Thread by @Heidi_Cuda

SOME KIND OF MAGIC: How I Survived the Deception Wars with the Relentless Pursuit of Truth... a love letter to my tweeps
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1/ THE IMAGINARY HOURS—Wide awake at 2 am, researching, posting, digging, poking. Tweets strewn about the bedroom floor. News delayed is news denied. I am a veteran investigative reporter, who resigned from corporate controlled media just in time to be a useful warrior for truth.

2/ UNSHACKLED AND LOUD—It’s 2017, and I am abandoned in my own home, my pursuit of truth during the Deception Wars was inconvenient. I am alone, and I’m fighting for truth to see sunlight during a time of grave deception. It’s my raison d’être. No sleep.

3/ I got into the war for my children. I am first generation German-American. I can’t be silent during a time of massive injustice. I am an environmentalist, who can’t be silent when our planet is at stake.

4/ I am a trained reporter, who can’t be silent when I knew the real fake president* was a veteran con man, who used people as for-profit marks. I had investigated his ponzi schemes and knew him for who he was.

5/ For this, I am now banished in my own home, living in my daughter’s room, while my children are away at college.

6/ I began printing the truth prior to the election of 2016, punching through every angle to cut through the noise of deception, to cut through the billionaire-funded lies. I had to be brave, the loneliness was crushing.

7/ NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED—I cut through the bigotry and the for-profit hate, countered the misogyny and brute normalization. I made it to the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. And then something beautiful started to happen.

8/ SOME KIND OF MAGIC: A network of strangers began forming alliances, all in the relentless pursuit of truth. It was some of magic. Suddenly, I was no longer alone.

9/ CROWDSOURCING TRUTH: I would push an investigation as far as I could, and a new European ally would post a clue so I could keep going. We crowdsourced our work and supported each other during profoundly dark days.

10/ TRANSNATIONAL THUGS—The unthinkable was occurring—global democracies were under siege. A greed-union between a Russian war criminal and his henchmen, and money laundering Americans posing as businessmen. The war criminal trying to bootstrap his way back to power on the cheap.

11/ TO ALL MY FRIENDS—Someday I’ll write a book and dedicate it to each and every one of you who lifted me up and encouraged me to keep going.

12/ UNLOVED TROLLS—Those of us who used our real names to fight this war suffered the slings and arrows of unloved trolls, who were just following orders from St. Petersburg and its London annex.

13/ HAPPY ENDINGS—Through our activism, some of us even found love. Disdain replaced by compassionate support. Homes now filled with warmth.

14/ We’ve never known how this story would end. How the biggest traitor in world history would go down. We can look to history for clues: Manafort’s clients either flee to Moscow or meet unfortunate endings. Revolutions are messy things. Just ask the ghost of Tsar Nicholas.

15/ CUZ TREASON: A con man does not go gently into that dark night. Most autocrats are dictating to hide corruption, so it would behoove the real fake president* to exit without fanfare, retiring to the old oligarchs’ home. Some prefer life in prison cuz treason’s still a thing.

16/ I do know that we are about to see what is left of America, what kind of stuff she is made of. I am hopeful, I am emo, I am awake.

17/ CODA: A trip down memory lane. Mental ammo for the Deception Wars.

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