Background:

@PartisanGirl is some sort of edgy alt "commentator" on the Syrian war -- and by commentator, I mean she posts on Twitter all day long about how apparently the United States is directly funding ISIS (because that makes sense). Throughout her endeavors, she has made enemies of many more nuanced commentators and analysts, including three people whom she has fundamentally disagreed with on the August 21st Ghouta chemical attacks:

• Dan Kaszeta, a former US Army/US Secret Service specialist on CBRN weapons

• Eliot Higgins, AKA 'Brown Moses', a British blogger and highly praised weapons analyst on the Syrian crisis

• Michael Weiss, a columnist for Foreign Policy and the Daily Beast

See, these three are fairly outspoken about the Ghouta attacks -- where 3,000 Syrian civilians were gassed to death by chemical weapons in August of 2013 -- on Twitter and in their personal writings. Kaszeta, Higgins, and Weiss tend to believe that the attack was carried out by a chemical weapons brigade belonging to the Assad regime, which has led to numerous Twitter clashes with @Partisangirl, who herself thinks that it was the rebels who kidnapped civilians and... Gassed them with carbon monoxide. Apparently.

Lawsuits

Anyway, the Twitter conflicts came to a head recently when @Partisangirl announced that she had spun up a defamation lawsuit against all those who dare oppose her. And it isn't just talk, either: She actually went out of her way to get a lawyer to write, sign, and notarize a letter claiming that she'd sue anyone who called her an extremist.

She then targeted her lawsuits more directly, this time towards a tweet by Michael Weiss posted on July 5th, which reads:

In which one of Assad's well-known Twitter trolls gets monitored by Australia's security services: https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/24205630/security-agencies-monitor-perth-radicals/

@Partisangirl replied to the tweet on July 10th with a Twitter image of the letter, saying:

Would you like to get sued for defamation as well Michael? i will not hesitate.

And Michael's response:

@Partisangirl Come to New York and sue me, sweetie. I'll put the cuffs on you myself.

Fun stuff.