J. Allen Kaiser

Oh, lort…the only imagery I can picture with that is 2016 Trump supporters eagerly posting kek/Pepe-the-frog memes.

I think what RFK Jr. meant to say was “the CDC director refused to put kids' health at risk when I told her to, so I fired her."

For most of my life, I’d assumed that human intelligence graphed on a steep bell-curve, with most people falling roughly within a narrow band to either side of “average” on the peak of that bell.

Increasingly, I’m realizing that assumption was naïve.

@jayinkyiv.bsky.social has a YouTube channel, and it’s a good one. I’m really appreciating his takes. Jay’s updates regularly give a deeper backstory-context than you’ll see in the headlines and even on many other pro-Ukraine YT channels

Slava Ukraïni

YouTube serving up ads for paid Russian propagandists above the search results for journalists in Ukraine.

@jjsmart.bsky.social YouTube really needs to clean up their act. Look at the header ad they serve *above* your profile when I search for “Jason Jay Smart” — a promo for a paid Russian propagandist, Tim Pool.

BTW, I love your [Alphonse Mucha] Art Nouveau header image!

Oh hi Grammy! I was over on [redacted] under a different handle.

Decided to start fresh here on Bsky with a new nom-de-NAFO after the US elections.

Thanks so much for the follow — obvs following you back now too.

Slava Ukraïni!

What happens if we all wear masks and yell at each other that we’re all ice, stuffing each other into cars, stopping those cars, and stuffing the occupants into yet other cars?

It’s a perfect ICE ouroboros.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing… I mean… unless the Israelis are using a Library and its URL for some other surreptitious / nefarious purpose… then taking down a library website would be rather counterproductive, no?

an easy disguise: all you’d need are some black masks

They probably know they’ll be flagged by the authorities for *buying* either, since both are considered “subversive” by state security services.

If they *steal* the Russian constitution or Orwell’s 1984, there’s no record created of the person seeking out or owning them…

While working for Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, "Sergio Gor" and Senator Paul took a week-long trip to Russia in August of 2018.
Shortly after this trip, Senator Paul promoted him to the position of Deputy Chief of Staff in January 2019.

"Sergio Gor" (Sergey Gorokhovsky) rapidly ascended in Republican politics over the years for good reason: He delivered massive amounts of cash through "donation fundraising."
Jesse Benton, his co-worker from Sen. Paul's office, went to prison for laundering $100,000 from Russia.

Obviously they’re cowards—not the issue

It’s the reliance on the same vapid reasoning as Qanon to make its point

“You can’t spell __ without __” is the same anagram-parsing drivel that drives MAGA conspiracism

Won’t win any hearts or minds—what is does do: frame Trump’s opposition as meaningless

The evangelicals eat this shit up.

No joke.

Tucker knows he just won major cred with the Christian nationalist crowd, has them in the palm of his hand.

U K R A I N E

What about helping UKRAINE?

Yep

Because it relies on the same vapid reasoning as Qanon-type thinking to make its point

“You can’t spell __ without __” is the same type of anagram-parsing drivel that drives MAGA conspiracy theories

It’s meaningless

😂 Thanks AI

Fair point abt playing within a fickle algo

…but for these guys specifically—who work with/function-as Dem mouthpieces—it goes back to the Dem inauthenticity problem we touched on

This US moment requires no spin. Dems COULD easily own public opinion if they’d just call a spade a spade

I mean… you can’t spell “nice” or “poultice” without ‘ice” either. But pointing it out doesn’t make it meaningful.

There are so many valid criticisms to be made against ICE, Trump, Miller, and MAGA, but this isn’t one of them—it in fact cheapens & distracts from them.

At least with BTC, I agree with what he has to say most of the time— his actual content in the vids is worthwhile— which is what makes his use of deceptive thumbnail images/titles so much more frustrating.

I actually *want* people seeing his content… these clickbait tactics get in the way of that.

Yeah, I did exactly the same thing.

Pakman’s cognitive dissonance & rampantly fallacious framing is so insufferable that I’ve sometimes wondered if he’s actually a mole trying to poison discourse—destroying valid Trump criticism & Dem viewpoints

While not as bad, I’d add Ben Meiselas of MTN to the list for willful misrepresentation

Truer if big.

@briantylercohen.bsky.social Would you PLEASE stop using deceptive clickbait thumbnails?
Obama is nowhere in this vid—using his image + a title quotation *he did not say* is intentionally misleading; it’s destructive to your own brand & to Dem credibility

For all our sakes—do better—BE MORE HONEST

No collection site listed.

So Elon sent them someone’s hair and that hair tested negative.

Wow. shocker.

It’s estimated that Russia spends 85% of its intelligence budget on “Active Measures” subversion & disinfo campaigns—rather than on actual intelligence gathering

They employ 10s of thousands of ppl specifically to undermine & erode democracies—weaponizing open societies’ freedoms against themselves

Me too. Not sure why his user handle didn’t hyperlink in the original post.

I recently discovered @mindfulrussell.bsky.social Dr. Russel Razzaque’s YT channel—highly recommend

Here’s an intro excerpted from his latest vid, with a quick WhoWhatWhyHow explainer of his content

Sanity in what feels an increasingly insane, Trumpy world

YT channel:
youtube.com/@russrazz?si...

Look at the doggo shoes! Pretty brilliant way to keep service dogs’ paws from being injured on broken glass & debris. I wonder how much training is required to get them used to & comfortable wearing them without instinctively chewing them off.