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31 Oct, 13 tweets, 4 min read
New @washingtonpost investigation:

"Trump was the driving force at every turn as he orchestrated what would become an attempted political coup in the months leading up to Jan. 6, calling his supporters to Washington, encouraging the mob ..."

washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
"At the Pentagon, leaders had acute fears about widespread violence, and some feared Trump could misuse the National Guard to remain in power, new accounts reveal."

washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
Reading this new reporting, and it's a miracle there wasn't a mass casualty event.
Planning for this eventually must now become routine. Sadly.
#capitolsiegereligion

@plmanseau @AntonKhalski
16 days before Jan. 6, "The chatter about bringing guns to D.C., in particular, was off the charts."

washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
Acting Defense Secretary: "I thought the demonstrators were going to try to bait us into a Boston Massacre-type situation."

washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
I think the FBI needs a refresher course on the First Amendment.
Come the fuck on

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1 Nov
"By holding that laws that do not mention or target religion may still violate people’s religious rights in certain cases" SCOTUS has sent "message to vaccine resisters: You can challenge the constitutionality of any denial of a request for a religious exemption.
In response, vaccine resisters have kept litigation flowing."

Crucial piece by @weparmet

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It is impossible to understand the current state of the GOP without understanding white evangelicalism.

Yet how many political reporters have that understanding?
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The news coverage of the "Let's Go Brandon" chant being repeated by a Southwest Airlines pilot brings to mind other Trumpian things that are permeating regular life.
Such as: last night I went to a high school football game in deep blue Montgomery County, Maryland.

Like is (sadly) typical at high school sports events, parents were screaming at the referees, complaining about literally every call.
(I was sitting in the section of the team that was ahead. It was those parents who were screaming. Not all the parents. But some.)
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27 Oct
Regarding the GOP lawyer who, as a high school senior in AP English was triggered by Beloved:

White parents claiming books by black authors made them nervous was one of the early organizing events of the religious right, in Kanawha County, WV, in the early 1970s.
E.g., a parent tried to ban Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice as an optional reading in an AP class.

Parents claimed poems by Langston Hughes were "anti-Christian."

Work by James Baldwin was called "anti-white."

Some parents were egged on by the Heritage Foundation.
Despite threats, fires, and bombings, and visits from the Klan, the school district adopted most of the curriculum, with one concession:
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8 Oct
*Very* important reporting from @nytpolitics on Mike Farris's role in drafting lawsuits eventually brought by Republican AGs to overturn election results.

A thread: 1/x

Christian Conservative Lawyer Had Secretive Role in Bid to Block Election Result nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/…
Farris is the president/CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom, although he claims here that this work was separate from his role at ADF. Not often you see the president of a huge non-profit with a budget in the tens of millions moonlighting on an issue the non-profit can't touch. 2/x
ADF saw its power and influence grow in multiple ways during Trump's presidency. It had serious influence over policy, its lawyers were appointed to key roles in admin., and Trump's nominees to federal judiciary not only were likeminded, but had real relationships with ADF. 3/x
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This is such an important, crucial story that I fear is getting lost amid... everything.

Election workers are fearing for their lives, owing to the GOP fomenting of "fraud" conspiracy theories.

washingtonpost.com/politics/elect…
This is of a piece, along with the menacing of public health officials by people unhinged by the prospect of wearing a piece of cloth on their face to protect themselves and others from a deadly virus.
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