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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 35m

Wait, political actors DON’T have to do what polls well? Public opinion can be shaped by their actions and some people who respond to polls have opinions that can be changed?

Wow. Someone call the quantbrain centrist consultants

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

Miller has a real theory of the case: A latent majority out there can be sleepwalked into authoritarianism with enough numbing agitprop. Polls show majorities reject the autocratic abuses but Miller plainly thinks voters in the middle lack conviction about any of it.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 8h

I hope this is right and I would be extremely happy to eat my words and be wrong if in two years we look back on this and realize it's wrong.

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 8h

Contrarian point: it's really bad but at the same time US political media is already so in the tank for trump that I don't know how much this moves the needle. If anything weiss is so incompetent and unqualified that maybe it ends up just discrediting mainstream coverage that's already not adequate

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly.

It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 8h

Hope so. I just wish they had been pointing out her errors and calumnies more in the past

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 8h

it could be true! Let's hope.

It's just that history tells us that media takeovers do work

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 9h

We are in late-stage authoritarian media takeover.

Fox and CNN are owned/controlled by rightwing billionaires.
Twitter and Truth Social
WSJ and WaPo
CBS and ABC
Newsweek, Sinclair, now Tegna; TikTok getting close.

We are far along in the Putin-mold media takeover plan.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 9h

this is an extremely high priority.

“Murdoch Fox” and “Ellison CBS” should be said by every Democratic politician at least once per day.

Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 1d

It's incumbent upon the Democratic Party to educate the public on why CBS news is not to be trusted anymore.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 9h

Susan Collins eats candidates like her for lunch

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 10h

This is a great video. Credit where credit is due.

“No fucking way!” (The text is bleeped but the audio is not.)

It’s one of the strongest bits of public communication I have seen from Dem leadership since Jan.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 14h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 10h

Boy, but how can we say stuff like this without extensive poll-testing?

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MillennialMike @mikemillennial.bsky.social · 11h

A life long Democrat boomer I know who thinks Trump sucks said to me the other day all of the Fox News Republican talking points.

The fascists are manipulating this group’s trusted news sources to devastating effect.

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly.

It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 4d

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!

The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?

sciencebasedmedicine.org

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 12h

On Bari Weiss, Dec, excellent:

"The Free Press is not dedicated to truth and objectivity, as Bari so often claims. It's dedicated to *telling you* it's dedicated to truth and objectivity to hide the reality that it's dedicated to the agendas of the people who fund Weiss."
@publicenlightenment.com

Bari Weiss: Brought To You By Billionaires™

When you see The Free Press, you know it's some billionaire mess.

www.publicenlightenment.com

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 2d

Data is no substitute for strategy. We cannot use a bag of message testing as a substitute for political strategy and leadership.

@aoc.bsky.social and Zohran understand what messages work because they are powerful leaders and communicators. We need more of that.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

The root problem is the Ellisons, and billionaires.

We are going to have to use the FCC in the future to stop billionaire control of our media — as it was designed by its creators to do.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly.

It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Dr. Kalmoe

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Surely you must be overreacting, Mr. Kalmoe, as I was told so many times in the past when pulling out the Chamberlain description.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

And that also means elevating the people who have powerful messages and are leaders of people.
Right now the party leadership elevates the people who like the status quo.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

“frontline“ my butt

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

a poster for only murders in the building shows a man in a blue suit

Alt: a poster for only murders in the building shows a man in a blue suit

media.tenor.com

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

This seems bad

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

This CBS News article says that Democratic leadership told the safe seat members to be silent on everything but health care. Aguilar said “everything else is a distraction.” He’s the caucus chair!

Do the ”Groups” people not understand how the party works? It’s crazy

was not cleared by leadership. And, Rep. Pete Aguilar of California, the Democratic caucus chair, said the move to impeach Mr. Trump was impractical because Republicans control both
chambers of Congress. "This is not the right approach we should be taking," Aguilar told reporters earlier Wednesday, adding that Democratic leadership would be joining Republicans in voting to block the attempt. aguilar said Democrats are focused on Republican attempts to cut Medicaid through the reconciliation process as they seek to slash spending to pay for
trillions in tax cuts. "Everything else is a distraction," Aguilar
said. Thanedar acknowledged the hesitancy
in his party to impeach Mr. Trump in a

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Yes

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

In that way, it’s little different than Republican oligarch Harlan Crow bribing Clarence Thomas for Thomas’s willingness to say things that Harlan Crow likes.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

knows that Substack’s founders are lying about this. There are no new media business models except sucking up to rightwing billionaires.

Getting paid off by Republican oligarch Larry Ellison isn’t a new business model! It’s a bribe to Bari Weiss for her willingness to say things Ellison likes.

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