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Dec 21 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 Elon Musk & his "Twitter Files" sycophants aren't genuinely concerned for free discourse. They never discuss how Fox routinely suppresses bad stories for GOP.

Example: 20 DAYS after Kanye said he loved Hitler, Fox filed ZERO stories on saying this. foxnews.com/search-results…
Fox never filed a story reporting on Donald Trump's seditious call to suspend or terminate parts of the Constitution to illegally install him as president. It only mentioned it at all after a tiny number of Republicans condemned him foxnews.com/search-results…
After news broke in free media that Donald Trump had a warm and friendly dinner with America's two most prominent antisemites, Fox never reported the story. Once again, it suppressed it until a handful of Republicans condemned Trump foxnews.com/search-results…
Throughout the history of the #January6thCommittee, Fox usually refused to broadcast its hearings, sometimes even boasting that it was suppressing the news.

Fox is a thousand times more destructive to public dialogue than anything Twitter has ever done. mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson…
The truth about America's discourse is that while you can always find fault with the mainstream media, they do cover actual news. This is not what Fox and other right wing outfits do. They censor the news and repackage it because reality is too dangerous to their ideas. /end
PS: Here's more on how right wing media censor the news
As if to prove the point of this thread, Fox hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity were revealed in court today to have testified that they never believed Trump's made-up lies about losing in 2020, but they repeated them anyway: nytimes.com/2022/12/21/bus…

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Dec 21
The 5 House Republicans who were rejected to serve on the #January6thCommittee have released their own response report today.

It's an obviously partisan document with 184 mentions of Paul Irving, the House Sgt. at Arms, and only 29 to the Senate Sgt. at Arms, Michael Stenger…
Needless to say, the Republicans had control of the Senate on 1/6/21 while Democrats had the House.

It's mostly a "Blame Pelosi" hack job that focuses almost entirely on the House w/only 11 mentions of McConnell and 36 of Pelosi. banks.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
Falsely pinning blame on Pelosi is a Republican tactic beginning on 1/6.

The record shows, however that Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund called Stenger repeatedly to beg for a state of emergency, which Sund could not approve. npr.org/2021/02/23/970…
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Dec 20
🧵As the #Jan6Committee wraps up, there are troubling indications that it isn't going to tell the full story.

While Trump caused the Capitol Putsch, it was right-wing extremism that made tens of thousands of people hear his call. This must be said: tyt.com/reports/7015be…
The committee was right to refer Trump for criminal prosecution for his months of deliberate lies and incitement before the attack, but the executive summary released this week notably omits any mention of Christian supremacism, white nationalism, or anti-abortion sentiment.
We'll see what the full report looks like, but based on why my @TYTreports colleague @CandiceColeNews heard from committee member Jamie Raskin, it seems as though some members may not have wanted to broach the subject of right-wing extremism in the report. tyt.com/reports/7015be…
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Dec 16
It appears that Donald Trump's NFT image of himself as a cowboy comes from an Amazon image that was slightly altered. amazon.com/Scully-Rangewe…
The Trump astronaut NFT image appears to have been a recolored image that was stolen from @benedictredgrov wired.co.uk/article/nasa-a…
The Trump fighter jet pilot NFT seems to be a Shutterstock image. Did they license it? shutterstock.com/image-photo/us…
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Dec 8
Thread: Republicans are finally realizing that Trump is bad at politics. The party of "shooting someone on Fifth Avenue" is willing to tolerate anything--except losing.

Continue here or click through for a prose version: tyt.com/reports/7015be…
It's not pointed out nearly enough that no one--including Trump himself--thought that he was going to win in 2016. He has said this himself.

The dilemma for Republican elites is that while Trump doesn't get the larger electorate, he really understands the party base.
Trump unquestionably harmed his own party by making his primary qualification for an endorsement whether the candidate endorsed his sore-loser whining about 2020. No one cares about this topic except for crazed Republicans, however, so it was a total fail as a campaign message.
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Dec 2
Republican media outlets created dozens of stories a week accusing the media of suppressing the "Hunter Biden Laptop story" even though that was Rudy's fault in 2020.

They spent years condemning supposed "antisemitism" among Democrats. Let's see how they're covering Kanye West…
Fox News has not covered Kanye West at all on its homepage
The Federalist, which constantly whines about cultural issues, has not mentioned Kanye West's blatant Hitler love on its homepage.
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Dec 1
1/3: Kanye West has some mental issues. But it's much worse than that.

His viewpoints actually flow from two far-right Black subcultures which have long trafficked in White nationalism and antisemitism.

The primary driver is his mystic & anti-rational Christian fundamentalism.
2/3: Like a lot of Black Americans from the South, Kanye West's was heavily influenced by Southern White Protestants.

Long before he gravitated toward Trump & Republicans, he was a Christian supremacist. See my podcast w/@BrandingBrandi on this topic: flux.community/matthew-sheffi…
3/3: Ye also appears to have intersected with the Hotep subculture, a small but growing group of Black men who transformed an anti-White variant of Afrocentrism into a far-right ideology that loves Trump. Misogyny was the common cause. flux.community/christopher-hu…
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