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Jan 11 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A reminder that journalists are not obligated to float bullshit requests without pushback.

For example, it'd be really USEFUL if ABC pointed out that Ron Johnson already GOT a bunch of SARs on Hunter Biden (even while Mueller did not).
And imagine if you revealed the FACT that one chief complaint about the Twitter Files -- the only one implicating Joe Biden -- is that #mattydickpics is angry that he can't see Hunter Biden's dick on Twitter.
Even better, point out that the dick pics #MattyDickPics is outraged he can't see were sent as part of a coordinated campaign by Guo Wengui.

motherjones.com/politics/2022/…
Imagine if your FACTUAL headline was "@JamesComer's top priority is seeing Hunter Biden's dick pics"?

You can be handmaidens to bullshit for the next two years or you can impose a cost for it.
@JamesComer Imagine this headline:

"BREAKING: James Comer jumps right on Hunter Biden's dick pics."

Factual. Would get clicks.

Treats Comer with all the seriousness he deserves.

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Jan 12
The reason Jeremy Bertino said he didn't want anything to do with Joe Biggs' attorney Daniel Hull was not the seeming tie to a deposition about his own stabbing, but what happened in fellow Proud Boy Jay Thaxton's deposition before J6C.

documentcloud.org/documents/2357…
One thing Hull did repeatedly was to try to ascribe Thaxton's knowledge of things like the Proud Boy Ministry of Self Defense thread to @RawStory's @jordangreennc. Just good journalism.

documentcloud.org/documents/2357… ImageImage
@RawStory @jordangreennc Hull balked, at length, about the discussion of the Ministry of Self Defense Telegram thread. Image
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Jan 12
Can someone send the Speaker that old "Just a Bill" video?

Because he seems unclear about how a bill becomes law, which the defunding of not-87K IRS agents did not.
Kevin may be too young to have been educated by Schoolhouse Rock, but it's not too late to catch up.

Here you go Kev, this is you stripping funding for 87,000 IRS agents! Image
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Jan 12
One of the nutty things that came out of the various DQ discussions is that Hull and Pettis claimed they're BOTH also representing Alex Jones.

Seems like ANOTHER conflict we haven't even gotten into yet.
There it is--hoping the "normies" would burn the city to ask.
There was a report that one of the new Jack Smith hires sat down to understand the militia conspiracies. Stuff like this is why.

The 12/19 tweet was viewed as a call to action by HUNDREDS of Jan6ers, including in 2 "lesser" conspiracies.

Exposes him to conspiracy.
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Jan 12
Nature recently found that, "exposure to the Russian [internet troll] influence campaign was eclipsed by content from domestic news media and politicians."

nature.com/articles/s4146…
In September 2017, I wrote that the RU campaign was, "the equivalent of throwing a few matches on top of the raging bonfire that is the well established, vicious, American-funded inferno of far right media."

That held up!

emptywheel.net/2017/09/16/the…
That said, we've learned since then that the troll campaign(s) also became ways to facilitate cooperation, both IRL and online.
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Jan 11
ABC's @KFaulders probably owes taxpayers more context about what @JamesComer is doing with his gavel--he's holding a hearing on why Twitter took down revenge porn.
@KFaulders @JamesComer And this should not be a "Dems say" thing.

It is a fact that James Comer has made, as his top priority, a hearing on why he wasn't able to see Hunter Biden's dick pics before Biden was elected.
@KFaulders @JamesComer I mean, at least ask Comer to go on the record about why Hunter Biden's dick pics are his top priority before you give him a headline.
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Jan 10
Let me say more about what we know of the docs that Trump stole, for comparison.

Remember, there were 4 sets:

1) returned Jan 2022
2) turned over June 2022
3) seized August 2022
4) found in Nov 2022
Of group 1, the classified docs were mixed in with personal items and clippings. That might just suggest that Trump had returned entire boxes.

Except he reportedly curated those boxes (and told NARA they were getting 12 but sent 15).

Still, it was intermingled.
We don't know about group 4, the two docs found in November, but it is most equivalent to this -- forgotten in a storage closet not being accessed every day.
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