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In the closing days of the VA election, @ProjectLincoln sent a group of fake white supremacists to a Youngkin rally.

Turns out, it was originally meant as an obvious joke that spiraled when too many Dems took it seriously.

Let’s unpack how the hoax spread.⤵️

@theintercept

First some context, @theintercept & @ryangrim wrote up internal LP emails to confirm this, story below.

Maybe it should’ve given people pause that one of the supposed proud boys was a girl & one of the “white supremacists” was black.

It didn’t. theintercept.com/2021/11/03/lin…

@RexChapman

Unsurprisingly, a lot of folks on one side of the political aisle were quick to jump on the story.

One viral tweet calling it a “disgusting” reference to Charlottesville got retweets from @RexChapman, @RachelBitecofer, @rolandsmartin & @TheDemCoalition

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Drew Holden

@DrewHolden360

4 Nov

@maddow

Quick🧵 of the greatest hits of the Steel dossier truthers, starting with this gem from @maddow & Comey

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1456258596392472579

@maddow

Maybe @maddow can get Comey and ol Jim Clapper on to revisit this?

@JaneMayerNYer

Will @JaneMayerNYer and @NewYorker revisit their coverage on this one?

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Drew Holden

@DrewHolden360

30 Oct

I don’t care if the Lincoln Project took credit for the dumb white nationalist hoax in Virginia.

I want to know who the people involved are, and what their affiliation with the McAuliffe campaign/VA Democrats - who have both denied taking part on the record - is.

@alec_sears

Based on the sleuthing of @alec_sears and others, the idea that neither McAuliffe nor the Virginia Democratic Party and its affiliates were involved seems...dubious.

https://twitter.com/alec_sears/status/1454135032738721796

Beyond their willingness to paint half the state as neo-nazis for some Twitter laughs, I would imagine voters in Virginia would be interested to know if one candidate is using the last few days of campaigning to lie about it because he thinks his potential voters are idiots.

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Drew Holden

@DrewHolden360

27 Oct

https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1453191487097909248

The only upside to SJW identitarian brainworms is that sometimes they produce real art, like this.

https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1453191487097909248

My modest proposal to the chattering class is that we do away with the op-ed construction “Is [public figure] bad for [immutable characteristic] people?”

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Drew Holden

@DrewHolden360

21 Oct

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The NIH announced a bombshell: despite what Dr. Fauci said under oath, US taxpayers paid for gain-of-function research in Wuhan.

I hope that outlets will correct the record from when they assured us this wasn’t happening.

If they’ve forgotten, I’ve got screenshots⤵️

First, a bit of context. Today, NIH contradicted Dr Fauci & others, clarifying that a grantee, the EcoHealth Alliance, had conducted research (supposedly w/o NIH knowing) to see if bat coronavirus could jump to human receptors in mice.

More details here: nypost.com/2021/10/21/nih…

@RandPaul

You may remember a dust up in July between Dr. Fauci & @RandPaul around precisely this point.

It seems inarguable that what Fauci told Congress isn’t true. And the press uncritically helped him convince the American people otherwise. Look at how @CNBC frames it:

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