Update: Apparently one person challenged almost 900 people in my county by herself. Fun for her!
As an FYI, Dark Winds (currently on Netflix) is outstanding.
For historians my age, this is particularly maddening; for decades, there were scholars who made their bones with books saying so-and-so was DEFINITELY a Soviet spy based on evidence far slimmer than “stole a bunch of confidential documents and chatted with a KGB guy on the regular”
Was this around the time he had a bathroom full of confidential documents?
A new book by the journalist Bob Woodward also reports that Donald J. Trump, while still in office, secretly sent Vladimir Putin what were then rare Covid-19 tests for the Russian’s leader’s personal ...
Barbara to journalist: it’s because he’s a businessman and cares about people like me Barbara on Facebook:
Disaster Disinformation Is This Year's John Podesta Emails www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/08/d...
The Republican party is treating deadly hurricanes like they treated John Podesta's risotto recipe and Hunter Biden's dick pics in past elections.
“They admit they don’t have the ground game necessary to turn out voters who are disproportionately low-turnout voters. But their answer to that is to exploit two devastating hurricanes…”
Disaster Disinformation Is This Year's John Podesta Emails www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/08/d...
The Republican party is treating deadly hurricanes like they treated John Podesta's risotto recipe and Hunter Biden's dick pics in past elections.
my theory is that bluesky is filled with bookish people and that for most authors will be a much better space for promoting work than twitter was, and certainly much smaller audiences on this platform will result in more sales anyway. my theory, or my hope, anyway. but y'all seem real nice.
I'm seeing so many well-intentioned media fact checks that are basically just amplifying claims that are only circulating on Twitter. There are a lot of journalists who are still regulars there who don't realize the extent to which it's warping their view of what's happening in the world.