#Incitement

Ben Pile

clim8resistance

The internet should be neat lawns, picket fences, and net curtains.https://twitter.com/timothy_stanley/status/1347902091549962244 The real world used to be as vulgar and rude as the Internet. Watch this film made in 1964

Amanda Marcotte

AmandaMarcotte

The lack of violence so far today is yet more evidence that Trump’s incitement was the central factor. No doubt troops, etc. were important. But the right wing chatter was

Infospectives

TrialByTruth

This is great. It puts into words what I have been grappling with and failing to express well.We know we have a new phenomena in social media and the attendant

@amuse

amuse

IMPEACHMENT THREAD: The last non-Trump-related impeachment process lasted 127 days. Congress examined thousands of documents, hundreds of depositions, several witnesses during the impeachment and trial of President Clinton. 2/ In

Jeff Giertz

jeffgiertz

THREAD: Trump’s defenders will likely use video of Dems, incl @corybooker of all people, in the impeachment trial today to draw false equivalency with Trump’s incitement. I’ve got a few

Twitter Safety

TwitterSafety

After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020

Juliette Kayyem

juliettekayyem

I appreciate the sentiment this reflects. I (of all people) also appreciate that we draw conclusions about Arabs and Muslims as well. So, I want to start there. But there

Kevin R Kosar

kevinrkosar

1. "Even when we can manage to agree that somebody's crossed what we agree is the line, we may nevertheless differ sharply about gravity of the transgression and the price

nastygranny

Nastygrannysz

We have a Fartsucker parroting this "bias" thing at work, as loudly as he can to anyone in the cafeteria who will listen (but mostly to those of us who

Stim Shady

BostonJerry

Friday Recap:Pipe bombmaker - Somewhere out there.Armed zip-tie guys - Allowed to walk out of the Capitol.FBI apparently only arresting members of the mob who went viral.Republicans still claiming stolen

David Kaye

davidakaye

this debate over how the facebook oversight board preps the landscape of coverage made me want to suggest some baseline context as folks evaluate/report on the OB.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1355913955852636163 1. the OB

Miroslav Imbrisevic

Miroandrej

1/4 Posie Parker encourages men 'who carry' (guns) to go into women's toilets - 'to protect them'. If you spend too much time in the US you can get silly

emptywheel

emptywheel

Watching House Homeland Security hearing on Domestic Terrorism. https://www.c-span.org/video/?508559-1/house-homeland-security-committee-hearing-domestic-terrorism&liveMike McCaul is among first to say Jan 6 was obviously DomTerr, he as

Erika Heidewald, Proud Autistic Bitch

erikaheidewald

the free speech and censorship “debate” right wingers claim to be engaging in is ridiculous, in bad faith, and built on false premises. despite anything they say, conservatives already have

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AMJ_View

1/ I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me the following key arguments must be presented by Trump's legal defense team: 2/ Per the US Constitution, impeachment deals with

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

It sounds to me like the debate about free speech is mixing 2 things completely different: The letter & spirit of the law. I don't think that's the right debate.

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