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21 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Little bit of vengeance fantasy porn from Iran.
That's the logo for the Supreme Leader's media outlet in the pic so this isn't Tasnim freelancing. Threat (dubious as it is) comes from Khamenei
Welp
They nuked the Leader ir website’s account. SL still has his main one

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22 Jan
Rioters admitting to the FBI that they didn't vote in November while also admitting to attacking the Capitol to overthrow other the votes of people who did is so on the nose it feels like screenwriting
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18 Jan
New from me: Prosecutors have charged an alleged Colorado militia member, Robert Gieswein, which The Daily Beast has been tracking since he appeared in photos of the riot at the Capitol. thedailybeast.com/baseball-bat-w…
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16 Jan
Fun bit of imagery intelligence history from the Cuban missile crisis. When analysts found the Soviet missile sites, Bobby Kennedy was fighting against state officials to get a Black student, James Meredith, admitted to the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
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14 Jan
How did the zip ties and flex cuffs seen in the hands of rioters at the senate become a go-to piece of far right gear? @KELLYWEILL and I took a look at the history of zip ties on the far-right thedailybeast.com/why-were-the-c…
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12 Jan
New from me: investigation by The Daily Beast and @FireEye finds three reporter personas planted dozens of pro-Iranian fake articles in dozens of Arabic-language news outlets. Stories were based on spoofed, hacked, and forged sites/material thedailybeast.com/pro-iran-troll…
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17 Nov 20
Perhaps they should ask themselves some hard questions about the management of the Hoover Institution and why so many people spouting the stuff they have to denounce came to be employed there
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