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Sep 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
So today is the official release date for my latest book, 'Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us,' from Prometheus Books. (If you pre-ordered it online, it will arrive tomorrow.)

Hope you all check it out.

prometheusbooks.com/books/97816338…
Lots of folks to acknowledge for their help and advice on this one, as well as providing the groundwork for me to cite. Here's an incomplete list.

@travis_view @Bernstein @katestarbird @PeterRNeumann @STWorg @holden @ashkenaz89 @zeynep @DTAnalytics @safiyanoble
Here are links to buy it online. Of course, I always urge folks to support their local bookstore if they can.

amazon.com/Red-Pill-Blue-…

barnesandnoble.com/w/red-pill-blu…

powells.com/book/red-pill-…
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How is Donald Trump a fascist?

Let us count the ways.

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Defining fascism is not easy. Its constituent parts change over time, especially in the process of shifting from nascent to mature fascism. Various scholars have tried different approaches, as I explained long ago in this assemblage of definitions. 2/17

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Trump however still manages to fit all these definitions, taken from different angles. And while at one time I concluded that he didn’t fully meet the description, over the years, his words and actions have fleshed it all out in full. 3/17

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So Marjorie Taylor Greene, quite unsurprisingly, is claiming that evil government conspirators are sending hurricanes into rural red states like Georgia. She’s not the first to make such claims, nor will she be the last. Thread: 1/20

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Apr 28
Was rooting around in my archives when I came across this. It's an instructive artifact of just how long the Christian nationalist/evangelical campaign has been demonizing and scapegoating the LGBTQ community.

It was a mailing from Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority in 1981. 1/4 Image
I liked to keep an eye on what Falwell was doing back then and signed up for his mailings. This one arrived in a plain brown envelope (of course) with a warning that it was for adult eyes only. 2/4

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The whole mailing was meant to evoke recipients' moral disgust. My favorite part was the cutlines. Also, Jerry apparently didn't like it when they made fun of him. 3/4 Image
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Apr 6
Idaho’s far-right extremists—first claiming that the hate-crime attack on the University of Utah women’s basketball team in Coeur d’Alene two weeks ago was a “hoax,” now saying it’s not a real crime—seem confused. So let me explain how the law got passed in Idaho in 1983. 1/49

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This a tale of the wages of hate, by which I mean vicious, unrepentant bigotry intended to harm: How it terrorizes and toxifies whole communities, and how its practitioners behave stupidly, even when they think themselves to be smart. In the end, hate is stupid, but it hurts. 2/
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Jan 4
Certainly it would be a way for Heather to avoid discussing all the far-right extremists she has aided and abetted. Like the “Patriots” who turned up in Coeur d’Alene in June 2021 to threaten and harass LGBTQ people.


The ugly scene at the lakeside park was directly due to Heather’s original work organizing it.

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These were some of the “Patriots” who turned out.


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I'm thrilled tonight because I finally managed to snag a recording of transient orcas for my collection of whale sounds, via the Whale Museum livestream at Lime Kiln Lighthouse. They're wildly different than resident orcas! Unfortunately, they don't appear on camera.
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sanjuanislandwhalewatch.com/orcas-t49as/
Here's a link to the Whale Museum's livestream, brought to you by the fine folks @TheWhaleMuseum, @WDFW, @WAStatePks, and FolksSJI.org.

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