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25 Dec, 24 tweets, 8 min read
Parked RV exploded; damage to buildings; not believed to be a bomb
Update: now the cops are saying they think it *was* a bomb
yikes
24-hour rule on Nashville now as info filters out.

I really want to know what was on that street.
Checking Google Maps, looks like random commercial district without any immediately obvious reason to bomb it. If intentional, could be anything from domestic terrorism to insurance fraud.
Also a possibility
Update: never underestimate the utility of local cops just randomly stumbling into some shit
🤔
If an infrastructure node is there, I would lean toward suspecting accelerationists — again, though, 24-hour rule.
Note: if so and if this was target, it seems it wasn’t taken out.

Wonder if the bombers or friends had plans for a follow-up. 😬
Fuuuu
I wonder if that audio warning on the recording is the one from the RV or one police made themselves
Re: video announcement
Hoo boy; be cautious on reports of what is affected, but yikes
yeahhhh

Tennessean also reporting some 911 systems are out
Okay, so: here’s a good summation of how everything went down (again, subject to 24-hr rule, but always trust local journos over national ones).
tennessean.com/story/news/loc…
So, what we know:
* civilian reported gunshots
* cops responded, found RV
* the RV started broadcasting a warning that it had a bomb in it, complete with countdown
* it looks like intent was not a massacre but an attack on AT&T infrastructure
* this attack, to some degree, worked
Hard Righties have fapped for decades about targeting infrastructure in cities. Many also fap to the IRA: competent white terrorists with an infrastructure.

But Hard Righties in the US usually try to maximize, not minimize, fatalities. (Incompetently, but.)
Choice of target, the warning, the capital involved, all points to competent tradecraft.

Somebody knew what they were doing, at least somewhat. And somebody learned stuff from the experience, too.

This is probably very not good.
IRA-style warnings, competent target selection, and explosives that work: that’s a little different than the dumbasses the FBI is used to setting up. Unless somebody drops a dime instantly, they’re actually gonna have to work for this one.

Good hunting, guys.
It’s weird: Nashville is something Hard Righties talk about doing, but the level of competence would be way unusual for them.

This is something Hard Lefties could do, but I haven’t heard them talk abt this kind of infrastructure attack as much.

Wonder if we’ll get a statement.
Apparently at least one fatality in Nashville, now:

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23 Dec
Very interesting after-action report from the Hard Lefty side of December 12 in DC. Quite unlike Hard Righties’ comments in similar circumstances: Hard Lefties are very tactically minded and are also willing to admit failure when they fail.
itsgoingdown.org/d12-report-bac… ImageImageImageImage
Hard Lefties also think socially, in terms of making friends. ImageImageImage
Lots of frank thought about successes and failures, with ideological shoring-up after having had to rely on police protection. ImageImageImageImage
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3 Nov
Watching Dario Argento’s PHENOMENA (1985) with Jennifer Connelly (!!) as a movie star’s daughter who sleepwalks and has a psychic link with insects

and Donald Pleasence (!!!) as the entomologist who enlists her talents to catch a psycho killer

and, for some reason, a chimpanzee
PHENOMENA is clunky, but the gimmick is interesting, and the Swiss locations are gorgeous and unusual.

The scene chemistry between Pleasence and Connelly is interesting. It’s not avuncular, and it’s not creepy; it’s a little distant but respectful.
Jennifer Connelly is bullied by her boarding school classmates and amasses a goddamn enormous horde of flies to unnerve them and this movie was a formative inspiration for the webnovel WORM, wasn’t it?
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31 Oct
Today’s background movie is ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (1973) with Robert Blake as a tough but sensitive motorcycle cop who wants to move up to homicide. Really good so far!

Nothing much happens in the first half hour but establishing Blake as a gentle weirdo — but that’s adorable.
ELECTRA GUIDE IN BLUE has one of those scenes where a cop’s instincts about a case are ignored — except instead of the usual tough cop being ignored by wussy superiors, he’s a sensitive cop whose instincts are ignored by the tough guys!
It’s a dynamic you’ve see a million times, but swapping the personalities on either side makes it fresh and compelling.
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8 Oct
The plot to kidnap (and potentially kill) the governor of Michigan isn’t just the feds rolling up a dumbass to pad their statistics. It’s one to note.

Remember: never never never trust the journos; always always always read the actual affidavit.
bit.ly/3jIMuhY
The FBI’s go-to play is:

1) find a dumbass who is potentially dangerous but at this point just runs his mouth
2) indulge him and rev him up
3) introduce him to a friendly undercover FBI agent offering to sell him explosives
4) THE ARISTOCRATS!

This is not one of those.
This one is unusual in that they had a group of guys, several of whom were already ideologically into the idea of violence and hadn’t managed to talk themselves into actually acting yet.

They were, however, fervent. Plausibly dangerous dudes, shit-talking themselves up.
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7 Oct
Reread BATMAN: YEAR ONE and was amazed anew by just how insanely tight the writing on that is. It’s four issues! The *entire trade paperback* is under a hundred pages!!!
Get in and out of scenes early? You have *nothing* on 1986-vintage Frank Miller. Check out Jim Gordon’s relationship with his crooked partner deteriorating in *two panels.*

Note: not only did we not see Gordon come down hard on Morgan, the character Morgan is never introduced.
Issue one: Jim Gordon meets his partner on the second scripted page, has had *three distinct scenes with him* by page FIVE, gets jumped by the partner and other crooked cops at the bottom of page seven, gets beaten up on page eight, gets revenge on pages fifteen through eighteen.
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13 Sep
Watched STATE'S ATTORNEY (1932) based on the recommendation of @NitrateDiva and LORD ALMIGHTY JOHN BARRYMORE IS WILDING

Bachelor mob lawyer Barrymore defends hooker Helen Twelvetrees, shacks up with her, then switches to prosecutor and goes straight but keeps Twelvetrees

UNTIL
Barrymore's political ambitions put him in circles with society gal Lilian Ulrich, who tells him she had a serious relationship at nineteen, and when he asks how serious her response is to *whisper*

to which he replies, "That makes things much easier!"

cut to: a parked car
headlights pass as they sit up and she talks a drunk Barrymore into going to find a judge or the mayor and get married

which they do

Barrymore then goes to tell Twelvetrees and then elects to sleep it off at a bachelor hotel
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