Important points & resources here! In Invisible Rulers (📕) I wrote in detail ab the right-wing bs machine that used a combo of subpoenas, FOIA, smears, online bridgading, & lawsuits to attack us - and ultimately shutter Stanford Internet Observatory. It is, I’m told, a v readable cautionary tale. RE:
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Aaron Sojourner (@aaronsojourner.org)
If you work at a public university, your emails are likely FOIA-able. If you mix your personal & work email accounts, it may make your personal e...
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It’s been narratives all the way down throughout human experience - Lippmann described this as “pseudo-environments” a century ago: men live in the same world but think and feel in different ones, he argued, and it was the govt and/or media’s job to bridge these divergent narratives. RE:
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David Roberts (@volts.wtf)
What many of us warned, & what is unavoidably clear now, is that there is no privileged sphere of "real life" that is sheltered, separate from the ...
Influencer Kristi is performing online MAGA norms for the adulation of the online crowd. Norms were rewired by the incentive structure of communicating on X. That’s the attention game she needs to win to maintain power and clout among the influencers & crowd she cares about. RE:
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Brad Heath (@bradheath.bsky.social)
The Secretary of Homeland Security responds to the voluntary dismissal of an immigration lawsuit: "Suck it."
A more appropriate headline would be “Lawfare campaign expands against ideological enemies of Elon Musk” RE:
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kate conger (@kateconger.com)
The FTC is investigating Media Matters, questioning whether it colluded with advertisers for a boycott against X https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22...
Another very simple message: Vaccines keep school children from dying of preventable diseases. Vaccine requirements are up to the states to decide — so go fuck yourself, Kennedy. Parents, wake up. You need to organize. Don’t let the MAHA nuts be the only organized voices in your legislature. RE:
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social)
Another quote from the MAHA Report that should set off alarm bells all over the U.S.: “Unlike other pharmaceutical products, vaccines are unique...
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The Fox News TV clown who was a defendant in Smartmatic defamation lawsuit, cited in the Dominion case, is going to be prosecuting a murder/terrorism case. RE:
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Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social)
Attorney General Pam Bondi at the press conference tonight about the murder of two Israeli Embassy employees. Since this happened in Washington D...
Having a fascinating chat w/ppl ab tradwives & realizing those who missed Wife With A Purpose and the rise of it all in 2015 think what’s happening on TikTok today is “tradwife” culture - like basic SAHM aesthetic cottagecore vibes. Cute retro dresses and traditional roles... having kids. 1/2
The DNI is a possibly a cult member. The head of the FBI is a conspiracy theorist. Deputy director too. Secretary of HHS is a full-blown crank with a brainworm. SecDef is a drunk, SecState is a lapdog. The DOGE guy, well… This is the guy who hired them. He still pretends he got elected in 2020. RE:
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Brendan Nyhan (@brendannyhan.bsky.social)
The country with the most sophisticated intelligence capabilities in the world, and the president is holding up "a months-old blog post" from an ob...