The government response to what happened on Wednesday remains shockingly inadequate.
And as troubling as Wednesday's events were, what has followed from a majority of our elected and appointed leadership is quite a bit moreso.
Thousands of domestic terrorists successfully invaded the seat of the legislative branch, incited by the lame duck leader of the executive.

It's staggering.
Please stop saying that removing Trump is the solution. It's necessary, but it is not a solution.

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11 Jan
In October 2018, I started getting a lot of very bizarre Q related threats and chatter in my mentions and elsewhere. Like, a lot.

And it never made any sense, because let's be real, who am I?

Eventually, it tracked back to this article, which... I mean neonrevolt.com/2018/10/18/sor…
That was followed a month later by this, which, also insane.

And again, doubly so, who am I that anyone deep in the Qanon mythology cares who I am? neonrevolt.com/2018/11/21/bla…
And then this, in March 2019. neonrevolt.com/2019/03/31/the…
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14 Dec 20
And Gmail is down. Glad I didn't have anything to do today.
YouTube too?
Well, we've got 5.5 hours.
Read 4 tweets
28 Nov 20
Shortly after @theblcklst website launched, I was introduced to Tony Hsieh, who asked me what I next needed to accomplish our mission of supporting talented aspiring professional screenwriters in making their way into the industry....
My answer was rambling: About the need for community, about wanting to start a screenwriters lab, about not having the resources to execute it

A week later he emailed to say that he could give me 15 bedrooms in downtown Las Vegas for a full week if that would be helpful.
And @theblcklst screenwriters lab was born.

I can’t claim to have known him well, which is, I think, even greater testament to him:

Tony Hsieh was uncommonly generous, often inexplicably.
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11 Nov 20
This one’s easy:

Small, intimate, inspirational inauguration thats heavy on packaged video and that respects the reality of the global pandemic we’re living through and then immediately back to work.

Save the party for the first July 4 that it’s safe to gather at scale again.
Bonus of the massive eventual July 4 party: Throw in a military parade and drive Trump (even more) insane.
I am available for Biden-Harris admin narrative crafting and Trump wound salting as necessary.
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10 Nov 20
Peloton’s stock dips 20% on the Pfizer vaccine news, and they drop the Beyoncé announcement the next morning.

Fascinating.
That’s either a hell of a coincidence or they (probably wisely) did the deal and sat on it until the inevitable first major vaccine news.
See if you can guess when @onepeloton made the @Beyonce announcement.
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9 Nov 20
Though I’ve yet to see evidence that supports the claim, it’s certainly plausible that the branding of “defund the police” had a negative effect in some more conservative environments, but we should also be very clear that branding and policy are different.
I would love to see polling on the constituent elements of Defund the Police separate from its branding as such.
Like, is there anyone who’s actually against reducing police capacity for violence in favor or providing more effective constituent services in such a way that reduces crime and improves quality of life?
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