John Thomason

@John_Thom_

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    7 Apr 2016

    tbt

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  2. Feb 10

    Elliot Abrams praised & supported Efrain Rios Montt, the Guatemalan dictator whose murderous regime decimated many Indigenous populations.

    The Consideration of Elliott Abrams for Deputy Secretary of State would Represent a Rude Shock for Latin America
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  3. Feb 9

    W.E.B. Du Bois was the original data journalist h/t

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  4. Feb 9

    . runs through overshadowed but equally horrifying parts of Trump's immigration order:

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  5. Feb 8

    I.e. FACEBOOK WAS SHAMED INTO FOLLOWING CIVIL RIGHTS LAW YAY

    Facebook now prohibits the use of racial categories in ads for housing, credit employment
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  6. Feb 7

    Ok last thing and rant done: notice that the First Things connection is NOT disclosed in the author bio at the bottom of the page. /9

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  7. Feb 7

    And why is a senior editor at a conservative Xian mag the one to give the "Vox" take (technocratic, iconoclastic, contrarian) on DeVos? /8

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  8. Feb 7

    So, why would publish a pro-DeVos piece by someone so closely associated with friends and $ beneficiaries of Pence & DeVos? /7

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  9. Feb 7

    ( enumerates the Pence/DeVos/First Things connections here: ) /6

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  10. Feb 7

    ...and Chuck Colson, a mentor of Mike Pence and a friend of Betsy DeVos's brother, Erik Prince. /5

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  11. Feb 7

    Among those associated with First Things's theocratic leanings: James Dobson of Focus on the Family (a huge beneficiary of DeVos $$) /4

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  12. Feb 7

    After Clinton was reelected in 1996 the mag published a symposium ("The End of Democracy?") that openly contemplated Christian revolution /3

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  13. Feb 7

    You could be forgiven for not noticing that the author is a senior editor at First Things, a pub sympathetic to Christian theocracy 2/

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  14. Feb 7

    At first glance you might think this awful pro-DeVos piece is the typical technocratic, market-worshipping, anti-union BS Vox sometimes does

    2 replies 2 retweets 5 likes
  15. Feb 6

    “deprive”

    Will the political climate deprive ‘La La Land’ of the best picture Oscar? via
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  16. Feb 6

    Discredited tobacco industry shills are leading Trump/GOP efforts to gut the EPA by

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  17. Feb 6

    The Forgotten Man

  18. Feb 6

    Hillbilly Elegy will not help you *understand Trump voters.* It will only shore up the racist myths that elected him

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  19. Feb 6

    The idea that we are heirs to an undiluted strain of Scots-Irish heritage is a) wrong and b) a basis for white nationalism.

    1 reply 9 retweets 17 likes
  20. Feb 6

    oh spare me

    1 reply 1 like

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