David Goldstein

What's noteworthy is that our systems and institutions haven't even caught up to thwarting 2016-level disinformation efforts but that hasn't stopped the baddies from innovating relentlessly.

This is the pinnacle for disinfo. Deadly, powerful, entrenched with no obvious solution.

If it isn’t obvious by now, their arguments for everything they do are lies.

Their real issue with DEI has been its lack of grounding in good ol’ nepotism this whole time.

This is one of my alltime fav photos for our party - I wish we had the courage to do this 24/7/365 (JFK campaigning in Appalachia in 1960)

This from @mcuban.bsky.social is savage yet true:

"I learned that the Democrats can’t sell worth shit. If you gave the Democrats a dollar bill and said, you can sell these for 50 cents, they would hire 50 people to decide how to do it and then would not know how to sell a dollar for 50 cents.”

You've never been a greater hero to so many of us than you are now. The generations thank you.

Andor is truly outstanding scifi. Using a pretend world to accurately describe our present reality and how we might fight our way out of it. Love every minute of it.

I feel like we're Sopranos folks competing against American Idol forces.

Who pays anymore to spread facts and truths in a manner the folks who need to hear it most can accept? This interview is great, but I always go back to "The Sopranos" barely being able to hit 10 million folks at its apex, while "American Idol" can triple that no sweat.

I love this and of course @shayonislynn.bsky.social and @profsanderlinden.bsky.social are two of the greatest working in this space. What I worry about is while these tactics are proven (same with the work my team does) our shared #1 issue is chronic underfunding.

In many ways, @marcelias.bsky.social is doing the scariest work right now in the public eye as it's through this stuff we find out how truly sick and dying the rule of law is for the country

“A Digital Coup”: A Tech Expert Fills Me In on the DOGE Danger Insider: “A truly unprecedented transfer of governmental power”

Great work from @davidpepperoh.bsky.social Coup as IT infrastructure grab: davidpepper.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

ASPR COVID-19 Testing NAVIGATION

Not announced yet, but program to provide free at-home COVID tests is soon to shut down. Order while you can: covidtests.gov

Box o books

Kash Patel Says He Never Promoted QAnon. Here Are All The Times He Did Kash Patel helped keep the QAnon movement alive on Truth Social, interacting with Q accounts, appearing on QAnon podcasts, and signing his children’s books with a QAnon catchphrase.

Well done @davidgilbert.bsky.social fact checking Kash's lies #Misinformation

If any of your work depends on data.gov there are reliable reports it’s being stripped of key datasets. Worth the risk to download what you need asap

And thank you SO MUCH for all your fantastic work in this space!! This is a winnable fight!!!

If I survive it, already kinda wondering what my memo from the Age of #Trump should be…

Totally- what we work on is to build powerful emotional stories that can then Trojan horse in the truth. Get the spoonful of sugar right and the medicine goes down!

100% agree. Deeper concern is reliance on facts over narratives. If we consistently focus exclusively on the former, no matter how fast we can push, it’ll still be DOA.

That’s definitely true for the audience (ie, accepting disinfo without malicious intent) but Kirk, Owens and fellow bad actors know exactly what they’re doing. And are proud of it!

Great work by @jagolinzer.bsky.social and @profsanderlinden.bsky.social but strongly advise separating #misinfo from #disinfo. The latter is deliberately trying to inflict harm, as Kirk/Owens intended. We can’t just fight back with facts, but need immediate, powerful narratives to bury these attacks

"Uh, well, Madame Vice President, I have a bunch of new cute #kitten videos I can show you."

Use the president's #pardons to help people understand the fight is no longer right vs left and hasn't been for years. Conservatism has no space for pardoning your own violent political supporters. Only autocracy does.

Tell the stories of Jan.6 and ask where on the right those stories are OK.

How Popular YouTubers Pushed Young Male Voters Toward Trump How podcasters like Joe Rogan and Logan Paul turned young men, a once apolitical demographic, into a massively powerful voting bloc

This is fascinating
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Good piece from @richardwike.bsky.social but misses 2 crucial parts of the problem - the unequal nature in which side of the political spectrum #democracy is being undermined from and how modern media tools are allowing anti-democratic actors to consistently win.

Those topics MUST be addressed.

"Yeah, Jim, the whole 'questioning the use of mass violence by political leaders' doesn't quite place nicely right now with maximizing shareholder value, so, you know...stfu"

100%. We all have faults, but can't stop us from performing miracles for folks as well. This is angel-level shit, and needed now more than ever.