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19 Nov, 9 tweets, 3 min read
What would you say if you saw it in another country?

Laboratories of democratic erosion. What happens there can and likely will spread.
Related news from AZ: Sad sign when your PAC has to specifically say you are supporting "pro-democracy" members of your party
What we have to worry about
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How our democracy could get to a very bad place that would be portrayed as "both sides" - all too plausible
Everyone said it was just talk after the election too and then there was a coup plot and a violent insurrection. I think we should take these threats literally and/or seriously. Doesn't mean the worst will happen, but dismissing the talk has been shown to be a mistake.
Important point from @pbump - WI Rs aren't just trying to shift power over elections to a normal state legislature but to one that is heavily gerrymandered in their favor washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
The media need to sustain this level of attention and clarity. Five alarm fire.

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20 Nov
All can be true:
-Rittenhouse's reckless decisions resulted in a situation that left three people dead
-He benefited from his race in countless ways
-A lot of commentary is pushing a simple narrative about the events and law that can't withstand scrutiny persuasion.community/p/the-rittenho…
Obviously typo above, two people dead and a third shot but not killed
this is well-said
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19 Nov
Find yourself people to follow who can hold these ideas in their heads at the same time:
-"Steele’s sources were not very good at all"
-There is "clear evidence of the Russian government’s efforts to intervene in the 2016 election on the side of Donald Trump"

Both can be true!
I never endorsed AFAIK - accountability search here twitter.com/search?q=dossi…
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19 Nov
Important. Hoping Facebook will report impressions of links by domain in future WVC reports. To me, that stat is more informative than the current one, a binary measure of how many people ever saw any link to a given domain, which fails to capture multiple exposures per @corintxt
Explanatory thread from @leeyvonnem at Facebook here - appreciate her clarification
I was confused by the difference between widely viewed links and domains - I thought widely viewed domains were those with the most impressions, not unique users. Had a long thread with @corintxt in which he tried to tell me I was wrong; he was right! Appreciate his patience.
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15 Nov
How many shirts do you wear when you turn yourself in to federal authorities?
Already been normalized. We've become numb.
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15 Nov
Lots of things now are abnormal, but a VP whose staff squabbles with the White House and worries about their lackluster image is about as normal as it gets.
PS As Jim Stimson points out, VPs always seem to lack independence and stature until they run on their own, which shifts their image substantially (GHWB, Gore). It seems to be a reflection of the (largely powerless) office and the way it is covered.
Indeed
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30 Oct
WTF: “The ban is an extraordinary limit on speech that raises questions of academic freedom and First Amendment rights.”
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