One of the first BBSes in San Diego, which was a hotspot for proto-social media in the 1980s and 1990s, was White Aryan Resistance BBS. The far right has always wanted to take over our communications. That's why moderation has always been important. timeline.com/white-supremac…

My self-assigned role back in the day was to troll the fuck out of suspected Nazis and pedophiles (but I repeat myself, heyooo) until they revealed themselves for what they truly were -- they were on a recruiting offensive back in those days. Once they busted out the n-word or a

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Brooke Binkowski

@brooklynmarie

Nov 1

I just want to make something extremely clear. All this escalating rhetoric has been specifically to target elected officials and other public officials, giving them faces, names, and plans. It was deliberate from the get-go. It is purposeful. It is an attack.

Don't let the same people who promulgated the lies that motivated DePape and all the murderous wingnuts who came before him muddy the waters with their lies. They're invested in getting away with it so they can do it again and again. Call them out. Slap them the fuck down.

These tactics -- rhetoric, threats, violence, escalation, etc. -- comprise election interference (as part of a larger hybrid threat) and should be treated as such. That's exactly what this is, and for journalists to describe it in any other way does the public a major disservice.

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Brooke Binkowski

@brooklynmarie

Nov 1

grist.org/regulation/ari…

"That Riverview man is literally going to try to starve us out of water... I hope every single property he owns is set on fire by someone. I hope that someone salts his ground so that nothing grows." That's the spite I live for

"I feel like nobody really cared about water before... So when the AMA got a lot of positive backing behind it, I’m thinking to myself, ‘Well, that’s crazy, because everybody that I’ve talked to beforehand didn’t give two shits about water.’"

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Brooke Binkowski

@brooklynmarie

Nov 1

https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1587101040511488000

I was just talking about how this is clearly being promulgated by the #TantonNetwork channels in order to offer the illusion of popular support. That's why that network exists, to launder disinfo and money. If you look at who is promulgating this and related narratives, it

https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1587101040511488000

shows an extraordinarily clear pattern. The topics change from time to time, but not very much, and the people laundering them into the mainstream remain the same. You can check this for yourself -- just check on all the electeds who regularly show up at the Rio Grande in camo