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Sep 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Anyone have any luck finding a cable news report on the #TrumpCoupPlot—likely the single biggest news story in America since Pearl Harbor?

It's in THE ATLANTIC, it's in VANITY FAIR, it's in NEW YORK MAGAZINE—but if it's elsewhere, I'm missing it.

What the *hell* is media doing?
PS/ With a story of this magnitude, news outlets *will* want to run down their own sources. But—*but*—the Atlantic report can still be reported on as an "unconfirmed" (by a given outlet) "Atlantic report," and the Atlantic had some non-anonymous sources, so what's taking so long?
PS2/ Kudos to Chris Hayes of MSNBC (@chrislhayes) doing a report on this, and thanks to readers here for noting it. I'll look it up now. Let me know if anyone but Chris covered it.
PS3/ Apparently MSNBC has been on it. I've been watching CNN and reading the major newspapers. Please note that the CNN report I tweeted a screenshot of earlier is a *different* report—it is *not* the #TrumpCoupPlot report I am asking about media coverage of here.
PS4/ I'm watching MSNBC cover this—and thrilled to see it. But keep in mind: this is Pearl Harbor–level news. This should be breaking news in every media outlet in the U.S. now and every day through November 3. We should see this *everywhere* and *wall-to-wall* right *now*.

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Oct 1
Dramatic video.

Iran has a history of firing missiles in ways that ensure there are virtually no—or no—casualties. That appears to have happened here. At this moment, this reads like a gesture, not a serious attack. Netanyahu will treat it as something else for his own purposes.
It's asinine to think a nation of the size and sophistication of Iran is unaware of how Iron Dome works. It understands what sort of missile barrage will/can have an effect and what will not. By the same token, when Netanyahu overreacts to this he'll know exactly what he's doing.
It's also worth noting that Israel keeps using assassination as a tool of war—sometimes directly, sometimes via proxies—despite knowing it is (usually) illegal. So many of the attacks on Israel we have seen, though certainly not all, are *retaliations* for illegal assassinations.
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Sep 28
(🧵) THREAD: Should journalists publish hacked materials?

Different journalists have different understandings of the profession. Mine is admittedly idiosyncratic. But after 30 years as a journalist and six as a journalism prof, I can say that I wouldn’t publish hacked materials.
1/ Today I saw an article from one of the heads of Substack—where Ken Klippenstein, now banned from Twitter, published the Vance dossier Team Trump built pre-selection—and the claim Hamish McKenzie made was that publishing criminally acquired materials is not just fine but good.
2/ His argument was that journalism is about the public interest, so journalists should publish anything that is in the public interest.

But that’s actually not what journalism is, not how journalism is taught to future journalists, and not how we should think of the profession.
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Sep 27
Trying to figure out why I would obsess over the foreign convictions of a demographic of people in the U.S. who provably according to every study ever done on the subject commit markedly fewer crimes than U.S. citizens

Make that make sense to me beyond straight-up fear-mongering
I'd also say as a criminal justice expert that watching MAGAs try to break down crime data they lack the capacity to understand or speak of coherently (did you know homicide and murder aren't interchangeable terms?) is like watching someone try to make a pizza out of dry cleaning
For that matter, if you take one of the countries America receives undocumented migrants from, El Salvador—which is fun by a far-right dictator MAGAs love—convictions there mean nothing now, because there is no due process and arrests are just used to sweep people off the streets
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Sep 25
(📢) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: The Real Reason Iran Wants to Kill Trump Is Not What He Says or What You May Think

🔗:

If America is about to end up in another war of Trump’s making, it’s reasonable for us to ask why. The short version—*he* created this nightmare. sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-real-rea…
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1/ We have come to a time in American history when even recent American history is treated as ancient history.

The events discussed in this report were confirmed true in 2020, and this report is fully sourced.

They are not even seriously contested anymore by anyone who matters.
2/ A threat now being mislabeled as being against Trump exclusively (it is not) and as part of an Iranian desire to sow chaos/destabilize America (it is not) and as related to the election (it is not) was *widely discussed on U.S. major media in January 2020*. We know what it is.
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Sep 25
I’ve now watched 6 January 6 films in the last 3 days. A couple made me cry. I’ve seen things I never thought I’d see and learned things I didn’t know. As a historian, one thing eats at me: my successors 100 years on will be stunned that the man who caused all this wasn’t jailed. Image
PHOTO CREDIT: Mel D. Cole, who I’ve now learned took the most incredible photographs from January 6 of anyone there that day. You can find him at @meldcole.
@meldcole (PS) I hope—if you watch any January 6 films in preparation for Election Day—you think to yourself as you see the blood, gore, tears, bear gas, people having heart attacks... *Donald Trump caused this.*

And he didn’t give a *shit* about what he did.

He claims *he’s* the victim.
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Sep 24
(📢) Please pass this on. Before Election Day, every American who can should watch:

1⃣ Four Hours at the Capitol (HBO, 2021)
2⃣ January 6th (HBO, 2023)
3⃣ Stopping the Steal (HBO, 2024)

No good person who watches these will have any doubt about how to vote. The trailers follow:
FIRST TRAILER/
SECOND TRAILER/
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