Reuters on Trump supporters who terrified election officials

These people need to be held accountable. If not, 2022 and 2024 will be even worse.

⚡️ Campaign of Fear: Unmasking Trump supporters who terrified U.S. election officials by @Reuters https://t.co/Nati5iKJr1
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 9, 2021

This is incredible. Reuters published more than 850 threatening and hostile messages from Trump supporters to election workers across 30 jurisdictions in 16 states. More than 100 of them could warrant federal prosecution.https://t.co/arFWbe2aj0
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) December 31, 2021

NEW: A "strategic communications plan" developed by allies of former president Donald Trump called for targeting homes of secretaries of state & election officials in swing states, according to documents provided to the @January6thCmte https://t.co/i3jzFARF3n
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) January 3, 2022

Republicans are running and winning on grievance politics

White nationalism is more important to their voters than actual policies that will improve their lives. CRT is a made-up issue.

This feels like the while story of American politics right now in 2 tweets.

Voters agree with Ds on policy, which Rs have largely abandoned, but culture > policy. pic.twitter.com/S5UblaLFTD
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) November 8, 2021

"In interviews with a dozen white, rural voters who backed Mr. Youngkin, policy was less important than grievance and their own identity politics…" https://t.co/lEzM38jSrl
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 6, 2021

NEW w/ @AsteadWesley: The Democratic collapse in rural, white America isn’t over.

In 2008, GOP topped 70% in only four VA counties — nowhere was it above 75%.

In 2021, Youngkin was above 70% in 45 counties — and above 80% in 15.https://t.co/WAJJAy70WZ
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) November 6, 2021

CRT messaging isn’t about motivating parents, it’s about motivating white parents. pic.twitter.com/aNGRhxlBiC https://t.co/XIYKLVejLU
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) November 6, 2021

BINGO! "In the Fox News poll, white respondents opposed the teaching of CRT by 24 percentage points, but parents opposed it by only five points. That’s because many parents aren’t white, and the poll’s nonwhite respondents were twice as likely to favor CRT as to oppose it." https://t.co/i266m0juz1
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) November 6, 2021

There is nothing Democrats can “give” them (e.g., jobs, cheaper health care) to satisfy their need for White Christian ascendency. https://t.co/UKGiIOxGN1
— Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) November 9, 2021

"Hawley is opening a new front by focusing on gender rather than on race, but he’s doubling down on the long-standing GOP bet that for most working-class white people, cultural grievance will trump economic interest." – @RonBrownstein https://t.co/WE6kr7Fb4A
— Tresa Undem (@teemoneyusa) November 12, 2021

More on potential right-wing violence

Menace–meaning violence, threats and harassment–is the illegitimate weapon of a political party that is losing the ability to persuade large segments of the electorate through ideas and reason. Emphasizing the bully, abandoning the pulpit. https://t.co/NWBhHnbbvL
— Julian Zelizer (@julianzelizer) November 13, 2021

via ⁦@llerer⁩ and ⁦@AsteadWesley⁩, when “fight back!” morphs into threats of violence https://t.co/lSMUT6q5kt
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 12, 2021

The level of violence humming barely below the surface of our politics is intensifying. https://t.co/iWhpSrS2Da
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 9, 2021

https://t.co/j7oCDErIIi pic.twitter.com/6GUb8nxN1K
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 9, 2021

Domestic extremists pushing violence against Congress, school and health officials, DHS bulletin says https://t.co/Eq4sTf0iQ9
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) November 10, 2021

as far as I can tell, this is all right-wing extremists but they’re too cowardly to say that

Rep. Fred Upton received this threatening voicemail because he was among the group of Republicans who voted for the infrastructure bill pic.twitter.com/97qv2VeYTk
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2021

Desperate, angry, destructive: How Americans morphed into a mob. via @rachelweinerwp @hsu_spencer @TomJackmanWP @SahanaJayaraman https://t.co/cVmVzkf7bv
— Spencer Hsu (@hsu_spencer) November 9, 2021

"The GOP needs to take responsibility… The steady stream of incitement translates to things like a poll showing that 30% of Republicans believe that violence might be needed to save the United States."

In this #RealityCheck, @JohnAvlon examines the "dangerously extreme" GOP pic.twitter.com/IXONRwTJHG
— New Day (@NewDay) November 9, 2021

Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) has received multiple death threats in the days since he voted for President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal, with the overwhelming majority of the calls coming from outside the congressman’s district. https://t.co/4jGTWpavwi
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 10, 2021

The 13 House Republicans who broke with their party leaders and voted for President Biden's infrastructure bill last week have been flooded threats from their colleagues and constituents. https://t.co/26o1XkHuzA
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 11, 2021

It's important to recognize that Trump's self-serving and short-sighted defense of the "hang Mike Pence" protesters is simply part of a pattern of rationalizing threats and violence on the right.https://t.co/jAzCtOKYpc
— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 12, 2021

"One of the nation’s two major political parties appears increasingly tolerant of at least some persistent level of violence in American discourse, or at least willing to turn a blind eye to it." via @colvinj https://t.co/1Exoi8kHCt
— Michael Tackett (@tackettdc) November 12, 2021

>> @chrislhayes is correct: "A central fact about American life right now is that when Donald Trump or his associated right-wing propagandists set their sights on you, then you immediately have a security problem. It's just, like, a law of gravity." pic.twitter.com/tweExbCdE5
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 12, 2021

Great Instagram post on Big Bird and Ted Cruz

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Misleading Republican ad

New: To portray Joe Biden's presidency as "chaos," House Republicans' latest attack ad uses at least three images of street chaos under Donald Trump in 2020: https://t.co/McrUTHBEbY
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 8, 2021

Covers: Get Ready

I was reminded of the excellent Temptations record “Get Ready” (1966) by the tweet about the abysmal cover. It was also a 1970 hit for Rare Earth.

The 70s were a wild time, man https://t.co/84CXFGhCYk
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 8, 2021

He wrote it

Partisan gap in Covid deaths is up

The partisan gap in Covid deaths has grown even larger.

October was the fifth consecutive month that the percentage gap between the death rates in heavily Trump counties and heavily Biden counties widened.

🧵https://t.co/OJOJtekErR
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) November 8, 2021

Since Trump lost the election, the Trumpiest areas of the country have had a death toll 50% higher than blue areas. The GOP is killing its own voters with its own lies. And they don’t care. https://t.co/tkwpWdVHYe
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) October 30, 2021

The polarization of death.https://t.co/dYE5b5zXh3 pic.twitter.com/zVd36PLBoa
— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) October 30, 2021

COVID spread was 8% lower in states with Democratic governors because of stricter restrictions, according to a new study in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine. https://t.co/alpx5NfSbj
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 12, 2021

Remember, it's a big-city, blue state pandemic pic.twitter.com/F64JqYr5Sw
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 1, 2021

We are just beginning to scratch the surface of the ways in which anti-urban sentiment exacerbated the pandemic https://t.co/83oaYahqBU
— Jake Anbinder (@JakeAnbinder) September 30, 2021

Insurrection by other means: Republicans are ready to die of COVID to spite Biden, Democrats https://t.co/7siJChhHxu
— Salon (@Salon) November 9, 2021

Leonhardt's assessment of the effect of vaccines on covid deaths this year is spot on, but we can go further.

First, partisanship overlapped with death tolls prior to vaccines. Second, partisanship also correlated with deaths within states like Florida. https://t.co/Gx3IvOIKCS
— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 8, 2021

Two Faberge eggs are in Baltimore

This tweet about the Faberge Eggs reminded me that two of them are at the Walters Museum here in Baltimore.

The House of Faberge made 52 "Imperial" eggs as Easter gifts for Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II to give to their wives and moms. 46 of these survive. I will rank all 46 Imperial Faberge eggs.
— sucks to your ASMR (@grnpointer) November 6, 2021

Rose Trellis (Fabergé egg) is ranked #16

Gatchina Palace (Fabergé egg) is ranked #22

Where they all are now

A Faberge egg is included in the James Bond film Octopussy.

US officials recovered possible Fabergé egg from Russian oligarch's seized yacht, ⁦@NatashaBertrand⁩ reports https://t.co/HbSgpLbcnJ
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) July 21, 2022

100 Best Film Noirs from Paste

I think their top 10 is excellent but I would put Out of the Past (their #7) as #1. I would also move The Big Heat (#24) , Night and the City (#28) and especially Criss Cross (#32) up on the list.

PASTE magazine did a Top 100 Film Noir and put one starring @VHopeful's grandma at #1!
WE WIN!https://t.co/U6JYq9Ij9x
— Ted Hope (@TedHope) November 5, 2016

updated 11 2024

Happy Noirvember: Surely we're all ready to embrace the darkness of this wicked season at this point, so you might as well do it like a film geek with our list of the 100 best film noirs of all time: https://t.co/1tYpv46XCU #filmnoir #noirvember #cinema
— Paste Magazine (@PasteMagazine) November 7, 2024

Covers: Love’s Made a Fool of You

“Love’s Made a Fool of You” was co-written (in 1954) and recorded by Buddy Holly (in 1958). The first release version was by his band The Crickets. The most fanous cover is by The Bobby Fuller Four.