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Julie H. Hotard Ph.D., Disinfo expert

@upine.bsky.social

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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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Julie H. Hotard Ph.D., Disinfo expert @upine.bsky.social · Dec 26

Right Wing Domination of Media & Politics Keeps Us Stuck in Disinformation and Right Wing Government

(I found a better named for this article later, after I first wrote it, and so I retitled it, which is why the title now comes out wrong when I type in the url.)

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How People Try to Solve Problems in a Libertarian Culture

There once was a land without environmental regulations. So various companies routinely poisoned the air, the water and the land. Everyone…

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 9h

There’s a reason we all feel crazy. Orwell knew it.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 27m

She marched to Mike Johnson’s office and will be the 218th vote to finally release the Epstein files

YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko

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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 14h

The nonprofit arm of the Provincetown Independent, based in super-expensive Outer Cape Cod, is raising money to provide housing for young reporters who can't afford to live there. mailchi.mp/localjournal...

We have news!

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

Major news outlets are standing together and refusing to sign. ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News have all rejected a new Pentagon policy that would impose unprecedented restrictions on news gathering.

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Thank you.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7h

The entire first two months of the Biden administration were taken up by obsessive complaining about how he wouldn't do press conferences & wasn't taking policy questions (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).

This? Gone tomorrow. Totally different set of standards applied to two totally different parties.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 4h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 5h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 8h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Steven Hassan PhD @cultexpert.freedomofmind.com · 2h

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

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Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says he knew the Supreme Court wouldn't take up his request for an appeal of a $1.4 billion defamation judgment, even though his lawyers believed the case was “cut and d...

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 3h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Alice Camp @acampwriting.com · 1d

i don't know why it still surprises me a decade in to my career as a video game writer but it truly is utterly impossible to get anyone to read something. if you have a task that requires reading anything longer than a powerpoint slide, just forget about it

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Julie H. Hotard Ph.D., Disinfo expert @upine.bsky.social · 2h

They don't have to do anything to find scapegoats, actually. Most media are Right Wing now & will supply scapegoats constantly. Just turn on TV or radio or read RWng newspapers or social media or go to a Right Wing Christian church.

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The Vast Reach of Right Wing Disinformation

In one of my previous essays, I explained how very much in denial most Americans are about the extent to which our nation is immersed in…

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

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JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2h

Chicago is 231 square miles. You never know in what neighborhood where the kidnappers will pop up next. So people literally track the military helicopters always thundering overhead to try to figure it out.

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Julie H. Hotard Ph.D., Disinfo expert @upine.bsky.social · 6h

Yes. Agree to disagree. We're not Trumpers who have to think the same thoughts.
And we learn from each other & think about new things from bouncing ideas off each other, whether we agree or not.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

GREER: I think China realizes they've overstepped

CNBC: You think they realize they overstepped? Their statement says 'if forced to fight, China will fight to the end'

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17h

People who think they are good at using LLM's are little different than people who think they are good at driving while drunk, except that in the former case almost half the US economy is tied up in a cargo cult of telling them they are right.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 12h

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Deep cuts at NBC News—as a result of MSNBC and CNBC spinning off—are expected to start at the network on Wednesday. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/47aWtXm

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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