Joohn Choe
@joohnchoe.bsky.social
Consultant, researcher & "one man intelligence agency funded on Patreon, seriously?!" - John N. Tye. Cited in NYT, Washington Post, NATO Hybrid COE. #NAFO Assistant (to the) Sanctions Manager
Remember how Paul Ryan, Omarosa Manigault and Jeff Sessions used to all be on the team during Trump 1.0?
Remember how they all left?
Starting to feel like that now.
(Image on left from: Jason Leopold, "The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files", Bloomberg, August 1, 2025)
Remember how they all left?
Starting to feel like that now.
(Image on left from: Jason Leopold, "The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files", Bloomberg, August 1, 2025)
August 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Remember how Paul Ryan, Omarosa Manigault and Jeff Sessions used to all be on the team during Trump 1.0?
Remember how they all left?
Starting to feel like that now.
(Image on left from: Jason Leopold, "The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files", Bloomberg, August 1, 2025)
Remember how they all left?
Starting to feel like that now.
(Image on left from: Jason Leopold, "The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files", Bloomberg, August 1, 2025)
Bottom line up front, about half of the country thinks the President is a sex criminal. Again.
So, there you go.
There's more interesting detail in the most recent Economist/YouGov poll data, though.
I couldn't find charts anywhere so I made them.
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So, there you go.
There's more interesting detail in the most recent Economist/YouGov poll data, though.
I couldn't find charts anywhere so I made them.
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July 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Bottom line up front, about half of the country thinks the President is a sex criminal. Again.
So, there you go.
There's more interesting detail in the most recent Economist/YouGov poll data, though.
I couldn't find charts anywhere so I made them.
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So, there you go.
There's more interesting detail in the most recent Economist/YouGov poll data, though.
I couldn't find charts anywhere so I made them.
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could you just use the frickin' metric system please
July 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
could you just use the frickin' metric system please
The state of American discourse on Israel’s war on Gaza in the last week of July 2025 looks, at least superficially, like a remarkable case study in information war failure.
For the first time in recent memory, a Republican lawmaker used the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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For the first time in recent memory, a Republican lawmaker used the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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July 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The state of American discourse on Israel’s war on Gaza in the last week of July 2025 looks, at least superficially, like a remarkable case study in information war failure.
For the first time in recent memory, a Republican lawmaker used the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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For the first time in recent memory, a Republican lawmaker used the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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"I'm sorry sir, I gotta make that quota today"
July 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"I'm sorry sir, I gotta make that quota today"
"There are three ways that international orders collapse, according to the historian Brendan Simms quoted in Bloomberg today:
'Through defeat in war or some catastrophic failure of deterrence; through economic decline or a divergence between the order’s political and economic arrangements...'
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'Through defeat in war or some catastrophic failure of deterrence; through economic decline or a divergence between the order’s political and economic arrangements...'
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July 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"There are three ways that international orders collapse, according to the historian Brendan Simms quoted in Bloomberg today:
'Through defeat in war or some catastrophic failure of deterrence; through economic decline or a divergence between the order’s political and economic arrangements...'
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'Through defeat in war or some catastrophic failure of deterrence; through economic decline or a divergence between the order’s political and economic arrangements...'
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TikTok: I feel like I know the latest breaking TikTok trends no one else does, and it doesn't occur to me that the algorithm is giving me obscure randos making content that will make me think exactly that!
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July 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
TikTok: I feel like I know the latest breaking TikTok trends no one else does, and it doesn't occur to me that the algorithm is giving me obscure randos making content that will make me think exactly that!
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The disinformation narrative that
"Russian interference in 2016 was an Obama-administration hoax"
is so stupid it is possible to defeat it on the merits without even engaging with its claims in detail.
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"Russian interference in 2016 was an Obama-administration hoax"
is so stupid it is possible to defeat it on the merits without even engaging with its claims in detail.
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July 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The disinformation narrative that
"Russian interference in 2016 was an Obama-administration hoax"
is so stupid it is possible to defeat it on the merits without even engaging with its claims in detail.
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"Russian interference in 2016 was an Obama-administration hoax"
is so stupid it is possible to defeat it on the merits without even engaging with its claims in detail.
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Ask a dumb question, sometimes it takes a bit of work to get an answer.
Question: how much impact is there really to Epstein revelations in the context of the low-quality right-wing news ecosystem?
The question is really "How do you quantify an idée fixe?"
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Question: how much impact is there really to Epstein revelations in the context of the low-quality right-wing news ecosystem?
The question is really "How do you quantify an idée fixe?"
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July 21, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Ask a dumb question, sometimes it takes a bit of work to get an answer.
Question: how much impact is there really to Epstein revelations in the context of the low-quality right-wing news ecosystem?
The question is really "How do you quantify an idée fixe?"
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Question: how much impact is there really to Epstein revelations in the context of the low-quality right-wing news ecosystem?
The question is really "How do you quantify an idée fixe?"
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gonna be real, "correlation isn't causation" I know, but
it's hard not to see this as cause and effect
it's hard not to see this as cause and effect
July 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
gonna be real, "correlation isn't causation" I know, but
it's hard not to see this as cause and effect
it's hard not to see this as cause and effect
Usually the highest-chaos outcome is the worst for liberals.
Looking at the budget bill, the July 7 MacArthur Park ICE raid, foreign policy setbacks and the kerfuffle over Epstein files, I don't think that's necessarily true anymore.
www.patreon.com/posts/what-t...
Looking at the budget bill, the July 7 MacArthur Park ICE raid, foreign policy setbacks and the kerfuffle over Epstein files, I don't think that's necessarily true anymore.
www.patreon.com/posts/what-t...
July 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Usually the highest-chaos outcome is the worst for liberals.
Looking at the budget bill, the July 7 MacArthur Park ICE raid, foreign policy setbacks and the kerfuffle over Epstein files, I don't think that's necessarily true anymore.
www.patreon.com/posts/what-t...
Looking at the budget bill, the July 7 MacArthur Park ICE raid, foreign policy setbacks and the kerfuffle over Epstein files, I don't think that's necessarily true anymore.
www.patreon.com/posts/what-t...
I did a very informal survey of low-quality right-wing news and news discussion groups and pages that surfaced in my feed - I didn't go looking for these, they were suggested 'naturally' by algorithm.
July 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I did a very informal survey of low-quality right-wing news and news discussion groups and pages that surfaced in my feed - I didn't go looking for these, they were suggested 'naturally' by algorithm.
Today, June 25 2025, multiple sources report to NBC and Fox that FBI is pulling its resources from aiding in Immigrations & Customs Enforcement (ICE) mass deportation operations; sources confirm to ABC that the number of agents is potentially in the thousands.
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June 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Today, June 25 2025, multiple sources report to NBC and Fox that FBI is pulling its resources from aiding in Immigrations & Customs Enforcement (ICE) mass deportation operations; sources confirm to ABC that the number of agents is potentially in the thousands.
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The Honorable Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson, Associate Justice, The United States Supreme Court
June 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Honorable Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson, Associate Justice, The United States Supreme Court
"docked airplanes" indeed
June 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"docked airplanes" indeed
could someone direct me to the nuclear bomber fleet please
June 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
could someone direct me to the nuclear bomber fleet please
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June 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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One of the more brilliant things about Spider Web is its explicit use of unknowing Russian accomplices
I can't claim credit for this insight, but - what that's doing is, it denies Russian state-sponsored propaganda the opportunity to identify a culprit and publicly blame them
That's pretty smart
I can't claim credit for this insight, but - what that's doing is, it denies Russian state-sponsored propaganda the opportunity to identify a culprit and publicly blame them
That's pretty smart
June 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
One of the more brilliant things about Spider Web is its explicit use of unknowing Russian accomplices
I can't claim credit for this insight, but - what that's doing is, it denies Russian state-sponsored propaganda the opportunity to identify a culprit and publicly blame them
That's pretty smart
I can't claim credit for this insight, but - what that's doing is, it denies Russian state-sponsored propaganda the opportunity to identify a culprit and publicly blame them
That's pretty smart
