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Eric Blair 🔥🟧 Profile picture
Eric Blair 🔥🟧
@protecttruth_
The 1940s threat to democracy was totalitarianism. The threat today is billionaires: media, $, and influence. Bsky:@protecttruth https://t.co/gM06b4RYrt
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Feb 24 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
AOC is an amazing communicator, a gift to the party. If Schumer and Pelosi cared first about fighting fascism they’d elevate and promote her.

But they are so afraid of the left and afraid of change that they marginalize her. .@AOC should be a close advisor to Schumer and Pelosi; they should welcome her and consult her on comms strategy.

The DCCC/SKDK-type strategists are killing us.
Feb 13 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It is important to note that Patrick Healy was *promoted* by New York Times executives after the Trump years.

Healy was a politics reporter in 2016. He wrote many many “But Her Emails” stories. Then he kept moving up. Politics editor during Trump. Now deputy opinion head. /1 There is really no other conclusion but that NY Times top execs LIKE the Politics and Opinion pages the way they are now.

(Healy also was known for anti-Hillary stories for the decade before 2016.) 2/2
@jeremymbarr, 2015: Image
Feb 3 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Important info and revelations about the WSJ layoffs this week.

They consolidate control of the WSJ **newsroom** in the hands of the crony editor Murdoch installed a few months ago.

You think WSJ Opinion is biased.
But Murdoch didn't buy WSJ *just* to sway WSJ Opinion. 1/ Re these WSJ cutbacks... the Washburo has long had a semi-autonomous nature w/ its own editing staff and structure -- and this move helps to consolidate oversight of political coverage under the NY office, where the Murdochs and their deputies can gain more visibility and control As I have been saying for years and years, the Murdoch plan is to bias the WSJ newsroom towards the GOP as much as he can.
When the heat gets high, he fires the editor and hires someone non-controversial.

Then, when the controversy dies down, he installs another crony editor. /2
Jan 28 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
LOLOLOLOLOL

The Washington Post Opinion section has two Republican political strategists writing for them (Thiessen, Willick) and at least SIX rightwing media apparatchiks paid now or in the past by GOP donors: Hewitt, McArdle, Olson, Ponnuru, Geraghty, and McCullough. Thiessen was a speechwriter in the Bush 2 White House and now writes and discusses Republican political strategy at AEI. Willick’s path is through Claremont.
Geraghty: Nationalist Review. Ponnuru: now-rightwing Newsweek and worse.
Olson: EPPC.
McArdle has done Koch events.
Dec 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
On No Labels, the 2021 leaked audio with Joe Manchin gives their game away.

No Labels is a grift run by two people: Mark Penn and Nancy Jacobson.
They take money from rightwing billionaires who want to divide Dems. There's no principles here; it's just 2 ppl selling their souls.
Image "The call included several billionaire investors and corporate executives, among them Louis Bacon, chief executive of Moore Capital Management; Kenneth D. Tuchman, founder of global outsourcing company TeleTech; and Howard Marks, the head of Oaktree Capital" 2/
Nov 17, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
This is a common question I see. It arises from what the Israel govt wants.
Netanyahu and the Israeli right want Jews to move to Israel. And Netanyahu cut his political teeth on fighting Labor Zionism, which parallels American Reform/Conserv Judaism. /1 It helps to remember that Netanyahu spent time in the US (effectively intertwined with the US right) and his chief political adviser Ron Dermer is a Florida Republican who learned politics from Karl Rove. /2

tabletmag.com/sections/israe…
Oct 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Very very important. Please, if you’re on any DNC mailing lists or private groups, you must read this 👇

Dem leaders did lie to us about Feinstein’s replacement getting blocked on committees.
Why? Because they are afraid to rock the boat and change their own daily lives. I get messages from consultants and Senate staff.

People told me that Senate leadership was celebrating having Feinstein away from DC because it meant hard decisions at Judiciary could not be made, and that helped them avoid fights with Republicans.
Jul 23, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Including media.

If your country lets billionaires build a lying rightwing media that inflames societal divisions to get votes for billionaires’ tax cuts, your country will be pushed towards fascism. FDR knew this. Every American in 1945 did: they watched Goebbels. GB News, Fox, the NY Post, Israel Hayom, the Independent, Times UK, the Sun, the Australian, the Free Beacon, Washington Examiner, WSJ, Washington Times, Epoch Times, Salem Radio, CBN, Newsmax, The Daily Mail, Post Millennial, Quillette, Daily Caller…
It’s all the same strategy.
Jul 23, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The Bible says that life begins at first breath.
Evangelicals and Protestants believed that until around the 70s, when rightwing billionaires started using this issue to fool voters into voting for tax cuts for billionaires.

https://t.co/WTpaeWrrNVnpr.org/2006/06/23/550…
Image "In 1971, the messengers (delegates) to the Southern Baptist Convention, hardly a redoubt of liberalism, passed a resolution calling for the legalization of abortion, a position they reaffirmed in 1974 — a year after Roe — and again in 1976."
https://t.co/NwxkemzqBOpolitico.com/news/magazine/…
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Jul 22, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
This event is paid for by rightwing billionaires, including Harlan Crow.

These lawyers will eat nice food and probably get their fancy hotel and travel paid. Buying young lawyers is cheap for billionaires, and there is so much money flowing on the right. #fedsocevents /1 Image Overturning NYT v Sullivan is a major priority of rightwing billionaires like Crow and Paul Singer and Koch.

Why? Because without it, billionaires would be able to weaponize the legal system to squash our free press.

Jun 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
There’s a tell here in how Alito ran to WSJ, and conservatives tonight have been attacking ProPublica:
The right wants all US media to be billionaire/corporate controlled.

Independent, non-profit newsrooms with pro-democracy journalists are an existential threat to the GOP. Mark Paoletta, who’s part of the conservative legal conspiracy, with a thin, desperate attack on ProPublica here.

We need to figure out how to make many more ProPublicas, and thus crowd out Murdoch outlets like WSJ. Image
Jun 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Oh, Paul Singer gifted Alito a trip?

Like Harlan Crow, Singer is a major Republican institutional funder.

Singer is a major player at the Manhattan Institute, who pay Chris Rufo and run City Journal. And Singer funds the rightwing paper Free Beacon. Paul Singer: Chairman of the Board at Manhattan Inst, donated to: Koch-network efforts, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, George Bush, Trump, Club For Growth, and it goes on.
Biggest donor to Repub Senate PAC.

Singer is absolutely at the CENTER of today’s Republican Party. ImageImageImageImage
Jun 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I very much appreciate this optimism, and it is tempting even to me. But efforts to be bipartisan with the Senate GOP will not work.

Look at the Kavanaugh vote. We cannot peel off GOP Senators. And every effort dilutes our message and prevents the needed polarization of voters. Image Even Dean Heller, the “GOP’s most vulnerable Senator” could not be moved on the issues that actually matter to GOP donors and the GOP base.
2018.
slate.com/news-and-polit…
Jun 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1. DOJ needs reform. It is sick with Centrist Lawyer-brain— filled with well-meaning people who are locked into bad “apolitical” process created mostly by Republicans.
2. No Fed Soc members in government. Period. Fire Wray now. Image Yes. Bipartisanship with fascists is a recipe to bring in fascism.

What is called for now is partisanship. It’s ok to be partisan with the one pro-democracy party. That is, for people who are serious about keeping our democratic republic.

Jun 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Free tip for any Dem group that wants to win in future:
Drive a wedge into Republican voters splitting Catholics and Protestants.

Modern media enables wealthy interests to create division: look at how the right tries to divide us, on left/liberal, LGB and T, etc.
Do it to them. Image In fact, before about 1972, Catholics and Protestants disagreed vehemently on abortion—and they hated each other for it.
Somehow we let the Catholics and Protestants make common ground on abortion and dramatically increase their electoral power.

h/t @DissentientOne
Jun 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I honestly wonder whether these judges realize they’re just doing the bidding of the billionaire donors who installed them as judges.

Or do they think that the antiwoke and originalist stuff is real—not just a justification other billionaire-paid people made up? It’s clear Rufo knows what’s really going on here.

Probably Roberts too — he’s very strategic about his pro-GOP agenda. His potted-plant status during the Trump impeachments and his rulings against Dems showed it off. Image
Jun 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Call me old-fashioned, but if a car kills people at ten times the rate of other cars, the company covers up the data, and the CEO lies to the public and says the cars are safer…

I think that CEO should go to jail on fraud charges. Image And if you’re a billionaire CEO who is doing criminal fraud in public, it makes sense to buy up media outlets to spread disinformation and try to deflect any rising public anger!!

(“Twitter is now a right-wing social network”)

Jun 15, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This podcast is SO GOOD.

About why Dems aren’t more aggressive, and how to push to improve. Money on ads, whether the left and “defund” are the problem, how running away is the real issue, and how we can fix it by fusing “kitchen table” issues to culture war, as the GOP does. Image Here is the episode link
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Jun 13, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Democrats in the Senate could call right now for changing the Senate rules to prevent anyone from “holding” DOJ appointments.
Schumer doesn’t call for that in part because he thinks bipartisanship (with fascists) wins elections. Image I mean Senate leadership — Schumer, Hoyer, Durbin — can’t even hold a vote when Tuberville is out of town.
The drive for bipartisanship with a fascist party is killing us.

Jun 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Reminder that Aileen Cannon is a MAGA politician.

It is absolutely INSANE a Trump appointee continues to be the head judge in Trump’s criminal case, and that approximately zero public figures are saying this to the media. Blumenthal called for corrupt Clarence Thomas to resign.
Now he musters only “advise Cannon to recuse.”

He should have subpoenaed her months ago when he had the chance.
(It’s the @whstancil theory: inaction now forecloses your future options for action.)
Jun 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
What is implicit from Andrew is that DOJ lawyers would just say “ok” and comply.

This is an excellent example of how our DOJ has degraded into process-bound, slow-rolling failure since Watergate times. When Nixon tried to fire the special prosecutor, people resigned. In a proactive DOJ focused on outcome instead of bad process, twenty top attorneys would immediately go on cable news and talk about Trump being a corrupt traitor if he tried this.