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Apr 16, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Murph crushed that ball. It landed in the restaurant in left-center.
I do the dishes, come back, and the A's bullpen does A's bullpen things and blows the lead.
Mar 7, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"Plenty of Proud Boys, etc., but few overt expressions of white nationalism."
This sentence could use some teasing out.
What's included in the "etc."?
To people of color, "plenty of Proud Boys, etc." ~is~ overt expressions of white nationalism. It is their ideology.
Trump maintains bank account in China, paid more in taxes to Chinese Communist Party than U.S. government nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/…
Chinese government directed $500 million to a project that includes Trump-branded hotels scmp.com/news/asia/sout…
Trump sought Chinese interference in election
... even pathetically begged for Chinese purchases of farm products to help his re-election in farm states: nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/…
Jun 16, 2020 • 12 tweets • 8 min read
The murderer of an Oakland federal cop was a member of the right-wing "boogaloo" movement.
“There is no evidence that these men had any intention to join the demonstration in Oakland." mercurynews.com/2020/06/16/san…
At the time, right-wingers sought to insinuate or blame BLM protests.
.@HomelandKen Cuccinelli in FOX News insinuated that the Oakland courthouse shooter was part of BLM protests. foxnews.com/us/federal-law…
The shooter was actually a right-wing terrorist involved in the "boogaloo" movement seeking to foment a race war. mercurynews.com/2020/06/16/san…
Feb 12, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I’m not sure Sanders was any different on immigration at this time (he voted with the Minutemen in 2006) and was praised by anti-immigrant group NumbersUSA in 2016 for his views on immigration in the past.
Sanders, in the House, voted for a Jack Kingston amendment supporting the Minutemen based on some bizarre conspiracy theory. buzzfeednews.com/article/evanmc…
Dec 27, 2018 • 31 tweets • 9 min read
Trump supporters refer to the Steele memos as "discredited" or "debunked." News organizations often refer to it as "unverified." However, claims for which there's publicly available information have held up quite well. Annotated memos: corrupt.af/dossier
Here's a thread of claims made in the Steele memos with publicly available information from reputable sources.
