging (Bloomberg)
US Senator Elizabeth Warren Launches “Anti-Crypto” Re-Election Campaign (WatcherGuru)
MANGA
None this week.
The Twitter Files
Past disclosures: TFs archive (incomplete), TFs Summaries
Social Media Governance
RESTRICT Act: TikTok Panacea or Digital Patriot Act?
S. 686 - RESTRICT Act (US Congress)
VPN Users Risk 20-Year Jail Sentences in the US Under New RESTRICT Act (Crypto News)
Other Tech Stories
Disney Eliminates Its Metaverse Division as Part of Company’s Layoffs Plan (The Wall Street Journal)
The Future of Rumble & Q4 Earnings Recap w/ CEO Chris Pavlovski (Rumble)
"Godfather of artificial intelligence" weighs in on the past and potential of AI (CBS News)
Twitter Obtains Subpoena Forcing GitHub to Unmask Source-code Leaker (Ars Technica)
The Woke, the Red-pilled, & the Heterodox Counterculture
None this week.
Other Trending Stories
Alex Jones’s Firm Wins Key Bankruptcy Ruling in Sandy Hook Case (Hartford Courant)
Andrew Tate and Brother Speak After Release from Custody (BBC)
Half-eaten Burrito Ties Suspect to Firebombing of Anti-abortion Group's Madison Office (Wisconsin State Journal)
Pope Francis Hospitalized with Respiratory Infection (AP News)
Statement from the Office of Governor Hobbs (AZ Gov. Office)
Douglass Mackey & Criminal Memes
Social Media Influencer Douglass Mackey Convicted of Election Interference in 2016 Presidential Race (US DOJ - EDNY)
(Previously) - Jury in Douglass Mackey Trial Tells Judge They Cannot Come to a Unanimous Decision (The Post Millennial)
Weekly White Pill
Houston Methodist Patient's Brain Tumor Shrinks after Using Experimental Helmet for 6 Months (ABC-13)