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Will Sommer
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Twitter just permanently banned brothers Ed and Brian Krassenstein. The #Resistance duo allegedly operated fake accounts and paid to artificially increase their Twitter audiences. thedailybeast.com/twitter-bans-r…
If you know the Krassenstein brothers, it's probably because they were the top replies to Trump tweets, or because of their children's book about a shirtless hunky Robert Mueller. And now they're banned! thedailybeast.com/twitter-bans-r…
Update: the Krassenstein brothers say they're asking Twitter to reconsider their lifetime ban. thedailybeast.com/twitter-bans-r…
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Will Sommer
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I love to take in some theater
The crowd absolutely lost it when the Lisa Page stand-in did a sexy dance for Peter Strzok
The key thing to understand about this play is that it’s just verbatim text messages and hearing transcripts. The actors are reading their lines from binders, and Dean Cain reads out every emoji. Crowd loves it! Tickets were $75.
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Will Sommer
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MAGA internet has been absolutely roiled today by a video that suggests a Trumpworld internet personality may not be as hardline on immigration as she claims. Subtweets are flying everywhere, and even Ann Coulter has weighed in.

Quick thread:
Ashley StClair is a relatively new Trump-world personality. She's earned a much bigger profile over the past few months, in part on the basis of this very memeable tweet about being a "hot Trump supporter." She was also a "special guest" at a Turning Point USA conference.
Most of her tweets are pretty much what you can imagine from the usual Benny Johnson types — boo Democrats, build the wall, etc. But is she actually a hardline immigration hawk, or does she just play one on Twitter? Well...
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Will Sommer
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Looks like new YouTube rules have kicked off a new crackdown that goes beyond Steven Crowder. White nationalists James Allsup and "The Golden One" say they've also been demonetized, while Gavin McInnes says he's had a video deleted.
Also on today's YouTube demonetization chopping block: Sinatra_Says, a right-wing channel that roleplayed as an anti-trans Frank Sinatra.
The YouTube purge has already unfairly caught up at least one journalist: Ford Fischer, who does great work covering political events.
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Kathleen Richardson
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some of you may have noticed I've not been on #twitter for a while. this is because I have become the latest target of bias who is closing down women who talk about biological sex. I was shut out because I correctly identified the sex of a man in a restroom, & I asked why..
..he was taking photographs of himself with girls in the background. This person has been known to take an extra interest in teenage girls, but those of us that have talked about it are shut up. I followed the discussions of ..
...Web 2.0 about opening up the internet to all - but it seems an unelected corporation has taken it upon themselves to remove posts relating to sex - this is a serious breach of free speech. We should not be compelled to speech if there is no rational basis to this speech -
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Conspirador Norteño
@conspirator0
The spike of followers created at or around the same date as @AfilliSozlerTR definitely struck us as anomalous, and we've investigated similar spikes before. This raises a question: what's normal and what's not when it comes to an account's followers, anyway?

cc: @ZellaQuixote
We plotted the creation dates of @AfilliSozlerTR's followers against the order in which they followed. The 2015 account creation spike manifests as a slightly darker horizontal band at the left end of the graph, and the pronounced curve at the top looks potentially interesting...
In order to get a better sense of how to interpret the results, we made the same plot for a total of 29 accounts in five categories.

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Lola Netty
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[2016] "They're here to remove everything from the house, all the computer software & all that stuff. They walked at least 20 to 30 bundles of stuff out of that house & into their cars." The home is owned by brothers, Edward & nbc-2.com/story/33161672…ttps://t.co/xKettmDf4P
[2018] In a civil asset forfeiture complaint filed in Aug of last year, Homeland Security Special Agent Michael Adams alleged that the brothers were paid huge sums by online scammers engaged in illegal activities (hence the $500k confiscated from them).

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hawking dubious investment advice—way back in 2003—on a pair of internet forums, selling ads to online money-making ops that included a number of apparent scams, incl some run by people later convicted on charges ranging from fraud to capital murder.

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TheSharpEdge
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New Qanon Thread

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THINK FOR YOURSELF AND STOP BEING A SHEEP TO THEIR NARRATIVE.
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Justin Ling
@Justin_Ling
oh god the clueless wonder is at it again
If you're unawares: Seth Abramson is just a guy who reads a lot of news and tweets theories he comes up with.

He doesn't know anything.
145/ ATTENTION: Seth Abramson has built his reputation as an expert on Twitter, and has no other relevant experience or information. We must conclude that either:
a) He is working with Twitter to sell books
b) He is a Steve Bannon front, used to discredit the #resistance...
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Robert #Resist Sandy
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It's nearly inarguable that @HillaryClinton is viewed by the majority of the men & women in the MSM that she should be silenced, increasingly at all costs.

The full answer as to why so many have lent themselves, whether consciously or not, to this cause remains elusive.

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We do know many of the reasons why they fight so openly against Clinton and they include an often unacknowledged level of real misogyny that is horrifying for it's obviousness, it's depth, and the lengths to which many go to pretend it does not exist.

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I have written many, many threads on the subject of @HillaryClinton. For me, she remains one of the most competent, most talented, and most comprehensively knowledgeable of her or any generation. Those who actually surpass her on any of these scales remain few.

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