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Feb 10 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Presidential Records Act has penalties of up to three years in prison for willful destruction or theft of government documents. If this isn't willful, what would be? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/once-ag… via @TPM
in a wapo article couple days ago unnamed Trump advisors said Trump cldn't have had bad intent since he just got used to destroying documents from when he was a business man. It's part of a long storyline with Trump which is a sort of raised by wolves defense.
2/ basically, you can't blame the Trumps. They were raised in a criminal enterprise from birth. They were never told about the law.
3/ we should be thankful they've followed the laws they have.

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Like the 20th most interesting thing in this article. But this woman who encouraged murder on Jan 6th is now working with US activists to find "strategic" border crossings to close on the US side to paralyze US trade. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/leig… via @TPM
2/ "We started working with them to identify the strategic border crossings and how we could support them from the United States side and also what this looked like."
3/ On back on Jan 6th: "We would be well within our rights to take any alleged American who acted in a turncoat fashion and sold us out and committed treason — we would be well within our right to take them out back and shoot them or hang them."
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the “trucker” situation in Ottawa is becoming a set piece for the dynamics of the North American right write large. Are the ordinary agencies and powers of govt able to protect people from the far right? Is the govt willing to act to protect people, keep roads open?
2/ We can say all we want, well, what would happen if these were Black people or Muslims. But let’s focus on this. I don’t know the specific laws in Canada but I’m pretty sure that if me and few friends parked our cars in the midtown tunnel, the cops would tell us to move them.
3/ Then in pretty short order our cars would be towed and there’s a good chance we’d be arrested if we tried to interfere with clearing the tunnel. Yes there are a lot of trucks. But there are a lot of cops. There’s even the military. What about the harassment of civilians?
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I tend to think all the Facebook market cap schadenfreude is jut wishful thinking and it will go back to being wildly profitable or continue to be. But having been in this space for a long time I'm starting to wonder whether it cld be another version of what happened ...
2/ to Yahoo and AOL. Which is to say hugely profitable behemoths which were dead men walking but continued to throw off huge amounts of cash for many years after the writing was on the wall. Indeed, for many years this was the basic question with both companies.
3/ It was a given that both companies original business models were dying. But they generated so much cash that it seemed that with some astute management they could simply buy a new business model. And no, that's not as silly as it sounds. And yet, as we know ...
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Feb 6
Times reports that Jan 6th committee is being dangerously aggressive and isn't living up to the standard of the House Benghazi probe. nytimes.com/2022/02/05/us/…
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Feb 6
I hadn’t spoken to Todd Gitlin in some time. But I think I can say that he was a friend. Todd was a deeply humane, learned and funny guy. He was one of those people who had a deeply moral engagement with the world over a long life, much of it on the public stage.
2/ I remember back in the 90s when I was trying to figure out what I was doing and whether I wanted to leave what I was doing and become a writer I was reading a piece by him in Salon. It was about political media culture. And he had this line that this media …
3/ culture was premised on making citizens “cognoscenti of their own bamboozlement.” By which he meant that this media culture … well you know what he meant. And I read that and thought God I want to write phrases like that. I really want to do this. I want to be like that.
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