Grace of the North PhD

Their body language from Helsinki says it all. Trump has obviously been presented with kompromat and knows he has no options but to obey Putin.

The Epstein Emails: The Russian Connection According to Jeffrey Epstein, Russian ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin learned a lot about Trump from their conversations. Then, he died. "Life is short," said the pedophile. "Start with dessert."

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Same weather as in Reykjavík this morning. Foggy and +5°C.
Lots of love from your neighbors

He raped kids

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

I just read: A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy by Lorenz-Spreen et. al. You'll find your criteria defined in the methodologically there.

best stay away from any death related snark, Trump put $170 billion into Immigration enforcement, thereof $75bn to arm ICE
- and of course the new deportation complex ran by Kristi Gnome

I saw a MAGA man ask why it is wrong to have smeks with children - they're really trying to normalize pdfilia.
Megyn Kelly trying to spin 12, 13 and 14 year olds as 'barely legal', talking as if the girls were 16 and 17 - they were not, they were children.

Mentally ill narcissists cosplaying little girls in women's bathrooms became the face of liberal politics. The left didn't just say "live as you want" but "I'll deny science and biology to cater to your mental illness". Inclusion means we make room and new sports categories.

The subtext to the surge in young women saying they hope to leave the U.S. Polling, like anything else that involves human beings, is not strictly analytical. There is an emotional aspect to the results, a natural side effect of asking people how they feel about candidates o...

The Gallup poll finding that 4 in 10 (!) young women would like to move out of the U.S. is striking. But it's also probably a symptom of a deeper problem: a lack of confidence in the American system and its ability to self-correct. www.pbump.net/o/the-subtex...

This is inhumane. Cruelty is the point. And they dare call themselves Christians.
You cannot serve two masters; money or god and good. Greed makes people do ungodly things.

Leaked footage from inside of an ICE detention facility near Houston. No beds, many men and women in one combined cell/room. The A/C is permanently kept on max to freeze people. #cdnpoli

The only consolation is that historically it will be easier now to show what happens to America when Trump's policies are put to work, breaking down society.
This is their ideological leader:

YouTube video by Jack Cocchiarella Trump UNDERAGE CRIME Revealed In LEAKED Epstein Email!

Release the files
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Olq...

This vote will go down in history as the moment when Democrats snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. This is their Chamberlain moment, naive peacemaking with a fascist enemy that cannot be trusted

This was the Democrats peace deal with Hitler, their Chamberlain moment. A historical moment when they sold out America

Now is the time to get what you want out of that dotard

Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism Support for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lo...

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American fascism looks like the president using armed military units from governors loyal to his regime to seize cities run by opposition political figures and it looks like the president using federal law enforcement to target regime opponents. American fascism looks like the would-be self-proclaimed king deploying the military on US soil not only not in response to requests by local or state officials but over — and almost specifically to spite — their vociferous objections.

Just because you feel like your day to day life may have not changed that much much doesn't mean that America hasn't changed dramatically under Trump. Authoritarianism is here, right now. We all need to be as clear eyed about it as @vermontgmg.bsky.social:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

That’s because they’re already coming for us all. They’re operating as though they’re at war. Because they believe that they are.

Brilliant take Eliot! The Public Sphere has been blown to pieces, beyond misinfo MoI is based on equal "ignorance" - a situation BigTech claims doesn't exist bc. they have info to predict and manipulate our behavior. There is no "post truth society" it's just a phase of growing Fascism.

Moving beyond the social part you named, it also blows the Marketplace of Ideas to pieces, destroying the very NeoLiberal premise that Cato operates on. The core of their theory is busted. Saying truth doesn't matter in the MoI is like saying money doesn't matter in financial markets.

The corruption takes place on several levels, on a personal level misinfo undermines citizen's epistemic rights to develop themselves as human beings that can form opinions and evaluate choices. It removes our right to intelligence and uncorrupted cognitive decision-making.

The Misleading Panic over Misinformation People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.

🧵 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...

Schiff: "It's not an operation that should've ever been authorized by the president in the absence of intelligence showing that Iran had made the decision to break out and build a bomb."