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15 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Am sure everyone who attacked Ingraham et al. for suggesting this was the case will soon offer retractions
CNN’s @brianstelter getting out over his skis
To review:

— "QAnon Shaman" was also a climate cultist
— The fur-wearing rioter Aaron Mostofsky is a registered Democrat
— John Sullivan is BLM
— NBC/NPR affiliated Jade Sacker filmed celebrating storming Capitol
OBVIOUSLY ALMOST EVERYONE INVOLVED WERE TRUMP SUPPORTERS.

Point is: Media are both denouncing the role misinformation played in the riot while also manufacturing misinformation to support a narrative.
Based on this interview, it appears likely we’ll learn more about left-wing activists' role in this siege in the days ahead youtube.com/embed/5nvqvvsq…

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13 Jan
.@AOC, on Instagram, reflects on the Capitol Hill riot: “I thought I was going to die. And you have all of those thoughts where, at the end of your life, all of these thoughts come rushing to you … I did not know if I was going to make out of that day alive.”
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12 Jan
This doesn't make sense for a variety of reasons.

1) Why did the accounts exist if they weren't initially confirmed?
2) As users confirm, follower counts should be increasing, not declining
3) Twitter only appears to be "challenging" accounts following conservatives

cc @jack
Twitter now admits everything it claimed last week about its purge was false. They now say they're specifically targeting users who have shared content associated w/ QAnon. I've read this paragraph multiple times and still don't understand it: Image
Twitter says accounts that have shared tweets with their warning labels -- such as Trump's -- "can result in permanent suspension." Image
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11 Jan
CNN’s @brianstelter endorses Silicon Valley censoring the U.S. president
@brianstelter In his monologue yesterday, Stelter simultaneously endorsed tech companies deplatforming conservatives as well as denounced conservatives for ending up on fringier websites where they’re “radicalized”
I always expected this kind of Big Tech purge to come once a Democrat was in office. But their inability to wait even that long shows just how dangerously power hungry and vengeful they are. Things will only get worse from here.
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8 Jan
Global Warming Update: “Once in a century” snowstorm underway in Madrid Image
Went to a concert last night and the snow ended up shutting down the main highway around Madrid. Left at 11:45 PM and arrived home at 10:30 AM! Everyone was forced to abandon their cars and were taken by the army to a temporary shelter. And it’s still snowing! ImageImageImageImage
Madrileños are skiing from Plaza de Castilla to Atocha and then using the subway as a chairlift to go back and do it again ImageImage
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8 Jan
Hate to break it to you but if Trump had won, there would have been violence on Wednesday, and it most certainly would have been worse. How do I know? Because Democrats have been endorsing violence as a political tactic throughout the Trump Administration.
In 2018, @tedlieu threatened “widespread civil unrest” if Trump fired Mueller. This wasn’t a fluke, either. He repeatedly said people should “take to the streets” if Trump did so (which as we know he didn’t).
@tedlieu James Clapper echoed Lieu — and many other Democrats — saying Trump firing Mueller would result in a “firestorm … in the streets”
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7 Jan
I don’t know what the correct terminology is for those who engaged in storming the Capitol yesterday, but CNN has settled on “terrorists” — having used it 31x thus far this AM.
Strikes me as yet another needless escalation. Terrorists use violence — particularly the mass death of civilians — to seek political ends. These people were anti-democratic hooligans, but they weren’t driving trucks through crowds or flying planes into buildings.
Much of this morning’s news coverage has focused on the role Trump’s rhetoric played fomenting yesterday’s uprising. But as usual, they’re completely lacking in self-awareness as they are themselves employing the most charged, incendiary rhetoric available. Why?
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