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Not just rhetoric, but actions that put lives of Members of Congress and Senators at increased risk.
Thread collecting these reports.
1/ Val Demings - "there was some inside
Rep. Val Demings has just confirmed to @CNN that she believes "there was some inside assistance" for the Capitol rioters.
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) January 13, 2021
2/ Ayanna Pressley's Chief of Staff - Staff noticed all of the panic buttons in Pressley's office were torn out BEFORE the attack while they were barricading the room.
According to Ayanna Pressley\u2019s chief of staff Sarah Groh, the panic buttons in the Congresswoman\u2019s office were all \u201ctorn out\u2014the whole unit.\u201d
— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) January 13, 2021
They don\u2019t know why or who did it. https://t.co/MLhxhi7nUp pic.twitter.com/l7wgoHOJKN
As background to tweets I am about to post, you should read this article carefully. I ask that you read each of my tweets carefully & decide if the information conveyed demands that Patriots rise up so that every lie will be revealed.@realDonaldTrumphttps://t.co/9KIX4DEtha
— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) January 4, 2021
People asking why I\u2019ve been so quiet. Well it\u2019s because Qanon and the entire MAGA movement was a grift. I\u2019m disgusted at how the CYA Conservatives/GOP has left 75,000,000 voters hanging out to dry. I\u2019m done with politics & I never trusted either party. So long Patriots! #Truthdom pic.twitter.com/IUhxAldMtC
— The Tweet Sniper\U0001f4a5 (@IWashington) January 11, 2021
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My latest for
"The BBC needs a chairman committed to demolishing its institutional groupthink. . . . . . .it isn't going to get one, thanks solely to the timidity & duplicity of Johnson and his flaccid government"
As pretty much confirmed by @Madz_Grant's perceptive sketch of the new BBC chairman's not so much grilling as gentle warming by an unthreatening DCMS Select
"He fluently deployed trendy corporate jargon and phrases like 'matrix of diversity'. The licence fee, he added, was the 'least-worst' model, although 'when we next get a chance to review ... it may be worth reassessing'."
Doesn't exactly suggest a radical reformer, does it?
Already clear from Maitlis' continued blatant editorialising, despite new #BBC CEO's instruction to curb it, that Davie's executive writ barely runs to his own office door.
Sadly, BBC's new chairman looks unlikely to change that.
#DefundTheBBC
ICYMI: \u201cThere are millions of Americans who are very worried one man can create a lie so huge that his supporters believe in him over the principle of democracy."@maitis pushes Tea Party Movement co-founder @michaeljohns over his belief the election was "stolen"#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/SENIYKdbsd
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) January 14, 2021
2/ Here are some additional images of #BullhornLady that we’ve pulled from various videos taken during the Jan. 6 insurrection:
3/ This video from outside the Capitol looks to be taken before she acquired the bullhorn. At around 1:50 in the clip, you can see her spryly climb up and into a recently shattered window.
https://t.co/gVt9FdVb80
4/ It’s possible that this early entry into the building is where she got the lay of the land that she would later use when shouting instructions to those inside the building.
5/ In this short clip, you can see a woman that appears to be #BullhornLady approaching the shattered window on the left and being handed the bullhorn:
BREAKING: HEATHROW VERDICT
— Plan B Earth (@PlanB_earth) December 15, 2020
I am breaking the court embargo on Heathrow to protest against the injustice of the verdict, which is a betrayal of the younger generation and those on the frontline of the crisis in the UK and around the world:https://t.co/R0nx4RazXF
We've seen exactly the same from MPs of a certain colour regarding the expansion of Southampton Airport runway. Our own MP even claimed it was necessary to support British Airways families. AFAIK there are no BA families here: Literally throwing constituents under the (air)bus.
It's worth reading this debate in Hansard to see what is going on.
Want to see a textbook example of churnalism?
Here is a press release from the local business lobbying organisation of which the airport is a member: https://t.co/UGUssnUyj7
Here is the same thing reheated in the local press with a reporter's name on it:
Here we go...
Supreme Court lifts ban on Heathrow third runway https://t.co/NdCdPnn8Cf
— BBC Business (@BBCBusiness) December 16, 2020
2) Today the WH issued a proclamation of commemoration of the 850th anniversary of the death of St. Thomas Beckett.
3) It's quite a document. "Becket’s death serves as a powerful and timeless reminder to every American that our freedom from religious persecution is not a mere luxury or accident of history, but rather an essential element of our liberty...bought with the blood of martyrs."
4) I am reasonably sure that Donald Trump is not a Peter O'Toole fan; and while he and T.S. Eliot would have gotten along in their fascism and antisemitism, I doubt he's read that either. And we can't always just say STEPHEN MILLER! ... can we?
5) Then there was the appointment of Milo's medievalist to a board that oversees cultural exchange and is tasked with stopping illicit artifact trade. Which is an important board but also a weird position.
Of fuck no. pic.twitter.com/VTyLMsYfqI
— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) December 23, 2020
Let’s take a look at a couple of them and shiver at their
Amazigh (Berber) languages are quite close to each other and in most places nearby varieties are mutually intelligible. They function like a discontinuous dialect continuum.
— Maarten Kossmann (@ait_kisou) January 12, 2021
A loooong thread with maps (and no memes\u2639\ufe0f).
(1) The 2SG subject marker on the verb.
GREEN: -d
YELLOW -t (possibly a development from -d)
ReRED: -ḍ / -ṭ
There is no regular phonetic correspondence of -d to -ḍ.
(2) In most varieties *β became (or remained?) /b/ in pre-consonantal position (GREEN). In a number of varieties, this didn’t happen (RED).
(3) The Imperative M:PL suffix is -at in western Morocco AND in Awjila (Libya) (RED). It is -ət / -ăt elsewhere (GREEN). The yellow part has different suffixes.
(4) The pharyngealized (“emphatic”) non-geminated alveolar is [dˁ] (or [ðˁ]) in most of Amazigh (GREEN), but in a scattered number of varieties, it is [tˁ] (RED).