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15 Jul, 7 tweets, 4 min read
Any follow up on this, @brianstelter?
Or perhaps you, @JaneMayerNYer?
Will @MSNBC and @JoyAnnReid revisit this claim?
And you, @maddow?
This is your outlet, @jonathanchait
It gets overlooked but the Steele dossier was among the most embarrassing collective media failures in decades.
I posted this thread a year ago.

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15 Jul
This is hard to read, but I beg you not to turn away. It’s a vivid, haunting story about life in Xinjiang under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party.

And it recounts an evil worse than is easier to imagine. theatlantic.com/the-uyghur-chr…
I know there’s been a brouhaha about The Atlantic lately but, at it’s best, it’s the most important source of reporting and conversation in the United States dating back to the days of Abraham Lincoln.

This piece honors that legacy.
We live in a time where it’s hard for anyone to think in more than seven second increments. But the evolving - and escalating - horror taking place right now in China is hard to overstate, and should be impossible to ignore.
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10 Jul
I don’t want to wade into the ‘who can Twitter ban’ discourse but I will just say that Fuentes is what happens when a little man goes through his youth without ever getting punched in the face.
Every man should have an intuitive sense of how punchable their personality is and my hot take on DC is that it’s biggest problem is the percentage of men for whom that isn’t true.
Gonna start a DC masculinity cult where dudes go to the gym and actually lift weights, love their neighbors as themselves and don’t ever think about wearing sunglasses like Fuentes has here.
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8 Jul
🧵THREAD🧵

The downfall of Michael Avenatti was obvious many miles away. Well, to everyone except the mainstream media.

With the news of Avenatti’s sentencing, I thought it was time to go down memory lane for some of the best Avenatti takes. ⤵️
We need to start this with some of the all-time greats.

Perhaps my favorite comes from @ChrisCillizza.
Now I say perhaps because these two takes from @JoyAnnReid should be etched into stone for the rest of human history.
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6 Jul
It really does confuse me that “just sue the government whenever it violates your rights” as a conservative alternative to passing better laws didn’t die with the decade (and counting) of harassment Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop have experienced. google.com/amp/s/www.chri…
Good lawyers have been enormously important to the conservative movement, esp in beating back the excesses of progressivism. But a legal approach is fundamental insufficient as the only tool of public policy.
People will frame this as legislating morality, anti-small government, whatever. But, at its root, it’s a recognition that legislatures need to legislate, and that task can be done for reasons both good and ill. We shouldn’t ignore an entire branch of government.
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2 Jul
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Vilifying people in their obituaries is, simply put, a bad, inhumane development. There’s also a lot of hypocrisy in how it’s done.

If you don’t believe me, look at how yesterday’s passing of former Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compares to Cuban butcher Fidel Castro.⤵️.
I’ll be honest. I think a lot of these don’t need much of an introduction; I trust all of you can read.

Here’s @AP. Notice anything different between the obits of a former military leader and a brutal tyrant?

Can you tell which is which?
@NPR found the space to take a dig at Rumsfeld in the headline of his obit.

For some reason, they couldn’t do the same for Fidel Castro.
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29 Jun
My collected thoughts on Jan 6th:

1. Really bad
2. Rioters should be punished under the law
3. Obviously not a ‘coup’ or coup attempt or ‘insurrection’
4. Undeserving of the attention it continues to get/overblown by left/media
5. Doesn’t tell us much about state of the country
There should be enough here to piss off most parties
I get that there’s lots of commentaries about how awful it is that people have downplayed how bad it is, but most of the takes from serious people that I think miss the mark are about extrapolating too much from a really unique and isolated incident.
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