(THREAD) Republicans are lying about The Logan Act—what it says; why it exists; why it matters—and their lies are perverting discussion of a key element of the Russia probe. This thread explains The Logan Act is and why it matters now more than ever.
Hope you'll read and share.
1/ First, the basics: The Logan Act (18 U.S. Code § 953: Private Correspondence with Foreign Governments) is a federal criminal statute, and a very serious one. Violation of the statute is a felony, and those convicted of a violation can serve up to three years in federal prison.
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(PS) In case it is not already clear, this report is 100% free, as well as succinct. It contains a number of major-media links to substantiate its uncontroversial summary of a dispute that Elon has been lying about here on Twitter every single day. The *truth* of it is harrowing.
(PS2) The Musk-Brazil dispute is about a far-right coup, a far-right politician, support by Musk for that far-right politician, the desire of Musk to spread far-right disinformation to aid and abet past and future insurrectionists.... is this starting to sound familiar to anyone?
And 100% the world MAGAs want for American women if they win.
I know I keep saying there are certain videos that should go viral every day until November, but this is another one powerful enough to earn that position.
Please RETWEET.
(PROOF1) SALON: “Republicans Want a Database of Pregnant People—In Many Ways, Abortion Surveillance Is Already Here”
MAGAs will not read the news; they put their Big Important Feelings about reality over... facts.
(📢) BREAKING NEWS: A 2020 Trump campaign lawyer under investigation for alleged involvement in the MI fake-elector scheme, a lawyer for Michael Flynn and Devin Nunes, and a past lawyer for the NH GOP just subpoenaed Elon for a journalist’s DMs.
Where are the free-speechers now?
(MORE) Twitter will be deciding in the next few days whether his fellow Trump endorsees can get the private Twitter messages of a progressive American journalist just by asking for them. If Elon says yes, America immediately understands what this platform has become: a huge trap.
(MORE) Every journalist who uses Twitter must now decide whether to continue using it, as there’s a concerted effort by persons connected intimately or indirectly to Trump to access your DMs. Think you won’t be affected soon? You’re naive. This is a 1st Amendment five-alarm fire.
(📢) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: No Matter Who Wins, America Still Faces a Worst-Case Scenario This November
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The sugar-coating must stop. No matter who wins, things are very likely to get bad. It’s time for a national conversation on how and why—and what to do. sethabramson.substack.com/p/no-matter-wh…
1/ I hope you will RETWEET this admittedly harrowing report widely. The entire Introduction is free, and the rest of the report is free with a one-week trial (button at the link, you cannot miss it).
2/ This aims to be the start of a conversation the nation needs to have. It simply does not do to say that law enforcement and/or the federal government and/or the intel community probably has it handled.
The plans for January 6 were broadcast *everywhere* and it still happened.
The 52,000 people who’ve retweeted this so far, as well as the author of this tweet, clearly have NO IDEA what CURRENT laws concerning free speech say—for all that they CLAIM to be OBSESSED with them.
You cannot shout “fire” in a theater; you cannot use certain “fighting words.”
I am sick and tired of Elon Musk, Elongelicals, and MAGAs lying to our faces by saying the CARE about issues they CLEARLY know nothing about. Tim Walz CORRECTLY articulating how free speech has ALWAYS worked in America somehow becomes a MEME for “pro-free speech” activists? What?
Not to mention that they edit every clip of a Democratic Party politician speaking to within an inch of its life just to create an excerpt that’s STILL TOTALLY CORRECT. In America we DO restrict certain types of misinformation and certain types of hate speech and we have FOREVER.