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Brooke Binkowski

17 Jan, 7 tweets, 3 min read

https://twitter.com/sjdemas/status/1350855889616592901

We've been tracking Shirkey's (and Lee Chatfield's) little games of footsie with these people since April 2020; you can read a general story about it here. It's the blueprint for January 6 2021 and whatever stunt they try to pull next

truthorfiction.com/operation-grid…

https://twitter.com/sjdemas/status/1350855889616592901

Also possibly helpful
truthorfiction.com/adam-fox-brand…

The disinformation attacks and radicalization pushes in Michigan have been absolutely off the charts this past year. November 2020

truthorfiction.com/did-an-antrim-…

December 2020 truthorfiction.com/did-michigan-s…

And who can forget this December 2020 shit-show (actually I almost had already) truthorfiction.com/mellissa-caron…

I realize weapons-grade disinformation has been aimed at every state, and I don't have any formal way to measure this, but it seems that Michigan, Georgia, and Oregon have been particularly buffeted by this mess in the past year

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Please spare a thought for @aboynamedart, who I put on this story and who tirelessly sifted through some of the worst and most exhausting rhetoric we've seen and barely complained even though I kept sending him back to cover more details about it lol

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1.) Permission, not persuasion.

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