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Dec 11 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Since @elonmusk and his redoubtable hired hands seem determined to obscure what happened on Jan. 6 and why Twitter executives were scrambling on Jan. 7, it seems essential to point out that Twitter in fact played a central role in Trump’s coup attempt: specifically, this tweet.
That tweet has played a central role in the federal prosecutions that have followed.

dailykos.com/stories/2022/3…
It was referenced in multiple affidavits prior to the trials.

npr.org/2022/07/13/111…
It played a leading role in the recently concluded, (mostly) successful prosecution of multiple Oath Keepers for seditious conspiracy.

wusa9.com/article/news/n…
The Jan. 6 Committee also directed considerable time discussing its role in drawing people to the Capitol, as well as Trump’s subsequent tweets promoting it.

nbcconnecticut.com/news/national-…
Twitter was probably the most significant platform for the insurrection in terms of turning out Trump’s mob. The company’s actions on Jan. 7 and afterwards were the very least it could do in the face of the fact they had almost helped end democracy.

washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
But then, it’s abundantly clear that the red-pilled billionaire who now runs this platform like Gab on steroids—like all the guys in the Peter Thiel Plutocrat Club—are eager to blow a lot of smoke so that you forget that. Don’t let them.
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Dec 9
One of the strange aspects of the whole Twitter Files pseudo-drama is that it really demonstrates something that's just established reality for longtime newsroom people: Namely, opinion writers/editorialists/columnists are NOT reporters, who have much tougher standards to meet.
Columnists/editorialists can be ex-reporters, but many if not most are not. Reporters, as a matter of passing fact-checking/copy-editing muster, must not only have confirmation of their facts in hand, but have to consider counter-evidence as well.
Reporters, if they're ethical, won't simply examine an intentionally limited dataset and draw conclusions about the entire dataset based on their narrow window. But that's what @bariweiss, @mtaibbi and @elonmusk are trying to foist on the rest of us.
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Nov 8
This bears watching.

"I look in the backyard and that man is walking away from my husband, and my husband is on the ground,” the woman says “He has come over like four times confronting my husband because he thought he was a Democrat."
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This case concerns me because I monitor developing trends in domestic terrorism. I have been particularly concerned about the rise in rhetoric in extremist circles about unleashing lethal violence on their neighbors.
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Remember the guy in Idaho who asked Charlie Kirk, 'When do we get to use the guns? When are we going to start shooting people?'
dailykos.com/stories/2021/1…
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Nov 4
The most popular right-wing talk host is ginning up his audience of millions to react violently to any Democratic victories Tuesday. Especially in Pennsylvania. A key part of this involves fomenting conspiracism. It’s a classic authoritarian blueprint.

dailykos.com/story/2022/11/…
Watch this video. My jaw dropped. I don’t think I have ever seen such a clear example of authoritarian gaslighting.

Watch this video. My jaw dropped. I don’t think I have ever seen such a clear example of authoritarian gaslighting.

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Nov 2
Tucker and his cohorts, including his sidekick Glenn Greenwald, sneer at anyone who reads certified election results as legitimate or thinks denunciations of stochastic terrorism or hate speech are anything other than liberal “censorship.”

dailykos.com/stories/2022/1…
Here’s the video.

The segment with Greenwald is remarkable. Tucker and Glenn are a perfect fit: "sneering condescension laden with random lies and smears, riddled with the right-wing persecution complex, tacked onto a framework of Carlson’s trademark projection."
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Oct 19
For historical comparison, here's Kim Guilfoyle in 2011 on Bill O'Reilly's show. The changes are noticeable.
What she was doing in this segment, incidentally, was baldly lying about a family whose home was invaded by Minuteman Project figure Shawna Forde and her gang. All 3 were shot; the father and a 9-year-old daughter died.
crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/…
More about that case here. I covered it and the ensuing trials.
typeinvestigations.org/investigation/…
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Sep 30
LOL. Wait till someone hands them the HAARP material.
This began in the ‘90s when John Trochmann of the Militia of Montana began promoting the claim that a radar station in Alaska actually was a secret device capable of manipulating the weather anywhere in the world. Alex Jones keeps trotting it out.

dneiwert.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-we…
Some of the MOM material. ImageImageImageImage
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