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31 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The most crazy-making part of this is that Mark Levin repeatedly refers to Gingrich as a historian.
If you're curious, the two house speakers-turned-traitor are Robert Hunter of Georgia, who went on to serve as Confederate Secretary of State, and Howell Cobb, who became a Maj. Gen. in the Confederate Army.

history.house.gov/People/Detail/…
history.house.gov/People/Detail/…
Oops, missed one: James Orr of South Carolina, who later served as a Confederate senator.
history.house.gov/People/Detail/…

There's a fourth, Charles Crisp, who became speaker well after serving as a Confederate lieutenant in the Civil War but I think that's slightly different.
Lest anyone think this is all ancient history, the portraits of these four Confederate leaders were only taken down from the walls of Congress seven months ago.
speaker.gov/sites/speaker.…

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Raphael Satter Profile picture
31 Jan
Fox's Mark Levin calls the Capitol rioters "nutjobs" and "head cases," saying that if Trump really wanted to mount a coup he would've ordered the troops to storm Congress.

He's not a fan of impeachment, I think.
Levin is a fan of the word "nutjob." He says social media is full of them.

Black Lives Matter is a "Marxist-Anarchist organization which has its mission to overthrow the United States" apparently.
Newt Gingrich is "one of the smartest people I know," says Levin, which is one of the most startling statements I've heard him make so far.

Gingrich says the left "is a genuine threat to the survival of America."
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30 Jan
It's Saturday, so I'm relaxing by watching Fox.

A couple minutes and I can think of more audacious assaults on American civil liberties than whatever Tucker Carlson is talking about.
Tucker says former CIA director John Brennan is accusing Fox viewers of being terrorists.

"You just saw the clip! That's what he said!" (It's not what he said.)
As Carlson says that Fox News would never broadcast the "completely reckless" comparison between the Capitol Hill rioters and al-Qaida terrorists, here's what's on the Fox News chyron:
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28 Jan
Deepfake stonks

Among those complaining about @RobinhoodApp's restrictions on $GME trades is "Jorge Bergoglio."

Jorge, I gotta ask - where did you get that awesome collar?!

(h/t @GiorgioPatrini)

#Deepfakesinthewild
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Test-driving @sensityai's platform on this image. Their verdict? >95% likely to be a StyleGAN Image
Archived here: web.archive.org/web/2021012815…
& here:
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22 Jan
Deepfake dentistry.

Meet Alena Shpak and Inga Kolomiets. They're professionals who write "real reviews" of dental clinics in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

@sensityai says they're 99 percent likely to be Style GANs.

#Deepfakesinthewild
stomatolog.dp.ua/about/
Using deepfakes for a dentistry website is a particularly odd move because StyleGANs do a notoriously uneven job with rendering teeth.

"Alena's" teeth actually look OK, but her right ear looks like it was partially dissolved in acid.
Meanwhile on closer inspection Inga doesn't appear to have any lower teeth at all which I guess might make her a bit of a dentistry expert.
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16 Dec 20
MI6 and GCHQ may have illegally authorized informants to commit serious crimes in the UK, Britain's spy court said in a newly disclosed judgment.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/d…
Earlier this year it was revealed that MI6 had approached the same court and asked it to suppress potentially relevant material.
There's a reckoning of sorts happening in the UK over the abuse of undercovers.

The past few years have carried eye-popping revelations about the UK's army of police spies, many of whom tricked women they were targeting into having sex with them.

scotsman.com/news/crime/und…
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16 Dec 20
I'm watching the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs' hearing on "Irregularities in the 2020 Election"

Chairman Johnson speaking now.
Johnson now rereading letters sent by other senators raising issues with voting machines - correctly notes that there've been longstanding concerns with electronic voting.
Donald Palmer of the EAC speaking now. I'm liking what looks like the engraving of a fighter jet behind him. He should put his laptop on a pile of books, though.
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