A product of years of propaganda aimed at angering, confusing and exhausting society.

Inside the conservative hunt for partisans in the federal government before Trump takes over | CNN Politics In mid-September, as tech billionaire Elon Musk intensified his efforts to elect Donald Trump as president, a wave of letters arrived at the Department of Transportation, asking the agency to turn ove...

This is chilling. In September, as Elon Musk began buying Trump a presidency after Trump promised him a federal department he could use to destroy his enemies, Trump agents at the Heritage Foundation began filing FOIA requests to find anyone in government who had ever mentioned Musk in any document.

The Most Pernicious Anticipatory Obedience Hides in Plain Sight In the waning days of the 2024 presidential campaign Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos became the target of widespread and deserved disgust for nixing The Washington Post’s policy of endorsing presidential…

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It's not satisfying, but I'm more interested in how the right wing propaganda machine won the information war. Going forward, I'm interested in ways to preserve democracy under the new administration and be competitive in the new information landscape. Bluesky is a good step.

Similar to my reply earlier; that's a very big claim to make without hard evidence. If there is something "there" that affected results, I'm sure it would surface. This theory has been spread pretty widely, so campaign lawyers would definitely be aware of the claims.

You're talking about Sky Follower Bridge. skyfollowerbridge.com

The Polymarket 'Trump Whale' made almost $50 million betting on the election. Regulators are closing in The mysterious “Trump Whale” trader wagered more than $30 million on the election through four anonymous Polymarket accounts

It seems that at least one big player commissioned a private poll. qz.com/donald-trump...

We need to avoid election conspiracy theories. Congress and the courts would of course be the constitutional avenues for challenges to his presidency... however unlikely it may be to get checks and balances from Mike Johnson or the 6-3 SCOTUS.

There are non-credible conspiracy theories about election fraud making the rounds on social media. Likely from foreign sources pretending to be on "our" side to spread division. Each state of course has thorough counting and canvassing procedures.

They'll join soon enough once enough people they want to troll are here. Luckily, with effective tools to ignore and without being promoted by an oligarch site owner.

Surprising how refreshing it is to not have to scroll past and ignore all the bots, trolls, and grifter ads.

So glad to see people moving to an open platform that doesn't boost trolls. Less food for them.