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John Scott-Railton Profile picture
@jsrailton
May 29 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Life in prison for gay sex in Uganda.

American evangelical extremists got the ear of Uganda's dictator & helped this happen

They have the same goals for 🇺🇸America.

By @Lattif
nytimes.com/2023/05/29/wor… Image
The "groomer" panic was the Evangelical playbook in #Uganda.

So was the ex-gay narrative.

@CalebOkereke
foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/19/afr… Image
Notice how fast alleged medical concern for Trans youth became... smash rainbow displays at Target?

This is a playbook, and it must be forcefully resisted.
Trans folk warned us of rising violence.

They got ignored by both-sidesism coverage framed as high minded concern for youth.

..and..who'd have thunk it?

We've hurtling towards dangerous for random brands to sell rainbow stickers.

It's only getting started.

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May 30
Remember Tara Reade?

The one-time Biden accuser who became a Putin apologist...

She's live on 🇷🇺Russian State TV announcing that she's defected.

Sitting with Maria Butina whom she refers to as a friend.

h/t @OzKaterji ImageImage
Tara Reade just spent much of her 🇷🇺on camera time pushing right wing talking points about the 2024 US election.

Oh, and how wonderful things are in Russia. Image
Reade is just another American that has discovered the formula:

Go to 🇷🇺Russia & echo gov propaganda... and the government will make sure you get all the flattery you can eat. Image
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May 28
Actually, there is a proven way to stop an autocrat.

Don't be a spoiler candidate like this guy. Image
Everything you need to know. Image
Letting Steve Bannon flatter you into a vanity campaign is the opposite of moral courage.
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May 28
🇸🇳#Senegal: only peaceful transfers of power since independence!

Rich & rare tradition of #democracy in W. #Africa.

Sadly, past 2 presidents toyed with 3rd terms.

Wade tried in 2012 & triggered violence.

Now Pres. Macky Sall @Macky_Sall flirts with same destructive idea. ImageImageImageImage
I was working from #Senegal in 2012 & saw how far then-President Wade had gone astray from initial high hopes.

Like bringing in North Koreans to erect a pricey monument, then demanding a 35% cut of ticket prices because he felt the idea was his intellectual property. Image
When Pres. Wade tried to extend his term in 2012, #Senegal's people backed him down.

One opposition figure seen in the streets?

Now-president @Macky_Sall

11 years later, he's considering the same play.

You'd think he would remember the forces his predecessor unleashed. Image
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May 26
Been seeing these replies everywhere?

It's happening because Musk can't stop bots.

Let me break it down what's going on with this spam. 1./ Image
2/ Reply spammers fight a cat & mouse games with platforms like #Twitter.

One way they get spotted is by the platforms examining links.

If spammers hammer a platform by sending the same link in a thousands replies to the same scam site, it's not hard to spot & scale blocking. Image
3/ Remember spam emails w/misspellings, weird names, blocks of garbage text, mixtures of words & numbers etc?

These were all tactics to avoid spam filtering done by looking at each of these things for patterns.

Each new filtering strategy = new workarounds. ImageImageImage
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May 26
Dissidents must continue to live in fear of #Pegasus #spyware thanks to @CreditSuisse.

Which helped them survive US Government blacklisting.

@ajsaeedy @dnvolz
wsj.com/articles/israe… The lenders have been worki...
2/ And don't forget, Happy Gilmore's producer actually co-controls #NSO Group's shell company.

3/ Fraudsters, people doing #HumanTrafficking, torturers, drug traffickers, fraudsters & more.

Add #spyware companies to the list.

If you aren't up to speed on @CreditSuisse doing bad people's banking, start here.

theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/… ImageImageImage
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May 26
UPDATE: The killer whales just struck again.

reuters.com/world/europe/k… Image
#TeamOrca sounds pretty organized in how they target sailboats.

archive.iwc.int/pages/view.php… Image
Sounds like sailors increasingly desperate efforts to scare off #TeamOrca might actually be encouraging them further.

Researchers suggest *boats should play dead*

I can't get enough of this Image
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