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[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.

Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.

Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.

Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.

In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.

The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

He says the name just fine when he’s begging the Qataris for a personal jet or the Saudis for funding for his son-in-law’s private equity firm.

Wonder what’s changed?

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

The bigger story is that the richest man in the world helped the Paxton campaign spread a completely made up story about his opponent and no one will face any consequences

[Demsindisarray @Demsindissaray]

@foxnewspolitics Lol. “A story was made up by Republicans, spouted by republicans, amplified by the owner of x who is the richest man in the world but the real story here is why Talarico didn’t respond as fast as we wanted for this made up story.”

You guys have nothing. Just baseless spin

[Louis Riel @theGhostOfRiel]

How MAGA hallucinations became real

I pay for the data behind these myself and it take a lot of time and effort to analyze and create these graphics. If you want more of them, SUPPORT LINKS ARE IN BIO

At 1:05 p.m. on Oct 11, Nick Sortor posted that an Ohio mental hospital “CONFIRMS” James Talarico was discharged. That evening the hospital said Talarico never received treatment there. Talarico says he's never even been to Ohio. Rhein Amacher, who made the recorded call, posted that he made up a verification code to get past the front desk.

This story occurred over several days. Ken Paxton called Talarico “missing” on Oct 7. Sara Gonzales teased “unverified information” that would “END his campaign” on Oct 8. On Oct 9, Spencer Pratt said his sources put Talarico in a mental health facility, and a handful of accounts pasted near-identical “credible sources are leaking” posts. At 7:50 a.m. on the 11th, Sortor gave Talarico a deadline, “let us know by 1pm ET today.”

The earlier pushes never fully took off, and acted more as a booster for the posts that came later. Pratt's post got 6.4 million views, but only about 60 accounts posted about the story in the hour after it. Caroline Wren's private-plane theory the next day drew about 40. Before the 11th, the story never topped 80 posts an hour. In the first hour after Sortor's post, 267 accounts posted about it, and by 3 p.m. it was running at almost 500 posts an hour.

The first chart counts each account only once, at its first post about the story. Nothing they posted after that is counted, so it shows who started this and how far those first posts went. The first wave carried the whole thing. Sortor's post and the posts that followed in the next 12 minutes have 9 million views between them. The 55 accounts that joined in the first 20 minutes got 80% of the views in that lane. The other lines never came close. “He lied and covered it up,” the line Elon Musk and Richard Grenell pushed, got about 2 million views across 100 accounts. “He was in an Ohio mental hospital” got about 2 million across 132.

The pushback grew the opposite way, the way a real response does. It started small and kept building all afternoon and evening, with 12 to 46 new accounts joining every hour from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Leave out the three biggest posts, which were the hospital's statement, Talarico's reply and Ed Krassenstein's own call to the hospital, and regular accounts pushing back still reached 6 million views. The claim had nearly 90% of its views by 2 p.m. and barely grew after that. By the end of the night, the pushback had more views than the claim, 13 million to 11.4 million.

The second chart is the inorganic behavior, and it covers Oct 8 to 11, not just the day of the "exclusive". Sortor's headline was reposted word for word, or nearly, by 18 other accounts, half of them with under 1,000 followers. Caroline Wren's private-plane post was copied by 14. Four accounts posted the same Eric Daugherty post within 74 seconds of each other. Four more posted the same MAGAVoice line within 54 seconds, four hours after it first went up. Some accounts barely post anything of their own. One copied 21 of its 23 posts about Talarico from other accounts, another 11 of 11. And the spammers flooded the replies. One pasted the same reply 85 times in about two hours, another 15 times in 10 minutes.

Views are each post's total as of early Oct 12. A copy means word for word or at least 90% the same as an earlier post.

I pulled and analyzed about 14,000 posts for this. Sharing it helps more than anything, and if you want to chip in so I can keep doing this, the links are in my bio. It goes a long way.

[K A C E Y @KaceyMusgraves]

I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

They’re getting desperate

[Coog @Coleybama]

God damn.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

i can't stand the double standard, democrats and generally progressive people are expected to be perfect all the time, meanwhile republicans can say whatever the fuck they want and their cattle fanbase will eat that slop and defend them endlessly

[dooba @doobadoobadoob]

@AliceJean_60 @MikeNellis Alice, you voted for a convicted rapist. You are a complicit dumbass. You can cope with all the text bombs you want, but it won't change the fact that you are a mindless cuck for a man who fucked children almost as soulessly as he's fucked our country. Frolic back to your cult.

[dooba @doobadoobadoob]

@AliceJean_60 @MikeNellis Biden was unfit too - this isn't the gotcha you think it is. Trump and Biden are/were unequipped for office. Our country is suffocating between the agonal breaths of these geriatric losers. Spare me the Fox news clapping seal whataboutism talking points.

[dooba @doobadoobadoob]

@AliceJean_60 @MikeNellis The dude has fallen asleep in like 50% of his televised appearances, slurring and bumbling through his speeches, rocking ankles the size of quads and caking make-up over a necrotic looking hand - tf you mean "unsupported" - the source is our literal eyeballs and ears LOL

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

He knows my name is Abdul. He says it everyday.

But he’s not just attacking me. He’s attacking all of us. He thinks so low of us. He thinks he can use my name and my faith to distract us from the suffering his policies are inflicting on us at the pump, at the grocery store, and at the doctor’s office. He thinks we don’t know any better.

It’s time for change.

[ERIC LENT @ERICLENT1367204]

@atrupar “My definition of socialism is anything I can say that will scare the idiot cultists.”

[Harley Dugan @TheLead_HOU]

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[dooba @doobadoobadoob]

@TexansCommenter He's doing everything right... This is a deeper organizational cancer. Caserio, the entire offensive staff and every single "Patriot way" old boy need to be obliterated from our building.

[dooba @doobadoobadoob]

@TristyMc Have you tried getting anywhere in Houston? It's like a +1hr blood pressure exploding drive amongst the most hostile truck nuts losers on earth just to sit in 100% humidity heat and get cooked well done by the time you are ready for your next +1yr drive home.

Just miserable.

[#14 Barstool Coogs @BarstoolCoogs]

Every week

[dooba @doobadoobadoob]

@HoustonTexans CJ played solid today. No one stepped up as a playmaker and the O-line + run game was atrocious.

This loss is on our offensive coaches, not CJ Stroud

[Sydney Battle @SydneyBattle]

the witch at spirit halloween waiting for me to step on her mat