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Brandon Friedman Profile picture
@BFriedmanDC
Jan 25 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
This statement is written — in tone and theory — to emulate the declarations of secession produced by Confederate states in 1860 and 1861. Just swap out slavery for immigration. I assume this is deliberate. 🧵
Abbott's accusation that the federal government has breached the Constitution by having "broken the compact between the United States and the States" is lifted nearly verbatim from South Carolina's 1860 declaration of secession. Image
In fact, this "compact theory" of the U.S. Constitution was adopted by each seceding state immediately prior to the Civil War. And it is literally Greg Abbott's first sentence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_t…
Believe people when they tell you
Believe people when they tell you AND follow historians
The Oklahoma governor posted this one hour after Governor Abbott published his statement

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Sep 15
Two reasons why Trump's message about Taylor Swift isn't funny. 🧵 Image
1. Swift had to cancel August tour dates in Vienna over a real, planned terrorist attack. She said this concrete threat filled her with "a new sense of fear."
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2. Trump is currently mounting a campaign of stochastic terror against Springfield, Ohio. When asked this morning about continued bomb threats, he declined to denounce them.
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Sep 5
Check out this timeline regarding Russian influence and Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah 🧵

July 2022: Senator Lee launches a Twitter account with encouragement from Benny Johnson
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Summer 2023: Johnson starts taking Kremlin money, unwittingly or not Image
March 2024: Johnson, now being paid by Russia, interviews Lee Image
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Aug 28
This is a short thread about how the media covers for Donald Trump, deliberately making him and his campaign look more normal and less stupid than it actually is.

Today's example involves the Trump campaign's written statement about the Arlington National Cemetery incident.
Here's what happened: In the statement, campaign manager Chris LaCivita incorrectly used the word "hollowed" instead of "hallowed." Axios and The Daily Beast rightly added "[sic]" to note the misuse of the word.
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No big deal. It was either a typo or LaCivita doesn't know the correct word. Whatever. The Daily Beast and Axios, like good journalistic organizations, corrected it, noted it and moved on.
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Aug 23
In case anyone still cares, here's a short thread on how an online rumor takes off:

Amid rumors that Taylor Swift or Beyonce would perform at the DNC, this blue check account with 600,000 followers tweeted at 12:28 PM CT that a "big surprise" was on the way. The tweet took off. Image
Twenty minutes later, this other random blue check account with more than 100,000 followers described a "gap in tonight's DNC schedule" for a "special guest." It also got thousands of shares. Image
Three hours later, at 3:37 PM CT, White House political director Emmy Ruiz tweeted a bee, seeming to confirm rumors of Beyonce.

She later recanted, saying her 6-year-old had accidentally tweeted the bee. But it was too late. Image
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Aug 22
On the night Tim Walz delivers his big speech, I want to give a shout to @votevets. In 2006, when Walz was a high school teacher, football coach and veteran no one had heard of, he ran for a House seat against a six-term incumbent Republican. Almost no one gave him a chance. 🧵
The House district was Republican-leaning and the incumbent, Gil Gutknecht, was outraising Walz by a 2:1 margin. Gutknecht was largely expected to win. Almost no one gave Walz a chance except VoteVets.
At less than a year old, VoteVets was looking to make its mark on U.S. politics. The organization put $100,000 into the race — a huge sum of money for a longshot in 2006. It went toward this ad attacking Gutknecht:
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Jul 14
Democrats are acting guilty and behaving apologetically over an assassination attempt they neither caused, nor had anything to do with. It is, at best, paralysis and poor strategy, at worst, cowardice. Instead, they should press their political attacks on Trump relentlessly. 🧵
Republicans have spent years pushing conspiracy theorists and racists as their primary influencers, fomenting violence and making guns readily available for 18-year-olds.
They spent years breaking up school board meetings, cutting ads with machine guns and explosives and they even tried to sack the U.S. Capitol. They created this environment for political violence in a lab.
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