Michael Shellenberger

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CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship & Free Speech @UAustinOrg : Dao Journalism Winner : Time, "Hero of Environment" : Author, “Apocalypse Never,” "San Fransicko"

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1Dec 19, '221. TWITTER FILES: PART 7 The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealin473×101.4M148k50k11k
2Sep 27, '24No matter your politics, these new numbers are shocking. Of the 7 million migrants that ICE released while their cases are being processed, 663,000 have criminal histories, 13,000 216×46.4M49k24k15k
3Nov 28, '23THE CTIL FILES #1 Many people insist that governments aren't involved in censorship, but they are. And now, a whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of document171×36.7M45k19k9.4k
4Nov 20, '23The media say X is placing Apple, IBM, and other ads near pro-Nazi content, but it's not. We tried various ways to replicate Media Matters' research and couldn't. The real goal of 162×34.7M47k12k1.1k
5Apr 7, '24BRAZIL IS ON THE BRINK I’m reporting to you from Brazil, where a dramatic series of events are underway. At 5:52 pm Eastern Time, today, April 6, 2024, X corporation, formerly know158×33.9M110k36k7.7k
6Aug 31, '24Dear Brazilian friends, Please stay on X. If you leave X for other platforms, the totalitarians will win. You are safe using VPNs. Everyone knows that there is simply no way for Mo157×33.7M49k9.6k691
7Apr 3, '24TWITTER FILES - BRAZIL Brazil is engaged in a sweeping crackdown on free speech led by a Supreme Court justice named Alexandre de Moraes. De Moraes has thrown people in jail withou146×31.2M72k24k8.1k
8Jul 16, '24I’m afraid I have some terrible news. The governor of America’s largest and richest state has just signed a law that puts 10 million children and adolescents in grave danger of med133×28.5M75k24k8.4k
9Nov 7, '24Many Democrats say they want to understand what happened. Few genuinely do. That's because, at some level, they know they're guilty of having participated in a witch hunt in which 129×27.6M68k18k10k
10Feb 25, '25FBI whistleblower @GOBactual confirmed to me that a source inside FBI said FBI employees were destroying evidence on servers, and that he informed @Kash_Patel I hope he & @AGPa120×25.7M54k17k3.1k
11Aug 28, '24In his new letter, Zuckerberg goes beyond what he told Rogan. He says FBI specifically warned of disinfo re: Hunter Biden & his client, Burisma, the Ukrainian nat gas company. 111×23.8M61k22k5.1k
12Apr 11, '24President Lula says he supports free speech, but he doesn't. He is, at this moment, demanding a censorship regime as severe as the one that has been in place in Cuba since the earl93×20M32k7.5k635
14Apr 8, '24Elon Musk Is All That Stands In The Way Of Totalitarianism Last night, around 8 p.m. local time in São Paulo, Brazil, Federal Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes announced a 73.6×15.8M45k13k2.9k
15Apr 18, '24Years Of US-UK Military And Intelligence Planning Behind Sweeping Brazil Censorship, Evidence Suggests _Secret evidence, specialized spy units, and permanent bans on populists were73.3×15.7M33k9.1k1.7k
16Nov 1, '24Biden didn't call Trump supporters "garbage," the media said. But he did. And now two officials and an internal email reveal that the White House press office altered the transcrip71.8×15.4M38k14k2.3k
17Oct 28, '24All in last few hours: - Leaked Dem memo shows “fascism” label isn’t sticking - White House caught manipulating migration data - More voters say Trump justified in challenging 202060.8×13.1M53k16k3.4k
18Apr 14, '23The idea that governments worldwide are working together to censor their citizens sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it's not. It's increasingly clear that there is just such an 54.9×11.8M51k14k1.8k
20Aug 30, '24Brazil's Supreme Court just banned X and announced an $8,900/day penalty for those who use a VPN to evade it. Don't dismiss what's happening because it's Brazil. It isn't an outlie51.3×11M32k9.8k965
21Sep 27, '25The man behind the digital ID push is Larry Ellison, owner of Oracle, CBS, CNN, and, soon, TikTok. He wants data centralization and total surveillance. "Citizens will be on their b49.9×10.7M100k41k19k
22Jan 4, '23In 2020, "60 minutes" cut off Trump when he tried to say something true. CBS claimed, "we can't verify" the Hunter Biden laptop, a bald-faced lie. On Sunday, "60 Minutes" let Paul 43.3×9.3M56k11k1.3k
23Jan 14, '23Public: Coverage Of Biden & Trump's Mishandled Classified Documents Reveals Media Double Standard40.7×8.7M42k6.2k291
24Feb 13, '24FBI started spying on the Trump campaign after foreign governments "by chance" discovered evidence that his advisors were colluding with the Russians, the government says. But now,40.5×8.7M34k16k3.3k
25Jan 11, '23Many think social media companies only censored "vaccine misinformation." But a recently-released email shows Facebook reassuring the White House that they were censoring "often-tr37.4×8M49k14k1.6k
26Oct 26, '24The media say Trump lied when he told Joe Rogan that industrial wind turbines are killing whales, but he didn't. In fact, it's worse than Trump said. If the wind industry continues34×7.3M128k53k14k
27Aug 1, '23People think solar panels are good for the environment but they’re not. They’re made with toxic heavy metals and aren’t recycled. Most are made with coal in China and produce produ32.9×7.1M34k16k2.6k
28May 9, '23Governments worldwide claim that "hate incidents" are rising, but they're not. Tolerance of racial, sexual, and religious minorities has never been higher. Elites are manufacturing31.5×6.7M48k13k1.6k
29Mar 7, '23The Biden administration is demanding that @elonmusk explain why he allowed journalists access to the Twitter Files. This is an outrageous attack on the First Amendment.29.3×6.3M35k7.7k536
30Jan 16, '23Spokespersons for @wef say “The Great Reset,” eating insects instead of meat, and “You’ll own nothing and be happy” are conspiracy theories, but they’re not. In fact, all of them o28.8×6.2M37k13k1.2k
31Mar 28, '23While ⁦@mtaibbi⁩ & I were testifying before Congress on the weaponization of the federal government, an IRS agent showed up at his house. What an amazing coincidence24.8×5.3M40k11k642
32Aug 4, '25🚨EXCLUSIVE: JANUARY 8 FILES New leaked files reveal that Brazil’s Supreme Court illegally used social media posts to incarcerate pro-Bolsonaro protesters. On January 8, 2023, hund24.1×5.2M36k12k2.3k
33Mar 9, '23“So-called journalists” @mtaibbi21.6×4.6M67k6.1k222
34Dec 6, '23It sounds like a "Black Mirror" episode: a small country announces a crackdown on hate speech to seize control over the entire Internet. Except it's not a "Black Mirror" episode. I21.4×4.6M42k19k4.3k
35Apr 6, '23Whistleblower tells me that the Censorship Industrial Complex is preparing “a full court press against the Twitter Files reporters….The press will be targeting each of you, your hi19.8×4.3M42k9.1k704
36Oct 6, '24Bill Gates two weeks ago, John Kerry last week, and Hillary Clinton today — all demanding government censorship of X. Hard to see this as a coincidence. They appear to be laying th19.8×4.2M44k16k2.9k
37Apr 9, '24O governo brasileiro quer censurar as teorias da conspiração e ainda assim aqui está, espalhando teorias da conspiração: " O governo brasileiro suspeita que os ataques de Elon Musk19.5×4.2M51k9.7k1.3k
38Apr 7, '24BRASIL À BEIRA Este é Michael Shellenberger, e estou reportando a vocês ao vivo do Brasil, onde uma série dramática de eventos está em andamento. Às 18h52, horário do Sao Paulo a c19.4×4.2M60k16k2.6k
39Jun 2, '23Twitter yesterday censored "What Is A Woman?" After, Twitter's head of trust and safety resigned. Then, this morning, @elonmusk personally boosted the documentary. Musk did the rig18.5×4M32k4.6k333
40Feb 3, '25It's outrageous Trump shut down USAID, say leaders of the foreign policy establishment. It's not. Voters elected him to dismantle rogue, deep state agencies like USAID, which turne18.1×3.9M51k12k3k
41Aug 13, '23Yesterday marked the 60th known whale death on the East Coast since Dec 1, 2022. This is not normal. The government says it’s not because of the wind industry’s high decibel pile d17.9×3.8M33k13k1.4k
42Sep 23, '25Finally! Google admits 1) that the Biden White House demanded censorship of legal content, and 2) that the European censorship law (DSA) could require it and other tech companies "17×3.6M41k11k3.9k
43Feb 28, '25Healthy relationships depend on mutual respect. Ukraine and Europe don't respect us; they look down on us. America never had any obligation to protect Ukraine. And now we're asking17×3.6M60k13k4.6k
44Mar 16, '25The former head of the UK's foreign intelligence agency, MI6, told Boris Johnson in early 2020 that the Covid virus escaped from the Wuhan lab. That means that the US, UK, Chinese,17×3.6M59k20k9.8k
45May 19, '23This is state propaganda. The Washington Post should be ashamed of itself.16.8×3.6M33k6.9k495
46Jul 8, '25“This is a total fucking disaster,” a senior person in the Intelligence Community told us today, in response to our questions about Justice Department's cover-up of the Epstein Fil16.5×3.5M32k6k2.3k
47Jan 9, '25Over the next few weeks you’re going to hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there’s nothing that could have been done to prevent th15.9×3.4M82k29k9.1k
48Jun 14, '23In Feb. 2020, after a @nypost oped said COVID-19 came from a lab leak, Facebook censored the story. Why? Because "independent fact-checkers" said it was "False information." Not on15.6×3.4M31k9.6k1.4k
49Jan 21, '24The idea that George Soros controls politicians around the world is an antisemitic conspiracy theory, insists the media. But it's not a theory. Here's his son, Alex, with Ireland's14.7×3.2M32k11k2.5k
50Feb 5, '25USAID's defenders say it's about charity and development in poor nations. It's not. It's a $40 billion driver of regime change abroad. And now the evidence suggests that it, along 14.4×3.1M52k19k6k
51Jan 10, '25Some reporters and scientists are blaming climate change for the lack of rain in LA. It's ridiculous. There's no trend in annual rainfall from 1877 to 2024. We have wet years and d13×2.8M34k11k3.9k
52Jun 28, '24Many Democrats want to replace Biden with California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Doing so would be a disaster for the nation. Please consider these three key facts, and watch the video belo12.7×2.7M33k14k3.7k
53May 19, '23The FBI & Democrats say the whistleblowers who testified today are "a threat to our national security,” but they're not. Rather they are honorable public servants who are being12.5×2.7M32k8.8k800
54Feb 14, '25USAID said it was a charitable group. It wasn't. It was a tool for regime change. After 2016, it turned its guns inward. In 2019, a front group it created fabricated the evidence u12.2×2.6M57k19k5.3k
55Jan 15, '25California is the richest state with the highest taxes and yet it cut funding for firefighting, which led directly to L.A.'s catastrophic fires. Why? Because Newsom & Bass dive12.1×2.6M32k11k1.4k
56Jan 24, '24Canada's Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau froze the bank accounts of 2022 "Freedom Convoy" protesters, claiming it was an emergency. But it wasn't. And now, Public has proof that his 11.8×2.5M41k15k2.1k
57Aug 27, '23The media said climate change, not arson, was behind the fires in Greece. They lied. They have egg on their face now that 160 people have been arrested for arson.11.8×2.5M38k15k2.3k
58Aug 31, '24Caros amigos brasileiros, Por favor, fiquem no X. Se vocês deixarem o X para outras plataformas, os totalitários vencerão. Vocês estão seguros usando VPNs. Não há nenhuma maneira d11.7×2.5M35k6.3k339
59Feb 26, '25You cut fire prevention; LA burned. You spent $24 billion on homelessness; it rose 40%. You reduced penalties for violent crime; it's 31% higher in California than in the US as a w11.3×2.4M55k12k1.8k
60Apr 21, '23Sitting members of Congress are threatening journalist @mtaibbi with prison, but we are fighting back. We are going to dismantle the Censorship Industrial Complex and bury its part10.7×2.3M37k11k711
61Jan 20, '25VICTORY! Trump has promised to pause all offshore wind leases, which could save the North Atlantic right whale from extinction at the hands of industrial wind energy. It's incredib10.7×2.3M44k10k2.3k
63Oct 30, '24The New York Times says Biden only "appeared" to call Trump voters "garbage." That's disinformation. What Biden said is clear from the video. And now the White House has altered th9.4×2M40k14k1.7k
64Jan 30, '24The FBI, George Soros, and Brazil's government say they defend free speech and democracy. But a new, months-long investigation finds that they have been secretly working together t9.3×2M36k14k1.6k
65Dec 21, '22Key facts 1. FBI took Hunter Biden's laptop in Dec 2019 & knew it didn't come from hacking 2. FBI spent 2020 telling Twitter that a "hack-and-leak" involving Hunter would occur9.0×1.9M31k10k574
66Feb 28, '25The behavior of Zelenskyy is typical of Europe as a whole. Entitled. In denial of reality. Narcissistic. Unconcerned with our need to deal with many massive internal problems. Such8.7×1.9M47k8.6k1.9k
68Oct 29, '24All the major elements of the FBI & CIA conspiracy to interfere in the 2020 election on behalf of Joe Biden are now confirmed: — FBI had the Hunter Biden laptop in Dec. 2019 & knew8.2×1.8M39k16k6.6k
69Nov 3, '24That @KamalaHarris decided to do a scripted Saturday Night Live sketch instead of sitting down for a substantive conversation with Joe Rogan perfectly captures the vapid, insular, 8.1×1.7M41k9.5k644
70Apr 13, '24BRAZIL SHOULD TERRIFY YOU Just a day and a half ago, it seemed like things were calming in Brazil. The Folha de São Paulo, the New York Times of Brazil, editorialized against censo8.0×1.7M40k15k2.5k
71Jul 12, '24The totalitarianism we warned of is happening. The European Union is at this moment forcing big tech companies to secretly engage in mass censorship. Google and Facebook are, appar7.7×1.7M38k16k4.1k
72Jan 6, '25Justin Trudeau has resigned. He framed himself as an honest, caring, and compassionate leader. He was not. He falsely smeared his critics as Nazis. He justified freezing bank accou7.5×1.6M51k12k3.5k
73Jul 26, '25It's official. The UK is now officially a police state. It has become precisely what Orwell warned about. Criticize mass migration and you can expect the police to come to your hom7.3×1.6M41k11k3.1k
74Apr 20, '24Esse homem é uma vergonha para o Brasil. Ele exige que X e todas as outras plataformas de redes sociais proíbam, para sempre, os jornalistas e políticos independentes que o critica6.7×1.4M47k8.7k580
75Jan 20, '25Biden pardoned Fauci. He says it’s not an admission of guilt. But if Fauci were innocent, no pardon would be needed. The evidence suggests Fauci helped create the Covid pandemic, a6.4×1.4M39k11k1.7k
76Jan 16, '24Both CNN and MSNBC carried the entirety of the speech by DeSantis, after openly refusing to carry the speech by Trump, even though Trump won a landslide with 51% against DeSantis’ 6.2×1.3M33k10k661
77Jul 16, '24You took the most beautiful state and made it the ugliest. You increased homelessness by 40%. You let addicts die on the street. You unleashed violent crime. Now you're trying to m5.6×1.2M44k6.2k575
78Apr 30, '24Queridos amigos brasileiros, Pessoas poderosas nos nossos governos e nas nossas sociedades acreditam que têm o direito de decidir o que podemos ou não dizer, ouvir e não ouvir. Ele5.4×1.2M35k8.5k576
79Oct 15, '24It sounds shocking, but it's true: the world's richest and most powerful people, NGOs, & governments are conspiring to censor the entire Internet. Gates, Clinton, & Harris 5.4×1.2M40k13k2.5k
80Jan 8, '25The media is ridiculing Trump for saying that wind turbines are killing the whales. But they are. There were 12 whale deaths off the East Coast in December alone. The North Atlanti5.4×1.1M46k18k2.8k
81Jan 23, '25Tulsi Gabbard is a threat to national security, say Senators close to the Intelligence Community. She's not. She's a threat to the most corrupt people in the Intel Community. We mu5.3×1.1M66k16k1.4k
82Apr 9, '24Obrigado a todos que expressaram preocupação com minha segurança. Por favor, saiba que não temo nem o diabo nem de Moraes, apenas Deus no céu. E Ele quer que vivamos em liberdade, 5.3×1.1M93k11k413
83Apr 13, '24O QUE ESTÁ ACONTECENDO NO BRASIL DEVE TERRIFICAR O MUNDO Há apenas um dia e meio, parecia que as coisas estavam se acalmando no Brasil. A Folha de São Paulo publicou editorial cont5.0×1.1M49k14k1.2k
84Nov 6, '24Our Intelligence Community is rotten to the core. Serious investigations are required. We need to get to the bottom the censorship, J6, Covid origins, lawfare, weaponization of CIA4.9×1.1M43k10k1.2k
85Apr 7, '24Não sou brasileiro, mas sei ler. A Constituição do Brasil diz, “É vedada toda e qualquer censura de natureza política, ideológica e artística.” Capitulo 5, artigo 220, parágrafo 2º4.3×923k40k8k389
86Apr 14, '24Queridos amigos brasileiros, Obrigado a todos por seus votos de felicidades. Tenho o prazer de informar que cheguei nos EUA com segurança. Agora estou em Dallas esperando para voar4.2×899k50k7.2k471
87Dec 10, '221. TWITTER FILES, PART 4 The Removal of Donald Trump: January 7 As the pressure builds, Twitter executives build the case for a permanent ban3.9×099k32k9k
88Aug 13, '24This is terrible. It was obvious that @elonmusk was talking about how radiation declines over time. Some of the best research comes from Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Are you going to 3.4×729k35k12k1.2k
89Apr 8, '24Elon Musk é a única coisa que impede o totalitarismo global Aqui é Michael Shellenberger, falando de São Paulo, Brasil. Ontem à noite, por volta das 20h, o ministro do Supremo Trib3.2×677k35k7.5k685
90Apr 24, '24Expusemos a censura criminal pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal e agora o presidente Lula está me perseguindo MAIS: O Procurador-Geral do Brasil está tentando encerrar totalmente o X Oi2.9×613k33k7.6k360
91Aug 1, '24Kamala Harris was not a DEI hire, was not the border czar, and supports fracking, say the media. But Biden had promised a black woman VP, the media called Harris "border czar," and2.8×609k36k14k1.8k
92Feb 22, '25We lost our beloved Lucy earlier this morning. She was one of our best friends for more than 12 years — a very special creature. All who met her were impressed by her warmth and af2.6×552k44k1.6k175
93Nov 11, '24I’m looking forward to being on @GregGutfield tonight with real life American hero @TulsiGabbard !2.4×508k36k3.2k218
94Aug 31, '22August 24: California bans sale of new gasoline-powered cars August 30: California asks Californians to avoid charging electric vehicles due to electricity shortages1.9×054k15k1.7k
95Sep 9, '22San Francisco right now1.8×038k12k3.6k
96Jul 18, '22People think solar panels protect the environment but they require 300+ times as much land as conventional energy sources and now the Los Angeles Times has discovered that they cou1.7×036k17k2.8k
97Oct 15Wow, wow, wow. I just left the National Press Club where Minister of Communications @AnikaWells spoke. She repeatedly and brazenly lied about the fake accounts, claiming they were 1.6×340k15k4.6k1.4k
98Nov 24, '21Father of Ahmaud Arbery just now: “ALL lives matter. I don’t want no daddy to watch his kid get shot down like that. It’s ALL our problem. So let’s keep fighting to make this a bet1.5×053k7.6k796
99Jul 2, '19Germany’s renewables experiment is over. By 2025 it will have spent $580B to make electricity nearly 2x more expensive & 10x more carbon-intensive than France’s. The reason ren1.5×030k16k2.7k

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