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Matt Osborne
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"I hate what you said, that makes it hate speech" Heretic. Historian. Heterodox. Alt @polemologyfix Editor, The Distance Mag
Jul 11, 2018 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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

huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-… 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."

conatusnews.com/pride-london-l…
Jun 30, 2018 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
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:
May 17, 2018 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
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.

dailymotion.com/video/xkk2k7
May 6, 2018 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
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."
Apr 16, 2018 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
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

thedailybeast.com/michael-cohen-… After months of reportedly worrying the alleged president would fire him, why would Rosenstein be at peace with the possibility now? Because he has shepherded the investigation(s) through the greatest danger, past a point of no return.

nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Apr 9, 2018 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
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

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/says-wh…
Apr 6, 2018 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
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.
Mar 31, 2018 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
A thread about the history of safety systems and how they fail. Also, how it applies to American democracy. 20 tweets During WW1, battleships started spontaneously exploding. The humans inside them overcame expensive, highly-developed safety systems and procedures to accomplish this feat ww1blog.osborneink.com/?p=3089
Mar 20, 2018 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Why was Cambridge Analytica testing Trump slogans in 2014? Because they are actually Steve Bannon "economic nationalism" slogans.

Thread follows. 1/10

crooksandliars.com/2018/03/why-wa… March 2017, the New York Times magazine reported that Steve Bannon had first wanted Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to run for president in 2016 on their shared "populist" vision, i.e. white nationalism. 2/ 10

nytimes.com/2017/03/26/mag…
Mar 15, 2018 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
A thread about third party politics. 1/16

Conor Lamb beat Rick Saccone by just ~625 votes out of more than 228,000 ballots cast.

Libertarian Party candidate Drew Miller got 1,379 votes. Had half of them voted for Saccone, he would have won.

msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-… The naive indulgence of third party politics works out this way ~99.9% of the time in the real world under our system of elections.

Hate it all you want. Scream, shout, cry us a river at the unfairness of it all. You might as well demand to hold the heavens in your hands. 2/16