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25 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Good to see that our fearless free-speech warriors are now siding with the people who are trying ban teachers from teaching kids about racism and its history.
BTW, guys, it's pretty hard to debate people who believe you are part of a massive Marxist conspiracy and no amount of evidence to the contrary will ever dissuade them. If @ggreenwald and @mtracey want to give it a shot, they can be our guests.
The attack on CRT, particularly the legislation to banish any vestige of the idea from our schools, is the most serious threat to free speech we face right now. This, Glenn, is genuine censorship imposed by the state. And you don't care.

cjonline.com/story/opinion/…
I mean, don’t ask me. Ask a teacher.

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14 May
Yesterday's House Oversight hearing on the insurrection was significant in the way it demonstrated that the Republican Party is fully in the grip of the antidemocratic/ authoritarian/counterfactual insanity of Trumpism after Jan. 6. A video thread of the clown parade. 1/
The most obvious gaslighter was Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia: "Let’s be honest with the American people: It was not an insurrection, and we cannot call it that and be truthful." Followed by two definitions of "insurrection" that match the events of Jan. 6 perfectly. /2
Clyde later said: 'You know, but the only insurrection I’ve witnessed in my lifetime was the one conducted by the FBI with participants from the DOJ and other agencies under the banner “Russia Russia Russia.”' Which, regardless how you felt, was nothing like an insurrection./3
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19 Apr
The worst aspect of this lede (and frankly, the rest of this piece) is how it utterly obliviates the asymmetrical nature of the dynamic that created this kind of 'sectarianism.'
nytimes.com/2021/04/19/us/…
Democrats have only recently--mostly since Jan. 6--come to understand that the Republican Party is hostile not just to their party but to democracy itself, and that their worldviews are so irreconcilable that rapprochement or compromise really is nowhere in view.
Barack Obama spent the better part of his tenure reaching out to the other side and receiving back a bloody stump, literally on every issue: economic recovery, health care, immigration, gun safety. You name it, he tried hard to compromise.
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17 Apr
Tucker Carlson trotted out this argument earlier this week to illustrate his “replacement theory” regarding immigrants and voting. It’s actually a perfect illustration of the up-is-down gaslighting of the theory. A thread. 1/
Carlson made this argument on Monday when he was doubling down on his claim that Democrats want nonwhite immigration in order to increase their power—an open embrace of white-nationalist dogma./ 2

dailykos.com/stories/2021/4…
Here’s a transcript of the clip: /3
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30 Mar
You haven’t been paying attention, have you, Glenn?
The DOJ filings last week showed that the people conspiring to attack the Capitol themselves called it an “insurrection.”

courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Of course, we are familiar with Greenwald claiming there is “no evidence” of any connections to acts of violence and that claiming otherwise is merely “guilt by association.”

latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
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7 Mar
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.
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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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