Dan Silverman

This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values

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🚨BREAKING: I’m told Lord Palpatine and his supporters also believe the final halftime show billboard was directed at them and a Star Destroyer is currently en route to the Bay Area

You know what’s even worse than letting kids see some suggestive dancing in a musical performance on TV?

Protecting the world’s most notorious pedophile and child sex trafficker

All I can say is I hope more of them come to see it that way. But until then it still is a lot more central in our (especially elite) info environment than I’d like

Yes but I do think we have to recognize the collective action problem

He probably thinks he’s fighting the good fight (or maybe that it’s a good side gig ha, I don’t know), and if he leaves what will that do?

Only if he, Matt Y, and dozens of others left would it make a dent. And the pols too

It’s awful. I mostly go there for “material” since I literally study hate and misinfo but sometimes I myself get repelled

My point here isn’t actually to bash James Surowiecki! I quite like him

My point is get us to think more systemically about what a strange, and broken, information environment there is

And how James individually leaving would do nothing. But ~500 James‘s and ~500 politicians leaving would kill it

That is, the post would’ve been literally been on the Neo-Nazi site Stormfront

The journalist’s attention would be elsewhere

But now, Stormfront has latched onto X and merged with a large swath of journalists, pundits, and electeds

So James spends a chunk of his time as a reply guy to Neo-Nazis

The madness of X in a nutshell:

A groyper‘s Holocaust denial post (cut off) does great numbers — 12K likes, 500K views.

A prominent liberal journalist and author comes in to try to rationally debate it. 300 likes, 25K views.

In a healthy info environment, these two things wouldn’t be interacting

Dog kicked by Memphis Safe Task Force member on the mend as US Marshals defend action The dog’s owner told Action News 5 that the deputy U.S. marshal seen punting her pup had no reason to do so, but officials with the U.S. Marshals Service say otherwise.

Small dog suffers broken rib after being repeatedly kicked by U.S. Marshals deputy. "Action News 5 obtained two videos that show the marshals service employee kicking Yoshi not once, but twice." www.actionnews5.com/2026/02/07/d...

oooh we are posting super bowls?

As a specialist in Islamic ceramics *cracks knuckles* I present this fabulous 11th c. lustre painted bowl from Fatimid Cairo depicting a Coptic priest. Its white glaze imitates Chinese porcelain and the lustre technique was invented in Iraq a century earlier.

“.. This is a 37 point shift left.”

Damn, that's some fucked-up horseshoe-theory shit

Darfur’s Endless War | Jérôme Tubiana As paramilitaries tear through their already devastated province, self-defense fighters in North Darfur have taken up arms to defend their homes.

“Between 200,000 and 500,000 people are thought to have stayed” in Darfur’s capital before it fell on October 26, writes Jérôme Tubiana. “Close to 100,000 fled the city and surrounding villages.… Where are all the others?”

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

"Epstein class" is terrific not simply because several of them are directly tied to Epstein's crimes, but because it strikes at the corruption, immorality and impunity of that entire circle.

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

This is very good.

I think folks on this website are going to have to acclimate to the fact that the political asteroid you want (need?) is going to talk some about how Trump *said he'd do all the things* but only made everything worse.

That's going to maximize side-switching and electoral juice

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

One day after meeting Susie Wiles, Tulsi Gabbard told the NSA not to publish the intelligence report. Instead, she instructed NSA officials to transmit the highly classified details directly to her office. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Good point

To be fair, there is a slightly longer history of this oscillation in Europe

I think it’s qualitatively different now but the polls have tanked when Rs were in power pre-Trump

Ok the more glass-half-full takeaway is that even despite the administration *presenting* Canada and Europe as unfriendly, over 70% *of Republicans* reject those frames

“What, you won’t let us conquer you?! That’s VERY unfriendly!”

MAGA-aligned military commanders are pressuring enlisted service members to go to the Melania movie and bring their families. Troops at 8 different bases have complained. www.businessinsider.com/us-military-...

It’s pretty crazy that the president and his family are just stealing billions and billions of dollars directly from taxpayers and the political media is like “It’s Trump so this isn’t a big deal, probably”

See how it might be useful to have someone on your team with a giant megaphone who can rally attention to this, Stancil haters?

Well played

But he’s spouting off about Epstein again — with millions of views — and providing another fat softball over the plate for conspiracy theorists to score some domestic political points and smear a rival?

If Bibi cared about American or diaspora Jews at all, the words “Jeffrey” and “Epstein” would never come out of his mouth

Man, @jamellebouie.net has one of the most good-humored, unfazed approaches to getting a significant amount of online hate and bigotry directed at you that I’ve ever seen. Something to aspire to

It can't be BOTH a credible way of announcing major hegemonic diplomacy and warfare AND an "oopsie! The staffer made an error acting on their own and we'll take it down" communication mechanism here