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ClearingTheFog
@clearing_fog
I follow people I disagree with; vet my tweets instead. Mastodon: clearing_fog@social.snorklr.com
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Aug 9, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Wow.

Look what a District Court Judge in North Carolina just said about the SCOTUS immunity decision.

Unprompted. This case was completely unrelated.
Image The case is unrelated, but is important in its own right and should get more coverage.

A court clerk was sexually harassed, but ultimately denied relief due to the way system works.

It’s almost a no-win situation for victims and that should be news.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Jul 30, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The Trump campaign’s panicked move & statement today about Project 2025 are absolutely comical.

They are desperately trying to kill the *name* “Project 2025” - to delete the word from the election.

Here are a few reasons why nothing they say matters at all.

A short thread.
/1 Image First, the group that created Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation, has immense power over the GOP; it has built it over decades.

How much? Consider this: We have been ceding Pacific access rights to China - for 12 years and counting.

Because Heritage doesn’t like the UN.
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Jun 4, 2024 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
The Epoch Times started their money laundering operation sometime in 2020.

After the 2020 election, they began producing more propaganda for Trump and becoming involved in stop the steal efforts.

Somewhat symbiotic. Trump massively boosted them, and they helped him.


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Image The highly polished propaganda video that Holehouse (an Epoch Times alum until 2015) published, seemed custom made for the Trump campaign, and he boosted it four times. 2 million views.

Trump supporters began driving up the company’s stature. 6 million followers on Facebook.


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May 21, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I’ve always said that while there were some normal human bad decisions in Fani Willis’ relationship, they weren’t enough to justify all of this - and what *should* get way more coverage is the crusade against her, and against the rule of law.

Now it’s more important than ever. The full context is always important.
May 6, 2024 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
I think it’s important for people to see Ben Smith’s interview with Joe Kahn, Executive Editor of the New York Times, so I’m posting screenshots of the full article here.

The fact that he misrepresents and strawmans people’s issues with their reporting is really concerning.

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Image I appreciate that @semaforben got Kahn to answer questions about this, but I’m also disappointed at the soft touch questions that tiptoe around elephants in the room, which IMO silently confirms that NYT is avoiding real accountability for any of this.


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May 3, 2024 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
I try my best not to weigh in on topics that I’m not well versed on, and don’t weigh in on divisive, emerging events until I can share what I believe is reliable info. The same goes for the Palestine protests.

If anyone cares about my personal views, I will say this much.

/1 What is happening in Gaza is a humanitarian nightmare. I blame Netanyahu, Likud, and the right wing extremists who control the government.

They are Israel’s Trump and MAGA. Bibi is corrupt. His actions harm Israel on the world stage. An authoritarian who inflames divisions.

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Apr 19, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Apr 12 - Michael Shellenberger caught using doctored documents, propaganda that supports notorious drug cartel in Brazil

Apr 14 - Shellenberger flees the country to avoid answering questions from their govt

Apr 18 (today) - Elon Musk blasting out more of his lies about Brazil


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Apr 3, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I’m not the target audience but this essay is dishonest; it reads like an attempt to lock in right wing judicial gains under pretense of principle.

Disappointing from Luttig.

If the “conservative” legal movement can’t survive without these damaging myths… maybe it shouldn’t? .@greggnunziata apparently doesn’t want anyone to notice the corrupting influence that Citizens United and dark money-funded astroturfing have had - from the Tea Party to Clarence Thomas.

And those who recognize it are “liberals” trying to “recklessly delegitimize” the Court.


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Mar 3, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: Ten women who escaped the Kingston Clan have filed a lawsuit detailing a sex trafficking cult, forced incestuous marriages, child labor, schemes to defraud governments.

Left: Today’s article:



Right: July, 2020 - Don Jr with a prominent member:

/1 sltrib.com/news/2024/03/0…

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Image It is difficult to describe all of the criminal and other entanglements surrounding this cult.

Below is a thread with a lot more background, that I have added to over time.

You’ll notice the massive fraud scheme. Today’s lawsuit says defrauding govts was part of a strategy:

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Feb 29, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Big story - maybe moreso in the context of Ronna’s ouster from RNC.

Superfeed, originally a news/media platform created by 7 Mountains follower Floyd Brown, passed to Jeff Dewit, connected to TPUSA, is now being used by swing state GOP orgs - almost zero records of payments. Read full article👆

Superfeed is used by Lindell for people to snitch about “voter fraud;” used by Scott Presler for GOTV; now being used by multiple state GOP Party orgs…

But it’s also the company Dewit paid Kari Lake through, until she recorded him.

Provided for free???


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Jan 15, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I hope everyone sees this.

Guatemala overwhelmingly elected a liberal President, but today, right wing members of the legislature and court attempted to halt his inauguration.

Ric Grenell has been conducting “diplomacy,” undermining US policy and is openly agitating sedition.


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Dec 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Paul Pressler helped capture the Southern Baptist Convention and turn it into a political machine.

Sued for enabling & concealing decades of rapes, yesterday they settled confidentially.

Mike Johnson was on the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission board, 2004-2012.
🧵: Sources:

Background on the “conservative” capture and purge of the SBC:



Johnson’s board membership:



Dec 29, 2023 - SBC settles high-profile lawsuit that accused former leader of sexual abuse:

religionnews.com/2019/04/11/sha…
religionnews.com/2023/10/25/mik…
texastribune.org/2023/12/29/sou…

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Dec 16, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Right, we’ve known about the binder for a while.

Yesterday’s story expanded on it with internal IC & Congressional comments about how bad it is, and forced Meadows’ attorney to comment.

But what’s with these big outlets refusing to give credit to other journalists? ICYMI

No one knows how many copies Meadows made of the binder, or where they are.

Best case scenario is probably that these were the papers he burned in the fireplace.
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Oct 29, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Yes, ICYMI

This is what D’Antuono told Jim Jordan’s Judiciary Committee in a closed door interview on June 7, 2023, about why they haven’t caught the pipe bomber,:

Geofence data from a provider was corrupted.

“I can’t remember right now which one.”
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Oct 21, 2023 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
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Fani Willis’s team convinced Scott Hall to plead guilty and cooperate.

That is what forced Sidney Powell to plead and cooperate.

Powell’s flipping forced Chesebro to plead and cooperate - and Chesebro‘s cooperation could be a very big deal.

Here’s why.
/1 The SullivanStrickler employees who illegally accessed, manipulated, and copied GA voting machine data in Coffee County committed those crimes at the behest of Sidney Powell.

Scott Hall was there.

When he agreed to testify, that meant the DA had Powell dead to rights.

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Oct 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
As Matt Gaetz and other extremists were working to force a government shutdown, he and Rep. Rosendale held a private Zoom briefing hosted by Steve Bannon and Carolyn Wren.

Their shutdown attempt failed. Gaetz moved to unseat McCarthy shortly afterward.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

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Didn’t happen. Last night, Trump quietly dropped the lawsuit, 4 days before he was scheduled to be deposed by Cohen under oath.
Sep 30, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
I haven’t had time to write a thread on this but a couple of days ago @jonswaine and @bethreinhard at WaPo wrote a very important, deeply researched article about the tactics of the ADF and how they manipulate the court system.

A must-read.

Free link:

/1wapo.st/3tccEn1 Their research confirms the broad strokes of this thread that I wrote in June - and much of what I have been trying to explain to people about the ADF, in hopes that some good journalists would dig into this further.

Very thankful for their reporting on this & hope to see more.
Sep 29, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Elon Musk is using Twitter to interfere in Germany’s elections.

He is promoting the same far-right extremist party that the Kremlin amplifies during its disruption ops. .
Sep 23, 2023 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
A lot of folks are upset that Thomas is being asked to recuse instead of resign, but there is a reason.

Loper Bright v. Raimondo is the holy grail for right wing oligarchs like the Koch’s - much more so than overturning Roe.

It‘s a killing blow to the administrative state.

/1 To oversimplify, the Chevron precedent is what allows Congress to pass a law creating things like the EPA, the FDA, OSHA, the FCC - basically every regulatory agency you can name - and to delegate authority to the executive branch to define and enforce their compliance rules.

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Sep 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Outrageous.

Two days after the insurrection SCOTUS quietly took up a case by a Koch group, AFPF.

Koch’s AFPF argued that it is unconstitutional for the govt to require them to regularly disclose their donors.

Thomas ruled in their favor.

Now we learn he helped them fundraise. This is the case in question: AFPF v. Becerra, later renamed to AFPF v. Rodriguez.
Sep 15, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Marsha Blackburn’s friend and former chair of her Senate campaign, Kline Preston, is *still* working for Russia.

He introduced Maria Butina and Aleksander Torshin to the NRA, and he invited Torshin to “monitor” Tennessee elections.

Now he’s observing “elections” in Crimea. 2018

Nashville lawyer who introduced Russian operative to the NRA has ties to Blackburn

tennessean.com/story/news/201…