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Brooke Binkowski

@brooklynmarie

Sep 14, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

@GOP

So #SanDiego's @GOP mayor is pushing QAnon conspiracy theories, the party's county chair used to make Nazi videos and his sons call themselves groypers and push "nationalism," and Tom Metzger patrolled the border with David Duke when he lived here.

leftcoastrightwatch.org/2020/09/san-di…

San Diego CBP is helping to disappear protesters in Portland (and elsewhere), the One America News Network and its Kremlin-curious staff have their HQ here, the #CalExit guy made his home here before moving back to Russia. Peter Navarro shat up the place for decades too

And yet, when I published this, I was told by local reporters that I was overreacting and casting San Diego in a bad light. Kinda feeling better about never really fitting in among the local press corps tbh

washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/0…

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Brooke Binkowski

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I've been thinking about doing this thread for a couple of days. This is mostly for myself so I can go back to it, I don't really expect anybody in this dying hellscape to see it, but I wanted to lay it out here for my own sake. Here's my last few years in news stories:

Here's me, just so incredibly naive in late 2016, saying that "fake news" wasn't the problem so much as lack of journalism. For the record, I still stand by this, but at the time I had no idea how much social media was in on the disinfo attacks:

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@brooklynmarie

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The astroturfers are Big Mad today because their shitty little disinfo scheme fell apart (their media blast email goes on like this for a while)

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@brooklynmarie

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Hi everybody! A lot of you have been asking me what you can get me for my birthday, which is this weekend. Just kidding, literally no one asked me that but just in case you were considering getting me something please donate here instead entertainmentcommunity.org

Alternately, please consider joining a #WritersGuildofAmerica picket line and support the absolute shit out of this strike

I haven't really articulated this much but: Disinformation depends on altering our stories, true ones and fictional ones, to affect how we see ourselves and each other and make the world seem much more negative. There is a lot of power in culture, so of course jackholes want it

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@brooklynmarie

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Each of these people brought 10 or more challenges against books in their school district; one man filed 92 challenges."

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See? SEE? What did I tell you? It's always the same people for a reason!!

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Brooke Binkowski

@brooklynmarie

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I meant it when I said climate warlords.

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"As the planet warms, more calamities will strike the U.S. and, if the recent past is any indication, create new opportunities for militias and other extremist groups to mobilize and recruit...."

That's why all the insane border hardening and eugenics shit is happening now too. Borders are there to consolidate resources. Well, we're the resources they're trying to consolidate.

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