I just heard Andy Ngo lost his trial after one day against journalist, @Johnnthelefty. His defense team reached out to me bc I wrote an article in 2019 about who Ngo really is. John's lawyers felt it was important. A little🧵
jacobin.com/2019/08/andy-n… I told them Ngo is not a journalist. Journos correct their mistakes. Ngo does the opposite. His work is video lies for the sole purpose of harassing targets and instigating threats and potentially even violence.

Let's Talk About Chai. I didn't genuinely realize how many Americans have misconceptions about what it is until I had an exchange today. It's the result of chai being tossed into America's corporate cultural blender in last couple of decades.🧵 In India, chai means tea. That's it. It has milk and sweetener to taste, but it's not an elaborate elixir w/ 12 spices, ginger, lemongrass, cinnamon sticks, vanilla beans, brown sugar, honey, steamed foamed milk. It's not a dumping group for your spice cabinet and vegetable bin.

This @washingtonpost report on fascist violence in Portland encapsulates everything wrong w/ corporate media. Best-resourced newspaper in country can't get story right, which is fascists are back after Jan. 6 more violent and extremist than ever.
washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08… The reporting is so lazy they get the name of John "Based Spartan" Turano wrong. They call him "Spartan."