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Aug 25, 2019 9 tweets 4 min read Read on X
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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Jun 30
(🚨) EXCLUSIVE: This report is epic, crossing years, continents, and scandals some readers won’t have encountered before—from golf to crypto, intel to international law. Everything comes back to why the Iran War happened, and why it’ll likely restart.

🔗: sethabramson.substack.com/p/exclusive-ex…Image
1/ I’ve been thinking about what else I want to say on this subject since I first posted this report a few hours ago. The report is of course extremely long, detailed, and well-sourced, so there’s much that I could write that would simply be redundant.
2/ I do have thoughts I want to expand on, though.
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Jun 29
Stunning how media turned passage of the Abominable Bill into a will they/won't they romcom with a July 4 deadline for Cinderella to kiss the prince, rather than a situation in which members of Congress say they're terrified they or their family will be killed if they cross Trump
The only journalistically responsible way to cover what's happening in DC is to report that the Dear Leader of a cult set an arbitrary deadline for his cult to dance for him on penalty of sinister punishments, and now we're watching a gruesome public whipping unfold in real time
The grotesque mummery playing out at the Capitol is not just joyless and borderline violent but without any suspense whatsoever, as in an authoritarian regime—which is what the GOP is—the outcome isn't in doubt, only whether 1-2 rebels choose to sacrifice themselves to the flames
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Jun 27
(🚨) WAIT... WHAT??

Agents of Trump business and political partners MBS, MBZ and el-Sisi were secretly in the White House as Trump agreed to go to war with their enemy Iran?

How is this not the big news right now? How is this not bigger than every other story media is covering? Image
This is beyond journalistic malpractice.

We're talking about matters of war and peace—historic lies told by a POTUS to push America to war—and CNN is burying the lede that the attack was a byproduct of secret negotiations with those who support Trump financially and politically?
And should it not also be noted that the man representing Trump in these hours of secret negotiations inside the White House—assuming Trump wasn't there himself, which I suspect he was for part of the time—is a man (Witkoff) with financial ties to parties he was negotiating with?
Read 11 tweets
Jun 23
(🚨) BREAKING: Exactly as happened in 2020 after Trump illegally assassinated the second-most-popular Iranian—and therefore as Trump could easily have predicted, and as media should already have forecast for Americans—Iran has just launched missiles at multiple US military bases.
CNN: Image
It is certainly possible that, as in 2020, this response is gestural rather than serious. But it might not be, and Trump might deliberately pretend that it is not, and either way there could still be some Americans injured, so who knows what is going to happen now.
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Jun 23
🤔

2018: Gen. Kurilla—“Israel’s favorite general”—is made CENTCOM Chief of Staff
2018: CENTCOM urges Trump to add Israel to CENTCOM’s Area of Responsibility
2021: 4 days before leaving office, Trump adds Israel to CENTCOM AOR
2021: Process making Kurilla CENTCOM commander begins
2024: Trump wins re-election

Early 2025: Trump immediately narrows down choice for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to two people—one of whom is Kurilla

2025: Trump does not give CJCS to Kurilla, but only because he wants him in the field in control of Israel policy

Hmm.
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Jun 22
(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Trump Tells America He Planned His Iran Policy—Including Unprovoked Major Military Strikes—“A Long Time Ago” and As a “Team” With Israeli War Criminal Netanyahu, Confirming the Entirety of the Proof Trilogy and Proof Project in Stunning Public Confession
(PS) Am watching CNN and there is no acknowledgment whatsoever that Trump said this. It was far and away the only significant thing he said in his two-minute, somewhat mumbling declaration.
(PS2) Jake Tapper is now on-air telling America that this war is not inconsistent with Trump’s pledge of peace.

He then indicated that he trusts Israeli intelligence over American intelligence.

This country is in total darkness right now.
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