People have been asking me for a long time how we can best educate the American public about the Mueller Report. I've now seen a product called "Trump Cards" (note: I have no affiliation with the makers), and honestly it's the best thing I've found so far. amazon.com/dp/B07T823Z9V
1/ The Mueller Report, Proof of Collusion, and Proof of Conspiracy—three works I truly believe, taken together, tell the full story of collusion as we know it so far—have *hundreds* of characters in them. To have 54 cards that give you key facts about the top 54 players is huge.
2/ I tend not to give people nicknames, so the "nickname" element is less useful to me—*but* I know that many people need a pedagogical aid to remember that Michael Cohen is the "fixer," Aras Agalarov is the "Trump of Russia," and so on. So I'd say this deck does some great work.
3/ But here's the bigger picture: so many Americans are wondering what they can do to help America in a time of crisis. I always say: use the skills you already have to do something imaginative, generative, and educational. Trump Cards' makers did that—and we need *more* of this.
4/ Today I heard the impeachment episode of @sorrynotsorry with @Alyssa_Milano, and it was fantastic—another example of a thing folks can do (particularly charismatic performers who can be amazing educators), i.e. a podcast. The Trump "play" of a few weeks ago is another example.
@sorrynotsorry@Alyssa_Milano 5/ Others are designing tee shirts or installation pieces because they work in the material arts, or designing graphics and meme-worthy images because they work in graphic design. Avid readers are starting impeachment book clubs that read books about Trump-Russia and impeachment.
@sorrynotsorry@Alyssa_Milano 6/ Everyone doing something is in the same boat: a) trying to see how to match their skills to this historical moment, b) trying to position themselves vis-a-vis the national emergency we're in in such a way that they'll *never* have to look back and say "Could I have done more?"
@sorrynotsorry@Alyssa_Milano 7/ Among other things, if you're wealthy you can donate money where you think it needs to go, and if you're not you can donate *time* where you think it needs to go; if you're not wealthy and have no time due to work, even talking with friends/neighbors about this is a huge help.
@sorrynotsorry@Alyssa_Milano 8/ Anyway, I figured one of the things I can do is speak up if I see something that seems helpful at this time of crisis—thus this thread about "Trump Cards" and the other means by which we can educate America on the Mueller Report and the Trump-Russia scandal more broadly. /end
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MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump Claim That He "Took a Bullet for Democracy" May Be a Lie, Per Testimony of the FBI Director He Appointed, As Trump Team Uses Bizarre Memo From Unlicensed Doctor Ronny Jackson to Continue to Hide His Real Pennsylvania Medical Reports
If major media in this country weren't terrified of reporting on the activities of MAGA fascists, they would find out to what extent illegal NDAs forced upon Pennsylvania doctors by the Trump team are preventing even the *FBI* from accessing critical evidence in the Butler case.
Keep in mind that one constant in every federal investigation involving Trump—the Trump-Russia scandal being just one—is that federal investigators have documented attempts by Trump to hide evidence that could damage him politically or legally. That now seems to be the case here.
(🧵) This thread offers extensive analysis of the historic decision by President Joe Biden—ranked the 14th-best U.S. president ever by nonpartisan historians—not to seek a second term. I approach this analysis as an attorney, political journalist, and Trump biographer. Please RT.
1/ Here is the announcement from President Biden.
2/ He says he will address the nation further on this matter in a few days.
(1 of 3) Sixteen years ago, at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, another experimental writer and I—he a novelist, me a poet—concocted a plan to one day write a personal history that would satisfy two conditions at once: (1) be 100% accurate; (2) cause disbelief and possibly even anger.
(2 of 3) After Iowa, I added a third requirement: I wanted to write a personal bio that *made a point*: that no matter how much we tell others about ourselves in the digital age, we are always incomprehensible to (and in many ways not even human to) strangers on the internet.
(3 of 3) A few years ago, I quietly dropped the fruition of this plan from the 2000s onto my personal website—not knowing when or if anyone would find it. I expected people who hate me would find it first. They did.
Their reaction is exactly as we hoped it would be back in 2008.
(NOTE) I have now updated this report to include information on the possible illegality of the fraudulent Jackson Memo.
(MORE) In Atlanta, Trump told 602 lies in 40 minutes and 12 seconds.
In Milwaukee, the fact that the whole world saw what happened in Butler—and so could call out Trump's lies—cut his rate: it would've been 362 lies in 40 minutes and 12 seconds.
Nine years into the Trump era and Donald Trump is still getting on TV and lying to our faces about every facet of American life knowing idiots and wishcasters will believe him, his words will be aired live by corporate media, and any factchecking will come after people go to bed.
Major media had nine years to figure out how to deny media coverage to people who spread disinformation. It could ban them from its air. It could refuse to carry their words live. It could give 5x the live rebuttal time to those who tell the truth.
And what did it do? *Nothing*.
This sociopath was created by media and media is responsible for him. Every claim he made tonight was false. He knew they were false because he had been told so repeatedly. He *also* knows corporate media needs him for profits—so it'll never do with him as real journalists would.
BREAKING NEWS: Physicians Suggest Trump Could Have Undisclosed Brain Trauma in Wake of His Team's Bizarre Refusal to Release Any Information About His Injury or Its Treatment; Doctors Say Even Getting Grazed By a Bullet Can Have Catastrophic Unseen Effects statnews.com/2024/07/17/tru…
I cannot imagine voting for someone who might have an undisclosed traumatic brain injury, especially when the person has a decades-long history of doctoring, lying about and hiding their medical records. This is an issue that major media should be expending significant energy on.
After the attack, Trump sounded addled—and we've no idea if he has PTSD. Doctors say he would have had multiple brain scans to determine if there were unseen effects from an object traveling at that speed hitting his head. And now all of this is being hidden from American voters?