Here is a Vox explainer on how a bizarre "civilizational allies" post showed up on the State Department substack -- that post, as this explainer explains, provides a philosophical underpinning and justification for some of the policy shifts we're seeing -- incl in tech [www.vox.com/on-the-right...](
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The fascinating backstory behind a bizarre State Department Substack post
How a Catholic theocrat started speaking for Trump’s State Department.
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The fascinating backstory behind a bizarre State Department Substack post
How a Catholic theocrat started speaking for Trump’s State Department.
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Prof Shaw does very well here and gives exactly the right answer and Fleeing Josh Hawley, who fled Congress during a riot incited by the president (how many past presidents have done that?), tries to turn Trump and Republicans into victims again anyway. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KA...
But funny that it’s now public how long he’s been influencing Marc Andreessen 🥚 while also saying things like this RE:
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Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com)
If you’ve been aware of Curtis Yarvin for years, you probably know how disheartening it is to find out that an absolute bottom feeding jackweasel...
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It’s important to understand the moral panic they’re spinning up around “social media censorship” — which was v effective here in the US! Tech oligarchs wanting to get out of regulation + Trumpists helping the global far right. [www.lawfaremedia.org/article/regu...](
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Regulation or Repression? How the Right Hijacked the DSA Debate
The conversion of a disinformation code from self-regulation to requirement sparks an international tiff. What’s really happening?
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Ro Khanna: "Now they want to censor everyone's social media. And then they're lecturing the foreign countries about free speech?"
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Regulation or Repression? How the Right Hijacked the DSA Debate
The conversion of a disinformation code from self-regulation to requirement sparks an international tiff. What’s really happening?
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I thought, not another profile. Have been read Yarvin screeds for a decade (unimpressive) and Yarvin profiles for half a decade (tedious) but I gotta say, this offers solid payoffs - the Masters of the Universe are reflexive contrarians enamored of a lightweight. [www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...](
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Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
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Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
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The Putin-loving guy who always looks like he’s on something (but got to bypass his background check & security clearance), who put me on a State Dept “subversives” list, gutted its capacity, and is planning to Wikileaks its anti-propaganda org, has such an interesting personal story. 👀 Uncanny. RE:
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Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social)
Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the worl...
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“Not just by fringe figures” bc the right decided to mainstream being conspiratorial know-nothing cranks. It’s part of their core political identity so now they have to cut off their nose to spite everyone’s collective face. This is the story of state capacity writ large: mRNA, foreign trolls, etc. RE:
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 (@helenbranswell.bsky.social)
Once viewed as the path out of the pandemic, mRNA vaccines are now being vilified — & not just by fringe figures. The attack on this important pl...
You’ve probably seen coverage of Rubio and Vance talking about “mass censorship” of Big Tech in Europe. Just last week there were visa policy changes to revoke visas for officials & their families if they censor Americans on social media. Has this happened? Here’s an explainer on what’s going on: RE:
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Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org)
On July 1, the EU will integrate the previously voluntary Disinformation Code of Practice into the Digital Services Act. @noupside.bsky.social‬ a...
🌱 My container dwarf blueberry bush produced hundreds of flowers and four (4) berries 🫐. I thought it was dying of a disease last fall so this is good, and these are its first fruits ever, but now I know it can do better. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreicjrmn2rfgwqq5mgdux6efqkeuhg6gb6ms7nscyxitbu4kbgcz6iy
This nod to QAnon cranks has 2019 vibes. A tiresome Schrödinger’s Troll where the goal was to get media to ask if Trump was serious to kick off a cycle of mockery. Obviously he didn’t mean it LITERALLY etc. QAnon feels betrayed by Bongino’s “Epstein didn’t kill himself” comment. Throw ‘em a 🦴. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreigvlxrzwqvfhzjm4k6eiyg6hrvu76ltw3env2a5kjkflrtevjci3a https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreibm5xeaffvi4lu7hxigb7afvdvanhblgmo4b266xoktxs26rnsveq