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24 Jun, 5 tweets, 1 min read
How does everyone feel about a group project?

Let's collect every speech and tweet where Trump — or any of his minions — mentioned 1/6 before 1/6.
And it's probably also worth collecting every time Trump said something that was inciting violence. Though this one will go back years.
Feel free to RT this for wider participation. If there's an actual response I'll probably set up a google doc.
Google doc (despite no significant response yet). Barely started. The doc is open to comments.

docs.google.com/document/d/17q…
Man I've barely gotten into this and I keep coming up against deleted accounts, deleted content, lost videos, shutdown domains.

The effort to stop propaganda is ironically also sterilizing our history.

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Thomas A. Fine 🇺🇸 Profile picture
24 Jun
I believe obvious things are still worth pointing out.

We (political news junkies) all believed 1/6 was pre-meditated.

What is now obvious is that the DOJ and courts are 100% on board with this too. Indictments and rulings make this crystal clear.
Even some of the charges against those who don't (yet) have a conspiracy charge only make sense in a pre-meditated context.
I'll also note that a lot of these indictments mention that the perps believed they were following orders from Trump.

This makes me think (though it isn't crystal clear like the above) that the DOJ also is looking seriously at how Trump connects to all of this.
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6 Jun
It's stunning really. On October 1 2018, Trump basically says in public that he's blackmailing a Democratic Senator. And on October 5th and 6th Manchin is the sole Democrat who votes with Republicans to end debate, and to confirm Kavanaugh.

Manchin would go on to vote to confirm Barr, and now states clearly that he will neither end the filibuster, and will even block the For The People Act if it comes to a vote.
But sure lets spend all of our time and political will trying to convince him to switch his vote.
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Thomas A. Fine 🇺🇸 Profile picture
6 Jun
My default assumption for both Manchin and Sinema is that they are compromised by some right wing entity, and therefore will not yield on core Trump issues no matter what.

They're going to act exactly like Graham, Nunes, Cruz, Jordan, etc., until our democracy is dead.
If you are willing to entertain the possibility or likelihood that some members of Congress are compromised, then the surprising part here isn't that they got to a couple of Democrats too. The surprising part is that anyone ever thought Democrats would be immune.
Sinema and Manchin both broke party lines to confirm Barr, too. There's no common thread of issues or policy between that vote and this one.

Except that they're both the highest priority votes for Trump in terms of keeping him out of prison.
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27 May
Hey @nytimes this is a lie. And I say this because I don't think it's a mistake. I think you knew full well that this had been previously reported by @forensicnewsnet.
Here:
forensicnews.net/giuliani-probe…
And for the viewing public, here's the article from NYT.
nytimes.com/2021/05/27/nyr…
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Thomas A. Fine 🇺🇸 Profile picture
27 May
Parnas' arrest certainly had the effect of shutting up Trump and allies, but I have a hard time believing it was intentional, considering the massive propaganda effort that was all but demolished with their arrest.
I could more easily believe that Barr worked to keep others from being arrested and/or investigated, and warned them off of traveling with Fruman and Parnas, so that they wouldn't be nearby when FruPar were arrested.
In which case, a more accurate description would be that Barr couldn't prevent their arrest, and so arranged to limit the collateral damage as much as possible. Part of that WOULD mean shutting down the propaganda effort.
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27 May
Working on some graphics.
Sadly it seems like 1/6 really didn't have the impact on our culture it should have. If you do an image search on 1/6 you don't get single image of the insurrection in the first screen.
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