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richones.bsky.social
Liberal Democrat (formerly @richones1 on twitter) America did NOT understand the assignment
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🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/

submitted 12 hours ago • 244 comments

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 1 day ago • 385 comments

George Floyd was taken into custody for allegedly passing a bad $20 bill.

submitted 11 hours ago • 25 comments

In Hurricane Katrina, mainstream media were more worried people might take stuff rom WalMart than that grandmothers were dying on rooftops of buildings surrounded by contaminated floodwater.

submitted 15 hours ago • 24 comments

Guy just did for parades what he did for steaks, airlines, and casinos.

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Hey, MAGA?The shooter who killed a Minnesota lawmaker and critically wounded a state senator left a manifesto. You can call him a Democrat all you want, but the biggest plot twist is that he knew how to write.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Out of curiosity I just checked Washington DC hotel availability this weekend. There are hundreds of rooms downtown available at normal rates. WaPo, NYT treating the Softy Parade like it's some major event. Not even the MAGA nitwits want to see it.

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

Reminder that seven Democratic senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem and six Dem senators declined to vote either way. She was confirmed, 59-34. The good faith experiment is clearly over, and we need the Democratic senators who didn't stand against her nomination to be loud as hell right now.

submitted 3 days ago • 194 comments

I was chief of staff to a Cabinet secretary and vice president. I have a high opinion of the various federal protective services and personnel with whom I worked. But the fish rots from the head down. Today’s thuggish behavior in LA is just one of the many corrupting effects of Trump and Trumpism.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

submitted 3 days ago • 257 comments

Well this is awkward

submitted 5 days ago • 670 comments

Pass it on!!

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

submitted 8 days ago • 2421 comments

Two weeks ago, Ben Schrader - the highly respected chief of the criminal division for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Nashville - announced he had resigned. According to LinkedIn data, that was May 21 - the same day as Abrego Garcia's indictment. 1/2

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments

Not a single tweet in defense of Trump from JD Vance after Elon called for Trump to be impeached and for Vance to take over. Pretty telling...

submitted 10 days ago • 660 comments