The more that Heritage lobbies for illegally blocking Dems after they take back the House, the more they're making the case for being including in the subpoenas that are coming.

That's why we needed to prosecute the organizers of Jan 6, not just the useful idiots. If there's no penalty for trying to overthrow democracy, people will do it again.

The Heritage Foundation is just blocks from the Capitol. It's a damn shame no one got their Jan 6 security cam footage in time.

Here's another take, with a different protagonist. The story is, someone in the Trump admin feeds video to a gullible right-wing media hack to implicate a former Capitol Police officer, then uses the resulting right-wing media story to goad the FBI Director into ordering a raid on that person.

There's a key "are" in that post that's easy to miss if reading fast.

Not "behaving like Trump/MAGA/GOP bad actors"
It's "behaving like Trump/MAGA/GOP ARE bad actors"

Yes, dumb late-night typo. Added a note.

Note typo in Tweet 1: BEN Collins owns The Onion. "Tim Onion" is his joke nickname. 3/

The Department of Justice is no longer about justice but the defamation suit can still bring it. The Sandy Hook families who Alex Jones defamed took his media outlet and sold it to Jones' worst enemy. Now you can subscribe to Ben Collins' InfoWars. Next year, it'll be Shauni Kerkhoff's The Blaze. 2/

My bad, late night - will repost

When push came to shove she made her decision to sacrifice her career for our democracy. Would you do the same?

excellent point

I hate Liz Cheney's politics. But she cared about democracy more than you do. And she sacrificed for it.

What a week for right-wing media. Tim Collins' The Onion now owns Alex Jones' Info Wars. And Shauni Kerkhoff, falsely accused as the pipe bomber, is about to own Glenn Beck's The Blaze.

Propagandists forget that they can't just declare a new reality. In our system, juries decide what's true. 1/

Proportional representation or ranked-choice voting would help the US so much.

The fact that this was even a question is what's telling. Many people on Bluesky cannot understand that anyone - Liz Cheney from the right, this account from the left- would say, the greatest goal is to defeat Trump and defeat fascism and so I will work for someone who isn't my personal ideal.

It says that Liz Cheney was so committed to defeating Trump - she tanked her career for it! - that she campaigned with someone she didn't agree with. She overcame her personal distaste for the greater goal.

Likewise, I supported Harris though she is LESS progressive than I would have liked.

Cory Booker, who everyone was criticizing, is not going to say the words that you want him to say. You have to decide how to respond to that. This account gently suggests that the right response is not to let fascism win to "own the libs".

This thread was literally about how everyone has to form a coalition, including Cory Booker, who it was criticizing.

You just implied this account, which has worked tirelessly to bring justice for Jan 6, wants to elect the GOP: "you want to lose". Was that intended to be persuasive? Because it didn't persuade.

You're responding to a post literally saying that Booker should not shit on the left and that everyone should suck it up and form a coalition.

All anyone is saying here is that "improve your information systems and persuasion" is everyone's job, who wants to fix things. Yours too. Everyone's. Not waiting for others to fix it.

Ronald Lauder's brother Leonard hosted the 1986 brunch where Trump made his first Russian contact, Yuri Dubinin, and started arranging his first trip to Russia (with Dubinin in 1987). Just after Trump came back he seemed to toy with the idea of a presidential run.
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No one is yelling at anyone except the accounts calling me "stupid". We're trying to discuss the difference between blame and tactics. That's not personal and it's not yelling.

Yes, that would a pro-active strategy.

If you talk about "fault", you're ceding agency. "It's your fault that this outcome happened". You're saying someone else had the agency.

Think: you wouldn't blame a tree after a car accident: "it's the tree's fault for being there". You'd just figure out how not to hit the tree next time.

Yes, diverting votes is a tactic. So after trying a tactic, you assess. How did it work out for you? Or for Palestine?

You have no idea and should try not just insulting people online.

Jan 6 is not going away. Glad to accept help on preparing for when society finally discusses it in full. That's harder than just insulting people online, though.

Feel free to follow this account on Bsky and Twitter to see what it has been doing for 5 years now.

That's unfair and lazy. Why do you think this account is "centrist"? (and what does that even mean?)

I want progressives to be MORE EFFECTIVE. To go get shit done instead of complaining that no one earned their vote.

This argument is about TACTICS not about policy.

No one is saying anyone should be shamed.