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Dec 19 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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Related: "the storming of the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 was an attempted coup d’état: an organized, illegal attempt to intervene in the presidential transition by displacing the power of the Congress to certify the election."
clinecenter.illinois.edu/coup-detat-pro…
"In terms of the type of coup attempt, the complex nature of this event leads it to be categorized as both an attempted auto-coup and as an attempted dissident coup, reflecting the distinctive activities of different actors involved in the event."
The President of the United States of America led an attempted coup of the United States of America.
Really excellent work from the @January6thCmte. This citizen, for one, is very grateful for what you've done. #DefendDemocracy

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Dec 18
My dad is visiting & he brings a riddle for us to solve. I didn’t get the answer & when he started to explain it, I didn’t think it was right initially & then suddenly it was clearly right. I’ll post the riddle here & lock replies (no spoilers). Will give the answer tomorrow.
Riddle: you have one scale ⚖️ & eight billiard balls 🎱. One of the eight balls is lighter than the others. Use the scale to figure out which one. You only have two chances to use the scale. How do you find the lightest ball?
And the only hint I’ll give is this isn’t a wordplay riddle, it’s solvable.
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Dec 17
like, I want the FBI to watch social media and make take down requests of threats to the government and democracy and people's lives? am I wrong for that? I thought that was their job.
like, ffs, they should have done more of that kind of thing before Jan 6
and, like, maybe we could prevent some more mass shootings too. I'd be really, really ok with that.
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Dec 14
oh.
Trump's hero narrative is fascist. He claims to have been purified to fight corruption, so his followers owe him their loyalty. Also, lmk if you want to talk about presidents claiming to be heroes. I published a book about that too.
Authoritarian PT Barnum still at it. <deep sigh>
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Dec 14
I happened to marry a person of opposite gender & from my same race (or whatever those categories mean), but that doesn’t mean I’m any less happy for the folks who did it differently. Today love wins. I feel sorry for the folks who don’t feel that way. 🫶 #loveislove
Do yourself a favor and watch: Until We Could, by poet Richard Blanco:

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Dec 13
My latest Rhetorical Tricks: Defending Against the Dark Arts piece just posted at @ResoluteSquare. Prompted by what I've seen around the #TwitterFiles & Abbott's "invasion" rhetoric. Read about frame warfare here: resolutesquare.com/articles/1Bu02…
"Frame warfare is the way that propagandists battle to control how we think about things, events, people, and political controversies..."
"You might think that propaganda is limited to controlling what we think, but dark arts practitioners know that controlling how we think about things is just as important as controlling what we think about."
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Dec 8
see what I mean about the "agenda setting wars"? and how so much of our political discourse is about controlling our political discourse? the infowars are everything.
In case you've never had the chance to read the Communist Manifesto, here it is: marxists.org/archive/marx/w…
Opening lines: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another,"
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