Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems
@upine.bsky.social
Analysis of effects of disinfo on social systems, writer http://Medium.com/@upine "All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do bothsidesism."
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Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · yesterday"Agency Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress. The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation's primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
Most people outside of academia don't know how fragile research ecosystems of talent, infrastructure, and momentum really are. Once the funding, people, and institutional memory are gone, it’s incredibly hard to rebuild.
The bigger tragedy is that many researchers will be forced to forgo a research career entirely. Think of all the innovations and cures that will be lost to the world. Americans will pay for this structural vandalism for generations to come.
Thanks Jenny, Argentina, the US and wherever they can outright bribe the government for citizenship for starters. The idea of setting up a new “Dutch East India Company” to compete with nation states including having their own military does not seem too far off!!
CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
Trump goads the crowd into booing Kaitlan Collins, then says "she's such an unhappy person. She never smiles. She's a very unhappy person."
The thing about the Tucker Carlson//Jacob Rees-Mogg interview is that Tucker is an American moron whose entire tactic is “assume the other guy won’t question my premises”, up against a British aristocrat that debates for fun at Oxford Union. Its like a small animal encountering an Apex predator
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d agoTucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔
These people don't want a "color-blind meritocracy"! They are white supremacists who believe non-whites are inferior and the benefits of our citizenship should reflect it.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 13h agoA GOP schism over the Texas candidate Bo French’s social-media post reveals the limits of the party’s defense of a color-blind meritocracy, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues.
I didn't know until a couple days ago that Drunk History is back! (The syllabus for the New Deal needs to be updated to reflect the latest scholarship on Frances Perkins and FDR getting booed by Congress after he sang them the New Deal song.) m.youtube.com/watch?v=YAw6...
FDR’s Labor Secretary Frances Perkins (featuring Mae Whitman) - Drunk History
YouTube video by Comedy Central
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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h agoHear me out -- Drunk History: Live
They're really flooding football games with these ads, but it feels like the only result is making low-information voters realize how obsessed Republicans are with people's privates
Drew Magary@drewmagary.bsky.social · 14h agoGot another anti-trans campaign ad just now and man just fucking leave the trans folks alone already. Fuck’s sake.
Historians: What the fuck are you talking about, you insane clown?
GOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during Watergate
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal. “We now know more ab…
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"Were he trying to raise the cost of diesel, Trump would be hard pressed to improve upon the combination of trade wars, tariffs, and a Strait of Hormuz-choking Mideast war. At this point, he may as well propose doubling the 24.4 cents per gallon federal diesel tax."
Diesel Don is tanking the GOP
Record high prices are one of Trump’s defining political failures.
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Originalism is both #gaslighting & a secret handshake code. As #gaslighting it serves as a Trojan horse, to smuggle all manner of other things in. As a handshake code it's a way to coordinate the smuggled evils. So in that broad sense, it's ALL originalism, even when--as here--it plainly isn't.
Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · 15h agoThe current court majority isn’t remotely originalist. The only one of their major conservative decisions on the last several years that is even arguably originalist is Dobbs. The immunity case, the Muslim ban case, all the cases striking down the Voting Rights Act? Not a bit.
"A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally." This factory is the community's economic cornerstone, and its wages helped sustain everything from hair salons and coffee shops to local auto repair shops. 💔 apnews.com/article/trum...
A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.
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But Republican Dan Sullivan is facing a tough senate reelection challenge from Mary Peltola and needs to message a win, so Trump made stuff up again to boost his standing. Link: buff.ly/ZTNEWGg
“Henley, who grew up in Cass County and went to UNT, has always been a Democrat supporter and has been a major player in land conservation and preservation efforts like with Caddo Lake Institute” @jeremyswallace.bsky.social
Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 16h agoHenley, a TX native, is becoming the absolute biggest donor to Rosenthal, Ag Comm candidate @claytontuckertx.com and @vikkigoodwintx.bsky.social battling alt Gov Dan Patrick. He’s also a top donor to super PAC @jamestalarico.bsky.social www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
I imagine Roon et al would be a lot more motivated to make them want to not do bad things if “you personally will go to federal prison if they do bad things” was the law.
Phillip Carter@phillipcarter.dev · 18h agoalso talk about hubris
So, much of the AI discourse can be reduced to one simple motivation: womb envy.
Next week I get to teach one of my favorite books for my “From the New Deal to Age of Reagan” class: MY SOUL IS RESTED, a marvelous collection of oral histories of civil rights participants and leaders. I now have to hold the book together with a rubber band because the cover has fallen off.
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Tariffs Gulf War 3 mass deportation of productive neighbors Cut families' Obamacare $ for health insurance
I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
ALT: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
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I don’t think the ad is especially helpful to Paxton (hey, the wife I cheated on says if she can vote for a scumbag, you can, too). But it’s more than fair to investigate whether her support for him is a chit in their divorce settlement negotiations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
As She Divorces Ken Paxton, His Wife Urges Texans to Vote for Him
In a new ad, Angela Paxton tells voters to focus on the “whole team,” not “individual players.”
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Wolff also recounted asking Sam Nunberg, one of Trump's earliest political hires, to explain the president during the first months of his term. "Sam looked at me like he was incredulous," Wolff said. "And he said to me, 'You don't get it.' And I said, 'What?' And then Sam said, 'He's an idiot.'"
Michael Wolff says that Trump has threatened all his former schools to hide his records because one of his greatest fears is people finding how dumb he is. (As if we don't witness this on a daily basis. 🙄) www.rawstory.com/trump-alma-m...
Trump team threatened alma mater to bury his deepest insecurity: biographer
President Donald Trump's camp threatened his alma mater in 2016 to bury his deepest insecurity, according to biographer Michael Wolff.Wolff made the claim that Trump has been trying to hide his academ...
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