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27 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
That's correct, a thuggish group of black-clad "protesters" did steal my phone out of my hands as I was recording a public event, after which they forced me to recite a political slogan in order to get it back, then hurled objects at me and threatened to curbstomp me. Cool stuff
When this occurred, the reaction of journalists and activists (negligible difference between the two categories) was generally to praise the theft, the object hurling, and the threat of physical attack. Very cool stuff
People with profiles like this were huge fans of the tactic
This is definitely true, a lot of people on Twitter -- many of whom love to brag about how conscientious and empathetic they are -- thoroughly enjoyed this display of thuggish, violent behavior

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25 Oct
This Rolling Stone article that's supposed to contain bombshell new Jan 6 info is a complete dud. It's been public info since well before Jan 6 that dopey GOP members of Congress met with dopey "Stop the Steal" organizers like Ali Akbar. This is just repackaged to seem shocking
How is it at all revelatory, for instance, that Madison Cawthorn's staff communicated with "Stop the Steal" organizers, when Cawthorn was a speaker at the official Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally? What, we previously thought that he just showed up randomly to that event?
Not surprisingly Dem members of Congress wasted no time feverishly sharing the article, which writer Hunter Walker sure seems to appreciate. In doing so they conflate holding meetings about a public, legal political demonstration with having "helped plan" a terrorist attack
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22 Oct
The Intercept, @ryangrim, and @nathanTbernard most of all owe an apology (and a retraction) to the Bates College student journalists they defamed. It’s utterly ridiculous:
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21 Oct
To Suit Its Ideological Agenda, The Intercept Fabricated A Censorship Story That Even The Censorship "Victims" Denounce As False mtracey.substack.com/p/to-suit-its-…
The Intercept dramatically declared that two student journalists at Bates College had been "censored," but they didn't even bother to contact the journalists to ask them if they had been censored -- which the students both vehemently deny. Really bizarre journalistic misconduct
I likely never would have even noticed this relatively insignificant story if Intercept writer @nathanTbernard hadn't badgered me to cover it, lest I be totally owned for hypocrisy. So I covered it, and of course it turns out to be largely BS. (Bernard has stopped replying to me)
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