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🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

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The way to win the infowar is to scream the truth louder and more creatively than the enemy yells their lies

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Trump Media’s stock price has dumped more than 50% since he took office. Last quarter the company lost $32 million with Truth Social only attracting 350,000 daily users www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/b...

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The Department of Justice has sued every sitting judge in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

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NEW: GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. By @savmargaret.bsky.social

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I'll be joining my MAD colleague tonight to discuss the Information War LIVE at 8pm on Substack. Be there!

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Is the race between Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani a proxy for changes in our media environment? By @jonallsop.bsky.social www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

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"So far, more than 80 op-eds have appeared in local newspapers in more than 30 states, discussing research on Alzheimer’s disease, drought-tolerant trees, addiction treatments, and more." www.science.org/content/arti...

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I tell you about the social media work of @moreperfectunion.bsky.social and @nowthisimpact.bsky.social so that you can add them to your feed and fight fascism every single day by reposting their excellent public interest journalism. Fascism only exists where propaganda is strong. Dilute it w/ facts.

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Without input from parents or students, the Education Department ordered several civil rights investigations on its own — targeting schools with trans athletes, gender-neutral bathrooms and initiatives it sees as discriminatory to white students.

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BREAKING: The gate of Iran's notorious Evin prison in Tehran is hit in a suspected Israeli strike, Iranian state television says. Evin prison is known for holding dual nationals and Westerners often used by Iran as bargaining chips in negotiations with the West.

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i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

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really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

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I have some thoughts about Vance’s (likely intentional) misnaming of Alex Padilla — and it starts back in September 2024, when Trump alleged that immigrants were “eating pets”, a false and xenophobic claim that Vance had boosted on social media early that day.

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Here’s how right-wing billionaires dominate our information system. #medialiteracy #factwarriors #factsmatter #worshipfacts

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Wanna fight fascism? Fight media manipulation. #medialiteracy

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ICE’s argument that its officers need to wear masks due to a surge in assaults doesn’t hold water. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

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Fascism only exists where propaganda is strong. The fascists have flooded the zone with toxic information. DILUTE IT! Flood the zone with facts. It’s literally the only way. #facts

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the conservative majority’s ruling “abandons transgender children and their families to political whims” of lawmakers across the country.

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“By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims,” Justice Sotomayor wrote. https://trib.al/CvHIYfU

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The law doesn't "restrict access." It bans care. This decision is incredibly disappointing and dangerous for trans communities across the country. Trans people deserve to feel safe and get the medical care they need.

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Trump’s Gestapo-esque federal agents manhandled and detained New York City’s comptroller Brad Lander while he demanded a warrant for the arrest of an immigrant targeted by ICE. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:

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President Donald Trump has supported use of asbestos in the past and blamed the mob for its bad reputation. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

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Bad actors use mis-, dis-, and malinformation to manipulate and harm. Bill Braniff of PERIL explains how it fuels violence—and why digital literacy for kids is a vital defense.

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Carlson stood out for challenging Sen. Ted Cruz’s brainless warmongering. That doesn’t mean we have to hand it to him.

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How did no kings go in coastal Georgia ? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 📸👩🏽‍💻 by The Current GA thecurrentga.org/2025/06/14/t...

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KAINE: When you called the Gregg family to tell them that their dad's name was no longer gonna be on the base, what was their reaction? HEGSETH: The Army notified them K: You didn't call any of the families. I've spoken with them. They were called by the press. That's how they learned about this

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Reagan-era judge finally calls out the wildly obvious racism in the DOGE cuts to the NIH

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New study finds that Republican posts on X are flagged as misleading 2.3 times more often than Democratic posts, even when rated by a politically diverse community. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Former Maryland federal contractor's 'scary' search for work - The Baltimore Banner

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if he’s not careful people may start to suspect that the former two-term president is a politician of some kind.

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I've had a secret theory for a while that I guess I'll just throw out there: The right is inevitably going to turn on AI, not because LLMs hallucinate or get things wrong, but because they mostly get things right, and reality, as a great man once said, has a liberal bias.

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The Bukele government harassed and intimidated Salvadoran law enforcement officials who were investigating corruption and assisting a U.S. anti-gang task force, according to interviews. At least eight of them have fled the country with U.S. help.

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Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

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“We’re literally moving quite quickly from not a perfect democracy but a relatively well-functioning democracy into something that looks much more like an authoritarian government.” https://trib.al/QhzVKQR

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It’s almost impressive that the United States has managed to find a way to make FIFA even worse.

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So honored and grateful to have received The Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article of the Year Award from the #ICA25 @icajsd.bsky.social for a paper with my colleagues from the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Trust in News Project: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/reuters...

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"They’re taking Shirly": An Army sergeant thought his family was safe. Then ICE deported his wife. [Published with our friends @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social]

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“(On the very day the Times wrote that a vote for him would be a vote against public “disorder,” one journalist found Cuomo parked illegally in a Manhattan turn lane and another noted that he has been repeatedly ticketed in recent months for speeding in school zones.)”

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Sen Lee’s comments/jokes/tweets were despicable and beyond what a citizen would expect of a sitting senator. The do not represent the values of Americans. And for his staff not to call him out, you are complicit. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

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NEW: A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

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E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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70,000 people marched through Seattle at the No Kings rally. It was loud, it was huge, and it was only a start. While downtown swelled with speeches, ICE tear-gassed protesters in Tukwila. Showing up once isn’t enough. The fight doesn’t end when the march does.

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