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Back in April, Brian Beutler reported that Top Conservatives on Twitter—the grassroots group consisting of anyone who used the Twitter hashtag #tcot — was riven by internal divisions. And I’ve talked to conservative activists who have, after being affiliated with the hashtag, moved on and spoken harshly about chief #tcot-er Michael Patrick Leahy.
Today, we find [...]

From the Republican senator’s Twitter feed:

Via David Corn at Mother Jones, no alarms and no surprises here. Only a fraudulent election upheld by the same clique that put the fix in. Hopes for a regime-based climbdown from its total rejection of the opposition now appear to be vain. The regime seems capable of withstanding more pain than the opposition is [...]

The president’s semi-active Twitter account just sent out this message:
The House is voting on a historic clean energy bill today. Have you called your representative about it? http://bit.ly/aWcDK
Twitter has been burning up with conservative and Republican messages telling followers how to call to ask their representatives for “no” votes on the bill. This is notable [...]

Defense Tech’s Kevin Coleman reports on quiet battles between the Iranian regime and the opposition to control access to various social-media Websites:
President Ahmadinejad took decisive steps and basically turned off the Internet in Iran for about an entire day. His action, blocked access to information being distributed by the opposition party and the coordination of [...]

Two new ones from the tireless Iranian dissenter worth highlighting. First:
Hospital sources – at least 1000 people injured so far by Gov in the streets against Sea of Green
Second:
confirmed source – All major cities in Iran now reporting saound of Allah Akbar – Death to the Dictator

The Huffington Post’s unstoppable Nico Pitney culls together some of the tweets that @PersianKiwi sent out on Mir Hussein Moussavi’s address to today’s huge demonstration in Tehran. Not really sure why Nico doesn’t Cite @PersianKiwi specifically, but whatever. Here’s what a liveblogged Moussavi reads like:
· I have [...]

@PersianKiwi, the world’s most vital journalist — Mike Crowley should stop hating –  tweets about today’s big Tehran demonstration:
Everybody is peaceful and quiet – everybody is wearing black – the number of people is unbelievable – SEA OF GREEN
S/he says s/he’s going to report back when the march ends. Please. Please. Listen to their demo.

The New York Times identifies the State Department official who urged Twitter to reschedule a site maintenance — and risk disrupting the communications of thousands of Iranian dissidents using the #IranElection hashtag — as a 27-year old guy in the Policy Planning shop named Jared Cohen. Although he’s in the planning shop, this isn’t Cohen’s [...]

As an addendum to this post, one thing that you do see on the #IranElection hashtag are requests for help with proxy servers and other means of either combatting cyberattack or accessing the internet. That would seem to be an example where the United States could do something for the Iranian opposition in accordance with [...]