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A beautiful & very personal essay in the fantastic @mississippifreepress.org about the exploitation of racial division as a tool of internal control & oppression — of all races — which will continue to weaken our democracy until we see it for what it is www.mississippifreepress.org/democracy-wh...

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Vital point here. The frames of political discourse — which are shaped by the structure of the info environment and by both strategic & organic communication — shape how people interpret their own experiences. We're not dealing with a problem of bad "facts" ... but one of corrupted sensemaking.

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Reform UK exemplifies a new model of politics shaped by the logic of the attention economy, where virality and outrage matter more than governance, delivery, or outcomes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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The Philly GOP is running a write-in campaign for @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social's primary opponent, and now Scott Presler's Early Vote Action is trying to drum up support for him as well. Help us on Team Krasner keep Philly safer and freer. And VOTE ON TUESDAY! secure.actblue.com/donate/krasn...

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This report illustrates sovereign aggression in its final form.

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Easy like Sunday morning :).

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Sealed!

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We are up against a president who is eliminating accountability in federal court for his friends and co-conspirators. It's up to local prosecutors in places like Philly to make sure they know that if they come to Philly, they can F around and find out.

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🧵 There’s a thread going around misrepresenting my work and Bellingcat’s education strategy. I want to use this as an opportunity to explain what we’re actually doing—and why it matters. This is about truth, democracy, and how we build a more resilient society. x.com/buynevich/st...

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Any Dem in Congress who isn’t actively working toward impeachment needs to be voted out.

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Expected to be a vote on the motion to table the impeachment resolution this afternoon. Some Dems including leadership will try to spin voting to kill it as not technically a vote on impeachment itself, but it absolutely is in the same way cloture in the Senate isn’t really about ending debate.

submitted 18 days ago • 31 comments

If you're in the USA, you can no longer watch the Dutch TV special about my theories on fascism and pro wrestling on YouTube! Oh no!! But fear not, for I have uploaded the full thing to my Vimeo for American viewing and sharing Go forth:

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Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

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Perfect Hélène Rey debunking the pervasive and unshakable belief that currency hegemony necessitates current account deficits www.ft.com/content/5bc0...

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New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

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The US has backed off its war with the Houthis in Yemen after losing two planes (they fell off a ship) and a number of reaper drones, the operation against the Houthis cost US tax payers more than $1 billion, gave little to no results.

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@schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social PLEASE VOTE NO!!!! STOP THIS BILL! paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypto-is-...

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From 2010 to 2020, ten years after Citizens United was overturned, $963 million was given to campaigns by groups that did not have to disclose their funders. There is an unholy alliance between wealth & power in Washington. We must pass my Political Reform Plan & end PAC and lobbyists’ donations.

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Thread on my new blog on how taking a step back and looking at the combined effect of several #Medicaid cuts under consideration by House GOP yields a clear conclusion: they would together end the #Medicaid expansion and terminate coverage for 21 million people: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/05/01/c...

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A few years ago I briefed Marco Rubio in the SSCI SCIF ab foreign interference campaigns. His own campaign was targeted by Russia. But now that he’s in charge of the Trump State Department, he pretends this was all made up — that the real problem was the effort to prevent it from happening again.

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

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How to understand the stock market

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Schumer.senate.gov kirstengillibrand.bsky.social Advise, don’t consent please: lastcampaign.substack.com/p/additional...

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Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball. For more, see the latest “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...

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Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick visited Ukraine’s frontline and signed a shell for Putin with “Peace through strength.” “It was an honor to send Putin a ‘personal’ message from near Russia’s border. It hit its target,” he said. Full video: t.me/wartranslated

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In addition to 22 Past Presidents of the D.C. Bar, and 22 Past Presidents of affinity or voluntary Bar Associations, these legal leaders, legal organizations, and voluntary Bar Associations endorse me to become President of the #DCBar. I’m grateful for every single endorsement. Please vote.

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NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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