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Jun 20 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
#Uvalde. There is only one reason why Texas officials are going after reporters. Tonight, a series of news agencies are releasing information about what happened that night. It is not good, horrifying. Here, this is proof that the police had enough firepower. 1/
Here, I describe @DanaBashCNN how reporters are being attacked and isolated (using biker crews) because Texas wants to hide the information. Any true review of what happened will be because of media. "I've never seen anything like this before" I said. 2/
About the same time, @ShimonPro posted this about closed hearings and Texas officials. @cnn
We are expecting a major @TexasTribune report to come out later tonight as well. @statesman and @KVUE have done so. Almost everything told by public officials has been wrong. The killing was a tragedy; the desire to hide info is a second tragedy, state-sponsored. #uvalde
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Jun 9
On two occasions in the last four months, I have been interviewed by staff of the 1/6 Committee based on my academic and book work. I have no hot takes or breezy assessments before they even start. But I do have some thoughts, solely mine, based on those conversations. 1/
Again, these were staff level, quite casual, by zoom. I can't pretend to say "this is what they were thinking" just more that very smart, committed people were thinking through a narrative about that day. I don't do the minute by minute accounts. 2/
I write and work in the crisis and disaster world; I teach in the radicalization space. I can sound wonky at times, I know, with words like #stochasticterrorism to describe what happened in the years before 1/6 and the ongoing threat. I've written of it before so won't repeat. 3/
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Jun 6
Thread on January 6th, mass shootings and THE DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS. As I wrote this weekend below, much too coy for some of you, we study crises not simply because of what they tell us about a moment but what they tell us about how we got to that moment. 1/
A crisis is unique, a specific kind of event. I use the word carefully. In wonk speak, it is a moment (known as the "boom") of surprise disruption that threatens a high priority value and presents a restricted amount of time in which a response can be made. 2/
So an active shooter or an attack on the capitol is a crisis, though in my work in THE DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS I'm hoping to take the surprise out of our planning. Nevertheless, they are also a moment that exposes something deeper, like a mirror to what is already wrong. 3/
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Jun 4
You don’t come here for the movie reviews but humor me. #TopGunMaverick was perfect. Seriously. During the 25 minutes of the secret mission, I may have stopped breathing. A son told me I yelled at one stage. It was magnificent, thrilling. 1/
Despite my better judgment, Tom Cruise still got it. I really don’t want to admit this but he does. And Jennifer Connelly is so age appropriate hot that it all worked and she’s got it too. I digress. 2/
It has no ultra nationalism, no long speeches about the American way. There is an enemy. A threat. A mission. That’s all. Not too deep. Enjoy the ride. “Don’t think too much” to quote the recurring theme. And so don’t. 3/
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May 30
THREAD (a diffcult one) on what this DOJ review of the #Uvalde tragedy means. In my book, the last chapter is called "Listen to the Dead." And in some ways, this review will be a chance for the children, each victim, to be heard. 1/
The story we know now will change. I was skeptical from the start of the original narrative; the new one, of an incident commander who failed to execute active shooter protocols, sounds more believable. But this one is likely to be revised as well. 2/
As I write, "(t)hese initial assumptions about what occurred . . will change over time. We must accurately memorialize how people die. That people die in a crisis is, unfortunately, a given. Things break, institutions falter, societies buckle under stress. . . 3/
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May 26
"Immediate Action Rapid Deployment" (IARD) is what law enforcement learns in active shooter drills and training. From lessons of Columbine, to the others that followed, speed of entry is the defining feature. Gunmen, as we have learned, are not there to be negotiated with. 1/
The timeline is confusing and I don't know right now. Holding parents back from school entry is actually part of the training; you just can't have people storming an active shooter site. But that presupposes that IARD has been utilized. 2/
It could be that officers outside were told that the gunman has been isolated but not killed and they should secure facility. It could be that they had no idea what they were doing. Reporting like this is important because we are hearing a lot of contradictory statements. @AP 3/
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May 18
A note on replacement theory (RT) since #BuffaloMassacre. RT has come to be used by its critics for a broad array of issues across legal and policy disagreements. We should stop. We risk diluting RT's violent underpinnings and help its proponents wiggle out of consequences. 1/
As I've noted many times before, RT is about eliminating the "other" in a world where opportunity is limited: us or them, me or you. #stochasticterrorism is the means. When political and media leaders promote RT, they promote random violence but maintain plausible deniability. 2/
You see that now; they too are diluting RT, claiming it is merely a reflection of accurate demographic shifts in this country. Those shifts are real, but they of course don't call it a demographic issue. They call it RT for a reason; RT justifies violence. It is unique, evil. 3/
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