Hard to overstate how irresponsible that Politico piece is. Not only is it substantially inaccurate, but this is the stuff that leads to threats, harassment and violence. It has in the past, so I’m not speaking hypothetically. And yet they chose to publish this bullshit story for clicks. #media #conspiracytheories #gazaprotests
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How #Republicans used #CheapFakes to attack #Biden in 24hrs
#POTUS, who at 81 is decades younger than the vets he honored during Thurs’s D-Day commemoration, nonetheless found his age & fitness in the spotlight as selectively #edited clips of him circulated online.
D-Day’s 80th quickly became the latest example of the fast spread of #manipulated videos, highlighting the use of #misinformation [ #disinformation ] & #ConspiracyTheories in politics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/11/biden-videos-republicans-cheap-fake-d-day/
Many #Trump allies had been secretly rooting for an #acquittal. The talking points wrote themselves: It would have been yet more evidence that the #UnitedStates #justice system was rigged in favor of #Bidens & against Trumps. Tues’s #guilty #verdict was inconvenient to that narrative.
Even more valuable would have been the #fundraising potential.
#gaslighting #ConspiracyTheories #USpol #law #HunterBiden
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/politics/donald-trump-hunter-biden.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
No leopard has ever eaten someone’s face quite as voraciously as this.
#Trump’s Baseless Claims [#lies] About the Assassination Attempt Are #Dangerous
His growing effort to blame #Biden & #Harris for the shooting isn’t supported by ANY #evidence. But experts say it could stir #violence.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies
#Incitement #extremism #radicalization #PoliticalViolence #DomesticTerrorism
#weird #insane #Nonsense #ConspiracyTheories
#WeAreNotGoingBack
#CommonSense #sanity #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/trump-assassination-attempt-blame-biden-harris/
These lefty Assassination Truthers are such a gift to the right.
They're quantitatively and qualitatively different from QAnon loons, Covid contrarians and Great Replacement peddlers-all of whom have killed people-but they give everyone a chance to both-sides the quackpottery. And from what I'm seeing, a lot of media figures have taken up that opportunity with zeal.
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THE #INSURRECTIONISTS NEXT DOOR
#AshliBabbitt’s mother & the wife of a notorious #Jan6 rioter are at the center of a new mythology on the #right. They are also my neighbors.
By Hanna Rosin
#radicalization #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #MAGA #Republicans #PoliticalViolence #Insurrection #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/jan-6-capitol-attack-ashli-babbitt-dc-residents/679563/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxcAtglrydgqNGsTv5vo8OhU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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#Trump goes to war against real-time #FactChecks
The moves are the latest example of Trump’s long-held resistance to being called to account for his #lies.
Trump & his campaign have waged an aggressive campaign against #FactChecking in recent months, pushing TV networks, #journalism orgs & others to abandon the practice if they hope to interact w/Trump.
#TrumpLies #disinformation #propaganda #ConspiracyTheories
#WeAreNotGoingBack #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/14/trump-fact-checks-interviews-debates/
#Viral attack on #TimWalz features #fake fmr student making false claim
A Hawaii man who attended a school where #Walz taught — but says they never met — was dismayed to see person in a video using his name to make a false allegation against the VP candidate
#FactCheck #RepublicanLies #Fraud #SocialMedia #moderation #disinformation #ConspiracyTheories #ElectionInterference #Trumpaganda #Propaganda #MatthewMetro #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/10/21/tim-walz-matthew-metro-video/
Inside #Trump’s #TruthSocial #ConspiracyTheory Machine
An analysis of Trump’s posts reveals the #paranoid & unfounded content he creates & amplifies each day.
Trump’s penchant for amplifying easily debunked #ConspiracyTheories is well known. But an extensive analysis of his posts & reposts on #SocialMedia reveals a candidate who promotes sinister theories at a scale & frequency well beyond his already infamous playbook.
#TrumpIsUnfit #FactCheck #TrumpLies
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/29/us/politics/trump-truth-social-conspiracy-theories.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XE4.rVaX.fODZOmIDRJmP&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
This is insane. Under questioning by Sen Angela #Alsobrooks, #RFKJr claims #Black people need fewer #vaccines than #White people. This is pure disinformation & utterly backwards thinking. This guy is interviewing for the job of running all of the #health agencies of the #UnitedStates.
#law #USpol #PublicHealth #medicine #science #ConspiracyTheories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOyjjY-E2YY
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I haven't seen a lot about this in the national news, but the lawyer for the 2019 El Paso mass shooter (Patrick Crusius) is now expressly stating that his client thought he was working for Trump to stop the "invasion" (by brown people) the president said was occurring in Texas.
https://elpasomatters.org/2025/03/30/patrick-crusius-donald-trump-aug-3-2019-walmart-mass-shooting/
Patrick Crusius believed he was fulfilling Trump’s wishes in El Paso attack, his attorney says
"Patrick Crusius believed he was acting at the direction of President Donald Trump when he murdered 23 people and wounded 22 others at an El Paso Walmart in 2019, his defense lawyer told El Paso Matters.
“He thought he had to stop the invasion because that’s what his president was telling him, which is just not rational,” defense attorney Joe Spencer said in his first extended interview about the mass shooting that Crusius said was meant to stop “the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
“He thought, if he doesn’t do it, then nobody’s going to do it. He’s got to start,” Spencer said."
It's not lost on me that Trump sycophants and apologists have a whole ream of excuses at the ready; the shooter had a history of serious mental illness, his lawyer is a Democrat who (rightfully) thinks Trump's white nationalist rhetoric is dangerous, Crusius awkwardly tried to absolve Trump in his manifesto, and so forth. The fact is however that just because fascists are willing to spew disingenuous lies to cover up Trump and the larger fascist propaganda industry's involvement in motivating a mass murderer, doesn't mean any thinking person has to treat those disingenuous excuses seriously. This guy was one of Trump's legion of white nationalist fanboys; he was quoting Great Replacement conspiracy theories in his cut and pasted manifesto, he was adamantly against his lawyer subpoenaing Trump, and the shooter even admitted a 2019 Trump rally in Florida was the moment that convinced him to plan and enact the murders.
"Spencer said Crusius told him that a key event leading to the murderous rampage in El Paso occurred in May 2019 in Panama City Beach, Florida, when Trump spoke at a rally.
“I mean, you have 15,000 people marching up and you have hundreds and hundreds of people and you have two or three border security people that are brave and great,” Trump said, then added falsely that Border Patrol agents weren’t allowed to use weapons.
“But how do you stop these people?” Trump said.
“Shoot them,” someone in the audience shouted, drawing laughter from the crowd and a smile from the president.
“That’s only in the (Florida) Panhandle you can get away with that statement,” Trump said while shaking his head. “Only in the Panhandle.”
Crusius said he saw video of that Trump rally and was motivated to act, Spencer said. In June 2019, a month after the Florida Trump rally, Crusius purchased a semiautomatic rifle online and had it delivered to a gun dealer in his hometown of Allen, Texas, near Dallas, according to court records."
Like are you fucking kidding me? Please keep in mind that as you read this, the Trump regime is currently arguing that Venezuelan migrants are literally "an invasion" that justifies the president invoking war powers to ship them to a slave labor prison in El Salvador without due process. Of *course* this maggot fascist believed Trump was serious about migrants "invading" America and destroying the country because Trump himself is serious every time he says it! And the fact that Crusius was suffering from documented mental illness isn't a valid excuse either because when you tell folks that they're being invaded by brown people who're going to rape and murder them, you don't get to pretend its a surprise when vulnerable people high on your white nationalist conspiracy theories take that seriously; the negligence itself, is the problem here just as much as the overt race war rhetoric is.
By the way, don't sleep on the fact that the primary reason you're only hearing all of this now is that his lawyer has been under a gag order that was only dissolved in late March; you know, after Trump was elected again.
#Trump #Fascism #ElPasoShooting #PatrickCrusius #WhiteNationalism #GreatReplacement #GunViolence #MassShooting #JoeSpencer #ConspiracyTheories #Negligence
"#Oklahoma high schools to teach 2020 #election #conspiracyTheories as fact
State superintendent Ryan Walters tapped chief of #HeritageFoundation, key player behind #Project2025, for curriculum"
Fuck this stupid country
That's not a an empty expletive of mine
That's simply what is happening
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/oklahoma-high-schools-election-conspiracy-theories
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The real #WeaponizationOfGovernment:
#Trump & #GOP ramp up investigations of #Democrats
Trump directed his AG to investigate fundraising platforms such as #ActBlue, the central fundraising apparatus of the #DemocraticParty — escalating his effort to use his power to target political opponents & —in this case — the core machinery of his opposition.
#TrumpLies #Propaganda #Disinformation #ConspiracyTheories #Gaslighting #law #Incitement #Extremism #Radicalization
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/24/trump-act-blue-bondi-investigate-fundraising/
Mike Masnick compares how the Free Press covered the (misleading-to-false) story of the #Biden admin’s "censorship" of #SocialMedia [actually trying to combat harmful #disinformation like #election & #COVID #lies & #ConspiracyTheories or #HateSpeech like #WhiteSupremacy], to how they handled the very real #censorship attack on #Wikipedia by #Trump’s DC #USAttorney #EdMartin.
Spoiler: there are differences.
#law #tech #moderation #dictatorship #FourthEstate #journalism
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/government-actually-threatens-wikipedias-editorial-freedom-self-proclaimed-free-speech-warriors-suddenly-have-other-plans/
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Secy of State #MarcoRubio outlined plans to drastically reorganize the #State dept, saying it was “beholden to radical political ideology.” The overhaul at the nation’s diplomatic agency will include the elimination of the office of the under secretary for #civilian #security, #democracy & #HumanRights.
#State #NationalSecurity #law #ConspiracyTheories
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/politics/state-department-cuts-rubio.html?smid=url-share
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#JDVance met privately Tues morning with #LauraLoomer, a #FarRight crackpot whose criticisms of some of the #Trump admin’s hires have led to their ousters.
Vance met alone with Loomer at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting. It was not immediately clear what the pair discussed.
#USpol #ConspiracyTheories
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/politics/laura-loomer-jd-vance-meeting?cid=ios_app
#Disinformation Campaign of #Fake Images & #ConspiracyTheories On #SocialMedia Stoke #RightWing #Rage Around #LAProtests
Misleading photos, videos & texts have spread widely on social #media as #protests against #immigration #raids unfolded in #LosAngeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories‘ to support #Trump’s actions.
The flood of falsehoods appears intended to stoke outrage toward #immigrants & #Democrats.
#MediaLiteracy #moderation #TrumpLies #propaganda #Resist
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/la-protests-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The Head of a New #RFKJr Group Promoted #911 Conspiracy Theories & the #ProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion
#LelandLehrman is a key figure in the #MAHA world, despite decades of pushing #extremist ideas.
…Lehrman…[has a]…long history of promoting #antisemitic & extreme #ConspiracyTheories, as detailed in a new report from the Institute for Research & Education on #HumanRights, an org which studies #extremism & the #FarRight.
#Trump #policy #law #Government #USpol #kakistocracy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/leland-lehrman-make-america-healthy-again-institute-antisemitism-september-11/
#Trump is currently [live now] repeating #ConspiracyTheories from the Oval Office
about the protesters in #LosAngeles, saying they are “paid” by #Democrats. Total #disinformation.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #propaganda #law #democracy #RightToProtest
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If you believe what you see on social media, the entirety of Los Angeles is overwhelmed by violence. In fact, the protests have been largely peaceful and small — and much of the false information has been fueled by misleading videos and false claims. @CBSNews breaks down the misinformation that's circulating, from a video game clip purporting to be news footage to conspiracy theories about George Soros supplying protesters with bricks.
https://flip.it/G_w012
#SocialMedia #Misinformation #ConspiracyTheories #LosAngeles #Protests #Tech #Technology
#RFKJr Is Barely Even Pretending Anymor
America’s #AntiVaccine era is truly beginning.
#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #medicine #science #PublicHealth #policy #regulations #law #USpol
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/06/cdc-acip-anti-vaccine-rfk/683156/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxaLwqNRbI7I4IbkkdBen8-0
#RFKJr #CDC #vaccine advisory committee recommends against #flu #vaccines
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (#ACIP), made up of members recently hand-selected by #HHS Secy Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted 5-1 on Thurs to recommend against #FluBaccines containing the preservative #thimerosal.
One committee member, Vicky Pebsworth, abstained on each vote.
#Trump #USpol #law #health #PublicHealth #policy #science #medicine #AntiVax #ConspiracyTheories #eugenics
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-vaccine-advisory-committee-recommends-flu-vaccines-thimerosal/story?id=123224218
In the time before widespread #vaccination, #death often came early.
Devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of #children & leaving others w/lifelong #health problems. These illnesses were the main reason why nearly 1 in 5 children in 1900 never made it to their 5th birthday.
#Trump #RFKJr #PublicHealth #USpol #policy #science #medicine #vaccines #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-measles-polio-whooping-cough-rubella-af4cd1aef8f408a960601df6372f9c32?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-28-Lessons+unlearned