Censorship grifter Michael Shellenberger has repinned a tweet from 2023 to his X profile. It’s a video accusing Obama -and me- of being behind the Disinformation Governance Board. In his addled mind,bc Obama gave a talk at Stanford a week before DGB was announced, DHS jumped to implement O’s vision. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreid7jjc4bciqdtno6pwfyoh6pphoysf2slf6ziflfjwgqmelexpr6i
Douthat moderated a panel I was on w/Walter Kirn and sat there like a log while Kirn literally pulled out his phone on stage & read Taibbi Twitter Files tweets accusing me of censoring *22M tweets*. He lost control of the panel in the first 5min and apparently is still not interested in the facts.😂 https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreih4h37xeim4ikpk6zkkvpzmxb4gx7y26cmq2izmnyrga3qifpeey4
The extent to which this history has been rewritten by right wing propagandists while MSM slept for 2 yrs—so much so that the NYT doesn’t even catch it now. When the “Censorship Industrial Complex” supposedly formed, silenced conservatives, & stole elections, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION was in power. RE:
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President. ...
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I had my first baby in 2013 and several Tylenol studies were already out. RFK Jr has been flogging this for a long time. This isn’t new science, it’s that he has a bigger mouthpiece as HHS secretary. Unless this is presented alongside studies on other factors -incl parental age- seems pretty bad. RE:
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Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty.bsky.social)
EXCLUSIVE from @washingtonpost.com @ddiamond.bsky.social and Ariana Eunjung Cha https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09/21/trump-autism-annou...
I know everyone is focusing on the legality of this and the substance of this particular message; but that is the spammiest, scammiest, trashiest platform with vast networks of fake accounts and its had security issues in the past. It’s wild to think he’s just DMing cabinet secretaries etc on it. RE:
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Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)
Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. https://truthsocial....
🌱 9 more little honeynut squash on the vine, hoping it doesn’t completely die before the green ones turn at least a bit orange. We lost 6 to rabbits early on and then started using Repels-All and coyote pellet things. It’ll be 2 dozen from 2 plants across the season. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreigivmmzbce7pdivys7jlacnjuyr33gkrcmm6vki4drbd4xuyz5uzq https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreigcf43xl2ed5u3tnbd4lpbwsxwfhyccfsc553zhd375f5jridf6a4
Last week [@rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social](
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Rachel Kleinfeld (@rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social)
Democracy & political violence expert, work globally and U.S., lover of street food, fiddle music, unforgiving landscapes, and my kiddos. All view...
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For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies
To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also the...
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For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies
To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also the...
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During the decades that the House UnAmerican Activities Committee ran its witch hunts, the blacklists were self-imposed. Eventually, the Committee’s targets realized that they had to respond differently… [www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...](
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Process as Punishment: An American History of Political Spectacle
American political theater isn’t new. The House Un-American Activities Committee operated for decades—until targets learned to fight back.
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Jeet Heer (@jeetheer.bsky.social)
This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red...
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Process as Punishment: An American History of Political Spectacle
American political theater isn’t new. The House Un-American Activities Committee operated for decades—until targets learned to fight back.
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Arsonist raises doubts about harmful chemicals in fire extinguishers RE:
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social)
Kirk Milhoan is now describing as “telling” the fact that COVID19 vaccines are unpopular. What it is “telling” us is that misinformation ...
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At 2:30ET today there will be a hearing on “the harms of AI chatbots.”Testimonies are now up. None of these are good for the companies. Big focus on kids. (I wouldn’t let my kids use [Character.ai](
character.ai | AI Chat, Reimagined–Your Words. Your World.
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Examining the Harm of AI Chatbots | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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Examining the Harm of AI Chatbots | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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