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Morning birdies waking up
“Oh the magic bird seed fairy has come”
Gorgeous sky just now

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8 Feb
My George Shultz story: he once have me an A+ on a project for making him laugh.

He team-taught an amazing class at Stanford — negotiations? Arms control? Not actually sure what class actually was — with three other big-name “formers” (which is why you took the class) /1
The first assignment was a team project — you were assigned a country and had to present your case on some arms control issue.

Of course my team got Russia.

So we worked out the whole presentation on nuclear whatever and I’m sure it was fine. /2
But when we presented it in class, we staged it so one very serious member of our team read the presentation in English (as the interpreter), while I was the “Russian” diplomat actually presenting. /3
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1 Feb
All the fun birds came for tea time — the jaunty cardinal and the lady cardinal (who is my favorite), also Mr Bluejay.

The daffy doves did not appear as the Cooper’s Hawk was here looking for snacks.
Lady cardinal: “you looking at meeeeeee?”
“Don’t flirt with me, Bluejay, when the jaunty cardinal can see”
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Molly McKew Profile picture
27 Jan
Today’s indictment of Ricky Vaughn for *2016* election interference efforts — that were well documented already in public domain — really makes you wonder what else Bill Barr was sitting on

Serves as notice though that this is criminal. More coming.

justice.gov/opa/pr/social-…
More evidence of connections between Brexit info ops and pro-Trump info ops:

justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
No real shocker here that Vaughn and his ilk hung around with white nationalists and other racists. Explicitly targeting minority voters.
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Molly McKew Profile picture
27 Jan
In revealing the annual #DoomsdayClock, @BulletinAtomic highlights the proliferation of conspiracies and the consistent eroding of scientific truth as an escalating concern in how we respond to crisis.

Yet, somehow, they leave the 2021 doomsday clock unchanged. /1
The official reveal: /2
Lots of focus from speakers about the anticipated policy shifts a Biden admin heralds, and the need for US leadership in climate, health, arms control discussions. /3
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22 Jan
@anneapplebaum @RadioFreeTom I think maybe you can both be right — a bit. Perhaps you will both forgive a semi-long explanation.

Anne — very grateful for this contribution, precisely bc it removes the problem from the “nothing can be done” category & points out that plenty of places have done this before /1
@anneapplebaum @RadioFreeTom Also *we* have done this before. Throughout the civil war, Lincoln was obsessed with things infrastructure and national symbols (Thanksgiving Day, etc), knowing that eventually it would all have to be physically and mentally knit back together.
/2
@anneapplebaum @RadioFreeTom I also worked in Liberia just after the end of the long civil war, & saw how effectively some of the tools you describe in your thoughtful piece worked. Especially the overall “change the subject” idea. For the first time for a whole generation, they could be something else /3
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22 Jan
A short thread on *ssholes & conspiracies:

We all know amplification of conspiracy theories — usually in the form of a question — by right wing media has become standard fare to harden views.

“Can we be SURE Clinton didn’t kill Seth Rich?” Etc. (Note: she didn’t) /1
“How do we KNOW Chavez didn’t use Dominion to steal the election from beyond the grave?” (Note: because he’s dead FFS)

Posing it as “questions that need to be answered maybe” allows them to evade responsibility for what they are doing. It’s standard fare. /2
Why do I raise this?

So you may remember when Notre Dame burned in April 2019 — a tragic accident. Online conspiracy theories immediately flourished. One claimed the fire was an act of Islamic terror. Many right wing personalities amplified this lie. /3
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