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Jun 30, 2018 11 tweets 4 min read Read on X
A heckler showed up to #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch at Big Spring Park in Huntsville, AL, got confronted, and brandished a firearm. Police apparently took him into custody. Witness tells me teens hit the deck, some cried and hugged after. Developing
Democratic AL senate candidate @wasyluka4senate just now on Facebook:
BTW credit for the long-distance phone photo of the suspect goes to @AlabamaCatwoman
Further pics of people on the ground and picking themselves up after
WHNT has a story up: "Police were able to take the man into custody and no shots were fired. Huntsville Police Department is reminding the public that you cannot have a firearm within 1,000 ft. of a protest." whnt.com/2018/06/30/man…
"Lt. Michael Johnson said Sealy is accused of picking a fight with a protester and pushing the protester. The protester pushed Sealy back, knocking him down. That's when Sealy is accused of pulling out a gun" - a G. Zimmerman type, that one al.com/news/huntsvill…
Best photo yet: Sealy brandishing his gun while a #FamiliesBelongTogether protester takes video and alerts police to the threat
Video of the arrest and further details: "He said 'I will shoot everybody here'" waff.com/story/38548330…
WaPo has a story on the incident too washingtonpost.com/news/post-nati…
Alt-white accounts have been croaking at me all day. Oooh look now the bots have arrived twitter.com/Mikegon98349292
LOL RIP my Twitter notifications heavy.com/news/2018/07/s…

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Jul 11, 2018
This is an extremely dishonest article by Brynn Tannehill.

None of the people or organizations named in it are connected to the events at London Pride; Brynn doesn't even try to draw a straight line between them, and for good reason. Thread 1/7

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The women who took part in this act of civil disobedience were NOT "a tiny group of fading second-wave feminists who never quite got over the fact that women can be both heterosexual and feminist."

They were LESBIANS who "feel erased and betrayed."

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They were LESBIANS who refuse to let heterosexual men put on dresses and colonize their spaces, who recognize homophobic misogyny when they see it.

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May 17, 2018
Absolutely true story about Mo Brooks that totally explains how someone as dumb as a pile of rocks got elected to Congress. Thread 1/9.

sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/r…
I have talked to Mo Brooks at length and also with his supporters. The anecdote I heard most often from Republican organizers in 2010, the year he got elected on the Tea Party wave, was from his days on the Madison county commission.

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IIRC the county garbage collection fee was due for a $3/month raise.

Mo Brooks found this intolerable, demanded justification, held up passage to demagogue a $36/year fee hike at a time the entire garbage business was transitioning to wheeled bins.
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May 6, 2018
Could Mueller leverage a Trump resignation? Speculative thread. 1/12

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/an-mo-f…
"I suspect Trump and his kids had a false sense of comfort that their communications with Cohen would be privileged," @joshtpm's friend says. "I am convinced this is why Trump and his family are freaking out about the Cohen raid and the possibility he could flip."
There has been lots of discussion about "leverage" in this sordid saga.

For example, if Mueller had New York-based indictments of Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka, it would be tremendous leverage, no?

So how might he exert that leverage?

thenation.com/article/does-r…
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Apr 16, 2018
Mueller's special counsel team spent months building a case against Cohen, Trump's consigliere, before Rosenstein set Department of Justice machinery in motion. The resulting case shuts tight on him like a bear trap this afternoon.

Thread 1/10

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nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Trump should have spent less time rage-tweeting and more time disposing of evidence that Cohen committed crimes on his behalf. His last-minute motions will not succeed on their merits. He can no longer fire his way out of the situation.

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Apr 9, 2018
Michael Cohen is in serious trouble. Stormy Daniels is the least of the reasons why. Nevertheless, Robert Mueller is probably looking for leverage to flip Cohen and have him confirm a key detail of the Steel dossier. Thread.

nytimes.com/2018/04/09/us/…
Unlike many of the marginal characters in this sordid saga, Cohen is a real player. He appears to have been instrumental in bringing Russian oligarch money to Trump's businesses for the last decade

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Cohen developed those ties by way of Ukraine, so it was not really surprising that he became the go-between for that attempted "peace plan" in January 2017, or that he was named as a person of interest in the FBI's counterintelligence investigation

nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/…
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Apr 6, 2018
June 29 would be the perfect day for Vietnam veteran Robert Mueller to drop an impeachment recommendation. Independence Day = Tet Offensive.

Thread about the influence of insurgency doctrine on the Trump-Russia scandal and investigation. 1/23

Vietnam became a country by drawing a French army into Điện Biên Phủ where the Viet Minh could surround and destroy it.

Mueller studies his enemies. Like Võ Nguyên Giáp, the military genius who won that decisive battle, he has created facts on the ground to surround Trump.
Before he died, Giáp explained how his resistance tactics worked. It was important to unite the country against France by first attacking everywhere, then concentrating his forces to surround and annihilate them

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