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Jul 13 29 tweets 6 min read
I love a conspiracy theory as much as anybody, but please hold off on your "staged" "false flag" bullshit and let's just wait and find out what actually happened.

Too. Soon. On the other hand, I am willing to look at things that can be rationally observed. In the primary video out there, the women just above Trump's right elbow begins to drop at the same time he reaches for his ear, before almost anyone else reacts.
Jul 12 5 tweets 2 min read
Is anybody seeing any left-wing ads?

Is anybody seeing any ads for anything that's NOT a right-wing topic-pushing ad?

Example. Under the replies to a @MuellerSheWrote posting, these are all of the ads I found:


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I got so tired of saying that Musk purchased Twitter to turn it into a propaganda platform that I stopped saying it. Plus everybody knows it now.

But, as one of the frogs, it's gotten a lot hotter in here without me noticing. This isn't normal.
Jul 6 13 tweets 3 min read
Since Stephanopoulos brought up the ABC news poll, I thought it was worth revisiting who does their polling.

It's Langer Research, a well-known and well-respected polling company that's also used by CBS, Pew Research, and others. Image In 2019, Langer hired a literal Russian propagandist into their senior staff. She was trained in Russia's Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In other words, she was trained in propaganda by the Russian government. Image
May 21 11 tweets 2 min read
I really thought early on that Weiss was less of a pure political hack than Durham, but increasingly his prosecution is turning into every bit the clown show that Durham's was. The progression was different. Durham packed his filings with obviously false propaganda right from the start — allegations that were the heart of right-wing propaganda, but were never charged.
May 11 18 tweets 3 min read
This probably isn't an original observation but... a side effect of AI use by law firms is that our judicial system will be overwhelmed by AI-generated content volume. The fundamental problem is the assymetry of "AI" (at present): Large language models can automate generating content, but can't automate reading and analyzing it.

So the number and size of filings will increase.
May 6 5 tweets 2 min read
So last November, NYT did an experiment. It was described in a subscriber-only newsletter.

The results were (to me) unsurprising. But also very disturbing. Image The "experiment" was a pretty blunt instrument. And the results were not at all surprising. It's almost like they asked about "evil" vs "not evil", and in that sense it seems pretty pointless. But that's not what disturbed me. Image
Mar 4 15 tweets 4 min read
A superthread of all my thoughts on ballot removal in the past couple of months. Starting with this take, that I _think_ was overly optimistic. But I DO still think it's possible.

And I think the reasons WHY they SHOULD do this still hold.
I ended up (and am still at) a more pessimistic view, but apparently not as pessimistic as most people. I _still_ don't think it'll be 9-0 to overturn ballot removal.
Feb 21 13 tweets 3 min read
By 2013, Maria Butina had already wormed her way into NRA culture. By 2014 she was in Indianopolis (and South Dakota?) for an NRA conference where she'd met with several NRA leaders, as well as members of Congress. In 2015 she was asked Trump a question at a press conference. In 2018 she was (officially) identified as a Russian agent. By which time she'd "interfaced" with numerous members of Congress. We knew FOR SURE at that time that Russia was targeting members of Congress. Republican members of Congress.
Feb 21 17 tweets 3 min read
Let's do a brief timeline on the Biden/Shokin allegations.

Keep in mind Shokin was removed in February 2016.

The earliest whiff I've found even vaguely related is in Peter Schweizer's Secret Empires book, published in March of 2018. Schweizer in a broad hand-wavey way says that the Burisma investigation coming to an end seems weird. He never mentions Shokin, or a bribe, and focuses on 2017.
Oct 1, 2023 23 tweets 5 min read
Who released the photo — instead of the full video — to the press? Assuming Bowman is being truthful, I suspect the video will back his story.

The body language of figuring out a confusing sign on an unfamiliar door is very different than maliciously pulling an alarm. But there's something funny going on about the signage, and I'm honestly not sure who is faking us out here.

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Sep 16, 2023 15 tweets 5 min read
I have never seen the right-wing and/or Russian propaganda networks go as hard in on rewriting history as I am seeing this past week with Shokin.

Jon Solomon and the Murdoch rags are leading the charge, providing every possible out-of-context fact that they can spin their way. One angle is covered in this this thread, which exposes that what @nypost claimed was praise for Shokin was really praise for NABU, and anti-corrupt group that Shokin tried to block, which only existed because of corruption from people like Shokin.
Jul 20, 2023 20 tweets 6 min read
My God Grassley is embracing the Science Fiction Double Feature Bribery Scheme. Why do I call it a Science Fiction Double Feature Bribery Scheme?

Because to make it work, Biden would have to have BOTH a time machine AND a mind control ray.

And even with both of these in hand, you can't construct a sensible plot that would fit into only a single movie.
Jun 25, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Fucking Republicans.

Let me remind you that Trump was impeached for:
1. Attempting to extort a foreign leader into interfering in a U.S. election (which by the way would have give Putin leverage over Zelensky in Ukraine).
2. Orchestrating a coup to overturn an election. Republicans don't even have a clue exactly what they're going to impeach Biden for, but they'll move forward anyway.

Seriously.

Not. A. Fucking. Clue.
Jun 16, 2023 31 tweets 8 min read
To fully appreciate the latest embarrassing debacle at Spoutible, you have to give the context of going all the way back to January, which is when, according to Bouzy, they began using @detectify to scan their website. You have to go back that far, because in February, when Spoutible was released to the public, it was revealed that the software was based on some shady 89 dollar Russian software thing.

AND the software was exposing users' personal data to the public.
Jun 16, 2023 11 tweets 2 min read
What the fuck? I found a "news report" that claims that Mykola Lisin's wife just died. It seems like it is entirely based on (their interpretation) of his newsmax statement. They don't even have her name. "Mykola Lisin wife".

The report is at snbc13 dot com but I'm not linking to shit.
Jun 15, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
It's a massive failure of U.S. media that we are even talking about this.

The core premise (that Shokin removal was a corrupt Biden move) is provably false and always has been. By the time Biden asked Ukraine to remove him, so had over a hundred members of Ukraine's parliament, 25,000 citizens (in a petition), (at least) two US ambassadors, and the EU ambassador. Before Biden threatened to withhold aid, EU had threatened to withhold $1.2B.
Jun 14, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
Thunder. I'm surrounded. Image
Mar 27, 2023 15 tweets 3 min read
Understanding the literal meaning of the Second Amendment, as the framers intended it: This diagram is based on not only research on how these terms were used in that day, but also in the debates of that era about the issues where these terms came up.
Mar 27, 2023 12 tweets 3 min read
So why does "justthenews" update an old bullshit Durham story from last April (btw website ONLY shows updated dates on stories)? And why does Solomon tweet about it? And the quote tweets here are the tip of the iceberg. Claims that Nashville shooting was done by Dems is all over the craziest parts of right-wing twitter right now.

What was missing? They desperately needed something that Dems would want to distract FROM.
Mar 22, 2023 11 tweets 3 min read
So when historians review this era, I hope they notice that the Free Beacon successfully duped everybody into thinking they definitely didn't fund the Steele dossier.

Everybody accepts as fact that the Free Beacon stopped paying Fusion GPS before the the Democrats started. Image Some even accept the claim that the Washington Free Beacon made that none of the materials from their research ended up in the Steele dossier (despite the obvious reality that the publicly sourced info they researched would absolutely be the basis of any later, deeper research).
Mar 10, 2023 29 tweets 5 min read
Releasing internal corporate docs is not a middle-management decision. Image Especially if they contain private user information, where the handling of that information is covered by a consent decree from the Federal Trade Commission.