Except they absolutely get it. They’re trolling, and it’s clearly working. Their core audiences approve… of the original invasion and the MAGA framing of modern immigration as invasion.

Not bragging or anything, but I didn’t even like him on Sportscenter.

First, they rewired information spaces (exploiting attention dynamics & inherent vulnerabilities of social & digital media). Building upon that advantage, they reconfigured the political systems. Now, they use both the shift values into something that would have been unrecognizable mere months ago.

Everything is so ridiculous and dumb right now (and not just in the US) that I had to laugh at the news of the volcano. Like, really, now?? Read the room, magma!

Maybe I’ve done too many M9 exercises.

Indeed. We went through a very similar thing, being accused of being the center of the “censorship industrial complex”, interrogated, then defunded. As researchers of conspiracy theories, becoming entangled in one was perhaps productive (for our understanding), but definitely no fun. Disrecommend.

They thought we, being radical leftists apparently, would put a "DOGE sucks" type of message onto government websites or into government communication systems

My evidence for that: the right did exactly this to government websites. So they were projecting what they planned to do onto us.

OFFS.

and functionally ends the ability for all non-citizen scholars to travel abroad to conferences (often a prerequisite for publication & career advancement) because risk (of detainment) is too high — both in cost (the stories out of those facilities are horrendous) and the probability (not zero).

I feel like I just summoned a spirit from another plane. Thanks Michael!

Yes! We have a community scholar program. Applications are due in June, I think. But you should check out the CIP website and maybe contact our communications director, Michael Grass, for more info, including on timing.

Dorsey. Then CEO of Twitter. Elon’s predecessor.

Also damning (and perhaps even more meaningful in retrospect) is how Jack was in there RTing Crystal1Johnson, revealing how the “new elites” of Twitter have long been high on their own supply (of disinformation). Jack just got his from the Gabbard wing of the “left” and now Elon from the hard right.