What’s interesting about reactionaries’ otherwise-tedious habit of blaming others for their politics is the implicit admission that their politics are blameworthy
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
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.
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
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
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
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’
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
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”.
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
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
NEW: The GOP-aligned North Idaho Pachyderms club hosted a speech by Antisemite and White Nationalist propagandist Vincent James Foxx earlier this month
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!
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
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?
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
NEW at
@Hatewatch
- members of The Base and the Bowl Patrol were named on a DHS air travel watchlist *before* their identities were publicly revealed by researchers and reporters
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.
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
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
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
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
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”
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.
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 .
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
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.
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
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.
@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?
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
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
“Twitter should be easy to use, but no more relentless free advertising of competitors. No traditional publisher allows this and neither will Twitter.”
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
NEW at
@Hatewatch
: Nick Fuentes caught misleading listeners about his new live-streaming pad. ALSO details of apparent parental support for his propaganda enterprise. Reporting from
@jeff_tischauser
and me
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
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
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
NEW: white nationalist fugitive Robert "Azzmador" Ray - who owes $500k to Sines vs Kessler plaintiffs - is raking in thousands a month on video platform Odysee
You have to read this new
@CreedeNewton
piece - it exposes the chummy texts between MPD Lt. Shane Lamond and Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, which included intelligence on "antifa" activists
@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?
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
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 🤔
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
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