/2 This will be grotesque. Edward R. Murrow didn’t have a radio show in 1946 where Eisenhower debated Göring about whether the Nazis had some good points. Today’s media would absolutely do that. Today’s media will platform people defending and rewriting Good’s murder for years.

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

In case you were wondering about the state of discourse over on Twitter, they’re currently a) raving about a Nazi band’s song (Mannerbund) whose lyrics the DHS just tweeted out and b) having a robust debate about whether interracial marriage is sinful.

And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷

Her forklarer Eskil Grendahl Sivertsen at det er viktig å forstå at desinformasjon bare er en av flere påvirkningsteknikker, samt at tekoligarkenes sosiale medieplattformer ikke er kalibrert for å beskytte våre demokratier, men selskapenes inntekter.🧵1/2 www.adressa.no/debatt/i/aJw...

Michael Shermer, "skeptical libertarian," is now taking his forensic analysis cues from Tim Pool.

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

Lots of gloating at this but I think it's more representative of the far right's constant posture of victimhood and powerlessness. It's like their only functional model is "liberal elites hate you and want you dead" and so they can't really cope with the fact their guys are the Actual US Government

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

En aktivist i Nordiska motståndsrörelsen döms för brott i anslutning till att en grupp nazister störde ett socialdemokratiskt 1 maj-möte. Totalt har nu nio personer från organisationen dömts för sitt agerande.

Another popular MAGA snuff video . . . Thanks @badiucao.bsky.social.

what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Lots of folks talking about the corporate implications of this and, yes, true, there's obvious security concerns there. How do we feel about making jewellery that spies on you 24/7 from an abusive relationship angle, though?

How to calm political violence, according to psychologists. New, in the APA Monitor, with comments from a bunch of us. www.apa.org/monitor/2026...

so cool, love the internet our tech overlords have built

People talk about distraction, but diffusion is a better way to think about it. When there are ten horrors a day, marshalling critical mass to overturn any one is difficult.

Vance’s use of quotes is deliberate, not illiterate like Trump’s. Here, it signifies that legality itself is a dubious or frivolous concept as applied to the actions of the regime. It conveys not just that it’s wrong to say the acts were illegal, but ridiculous to use law as a metric at all.

What the fuck. Trump is claiming the U.S. military captured a sitting head of state in his own country, with no extradition process & no legal authority. No matter what you think of Maduro, that’s absolutely insane behavior—and a precedent that should alarm anyone who cares about international law.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

Fuck.

A reminder that this thread exists and that it's regularly updated. It goes back to 2021. None of this is new. None of it is novel. We've shouted from the rooftops for five years now. No one is coming to save us. We've got to be the ones to do it.

It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵

Historian Joseph Fronczak has described the political culture of fascism as “participatory anti-democracy.”

– Det er håpløst og vi gir oss ikke. Godt motto å ta med seg inn i 2026. Godt nyttår og #SlavaUkraini!

All I’m getting from this disagreement is that really nobody knows but I for one would indeed like to know how the very clear Nazi memes are being posted to government accounts

A cross-national analysis finds that as governments become more populist, academic freedom declines doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Önskningar om att riksdagsledamöter och regeringsmedlemmar ska skjutas ihjäl. Stöd till Putin och hans krig. Och spridande av konspirationsteorier om vaccin och dolda maktstrukturer. Bakom propagandan står personer över 50 - en ofta bortglömd grupp när extremism diskuteras.

I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class

Contrast this with how this same administration has revoked visas for researchers studying how information ecosystems are manipulated (including by foreign actors like Russia). Seems strange that they welcome back the manipulators and attack those working to identify and call them out.

"‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock Intl Criminal Court judge out of daily life. Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards or access everyday services (Uber, Alexa, Ticketmaster...) in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE. My thread. 1/10 🧵

⚡️ Russian forces executed 2 Ukrainian POWs in Donetsk Oblast, prosecutors say Russian troops shot dead two unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war on Dec. 27 in the village of Shakhove near Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office reported on Dec. 29.

I hired professional fact checkers for my book bc it tells the story of how Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger *lied about me.* Hired pros prev at The New Yorker. It was very expensive! My book also went through 6 rounds of legal review. So they haven’t sued me. Read it here: Invisiblerulers.com

Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.

It's notable how all the ethnonationalists around the world are speaking the same language, so even the Hindu nationalist BJP, in a country without a history of the rootless cosmopolitan Jew as the Other, they can associate their opponents with George Soros and assume their audience understands.

Testing the socio-functional model: Does precarity cause conspiracy belief? TLDR; probably not huge thx: Antipodean Misinformation and Conspiracies Club @matthewmatix.bsky.social @lingtax.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social & students osf.io/nq3y7/

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

“If this analysis is correct, then the situation is actually more bleak…if diversification efforts generated a huge change, then the backlash to it might be acceptable…Instead, what appears to have happened is a lot of empty talk, no real significant change, and backlash that is causing real harm.”

Lawfare has been covering this! I have also been, personally, bc I’ve seen the censorship hoax unfold since Day 1. It is extremely difficult to get MSM to understand this story. We have DSA 101 primers for journalists who need, and experts ready to contextualize… open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

Putin claimed to have conquered Kupyansk

Sometimes all the wisdom and truth in the world can be found on the side of an 18th century Wedgwood teapot; Health to the sick Honour to the brave Success to the lover And freedom to the slave Sharing this one again because it's awesome, someone should start reproducing these.

After Jan 6, the U.S. far right had to find a frame that could distract and shift blame from their election fraud lies. They settled on “censorship” — which made their lying villains into “free speech” heroes, and allowed them to target all of the people and orgs that tried to hold them to account.

There is a direct line between Mario Rubio now weaponizing the government against “censorship,” Jay Bhattacharya crying “censorship,” M Shellenberger lying on Substack about “censorship,” and the ongoing destruction of our public health, vaccine, and science infrastructure.

Please don’t take your eyes away from the damage book banning laws are doing in Texas. In Boerne ISD, a kindergarten class was forced to cancel its planned holiday party book exchange due to HB900 and SB13.