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In 2023 PragerU was making news entering curriculum in states. A cowboy-hatted Texas school board member recorded a video with PragerU, saying, "Welcome to Texas!"
She was wrong. But emails we got show what was going on behind the scenes
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@SenTinaSmith
If there's not 50 Dems in favor of that, you could use the
@NormOrnstein
method:
1) Require Senators to stand up and speak the entire time in order to maintain a block
2) Require 55 Senators to end debate instead fo 60
3) Require 3/5 of those present, not 3/5 of senate
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@jaredgaut
@Twitter
@jack
Thank you for this. All we want
@Twitter
to do is to stick to YOUR OWN ToS.
The ToS are good. Sticking to them would solve a lot of problems. Alex Jones would lose a perch for his fake news.
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This is your brain on QAnon.
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@sumlenny
This sounds exactly like sovereign citizens in the US, and the NESARA/GESARA conspiracy theory. It claims the current US govt is "USA Inc.".
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#WildProtest
: the protest that never was.
The day Trump tweeted his call for Jan 6 to "be wild", Ali Alexander registered WildProtest[.]com.
It was to be held on Lot 8 on Capitol grounds.
It never actually happened. Instead, it was used as bait.
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@CovfefeAgent
@JonahDispatch
Yes. But not for his personal interests.
It was official US foreign policy. All diplomats, foreign svc workers, were aware of this.
It wasn't snuck in through a shadow state dept run by the Pres's personal lawyer for his personal interests (as Rudy has admitted)
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@charliekirk11
Border security is not the same as a wall.
Democrats want secure borders -- they do not want it open.
But a wall is not the way to achieve it. It's an expensive boondoggle and would not solve the problem.
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Is Getty going to be suspended for posting real-time assassination coordinates?
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I read Mollie Hemingway's book Rigged and wrote about it.
She even blocked me over it.
It does not say the election was stolen.
I was critical of Kristen Welker's Trump interview but it's truly remarkable how he demolished his own legal defenses in the J6 case in this clip. He told her he ignored his lawyers, when his legal defense is that he's not guilty because he was just listening to them!
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@toddstarnes
@FoxNews
Are you kidding me? Of course they've gotten their shots. They probably elbowed little old ladies out of the way in order to get to the vax site.
Murdoch got it in December before it was available to the public.
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@JohnJHarwood
First rule of cooking:
Ditch this desire for precision. Throw in less, throw in more, it will make it subtly different but still good.
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@JamesB3313
@SimonWDC
@joncoopertweets
They have to drop the filibuster in order to take control.
Democrat voters/base need to be calling all senators to get them to drop the filibuster.
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There is only one governing party in America.
Now that Dems are on the cusp of passing the big climate bill, don't let this get lost: If this gets done, Dems will be unilaterally launching the biggest response to our planetary emergency in US history, without the participation of a single Republican.
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@SollenbergerRC
She was also one of the first people to start pumping rumors of Antifa on Jan 5, posting clips of bricks and propane tanks from around DC.
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@MichaelRCaputo
@PressSec
You might as well be carrying a giant red neon sign that says "Look at me I have something to hide".
Better criminals, please
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@eliehonig
"Every defendant was present at the Capitol" -- Enrique Tarrio was not. He was charged for conspiracy.
Some of these (Rhodes, Tarrio) are leaders and planners. They aren't ground-level.
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@NickJFuentes
- private company, private company that owns two social platforms, private company, and private company
- private companies
- private company
- private companies reacting to FBI info
I see nothing wrong in this (see: Wedding cake case, CO)
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@Silent_Bob87891
@Timodc
I'm one of the parents who absolutely got interested in the recall due to the prolonged shutdown (nothing to do with masks, I'm in favor of masks).
It was the shutdowns, *even after* teachers got a jump on the vaccines, that were galling.
The shutdowns created a flood.
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I investigated some of who runs right-wing fake news websites on Facebook 1/
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Patrick Byrne's "Liver Punch" against Jack Smith is a lurid tale, featuring a poker player with mafia connections, a conman pretending to be a CIA agent, blackmail, and war crimes in Kosovo.
What does Jack Smith have to do with it? Not much.
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@MollyNagle3
@POTUS
@maryaliceparks
What kind of question is "are you confident"? It's a silly question. It conveys no useful information. Is he going to say "No"? If he says "Yes", does that mean he actually is?
A question on the substance of the bills would be much more useful.
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@Acyn
It is not declassified. Judges have ruled on this question several times. Declassification cannot be done by a tweet alone.
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@StephenM
You are right. If he had used campaign funds, and reported it as a campaign expense, it would have been fine.
To use personal / corporate funds for a campaign purpose, and cover up that purpose, is called "cooking the books".
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@mtracey
Even a super-lightening-fast DOJ can't pull this off in 5 days.
Clearly DOJ has been working on this for 4 years
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@mitchellvii
Doing Science by Bill Mitchell.
"Deserts are hot, therefore places with lots of trees can never be hot."
"I only see stars at night, wonder where they go during the day? Some day I'll solve this mystery."
"How do people in the southern hemisphere stand up? Scientists puzzled."
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@MichaelRCaputo
@PressSec
For those curious about why the House would want to talk to this guy, here are several very good reasons.
I'm amazed that so far he has escaped serious scrutiny.
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@NYTBlake
Like what do *you* think? Do you think, as a journalist, those values are worth upholding? Do you think, as he says, MAGA Republicans are hurting those bedrock values?
Just objectively, do you think he is right or wrong, and why?
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@emptywheel
Because he hung his indictment on a notorious flake & possible asset? Or something else I'm not getting?
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@TenaciousTomK
@AriBerman
It is a concrete set of proposals on which to campaign for a democratic senate in 2020.
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To write this piece I looked at website registrations and web archives. Knitted that together with reporting from
@propublica
,
@BuzzFeedNews
,
@emptywheel
,
@just_security
and
@capitolhunters
into a single narrative centered on
#WildProtest
, the protest that never was.
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@clearing_fog
He did the same thing in Kosovo, working against international/EU/US interests and then twisted it into a Jack Smith conspiracy theory
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@MikeIsaac
This label is slapped on every post that mentions voting, from anyone.
Once again, Zuck weaseled out of what he promised to do.
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Two of those electors, Maddock & Sheridan, had tried to enter the MI State Capitol the day before. Cops blocked them.
Ali was already whipping GOP electeds to object along with Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar.
He circulated a letter to get them to commit to objecting on Jan 6
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@katwardphoto
@AriBerman
@paolamendoza
No, but this bill is a good concrete set of proposals on which to campaign for a democratic senate in 2020
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It's astonishing how much success Durham has had trying to criminalize going to the FBI with a tip
Reup: John Durham Is Prosecuting Michael Sussmann for Sharing a Tip on Now-Sanctioned Alfa Bank
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Ali's plans for Jan 6 preceded Trump's. The "wild" tweet was on Dec 19.
But by Dec 15, Ali was already holding a press conf standing by the side of 3 electors who would later show up on the falsified electoral votes sent to the National Archives.
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@propublica
@BuzzFeedNews
@emptywheel
@just_security
@capitolhunters
For weeks before Jan 6, Ali's
#StopTheSteal
protests outside government bldgs had brought together militants, conspiracy theorists (Alex Jones) & white supremacists. There were stabbings and capitol invasions.
Along the way they lied and lied and lied.
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@karhifer
@CovfefeAgent
@JonahDispatch
They don't want to.
It was common knowledge back then. Biden was merely spearheading US foreign policy. Some articles speaking about it openly from then:
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I think Nick Adams is closeted and this is a cry for help
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@js_kaplan
@jbsapien
He lied on his permit application, calling themselves non-existent "One Nation Under God" (permit liberated by
@BuzzFeedNews
@JasonLeopold
).
Despite only 50 people, he expected millions, called for a days long occupation, threatened to make DC into a tent city....
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@Iamsock
@whstancil
It's not a binary thing. Of the 100% he wanted, he got about 70%, which already made him very legislatively accomplished, but could not get 100% due to Manchin/Sinema.
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@Teri_Kanefield
I suspect at the base is that both Russia and the GOP are in bed with fossil fuel interests.
Scroll to "Putin and the Right"
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@ourobororoboruo
More power to the naan cook.
If you only saw some of the rotis I made in my early days as a cook.
You can't be a perfect cook before being a mediocre cook excited to get anything edible out of the kitchen.
His attitude of sheer joy is perfect.
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@juliaioffe
@MiriamElder
And the first sentence has 14 words. Which is also a neo-nazi dog whistle
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@SarahLongwell25
The reaction is because Democrats are fed up with decades of propaganda that it is only conservatives who own faith, family, character.
It was always propaganda, but Dems suffered electoral losses because of it.
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@sarahdayarts
Jim Crow lasted a 100 years. Eventually, with consistent voting, AA voters gathered sufficient political capital that after 100 years, it was defeated.
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@Delavegalaw
@nycsouthpaw
Barr said Trump couldn't have obstructed justice -- because he successfully obstructed justice.
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@js_kaplan
@jbsapien
@BuzzFeedNews
@JasonLeopold
...said 500K would attack the Capitol if Congress didn't do their bidding. In his Jan 5 Periscope (now deleted, but linked here) he sounds like he is calling for holy war.
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Another group led by Tea Party Kremers was also working on their own Jan 6 plans (invaluable reporting from
@js_kaplan
,
@jbsapien
linked). They got the Ellipse.
Trump decided to speak there himself. This shows the importance of Jan6 to his coup strategy.
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This is good news indeed. Every step is hard fought and then must be guarded against erosion
Progressives organizers are, one by one, knocking off the states that refused to expand Medicaid via initiatives.
How much more will the purple encroach on the green?
OK on Tuesday, maybe MO in August, & there's a big bloc there waiting in the South.
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@Noahpinion
It may be an acronym but “pak” also means pure so it’s a bit of a motivated acronym if you will. Result of a naming contest, I believe
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@jakeshieldsajj
SF infections are up, but deaths have barely budged. And that's what vaccines do.
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This tweet from Scavino was at almost 3am on December 19th.
Now we know what was going on in the White House residence at that time...the meeting where Byrne ate meatballs and they discussed seizing voting machines. Trump tweeted the "wild" tweet an hour after this.
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@lrozen
I hope the following two stories get more sunlight:
1) Poroshenko's administration stopped cooperating with Mueller at a certain point due to pressure from Trump, and
2) They permitted Kilimnik to escape
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@charliekirk11
There should be no automatic belief of women nor of men. But there is one side that is asking for an FBI investigation, and one side that is cowering and running from it.
In this case, each of the women are asking for an investigation.
Kavanaugh, notably, is not.
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@js_kaplan
@jbsapien
@BuzzFeedNews
@JasonLeopold
One can get an idea of the timeline of this plan by looking at registration info for MarchToSaveAmerica[.]com. Registration Dec 31, plans up by Jan 3.
According to reporting, Trump was heavily involved in this plan. Also Caroline Wren, top Trump fundraiser.
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@marklevinshow
Early voting is good, actually. Maybe Walker voters could take advantage of it too. There's no Dem-only rule for the days prior to election day.
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@js_kaplan
@jbsapien
@BuzzFeedNews
@JasonLeopold
@capitolhunters
When they arrived on the west lawn, Jones stopped and yelled on his bullhorn.
Let's all go to the other side, he said. We have a permit. We have a stage. Trump will be there.
He was calling on them to join the
#WildProtest
.
Instead, he led them to the east doors of capitol.
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@Susan_Hennessey
I disagree.
Obstructionist tactics have made Republicans a minority party, who win only by voter suppression and gerrymandering. Dems have won the last two cycles despite this.
While steps like this impress voters in swing districts. That's where the game is.
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@js_kaplan
@jbsapien
@BuzzFeedNews
@JasonLeopold
Then a very consequential plan was hatched, uniting the Ellipse rally with
#WildProtest
. It was a march from Ellipse to Capitol. This became the means of feeding thousands of MAGAs to the Joint Session at the right time. Around 1pm.
#MarchToSaveAmerica
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@js_kaplan
@jbsapien
Ali had planned a "loud war from the outside" of Capitol as certification proceeded. He was only able to bag a small lot on the east side of the Capitol. Only 50 people were permitted to gather.
This was the so-called
#WildProtest
.
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I've always thought that what's missing in News is the sort of iterative publish/confirm/disprove/refine cycle that happens with science.
I don't know if this cuts it but I do agree that engagement should not proxy for News. That's where social media went wrong. ...1/2
The truefeed
Looks like a newsfeed, except the most visually prominent features are:
1) the number of independent confirmations by economically disaligned parties, with links
2) a button that allows the public to pay crypto to crowdfund more confirmations from specific parties
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@FArkantart
@joshtpm
Because they thought it was a density issue. If it came to red states at all, they thought, it would be confined to meat packing plants and prisons --> POC.
Plus, we had seen stats that it was more lethal for POC.
*Their* base would be fine, they thought.
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@js_kaplan
@jbsapien
@BuzzFeedNews
@JasonLeopold
Ali, Alex Jones, & Owen Shroyer marched from Ellipse to Capitol.
Videos/timelines pieced together by
@capitolhunters
show their march, when they arrived where, and what they said along the way. Lies, calls for revolution, 1776, etc.
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@joshtpm
Both Zelensky admin and Biden admin seem to be coordinating on this message to Russia: that Yes, we fully believe your threat is real.
The utility of such a message is that it defangs it. It says, we fully believe you, but we're still not withdrawing.
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@js_kaplan
@jbsapien
@BuzzFeedNews
@JasonLeopold
@capitolhunters
...thus a mob was ready when the east doors were opened. From the *inside*.
Some deep source reading from
@emptywheel
describes this coordination in detail. I've linked several of her pieces here into a hopefully coherent narrative.
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@ClaraJeffery
@ShahidForChange
Even her Republican actual opponent had a better statement than Shahid.
Never been enthralled with Shahid and glad I didn't vote for him.
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@Doshi13
@JamesSurowiecki
@MarcelDouglas18
@mehdirhasan
@AOC
As James as explained above, Twitter gets a lot more value from a big account like AOC's than she gets from Twitter.
She could go to a different platform and millions will follow her.
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@SethAbramson
Seth, I compiled a list of the dead Russians. He is on it. There's many others too.
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@lukeobrien
He also represented Brian Kolfage (who started the recent GoFundMe for the wall) in an earlier lawsuit about fake news spread by his website Freedom Daily.
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@WendySiegelman
@Schwartzesque
I wonder if he was one of the agents said to be in "Trumplandia" in the NY field office -- who forced the Weiner laptop back into the investigation
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@js_kaplan
@jbsapien
@BuzzFeedNews
@JasonLeopold
@capitolhunters
@emptywheel
Jones never led them to
#WildProtest
at all. It never existed.
Courtesy of
@CapitolHunters
found some videos that pan Lot 8 around that time. Stage exists but is rudimentary and doesn't appear to be fully set up. Nothing going on around 1pm, when the event was to start.
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@bradheath
Also the same day Chris Christie had lunch with them (per his book) and they laughed in his face when he said the Russia investigation would be going on a year from then.
It's been two years and still going.
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@Susan_Hennessey
Also, we should not perpetuate the media myth that anything that gets signed is to the President's credit.
Congress works hard on these bills while Trump is tweeting from the potty.
This is Nancy's bill. Trump is going along with it.
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