Eric Blair
@protecttruth.bsky.social
Status Quo Politics is holding us back. Who will call for a big fight, and big change? The status quo cannot hold.
SCOTUS delenda est
SCOTUS delenda est
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Eric Blair
@protecttruth.bsky.social
· Jun 22
Why push for impeachment?
Because politics is an exercise in moving public opinion as much as counting votes in the senate.
The Jan 6 Hearings were not a criminal proceeding against Trump that would end in jail, but they focused public attention.
Performative public investigations matter
Because politics is an exercise in moving public opinion as much as counting votes in the senate.
The Jan 6 Hearings were not a criminal proceeding against Trump that would end in jail, but they focused public attention.
Performative public investigations matter
Substack is spreading MAHA / RFK / antivax health disinformation, and that's an underrated part of why RFK Jr is currently in control of public health.
This stuff helped get Trump elected and RFK installed at HHS. Substack needs to stop it.
This stuff helped get Trump elected and RFK installed at HHS. Substack needs to stop it.
Substack has an antiscience health disinformation problem.
MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack.
Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack.
Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
Substack has a Nazi problem AND a health disinformation problem
Substack creators and Substack audiences are supporting a platform that profits off of promoting dangerous antiscience content – at the expense of public health.
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Substack is spreading MAHA / RFK / antivax health disinformation, and that's an underrated part of why RFK Jr is currently in control of public health.
This stuff helped get Trump elected and RFK installed at HHS. Substack needs to stop it.
This stuff helped get Trump elected and RFK installed at HHS. Substack needs to stop it.
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Substack has an antiscience health disinformation problem.
MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack.
Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack.
Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
Substack has a Nazi problem AND a health disinformation problem
Substack creators and Substack audiences are supporting a platform that profits off of promoting dangerous antiscience content – at the expense of public health.
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Substack has an antiscience health disinformation problem.
MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack.
Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack.
Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
Au Contraire, David Sacks.
We are going to use the popping of the AI bubble as a way to impoverish you and your tech billionaire friends.
We are going to use the popping of the AI bubble as a way to impoverish you and your tech billionaire friends.
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Au Contraire, David Sacks.
We are going to use the popping of the AI bubble as a way to impoverish you and your tech billionaire friends.
We are going to use the popping of the AI bubble as a way to impoverish you and your tech billionaire friends.
Jeff Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic, is a villain who has helped create American fascism.
Kudos to Kennedy's handlers for getting him a cover shoot -- praying with a rosary! -- at the same time he's at the center of a 🤢 cyber infidelity scandal. No notes.
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Jeff Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic, is a villain who has helped create American fascism.
“Klein looks at his chart and sees…excessive gov‘t restrictions, such as zoning and outdated safety requirements.
I look at his chart and see the lasting devastation to housing that resulted from letting a bubble grow unchecked in the first decade of this century.“
and Abundance inflates bubbles!
I look at his chart and see the lasting devastation to housing that resulted from letting a bubble grow unchecked in the first decade of this century.“
and Abundance inflates bubbles!
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“Klein looks at his chart and sees…excessive gov‘t restrictions, such as zoning and outdated safety requirements.
I look at his chart and see the lasting devastation to housing that resulted from letting a bubble grow unchecked in the first decade of this century.“
and Abundance inflates bubbles!
I look at his chart and see the lasting devastation to housing that resulted from letting a bubble grow unchecked in the first decade of this century.“
and Abundance inflates bubbles!
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
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Democracies cannot work without social norm-enforcement (shaming). The fact that some norm-enforcement has brutalized and subjugated people, and still does, doesn't mean you just abandon the whole idea. You make brutality and subjugation, in all forms, a source of shame. A norm.
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Democracies cannot work without social norm-enforcement (shaming). The fact that some norm-enforcement has brutalized and subjugated people, and still does, doesn't mean you just abandon the whole idea. You make brutality and subjugation, in all forms, a source of shame. A norm.
this can't be real
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 AM
this can't be real
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Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem
Jared Kushner is another person who must be prosecuted and jailed if we want to have a functional democracy going forward.
And his money must be taken and used for pro-democracy purposes.
And his money must be taken and used for pro-democracy purposes.
Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Jared Kushner is another person who must be prosecuted and jailed if we want to have a functional democracy going forward.
And his money must be taken and used for pro-democracy purposes.
And his money must be taken and used for pro-democracy purposes.
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There is no explicit constitutional prohibition against felching so it is difficult for me to understand why Ryan Lisa is so upset with Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr.
by Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There is no explicit constitutional prohibition against felching so it is difficult for me to understand why Ryan Lisa is so upset with Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr.
by Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley
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The bamboo!
It’s a metaphor!
It’s a metaphor!
November 23, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The bamboo!
It’s a metaphor!
It’s a metaphor!
Shawn McCreesh is at the New York Times because AG Sulzberger WANTS people like McCreesh.
McCreesh is the guy who wrote the gauzy piece about Epstein’s New York.
McCreesh is the guy who wrote the gauzy piece about Epstein’s New York.
Oh wow, you weren't kidding pagesix.com/2025/08/29/s...
Exclusive | New media power couple: Vanity Fair editor Mark Guiducci and NYT’s White House correspondent Shawn McCreesh are dating
The duo were spotted rubbing shoulders with an elite crowd at an extravagant French wedding weekend in Paris.
pagesix.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Shawn McCreesh is at the New York Times because AG Sulzberger WANTS people like McCreesh.
McCreesh is the guy who wrote the gauzy piece about Epstein’s New York.
McCreesh is the guy who wrote the gauzy piece about Epstein’s New York.
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at no point does this article get close to pointing out she's a weird billionaire-allied troll with no actual experience in journalism who was hired to blow smoke up the ass of power
most of the media journalism I read is so uninformative and feckless you'd be better off watching the muppet show
most of the media journalism I read is so uninformative and feckless you'd be better off watching the muppet show
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
at no point does this article get close to pointing out she's a weird billionaire-allied troll with no actual experience in journalism who was hired to blow smoke up the ass of power
most of the media journalism I read is so uninformative and feckless you'd be better off watching the muppet show
most of the media journalism I read is so uninformative and feckless you'd be better off watching the muppet show
Umm this thread is insane.
Maybe everyone should flatter Trump and be nice to him, maybe that is the secret best plan
Maybe everyone should flatter Trump and be nice to him, maybe that is the secret best plan
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Umm this thread is insane.
Maybe everyone should flatter Trump and be nice to him, maybe that is the secret best plan
Maybe everyone should flatter Trump and be nice to him, maybe that is the secret best plan
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"The hiring of a former opinion journalist with strong views on Israel and diversity, equity and inclusion"
get out of journalism, you're all fucking useless
get out of journalism, you're all fucking useless
‘I Wanna Blow This Up’: How Bari Weiss Is Trying to Overhaul CBS News
The new editor in chief is personally recruiting potential anchors, booking guests herself and asking staff what they do.
www.wsj.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"The hiring of a former opinion journalist with strong views on Israel and diversity, equity and inclusion"
get out of journalism, you're all fucking useless
get out of journalism, you're all fucking useless
there is one word for what is needed here:
JAIL. Put Bovino in jail!
Hold him in contempt.
Hold him in jail while a jury trial is convened. Let the president try to pardon him.
Trump lackeys lying to courts without consequences are a big component of our crisis of elite accountability!
JAIL. Put Bovino in jail!
Hold him in contempt.
Hold him in jail while a jury trial is convened. Let the president try to pardon him.
Trump lackeys lying to courts without consequences are a big component of our crisis of elite accountability!
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
there is one word for what is needed here:
JAIL. Put Bovino in jail!
Hold him in contempt.
Hold him in jail while a jury trial is convened. Let the president try to pardon him.
Trump lackeys lying to courts without consequences are a big component of our crisis of elite accountability!
JAIL. Put Bovino in jail!
Hold him in contempt.
Hold him in jail while a jury trial is convened. Let the president try to pardon him.
Trump lackeys lying to courts without consequences are a big component of our crisis of elite accountability!
Our task:
Feed Elon Musk’s wealth into the woodchipper.
Feed Elon Musk’s wealth into the woodchipper.
Over on X today, Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is having another normal one www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot ranks him as world history’s greatest human
Users on X shared examples of the “truth-seeking” AI chatbot praising its owner as “strikingly handsome,” a “genius,” and fitter than LeBron James.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Our task:
Feed Elon Musk’s wealth into the woodchipper.
Feed Elon Musk’s wealth into the woodchipper.
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This is very cool and interesting and helpful. My only quibble is this finding should not be surprising! to anyone! Tons of normal voters mostly do not have coherent ideologies, particularly at the issue level. They want a jumble of stuff.
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is very cool and interesting and helpful. My only quibble is this finding should not be surprising! to anyone! Tons of normal voters mostly do not have coherent ideologies, particularly at the issue level. They want a jumble of stuff.
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Yes. I have done this.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Yes. I have done this.
For everyone else threatened by Trump: the correct answer is “Fuck you. Make me.”
And then go to the press.
And then go to the press.
Mafia governance in action
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
For everyone else threatened by Trump: the correct answer is “Fuck you. Make me.”
And then go to the press.
And then go to the press.
I tagged my mp3s and then Gracenote sold out all the metadata their users entered including mine.
my guess: private equity
my guess: private equity
All my life I've been carefully filing emails into folders and I genuinely think I can count on one hand the number of times I've ever gone to a folder and dug up an old email. To find a bigger waste of time you'd have to go to me tagging my mp3s ...
November 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I tagged my mp3s and then Gracenote sold out all the metadata their users entered including mine.
my guess: private equity
my guess: private equity
George Conway is a friend of Brett Kavanaugh and a Federalist Society insider.
Few people are as responsible for the corrupt Court that has protected Trump.
Do not vote for him!
Few people are as responsible for the corrupt Court that has protected Trump.
Do not vote for him!
"Mr. Conway outlined his pitch on Tuesday night at a private virtual event for paid members of Democracy Docket, the media outlet founded by Marc Elias, the Democratic attorney." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
George Conway, a Vocal Foe of Trump, Eyes Congressional Run
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
George Conway is a friend of Brett Kavanaugh and a Federalist Society insider.
Few people are as responsible for the corrupt Court that has protected Trump.
Do not vote for him!
Few people are as responsible for the corrupt Court that has protected Trump.
Do not vote for him!
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This is a blatant admission that the ICE agent just tried to straight up murder Marimar Martinez. @govpritzker.illinois.gov should push for the prosecution of everyone involved.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This is a blatant admission that the ICE agent just tried to straight up murder Marimar Martinez. @govpritzker.illinois.gov should push for the prosecution of everyone involved.