Jacobtldr Categories Politics
This is one of the starkest and clearest misinformation paths I've seen lately. And I can't stress this enough, this path is VERY well-known among misinformation reporters & researchers.
It started with tweets from folks like Pam Bondi & Rudy Giuliani that Real Clear Politics had "rescinded" its call that PA went to Biden. That was picked up and repeated verbally in a YouTube video. Then the YouTube video was shared in private FB groups
The YouTube video! Is on a verified account! Running ADS! And it gained nearly 900,000 views in just 12 hours, largely because of shares on Facebook. YT says this doesn't violate its rules 𤯠https://t.co/04METfLeOq

MEANWHILE ON FACEBOOKâa CrowdTangle search shows most of this activity is in PRIVATE FB groups, beyond what researchers and journalists can see.
Only 2.5 percent of FB activityâlikes, shares, commentsâis visible on public FB. I truly am *losing my mind* https://t.co/04METfLeOq

1/ How funding from powerful Religious Right org (with ties to the Trump admin) Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has gagged radical feminist orgn Women's Liberation Front (WoLF).
— Feminists Open Your Eyes (@LeftwingGc) October 9, 2020
About ADF: https://t.co/Js8RobOOau
& https://t.co/tYj8ilxbpZ
About WoLF: https://t.co/Sdeg0dfZYH
(2/6) I'm a lifelong liberal Democrat. I want to believe those who say that American feminists don't need alliances with the right, but the evidence so far doesn't support it.
We are losing on every front. Every court case that transactivists bring takes another chunk outâĄď¸
(3/6) of women's sex-based protections & girls' futures.
With the ACLU on their side and the Democrats having gone so far left that they've traveled up the other side of the ideological horseshoe w/o realizing it, we're as outgunned as a kid waving a water pistol at a tank.âĄď¸
(4/6) If there's a plan to get back what we've lost and reverse the tide while holding fast to our leftwing status, I want to hear it. But I haven't.
And what I do hear sounds awfully familiar: I've seen most of it over the last couple of years from certain British academicâĄď¸
(5/6) feminists - women who have, not entirely without cause, been accused of snobbery and purity politics by many of the people who worked to bring about the recent string of UK successes against gender extremism.
Radical feminists in the US are a scattered group, dwindlingâĄď¸
Senator Kamala Harris criticized Trump during the #VPDebate for reportedly paying $750 a year in federal income taxes https://t.co/IEKEJGmhsW pic.twitter.com/HhEwKOqZqw
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 8, 2020
This is what Pennyworth in Dark Knight says: "Some guys just want to watch the world burn." There is an empty place in them, where other people have dignity. In order to make this place less itchy, they want to burn down all the different civilizations and people.
3/3 This is the "Dark Arousal" I describe in my second book "Feed the Demons": As a fallen angel, you need to make the Earth to hell. This is the only way how to get back your dignity. Money is just the upper layer. We deeply misunderstood #Russia. @MagdaVasaryova @anneapplebaum
Compile please
Illinois has no place to go. Sad, isn\u2019t it? Vote Trump!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 12, 2020
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— The Wieners Circle (@TheWienerCircle) July 23, 2020
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Interesting: Biden's first speech as president-elect was written by Jon Meachem, the historian who also coined the "soul of America" message Biden has deployed.
— Gabe Fleisher (@WakeUp2Politics) November 9, 2020
Shades of presidential historian-turned-adviser Arthur Schlesinger, as @anniekarni notes. https://t.co/bPtJksr42h
Meacham would also follow an even richer history of former journalists writing for presidents. Raymond Moley wrote for FDR even as he edited the magazine that became Newsweek (which Meacham himself later led). 2/
FDR's call for "bold persistent experimentation" came from a reporter's writing a speech for him in 1932 basically on a dare. 3/
Emmet Hughes helped Eisenhower while still a Time/Life employee. 4/
Ray Price and Pat Buchanan both came from newspaper backgrounds, as editorial writers. 5/
As long as that is true, it's fine.
Cuomo's standard was neither consistent nor scientific. That is a clear first amendment violation.
Conservatives are crowing over this as an own the libs moment, denying that many who support public health restrictions are people of faith. This broke long standing precedent, so don't at me with your calls for originalism etc. This is just know-nothing politics by other means. https://t.co/KLeiKlp6p7
— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) November 26, 2020
Gorsuch is SCIENTIFICALLY RIGHT HERE.
If people can't admit that, then they are allowing their biases to
Neil Gorsuch goes off on @NYGovCuomo in the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling blocking his Covid restrictions for religious services. https://t.co/HOKmgsUAKg pic.twitter.com/dcl7o5irDd
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) November 26, 2020
This on the other hand is 100% BS.
Not a single scientist I know supports this double standard. The best ones know that the type ofvenue is irrelevant... Only the size and # of people
Sonia Sotomayor dissents: \u201cJustices of this Court play a deadly game in second guessing the expert judgment of health officials about the environments in which a contagious virus, now infecting a million Americans each week, spreads most easily.\u201d https://t.co/HOKmgtcc8Q
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) November 26, 2020
In short, it is the LEFT here using religious bias to promote an antiscientific standard and allowing the State to violate Rights.
The Liberals and CJJR should be ashamed.
Another good thread here.
A consistent standard would have passed constitutional muster.
Last night, SCOTUS issued injunctive relief to houses of worship challenging NYC\u2019s COVID-19 restrictions, the first time it has granted such relief during the pandemic. I have mixed views about the decision and early reactions to it.
— John Inazu (@JohnInazu) November 26, 2020