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Putin's weaponization of immigration that's been so successful for him in Europe has now heavily expanded to the US.
— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) January 8, 2024
Russia now running networks to flood immigrants from not only Mexico, but all over Asia and the Arab world into the US, to drain resources and polarize society,… pic.twitter.com/udF6xgolq9
Hard to tell these days the difference between the real crazy and satirical crazy.
Oh my God https://t.co/SOBdxnyZUs
— Gen Michael Hayden (@GenMhayden) January 7, 2024
Here's another view of craziness of 2023, showing the monthly average global surface temperature for each year, 1940-2023.
— Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) January 7, 2024
December's record 1.78°C above the baseline may mark the largest monthly anomaly in more than 125,000 years. pic.twitter.com/3FRZWEq89Q
Got me there for a minute, I'm going whaaaat, until I realized the satire and Erskine is one of writers for Jimmy Kimmel and she does these satirical videos. lol
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Obama, worried about Trump, urges Biden circle to bolster campaign
The former president shared his thoughts about the reelection campaign during a private lunch with Biden at the White House
By Tyler Pager
January 6, 2024 at 9:34 a.m. EST
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/06/obama-biden-meeting-campaign-2024/?
Holy fuck. Look at this Russian clown car.
— Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🎈 (@jimstewartson) January 6, 2024
Vivek, on Roseanne promising illegal pardons for insurrectionists, white supremacist election interferers, and Julian Assange—all being embraced by Putin’s American General.
Jesus Christ our national security apparatus is a joke. pic.twitter.com/ukuo5ruJcP
11 months before stealing the 2016 election with the Russians, Mike Flynn talks about how “false information is applied” & says his RT counterpart “is trying to get me to be more specific… We do have to be much more specific about our relationship.”
— Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🎈 (@jimstewartson) January 6, 2024
They did.
h/t @SimsalaMaya https://t.co/4beS94Vtx1 pic.twitter.com/Xdtri0yrBO
I shot this documentary the month after J6. I have learned an enormous amount in the three years since, but I stand by every word. There is STILL no one with the guts to really talk about how it worked and who planned it. https://t.co/mJB6bMbIkT
— Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🎈 (@jimstewartson) January 7, 2024
William Bennett
1h ago
Sgt. US Army Retired, service continues
https://post.news/@/1touguhy2
One of those "generals" mentioned is Gen. Charles Flynn, brother of Mike Flynn - another question.
Col. Earl Matthews, the top lawyer for the D.C. National Guard during the assault on the Capitol, said in a whistle-blower complaint that he was punished for contradicting the testimony of two top generals.
Colonel Matthews, who was involved in key meetings about the Guard deployment, said he initially gave his account of what happened to Congress in 2021 after he saw top Army officials try to downplay their role in the delay.
Colonel Matthews drafted a 36-page memo that he submitted to the House Jan. 6 committee, accusing General Piatt and Gen. Charles Flynn of being “absolute and unmitigated liars” in their testimony before Congress.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/us/politics/capitol-riot-inquiry-fbi-congress.html
In a QAnon Space last night, with Pizzagate employees in tow, including Erik Prince operative Lara Logan, Mike Flynn threatens the 2024 elections again:
— Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🎈 (@jimstewartson) January 6, 2024
“Like I say, I’m not sure we’re going to have an election.”
These people take this as a direct order:
“Prevent the election.”… https://t.co/XmXizrIxyH pic.twitter.com/plDIkTg3y2
How citizen investigators are helping the FBI track down Jan. 6 rioters
Jan 3, 2024 6:35 PM EST
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-citizen-investigators-are-helping-the-fbi-track-down-jan-6-rioters
The Jan. 6 investigation is the largest FBI operation in history. More than 1200 people have been charged and over 900 convicted. But it has stretched the bureau’s resources and has often had to rely on the work of citizen investigators who came to be known as 'sedition hunters.' Judy Woodruff spoke with one of these anonymous sleuths as part of her series, America at a Crossroads.
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6th grader murdered, but no thoughts and prayers anymore, just "get over it" now.
Trump on Iowa’s deadly school shooting yesterday: It’s horrible but we have to get over it pic.twitter.com/8izgCBxcAl
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) January 5, 2024
The going rate is a small fraction of the take. Pays to be corrupt.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Fined $12,000 For Alleged Illegal Super PAC Solicitations
Ana Faguy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anafaguy/2024/01/05/marjorie-taylor-greene-fined-12000-for-alleged-illegal-super-pac-solicitations/?sh=7f14a92d7929
Jan 5, 2024,02:48pm EST
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was fined thousands of dollars after the Federal Election Commission determined she illegally solicited contributions to a super PAC aligned with her, documents made public Friday revealed.
The squeaky sound that you hear when one goes to fart, it gets restricted, and the air goes angularly out the side of the orifice. It's like that.
Wow. Nikki Haley just went full MAGA, saying she’d pardon Trump and she doesn’t even care if Trump is guilty or not: “It’s not about guilt or innocence.”
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) January 5, 2024
She says you can’t have an “80 year old sitting in jail.” pic.twitter.com/V7TuLD7rgq
Makes sense, inflate the price of apartments so that it could cover for a corrupted political contribution. Then deflate them back down for the tax evasion.
NEW: Donald reversed his stance on Qatar the SAME month they bought a $6.5 million apartment at Trump World Tower.
— Mary L. Trump (@MaryLTrump) January 4, 2024
2017: Qatar is a “funder of terrorism.”
2018: Qatar is a partner in “stopping the funding of terrorism.”
For the rest of this story, link in bio. pic.twitter.com/OlfKx5X2ku
The suspect who left pipe bombs in Capitol Hill the night before Jan. 6 has still not been caught. Three years later, the Justice Department isn't even taking questions about the investigation. What happened? @MacFarlaneNews looks back on the case and what we still don't know. pic.twitter.com/h6h8h5k2Zm
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 4, 2024
A girl was allegedly raped in the metaverse. Is this the beginning of a dark new future?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/05/metaverse-sexual-assault-vr-game-online-safety-meta
Nancy Jo Sales
British police are investigating the case of a minor who was allegedly subjected to a virtual gang rape. Expect more cases
The "lung float" test is being used to charge women with murder. Many experts say it's unreliable.
— ProPublica (@propublica) January 5, 2024
“There’s no way you can determine live birth versus stillbirth with this test," said one doctor, who called the test “an outrageous breach of science.” https://t.co/Ka5UcSeIpe
We're building in America again! pic.twitter.com/PXFmWMOax3
— Rep. Mark Pocan (@RepMarkPocan) January 5, 2024
I wrote about false-flag conspiracy theories, and how conspiracy theorists exploit mental shortcuts that our brains use to process information — essentially hijacking these processes to make people more susceptible to falsehoods.
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) January 5, 2024
My latest:https://t.co/5PwYoY5r5A pic.twitter.com/Lsep0Vf1AC
Just a small part of trump's and his GOP ensemble mass murdering spree. I believe that's some of their motive is to try to cover and disinform with some paid hacks that keep pushing debunked theories and attacks on science and scientists. They know their followers won't bother checking anything out and just believe whatever they say. Then they can literally get away with murder.
Hydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during COVID, study finds
Former US President Donald Trump said: ‘What do you have to lose? Take it.’
https://www.politico.eu/article/hydroxychloroquine-could-have-caused-17000-deaths-during-covid-study-finds/
JANUARY 4, 2024 3:43 PM CET
2 MINUTES READ
Nearly 17,000 people may have died after taking hydroxychloroquine during the first wave of COVID, according to a study by French researchers.
The anti-malaria drug was prescribed to some patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic, "despite the absence of evidence documenting its clinical benefits," the researchers point out in their paper, published in the February issue of Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.
Now, researchers have estimated that some 16,990 people in six countries — France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the U.S. — may have died as a result.
That figure stems from a study published in the Nature scientific journal in 2021 which reported an 11 percent increase in the mortality rate, linked to its prescription against COVID-19, because of the potential adverse effects like heart rhythm disorders, and its use instead of other effective treatments.
Researchers from universities in Lyon, France, and Québec, Canada, used that figure to analyze hospitalization data for COVID in each of the six countries, exposure to hydroxychloroquine and the increase in the relative risk of death linked to the drug.
In fact, they say the figure may be far higher given the study only concerns six countries from March to July 2020, when the drug was prescribed much more widely.
Hydroxychloroquine gained prominence partly due to French virologist Didier Raoult who had headed the Méditerranée Infection Foundation hospital, but was later removed amid growing controversy.
It was also considered something of a “miracle cure” by the then-U.S. President Donald Trump, who said: “What do you have to lose? Take it.”
FLASH: Judge sentences Jan 6 defendant Christopher Worrell, who absconded before prior sentencing hearing and was a fugitive in late 2023, to TEN YEARS PRISON. https://t.co/uhOJXq3Soc
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) January 4, 2024
Cats
Follow the Leader pic.twitter.com/5zipeyG1bG
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) December 9, 2023
Bad cat ? pic.twitter.com/vZ6SEXQBWk
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) January 4, 2024
A rare Snow Leopard into the wild pic.twitter.com/2aXMrdOUOh
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) January 2, 2024
We all know that interspecies empathy exists ….. and even more than in humans. pic.twitter.com/cUJ95DPc86
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) November 20, 2023
Raccoon and cat have breakfast and a third guest would like to join pic.twitter.com/pGkUsb89Rx
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) October 21, 2023
No president EVER personally enriched himself more while in office than Donald Trump. And mostly, in his case, from foreign cash. I don’t want to hear another peep about bogus Biden allegations. Game, set, match. Move on. https://t.co/mHtNi7GOxw
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) January 4, 2024
To no surprise, the second largest payer to traitor trump in this particular report was Saudi Arabia. That's not counting other billions that went to trump and family.
Doug Mastriano is an election denier who, despite having taken an oath to defend the Constitution, supported and appears to have participated in an insurrection against it.
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) January 4, 2024
Now he is facing an ethics complaint—based on a CREW report—for doing so. https://t.co/Ep9ZtnKWup
Trump Received Millions From Foreign Governments as President, Report Finds
House Democrats released evidence that the former president took in at least $7.8 million from foreign entities while in office, engaging in the kind of conduct the G.O.P. is grasping to pin on President Biden.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/us/politics/trump-hotels-foreign-business-report.html
Pup using his tennis ball catapult pic.twitter.com/aTLIEWjcdW
— Wolf of X (@tradingMaxiSL) January 2, 2024
State Capitols evacuated after bomb threats
The state Capitol complexes in Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Michigan were evacuated Wednesday after bomb threats were made, officials said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/state-capitol-buildings-evacuated-bomb-threats-rcna132096
Jan. 3, 2024, 10:16 AM MST
By Adam Edelman and Henry J. Gomez
At least four state capitol complexes across the U.S. were forced to evacuate Wednesday morning due to a series of bomb threats, officials said.
In Georgia, Gabriel Sterling, an elections official with the Office of the Secretary of State, wrote on X around 8:30 a.m. ET that there had been a bomb threat at the Georgie state Capitol, causing a delayed opening. About 20 minutes later, he tweeted that the complex had reopened after law enforcement officials investigated. An official with the Georgia State Patrol didn’t immediately respond to questions from NBC News.
In Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear wrote on X around 10:30 a.m. ET that the state police had evacuated the state Capitol and was investigating a “threat received by the Secretary of State’s Office.”
Officials with the Kentucky State Police didn’t immediately respond to questions from NBC News.
A spokesperson for the Michigan State Police also confirmed that there had been a bomb threat to the state Capitol on Wednesday morning.
"In response to a threat made involving the Michigan State Capitol Building in Lansing, we can confirm a threat was emailed to a general account for the Michigan State Capitol Commission around 7:45 a.m. today, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024," Michigan State Police spokesperson Lori Dougovito said.
"We are aware of similar threats sent to government agencies across the country," Dougovito said, adding that the Capitol was evacuated and that the building was searched.
The situation remains under investigation and the building "will remain closed for the rest of the day," she added.
In Mississippi, an official with the Department of Public Safety said the state Capitol had "successfully been cleared" after a bomb threat was made.
"The building was thoroughly searched, and no explosives or suspicious equipment were found," the spokesperson, Bailey Martin, said in a statement. "There is no further threat to the Capitol or surrounding buildings," Martin added.
The threats appeared to be part of a broader pattern unfolding across the U.S. this week, with reports of similar threats being made to state Capitols in Connecticut, Montana and Minnesota. Law enforcement officials in those three states didn’t immediately respond to questions from NBC News.
Federal officials have warned that public servants at all levels of government are facing a huge surge in threats made against them in recent years.
In September, Attorney General Merrick Garland testified that government workers had seen an “astounding“ number of such threats.
This is a developing story.
Federal minimum wage:
2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25
2023: $7.25
2024: $7.25
Paying workers like it's 2009
JUDD LEGUM, TESNIM ZEKERIA, AND REBECCA CROSBY
JAN 3, 2024
https://popular.info/p/paying-workers-like-its-2009
The more criminal a republican is, the more they should be in control, right?
We have now reached the stage of “Well who cares if he is an insurrectionist” https://t.co/N6pPiW701e
— Spiro’s Ghost (@AntiToxicPeople) January 2, 2024
So the new reporting showing unusual activity indicating possible insider trading of stocks was really just her son’s account that she set up for him? That’s the story? https://t.co/8d9kEp3dfO
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 3, 2024
Musk’s Twitter Investors Include Saudi Prince, Dorsey and Qatar
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-01/musk-s-twitter-investors-include-saudi-prince-dorsey-and-qatar
The only purpose and the real value of twitter/x is up 100's of percent. Extreme rightwing and republican's disinformation wars, Putin's election interference, 2nd largest holder Saudi Arabia influence, political power corruption, and the war on democracy have all gained in value for our enemies. And they have only just begun.
And yes, there are already clear signs of trouble. Will share more when there is more info to share.
— Dave Troy (@davetroy) January 2, 2024
No way. Melania would be the lady on the back of the gold and whipping the sacrificed Cassidy Hutchinson.
Reasonable take but would encourage not to bifurcate this way. AYK, the misinformation has always existed. The velocity and micro targeted reach of social media combined with its suppression of counterspeech is new and material here. And we’re less prepared after the last year. https://t.co/VKnSuwNaLH
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) January 2, 2024
Starting the New Year right with Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler with a third search warrant -- this time questioning whether he shared the videos of the alleged rape.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 2, 2024
And he's still @FloridaGOP chair. https://t.co/v5MU941aM7
Nearly 200 names linked to Jeffrey Epstein expected to be made public
List could be released as soon as Tuesday after deadline for objections to unsealing of names passes midnight Monday
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/01/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-associates-list
Reminds me of someone else we know.
I'm waiting for Traitor trump's bible thumpers to recite Exodus 32:19. Probably a long wait.
I always wondered if he just sang his one song over and over. I’m pretty sure he does. I don’t think Trump is watching Mr. Ice. pic.twitter.com/2KnGawt9wT
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 1, 2024
Stakes are really high’: misinformation researcher changes tack for 2024 US election
Kate Starbird says attacks have made research difficult, and claims of bias arise because of prevalence of lies from the right
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/01/misinformation-trends-2024-election-right-wing
Rachel Leingang
Mon 1 Jan 2024 12.00 EST
Akey researcher in the fight against election misinformation – who herself became the subject of an intensive misinformation campaign – has said her field gets accused of “bias” precisely because it’s now mainly rightwingers who spread the worst lies.
Kate Starbird, co-founder of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, added that she feared that the entirely false story of rigged elections has now “sunk in” for many Americans on the right. “The idea that they’re already going to the polls with the belief that they’re being cheated means they’ll misinterpret everything they see through that lens,” she said.
Starbird’s group partnered with Stanford Internet Observatory on the Election Integrity Partnership ahead of the 2020 elections – a campaign during which a flood of misinformation swirled around the internet, with daily claims of unproven voter fraud.
Starbird and her team helped document that flood, and in return congressional Republicans and conservative attorneys attacked her research, alleging it amounted to censorship and violated the first amendment.
Starbird, a misinformation researcher, herself became the subject of an ongoing misinformation campaign – but said she would not let that deter her from her research. Her team wasn’t the only target of the conservative campaign against misinformation research, she noted: researchers across the country have received subpoenas, letters and criticism, all attempting to frame misinformation research as partisan and as censorship.
Jim Jordan, chair of the House judiciary committee, served as the ringleader of this effort in Congress, using his power to investigate groups and researchers that work to counter misinformation, particularly as it related to elections and Covid-19. One practice that especially upset Jordan and his colleagues was when researchers would flag misleading information to social media companies, who would sometimes respond by amending factchecks or taking down false posts entirely.
Nor is it just Congress attacking anti-misinformation work. A federal lawsuit from the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana alleges that the Biden administration violated the first amendment by colluding with social media companies to censor and suppress speech. A new lawsuit from the state of Texas and two rightwing media companies takes aim at the Global Engagement Center, a state department agency that focuses on how foreign powers spread information.
The pressure campaign has chilled misinformation research just ahead of the pivotal 2024 presidential election, as some academics switch what they focus on and others figure out ways to better explain their work to a mixed audience. One thing they will probably no longer do is flag posts to social media companies, as the practice remains an issue in several ongoing court cases.
Starbird has landed in the middle of all this. Her work was included in Jordan’s investigation, her emails were sought by the Louisiana and Missouri attorneys general, she was sued in another lawsuit brought by Stephen Miller’s America First Legal, and she and the center have been inundated by records requests.
“In a few years, I’ll look back and say it was a really valuable perspective,” she said. “Because I’ve seen campaigns that were extremely effective at using disinformation to smear the reputation of people – so much so that I’ve seen someone that I was studying take his own life. I know that the stakes are really high in these spaces.”
Jordan’s committee released reports with outlandish claims about how the government, researchers and tech companies “colluded” to “censor Americans”. Starbird served on an external advisory committee for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; when a Republican congressional report claimed the committee tried to censor people, when in reality it solely advised the security agency, Starbird fired back, calling the Republican report a “manipulated narrative”.
“It was really weird to watch how they so effectively created this false narrative. It was frustrating,” she said. “And then at some point, you step back and you’re like, ‘You gotta appreciate their craft – good at what they did.’”
Starbird started her academic career by studying online volunteerism, then misinformation campaigns after the Boston marathon bombing in 2013. She’s seen the work of political actors grow more sophisticated in spreading disinformation.
The influencers, political elites on the right, have embraced those lies, which is one of the reasons that they spread further
Kate Starbird
The reason that research into election misinformation is labelled as biased was because it’s largely the right that spreads election lies these days, she said. Widespread misinformation shared by rightwing politicians and activists since the 2020 election culminated in the January 6 insurrection, which was motivated by false claims of electoral fraud, almost all of which have been thrown out of court.
“The influencers, political elites on the right, have embraced those lies, which is one of the reasons that they spread further,” she said. “So this is an asymmetric phenomenon.
“Now, they may argue and say that they’re not false, and it’s really hard to have a conversation if you don’t have a shared view of reality.”
Her work now focuses on election processes and procedures. She says she now refers more to “rumors” than to “misinformation” – both because “rumor” has more historical context, and because “misinformation” is a much more politicized term, co-opted by people outside the field, similar to how the legitimate phenomenon of “fake news” on social media before the 2016 election got twisted by Donald Trump into an insult to journalists.
Her team will probably not flag content to social media platforms, either. “That piece of the work has been so effectively twisted into a censorship narrative that it becomes hard to help out in that way,” she said.
While she had hoped to work with local and state elections officials – the experts on how elections work, who have themselves been subject to harassment – for context and help assessing viral rumors, “it’s increasingly hard for us to think that we’ll be able to communicate with them in a way that would be helpful for them, helpful for the world, and not cause more damage because it becomes fodder for these false claims”.
With misinformation research under fire and social media platforms less willing to factcheck viral posts, 2024 could see a flood of voter fraud lies, making for an even more contentious election than in 2020. Even if social media platforms, which are optimized to spread the most attention-getting posts, did more work to address misinformation, they would still be accused of bias and censorship, Starbird said.
She fears that the election fraud narrative has now “sunk in” so deeply for so many Americans on the right that it could end up creating worse laws and procedures – and actually increase the possibility of a successful foreign interference campaign in US elections.
“Right now, we’ve got a space where we may be in a ‘Boy who cried wolf’ situation, where there’s so much misinformation about election integrity that if we have a true threat, we may miss it,” Starbird said.
Still, despite the loud voices on the right continuing to spread disinformation about elections, Starbird thinks the people who got drawn into those narratives before might be a little savvier now, perhaps less likely to fall for some of the “more extravagant” claims again.
“I am hopeful that we’ve seen the worst of it,” she said. “I’m not confident we’ve seen the worst of it.”