Julie H. Hotard Ph.D., Disinfo expert

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This story describes such a psychologically complex phenomenon, breaking with the parents who didn’t vaccinate you to get protected now. But it’s encouraging to read—it’s not too late to protect yourself and others, and the shots themselves are generally no big deal

It‘s not the biggest thing on a macro level, but one of the things I mourn about this shitshow are the strained or broken friendships that would otherwise be healthy because none of us are our best selves anymore due to the stress of all this.

Trump is dispatching the military against Democratic cities and states.

Despite Governors and mayors responding critically to this, the Trump Administration is continuing to exert their authoritarian  tendencies.

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The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

Did you notice how “states rights” was trotted out to overturn Roe v Wade but doesn’t apply to anything at all now? That said. A National Abortion Ban IS coming. Prepare.

Robert Reich Trump’s Police State Propaganda

ICE and other federal agents conducted a violent, middle-of-the-night raid on an apartment building in Chicago — just days after Trump said the military should go after “the enemy within.” He and his cronies are building a police state piece by piece. https://youtu.be/5zrye_p-EPI?si=VinP3uxFa9_JiN8X

The Vast Reach of Right Wing Disinformation In one of my previous essays, I explained how very much in denial most Americans are about the extent to which our nation is immersed in…

The U.S. is immersed in Right Wing disinfo that persuaded ppl to elect a corrupt gov on the basis of lies. So is the rest of the world. Also, see Christopher Wylie's book Mindf*ck on the billionaire financed social media campaign to both do Brexit & elect T in 2016.

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The Vast Reach of Right Wing Disinformation In one of my previous essays, I explained how very much in denial most Americans are about the extent to which our nation is immersed in…

Propagandists are gonna propaganda. Con artists are gonna con. And since most media are Right Wing now, & spread RWng propaganda, most ppl may believe them. And once again they may vote as if the repeated nonsense lies are true.

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Democracy Docket has a reporter in the courtroom covering the Texas redistricting hearing every single day. Meanwhile, the big legacy media is nowhere to be found.

At stake are 5 congressional seats. If this matters more than both sides journalism, become a DD subscriber today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

“Hello. You have reached the voicemail for the FBI. All our agents are currently busy redacting names from the Epstein files, doctoring evidence to politicize mass shootings and investigating anyone the President does not like. Please leave your contact info and someone will call you back soon.”

Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE] killed an unarmed person just a couple of weeks ago in Franklin Park...They killed somebody...They are just putting out their propaganda and then we've gotta later determine what actually happened."

It's bad enough if President Trump is demanding authoritarian powers in violation of the Constitution ...

But if his unelected aides are manipulating him to get their own authoritarian policies in place, that's sort of a bigger deal.

I just know that we are all meant for so much more.

That’s what’s so frustrating. It’s knowing deep in your soul that this isn’t the way things are supposed to be. It was made this way. And just as it was made. It can be unmade.

My message to Kristi Noem is clear: Get out of Chicago.

More messaging like this please

Our collective memory comes in large part from our media. And most our media are mostly Right Wing & thus are supportive of Right Wingers while obsessing over the supposed dangers of the "Far Left."

Opinion | We Have Seen the ‘Woke Right’ Before, and It Wasn’t Pretty Then, Either

Do we really have such abysmal collective memory that we need to be *told* that the right has a history of censoring free speech? Have we really swallowed so much reactionary-centrist bullshit about "cancel culture" that we've forgotten that primal political truth?

Welker: They say the house is not in session because you don't want to swear in the newly elected democratic congresswoman who would be a critical vote to releasing the Epstein files.

Johnson: It's totally absurd. This has nothing to do with that. It's another red herring.

Yes. For some ppl, their "best friend" in terms of time spent with them, is Sean Hannity or else some Right Wing radio host. Not good.

The Anti-Social Century Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

This one of many reasons that 21st century liberalism should reorient itself around *places*, namely creating places that are actually pleasant to live in, with generous public spaces that bring people's physical bodies into proximity.

inanimate things are not alive. organic things are alive. they are born, they live, they die. they often reproduce.

some people are getting really insanely weird around artificial intelligence. boxes are not alive. large language models are not alive. my shoes are not alive

tell me you understand

The image is an X post by Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis ) from 19 hours ago, stating: "So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?" The post includes a verified badge.

Narrator: This is fascism.

Sen. Schiff to NBC: "He's described me as the enemy within. He's described other Democratic elected officials as the enemy within. He is using the Justice Dept. to go after his political enemies, and he's using the Justice Dept. to protect his political friends … This should concern every American."

Hard to tell the real illegal militia from the fake illegal militia

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YouTube video by Fast Politics w/ Molly Jong-Fast Is the Trump Hiding Job Numbers? w/ Justin Wolfers

Talked to @justinwolfers.bsky.social about those pesky numbers

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The Democrats need to empower messengers that the establishment is scared of, people who don’t delight megadonors. Democrats need to stake their claims on a set of strong beliefs, and see if Americans will follow. They need to stop being lawyerly and timid.