Elon Musk has purposely degraded the value of Twitter because it is an impediment to his desire for unaccountable power. Responsible progressive commentators must open Mastodon accounts, encourage their audiences to join Mastodon, & set up cross-posting to make it easy for all…
Some starter info on Mastodon for those who don’t know much of it nbcnews.com/tech/mastodon-…
Here’s an easy site to find your Twitter follows on Mastodon techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/a-n…
Tool to cross post to Twitter and Mastodon moa.party
Please share any other useful articles or tools you’ve seen to #JoinMastodon. And share your URL! Here’s mine: mastodon.social/@mattsheffield #TwitterMigration
If you've gotten all set up on #Mastodon, you can also do something very positive by urging your favorite Twitter accounts to use the procedures in this thread to cross post their content.

You don't have to use it all the time, but it's time to get out the #TwitterLifeBoat.

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Dec 23
🧵One holiday tradition I could do without is the annual Dennis Prager column raging at "leftists" for supposedly being meanies.

I'm going to engage with it this year, however, because Prager is the quintessential right wing grievance monger and his behavior is very emblematic. Image
Rather than give him traffic, I'll refer you to the writeup from my friend @RobynElyse at wonkette.com/dennis-prager-…
The premise of this year's holiday column is the same as almost every Prager column, "leftists" are big meanies who won't give reactionary relatives the deference to which they're allegedly entitled: Image
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Dec 23
My @TYTreports colleagues @jtlarsen @CandiceColeNews and I are publishing our ongoing analysis of the #J6Committee final report here: tyt.com/reports/7015be…
964 people have been charged in connection with the attack. Approximately 470 people have pleaded guilty to federal charges and 41 participants have been convicted.
Full #January6thCommittee report download link, just for completion purposes of this thread: documentcloud.org/documents/2351…
Read 8 tweets
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…
Read 5 tweets
Dec 21
🧵 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…
Read 7 tweets
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…
Read 5 tweets
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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