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Happy to read all the comments here—"like" command still disabled. Tom says I can make it work via my iPhone so I will try that.

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I have yet to encounter a problem commenting or commenting on others' comments -- on Celia's substack or on any other writers' substack. Same for Liking.

On my mac laptop, I use the following various browsers when interacting with a substack: Firefox, Google Chrome, and Brave. I do not use Apple's Safari.

On my iPhone, I use the substack reader app: https://substack.com/app

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About a month ago, my LIKE button went non-functional on the Windows 7 laptop that I use about 95% of the time. I can comment, but not Like. Clearing cookies didn't help and neither did restarting. I went to Substack on my Windows 10 laptop and Voila...the Like button works just fine on that machine. Moving the Win10 machine to my 'office space' isn't as trivial a proposition as it should be, but I guess I'll have to break down and make it happen, or else get used to typing "Like button is dysfunctional" as the lead-in statement in Reply boxes. For some reason this problem brings to mind this Tom Waits song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKlmBZsVPK8

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Hi there, I wrote this comment on a story of yours from December but I figured you may not see it and I would like you to see it because I have a request if you do not mind. I am a former colleague of Kristina Borjesson. Here is the comment. I just found out we lost her and I am upset and very very sad.

I worked with Kristina about 10 years ago on a documentary project that has so much importance now. However this film was not released. I was just going to look Kristina up to contact her about releasing this footage that we shot and I was present at all shooting. This stuff was bigger than TWA 800. BIGGER. DID she ever tell you about it?

I know what I heard but we lost funding on this film as it was too "controversial." Oh yes it is and was and is even moreso now. This is why I wanted to contact her. I wanted her to release the footage now in a mini doc.

Ms. Farber, I wish to tell or ask you the details about this. I wanted to see if we could release this footage now. I will put it together as I was associate producer and I will do it for free. I am so sad now to hear of her passing and cancer. She was the only female role model I ever had. It would be so wonderful to be able to edit that footage but I presume Frederic and her family would have to be open to it. Kristina can't be hurt about this now. She cannot be hurt. It should be released.

When I met her to go shoot this film, I was so excited just to meet her. She was everything I had always wanted in a mentor, namely that she was FEMALE. But more than that, she was an amazing and beautiful and very vivacious female, as we all know. And intelligent and take charge. It was an incredible joy for me to be able to be around her, talk with her, laugh with her, and discuss geopolitical topics with her. Our female companions were impressed with us and I was just so happy because I have never had had any female, which I sorely needed as a younger female, to communicate with like this. She was just everything you could want in a female mentor.

I learned so much on the project and it really gave me key knowledge to know what I know now. I was the person who informed Jon Rappoport about Drosten having no virus for his PCR test, by the way, so I am a science reporter as well. Kristina did not know that about me, but this is why I also wanted to talk to her now. And I knew you and her and Jon were all friends. I have some other data. So that I guess is for Celia. i will have a science blog out soon so i will I suppose put that there.

However, Celia, I will shoot you an email or perhaps you can email substack77@mailbox.org? I wish you could do this because I would like to ask you about this footage that we shot about 2007-8 ish. Maybe you can see about that footage and I am telling you Celia, maybe you probably already know about it because I imagine she already told you, but I have to ask about this footage Celia. Please get in touch. Thank you also for your work. I think we need to see this. It would be very huge before the elect. SERIOUSLY!

I am so sad about Kristina. I hate hearing about this. I am crying. She was a great woman, intrepid journalist, beautiful person, and we will remember her always. XOXOXOX KRISTINA

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See, it works. Mine and 5 others. Did clearing cookies and logging back in not work?

I dunno nothing about Apple phones or doing this on any sort of smart phones.

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My "like" ability was restored when I upgraded my iOS. Someone said theirs had to do with other things about their comments or their stack. So my conclusion is that its an algorithm (yes, social credit system) that takes into account some unknowns including what operating system you use. It may be somewhat understandable because they want to cut down on bots that may be using an unsecure computer.

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Windows 8.1 desktop user here (90%) of the time. Used Brave as my default browser. I could "Like" a post, but the "Life" for comments stopped working. I tried everything that others did, too. Did not help.

Made Firefox my default browser. Like it much less than Brave, but "Likes" for posts and comments now work fine.

Windows 10 and Brave on laptop. No issue. "Likes" work fine. So, I think it's a combo of the operating system and browser -- and not Substack.

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Let's see if the good favors of this ruling can now penetrate into the "public health" fraud. That would be a key test.

I believe the current legal/law culture is that, when a case is before them, judges NEVER, EVER question with a skeptical eye, the 'public health officials' (1) interpretation of 'the science' and (2) the subsequent 'public health' decrees that come from that.

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Yes, and that's terribly troubling. My father-in-law was given Remdisivier and three months later died of kidney failure. My husband and I were freaking out about the administration of said Remdisivier cocktail and we warned about the kidney danger. But we can't do anything about it. No one still believes us.

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Why does it always take Scotus so damn long to get around to doing anything productive, or of worth?

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Because a case has to make it to them before they can rule. This can be extremely difficult, especially given businesses tend to accept tyranny as long as they can still make money. In many cases (I think), the legal battle is far more expensive than capitulation. That's the key with how any part of government and even other businesses operate - personal/entity cost/benefit in dollars and cents.

It's like getting a $15 parking ticket when you were legally parked. You could go to court and fight it, or just pay it and move on. Most just pay it. It takes a special person, one who looks at the totality of the situation to include the implications on others, to take on the fight.

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...a special person, who has enough cash in hand....

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It was Koch money that paid for this litigation. As you can imagine, they've long wanted to eliminate environmental obstacles to their businesses.

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I guess they qualify as "special".

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...because SPEEDY TRIALS take so freaking long, because the court system is terribly under-funded, because the gov't doesn't want the ppl who HAVE all the $$$$ to have to fund them; plus, the prison system now exists for PRIVATE PROFIT, so the longer ppl stay in jail, the more $$$ THEY make; & SCOTUS makes its cushy salary whether it does anything or not; mostly what they're doing anyway is upholding the property rights of ppl who have all the property; though of course they have to occasionally throw a crumb to the non-rich to stave off revolution. Just follow the money. WOULD the SCOTUS behave/rule differently if THEY only got paid Federal minimum wage, with zero benefits, only for hours for which they punched a time clock?

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They're on an hourly rate.

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So, the US has been running for at least 40 years in a crypto-communist bureaucratic torture chamber, and yet, regular Americans managed to make a little bit of profit here and there.

Really impressive the American ingenuity to survive the worst government-of-things-not-of-people ever!

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Precisely.

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This could be accurate but not yet penetrating to the layer beneath -- that what you describe is the superficial structure/behavior of a decades-long Communist subversion from within (which I speculate is still in process and has not succeeded--yet).

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Howdy Agent...don't worry, though...soon's them CBDCs roll in, those profits, vanishingly small as they are, will vanish altogether...not sure if this'll make sense to you, but if you get to the point of being a quadruple agent (do they get 40% commissions?), maybe consider changing your handle to Elvis IV... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXs1SsluNY

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Thank you for the detailed explanation for dummies 🤣🤣. I needed it 🙏

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Yeah Chevron was kind of like the Supreme Court giving itself the title of "final arbiter of the Constitution." Which was even worse than Chevron because our founders and the creators of the Constitution never gave that authority to the SC and in fact warned against it.

“To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the

same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.” Thomas Jefferson

“The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.” George Washington

WAKE UP.

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That's a great quote, Karen. I have never seen it. Two of our branches of government, the executive and judicial, are wielding power never granted to them in the Constitution, and the legislative is just corrupt. It's time to get back to a originalist interpretation of the Constitution and stop relying upon precedent. Every case should go back to what the authors, who wrote the Constitution to guard against tyranny, originally intended, not the "telephone game" of relying upon previous decisions, many of which were corrupt (Affordable Care Act for example) to decide.

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That is exactly why I started TN Citizens for State Sovereignty. We educate on the ORIGINAL intent of the Constitution and we have legislation for 2025 that establishes 5 pathways in which to invoke Nullification when the federal government steps outside of its constitutional lane which exactly what the states and the people of the states were assigned to do by our founders. That is why the federal government has very limited and defined legislative powers and the states have indefinite powers. It is also a lie that all 3 branches are balanced. Not true. The legislative branch has more authority than the other 2 branches because they are the branch of government closes to the people. They can impeach.......the other 2 branches cannot.....they control the purse.....the other 2 branches do not......they make the law......the other 2 branches do not. We must make sure the legislative branch makes laws that are in line with their limited legislative powers as listed in Art. 1 Sec. 8 of the Constitution. There is no clause (Supremacy, General Welfare, Proper and Necessary etc.) that extends their authority beyond Art. 1 Sec. 8 and there in lies the problem. We have allowed the federal government to use clauses to extend their powers and the constitutionally illiterate public has allowed them to do it. The Supreme Court is NOT the final arbiter of the Constitution. That was a duty left to the states and the people of the states.

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Thank you for expanding on where the powers lie.

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I was taught as a kid that the judicial branch interpreted the laws. Congress made law. Executive enforced the law. Separation of powers. I don't want regulatory agencies from the Executive branch making law. I'll take my chances with sound, examinable opinions handed down by the judiciary, as provided for in the Constitution. Implications of this decision are immense.

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Well said!

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Glad the majority of SC was on the side of the people on this one. We have one law, the Constitution. Giving power to "rule makers" who are not part of the 3 branches of govt has made a real mess of the law.

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Not sure what fairyland you live in. Do you still believe we live in a democracy?

Here, the SC majority was firmly on the side of corporations, as is Congress and the Executive. The people have very little say in what the government actually does. Did you ask for war in Ukraine and genocide in Gaza?

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Now, with so many great news the last few weeks, let's imagine the EU is gone forever in this decade.

Europeans need to DESTROY communism already!

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It's the jews, silly!!! Don't forget!🤔🫵👍

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Celia, thank you for focusing in on this and giving us a clear explanation of the stunning significance of this decision! Stunning for us and stinging for the corporatocracy and their collusive partners at the captured agencies.

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This is big, now businesses and people need to push back across the board to exercise this ruling. The tyrants will still push the envelop.

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Right! Let's all get going on this Asap!!

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I’m going to wait to get excited about this until after we see even just ONE substantial beat-down of the fed gestapo. Chevron schmevron until we see it squish the bug

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In the mean time, all it means is that you have another argument you can make in a court that may or may not be accepted by judge and jury. It does not mean that agencies will stop their illegal acts.

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Yes of course!

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What about the businesses that have gone out of business in those years because of that law?

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Sadly, though missed by those who knew them personally, for the public they will only be memorialized by plaques in the hallways of Firesign Theater's "Communist Martyrs HS", just across town from "More Science HS". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A5DftXzIqs

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Ah, Fire Sign Theater! Some of the most profound social and political commentary comes to us through comedy. Fire Sign Theater was one of the best, right up there with George Carlin.

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Well, we share a couple of favorites wrt irreverent sociopolitical/cultural commentary, AND in thinking over the 'plaques in the hallways...' reference to Firesign's "Commie Martyrs HS", it occurs to me that maybe I should have used a different foundation for the remark...considering that, at least in the Firesign universe, students at CMHS and their parents (if the attendants got to choose their HS based on their or their parents' political leanings)...those students and parents would probably not be the type of people to sympathetically memorialize the 'hard-working Joes' sort of Amerecans whose businesses and families have been terrorized by the sorts of bureaucratic 'experts' that will hopefully have their powers curbed and talons clipped by the recent SCOTUS Chevron decision. So, if anyone noticed a level of logical incongruity wrt my putting those plaques in the halls at CMHS rather than at More Science High...I get it. Political comedy based on the work of absurdist troupes like Firesign can be prone to getting some tropes mixed up, even for the most adept political analysts, which I don't think I am one of. In case anyone took offense, here's where the 'just plain Joes' angle above got borrowed from...Commander Nemo prepared to defy Prince A(R?)cturus (whose cartoon costume in this clip reminds me of WEF-meister Schwab's most-recognized cartoon costume).. Do Not Comply.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4C5VIxbqhw

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the overturn of Chevron means the uppity, know it all “experts” at CDC, FDA etc can now be legally challenged regarding their misguided health policies. Going forward, all these over reaching bureaucratic entities can now be questioned by competing (ie, real) experts and ultimately exposed for the arrogant, self-serving dumb shits they have proven themselves to be. Yeah, this is huge. Fauci’s and Greta’s junk science is about to hit the friggin wall. Aint gonna happen over night tho.

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And, SCOTUS reaffirmed the latest decision by the 9th Circuit, which means the floodgates for class action litigation against Big Pharma and its medical co-conspirators are wide open. Next up: the Brunson case?

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Yay for us!

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Hallelujah!!

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I only heard of the Chevron thing now. I never knew it was controlling so much law and policy. What I gather so far is everyone is thrilled with this. So Great!!

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We aren’t taught any of this in school, even in law school.

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