Dr. D

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working.

This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.

Let me explain & offer some advice.

What an incredible summary of our recent report on our election rumor research at UW CIP! Thank you!
Cc: @katestarbird.bsky.social

Last week I wrote about how these rumor disasters happen and a little comms advice on how to prep and respond. But the @cip.uw.edu recently wrote a approach that could be expanded to inoculate communities by covering in real time how rumors spread. 🧵

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Thanks for highlighting our recent report, @emmettoconnell.bsky.social!

(Cc: @danielletomson.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social)

Being Sensemakers: A Framework for University-Based Rapid Research of Elections, Crisis Events, and Beyond – Simple Book Publishing A framework for university-based rapid research of elections, crisis events, and beyond

Since 2020, our team has iterated on a model for “rapid research” to help surface, analyze, & resolve rumors about election administration. This work demonstrates an innovative role for researchers to support public sensemaking during rapidly unfolding events.

uw.pressbooks.pub/rapidresearc...

I'm proud to be a co-author on this new @cip.uw.edu report with my colleagues @danielletomson.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social @mertcanbayar.bsky.social and @emmaspiro.bsky.social.

Check out Kate's 🧵 ...

Check out this recent @seattletimes.com op-ed by @cip.uw.edu research manager @danielletomson.bsky.social ⤵️⤵️⤵️

In today's world, we need real stories, not just facts | Op-Ed Human beings want their explanations of the world to feel real. Yet that desire for authenticity, for something that feels true, can be easily exploited.

In today’s @seattletimes.com, I share my concept of the Authenticity Gap, when our stories and experiences don’t align. Now more than ever, we need a new generation of sensemakers willing to explain things as they are, while roadmapping where we would like to go.
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/in-t...

@schumer.senate.gov would be better off spending time at the Kabbalah center right now than doing a focus group

The thing about living in Western PA is that you think when you go elsewhere in the world, people just know what “nebby” or “yinz” means

So many small fandoms that went MAGA eventually added up. Yet these individual constituencies don’t necessarily aligned. Im not sure incoherent groups make up a coherent ideology but let’s see..

The epitome of having Carhartt gear but not doing Carhartt shit

Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters In a stunning White House appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib B…

Wrote a thing at how the Bukele/Trump meeting, full of absolute nonsense and bullshit in support of out-and-out fascism and despotism, is yet another dark day in America. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/t...

Everybody just wants to cosplay worker.

If politics is downstream from culture, what is culture downstream from?

Today I’m missing Todd Gitlin.

Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats

"Also terminated is a project led by economist and political scientist Christopher Blattman at the University of Chicago that aims to better understand how drug cartels in Colombia are organized and operate and how they recruit new members." www.science.org/content/arti...

A keurig coffeemaker and a giant Costco container of coffee mate on a faux-granite counter, an abomination in the sight of God

country went to hell when auto shops put these in in place of a glass carafe that had been on the burner continuously since the Truman administration

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

Big opportunity if he elevates lesser known voices in his own party, smaller podcasters, grassroots activists, or aligned entertainers. Experimental if he brings constituents in to have frank convos. Could be cool live. But doing it to “bridge a divide” and bring on MAGA favorites? Not sure there.

Dear friend and ER doctor (for veterans and during COVID in NYC) is a bit too busy saving lives than to give responses beyond this one that won’t be read and are asked for in bad faith.

I was told by a few to post this on here. So Hello BlueSky!

While working at the VA I’ve gotten to know, treat and help our veterans. So when I received the DOGE email, it struck a cord. But I’m a model federal employee, and to avoid a no reply = resignation. I responded. How’d I do? #doge

Enough! This Bullshit Has to End

I wrote about the Free Press's shameful decision to publish Hanania's apologia for Nazi salutes www.unpopularfront.news/p/enough

Google is tripe kosher All Images Videos Shopping Forums News Al Overview Learn more : Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow. Kosher meat can be ordered online, including kosher beef tripe. ~ Generative Al is experimental.

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

Maybe something for Misinfo Day at @cip.uw.edu to consider

Perhaps better than a book is cutting it up into video clips for TikTok haha

David Icke @davidicke Follow The vast majority of these people have families and kids to support, but you don't give a fuck you arrogant spoilt elitist child. You are a 13-year-old narcissistic tyrant working with a 13-year-old narcissistic tyrant and yet people who call themselves adult hang on your every syllable no matter what you say. The world needs to grow up - starting with you Musk. PS: Apologies to 13-year-olds. x.com/elonmusk/statu... O Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • Feb 23 Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. ¿ Rate proposed Community Notes → 6:01 AM • Feb 23, 2025 • 575.1K Views

David Icke & @davidicke Follow No, I am not advocating for government. I am advocating against tyranny as l have decade after decade. I am advocating for people to be seen for what they contribute and not to be judged as a single group for the corruption of the few. Black and white is how we got here and that's how you are being manipulated to finish the job. How many federal workers are we talking about who will produce lists that have to be processed? Will they ever be processed? Of course not - that's not the idea. Firing as many as possible to deregulate the oligarchs and open the way for Al dystopia is the WHY this is happening. My God - the naivety. 7:30 AM • Feb 23, 2025 • 21.9K Views

David Icke, notorious English peddler of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about lizard people, is calling out Elon Musk on Twitter and it is fascinating to watch:

These are the same attention dynamics that feed the spread of rumors and partisan outrage, have been effectively exploited by right wing populists around the world, and are reconfiguring global politics. But sure, Facebook, go for it!

A Spotlight on Rumors YouTube video by UW (University of Washington)

A powerful talk (that should be published in a book essay someday,) going over the different “phases” of rumor and disinformation research of the past decade, with a powerful call to action. @katestarbird.bsky.social is a legend who I am honored to work with www.youtube.com/live/YnJ5o09...