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Jul 2 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
"By “threats to democracy,” they mean ... the spread of baseless claims about rampant election fraud to state legislatures’ efforts to make it more difficult to vote & easier for partisans to overturn legitimate voting results."
~@Sulliview

#Journalism
washingtonpost.com/media/2022/06/…
The result is a 28-page publication called “The Authoritarian Playbook: A Media Guide,” an effort to give reporters and editors some tools in recognizing what’s happening and in covering it effectively.

#journalism
#DemocracyNotAutocracy
protectdemocracy.org/project/the-au…
"While the guide is intended for journalists, every American would benefit from reading it — especially in conjunction with the House committee hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection."
~@Sulliview

#journalism
#DemocracyNotAutocracy
protectdemocracy.org/project/the-au…
"It’s not always easy to distinguish garden-variety politics from encroaching authoritarianism...

[Yet] the seven characteristics of a democracy under strain will sound mighty familiar to those who have been paying attention."

#DemocracyNotAutocracy
washingtonpost.com/media/2022/06/…
"The report urges journalists not to unwittingly help spread disinformation.

Don’t magnify political lies by repeating them in headlines...

disinformation can be spread inadvertently by stories that seek to debunk it."

#journalism
washingtonpost.com/media/2022/06/…

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Jul 1
"Hutchinson testified to hearing Trump order the magnetometers (metal detectors) used to keep armed people away from the president be removed:

“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons, they’re not here to hurt me... Let my people in."

#IndictTrump
lawfareblog.com/cassidy-hutchi…
The car thing is not as important as the fact that:

TRUMP WAS TOLD THE CROWD HAD WEAPONS
and said:

"I don’t f-ing care that they have weapons.
They're not here to hurt ME.
Take the f-ing mags [magnetometers] away.
Let MY people in…"

#TrumpCoupAttempt
"Trump’s order to “take the fucking mags away,” whether or not the Secret Service obeyed it, was not constitutionally protected political speech but, rather, an overt act, sandwiched between sentences reflecting awareness & intent..."

#Jan6thInsurrection
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Jul 1
"Creating a false equivalence between detailed testimony under oath and an anonymous source vouching for Trump is misleading at best and at worse serves the Trump camp’s disinformation machine."
~@JRubinBlogger

#journalism
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"as the mainstream media fall back into bad habits — repeating Trump’s lies...

and treating statements from known Republican dissemblers as equally credible as those with no motive to lie & no history of disinformation."

#FalseEquivalence #FalseBalance
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
Media should follow 2 rules:

"First, unless they have new factual information that meet the standards for anonymous sourcing, respectable publications should not afford anonymity to those offering takes from Trump’s camp."

#journalism
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
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Jun 24
Kavanaugh: "the Constitution is neither pro-life nor pro-choice"

Might as well argue that the Constitution was neither pro-slavery nor anti-slavery.

Both have to do with bodily autonomy - the FREEDOM to decide what happens to your own body.

Are they going to overturn the 14th?
As for Kavanaugh's "neutrality"

"Neutrality helps the oppressor,
never the victim."
~Elie Wiesel, about Nazi Germany

SCOTUS is helping GOP states to oppress a woman's right to bodily autonomy - the FREEDOM to choose what happens to your own body.
Bodily autonomy – the freedom to decide what happens to your own body – is considered a basic HUMAN RIGHT in the developed world.

But in the USA, SCOTUS has taken bodily autonomy away from American women and given it to the states.

Women in the USA are now owned by the state.
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Jun 19
"The clear and present danger to our democracy now is that former President Donald Trump & his political allies appear prepared to... seize the presidency in 2024 if Trump or his anointed candidate is not elected by the American people."
~@judgeluttig

nytimes.com/2022/02/14/opi…
"Republican senators like Ted Cruz of Texas & Josh Hawley of Missouri tried to capitalize on those ambiguities in the law to do Trump’s bidding, mounting a case for overturning the results in some Biden-won states on little more than a wish."

#Jan6th
nytimes.com/2022/02/14/opi…
"Trump is once again counting on a sympathetic and malleable Congress and willing states to use the Electoral Count Act to his advantage.

He confirmed as much in a twisted admission of both his past and future intent earlier this month"

nytimes.com/2022/02/14/opi…
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Jun 18
"he told Eastman that the plan violated the Electoral Count Act and that “Mr. Eastman acknowledged that that was the case.”
...
Knowledge of the plot being illegal is significant when it comes to whether the Jan. 6 plotters committed a crime."

#Jan6
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"Eastman told Giuliani: “I’ve decided that I should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works.”

This is big — and not just because Eastman sought a pardon, thereby acknowledging his own legal liability."

#Jan6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
"Jacob described the process for drafting Pence’s statement rejecting the Trump team’s plan. He said Pence wanted it to be “just so” because “this may be the most important thing I ever say.”"

#Jan6thInsurrection
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
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Jun 18
Proud Boys Led Major Breaches of Capitol on Jan. 6, Video Investigation Finds

A months long Times investigation using court documents, text messages and videos reveals how teams of Proud Boys instigated critical breaches of the Capitol on Jan. 6.

#Jan6
nytimes.com/2022/06/17/us/…
"More than 40 members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group, have been indicted in connection with the assault, among them several of its leaders who are now facing charges of seditious conspiracy."

nytimes.com/2022/06/17/us/…
"members of the group [Proud Boys] maneuvered in a coordinated fashion that day in a way that was not previously known and in a manner that was unlike that of the hundreds of other rioters who stormed the building."

#Jan6
#Jan6thInsurrection
nytimes.com/2022/06/17/us/…
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