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I wrote much of what I think about this election before it happened, so I am going to put it all together here. My book, Autocracy Inc, described the network of autocrats who seek to undermine democracy, inside their countries and ours www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...

submitted 105 days ago • 283 comments

It’s funny when a centibillionaire donates 1m to the inauguration. It’s like the median American donating a couple dollars. It means nothing to the centibillionaire. But it impresses Trump, who is a fake rich person.

submitted 61 days ago • 47 comments

This is the supreme irony of the MAGA schism over H-1Bs. Many workers who stayed at Twitter after Musk’s takeover did so because their status in the US was contingent on their employment. They kept a site running that was then used by MAGA folks to question why they were here in the first place.

submitted 57 days ago • 63 comments

Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed. The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.

submitted 62 days ago • 3674 comments

Folks think Musk and Trump are engaged in politics, but this is a military operation being executed out of Moscow. If you are playing politics right now, you literally have brought a butter knife to a gun fight.

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submitted 65 days ago • 146 comments

Yes. That’s the point. Musk wants the United States to collapse. His sort of oligarch sees local fascists as a tool to destroy the functioning democratic state everywhere.

submitted 64 days ago • 95 comments

Elon’s politics are disturbing.

submitted 64 days ago • 606 comments

Spent the day talking to Europeans, and nobody can think of any precedent for what Musk just did to the US Congress. There is no businessman with that much power, the power to stop a routine spending bill, anywhere else in the democratic world.

submitted 66 days ago • 310 comments

This might work lol

submitted 66 days ago • 11 comments

Trump is not the President elect. He's the assistant to the President non-elect.

submitted 66 days ago • 351 comments

Pretty clear at this point that Elon the Twitter Clown, who knows zilch about governing, will be using his massive platform to tank any policy or funding effort he personally does not like. The chaos has already started and they aren't even inaugurated.

submitted 66 days ago • 5 comments

Tulsi Gabbard is being described as an “advanced devotee” of a shady religious sect in Hawaii. According to a former Science of Identity Foundation (SIF) member, Gabbard has been groomed by the cult’s guru to rise to D.C.’s elite in the halls of government. Although cults…

submitted 66 days ago • 769 comments

The nightmare I'm going to try not to dream tonight: Televangelist Kenneth Copeland on a motel flat screen, waging spiritual war against the windmills Trump has told him are against God's order. Even after decades on the fundamentalist beat, I can still get freaked out just turning on the TV.

submitted 66 days ago • 29 comments

ICYMI: "Project Russia," a popular Russian book series but nearly unknown in the West, outlines the Kremlin's long-term plan to overthrow the world's democracies in favor of a "supranational monarchy" ruled by a new elite. My latest for Washington Spectator! washingtonspectator.org/project-russ...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

"Bitcoin is on a tear, and if some US lawmakers get their way, we may trade some of our gold reserves for a "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve."....."this would make the worst people in the world extremely wealthy,... and (further) capture government by buying elections.." And more!

submitted 68 days ago • 6 comments

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

submitted 82 days ago • 2304 comments

A trans person didn’t deny your health insurance claim, a giant corporation did. An asylum seeker didn’t raise your rent, a billionaire’s private equity firm did. Our focus must be taking on the billionaires & corporate greed.

submitted 96 days ago • 61 comments

They’re planning a heist in plain sight.

submitted 78 days ago • 821 comments

If we did a fraction of the research into our candidates for elected office as we did for our fantasy football teams, we would have the government we desperately need.

submitted 69 days ago • 502 comments

We are about to get a really good read on the percentage of American minds that have been turned to pudding by information warfare. And it will be immensely helpful to our adversaries.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

I still don't understand how cryptocurrency is even legal

submitted 69 days ago • 38 comments

📄 EXCLUSIVE: The Kremlin's "Project Russia" poses a potent framework for mobilizing illiberal forces against the United States and its allies — and it's all but unknown to Western analysts. We must act to counter it. america2.news/project-russ...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

submitted 71 days ago • 952 comments

Destruction Of Government (by) Elon. That’s what DOGE really means. Say it! A simple lesson on framing: www.theframelab.org/destruction-...

submitted 74 days ago • 7 comments

DOGE is Destruction of Government by Elon or Destroying Our Government Experiment We must not use the fascists' own Orwelian language! A must-read

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk, alleged genius and richest man in the world, could have solved so many problems with healthcare, education, or homelessness. Instead, he chose to be a prick and a troll.

submitted 72 days ago • 92 comments

No port automation for you! #trumpistan #trumpomuskova

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Accurate:

submitted 74 days ago • 232 comments

President Biden and Democrats created over 16 million jobs, the most in any single presidential term, the lowest average unemployment of any administration in over 50 years and the smallest racial wealth gap in 20 years. Trump was the first President in 100 years to lose jobs when he left office!

submitted 73 days ago • 137 comments

Ukrainians are fighting and dying every day so that we can be safe and enjoy the right to say asinine, ignorant, and cowardly things on podcasts.

submitted 89 days ago • 98 comments