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29 Mar, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Congratulations on using your 1.5M followers to attack new journalists and keep building that white nationalist brand
A new journalist wrote a story about how the Capitol insurrectionists are raising money online, which seems like a newsworthy topic. She was already being attacked even before Glenn decides to weigh in.
How members of the far right use technology to support their goals is a legitimate story. Even if you don’t like the framing, it’s insane to go on a threaded rant about how this story is all that is wrong with journalism.
The attack on the story is disproportionate by any standard, but just want to point out that he goes after the intern even though there are three names on the byline. He’ll be back to complaining about cancel culture tomorrow tho.
Just want to point out this story is quite good at *describing* how big tech companies are saying they are trying to limit extremist fundraising while other fundraising sites welcome them.
He is still going: ultimately he is saying media coverage of far right figures who are charged with breaking the law is a form of harassment, but his framing of journalists as repugnant and fair game for attack is fine.

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In a new paper in @journal_pa we sort out the overlap and differences btw red tape, sludge, administrative burden and ordeal mechanisms approaches.
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Black churches use Sundays for "souls to polls" mobilizing events.

GOP legislators have targeted Sunday early voting to undermine such efforts.

But this is the first time I've heard the "God supports voter suppression" argument.
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When North Carolina eliminated Sunday voting as part of a broader voter suppression package, courts noted the clear intention to target Black voters (via @Eugene_Scott) npr.org/2021/03/22/977…
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24 Mar
One more time: the greatest threat to free speech on campus comes not from students, but from public officials using state power to censor ideas they disagree with.
I continue to tweet about this stuff because the dominant narrative continues to be that students/faculty are destroying speech even amidst a pretty straightforward wave of state censorship in the US (thread):
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24 Mar
If you ever wondered what it was like to live through a period of systemic attacks on democracy, now you know nytimes.com/2021/03/23/us/…
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