(thread) Putin’s playbook and Trump. Since at least 2010, Trump has been getting ideas from Putin. Example: In 2010, Russian TV “toyed” with the idea that Obama was born in Africa. Soon after, Trump picked up the theme. (See attached snippet from Snyder’s book). [View here as a Twitter thread]
[View here as a Twitter thread] (thread) What the heck is Giuliani doing, making one absurd statement after another? Let’s get to the bottom of this. Spoiler: The idea is to “flood the zone” with nonsense to wear everyone out and create a world in which facts don’t matter, which is how Trump will …
What crimes might Cohen have committed when raking in more than $4.4 million through his shell company Essential Consultants? This is Part II This thread picks up where the Bribery and Conspiracy thread left off: [To read, please click here to view here as a Twitter thread]
[View here as a Twitter thread] (Thread) Bribery and Conspiracy against the U.S: two crimes to keep an eye on as things unfold from here. First, a few new facts: Russian oligarch Vekselberg paid $500K to the company & bank account Michael Cohen created when he paid Stormy Daniels hush money.
(short thread) Why would Trump’s team leak the fact that in a 4 hour practice session to prepare Trump for possibly testifying in the Russia probe, Trump’s lawyers were only able to walk him through two questions, due to frequent interruptions and Trump’s ‘loquaciousness’ ? [Please click here to view here as a …
[View here as a Twitter thread] What do you do when facts don’t matter? Here are my takeaways from Yale professor @TimothyDSnyder‘s disturbing book, the Road to Unfreedom. Liberal democracy is based on the idea that society evolves & improves. Putin’s brand of fascism, OTOH, is based on the static idea that the government does not …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Initially I was skeptical of the stories that Cohen will flip (because Trump was so mean to him) because they came from Trump’s inner circle with an obvious motive: Set Cohen up to discredit his testimony. I was skeptical because it won’t work with a jury, & because …
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[View here as a Twitter thread] 1/ I woke up on Nov. 9, 2016 to discover it was 1828—the year Andrew Jackson (unrepentant slaveowner, white Supremacist & effective demagogue)—won the presidency against a brainy super-qualified policy wonk & former secretary of state who didn’t know how to appeal to the masses. 2/ Trump’s victory …
[View here as a Twitter thread] (Thread) A summary of Democracy in Chains, by Duke professor Nancy MacLean. The story begins with James McGill Buchanan, a professor of economics in Virginia who was furious by the SCOTUS decision ordering schools throughout the nation to desegregate. 2/ Buchanan, resentful of Northern liberals telling white Southerners …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Today I’d like remember Barbara Johns, the 16 year old who led a walkout of her high school in 1951 and helped changed the U.S. laws. Why was she forgotten so long and not given credit for her outsized contribution? Perhaps because. . . #March4OurLives Not only was she …
