The whole government is run by idiots. Every single department. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreigruurfwpun4ouqgdp4iubqr37bkm7uqz4ztcrasma6ds7frtorra
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:
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David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social)
american reporters, you've got to call bullshit on this. vance, purveyor of hate/propaganda, wants the public to believe rules on, for instance, tr...
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...](
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Regulation or Repression? How the Right Hijacked the DSA Debate
The conversion of a disinformation code from self-regulation to requirement sparks an international tiff. What’s really happening?
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Regulation or Repression? How the Right Hijacked the DSA Debate
The conversion of a disinformation code from self-regulation to requirement sparks an international tiff. What’s really happening?
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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:
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Kate Klonick (@klonick.bsky.social)
🚨 I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check &...
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](
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Nils Gilman (@nilsgilman.bsky.social)
Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup....
 ) 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...](
The Duopoly of Doom
How Two Competing Collapse Narratives Define the Modern Political Divide
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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/ )