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@Heidi_Cuda
Oct 3, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Typhoid Trump. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Source: @ThePlumLineGS @paulwaldman1 @washingtonpost
#TyphoidMary
“A number of other figures on Capitol Hill have also tested positive, including Kellyanne Conway, Sens. Tom Tillis and Mike Lee, and Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien.”
cnn.com/politics/live-… @CNN
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Sep 11
Nazi Martyr Horst Wessel

Beware the mobilizing martyrdom by American fascists

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The moment I learned of Charlie Kirk’s death, I thought of Jeff Sharlet. Sharlet has documented extremist right-wing movements in America for two decades, and he was the one who taught me how Ashli Babbitt became a MAGA martyr.

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In an interview with RadPod on his book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, Sharlet told us:

So Ashli Babbitt, 35-year-old white woman from Southern California, Air Force veteran storms the Capitol with violent intentions - she wrote about them. That's her knife on the cover of the book. That's the evidence photo, you can see it dated 1.6.2021.

She climbs up into a window leading a mob through a broken window, they smash the window, she comes up into it.

And we see on the video that very day, the two hands of the Capitol Hill police officer who shoots her, and it is the hands of a black man, and she's a white woman, and as a student of American mythology and American history, I know right away what's going to happen with that story.

And it happened within hours. First, they started saying Ashli - she was 135 pounds, she was in her 20s. Or maybe she was 16, she was just a little white girl. And they start shrinking her - she's 125 pounds, that's not going to work. She's 115 pounds. No, she's 110. They are making her into this model of white innocence.

Now, those not familiar with the history of lynching don't realize that at the heart of lynching throughout American history has been this kind of sexualized panic. This idea that black men are coming for our - possessive, you see - white women - a kind of property.

And that's the story that they began telling.

That's when the book really started to take shape. I said I'm going to follow the formation of this martyr myth.—Jeff Sharlet, on RadPod

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Sep 7
Hot Type: The Sickening Nature of It All

As Vladimir Putin glad-hands Narendra Modi and Xi Jin Ping, I report in ⁦@BylineTimes⁩ that, like the recent Alaska summit with Trump, the point of these events is to reputation wash Putin

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“I really do feel a crisis of language,” Dr Marci Shore told Byline Supplement. “Watching Trump roll out that red carpet for Putin — there's already been so much rhetorical inflation, and yet everything feels inadequate to capture the sickening nature of it all.”

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Under the guise of ‘peace talks’ regarding Russia’s full-scale invasion of the independent country of Ukraine, the two criminals met with all the pomp of third world warlords.

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Jun 15
Hot Type: The Die is Cast

In my Saturday column for Byline Supplement I try to make sense of a brutal week in the history of America

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Julius Caesar stood on the banks of the Rubicon River contemplating the fate of his country and the world. The legions were expressly forbidden to return to the city of Rome for the Roman Senate knew very well that if they did, the Republic would lost.

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Caesar is reputed to have uttered the words “the die is cast”, as he ordered his troops to make the crossing.

Ever since Caesar’s pivotal decision, mankind has understood that the deployment of a nation’s armies against its own people marks the end of that nation.

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May 19
HOT TYPE: The Real Leaders of the Free World Are Women

My latest column in ⁦@BylineTimes⁩ focuses on the remarkable women leaders of Eastern Europe, who are a crucial counterweight to the media's obsession with the ‘strongmen’ Trump and Putin

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I was an investigative reporter in broadcast journalism when Donald Trump landed on my radar in 2006 while I was interviewing the victims of a pyramid scheme. Lured in by get-rich-quick videos featuring Trump, some told me they’d spent their entire life savings on a video phone company that turned out to be bad business.

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So when I realized Trump had become a serious contender for US President in 2016, I had already investigated him and unearthed a long history of bad business dealings.

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Apr 28
HOT TYPE: Sane Asylum

Canada and EU universities are offering US scientists and academics safe harbour from an increasingly authoritarian US in an echo of a dark past. From my latest column in @BylineTimes

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“Accept the truth from whoever utters it.”—Maimonides

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On November 5, 2025, the day I became a woman without a country, my friend shared with me a quote he’d learned in his childhood.

“During the rise of Nazi Germany, the pessimists went to New York. The optimists went to Auschwitz.”

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Apr 28
PROJECT 2025: Then and Now

Revenge Fantasy Fulfillment

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“Project 2025 is a revenge fantasy and the victim is democracy… It reads like a Soviet-era how-to manual on the total annihilation of the US government and any critics of the regime.”—Heidi Siegmund Cuda, December 16, 2023

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In 2023, I reported that Donald Trump and the religious extremists he had aligned with created a blueprint for the total annihilation of democracy. The report was titled ‘A MAGA Hat and a Gun’ — Trump’s Violent Vision for 2025:

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