Obvious most likely explanation. Leadership should put out a one-sentence statement and skip the cEnSoRShIp drama cycle that they want. Give the VP a warm welcome with pictures of couches or Alf, or use the handy self-serve moderation tools at your disposal. 🤗 RE:
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Alexios Mantzarlis (@mantzarlis.com)
I am going to venture that the bot-like formulation of JD Vance’s seemingly genuine BlueSky handle triggered some automated warning of impostor a...
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It’s gone beyond not identifying it: when the agencies in the US government that are tasked with understanding and disrupting radicalism and even domestic terrorism acknowledge the truth of the matter, *their work is attacked.* Their capacity is cut. RE:
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Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social)
I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as *the* sickness of our political era. It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades...
Oppositionally-defiant low-information people riled up by grifter influencers, wellness and political, who made rejection of vaccines an article of right-wing identity during COVID — and who have since rejected efficacious medicine by association, and elected clowns who affirm their delusions. RE:
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The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com)
If ivermectin was good enough to be rejected by mainstream doctors as a cure for COVID, health-care skeptics seemed to reason, then surely it must ...
Good. More of this. More people who have been defamed need to bring these cases. More donors on the left need to support the heavy costs of these kinds of lawsuits. RE:
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The Associated Press (@apnews.com)
BREAKING: Jury finds MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company. https://bit.ly/43K0qSk
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Real people are suffering economically here in the US because a narcissist no-nothing and his team of sociopaths played Twitter Files with the federal government. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreifn4xhmcvwybox3mmktzompurdzva7pqotagbeslzxwsiynddusbm https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreibspipe5pyla3lzrxbgko2jfjb6wafmvfwctht6iizwegwegqkuhy
Happy Sunday Night! After a weekend of protests, here’s some evening listening: a chat with Clay Risen, author of the book “Red Scare”, which offers a unique perspective and history lesson on McCarthyism and what that moment can teach us about how to fight back now. RE:
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Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org)
On Lawfare Daily, @noupside.bsky.social spoke to @risenc.bsky.social about his book “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern...
Grok gonna start asking if you’ve heard about white genocide in South Africa again pretty soon… Elon transparently hates the fact that his AI *isn’t* a sycophant. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreibrejo2ghmeqwbezkfhm5xbnfxntd2wfonku2lopgew3xavflun6q https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreiauday3p3wqhdxezfqbxwww5nifsxo3ywwjqegg42gpcw5vrxv4gq
Reminded that it was the Catholic Church’s intervention that ultimately dealt with Father Coughlin… RE:
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Jim Swift (@jimswift.bsky.social)
Can an elder please get this Jack Mormon back to church, off of the internet, and maybe convince him to resign from the Senate in shame, assuming h...
When right wing cope that you expect from chan trolls comes from the US Senator from Utah, and the rest of the party - incl Senate leadership - says nothing. Two people are dead and this asshole is trying to collect internet based points. Wannabe-influencer edgelord politicians are a scourge. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreihqqlesuagsd44d7s3ngl7zcq6wzjdfhh2gysfhisdo3wy2cvvg3y https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreihalpfz37aossorety5zhfnkj6qffh2a2x7mgfxs7bht5w6toiq7u