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@TerryBoutonHist
Jan 15, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
We witnessed clear evidence of sophisticated coordination on the back of the Capitol. Leaders used bullhorns and speaker systems to try to stoke the crowd and direct their movements and actions. 1/4
Rioters on the back of the Capitol had a Dewalt Bluetooth speaker (h/t @kaysirota) that periodically blared Trump speeches. It's strapped to the hip of the man at the top of the stairs in this photo by @housewifeangst. He also appears to have a laminated ID around his neck. 2/4 Image
At first the crowd was on the center stairs. Leaders tried to move them to the stairs to the House Chamber. An amplified voice said a door was open and summoned the crowd. Few people moved. Then speaker guy played a Trump speech trying to lead them over like the Pied Piper. 3/4 Image
The effort was halted only because of the confusion and chaos when someone exited the Rotunda and shouted from the top of the stairs that "a girl" had been shot (who was 35-year old Ashli Babbitt) 4/4 Image

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Jan 7, 2023
When he was packing up after interviewing @NCookBouton and me for Good Morning Britain, @richardgaisford warned us that Jan. 6 would haunt us in unexpected ways. He was right. Witnessing that awful day firsthand changed us both in numerous ways.
The casual expressions of violence were the most haunting. It was bone-chilling to hear and see the different branches of the Republican Party talking proudly and excitedly about creating a new American Revolution through violence. It's a miracle J6 wasn't more of a bloodbath.
There was something about being there in person that made processing J6 visceral for each of us. Thankfully, we have each responded in productive ways: trying to understand what happened in hopes that what we find might help prevent this kind of thing from happen again.
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Sep 23, 2022
DeSantis is repeating Gordon Wood's misleading post-1619 Project take:
"In fact, the Revolution created the first antislavery movement in the history of the world. In 1775 the first antislavery convention known to humanity met in Philadelphia..."
-Power and Liberty (2021)
Gordon Wood is wrong: The 1775 antislavery meeting wasn't even the first antislavery meeting for the guy who supposedly started the movement. Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet had been mobilizing Quakers, speaking out, & publishing antislavery pamphlets since the 1750s.
"Convention" sounds impressive until you realize how much work the word is doing. The 1775 "convention" was Anthony Benezet and ten of local, mostly Quaker followers. Their organization met four times and then disbanded. Not exactly a revolutionary break from the past.
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Aug 20, 2022
If the AHA really wants to atone, perhaps leadership could confront the real existential threats to the discipline (book banning, attacks on curricula, teacher intimidation) beyond producing document packages for the classroom or issuing statements in trade publications.
Let's engage the public where it lives: on different social media platforms. The AHA has no real social media presence. Most of its tweets get little interaction. A high quality video posted to YouTube in May defending teaching the history of racism has gotten just 3,000 views.
Why not hire a few smart, talented, social-media savvy historians who didn't get tenure track jobs but nonetheless built impressive followings on Twitter to run social media campaigns? These self-made, battle-tested scholars would GREATLY improve the AHA's online presence.
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Apr 9, 2022
Maybe there's more than meets the eye to that Russian missile with "For the children" written on it. This could easily be signaling the global far-right QAnon/Fox News-fueled movement that Putin has cultivated and supported from its inception.

Hear me out. 🧵
h/t @_Noelle_Cook
That missile was clearly meant to send a message. But to whom? Putin doesn't have a lot of allies left. But one of the staunchest is the global QAnon & far-right conspiracy communities, which see Putin as a good-guy and tends to see Zelensky and Ukraine as bad-guys.
Many Anons believe Ukraine is now the center of the child sex trafficking cabal & Zelensky among its leaders. Putin's brutal targeting of civilians is rationalized as good--because he is liberating the children held captive by the cabal. To Anons, it's all about "the children."
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Mar 21, 2022
Spent another day at People’s Convoy camp and noticed some changes from our first visit. Two weeks in there were fewer trucks, cars, and outside visitors. The dancing at the live bands was painful to watch.

But that’s not the story.

(w/@_Noelle_Cook)

Here are our four most important observations:
1) The encampment has an ever-changing population. There are plenty of stalwarts who have been there from the start. But most of the camp is filled with people who stay for a few days or a week and then head home.
Most people we talked to had arrived last week and were leaving soon. Some were on their second or even third stays. Many of these people came, left for work, returned, and are leaving for work again.
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Mar 20, 2022
Think the People's Convoy is going away? Think again. They have busy been mainstreaming and movement-building. You probably heard that they met with Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ron Johnson (R-WI). But there's been a lot more going on. 🧵
On 3/17, a Montana trucker broke away from circling the beltway, drove to the Capitol, and demanded to meet with his representatives in Congress. Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) obliged, and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) joined in for a tour of the Capitol Building.
The next day at the morning meeting, a speaker announced that the Convoy was going to Black Lives Matter Plaza in DC to take it back: "all that paint’s getting off that street.” The crowd cheered. “Then we’re gunna tar & feather our delegates.”

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