While the Democrats have been fighting over Biden, an equally substantive fight is brewing in the GOP. There are growing signs of a fundie revolt over the slightly less extreme abortion plank. Among the leaders: @RealBenCarson.

https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/1811950110768828645

Several fundies like @tperkins are pushing for a “minority report” to be added to the convention’s record detailing a hard line on abortion.

https://twitter.com/tperkins/status/1811823993604735423

I’m calling it here and now, folks. Based on recent developments, if @GatewayPeople is around in its present form by Christmas, it will be a MASSIVE upset. Details that have come to light since Robert Morris’ dumping suggest it has forfeited its right to exist. (🧵)I First, according to @watchkeep, a children’s pastor at a Gateway campus got the bright idea to put on a rabbit costume with the body backwards and inside out. Behavior like this explains how fundies knuckled under to Trump.

https://twitter.com/watchkeep/status/1810775416032088259

Sooo…@ggreenwald is wagging his finger at the media for hiding @joebiden’s mental issues. Two problems with his take: (🧵) 1. Has Greenwald considered that reporters were taking the time to make sure there was a there there before dropping a bombshell story of this magnitude? That’s what journalists do. Besides, how could you publish anything like that after #SOTU2024?

Sooo… @revjamesrobison claims the first time he knew about Robert Morris’ debauchery was last week. The problem—some of his past statements on the matter don’t add up.

https://twitter.com/revjamesrobison/status/1804230345614660076

Robison first claimed Morris worked in his call center in the late 1980s. (h/t @Wade_Burleson)

https://twitter.com/wade_burleson/status/1803931689552322986

Dear @TulsiGabbard: You know exactly who Trump is. You knew he is not fit to be Commander-in-Chief. Witness you slamming him for being willing to put our troops at the disposal of #MohammedBoneSawman.

https://twitter.com/tulsigabbard/status/1173723701373591552

And you essentially told him this to his face on Fox News.

Dear ⁦@marklevinshow⁩: Before you bitch about Trump getting a raw deal, maybe you should read about Kalief Browder, who spent THREE YEARS in Rikers before the charges were dismissed. nytimes.com/2019/01/24/nyr… Trump got more due process in three months than Browder did in three years. So shut your piehole about Trump being the victim of a “Democrat WITCH HUNT!”

From a conservative friend of mine who is done with Trump, but wanted to explain why his depravities didn’t turn Repubs off. If this is the case, the GOP is going down the same path that causes collegiate programs long-term damage. (🧵)

https://twitter.com/kaeleyt/status/1764703154057474437

Besides the obvious—NCAA sanctions that cripple teams for years—the damage can show up in other ways. Look at Florida under Urban Meyer, for instance. Yeah, the Gators won two national titles—but did so by recruiting players of questionable character.

I never thought I’d see the day I’d be defending Trump. But some outright cheap shots from my side of the aisle call for an exception. (🧵) On New Year’s Day, @RonFilipkowski of @MeidasTouch fired off this tweet about the NYE party at Mar-a-Lago.

https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1741853693564129660

Some reminders of who @SarahHuckabee really is. (🧵) She libeled @Acosta with a manipulated video to justify yanking his press credentials. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

Dear @godlywomanhood: Your post about @jingervuolo speaking out about her childhood was so outrageous that I felt compelled to call you on it publicly. thetransformedwife.com/jinger-duggar-… She did not throw Jim Bob and Michelle under the bus. They threw her under the bus when they failed to protect her by reporting Josh’s depravities in a timely manner.

Just watched numerous clips of @RepMTG debating @Marcus4Georgia via @RonFilipkowski’s feed. That woman is utterly unhinged and utterly unfit. No one who saw this could conclude otherwise. I hope this isn’t the last we see of @Marcus4Georgia. Georgia needs people like him. This country needs people like him.

Those claiming that pressing Cloudflare to nuke KiwiFarms sets a bad precedent for a free Internet, like @tealou, @ggreenwald and @heterodorx need to consider that failing to act now can lead to changes later in which nobody wins. Look at how Facebook, Twitter and Google sat on their hands in 2016 as fake news and disinformation ran rampant. In response to the ensuing outcry, they tweaked their algorithms in a way that saw independent blogs get throttled.

There is so much wrong with this article by @heterodorx that it’s hard to outline it all. But I’m going to try.

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1568253715911524353

For one thing, @heterodorx, have you considered that how you get a story matters as much as getting it? See Michael Gallagher and Chiquita for an example.

To those concerned about @internetarchive nuking KiwiFarms—fear not. There are likely to be mass arrests very soon. Remember, these clowns doxxed the cops investigating @keffals’ swatting. Any crime against a cop is a five-alarm fire. Plus, they called in a fake bomb threat in Northern Ireland, of all places—and police there are already focusing on a suspect. Expect a lot of hard drives to be seized, and a lot of people singing.

A little analogy to help people understand why @Cloudflare’s initial cold shoulder to @keffals and @ellenfromnowon’s efforts to nuke Kiwi Farms was morally bankrupt. (🧵) Remember when it emerged that Jerry Sandusky remained at large for a decade because Joe Paterno and others merely reported claims of abuse to their immediate supervisors?

After much thought, and with some trepidation, I can no longer offer even lukewarm support of @reachjulieroys’ work. It hurts to say this about anyone with whom I agree in principle. But if she could keep her article announcing @JenHatmaker’s divorce before Hatmaker could announce it even after having time to rethink it, she has an ethical blind spot not unlike that of Gawker or WikiLeaks.

Wow. Based on this timeline, @reachjulieroys inadvertently admitted to—at best—an egregious and potentially dangerous lapse in judgment. She knew or reasonably should have known that @MeganStonerIN was dangerously unstable—and didn’t warn the public.

https://twitter.com/watchkeep/status/1523814909485752321

I doubt that this was fraud on @reachjulieroys’ part, as @coconservative7 claims. But whatever this is, it isn’t good.

I know a lot of my fellow pro-choicers are upset about the apparent end of Roe. But don’t take it out on rank-and-file abortion opponents. We need to reserve our outrage for the so-called leaders who took people for a ride, who tugged at their sympathies when they were making a backdoor attack on our privacy.

Constitution of the United States, 14th Amendment, Section 3: "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath,

Let's cut up the Mad Georgian's latest tirade, shall we? threadreaderapp.com/thread/1355537… So if we're not loyal to a guy who literally incited a coup, we're not really American? Good to know.

https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1355537456351866883

This is going to be a long and angry rant, so bear with me. When I heard @SarahHuckabee was running for governor of Arkansas, I thought back to her role in arguably the worst Trump depravity before January 6. She publicly tweeted a letter Trump sent to @SpeakerPelosi denying her the use of a government jet to go on a fact finding trip to Afghanistan. One problem--that trip was supposed to be secret for the protection of Pelosi and her party.