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11 months

NEW: Over the past few months, hosts at the Daily Wire have called for a massive expansion of state violence to be directed against their enemies: more capital punishment, police raids, prisons, and bans on LGBTQ culture & health services. Me at @mmfa

The Daily Wire’s authoritarian vision for increasing state-sanctioned violence against oppressed...

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7 years

Trump: There are good folks at Nazi rallies Everyone: WTF? *4 weeks pass* NYT & WaPo: Trump is a pragmatic independent looking for wins

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6 months

Journalistic malpractice at every level

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8 months

The crew at @mmfa watched 258 PragerU Kids videos. The content is even worse than you think. The dominant themes are denying climate change, celebrating capitalist exploitation (& demonizing socialism), and distorting the histories of Black & indigenous people in the US. Thread:

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4 years

Fuck it, I’ll say it: my class interests supersede the fight for universal healthcare

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Fuck it, I’ll say it: I prefer Biden to Bernie.

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9 months

NEW: Florida just approved PragerU Kids’ right-wing propaganda videos for use in public school classrooms. There's copaganda, celebrations of colonialism, and more. Follow along for some lessons DeSantis et al are foisting on students. Me at @mmfa

The lessons Florida public school students will learn from PragerU Kids

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5 years

One of the many reasons to directly antagonize Trump is that contrary to popular imagination he doesn't like confrontations. He is an insecure coward who seeks to please whoever is in front of him.

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JUST IN: Trump tells reporters he disagrees with the "Send Her Back" chant. "I was not happy with it - I disagree with it," he said, per pooler @djusatoday .

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6 months

The massive Palestine solidarity rally at Grand Central has spilled out onto 42nd & Vanderbilt

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@lawton_sophie @jacktwheatley In fact, Grant wrote in his memoir that Lee’s cause was “one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.”

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2 years

AOC proposed impeaching justices who lied under oath. The right - led by Murdoch-owned outlets - freaked out. They are terrified of any reduction in SCOTUS' power, signaling how central the Court is to their larger reactionary project. Me, at @mmfa

The right is freaking out because AOC is calling for limits on SCOTUS’ power

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7 years

"No ban! No registry! Fuck white supremacy!" At JFK terminal 4.

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4 years

I wrote about the long, symbiotic relationship between law enforcement and racist vigilante organizations. The degree of overlap, which is virtually unbroken from the end of the Civil War to the present, is astonishing.

Police and Racist Vigilantes: Even Worse Than You Think

Is Trump a fascist? You should ask the same question of your local police.

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9 months

The overriding theme of PragerU Kids is that schools have made white children feel uncomfortable by teaching them about forms of oppression, and that that anxiety must be alleviated by alternately burying and sanitizing the past

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@lawton_sophie @jacktwheatley Here’s U.S. Grant talking about Robert E Lee’s surrender, saying “We were just caught on the opposite side of things.”

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8 months

@lawton_sophie @jacktwheatley We all hope that journalists covering PragerU’s expansion into public schools (FL and now OK) find this research useful in informing the public about what’s contained in these videos. It's right-wing propaganda with bad-to-nonexistent scholarship. Trust us – we watched it all.

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5 years

Said it before and I'll say it again: The NYT coverage of the left is unspeakably stupid.

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8 months

@lawton_sophie @jacktwheatley Here’s Lincoln preparing his 2nd inaugural, saying he’s “very disappointed in the Confederacy” but that “yelling and scolding the South for the harm they caused” is “not going to get me or the nation anywhere.” Layla adds that it would “probably end up pushing them further away.”

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9 months

Another has a fictional Booker T. Washington telling two children: “Future generations are never responsible for sins of the past” One responds that she "won’t feel guilty about historical stuff"

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1 year

The Taibbi thread is a great example of overwriting when you don’t have the goods but you don’t want to admit you’re just doing pr for the world’s richest person

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9 months

The goal is to render history and its inheritances invisible, inert, and incapable of inspiring young people to seek a more equal and more just world. There’s lots more in the piece. And PragerU is trying to expand to more states as we speak. /END

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5 years

The NYT coverage of the left is unspeakably stupid

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8 months

The piece was written & researched by @lawton_sophie , Jacina Hollins-Borges, @jacktwheatley , & me.

Research file: We watched every PragerU Kids video. Here are the lowlights.

A cartoon Booker T. Washington distorting the history of the Civil War. A narrator explaining that embracing climate denialism is akin to participating in the Warsaw Uprising. An instructional video...

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The kids later travel to meet Christopher Columbus, who tells them: “The place I discovered was beautiful, but it wasn’t exactly a paradise of civilization, and the native people were far from peaceful”

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9 months

One video tells the viewer that embracing climate denialism is akin to participating in the Warsaw Uprising

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There is a noticeable vibe shift in the way centrist libs are talking about Israel, but I can't help but have flashbacks to the summer of 2020 when the same crowd (briefly) pretended to care about racist policing

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1 year

The Maricopa Board of Supervisors is currently hearing public comments about the Arizona 2022 election in a meeting dominated by conspiracy theorists. Here's a sampling of what they're dealing with.

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8 months

@lawton_sophie @jacktwheatley There’s too much anti-communism / red scare material to cover, but suffice it to say that PragerU finds much to praise of Czar Nicholas II, with the caveat that he was insufficiently neoliberal.

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4 years

It’s so funny that people are like “riots don’t work” and Minneapolis burned down a police station and the city council was like “you’re right let’s abolish the police”

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9 months

You'll never guess PragerU Kids' take on Canada's government-funded healthcare system

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7 years

Banner drop at JFK terminal 4.

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Lost amid the justifiable outrage provoked by NBC/MSNBC hiring Ronna McDaniel is that MS's flagship Morning Joe has been cheerleading Israel's genocidal military campaign from the start. This morning, the ADL's Greenblatt compared a keffiyeh to a swastika (via @noah_dowe )

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@lawton_sophie @jacktwheatley In “How To Think Objectively,” the hosts say of climate change: “If someone tells you that the world is going to end in 12 years because of global warming…get other opinions on the matter and look at the data for yourself.”

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5 months

This "news analysis" from the NYT is one of the most openly propagandist things they've published in years. Truly shameful.

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7 years

Trump runs in 2020 as neo-Nazi Left: confront this Liberals: appeal to the suburbs GOP: ...this could work? Media: Trump is independent wow

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8 months

@lawton_sophie @jacktwheatley You can find more examples and my original blog here

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9 months

NEW: Florida just approved PragerU Kids’ right-wing propaganda videos for use in public school classrooms. There's copaganda, celebrations of colonialism, and more. Follow along for some lessons DeSantis et al are foisting on students. Me at @mmfa

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7 years

"Racists out! Refugees in!" At JFK Terminal 4

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4 years

Whatever the longterm ramifications of cop slowdowns, blue flu, etc, it would be a huge net benefit if people started thinking about police as political actors pursuing their own interests, rather than as dispassionate public servants

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#BREAKING Rochester Police Chief La’Ron Singletary says he’s retiring. Letter below- @13WHAM

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I don't think we've all grasped how bad it is that liberal mayors are normalizing the use of discretionary, selectively enforced curfews to criminalize anti-racist protest

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2 years

It's not just marriage equality and contraception rights. After Roe, conservatives are renewing their interest in a long-simmering issue: repealing no-fault divorce laws. Me, at @mmfa

After Roe, conservatives set their sights on ending no-fault divorce laws

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6 months

Activists in the lobby of the New York Times building read out the names of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October 7, demanding a ceasefire and criticizing the Times’ coverage

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3 years

Watching Biden and Pelosi and just hoping upon hope that a crumbling liberal order is up to the task of defeating fascism, as I studiously avoid reading any history of any kind

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1 year

NEW: Mainstream outlets treated Eric Adams' win as a bellwether event signaling doom for the left. Many of the same outlets covered Brandon Johnson's victory as a narrower local or regional story. Me at @mmfa

Mainstream outlets treated Eric Adams’ mayoral win as a national trend signaling the left’s demise....

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NEW: Gov Ron DeSantis has appointed anti-civil rights activist Chris Rufo to the board of directors at the New College of Florida. Rufo's presence doesn't bode well for the school's LGBTQ population, or for the future of education in FL. Me, at @mmfa

DeSantis appoints anti-civil rights activist Chris Rufo to New College of Florida Board of Trustees

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9 months

Thanks to @lawton_sophie & @jacktwheatley for the help watching and documenting all those (and many more) videos

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View from parking garage 3rd level at JFK terminal 4

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Sofia Syed, a volunteer attorney with @RefugeeAssist , drafts a habeas petition on behalf of those being held at JFK.

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NYT has a new puff piece about women in the IDF that contains all the tropes of the sub-genre. Gaza is a "dark wasteland" that exists primarily for female soldiers to prove themselves, all while avoiding civilian casualties and lamenting the destruction of homes

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1 year

NEW: It's not your imagination. Right-wing pundits are increasingly open about who they want to see get killed. They cheered on DeSantis' expansion of the death penalty and celebrated the death of Jordan Neely, among other vigilante acts. Me at @mmfa

Conservative pundits are increasingly open about who they think should be killed

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NEW: Anatomy of a smear campaign: How right-wing media neutralized a Pentagon effort to address white supremacy in the military. Conservatives targeted the DoD official in charge for months, ultimately sidelining his working group. Me at @mmfa

Anatomy of a smear campaign: How right-wing media neutralized a Pentagon effort to address white...

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8 months

Here's my story and thread about the lessons that PragerU Kids teaches students. It's pure right-wing propaganda, that even founder Dennis Prager admits is designed to "indoctrinate kids."

Superintendent Ryan Walters

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I'm excited to announce this initiative with PragerU Kids today. These additional resources will help ensure quality instruction in American history and values, and will enrich educational opportunities for our students

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4 years

As a final thought: it's good that liberals are starting to recognize fascistic elements of the Trump administration. But any discussion of fascism in the US must place law enforcement firmly in the center alongside the conservative movement.

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Went to three pharmacies to ask about at-home rapid tests and they looked at me like I asked if they were handing out free money today

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1 year

NEW: The LA Times wrote a glowing profile of Bill Melugin, Fox News' southern border reporter, that completely lets him off the hook for his role in the network's racist, anti-migrant coverage. Me, at @mmfa

LA Times’ sympathetic profile of Fox News’ Bill Melugin lets him off the hook for his role in the...

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You might remember Bill Melugin ( @BillFOXLA ) from incorrectly reporting that a Starbucks barista put a tampon in an LAPD officer's coffee. He's also Fox News' top guy at the border. Much of his reporting follows that pattern. My deep dive, for @mmfa

Bill Melugin is Fox News’ top anti-migrant reporter

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Lots of commentary on how anti-CRT is the new anti-PC, not nearly enough on how it's the newest iteration of anti-communism

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1 year

Right-wing podcaster and election denier Joe Oltmann, who is from Colorado, showed up today. He pushed conspiracy theories about Dominion voting machines, covid origins, and "gender fluidity."

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Also at the Maricopa County meeting, an election denier addressed the board of supervisors as "traitors," and accused the board of interfering in an election. She says that is a capital offense, punishable by death. (part 1)

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NEW: Beginning in 2017, the NYT started rehabilitating Bush torture memo author John Yoo into a Trump legal critic. The ed board in 2010 called him a "torture lawyer," but by with Trump's rise the paper memory-holed his history. Here's how: Me at @mmfa

How the New York Times rehabilitated John Yoo from “torture lawyer” to Trump legal critic

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2 years

Fox News and Rogan helped LibsOfTikTok get so big. Now the account is singling out Pride events to target, and fascist gangs are taking up the call

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A group of eight to 10 men believed to be associated with the proto-fascist street gang Proud Boys stormed a Drag Queen Story Hour. Days prior, Libs of TikTok had fearmongered about the event to the account’s 1.2 million followers.

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NEW: Last Wednesday, Fox News manufactured a terrorism panic after a car crashed at the NY-Canada border. They used this invented attack to demonize Muslims/Arabs/Palestinians. Here's a breakdown of how it happened. Me at @mmfa

Manufacturing fear: How Fox News invented a terrorist attack and used it to demonize Muslims

Fox News falsely reported last Wednesday that a car accident at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara, New York, was an act of terrorism. Much of the network’s coverage was based on reporting from correspo...

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Tim Pool responded to the Club Q shooting by repeatedly using the "groomer" slur against LGBTQ people, arguing that these communities are putting children at risk. He called for police to shut down all-ages drag events. He blamed the victims. Me at @mmfa

Tim Pool responds to Club Q shooting by using “groomer” slur, accusing LGBTQ communities of harming...

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7 years

Mike Pence cannot believe his fucking luck.

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5 years

One of the effects of the dumb trump years is people don’t realize that the nyt will be a major chalkenge to implementing universal healthcare & addressing climate change

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7 years

This thread is incredible

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I'm outside @ICEgov office in Phoenix, where protesters have surrounded a van taking Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos to Mexico.

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David Clements, a member of the public, refers to himself as a "slave -- that's what I am to this system." Calls the board "vote traffickers, criminals." "We're not here to be civil."

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1 year

NEW: Stale jokes and empty seats as CPAC falters on its first day. At this point the conference is held together with Trump merch and anti-trans bigotry. It's incredibly boring but the speakers and attendees here are still dangerous. Me for @mmfa

Stale jokes and empty seats as CPAC falters on its first day

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8 years

Gotta say "lock-box" as a Gore gaffe is pretty mild in retrospect

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1 year

She goes on to read the JFK quote: those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution necessary.

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NEW: NBC News hires Ronna McDaniel, who played a key role in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to NBC News. Me at @mmfa

NBC News hires Ronna McDaniel, who played a key role in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020...

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1 year

Real America's Voice correspondent Ben Bergquam says: "if this election is certified, the only parties that will benefit from this are the cartels."

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In light of these comments -- and others like them that are becoming more common in mainstream reporting and punditry -- here are a few things to keep in mind.

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Biden doesn't have confidence in the Gaza death toll: "I have no notion if Palestinians are telling the truth...I'm sure innocents have been killed & it is the price of waging war..Israel should be incredibly careful to ensure they're going after the folks propagating this war."

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Powerful piece on rampant NYPD violence across 15 neighborhoods in the early days of the Floyd/Taylor protests. 64 videos, including one of mine.

N.Y.P.D. Says It Used Restraint During Protests. Here’s What the Videos Show. (Published 2020)

Police officials say there were “isolated cases” of inappropriate force. But 64 videos show many attacks on protesters that appear unwarranted.

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This is something Kristian Williams writes about. Police develop from being tools of planter class & industry barons, to tools of political machines, to tools of bourgeois capital, to finally (through cop unions) becoming their own political force acting in their own interests

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My question: Is this a police department that believes meaningful reform of their practices is imminent, or one that believes no one will ever touch them?

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The right is pushing for vigilantism against trans people & drag queens. I traced calls for action from Tucker, MTG, LOTT, and others, to ensuing physical confrontations, threats, and intimidation we’ve seen the last few months. (Massive CW) Me, at @mmfa

Right-wing media are pushing for vigilantism against trans people and drag queens. Fascists are...

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On Bannon's podcast, he just said that if there's going to be a federal police force it has to rebuilt from the ground up. So if there are any lefties still harboring delusions that you can work with the right on this, only if you want an FBI reimagined by Bannon et al

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We're in the middle of a wave of cop riots overseen by liberal mayors and the Democratic Party is pretending they support civil disobedience lol

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Something strange is happening at the NYT in the way it reports the number of Palestinians Israel's military offensive has killed in Gaza. In short, they've repeatedly used numbers lower than other outlets and apparently haven't updated their count since at least Dec 21. Thread

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I’m no fancy psychoanalyst or nothing, but seems to me that the conservative need to be simultaneously victim and victimizer creates a contradiction that can’t be resolved. Attack, declare punishment unjust, use punishment as pretext for next attack, repeat

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NEW: Steve Bannon promoted alleged fraud schemes orchestrated by his longtime associate Miles Guo, aka Ho Wan Kwok. Guo's indictment was unsealed today, which included his role in an apparently fraudulent cryptocurrency & media property scams Me at @mmfa

Steve Bannon promoted alleged fraud schemes orchestrated by his longtime associate Miles Guo

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Was going fast and had to step away. Clements isn't simply a member of the public, he's a prominent election denier who has appeared on Bannon's War Room podcast

Steve Bannon’s inner circle is disseminating “data” to his followers to push for election “audits”...

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There's a Mr Show sketch about a roller coaster that keeps predictably killing people but the theme park continues to run it and attendance continues unbroken. Everyone keeps asking why god would let this happen. I think about that sketch probably once an hour these days.

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Hmmm, I'm searching for a metaphor about how police power acts symbiotically with "right populism" by extending the prerogative of lethal force use to non-state actors who have nonetheless been deputized by the state to maintain and reproduce existing social hierarchies but

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Herschel Walker’s campaign intends to flash that badge a lot more — and will hand out 1,000 plastic versions at campaign events, @MarcACaputo reports: via @nbcnews

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Liberals forced to confront fascism devolve into *total incoherence* immediately

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Tammy Baldwin: "The vandalism, armed militia, gun violence and fatal shootings in Kenosha are not advancing the cause of racial justice in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake."

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Biden using the term “an illegal” to describe a human being and then pivoting to criticize Trump (correctly, obviously) for demonizing immigrants is really grim shit

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Massive turnout already at Washington Square Park for CAIR-led protest against Trump's de facto Muslim ban

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Everyday NYPD officers have arrested me, pepper sprayed me, hit me with batons, driven me around in a pitch black transport van while violently starting & stopping, insulted me, and threatened me with additional jail time if I didn't provide biometric data I wasn't required to

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"This is my challenge to all of you in the media: Go talk to everyday officers," @BilldeBlasio says. To facilitate this, he could remove the prohibition on police officers speaking to the media.

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NEW: Lots of talk about how bad Tuesday was for Trump. But this cycle was also awful for Steve Bannon. The man's candidates lost up and down the ticket, across the country. Even with AZ up in the air, there is a clear takeaway: Bannon lost. Me at @mmfa

Steve Bannon lost

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NEW: Fox News is pushing for a massive increase in the fees it charges cable providers. If it gets $3 per subscriber, reportedly the current ask, the network would pull in about $1.8B from affiliate revenue alone. Me and @peltzmadeline at @mmfa

Fox News wants a massive increase in its cable fees — which will be paid for by all cable subscri...

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NEW: Mainstream outlets are ignoring Christian nationalism's role in a looming effort to gut the federal civil service (Schedule F). Russ Vought is at the center of a push to pack agencies w an "army" of activists w a "Biblical worldview." Me for @mmfa

Mainstream media outlets are ignoring the Christian nationalism behind the push to destroy the...

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7 years

Inside the huge JFK airport protest over Trump's Muslim ban. Me on yesterday's action, for @RollingStone

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johnknefel

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4 years

This news cycle is a good illustration of how and why white terrorism is, and has always been, necessary in maintaining the US's racial caste system.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

"If you don't allow police to do their job, then the American people have to defend themselves some way" -- Trump campaign spox Hogan Gidley defends the vigilantism of Kyle Rittenhouse, who has been charged with first-degree murder

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johnknefel

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3 years

One of the most important speeches made in Congress in living memory

People for Bernie

@People4Bernie

3 years

. @RashidaTlaib 's full House floor speech tonight.

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This very good piece gets at something I've been thinking about, which is that for as much as Israel is discussed as an anachronism - a 19th-century settler colony in the present - it's also a grim vision of the future. Both a relic and a blueprint.

dylan saba

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I wrote about the bad immigration bill as a sign that the Gaza war is more likely to be a defining conflict of the 21st century than a hangover from the 20th

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And here's how an official Kari Lake campaign account responded to Maricopa certifying the results

Kari Lake War Room

@KariLakeWarRoom

1 year

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors believe that they don't answer to anybody. In the face of overwhelming proof of voter disenfranchisement they pat themselves on the back and certify it anyway. This is a rogue agency that must be brought to heel. This is far from over.

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Worth noting that Crowder (and many others in right-wing media) have long opposed no-fault divorce, and doubled down after Roe was overturned

After Roe, conservatives set their sights on ending no-fault divorce laws

www.mediamatters.org

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@johnknefel

2 years

They're being increasingly open about how the anti-Roe campaign should be a template for repealing no-fault

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johnknefel

@johnknefel

6 years

Woke capitalism is exhausting

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@johnknefel

2 years

The goal is to staff the entire federal bureaucracy with far right Christian nationalists. People with a "Biblical worldview." Vought is pretty open about it, and after our story ran he embraced Christian nationalism even more overtly.

The Center for Renewing America is preparing for the next Republican administration to govern as...

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johnknefel

@johnknefel

6 years

My favorite memory of Bloomberg celebrating democracy was when he oversaw a midnight, paramilitary-style raid on peaceful activists protesting wealth inequality that he personally embodies. The pepper spray and baton-beatings were especially civic-minded

Brian Stelter

@brianstelter

6 years

Bloomberg: "The greatest threat to American democracy isn't communism, jihadism, or any other external force or foreign power. It's our own willingness to tolerate dishonesty in service of party, and in pursuit of power."

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