In the author of the bestsellers, the view for flyover country, and hiding in plain sight, and the upcoming book they knew out in 2022.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the

journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine.

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the new leadership, the new policies,

and how they may lead to a suppression of free speech

and the spirit of critical inquiry.

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I hope to God that Trump is forever banned from Twitter, and that band remains in effect

under this new leadership, because I'm enjoying the break.

See, I want him banned for future purposes, but I actually want all his old tweets back because

they're evidence.

They're evidence that he pre-plan the coup.

They're evidence of other

crimes that he confessed to on Twitter. It was a historical record. I think we talked about this before

and like deleting banning him, banning Stone, banning Flynn. I think they just should have put a

moratorium on them. Like you can make no future tweets, but let's leave the record. But anyway.

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