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Investigative reporter covering far right extremism and bad vibes mostly for @guardian jason.a.wilson @protonmail .com @jasonwilson @mastodon .online

Pacific Northwest, USA
Joined March 2007
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jason wilson
2 years
What’s interesting about reactionaries’ otherwise-tedious habit of blaming others for their politics is the implicit admission that their politics are blameworthy
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@bentarnoff It's simply a function of being around this generation of puritan leftists. They'll turn any sane person into a reactionary.
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lol has every one of these guys been to this nazi buff’s mansion
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1 year
Here’s what Biden posted *last Friday*
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Absolutely no reason for the Biden admin to do this. It is indefensible and embarrassing. The admin can still walk this back, and they should. It’s a disgrace
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2 years
Tragic: the gathering
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1 year
A really good exercise for journalists is to imagine explaining their reporting decisions to a judge and/or jury
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Alex 🏳️‍⚧️
1 year
I have reinstalled Twitter to respond to this story and make sure my voice is fully heard. I am Casey. My real name is Alex but my mom decided it would be best to hide it for anonymity. But this is my story, not hers. This is not the free press’s story.
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NBC has suspended @oneunderscore__ from on-air reporting on Twitter. In doing so, management have sided with the censors, undermined their reporters, and confirmed that they have learned nothing since 2015
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anyone who thinks this authentic should have their driver's license revoked
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1 year
NEW: I have identified the man behind white nationalist Agartha Publishing as a former Coast Guard, a former member of Identity Evropa, and, reportedly, a current USAF reservist
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I can’t believe that thing that happened a couple of years ago where people were selling .PNGs of monkeys for millions of dollars
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2 years
Absolutely brutal stuff
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Bill Ackman
8 months
I am sure all of us have had the experience of reading a story about a subject you know well and finding it replete with inaccuracies and falsehoods. One then turns the page and reads an article about a subject one knows less well and makes the mistake of believing that this
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1 year
New from me: DeSantis ally Chris Rufo hosted a Twitter space this week where right-wing guests discussed cooperating with extremists ‘to destroy the power of the left’
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“My beliefs are hideous and inhumane, but it’s your fault”
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new: I've IDed the man behind "New Right" Twitter pseudonym "Lomez" and Passage Press--publisher of Steve Sailer, Curtis Yarvin, and Nick Land.
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NEW: former industrialist Charles Haywood — who has speculated about his future as a “warlord” on his blog — is founder and sponsor of a secretive network of invitation-only fraternal lodges
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jason wilson
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Tom Kington
9 months
Elon Musk speaking in Rome: "You can’t depend on other countries for immigration... We have to maintain [the] reasonable cultural identity of countries or they simply won’t be those countries.” He added that “Italy is the people of Italy”.
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1 year
New from me: the American right loves talking about authoritarian “Caesarism” as a solution to the problems they imagine afflict the country - I asked wtaf
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jason wilson
2 years
This is the saddest imaginable shit
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jason wilson
1 year
(1) Rose City Antifa are not a defendant as the judge found they weren't a discrete common law entity (2) Harmeet Dhillon is not in court
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2 years
The speech, it’s so free
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I guess he's bringing free speech back just like he's going to mars and building a self-driving car
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This guy’s brain just can’t catch a break
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10 months
Imagine telling the CEO of the world's largest media company to go f himself the day before you launch the cringiest vehicle in auomotive history. You can't because you cannot afford that much blow
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I would not want to stand in a courtroom to explain why I ignored contrary material from a person who was the subject of my reporting. Could be construed as malicious!
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5 months
The ANZAC chatbot is whitewashing war crimes which is very much in the spirit of the holiday
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Proposing this as Generation X’s motto
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1 year
@IwriteOK That officer was perfectly cylindrical, bless him
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jason wilson
2 years
I want to echo Mike here - I have never seen anything from IGD that would merit suspension from this site. A new low for this incarnation of Twitter
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jason wilson
4 months
New from me: dozens of members of the Ammon Bundy-founded People's Rights Network ran for precinct level GOP positions in Oregon this week, and they have been coordinating their political activities for years on a radio network
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2 years
Keep dishing out likes to fascist street thugs and brain-poisoned transphobes buddy, I’m begging you
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2 years
Surely there will be a police report if this happened
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2 years
Couple of things on the substance of Taibbi's latest wet fart: I wonder why they chose this very specific time period for cataloging federal government requests to Twitter? What happened between Jan '17 and Jan '20 for example?
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9 months
New: Chris Rufo and others on the right platformed Jonatan Pallesen as an expert critic of Claudine Gay. Pallesen has co-authored papers with eugenicists, including one that has been subject to scathing scholarly criticism for its statistical methods
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jason wilson
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I'm no epidemiologist but I don't see a "massive rise" in communicable diseases in the last ten years of data from Clark County
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@JDVance
JD Vance
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In Springfield, Ohio, there has been a massive rise in communicable diseases, rent prices, car insurance rates, and crime. This is what happens when you drop 20,000 people into a small community. Kamala Harris's immigration policy aims to do this to every town in our country.
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New from me: Boise State professor Scott Yenor created far right media platform Action Idaho, got funding from Claremont board chair Thomas Klingenstein, and tried to recruit Pedro Gonzalez as the outlet’s EIC
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jason wilson
2 years
No successful internet company blatantly and openly welcomes previously banned fascists. Twitter is a legacy platform
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jason wilson
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@corybernardi @jeremycorbyn What the fuck is wrong with you, dipshit
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2 years
In a moment of weakness I bought some dumb expensive heirloom beans but I put them on with a hock before I went to the pub and now I’m back scarfing them from a ladle and they’re perfect, lesson is pay 8x the going rate for beans
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11 months
This is where the far right’s brains trust was just a couple of weeks back - openly planning to use the situation in Gaza to wedge their domestic enemies. I guess even they didn’t anticipate what has happened since and how it might affect public opinion
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jason wilson
2 years
My colleague @MichaelEHayden today published one of those surreal stories that people not on this beat might find hard to process: a white nationalist hate group bought a castle in small-town WV., now they're trying to muscle in on Xmas celebrations
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1 year
You’re overthinking it. Mehdi Hassan dramatized what others have been saying for a while: that no one in the “Twitter Files” custody chain knows what they are looking at, let alone talking about. A refusal to recognize that doesn’t create a “Rorschach test”
@lhfang
Lee Fang
1 year
The Twitter Files are kind of a perfect rorschach test for our polarized partisan times. There’s a conformist instinct to show your partisan loyalties by whining about the reporting because it came from journalists and a source outside the liberal mainstream.
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No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited Reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited .
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New from @awinston and I in @GuardianUS - under SBF, FTX allegedly funneled $4.9m to a Longtermist nonprofit that now owns a hotel in Berkeley with events featuring eugencists. FTX's trustees want the money back
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jason wilson
2 years
Look man: transphobe to transphobe? “Camp of the Saints” is extremely our shit
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jason wilson
1 year
Man this is just humiliating. Imagine being this compromised by a source relationship. I’d want to turn myself inside out.
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jason wilson
9 months
now what could possibly have caused this to happen
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jason wilson
10 months
Profoundly weird flex in context
@SecBlinken
Secretary Antony Blinken
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I joined human rights leaders for the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and in recognition of their courageous work. We know that when more people in more places have their rights respected, the world is more peaceful, more secure, more prosperous.
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2 years
This is wild - @internetarchive and @gdeltproject have made it possible to scroll through years of archived news broadcasts using sequential thumbnails where you can click through to short grabs of footage
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2 years
Am I crazy or is him very specifically attributing the outcomes of his own stupidity to judeobolshevism?
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jason wilson
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The use case for Twitter rn is facilitating an archive of people--real, identifiable people--cheering on ethnic cleansing in real time. I say facilitating because you'll need to use archivebox or a third party archiving site to ensure that the record is preserved.
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It’s not so long ago that condemning Neo-Nazis was the easiest thing you could ask any ambitious politician to do
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2 years
@SilvermanJacob I have no idea what this footage actually depicts, and I am not a lawyer, but this seems like a risky post for a CEO of several companies?
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1 year
Why the fuck is the army in the street is a question any citizen in any ostensible democracy should whenever the fucking army is in the street
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jason wilson
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Australians like to shit talk US political culture and they have some basis for that. But I don’t think that preventing publication of the name of a senior police officer who fled the site of an accident he caused while drunk driving would ever happen here
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jason wilson
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New from me: since Oct 7 an Israeli crowdfunding site has allowed US residents to make tax deductible donations to causes including IDF units and militias at illegal West Bank settlements
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jason wilson
2 years
This whole thread is wild but this tweet in particular is hilarious and terrifying
@williamlegate
Will LeGate
2 years
Elon just admited he's had to "intervene" and take over the Autopilot system on his own Tesla on a number of occasions. That… does not seem safe.
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jason wilson
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This is funny but remember that ipso facto no one on the Veritas board gives a hoot about ethics, this is 100% about liability
@theserfstv
The Serfs
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James O'Keefe has been removed as the CEO of Project Veritas
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this is the cover page of my business plan
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jason wilson
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“Traditional publishers” are legally liable for what gets published on their platform, be careful what you wish for
@bestofdyingtwit
Best of Dying Twiter
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“Twitter should be easy to use, but no more relentless free advertising of competitors. No traditional publisher allows this and neither will Twitter.”
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I have been cooking on induction burners for the last little while and I was so wrong for so long about them, they are incredible
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I’ve reported on reactionaries for a long time and there’s one thing I can’t understand, probably because it requires an empathy I can’t summon. How could an adult man’s sense of self worth be so precarious that this would bother him.
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jason wilson
2 years
This Gateway Pundit post by Anthony Harper of the Intermountain Christian News is such a hilariously detailed self-own that I’m wondering if his whole life is a bit
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jason wilson
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It seems from this thread that no reputable news org will be paying for Twitter Blue, nor will they be paying for their reporters to get checks. So from tomorrow blue checks will indicate sources of information you absolutely should not trust
@oliverdarcy
Oliver Darcy
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New: The New York Times says it is not planning to pay for Twitter verification: "We aren't planning to pay the monthly fee for verification of our institutional Twitter accounts," a spokesperson tells me.
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I’m gonna stick around because I’m ornery and I want to post links to my stories for people who are still here. But rules announced today seem to severely imperil real time reporting on this site, which has been one of its killer features
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jason wilson
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Namibia was not only the site of a German colonial genocide but was also subject to Apartheid as a possession of South Africa until its independence in 1990. It’s funny how people who have experienced apartheid are all on the same side of this question.
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Namibian Presidency
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Namibia rejects Germany’s Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza On Namibian soil, #Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most
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yeah i will definitely avoid borrowing $13 billion until things pick up again
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jason wilson
2 years
i dunno that car looks like it's traveling pretty slowly
@jillreports
Jill Bennett
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Hey @CityofVancouver ⁩ this is second incident I’ve seen caused by these useless ‘slow street’ barricades installed last month. They don’t slow down traffic; they cause crashes and traffic chaos.
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guys like this amaze me. you're talking about two billionaires--one of whom owns and apparently personally censors one of the biggest social media platforms on the planet---as if they're members of the French Resistance
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jason wilson
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hahahahahaha cmon
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jason wilson
2 years
This tweet is four hours old but most of these accounts are now suspended - free speech but not when it comes to already-public information about billionaires' ecocidal toys
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jason wilson
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The right-wing response to my story last week has been overwhelmingly... bemusing. Here's some OPSEC advice which is effectively useless because it's premised on a false conspiracy theory about how the story was reported. The second-last paragraph here is what really happened
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jason wilson
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If it did happen, obviously it’s awful, but it seems sub-optimal if Twitter’s moderation policy is going to be rewritten in real time in response to events in his life
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jason wilson
2 years
One dumb thing about this is that the whereabouts of his jet can be seen by anyone at any time on any number of flight tracking sites
@donie
Donie O'Sullivan
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It looks like @elonmusk has killed the account that was tracking the location of his jet (using publicly available information) @ElonJet
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jason wilson
2 years
None of this is happening. There was no mob. ADS-B transmissions are necessary for air safety, and are not personally identifying information.
@GrayConnolly
Gray Connolly
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@jason_a_w Do you think online mobs either tracking or trying to track their adversary in real time is a healthy development for the society? Plutocrats or not?
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Don’t share a screenshot of what you assume is a real tweet without skimming the relevant user’s timeline to see if you can find a matching tweet
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jason wilson
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I have no idea how much this mall security guard is earning given the level of bravery he exhibited in trying to eject bad actors while outnumbered, I’d wager it’s probably not enough
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jason wilson
2 years
Is this clown really presuming to lecture people about never doing any reporting?
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gd we need to ban AI immediately (I found this here )
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jason wilson
2 years
And if the “organizations” he plans to sue are sites publishing crowdsourced ADS-B data it’s not only a significant attack on free speech, but seemingly an attack on the provisions in the CDA that exempt online publishers from liability over what users post 🤔
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jason wilson
6 months
The Idaho Statesman editorial board has called on Boise State University to fire Scott Yenor on the basis of our reporting and recent stories in @TPM
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jason wilson
6 months
New from me: Boise State professor Scott Yenor created far right media platform Action Idaho, got funding from Claremont board chair Thomas Klingenstein, and tried to recruit Pedro Gonzalez as the outlet’s EIC
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3. Andy Ngo's case basically launched the Center for American Liberty, Dhillon's nonprofit. As I reported last month, that charity has since paid ~$1.3 million to Dhillon's law firm
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