Invisible Rulers just released in Slovakia and I love the cover the publisher gave it. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreibphcz6vfaloc25dr5yaz5a2st37hqjtaxy77tal74j5euwfcsmte
“great American job creator” https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreif7xyb4hgdjaycg3tijdjofsnxaszav2sdgevskirvgclxmphpnue https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreidsistpkm6jcbylwieldh73fpwl6y3hvbbsk56uqskqnwzmcz5pcq
Since there’s been an arrest made in the pipe bombing case I want to take a moment to resurface the reporting of Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public & University of Austin Chair of Censorship Hoaxes. He did a media blitz “just asking questions” ab if the 💣 were a “disinfo campaign” by the FBI. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreibke5fnit3ov4qvqn3loykfmfw3nci4rgpcs73vm2bnp2jrwxl2hy https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreiblwxitn6iu6lqejmljst2afh3k45ali4ufbzsapvx7dqeehykwv4 https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreigfaz3vx56v4h3jhm32737kuyd7kheuw2gju3my6vpbd65ouxn4ei
“Censorship” is a thought-terminating cliché. These people want you to believe that: - labeling is censorship - fact-checking is censorship - transparency is censorship - research is censorship What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship. RE:
Reupping this since it looks like X is ab to get hit with a wave of fines under the Digital Services Act and JD Vance is already tweeting about how not complying with transparency and data access laws in the market you operate in is "censorship". Get caught up: [www.lawfaremedia.org/article/regu...]( ) [lawfaremedia.org/article/regula...]( )
I am curious to see if Europe takes the approach that Brazil did when Elon simply refuses to follow the laws in the market he's operating in. RE:
If you were a tech company employee who moderated content overseas — say, trying to prevent a repeat of the Myanmar genocide! or maybe policing CSAM! Or hate speech illegal in your country! — you are a “censor” under the definitions of the Republicans in power. [www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-orders-enhanced-vetting-applicants-h-1b-visa-2025-12-04/ ) [Exclusive: Trump administratio...](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-orders-enhanced-vetting-applicants-h-1b-visa-2025-12-04/ )
Appreciated [@nilsgilman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy]( ) succinctly synthesizing irreconcilable tensions bt existential threat narratives of the left & right: on the left, extinction fears related to breaching ecological limits of the planet; on the right, demographic collapse [nilsgilman.substack.com/p/the-duopol...]( ) https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreig3jf7ppvmowbt6m7zsgtpyi2os3ezepptrkqd2hlif7n2dtzfce4
This review is a very very enjoyable read, largely due to the juxtaposition between the caliber of prose in the evisceration vs the subject material itself. [www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/12/02/olivia-nuzzi-american-canto-memoir-review/ ) [Review | Olivia Nuzzi tries an...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/12/02/olivia-nuzzi-american-canto-memoir-review/ )
This is extremely “natural baby” MAHA coded lol RE: