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As so many of you asked: the BBC reports PS752 was hit—per US officials, accidentally, by an Iranian battery possibly expecting an airstrike—approximately 9:44PM EST. Trump adviser Hannity was on-air declaring an imminent US airstrike during his 9PM show. bbc.com/news/world-mid…
NOTE/ Per USA TODAY, Trump and Hannity speak "nearly every weeknight." Hannity *appears* to have provided nonpublic military intelligence during his 9PM show (see my feed for the exact quotes, and the video from which they come). We do not know his source. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
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NOTE4/ We've no evidence one way or another as to whether anyone in Iran's military would have been monitoring a live broadcast by a top Trump adviser while expecting an imminent U.S. attack. If you say there's no chance of that, bully for you. I say it's possible but don't know.
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Note to academics: #metamodernism is about how we—and what it means to—make the internet "true." And make politics "true." And communities. It's why The New Sincerity is a metamodern subgenre. If you think metamodernism is "post-truth," you're a postmodernist defending dead turf.
1/ Postmodernism has the benefit of being a 70 year-old dessicated paradigm that at least—for all that—enjoys [a sad sort of] discourse maturity. Metamodernism is in its wild infancy—but still old enough to read as paradigm shift what postmodernism deems "higher media literacy."
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One thing that troubles me about Maggie is how credulous she is about how aloof Trump is. I think that if instead of being a very talented journalist she'd been a very talented public defender, she'd understand how *frequently* longtime criminals play with aloofness as a defense.
PS/ I know many people have a problem with Maggie; often I do too. But I also was a criminal investigator for a period of time, so I know how difficult it is, and how incredibly skilled you have to be, just to get people to talk to you when it's not necessarily in their interest.
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When people apologize, I give them credit. I think you have to; if we don't, we create a world in which no one apologizes because doing so changes nothing and is never acknowledged. So I've a lot of words to say about Collins, including about this thread, but won't say them here.
PS/ The response to tweets like this is always the same: "No, he doesn't deserve *any* credit, to get *credit* he'd have had to [X]...."

I'm old enough to know that game goes on forever. The acknowledgment of an apology having occurred never arrives, and people stop apologizing.
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