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26 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
In MY day... (and 20 years ago these exact same people were fearmongering about drugs flowing over the border in the exact same way)
Contrast and compare (from 2002)

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I meannnnnnnn (1996 Republican Party platform)
presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/repu…
Adopted in San Diego because of course it was

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27 Mar
Great news! It was heavy on the #TantonNetwork appointees
Ken Cuccinelli - Former acting director, USCIS & former SLLI member
Tom Homan - Former acting director, ICE & "senior fellow" at IRLI
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25 Mar
Yeah... this past week has not given me a lot of faith in the U.S. media's ability to recognize and dissect disinformation campaigns. They're sure failing this test
(With, as always, a few luminous exceptions)
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25 Mar
Influential Facebook board member Peter Thiel has publicly argued against fact-checking political ads
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25 Mar
INDISCRIMINATE HUMANITARIANISM
Feeling great about my lifelong indifference toward Morrissey now (sorry everybody)
From here:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/walls…
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24 Mar
"Why don't you get your husband to pay the bills?" (I've never been married)
"You don't? Why hasn't a cute little girl like you found yourself a nice rich husband yet?"

I don't know man, why do you have all those sexual harassment cases pending against you?
Runner-up, from a editor who had evidently never even bothered to look at my resume: "Why don't you get your husband to take you on a nice trip and do some journalism from there? Then you can get some international reporting chops!"
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24 Mar
Yeah, of course they fucking are.
I warned everyone that the border disinformation campaign -- rolled along by the same eugenicists I warned about during the Trump administration -- were going to use this to change the subject. It's so fucking predictable
But at least just about all my colleagues are bravely stepping right up and... going along with an orchestrated disinformation campaign as though the last few years never happened
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