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Nov 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Stewart Rhodes (and his buddy Meggs) is guilty of seditious conspiracy.

How about a quick primer on why this is such a big deal🤓

The DOJ has been following the procedure Garland operated in numerous speeches, including on January 5, 2022 . . .

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See: justice.gov/opa/speech/att…

They start with the more overt crimes, which generates linkages to less overt ones.

That's why they started with stuff like vandalism.

Here are the elements of seditious conspiracy ⤵️
Force is an element.

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Treason is almost impossible to charge. It’s defined in the Constitution as:

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."

"War" must be a declared war.

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The drafters wanted it hard to prove treason.

The closest we have is seditious conspiracy, which is also hard to prove.

Here is what the Southern Poverty Law Center says about Stewart Rhodes:
splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…

Taking down these militias is a big deal.

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All five defendants were found guilty of one or more serious felonies (but not all for seditious conspiracy)

Not a good day for the defendants.

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Dec 1
Here's the 11th Circuit decision in Trump v. US, the Special Master case: documentcloud.org/documents/2332…
(h/t @emptywheel)

It's gonna be good. Ready?

I never liked suspense, so I skipped to the end: The court vacates the Sept. 5 order, and remands with orders to dismiss.

Buh-Bye.

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They open with jurisdiction.

The adjective "lawfully" tells you where this is going.

A remedy like a special master is allowable when the government, in conducting the search, showed "callous disregard" for a person's rights.

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If the search was lawful, the government could not have shown callous disregard for Trump's rights.

"Lawfully" gives us a clue, which we didn't need because I already skipped to the ending😆.

Okay, moving along . . .

Remember how Trump's lawyers kept changing their story?

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Dec 1
Hi Everyone,

I moved servers on Mastodon and lost 8,000 followers over there. Some smart people are trying to figure out where they are.

If you followed me on Mastodon, you may need to follow me again here: @Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online.

I assumed . . .

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. . . that the lost followers were stuck in Mastodon Purgatory, but I was informed that I was using outdated human mythology and actually my lost followers are in the La Brea Tar Pits.

Anyway, sorry to have lost you.

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If this happens⤵️ click on the pending request, or start over.

That's how you know you were in the Tar Pits.

If this works, I will have rescued one.❤️

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Nov 29
If you followed me more than 2 days ago on Mastodon, you may need to do this ⤵️

What happened is I tried to move 17,000 followers to my own server and there is a major slowdown because all Mastodon servers are overloaded with a huge influx from Twitter.

Or . . .
You can follow me directly in my new Mastodon home.

My private server is called law-and-politics.online, my shiny new thing thanks to my in-house technical support staff (my husband).

My handle: @Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online
Andy and I divide up the work. For example, I pick the paint colors and he does the painting.

I think up new projects and (well, you get the idea) 😆
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Nov 29
Since writing this post over the weekend, I've developed more doubts about Post .news as an alternative to Twitter: terikanefield.com/curing-the-ill…

I understand that Post. news is in the beta stages and a competent team is working out details. My issues have to do with the premise.

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These two articles are from the Nieman Lab (Harvard).

This one explains the problem:
niemanlab.org/2022/11/post-t…
The premise is that a site can monetize through micropayments, but major publishers have to join or it will not work, and they may not.

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The second one, also from the Nieman Lab, is about Mastodon and journalism:
niemanlab.org/2022/11/can-ma…

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Nov 28
If you missed it, for my weekend blog post, I took on an obviously timely topic: Curing the Ills of Social Media.

(Sorry the Musk tweet shows up as the image. I meant to fix that.)

Social media does much good and has the potential to do more. . .

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 terikanefield.com/curing-the-ill…
But, as Cass Sunstein argued in 2017, the Internet and social media are threatening democracy by driving political fragmentation, polarization, and even extremism.

Musk's takeover of Twitter perhaps gives us a chance to create something better. . .

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Among other things, I analyze the two emerging alternatives receiving the most attention right now: Mastodon and Post. news.

To those saying, "There is no good Twitter alternative," I add the word "yet."

There is no good Twitter alternative yet.

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Nov 27
For this week's blog post, I took on a big (and I think timely) topic:

Curing the ills of Social Media

terikanefield.com/curing-the-ill…
(Sorry that Musk's tweet pops up as the image. I meant to fix that.)

Yes, social media does a lot of good. I mention those at the beginning.

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In 2017, Cass Sunstein argued that the Internet and social media are threatening democracy by driving political fragmentation, polarization, and even extremism.

Part I of my blog post lays out how social media as it currently operates encourages demagoguery.

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We have to understand the problem before we can think about solutions.

In Part I, I talked about trust-building, algorithms, and the problem with the current structure of social media platforms, which does a lot of good, but also allows for democracy-smashing behavior.

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