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7 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Whoa. This will be lovely grounds for a libel suit, since it has not a whit of truth to it.
If it makes any difference, my paternal grandfather was a Ford mechanic in Twin Falls, Idaho, and my maternal grandfather ran a road-construction company also based in Twin. Here’s a pic of the latter out fly fishing, which was the closest thing to religion we had.
So yes, Mr. Beattie will be hearing from my attorney early this coming week.

For the nonce, let me post this officially, @DarrenJBeattie: I demand both a retraction and an apology.
Today’s @DarrenJBeattie challenge, while I discuss things with my attorney: Name my grandfather who had “John Weaver tendencies.”

I guarantee he cannot do it.

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22 Feb
I’ve been watching the right-wing narrative regarding the Jan. 6 insurrection with keen interest, and realizing that the American right again intends to resort to its well-worn “waving the bloody shirt” gambit. A thread about what that will mean. /1/44

We all know the phrase and its meaning: Someone who “waves the bloody shirt” is a demagogue whose rhetoric callously recalls violent incidents for the purpose of scoring cheap political points. /2
The phrase originated during the Reconstruction era following the Civil War. In the early years, white terrorists from armed paramilitary groups like the Ku Klux Klan roamed the Southern countryside intent on terrorizing black people and anyone assisting them. /3
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20 Feb
Yesterday was the #DayofRemembrance—February 19, the anniversary of FDR’s signing of EO9066, which consigned over 100,000 Japanese Americans to incarceration for the duration of WWII.

I wanted to share a brief tour of a memorial to those who were its victims.
One of the more memorable photos from that episode is this one, of the first community to be “evacuated” to Manzanar, from Bainbridge Island, WA. These are the “evacuees” being loaded onto a ferry under armed guard on March 30, 1942.
You can go to the site of this tragedy today and see a memorial to the event, dedicated to those who were removed summarily from their homes on the orders of an Army general. Bainbridge is a 30-minute ferry ride from downtown Seattle. The memorial is just outside the town.
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17 Feb
@ggreenwald @rafaelshimunov That’s an interesting defense, Glenn. Especially considering that your “heroes” were very different men who behaved very differently than you, and engaged the defense of neo-Nazis’ free-speech rights under very different constitutional reasoning./1

aclu.org/issues/free-sp…
@ggreenwald @rafaelshimunov Let’s briefly consider the latter: David Goldberger and his ACLU team undertook the Skokie case as a very clear-cut issue of prior restraint, involving a city’s attempts to prevent an organization’s right to peacefully assemble in the town square./2
@ggreenwald @rafaelshimunov As Goldberger said, this was a fairly clear-cut case involving a group about whom no evidence could be presented that they represented a threat to the townspeople of Skokie. Rather, if there was going to be violence, it would be coming from Skokie residents./3
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31 Jan
So now for @ggreenwald, spreading factually false information is just a matter of political beliefs. It’s OK for Republicans to believe that Biden lost, Trump was cheated, and Hillary sucks the blood out of children.

foxnews.com/transcript/gre… #FoxNews
Oh, and did anyone happen to notice that he shared this TV platform with a transphobic TERF who claims that transgender people have just been brainwashed?

Nice way to be an ally to the LGBTQ community there, Glenn.
Though it shouldn’t surprise anyone, because Greenwald lies so much as a matter of course that naturally he considers false smears legitimate speech.

And when you direct factually accurate criticism at his heroes, it’s a fascist smear.

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30 Jan
Thread: A 12-year flashback to the first time I ever heard of the Oath Keepers. It happened in 2009 when I was monitoring ‘Patriot’ movement chatter and came across a YouTube video by this man: An ex-Marine named Charles Dyer. You can see why it caught my attention.
2) Dyer’s style was disturbing—combining a skull-mask imposed digitally and his fondness for ‘inspirational,’ anthemic music in the background—but his incendiary, violent rhetoric was especially worrisome. Watch this one to the end: ‘You’re damn right I’m a threat.’
3) This video and others I was seeing float around on the fringes of the suddenly burgeoning ‘Patriot’/militia far right made me concerned about their recruitment of military veterans. There were good reasons to be concerned.
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28 Jan
I'm pleased that Australians are figuring out that @Lauren_Southern's presence on Sky News means they have a white nationalist on their teevees. Here's a little more history of her embrace of the racist right. Image
Southern was a kind of celebrity presence during the April 15, 2017, riot in Berkeley, CA, that was in fact the very first event organized by the Proud Boys. She had a PB security detail that day. Image
Accompanying her that day was Brittany Pettibone, who spoke to the crowd of right-wing extremists. Image
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