Things That Aren't Evidence, a Critical Thinking Tutorial:

"X is the governor, but he's a bad person I don't like, so he MUST be illegally exercising powers he doesn't have, such as ordering search warrants and manipulating judges to act out his vengeance on people"

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"ZOMG! X is evil. X appointed Y judge. Y judge must therefore also be evil and aiding X's thirst for personal vengeance."

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"X is the governor. He's powerful and he's evil. He also fired Y. So X must have been personally involved in procuring the search warrant used against Y."

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"Y resigned from his job in protest of X's illegal behavior and talked about it on CNN (but didn't go to FBI with the information), so X must have done whatever horrible thing Y said he did"

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"P was fired from an organization and claimed she had information about a coverup, and was fired for not participating in the coverup, so it must be true"

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Additional fallacies:

If a search warrant is executed according to standard operating procedures, it is not "excessive" or selective. The argument is with the standard operating procedure of search warrants, not that the subject of the search warrant is being singled out.

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If you are no longer employed by a given employer and you access their network by means of username and password, it is illegal access, regardless of the effectiveness of the employer's password policy.

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I don't defend Governor DeSantis one iota.
But I DO know information ops when I see them. And when I do, I call them out.
More will unfold over the next few weeks.
One thing that will NOT happen:
The media will not be held responsible for their failure to present the facts.

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