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8 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
This is embarrassing. It’s worth bearing in mind that Texas AG Ken Paxton, who filed the suit, is under criminal investigation by the FBI after his own entire senior staff turned him in for corruption. Maybe he thinks disgracing himself further will win a pardon.
Paxton fired or got resignations from the seven senior attorneys who accused him of assorted felonies. He plans to run for reelection in two years. kvue.com/article/news/l…
Just, you know, in case you were wondering: Deputy Attorneys General do not typically accuse their bosses of committing crimes frivolously.
Last month news reports confirmed Paxton is under investigation by the FBI. Today he filed an utterly bonkers lawsuit against several other states parroting Trump’s bogus claims about a stolen election. apnews.com/article/ken-pa…
Oh, and he’s also under indictment for securities fraud. dallasnews.com/news/politics/…
(Some of you may be too young to recall, but once upon a time anyone in Paxton’s position would have been expected to immediately resign in disgrace...)

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8 Dec
Hoo boy. I finally took a look at the affidavit from “Spyder”—supposedly a pseudonym for a white hat hacker with a military intelligence background—from Sidney Powell’s “Kraken” lawsuits, and it is absolutely crazier than a bag of cats. courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
It reads like gibberish composed by an AI to scam people with no technical background into thinking something very technical has been said. It’s a bunch of screenshots of DNS lookups and SpiderFoot scans connected by pure non-sequitur dream logic.
TL;DR: “I am a top-secret 1337 haxx0r. I did a whois lookup of Domion Voting. LinkedIn says they have employees in Serbia. Banana Cream Lobster Monkey. Therefore: ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED.”
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2 Dec
Written language lacks the resources to convey how insane this is on half a dozen different levels.
Imagine this being sung to the Queen of the Night aria to compensate for the deficiencies of prose...

(1) Everyone agrees 230 is central to how social media functions in the U.S.; the idea that you’re going to ram through an overhaul in weeks is bananas.
(2) “National security”? Just... stop. You have a policy goal. These are not magic words.

(3) You’re going to hold a defense authorization hostage over Twitter being mean to you? That’s like threatening divorce unless you get to pick the next show to binge.
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30 Nov
Can we stop saying “baseless” and just say “false” or “lying”? By the epistemic standards we apply to any normal fact, this garbage about millions of votes being stolen isn’t (merely) “unfounded”. It’s false. It’s a lie.
Like, sure, it’s logically possible that every Republican state election authority and all the cybersecurity agencies, have totally missed the electoral equivalent of a whale in the bathtub. It’s logically possible we’re all brains in vats & all reality is an illusion.
But we’re not in freshman philosophy & newspapers don’t normally apply the Cartesian method of doubt before deploying terms like “true” and “false.” By any normal standard, these claims are false.
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24 Nov
The truly perverse thing about the current electronic voting security freakout, motivated by a desire to deny the results of the presidential election, is that for DECADES this really was an absolute security horrorshow with minimal mainstream media attention.
Thanks to the tireless efforts of serious security researchers and activists, the situation has materially improved as more and more states adopted requirements for manually-auditable, voter-verifiable paper trails, though plenty of jurisdictions still need to up their game.
Some of the states at the center of the present freakout are those that have adopted the best security practices. Pennsylvania is one of only a handful of states that does automatic manual audits for all races. Meanwhile eight states still don’t require paper audit trails.
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23 Nov
A healthy development for basic security & good governance reasons, but I would really like to hear the tortured rationalization for thinking there’s grounds to “ascertain” today & not a week ago.
She alludes to some recent developments (Michigan certified; Trump’s lawsuits keep getting tossed) but they don’t really add up to any coherent or principled reason you’d say there was an “apparent winner” today but not last week.
Michigan’s RESULT was never seriously in doubt. Various longshot lawsuits remain. Most states still haven’t formally certified, which has never been a prerequisite for initiating a transition anyway.
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17 Nov
I’m not sure “media literacy” training, at least of the traditional sort, is helpful here. My recollection is that they typically encourage people to be skeptical & do their own research, which is great if the person is competent to do that, but otherwise makes things worse.
The people whose brains are the most utterly crammed with absolute nonsense are, in my experience, the folks most likely to proudly tell you they always “do their own research.”
The always insightful @zephoria has written a bunch about this: points.datasociety.net/did-media-lite…
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