Grifters and MAGAs cannot exist without lies. And it's just going to get worse.

E puțin amuzant că toată lumea știe despre ce e vorba în desenul ăsta. E și trist, evident. Dar și puțin amuzant :)

Oh, deci taxarea în plus chiar funcționează. Cine ar fi crezut? :)

Altadena Community Church, Pasadena Jewish Temple, Masjid Al-Taqwa Mosque, Altadena United Methodist Church, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Altadena, Corpus Christi Catholic Church

Câteva dintre lăcașurile de cult care au ars (complet sau în proporție mare) în incendiile din LA.

Fanii Trump, înainte de vot: doar el poate asigura pacea și repara economia.
Trump: îhî, exact
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Trump acum: mmmk, deci vreau Canada, Groenlanda și canalul Panama, dacă nu vor poate trimit armata. Also, o să pun tarife țărilor care nu-l lasă pe Musk să facă ce vrea.
Fanii lui Trump: îhî, exact.

🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trump's ban to appear on the ballot will be overturned by SCOTUS, which he controls. His defense is interesting: didn't argue against insurrection or Trump involvement, just that the ban applies to senators, representatives, electors of the president and to the vice president, NOT the president. 🤡

Virginia Foxx claimed in a US Congress speech that whole milk is "the fuel Santa needs to travel the whole globe in one night". No, she's not an 8 years-old kid, but an 80-year-old Republican.
I guess some people choose never to grow up.

Trump: immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country" AUR*: we need to strengthen the "healthy biologic base" of the nation.
Blood & soil vibes, anyone?

*Romanian radical right-wing party.

Ukraine fights a literal war because it wants to join the EU.
Hungary keeps complaining about the EU and trying to undermine it, while being a member.
Sooo, could we just make the switch? We'll let Putin have Hungary since they are already friends, and we'll get Ukraine.
Win-win-win, right?

Giuliani to pay $148M for spreading lies about two election workers in Georgia (one had to leave home bc. of danger from Trump supporters). In another case, a guy from Texas was sentenced to 2 years in prison for threats against election officials.

Had a productive weekend in Bucharest working towards a new coalition of NGOs dedicated to fighting disinformation.
Real challenges still ahead, Romania trails most western countries in critical thinking & media literacy skills, while the govt. seems more inclined to use disinfo than to fight it.

X/Musk new plan seems to be finding money in far-right groups that want to support X&Musk because they are also supported in return.
Several right-wing influencers already said they will pool funds to advertise on X.
Meanwhile, Musk plans opening up political advertising, obviously targeting MAGA.

Short piece for HiveMind Community on how disinfo is affecting democracy. Bad info leads to bad choices - i.e. decision to vaccinate or not, vote for bad people.
Politicians also use troll armies to control the discourse, vocal minorities can block action, and we waste time and resources.