Why are US media not raising questions like @Garossino has in @NatObserver about @gofundme and the Canadian #trucker protest? 🚩
#Ottawa #cdnpoli
attn: @Will_Bunch
Not a registered charity 🚩
Not non-profit 🚩
Not a trucking organization 🚩

Yet: “At the time of its suspension, the convoy campaign had racked up approximately $10.1 million in just over two weeks… impossible to achieve organically within Canada.”

nationalobserver.com/2022/02/04/opi…
@gofundme did not independently verify donor identities and accepted foreign funds for a campaign that had as one objective the dissolution of Parliament…”

“…at least a third of the donor identities were anonymous or faked” 🚩 Image
We get [Trumpster] Mike Lindell says he's sending MyPillows to all the “brave truckers” in Canada #trucker protest 🚩

#Ottawa #cdnpoli Image
We get “caught flatfooted” and “global movement”

NOTHING about funding or the massive organization required by non-group groups.

THIS IS EXACTLY LIKE #Jan6thInsurrection reporting. No stories attempting to ID/trace $$$

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We do not get context.

As @Will_Bunch notes in op-ed (not news), a majority of Canadian citizens support vaccine mandates AND an estimated 9-in-10 truckers are vaxxed.

inquirer.com/opinion/commen…
This “Freedom Convoy” is as much about genuine Canadian issues as Trump’s “migrant caravan” was a real threat.

Beyond shady $, TRUMP and the US GOP are enmeshed in this story ImageImageImage
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More from @kegill

Feb 17
Current state of NEWS MEDIA focus, driven by Bannon’s “flood the zone with shit” + grasping for $$$

“Endemic delusion”

Case in point: #TruckerConvoy
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science.org/content/articl…
Even @ScienceInsider is waffling in the hede: “some scientists”

With a nod to politics rather than public health by including a political scientist near the top.

NO quotes from public health arguing to open things up.

And THIS near the bottom:

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There’s a LOT about Denmark with NO context of how 🇩🇰 differs from the US, especially vax rates. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Feb 15
Elmer Stewart Rhodes III is an ex-Army paratrooper; worked for Rep. Ron Paul in 2008; graduated from Yale Law School; and was an AZ SC law clerk.

These credentials (including full name) should be mentioned early in any story to show him as the privileged White guy that he is.
The Montana Supreme Court disbarred him after it “found that he'd abandoned clients in Arizona, a 2015 court order shows.”

So much for oaths and honor, right?

nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
Rhodes’ lawyers claim that the Oath Keepers (an extremist group, @splcenter) were waiting for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to stop transfer of office.

Here’s Rhodes, reinforcing this legal claim in public statements:
splcenter.org/fighting-hate/… ImageImage
Read 4 tweets
Feb 12
The best account of @SoundTransit #applecup fiasco is THEIR blog post, which Google doesn’t consider news.

Although it looks like a template for “news org” reporter-as-stenographer stories, only @UrbanistOrg links to it:

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soundtransit.org/blog/platform/…
Also, only @UrbanistOrg notes this deflection/finger pointing: an unamed “contractor had failed to fully implement the construction drawings.”

No mention of @SoundTransit responsibility to INSPECT.

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theurbanist.org/2022/02/11/tra…
Irony alert missing from any local coverage: @SoundTransit received the 2018 “Tunnel Achievement Award for Project Excellence” for the UW> Northgate Link extension.

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soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us…
Read 12 tweets
Feb 10
Classified documents removed from the White House. Constant circumvention of public White House phone records.

TFG demonstrates a pattern of behavior that is criminal; he should be in prison not running for 2024 on lies.

@5DollarFeminist

abovethelaw.com/2022/02/trumps…
Or starting yet another social network that news media will amplify rather than contextualize.
And news orgs failed to hound TFG on his flouting of the law, unlike the shark attack on Clinton in 2016 RE email.
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Feb 2
“Some of them get paid to have takes. We get paid to end this pandemic.”*

@DrLeanaWen, how much does @cnn pay for your “takes”?

Do you pitch @washingtonpost or did they $olicit this?

Transparency is imperative.

WHAT STATE OF EMERGENCY? #covid19
There is no national US state of emergency on #COVID19, @DrLeanaWen, except the one that loosens purse strings and makes it easier for public health to, you know, do public health. Not one imposing behaviors.

statnews.com/2020/03/13/nat…
GOP leaders and people with large microphones are still spreading lies/misinfo.

The SCOTUS has neutered mandatory vax-or-test requirements.

Vax as silver bullet in the US is not possible. We are not Denmark, @DrLeanaWen. Reminder that vax efficacy wanes; look at booster rate!
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Jan 31
News orgs too often center political news on “lies, damn lies and polls” [h/t, “lies, damn lies and statistics”].

Poll questions shape answers. Poll sample size, composition shape reliability. This Biden/SCOTUS ABC-Ipsos poll flunks both.

(Yes, polls include statistics.)
Question,leading
Margin of Error, enormous: +/- 4.9%

The small sample size meant that ABC/Ipsos could not break out results for Black people. But “only 28%” of nonwhite Americans want Biden to “consider only Black women” for the SCOTUS. The MoA for that stat is even larger. Image
LMK if you can find an ABC/Ipsos poll from January 2017 asking if Trump should consider an Average White Man for the year-long SCOTUS vacancy.

THIS:
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