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20 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
“ideas included commandeering voting machines, with Powell as a special counsel to inspect the machines” as dumb as this sounds, this is key to success Trump reality distortion machine: employing physical actions to drive virtual conversations axios.com/trump-official…
Seizing voting machines will be a PR stunt, filming removal machines for nonsensical inspection, when the machines data has already been counted elsewhere and backed by paper ballots. It’s all a show from the start
I’m worried for incoming admin trying to counter nonsense, dumb as these schemes sound, they work & dry podium speeches will not be effective in dispelling the disinformation
Same with threats declaring martial law, big secret - no real way to do it. Resources, CoC, etc. but won’t stop some federal randos showing up military like garb (ala Portland federal building) claiming martial law & media will go wild filming it, Trump loving militias will flock

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13 Dec
But I thought Russia was our friend?
A lot of interesting bits (bytes) in this likely Russian hack of Treasury/Commerce, suspected connection to SVR (RU foreign intelligence) makes sense as targets are political & economic espionage rather than just campaign related episodic hacking nytimes.com/2020/12/13/us/…
Timing is curious, question will be did they focus on Commerce/Treasury deliberately as a weak spot while U.S. worried about election, or was this when the opportunity revealed itself through the insertion and deployment of SolarWinds code?
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7 Dec
Vaccine conspiracies are overtaking election disinformation, but we can & we must preempt this next wave of nonsense, new post- “COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracies & the Next Wave of Disinformation” ⁦@FPRI⁩ fpri.org/fie/covid-19-v…
Most dangerous potential vaccine disinformation scenario near term. PizzaGate style acute mobilization or attack on a vaccine distribution point targeting health care workers, medical facilities. This can be anticipated & possibly disrupted if we prepare like we did election2020
Second less likely, but definitely harmful scenario would be vaccine disinfo inspired attack on supply lines for vaccines. Some unique vulnerabilities for deploying vaccines (cold temps, storage, scale, etc) will require different security than we'd normally consider
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28 Nov
Reminder for those worried about calls for #CivilWar on social media. There’s never been a civil war fought where the average fighter was morbidly obese & struggled to walk more than a few hundred yards.
The worry with calls for #CivilWar should be increased risk of fringe domestic terrorism in 2021.
The more political leaders talk passively of #CivilWar, the more their followers will advocate for Civil War, and as a result, 1’s & 2’s will find greater justification for terrorist violence. The loud mouths lead the more silent but angry ...to targets.
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22 Oct
Several aspects of the Proud Boys false incitement emails point to Iran - "FBI says Iran behind threatening emails sent to Florida Democrats" nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news… via @nbcnews
1 - was likely this was a foreign op as opposed to a domestic operation from the start, to employ stolen/hacked voter registration lists would lead to prosecution for a US domestic actor, 2 - Iran is both aggressive & sloppy, attempt things other states will not, and get caught
3 - cyber signatures for the webmail servers traced back to Saudi, an adversary of Iran, classic technique to tie up two enemies with one cyber move, Russia does this too, but, unlikely they'd move this way.
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8 Oct
Several significant elements to this domestic terrorism plot pointing to why it’s much bigger deal than the one off guy plots “F.B.I. Says Michigan Anti-Government Group Plotted to Kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer” nytimes.com/2020/10/08/us/…
1- MI-Whitmer plot more than just 1, 2 people, dozen or more arrests so far, scale sizable and increasingly appears to be multi-state beyond Michigan
2- MI-Whitmer plot advanced far past “guy with bad thoughts, posts & some ideas”. See here a specific objective, defined time, deliberate recruitment, planning, reconnaissance, weapons testing ...way more advanced than most plots
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4 Oct
Seems we’re going to do the plot line of every episode of 7 seasons of the West Wing as a reality show in 2020
I’m young enough to remember when President Bartlet wasn’t completely honest about his MS diagnosis & Stockard Channing totally covered for him.
I also remember how the Presidential line of succession works because John Goodman, the Speaker of the House, briefly became President when the 25th amendment was invoked (also how I learned about the 25th and then refreshed during Homeland Season 7)
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