(🔐) NEW PROOF SERIES: PROOF now takes in so much data daily on January 6—some of it not yet resolvable into a feature-length article—that this new series has been developed to allow the quick release of such information. I hope you'll subscribe and share. sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-best-unp…
1/ Some of this info is pretty significant—it's just hard to link it to feature-length stories PROOF is working on. In Item #8, here, on Bannon, you'll find the secret to what Team Trump had planned for January 6, and it's not a narrative we've clearly heard from major media yet.
2/ But honestly I'm most scared about Item #6. Robert Patrick Lewis is a deranged militant extremist who had access to top members of Team Trump on Insurrection Eve and Insurrection Day. To hear his views at such length.... I believe he's a legitimate danger to national security.
3/ I'm not joking when I write that the information contained in Item #5 should be enough to lead to the arrest of Michael Lindell. That video establishes the knowledge he had, and the intent he had, when he broadcast to "millions" what he did *as the Capitol was being attacked*.
4/ The images in Item #7 and Item #9 may determine if we can add two more members to Trump's January 6 Willard war room: one a top associate of Bannon, and the other a convicted felon associated with Rudy Giuliani. We need these IDs, as more in-room photos may not be forthcoming.
5/ I suppose I should pause to add that the volume of OSINT that PROOF is sitting on and trying to figure out what to do with isn't like a leak—it's like a waterfall. These ten items, clearly significant as some of them are, are essentially just the first items that came to hand.
6/ Item #2—involving Roger Stone and a certain very highly placed Proud Boy—is the closest to linking up with a coming feature-length PROOF article (in fact, Part 3 of the "Willard Hotel" series at PROOF, which I continue working on). So you'll see these two men again very soon.
7/ What I'm finding too in these far-flung data-points are just these amazing *moments*—like Mike Lindell calling down hellfire in mid-insurrection by positioning the Capitol attack (in a broadcast!) as a battle of Good and Evil, and then pausing...
...for a MyPillow commercial.
8/ There are days I think the January 6 insurrection is the *single strangest thing* that's ever happened in U.S. history, like it represented a clash not of world-views but *actual whole realities*—a "rift in time" in which each side of America suddenly actually *saw* the other.
9/ For instance, do readers of this feed realize that roughly 25% of voting Americans appear to believe that the DCMP SWAT team that showed up seconds after Ashli Babbitt was shot...
...was fake? Yes—they think it was a *fake SWAT team*. Sent by the Deep State. They really do.
10/ But it's not just, like, anonymous Twitter feeds with way too many numbers in their handles that believe this.
Robert Patrick Lewis—who was advising the president's team on January 6—believes this.
He believes—or says he does—that the Deep State was using fake SWAT teams.
11/ Think of how much danger the United States is in if the Republican who is most likely to run for president in 2024 is someone advised by people who *literally*—I'm not screwing around—might be subjected to a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation if and when they are arrested.
12/ And you'd think that at least Trump's *lawyers* aren't that deranged—just the men advising and protecting them, like Lewis from 1AP. So how do we explain former Trump lawyer Lin Wood having said that Trump remains president and still has control of our military? It's *scary*.
UPDATE/ With the help of two sharp-eyed PROOF readers, PROOF can now say that the picture in Item #1 was taken at Trump International Hotel—on a day Flynn said he was never inside that hotel. You see, this is why it's so critical to get this information into "crowdsourcing" mode!
NOTE/ I often say that PROOF's community of 40,000+ readers—which has arisen in just 5 months and 3 weeks—is as effective a January 6 investigative team as there is *anywhere*. And this proves it yet again.
I hope this new series will lead to more such discoveries in the future!
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Team Kraken is getting publicly pantsed in Michigan today during a sanctions hearing and I am here for every delicious moment of it
As I know from long experience, practicing the law well is incredibly difficult, and practicing it poorly incredibly easy
But none of that has anything to do with Team Kraken, which I think it would be more accurate to say was not practicing law at all in its lawsuit in Michigan
At the same time I want to note that from a certain view it's incredibly painful to watch this hearing
As a member of both a state and a federal bar, I find what the Krakens did not just morally reprehensible but deeply insulting to a profession I continue to hold in high regard
Imagine killing people needlessly to advance a personal ambition and then demanding not just credit for it but *praise*. Who was the last person to do that? Manson? Bundy? Maybe someone with a better knowledge of the history of serial killers can tell me. cnn.com/2021/07/11/pol…
(PS) Honorable mention to CNN for saying that the threat from COVID-19 is "waning" when it's up nationally (in daily new confirmed cases) 125% this week, from 12,000 to over 27,000. I bet Kristi Noem's PR flacks and pollster team were thrilled with the cheerleading coverage here.
(PS2) At least there was this: "South Dakota has 230 deaths per 100,000 people, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, ranking the state 10th in that metric among the 50 states. The state had 14,090 cases per 100,000 people, ranking South Dakota with the third highest."
Cable TV is unwatchable today. Networks that have spent no time at all investigating the insurrectionist kingpins are showing wall-to-wall coverage of a billionaire going part of the way to space so that millionaires can go part of the way to space.
Sometimes humans really suck.
When the super-rich engage in vanity projects intended only to serve the rich, the cable news networks cover it like it's a music festival. When the super-rich orchestrate an armed Insurrection against the American government, the networks focus on the arrests of...foot soldiers.
Branson didn't go to space as the news is reporting, doesn't pay the taxes he should, and isn't creating a service normal folks will be able to use in 50 years. Meanwhile, in the same country, hyper-rich/powerful Republicans are staging a slow coup that remains largely uncovered.
@docgotham Critical pedagogy is itself a grad school topic—as is curriculum development. So the idea that pedagogues are using grad school language to discuss curriculum isn't surprising and doesn't mean they're teaching such ideas. It means they're using many lenses to select K-12 content.
@docgotham You don't understand what theory is if you're confusing critical theory and course content. For instance, imagine a 95 year-old Victorianist thinking a given book has value for study in a ninth-grade class. Does that mean that that class will be indoctrinated into Victorianism?
@docgotham Critical lenses can help us problem-solve without becoming part of our pedagogy/course content. A feminist can choose a book for a fifth-grade class without teaching feminist critical theory—feminism was just one of many aspects of that person's worldview informing a book choice.
CRT is a postmodern metaphysical praxis that is dialectical, self-admittedly neo-Marxist, non-exclusive—cooperative with other critical lenses—and ONLY TAUGHT IN GRADUATE SCHOOL.
If you want to cancel BLACK HISTORY from K-12 school curricula, Trumpists, HAVE THE GUTS TO SAY SO.
PS/ Articles like the one below that describe CRT as "the academic study of racism's impact"—which it isn't—aren't helping. When Randall Kennedy was teaching us CRT at HLS in the 2000s, he would never have called it "the academic study of racism's impact." nbcnews.com/news/us-news/a…
PS2/ History and theory aren't synonymous—and we progressives are going to lose this curriculum debate unless we get our act together. Trumpists don't care about CRT—they don't even know what "theory" is!—they want to eradicate *black history*. We can't accept their BS misnomers.
(THREAD) This is a very brief thread about the new PROOF series on mobile gaming, about how it ties into my other writing and research, and about how I got into this subject—a relatively recent development. I think some people will be surprised at where this new series is headed.
1/ Readers who know anything about me—see bio below—know I used to review video games at Indiewire; I teach gaming (among many other subjects) at UNH; and I'm a professor of digital culture who's extremely invested in "post-internet" (internet age) theory. sethabramson.net/bio
2/ One thing I was *never* interested in was mobile gaming. And if you're reading this thinking, "Yeah, I am *super* not interested in that topic," please know... that was me. That was me *despite* my background with gaming. That was me up until the pandemic began in March 2020.