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Mar 4 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Thanks to @TulliusCicero43 for tipping me off about this headline.
When it comes to head lines, journalists are usually more circumscribed in regard to the puns they’re allowed to pull off.
IOW, an editor would usually head such jokes off before they came to fruition.
For real though, that headline was half cocked.
I’d say that headline writer is like a brother to me, but you can’t force kin.

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Mar 4
Highly recommend this story about Democrats in rural America. It's about DuBois, Pa. I grew up about 60 miles south of there in a similarly small town. I know many folks who still live there, and this account rang very true to me. politico.com/news/magazine/…
While polarization is a key part of this story, it's important that we recognize the *asymmetrical* nature of that polarization. I talk about that a bit in this thread about the FB pages of the Dems and the GOP in the County I grew up in.
Irrationally hating Democrats (even when they're their neighbors or friends) has become an increasingly central feature of the identities of many small town white Americans. It's perhaps Trump's greatest gift to the GOP and they have learned the lesson well.
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Mar 4
With RT in the news, it’s a good time to talk about how populists across the political spectrum can allow their skepticism about “the MSM” to curdle into naïve credulity. This thread is about the devolution of Ed Schultz, from heartland populist to anti-democratic propagandist.
When your brand is “authentic truth teller who’s not beholden to anyone,” this is NOT how you answer a question like this.
Might be a time to reflect on the folks on the left who either credulously fell for or opportunistically amplified this transparently cynical and fabricated “story” back in 2019 and 2020.
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Mar 3
Read this thread about the right’s use of targeted attacks on journalists. It’s part of the broader effort to undermine the free press.
It's worth remembering that this has been a tactic long used by the US far right. Here's an example from 1959. Robert Edmundson, one of the US's most virulent antisemites & Nazi sympathizers died in Bend, Oregon (pop 12,000). The paper printed a critical opinion piece about him.
Over the next few weeks the paper received hundreds of pieces of mail from across the country attacking them for their decision. One of the nation's leading antisemitic periodicals had encouraged readers to write to the editors of the Bend Bulletin.
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Mar 2
I see Kim Reynolds opted for the George Wallace approach to the GOP SOTU response.
"Parents matter." "Local control of schools." "To hell with those out of touch intellectuals determining what kids should learn in school."
I appreciate Kim Reynolds' broad minded support for biofuels which, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that federally subsidized, agribusiness production of corn dominates her state's economy.
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Mar 1
To those who live outside the right wing media echo chamber, this will just sound like mindless and vestigial, McCarthyite word salad...but Rubio is giving a shout out here to a decades-old, far right BS narrative about "cultural Marxism" that is pretty widespread.
To an alarming extent, the basic framework of the "cultural Marxism" narrative is the same as the "Judeo-bolshevism" narrative that informed fascist rhetoric in the 1930s.
David Neiwert, who's been studying and writing about the far right for decades, sums up the history very well here.
dailykos.com/stories/2019/1…
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Mar 1
Are they called ICBMs because when you see them coming you shit your pants, or is that just a coincidence?
I was 15 when The Day After aired. I remember debating this question around the cafeteria lunch table. If you knew the bombs were coming, would you drive towards a primary target to die faster, or drive away to try to live (but possibly die a slow painful death)?
Related question: If your parents weren’t around, was it ok at age 15 to grab the keys, get in the car and start driving in one’s preferred direction? I seem to remember that this was a fairly unanimous “yes.”
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