Tulsi Gabbard's documents don't prove what her headlines suggest, and have little new, explains @noupside.bsky.social on @lawfaremedia.org www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

Tulsi Gabbard dumped a pile of docs & claimed they were evidence of a vast plot by Fauci to manipulate intelligence, cover up the lab leak, & conceal his role in creating Covid. They weren’t. In reality, Gabbard’s documents undermine her. Here’s what they say… www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

Elon had no opinion on USAID at all until he got deluded into thinking Frame Game Mike Benz, who worked at State Dept for ~2 months, was some kind of expert with inside knowledge instead of just a white nationalist adjacent YT anon. Frame Game is where he gets his info from and who he’s RTing now.

Tulsi Gabbard dumped a pile of docs & claimed they were evidence of a vast plot by Fauci to manipulate intelligence, cover up the lab leak, & conceal his role in creating Covid. They weren’t. In reality, Gabbard’s documents undermine her. Here’s what they say… www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

What even are laws

Muh freeze peach 😂 A lot of screaming and crying about how killing USAID didn’t kill kids from Frame Game ‘Hitler had some good points’ Mike Benz and trillionaire baby Elon Musk today. They’re trying to deflect to pretend USAID was rigging LatAm elections.

Perhaps, as Trump slips into dementia, he’s actually come to believe that he really was fighting a cabal of pedophiles… instead of being BFFs with them.

The Labor Department in recent days has done multiple posts echoing QAnon phrases. QAnon influencers in response have declared vindication. One of them wrote the department "is Q posting. … This is not debatable now. If you like it, cool. If you don’t like it, too bad. It’s happening." My latest:

a level of internet poisoning man has ne'er seen, like an entire family taken out by the fumes emitting from a manure pit

Fascinating exposé on the cult processes behind the cultist crank who ran America’s intelligence services until this week. Tulsi Gabbard is a thoroughly untrustworthy puppet. The only question is who is the puppet master at any given point in time. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Adding my +1 to “this new European border control situation is a mess”. A full hour in the passport line at Munich. I’m already registered but they threw all non-EU passports (including kids) into a long pre-registration line. Full 60 min to get through.

Pity the US senate doesn’t actually play hardball at all.

I checked out Community Notes for the “Spencer Pratt got 0/24,000 votes” rumor that ran wild on X (tens of millions of views). It looks like raters were never able to reach consensus on this obviously false claim. Can partisanship effectively veto good notes? open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

New anti-jawboning bill introduced by Cruz and Wyden. I have long supported the concept & the implementation isn’t bad. But note that Congress seems to be exempt — it’s not clear whether Congressmen are allowed to keep up their practice of making demands. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Just because a candidate is everywhere online doesn't mean they're winning. Renee DiResta joins The Stakes to explain the "majority illusion," influencer-driven political narratives, and how social media can distort perceptions of voter support. Full episode @ KPFA.org @noupside.bsky.social #kpfa

Election tropes in bingo card form!

Great read

Here at a live taping of Hard Fork getting ready to heckle @caseynewton.bsky.social and @kevinroose.com

Here’s what Taibbi wrote. Here’s what Nithya Raman said.

Did someone forget to turn on the rigging machine for the top-of-ticket race or what?

Matt Taibbi really likes snipping content to tell a totally false story! Here he is pretending Nithya Rahman’s not-concession speech tears & this passage had something to do w/gay and trans people. This passage was ab her daughters. New low from a dishonest hack. www.racket.news/p/american-e...

Grand juror: "Are you actually presenting any new actual facts …?" Mecklenburg: "Are you going to be able to listen with an open mind?" Grand juror: "I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit."

Matt Taibbi's defamation case against Rep Kamager-Dove has been tossed. He sued her because she asked why the Republicans, in yet another hearing about the CeNsoRshIp iNDusTriAl cOmPlex (which doesn't exist) kept inviting a "serial sexual harasser". Here, relive and savor the moment:

In 2022 I wrote about election rumors and how *the same ones recur* bc of tropes — familiar plot elements 🗳️ “Found ballots” — in a ditch! in a dumpster! 🚌“Bussed in voters” 🪦 “Dead voters” ⚙️“Rigged machines!” 📡 Space lasers! (Not kidding) (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

🍿 (CEnsOsrHiP!!1!1!!!)

Former HFT here — this is a bad idea don’t do it unless you’re willing to lose everything in the account 😂

Who’s gonna tell her…or the other 15k people who liked this 😂

What the CA governor’s race needed, I think we can all agree, was Michael Shellenberger. This was his moment. The people were ready.

I’m v much looking forward to seeing how TFP covers the Pratt conspiracy theories tomorrow. Does it leap full-bore into “it was rigged!! audience capture territory? Does it take more of a JAQing off approach so it can keep up the veneer of respectability? Does it ignore? 🤔Eagerly awaiting my issue.

The "major scandal" the legacy media should be covering is the fact that a sitting Senator thinks that a poll saying that 24% of Americans *believe* they know someone who died from the COVID vax, is the same thing as that being *true*. There is no way this is mathematically possible.

Ohhhh hey. Now that the obvious has happened and Decision Desk has called it for Raman, you’ll see two common tropes: “they were printed not counted!” and “these stats show it’s rigged!” (Bad Math) Read my post and share it with family members who come at you with that.

"it shows a script we are going to see again in 2026: viral candidate overperforms in the feed, ordinary ballot-counting reveals a different reality, and the people who conflated engagement with votes decide that there’s something suspicious about the count."

This is very good. “[E]lection deniers have learned to use ballot-counting timelines, and this very predictable shift, as a fraud-accusation template whenever their preferred candidate’s early lead shrinks.”

I wrote about Spencer Pratt’s very online campaign, the predictable election fraud accusations that have started now that he’s looking likely to not make the runoff, and what this tells us about the 2026 midterms open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

Watching Hunter speak so directly now, I wonder if he was given the same dogshit “shut up and say nothing” advice that so many others who went through political smear campaigns heard over the last few years. Advice from the 1990s.

My whole Threads feed is screenshots of Hunter Biden dunking on MAGA on X and it seems Streisanding his laptop is not gonna work out for them. Generational communicator.

Meatball Ron knows better but is choosing to play footsie with election truthers anyway. The demographics of mail-in ballots are well-established. Spencer Pratt had a lot of social media momentum; that doesn't mean a lot of actual CA votes. Welcome to manufactured consensus & majority illusion.

They make money whether you win or lose. They get paid to hype products whether you benefit or not. The FTC has rules but doesn’t enforce. “We are the media now” but ethics are secondary. I spoke to Politico for this story ab undisclosed influencer partnerships. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfaremedia.org's @katherinepomps.bsky.social finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.

Important new work out at Lawfare by @katherinepomps.bsky.social Media should check this out as the ‘degenerate slush fund’ debate continues to rage and people like Sen Lindsay Graham try to make it happen. Here are the facts: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

JFC it takes 2 seconds to google if this is true stop the wishcasting 🙄 www.c-span.org/program/whit...

Shellenberger just phones in slop like this and his readers eat it up. 🐷 Hey Mike you told your readers I’m a secret CIA agent who brainwashed Obama and censored 22 million tweets, and only YOU could stop it. Take a seat.

Lindsay Graham goes full simp over creating a weaponization fund to give government handouts to degenerates. Hey Linds, if you start one of these make sure those of us who got harassed by your lying election-denying asshole friends in the US Congress get to prosecute our claims, too.

NEW: The chair of the President’s Cancer Panel, Dr. Harvey Risch, is a co-author on a study touting ivermectin for cancer. The study is backed by two anti-vax orgs, including The Wellness Company, which sells the drug and with which he is affiliated. www.importantcontext.news/p/chair-of-p...

Emerging from a 3-day work sprint to check election results and this is so gooood. One of Phil's opponents was a batshit crazy nut who's spent 6 yrs swearing I'm secretly funded by Peter Thiel & accusing random anons on X of being me.😂 Good to see SF keep it sane. missionlocal.org/2026/06/phil...

He should write an op-ed about how he’s being censored. Run it in The Free Press. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

On Lawfare Daily, @noupside.bsky.social talked with @christopherjhale.bsky.social about the Vatican entering the AI debate, what it means to “disarm” AI, and why the Pope’s new encyclical is best read not as anti-technology, but as anti-centralized-power. youtu.be/QRRVdPmY6oQ

Social media algorithms can lead people down rabbit holes, feeding them narratives that fit what they've consumed in the past — true or not. @noupside.bsky.social saw this first hand when she joined Facebook groups in 2013, which she discusses in Webby-nominated LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET.

Much like Tulsi! Guess we will see if he’s more effective. He can’t be more of a shameless degenerate liar — she really achieved peak performance on that front.

If you want to understand why Trump named a political hack with no intelligence experience to be the Acting DNI, this is your answer. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...