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Juliette Kayyem Profile picture
@juliettekayyem
Oct 23 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
This site is not our friend, on election day in particular. As I work with states and state party officials, I give them this advice: train your teams to focus. GOTV is going to be hit with disinformation, rumors, and the craziness with only one goal in mind: distraction. 1/
Violence is a law enforcement issue; legal shenanigans are for the courts. But GOTV is ripe for the same crap we saw during the hurricanes for the purpose of impacting how campaigns understand what is going on on the ground. My take @TheAtlantic 2/
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Want to get a state party or campaign leader to lose focus? Throw into this and other platforms some rumors that take time and effort to quell, get staff worked up, and the presidential campaign headquarters bearing down. See @hadas_gold story @cnn 3/

Two defenses: get strong and reliable folks who can process this stuff, cross check, so that others can focus AND then quickly -- so quickly -- shoot down the rumors to teams in the field who may be impacted or believe it. This is what I call information preparedness. 4/
I have tired of contributions by influential people here about how could the Trump team do this, or that, or it is all so shameful and he's so horrible. Yes. It only means we can't be surprised. They will do this; this site is owned by Trump's shadow VP, after all. 5/
Get ready. For those who care about democracy and truth, check yourselves as well about what you post, repost or throw into this hellhole of a site. I rarely post original content here now, and this exception is the height of irony (and hypocrisy). I'm totally owning it. 6/6

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Apr 24
As universities prepare for graduation, there are 3 guiding ("O") rules for safety planning:
1)Outlets: Provide outlets for student protests
2)Off-Ramps: Many on X/the Hill talk tough, but a good plan has various levels of de-escalation;
3)Outcomes: Then get to consequences; 1/
To start, I am embarrassed for commentators who know better wanting to silence all viewpoints with tough talk; for First Amendment advocates who loosely equate Palestinian protest as pro-Hamas or anti-semitic; for those who called Biden's comments his Charlottesville moment. 2/
I say embarrassed because I do not deny the anti-semitism (nor do I deny the Islamaphobia or Anti-Arab sentiment within Jewish movement). I condemn both. But if you think this is all just anti-semitism that must be quashed by force, you are missing the story. And you know it. 3/
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Mar 17
A proposal; It is good Biden is talking about the threat to our democracy coming from the violence Trump promises. We have a whole department created to address terrorism. And it would be nice to hear a plan about protecting our homeland security. DOJ is not built for this. 1/
The WH cannot talk of a real threat and then sit back and hope the voters solve the problem. They may and still Trump was a menace. That was true in 2020. He didn't stop. 2/
What I'm proposing is a very transparent planning process that engages local and state governments who manage elections. This plan would provide transparency on threats, a crisis response capacity, recommended rules of deployment for public safety resources, 3/
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Aug 19, 2023
PAY ATTENTION. I wait to talk to people I trust about how to interpret an event like Tropical Storm #Hilary . So .... reliable folks are now sounding alarms. There is simply nowhere for the water to go. Severe flooding in Vegas? Rain in Death Valley? "Impacts are unknown." 1/
The best to be said now is listen to local news, don't wade out in water, and set your emergency alerts on your phone (flash flood warnings) - if you don’t know how just download the fema app. There is a lot of crap out there now. Follow
AND 2/Ready.gov
LA City Alert. This feed is valid one: 3/

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Jun 20, 2023
As faculty chair of a major initiative at Harvard's @Kennedy_School @BelferCenter, The Global Crisis and Resilience Forum, I am thrilled that four papers from the effort are now posted.
By David Hayes:
1/
 belfercenter.org/publication/cl…
The Forum addresses the challenges and deficiencies of our disaster management system and how it might improve. We are meeting again this week in Cambridge.
By Bruggeman, Klein and Talmadge:
2/
 belfercenter.org/publication/ev…
By Gaynor, Serino and Bruggeman
3/
belfercenter.org/publication/ev…
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Jun 12, 2023
A couple of things to consider/weigh for next few days that cut in a variety of ways: 1)the words are hot, the coordination is not. This is not January 6th. The more established right wing groups are disorganized, leaders are in jail, they've turned against each other. 1/
2)Trump is not in charge nor can he direct police or military assets; 3)Local, state and federal authorities have considerable notice to organize and now know that this is not a drill; 4)still, this is Florida, not NYC, and the pool of people likely to support Trump is bigger; 2/
5)Within MAGA land, there is a clear understanding that Trump did not bail the 1/6 defendants out and can not do so now; 6)It only takes one person, in Miami or elsewhere, and the guns are real so I think that concern of the one off is greater than some organized move; 3/
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Apr 29, 2023
A thread on divorce. Given its topic, book lectures for THE DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS have no expiration date. Admittedly, speaking to a gathering of divorce lawyers was unique. I don't like to just show up, so I do spend some time learning and asking about why they would want me. 1/
There are similarities: people and families in crisis, shock and sadness, difficulties in how to "measure success" (riding happily into the sunset is not an option.) The lawyers try to make things "less bad," a theme of my book. It made sense to me. 2/
But I can't get two things out of my head. I asked some of the organizers what has changed in the last decade. They said people have a misunderstanding of divorce. All are sad, but in the past very few resulted in wars. But things are not as they were. 3/
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