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17 Sep, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Arizona Senate Candidate Gave 'Millions' To The Organizer Of Tomorrow's #JusticeforJ6 Capitol Protest theuprising.info/p/arizona-sena…
Look Ahead America, the group behind the protest, said in April @jim_lamon's donation went to “an intensive voter registration and community organizing effort” in Arizona." When I asked about it yesterday, they said it was "100%" for registration. theuprising.info/p/arizona-sena…
Look Ahead America has already held one of their #JusticeForJ6 rallies in support of Capitol rioters in Arizona. They're also doing one of the official satellite rallies for this weekend's event in Phoenix later this month. theuprising.info/p/arizona-sena…
The Capitol Police and DC Police are stepping up security for Saturday's rally. On Wednesday evening, as fences went up around the Capitol dome, @jim_lamon was on a stage in Phoenix accepting an endorsement from two law enforcement groups. theuprising.info/p/arizona-sena…

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16 Sep
I wandered into the Nate Silver discourse last night. Couple of his fans were recounting other stuff he got right. That's not the real quqestion. Instead we should ask what is the actual value to the larger public of supposedly predictive political content?
It strikes me that Nate and others have made this a larger and larger part of our political discourse at the same tome that sea changes in lofestyle and the polling firm landscape have made the data less reliable
Still, pollsters are generally pretty solid. The question is - even if the data is 💯- what good is done in training so much of the public's focus on a snapshot of a potential outcome. It takes focus away from policy and may influence behavior.
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21 Aug
Maureen Dowd in 2021: "It is enraging to watch ... the same people whose cheerleading ensnared us in 20 years of quicksand in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Maureen Dowd in November 2001: "Give war a chance."
That second quote comes from this column "Talkin' Ain't Fightin'" where the fully retconned @maureendowd said Bush "should put down the bullhorn and tell Rummy to get moving." nytimes.com/2001/11/07/opi…
Later that same month, Maureen Dowd was writing about an America "lustily rooting" for war, mocking the nation for losing our John Wayne energy, and suggesting it came back through "pulverizing" the Taliban.
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21 Aug
This is such a silly non-argument. In the end Bin Laden was killed with a small special operations team. We literally lost track of him while not focusing on that task and prepping an invasion.
I vividly remember going to one of the vigils in Union Square right after 9/11. I was sitting with my friends from Stuy - kids who experienced some of the worst terror of that day. We all wanted Bin Laden held to account. We all hoped they'd quickly strike him in those mountains.
That's not what happened. How did high schoolers and regular people have the foresight to want something leas than invasion while DC did not? Iraq is a similar tale. It's been twenty years of war and it's time for introspection.
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21 Aug
It's important to remember the volume and level of grotesque callousness that some of the most elite media voices printed in the leadup to Afghanistan.
It's stunning that someone who printed something so lacking in accuracy or humanity would still have a major platform.
This 20 year history of grotesqueries is part of what I am alluding to when I note much of the DC press corps tends to have a reflexive pro-war bias.
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20 Aug
Go fuck yourself Vermont Flannel.
(This is actually a great local business that makes wonderful products but I *did not* need this in freakin' August.)
Summer ends on September 30 at 11:59 PM. I do not want to hear about jackets, pumpkins or any other cold bullshit until that point.
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19 Aug
The past few months have been like a slow painful realization that January 6 really hit me hard. Today was rough.
It's definitely PTSD, but mild. I experienced a way tougher case after a bad car accident. It's not dramatic symptoms but just like unease and feeling super down as all this unfolded.
I don't say this to *make it about me* or anything. I just feel like we are not talking about 1/6 enough or recognizing it. I feel a bit of a duty to speak up. This should be traumatic for all of us. We should be reckoning with it far more than we are.
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