I wrote a book ab this. It isn't evenly distributed. It happened gradually over a decade. Recommendation engines helped. But mostly it's the product of a propaganda campaign that made being anti-vax an article of *right wing identity*. 📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society
RFK Jr. hearing with Senate Finance happening now. Big themes from Dems will be corruption, incompetence, and chaos at HHS. It remains to be seen if any Rs will acknowledge just how bad this is actually going... [www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLy0...]( ) [LIVE: RFK Jr. Testifies on Tru...]( )
It’s really past time for a movement of belligerent normalcy. Just showing up for the basics of civic life with the same intensity that extremists bring to tearing it down. RE:
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Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social)
Preventing polio in schoolchildren is slavery. Florida parents, pushback is on you. Freedom measles. Freedom polio, now. Get mad — you don’t ...
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You have a baby too young to vaccinate, and your older kid is exposed to Freedom Measles or Populist Polio in their classroom. You don’t have kids,but you may be impacted if you have cancer. Herd immunity is the point. The silent majority needs to get loud; make this a political liability for Ron. RE:
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Adam Rogers (@jetjocko.bsky.social)
Kids are going to die. Needlessly. Because some other kid's parents are listening to these people. It's monstrous. https://www.washingtonpost.com/h...
Preventing polio in schoolchildren is slavery. Florida parents, pushback is on you. Freedom measles. Freedom polio, now. Get mad — you don’t have to be polite with extremist nutjobs like this. [www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09/03/florida-vaccine-mandates-ended/ ) [Florida moves to end all schoo...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09/03/florida-vaccine-mandates-ended/ )
Show me the incentives, I'll show you the outcome RE:
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WIRED (@wired.com)
Under Elon Musk's leadership, X has become the perfect platform to supercharge the spread of dangerous disinformation during breaking news events. ...
Happening now: "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation" --an extremely serious very real threat that Jim Jordan is spending American time & tax dollars investigating. Jordan has already mentioned "Big Academia" & his censorship industrial complex hoax. [www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIvu...]( ) [Europe’s Threat to American Sp...]( )
I went to Truth Social to see if a screenshot was real (no) and the ads continue to be absolutely wild. Here’s Charlie Kirk’s face being used to promote ivermectin on the sketchiest online pharmacy I’ve seen in a while. “Helps disrupt the viral components of the virus.” https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreigqpo5viwiunxitzh4c2sbg6mn6bcrdkl3l46wg4ieonp5j4fbuvu https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreihifkm65ew4kbugmwsuwmjlzwd6dqzcidbqg3esrk66jcxsayukzy
🚨There’s a House Judiciary hearing tomorrow that ppl should know about. Jim Jordan continues to push his censorship complex hoax, & he’s invited Nigel Farage to talk ab the European DSA’s harm to American speech. This is BS. @Daphne Keller explains why: [cyberlaw.stanford.edu/a-primer-on-...](
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A Primer on Cross-Border Speech Regulation and the EU’s Digital Services Act
Some U.S. politicians have recently characterized European platform and social media regulation laws as “censorship” of speech in the U.S. If t...
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A Primer on Cross-Border Speech Regulation and the EU’s Digital Services Act
Some U.S. politicians have recently characterized European platform and social media regulation laws as “censorship” of speech in the U.S. If t...
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It is *because* Benny - and Jack Posobiec, and Mike Benz, and John Solomon, etc etc - are willing to lie that the White House has embraced them. Their lies provide the veneer of legitimacy to do what the Administration wants to do anyway. RE:
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Ryan Mac 🙃 (@rmac.bsky.social)
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to ...
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