Good writeup but I really want to emphasize this:

claims that Zelensky is “gambling with World War 3” (note: Ukraine is defending itself)

That likely is going to be the angle putin wants pushed and it has been there from the start. Many people won’t remember, but in the days before the war started there were plenty of voices (on both sides) insisting that nobody should help Ukraine because it might cause WW3. Same with the calls for a no fly zone in the following weeks.

It wasn’t explicitly said (by anyone but the most compromised of republicans and tankies…), but it was very heavily implied that Ukraine needed to die so that “we” didn’t have WW3. And I fully expect those to ramp up from all sides because…

the US doesn’t want to help Ukraine because putin doesn’t want us to.

And Europe is going to be consolidating forces and getting ready for the next invasions on EU territory.

…

Yes. What is different is that now it is going to be every European country in NATO protecting their own interests… from the US and russia.

Yeah… NATO is DEFINITELY not sending troops to Ukraine basically ever at this point. Because they increasingly need to be worried about both russia AND the us attacking them.

Redacted from the version sent to the news outlets:

P.S. Please remember that you never saw Andy at the child rape island.

RENEGADE!!!

The only thing providing ANY resistance is the fear of what happens if constituents realize their representative killed social security.

There will be no resistance whatsoever for an anonymous vote.

I’m not saying it’s not entirely true because we’ve been hearing about this for years. But given who is in charge of the FBI now, I wonder how many of these “credible threats” are actually credible vs. how many of them are actually just made up by Patel to make sure they stay in line.

If the people saying there are death threats against you are the same ones who are supposed to investigate them: There are death threats against you. It just might be a fed holding the gun.

Yeah. I think it was hilarious to “hack” government displays to show this in protest.

I am REALLY uncomfortable with sharing it on a wider basis. Because, at the risk of sounding like DNC leadership, it is opening a huge can of worms. Imagine if instead this was musk posting a deepfake of him and AOC similar to how he offered to rape taylor swift a while back?

I’ll just explain why that is a horrible idea with three simple letters:

A. O. C.

But seriously, unless there’s some reason to stream live, old tricks are sometimes still the best tricks.

Cops who know they are being recorded MIGHT behave slightly better. It is why they are so hellbent on never wearing bodycams ever again.

An SD card on the person of someone being thrown in the back of a van to have an “accident” on the way to booking? Not so useful.

Every sourcing I have seen comes more from the UK as a way to shorten patrol and the argument that it is an ethnic slur against predominantly Irish police forces is similar to “cracker” in that… can you REALLY be that racist against the oppressors?

But tweaked anyway. Thanks.

Its a balancing act. You shouldn’t be recording tiktoks and doing the carlton.

But there is a lot of value in organizers being able to communicate. If you see a fat white kid with an assault rifle, you let people know. Same with when the patrol wagons roll in.

And there is a LOT of value in being able to make it clear to the cops that you are recording before they decide to “teach some people a lesson”.

I chat about this with my activist buddies a lot. And one thing we are increasingly realizing is that there is a LOT of value in convincing even a mid-tier IRL streamer to come out. Yeah, they are fucking obnoxious when they are trying to yell to chat. But it is someone who is high enough profile that they won’t immediately have their gear destroyed AND privileged enough that they won’t even realize that is an option until it is too late. At which point the decision as to how to handle the escalation is already happening.