MovingTheTriangle @triangle_moving

Elon Musk's full speech at Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania today.

@RyanAFournier The big thing missing is to cut costs and balance the budget

The unilateral decision of Maine’s secretary of state to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot is insane, reckless, and indefensible. It’s another example of extraconstitutional decision-making that doesn’t come close to meeting any legitimate standard of due process of law.

Bet they don’t get multi year prison sentences

Collin Rugg @CollinRugg

3 years ago

JUST IN: The United States Capitol has been taken over inside and outside by pro-Palestine protesters as Rep. Rashida Tlaib spoke with a crowd nearby. Are we only allowed to call people like this insurrections when they are Donald Trump supporters? Police are now making x.com/CollinRugg/sta…

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Trump Charged With Stacey Abrams Syndrome by @galexybrane On Tuesday, Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith charged former president Donald J. Trump with three conspiracies related to the 2020 election and its aftermath: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct vote certification proceedings, and conspiracy to violate the civil right to vote and have one’s vote counted. Trump’s conspiracies, the indictment stated, “targeted a bedrock function of the United States federal government.” These charges all rest on the idea that Trump made “knowingly false” claims. But if Trump actually did believe the 2020 election was stolen, the accusation of a conspiracy to undermine democracy through illegal interference falls apart. Smith’s indictment, notably, does not provide any evidence that Trump’s allegations of election fraud were “knowingly false.” Smith simply states that Trump was “notified repeatedly that his claims were untrue.” Without reading Trump’s mind, it is impossible to know whether he believed his claims or not. The indictment does not accuse Trump of inciting the Capitol riot and yet Smith, in announcing his charges against Trump, discussed January 6. “The attack on our nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021,” he said, “was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.” Smith’s indictment cites Trump’s speech on January 6 as a feature of his effort to sow doubt about the election and allegedly organize a conspiracy to overturn it. But as Public has reported, there was more going on during the January 6 riot than Trump’s speech. Dozens of undercover agents and confidential human informants from multiple law enforcement agencies were present. Court documents indicate that there were FBI informants in two of the groups that organized the riot, the Proud Boys and the Oathkeepers. And as Public documented last month, the FBI has a long history of using confidential informants to entrap people who otherwise would not have committed a crime. At best, the riot was a massive security failure; at worst, informants may have encouraged rioters to enter the Capitol. While it is true that Trump lied before, during, and after the election, the Supreme Court has held that it is unconstitutional to prosecute politicians for lying. One need not be a Trump supporter to recognize the dangerous precedent that Smith is setting. Democrats who wish to question or challenge election results in the future should be cautious. Some might remember when Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams denied her own election defeat. “We had this little election back in 2018,” she said. “And despite the final tally and the inauguration and the situation we find ourselves in, I do have one very affirmative statement to make. We won.” Lest there be any doubt about this, Abrams said the election was “stolen” and that it was “not a free or fair election.” She told The New York Times, “I won.” She claimed Georgia’s election laws were “rigged.” Like Abrams’ claims, Trump’s false statements about the election were instances of political speech about a political event, and his attempt to have state legislatures submit alternative Electoral College electors was a fundamentally political act. We may not like this act, but that does not necessarily make it an illegal conspiracy. Smith’s indictment effectively criminalizes issues of political opinion and constitutional or statutory interpretation. What’s more, it is clear that election denial has become baked into the political process. It is commonplace on both sides of the political aisle to question electoral losses. When Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in 2016, her campaign crafted the Russiagate narrative which fueled a vast conspiracy within the government to clamp down on freedom of expression on social media. We are still uncovering the extent and lasting effects that Clinton’s election denial has had on this country. We can acknowledge that Trump did not execute a respectable and traditional transfer of power while still maintaining that prosecuting him for spreading disinformation about the election is a grave violation of the First Amendment. Arguably, it is a much greater threat to democracy than Trump’s false claims. — AG

During a certain period, Sears offered complete houses in large do-it-yourself (DIY) kits through their catalogs. These kits were transported by train and encompassed around 30,000 components, including wiring, plumbing, and heating, which collectively weighed over 25 tons. Customers had the option to choose from more than 370 designs, and each kit included a 75-page instruction manual. Sears asserted that an individual with "average" skills could construct the entire house within a span of 90 days. Between 1908 and 1940, Sears managed to sell over 70,000 DIY homes at prices ranging from $600 to $6,000 (approximately equivalent to $8,400 to $84,000 in today's currency). One notable model, known as the Martha Washington (as depicted in the accompanying images), was sold for $3,028 (equivalent to $45,538 today) in 1921. In 2016, the same Martha Washington model was purchased for $1.06 million in Washington D.C. Remarkably, almost 70% of these Sears DIY houses are still standing today.

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In Feb. 2020, after a @nypost oped said COVID-19 came from a lab leak, Facebook censored the story. Why? Because "independent fact-checkers" said it was "False information." Not only was it true information, one of the fact-checkers had worked at the lab nypost.com/2020/04/17/fac…

@POTUS Prove it #ProveIt #Lies

@POTUS Why in God’s name would you keep spending money we don’t have? #Pork #Graft #Theft #Budget

@ianmiles I didn’t see the other tweet

The FBI has released a statement regarding the Twitter Files.

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That these events happened in America shows how far our country has fallen.

Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger

4 years ago

Key facts 1. FBI took Hunter Biden's laptop in Dec 2019 & knew it didn't come from hacking 2. FBI spent 2020 telling Twitter that a "hack-and-leak" involving Hunter would occur in Oct 2020 3. FBI was spying on Giuliani when he gave laptop to NY Post michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/fbi-behind-t…

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Nothing to see here folks…

Bari Weiss @bariweiss

4 years ago

11. “We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do,” one Twitter engineer told us. Two additional Twitter employees confirmed.

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The richest man in the world just spent 44B dollars to expose a corrupt cabal of American government, big tech, and media. Obviously the media doesn’t wanna cover its role in election interference. But nobody working at these outlets can call themselves journalists ever again.

17. On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN SECRET EMAILS, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop: nypost.com/2020/10/14/ema…

8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.”

Here we go!! 🍿🍿

Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi

4 years ago

1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

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LOL - perfect illustration