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https://twitter.com/breenewsome/status/982069093955088384

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https://twitter.com/yonahlieberman/status/981663383811514368

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https://twitter.com/breenewsome/status/981914088732323843

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Centre Twitter has spent the last couple of days attempting to manufacture a “Black people hate Bernie” story out of fairy dust:

https://twitter.com/idreamondemand/status/981721057605238788

But the pushback from the left seems to be working.

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/981877560375173122

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/981878100500926467

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/981878733224185856

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Thread:

https://twitter.com/disco_socialist/status/982052657480155136

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https://twitter.com/kwestsavali/status/981997033790885894

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https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/982003900747321345

https://twitter.com/hausmuva/status/982018388712181761

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https://twitter.com/ericuman/status/982090404945375233

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https://twitter.com/tehdemins/status/982421919554244608

https://twitter.com/eiwbm_cat/status/982422172575641600

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Having a look at Truman:

We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F.B.I. is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex life scandles [sic] and plain blackmail when they should be catching criminals. They also have a habit of sneering at local law enforcement officers.

-Longhand Note of President Harry S. Truman, May 12, 1945.

He was also interestingly inconsistent (and genocidal) regarding Russia:

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances. Neither of them thinks anything of their pledged word.

-As quoted in The New York Times (24 June 1941); also in TIME magazine (2 July 1951))

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

-Letter to George H. Earle, former governor of Pennsylvania (received 28 February 1947); reported in The New York Times (3 April 1947), p. 17, quoting Earle.

I am not worried about the Communist Party taking over the Government of the United States, but I am against a person, whose loyalty is not to the Government of the United States, holding a Government job. They are entirely different things. I am not worried about this country ever going Communist. We have too much sense for that.

-Responding to a question at his press conference (February 28, 1947); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1947, p. 191

The Russians are like us, they look and act like us. They are fine people. They got along with our soldiers in Berlin very well. As far as I am concerned, they can have whatever they want just so they don’t try to impose their system on others.

-Statement to a group of four congress freshmen (2 July 1947), as quoted in The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 44

The Russians are liars – you can’t trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It’s too bad the second world power is like this, but that’s the way it is, and we must keep our strength.

-Statement to Richard Nixon and his wife Pat in 1969, as quoted in The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 44

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More Truman:

For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas.
I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations. Some of the complications and embarrassment I think we have experienced are in part attributable to the fact that this quiet intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue—and a subject for cold war enemy propaganda.
With all the nonsense put out by Communist propaganda about “Yankee imperialism,” “exploitive capitalism,” “war-mongering,” “monopolists,” in their name-calling assault on the West, the last thing we needed was for the CIA to be seized upon as something akin to a subverting influence in the affairs of other people.
I well knew the first temporary director of the CIA, Adm. Souers, and the later permanent directors of the CIA, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg and Allen Dulles. These were men of the highest character, patriotism and integrity—and I assume this is true of all those who continue in charge.
But there are now some searching questions that need to be answered. I, therefore, would like to see the CIA be restored to its original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President, and that whatever else it can properly perform in that special field—and that its operational duties be terminated or properly used elsewhere.
We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.

From Limit CIA Role To Intelligence by Harry S Truman

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This should be fun…

https://twitter.com/revleftradio/status/982243510769233922

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https://twitter.com/nadegegreen/status/982238467252879362

In Parkland, Shutting Down A Black Lives Matter Statement Days Before Shooting

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https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonnyc/status/982721959422078976

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https://twitter.com/maxblumenthal/status/982733559751258112

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Efraín Ríos Montt | Charges of crimes against humanity

https://panampost.com/amp/karina-martin/2018/04/04/without-rios-montt-guatemala-would-have-succumbed-to-communism/#click=https://t.co/li8XeDdyun

https://twitter.com/naru_xut/status/982777384716984320

https://twitter.com/naru_xut/status/982780458168737792

https://twitter.com/naru_xut/status/982788512528326661

https://twitter.com/naru_xut/status/982788590324170752

The UN asks Guatemala for explanation over repression against CODECA |

https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/982702985749909504

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https://twitter.com/kamalaharris/status/982788369200701440

https://twitter.com/brownblaze/status/982798053747802112

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https://twitter.com/bv/status/982677514354077696

https://twitter.com/philalban/status/982680984276623360

https://twitter.com/ifthunder/status/982680649793458179

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https://twitter.com/ethehustla/status/982291735328915456