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For years Rs have had Ds on defense, crying "socialist!" while hiding a radicalism so extreme it seeks to destroy democracy itself.
— Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer \U0001f4c8\U0001f52d\U0001f34c (@RachelBitecofer) January 11, 2021
That's why we're launching @StrikePac- its time to fight \U0001f525 with \U0001f525!
Strike back w STRIKE PAC
RT for democracy's sakehttps://t.co/xSVfNSqLNF https://t.co/O9q5mQXtE5
2. @MeidasTouch, @votevets & other "super pacs" which are essentially grassroots funded organizations that are making use of the "super pac" designation to electioneer. Organizing as a super pac actually affords groups a great deal of flexibility to perform pro-democracy work
3. so despite the "ewww, yuck!" factor of that designation, not all SP's are, in fact, evil entities (other than the fact that so many of you I wholly support a fully publicly funded system w very strict limits & honestly, a 30 day electioneering window per cycle which would
4. decimate a multi-billion $ industry BUT do a great deal of work to save our democracy & that type of system, by the way, is BY FAR, the norm among western democracies. Ours is literally the Wild West of electioneering systems and if there is 1 "fix all" reform that would have
5. the greatest & most immediate impact on pulling our democracy back from the precipice of our democracy it would be a fully publicly funded, tightly regulated election/campaigning system. We don't have one of those right now & if we ever want to reach the majorities that could
Hogan Gidley: Trump is "the most masculine person to ever hold the White House as the president of the United States" https://t.co/fcoYWyaEhz
— Eliza Relman (@eliza_relman) January 11, 2021
Or Teddy Roosevelt. Or Dwight Eisenhower. Or Andrew Jackson. Or Abraham Lincoln. Or George Washington. Or Zachary Taylor. Or any of numerous presidents who were honest-to-goodness battle-hardened warriors.
James Monroe fought the Hessians at Trenton and nearly died of wounds sustained there, then wintered in Valley Forge, then fought until Monmouth, then repeatedly tried to raise new regiments for the war until he went bankrupt doing it.
James Monroe, of the Era of Good Feelings, longest serving president of all time.... was in the boats crossing the icy Delaware.
Andrew Jackson was in a duel. He was shot in the chest right by his heart.
But he didn't go down. He stood there and, while bleeding out, steadily took aim and killed the dude who shot him.
Stone cold.
1.) HMX-1, which flies the VH-3D and VH-60N 'White Top' helicopters used to move... 1/X
Very noisy helicopters flying around Vice President\u2019s residence \u2014 what is going on? pic.twitter.com/XPs1A3px7m
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 11, 2021
the President and VP around, those helos being called Marine One or Two when either is onboard, need to train. The urban landing zones, including WH and VP Residence, are not simple to get in and out of. So, crews need some currency training. They are not just tasked with... 2/X
moving POTUS and VP to get them around the region and to Andrews AFB for long-haul flights, they are essential to Continuity of Government operations. This means that if a threat were to emerge, they need to be ready to snatch POTUS and VP in minutes. This is partially... 3/X
why they have a full forward operating location at Naval Support Activity Anacostia, just 3 miles from the WH. As such, practice is important and considering the state of things, it is critical now more than in any recent memory. 4/X
2.) Considering what happened last week, including mobs of Trump supporters screaming in unison to hang the VP for doing what the constitution states, absolutely despicable in every way, security has been tightened just as it has been all over. Using the helicopters instead.. 5/X
Inside: DC's security theater panned; Weaponing and monetizing apophenia; Awful voting-machine demands silence; Someone Comes to Town Part 27; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/CUFiNYTvuH
#Pluralistic
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DC's security theater panned: The curtain-call's gonna be BRUTAL.
https://t.co/7FO2EVuLin
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After the 9/11 attacks, airlines and public buildings adopted a flurry of "security" measures, like taking away pen-knives from fliers or requiring visitors to office buildings to be photographed or present a driver's license.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 11, 2021
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Weaponing and monetizing apophenia: 5G conspiracies have a business-model.
https://t.co/UYj54qjPrn
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In 2003's Pattern Recognition, @greatdismal discusses the role of "apophenia" - finding patterns where none exist - in paranoid thinking. We are a pattern-matching animal, prone to seeing faces in clouds and hearing speech in static.https://t.co/lKHfKbvzLN
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 11, 2021
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Awful voting-machine demands silence: ES&S; piggybacks censorship on Dominion's grievances.
https://t.co/8VQsjC5hHQ
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One of the great ironies of the "stop the steal" conspiratorial fraud and its focus on Dominion's voting machines is that voting machines are, in fact, flaming garbage.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 11, 2021
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Someone Comes to Town Part 27: My latest podcast installment.
https://t.co/YGWxhe6VxQ
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This week on my podcast: part 27 of my serialized reading of "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town," my 2006 novel that Gene Wolfe called "a glorious book unlike any book you\u2019ve ever read." It's my last podcast of 2020!https://t.co/AfW9wyix9A
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 11, 2021
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If you want to know what really went on with last week's DC Protests, look at the role of the FBI and federal informants involved in the event.
— Patrick Henningsen (@21WIRE) January 11, 2021
This is fundamental, especially regarding the visible presence of masked provocateurs
Watch as more information emerges.
If you don't get caught up in the noise of the media, you'll notice a few more things. The far-right Oath Keepers has been patrolling major cities with heavy weapons for weeks. They were present in numbers at the Capitol, but without weapons.

https://t.co/t7M1svIIMe

You find photos of the arrested vandals but strangely enough not of the one 70-year-old who allegedly had a truck full of weapons. And at least I couldn't find an image of that truck. But the old man was apparently very talkative to the police.

The most questionable aspect, however, is the FBI's search for a person who was apparently caught on a surveillance camera the previous night.
At that time, it was possible to predict a mass gathering, but not the riot.
