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29 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
A fascinating breakdown of how @dannoyes got played by a fascist. He did what appears to be zero work to back up his source's claims or investigate that person's background.
When @jason_a_w and I reported on leaked chats from Patriot Coalition, we didn't just take an activist's word for it. We got access to the live chat room and verified that our info was legit in real time.

We cross referenced claims made by right wing vigilantes with OS evidence.
By the time we wrote the article linked below, we knew that not only were these far right militia folks making violent threats, they had carried out real world violence on several occasions. We identified many of them before publication.

bellingcat.com/news/2020/09/2…
Doing actual journalism takes time and effort. A lot more of both than just filming a dude and reporting whatever he says without investigation.

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the thing that is actually incredible about the space race and both the Russian and U.S. space programs is how FEW people died. I don't expect the same from corporate run, exploitation driven space races.
i've been watching 'for all mankind' lately, an alt-history about the USSR reaching the moon first. They have the first cosmonaut give a propagandistic speech about marxist-leninist civilization. and tbh, I don't believe that would've happened.
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hi does anyone in Oregon know where I could get horse meat? Ideally an entire horse.

I have a recipe I need to try once it is eel season again
since i was a young man I have dreamt of an Eel Horse: an entire horse carcass stuffed with eels, seasoned, wrapped and buried in a pit fire and cooked until crispy.

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10 Apr
i have had hundreds of interactions with the police over my life. I have never been arrested. I have never once felt safer as a result of their presence in a situation.
i have never been arrested for the same reason I have never been seriously injured by an angry dog. The same tactics work on both. Your best best bet for safety with with cops is to treat them like violent and unpredictable animals.
this all of course presumes you are white. I would not attempt to give anyone else advice on dealing with the cops.
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18 Feb
the state under Trump and Biden has made it very clear that we have two options:

1. Radical mutual aid

2. Death
Radical mutual aid does not just mean "donating canned goods" or whatever.

It means creating and expanding a durable safety net that exists outside the state.
I don't precisely know yet how I plan to help with this, besides raising funds as I have done for years.

I will be announcing something this year though.
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I just got an ad for "Trump Passports" for "Trump Citizens" who want to get ready for "MAGA 2024"

definitely not the kind of rhetoric that could escalate to separatist violence An ad for an Exclusive Trump Passport. Text says: I am a truShow your support. Do your part. Help reclaim our country. O
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here's an internal page from the passport. it is absolutely impossible to know if this is a joke or not Inside page of a passport. There's a picture of a wall next
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If you are wondering why Texas's electrical grid is on the brink of collapse, it's because Texas is the only of the lower 48 states with its own power grid. The reasons for this boil down to "fuck the federal government."

This does not work well.

texastribune.org/2011/02/08/tex…
In 2011, and on other emergency occasions, Texas has had to borrow power from Mexico, who are objectively better neighbors than us.

On the last big winter storm I was here for, much of Dallas lost power for 2 weeks. We had electric workers from like a dozen states come to help.
The message of all this is that Texas's toxic style of libertarianism is not real. "Rugged individualism" repeatedly gets us into trouble and we have to be bailed out by our neighbors.

Anyway, 100,000 people in DFW have to boil their water now because the treatment plant broke.
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