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16 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
BREAKING NEWS: Crazed Wyoming Insurrectionists Toss Liz Cheney From State GOP
(PS) I’m *sure* that the Wyoming GOP will now *never again* complain about “cancel culture” in any permutation anywhere in America.
(PS2) I’m *also* certain that not a *single* Republican *anywhere in America* who applauds this move by the Wyoming GOP will *ever again* permit the phrase “cancel culture” to pass their lips.
(PS3) It’s really important to understand that the Wyoming GOP today announced itself as a devoutly seditious entity. How do we know? Because it barred from its ranks the only House member from the State of Wyoming *simply because* she wouldn’t support Trump’s ongoing coup plot.
(PS4) In a world in which Republican leaders still had principles, the 29 people who voted *against* Cheney being tossed from the Wyoming GOP would immediately found a new entity called the Wyoming Republican Party and refer to their 31 peers as an unaffiliated “Sedition Caucus.”

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17 Nov
(THREAD) Major media must stop enabling far-right lies about the Steele dossier and the Trump-Russia scandal. Both these lies and those enabling them give aid and comfort to a neofascist insurrection. This thread debunks the NYT oped below. Please RETWEET. nytimes.com/2021/11/15/opi…
1/ As I know from hard experience, columnists often don't get to write their own headlines. But what this means is that someone at the New York Times either wrote or specifically approved this headline, which is not just a lie but an easily disproven one, at that. And here's why: Image
2/ There's no proof in this article, nor could there be, of how media "got the Steele dossier so wrong"—as the media never reported that *any* part of the dossier had been conclusively confirmed, never misreported its origins and wrote on the dossier far less than is now claimed.
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16 Nov
(🔒) RETRO launches its new Film section with an article entitled "What the Worst-Ever Courtroom Scene in Any American Film Tells Us About the Coming Verdict in the Rittenhouse Trial." An annual RETRO subscription is just $35 (see the post after this one). retrostack.substack.com/p/what-the-wor…
(🚀) RETRO is now running its first-ever subscription sale! From now until November 30 you can get 30% off an annual subscription—a reduction to $35 from the already discounted $50 (a monthly subscription is $5). If you love pop culture, you'll love RETRO! retrostack.substack.com/p/the-first-ev…
(PS1) This article aims to serve not just as a film review and an article on the Rittenhouse trial but a primer on how criminal cases work. Eviscerating the worst-ever legal scene in any US film offers ample opportunity for a trial lawyer and current professor to try to educate.
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16 Nov
As predicted.

“Bannon set the example for turning efforts to hold Trump acolytes accountable into fuel for more extremism. The banker turned firebrand populist podcaster relished his moment in the spotlight, embracing victimhood in the name of Trumpism.” cnn.com/2021/11/16/pol…
(PS) The first mistake prosecutors made was not seeking to have him held on bail. Granted, he’s able to post any bail because he’s a con man who’s been bilking the Trump base for years and would have been able to find any number of fascist millionaires to post for him, but still.
(PS2) The Bannon case has been treated as a PR opportunity by Bannon from the beginning. Had federal prosecutors asked for a cash bail it would have underscored a narrative: Bannon is dangerous; Bannon is a scofflaw; Bannon does not meet court mandates; Bannon is a flight risk.
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15 Nov
One thing many don’t know about me is that for a brief period I worked serving process—specifically, federal subpoenas—in Washington. Everything Bannon and his attorney just said is about *destroying* our system of justice and rule of law, not preserving it. Bannon is a criminal.
I’ve literally been *assaulted* while in the midst of serving a federal subpoena in the DC area. So when I say that there are real consequences to certain citizens believing that they’re above the law and need not honor subpoenas, I think I know better than most how true that is.
I’ve also been a defense lawyer advising clients on subpoenas and a federal criminal investigator dealing with clients in receipt of a subpoena. Advising a client to criminally ignore a part of a subpoena you know is uncovered by privilege should get a lawyer suspended/disbarred.
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14 Nov
More and more I see videos in which far-right lunatics are shouting or preaching and though I can’t even understand what they’re angry about the one thing that’s clear is that they’re trying to push the country toward civil war. The Tim Pool video going around is from this genre.
What people must understand is that this anger is all manufactured. It’s just the planned continuation of an artificial metanarrative the right has developed to try to keep hold of its base.

Elmo could be POTUS and Grover could be running the FBI and they’d be crying oppression.
So when you see people on the right calling the left “Nazis” and claiming that their freedoms have been abridged and insisting that somehow Joe Biden is both senile and the second coming of Hitler, understand that it’s both nonsense and a drumbeat intended to foment new violence.
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13 Nov
(THANKSGIVING SALE) RETRO is having its first-ever sale! To celebrate Thanksgiving, you can now get an annual subscription to RETRO for 30% off—that's just $35 for a full year of access to articles on music, books, films, gaming, digital culture, and more! retrostack.substack.com/p/the-first-ev…
1/ Here’s the most recent entry in the “Lost Classics” series at RETRO: “Lost Classics of the 1960s: Future Megastars in Obscure Bands, Vol. 1” retrostack.substack.com/p/lost-classic…
2/Here’s the beginning of what will be a multi-part series on journalism at RETRO: “Time and Media: How the Internet Changed Time and Thereby Changed Journalism” retrostack.substack.com/p/time-and-med…
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