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Roving journalist, friend to all dogs mtracey@protonmail.com

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    10 Mar 2021

    ANNOUNCEMENT! I have officially joined the land of Substack. It was probably inevitable. But I'm very excited about the opportunities the platform affords. And most of all, looking forward to making insufferable people's heads explode

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  2. 9 hours ago

    Truly waging war on multiple fronts. Heroic 👇

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  3. Remember when countless journalists, pundits, and politicians screeched with such righteous certitude about the Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot, as though it were established fact, when the only thing that’s now been established is that it was a botched FBI entrapment plot

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  4. Some newfound "anti-war" voices in the scenario fantasized by Owen Jones: the US Government, the UK Government, NATO, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon 👍

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  5. Prolongation and intensification of warfare: anti-war Cessation of warfare: pro-war This is your daily language update for April 8, 2022

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  6. Retweeted
    Apr 7

    Ukraine War Frenzy Proves: It’s Still John McCain’s GOP

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  7. It means there’s cross-ideological frenzy in favor of an ongoing US military intervention, with Republicans leading the charge, as they demand to escalate even further. Hope that clarifies for you 👍

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  8. Alert: hot new identity category

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  9. I know calling things "Orwellian" is overdone, but it really does perfectly capture these demands by "anti-war" activists for continuously escalating warfare

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  10. There you have it! The proper "anti-war" position is now to openly support a US proxy war, with the express aim of facilitating "armed struggle," in order to achieve a desired military objective. Isn't the malleability of language a beautiful thing?

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  11. Serious Journalism™ on display again in the US, where you openly advertise that your journalism event is sponsored by massive financial service conglomerates

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  12. Everything that McCain + Graham declare in this recently-resurfaced video from 2016, about the need to go on the "offense" against Russia in Ukraine, has now congealed into mainstream orthodoxy. The influence of their worldview has increased, not decreased

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  14. Trump Administration policy toward Russia was really not that much different from what McCain Administration policy likely would've been, notwithstanding the continued delusions and fantasies about Trump somehow conspiratorially enabling Putin!

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  15. It's not just some phantom group of "neocons." The consensus, mainstream position of the GOP is that Biden has been "weak" on Russia, and should more aggressively escalate US intervention in Ukraine. If that's a "neocon" position, then approximately 95% of the GOP is "neocon"

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  16. Apr 7

    Lindsey Graham, the most reliable steward of McCain’s foreign policy outlook, is currently the top advocate for another Trump presidential run in 2024. Because it turns out “MAGA” and “neocon” are not actually as incompatible as lots of people want to believe

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  17. Apr 7

    Some conservative opinion elites really want to believe that the Republican Party has undergone a genuine transformation, and the foreign policy worldview embodied by McCain has been discarded. But as the GOP position on Ukraine conclusively shows, McCain still reigns supreme

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  18. Apr 7

    Did another stream today, with

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  19. Apr 7

    Ukraine War Frenzy Proves: It’s Still John McCain’s GOP

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  20. Apr 7

    Listening to BBC World Service = receiving "GRU talking points" 😂

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  21. Apr 7

    Earlier this week, Zelensky berated the UN to punish Russia or "dissolve" itself. Today, the UN ejects Russia from the Human Rights Council, preempting any independent investigation -- which had been requested by both India and China. Another PR coup for the PR maestro Zelensky

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