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Chuck Darwin

In hindsight, 2016 was the beginning of the beginning --- 2024 is the end of that beginning and the start of something much, much worse.

It began as a tear in the information space,
a dawning realisation that the world as we knew it
– stable, fixed by facts, balustraded by evidence
– was now a rip in the fabric of reality.

⚠️And the turbulence that Trump is about to unleash
– alongside pain and cruelty and hardship
– is possible because 💥that’s where we already live:
in information chaos.

We’ve spent eight years learning a new lexicon: “misinformation”, “disinformation”, “microtargeting”.

We’ve learned about information warfare.

As journalists, we, like FBI investigators, used evidence to show how
social media was a vulnerable “threat surface”
that bad actors such as Cambridge Analytica and the Kremlin could exploit.

PhDs have been written on the weaponisation of social media.

But none of this helps us now.

🔥There’s already a judiciary subcommittee on the “weaponisation of the federal government” in Congress to investigate the “censorship industrial complex”
– the idea that big tech is “censoring” Republican voices.

🆘 For the past 18 months, it’s been subpoenaing academics.

Last week, Elon Musk tweeted that the next stage would be “#prosecutions”.

A friend of mine,
an Ivy League professor on the list,
texts to say the day will shortly come
“where I will have to decide whether to stay or go”.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of powerBy Carole Cadwalladr
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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#Corrupt #Conservative #Justice #ClarenceThomas Kicks Off #Trump #Immunity #Hearing By claiming that #Past #Presidents Have Been Part Of #Coups Without #Prosecution.

Dreeben replied, “So, Justice Thomas, I think this is a central question. The reason why, there have not been prior #criminal #prosecutions is that there were not #crimes.”

mediaite.com/news/clarence-tho

Mediaite · Clarence Thomas Kicks Off Trump Immunity Hearing By Saying Past Presidents Have Been Part Of Coups Without Prosecution"Presidents have engaged in various activity, coups, or operations like Operation Mongoose, when I was a teenager, and yet there were no prosecutions. Why?"
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beSpacific

NY DA Alvin L. Bragg to #JimJordan "NY DA is a #constitutional #officer charged w "the responsibility to conduct all #prosecutions for #crimes and #offenses #cognizable by the courts of the county in which he serves.. the DA is obliged by the federal and state #constitutions to #protect the #independence of #StateLaw #enforcement functions from #federal #interference...[you seek] non-public information on #pending #Criminalinvestigation confidential under state law. politico.com/f/?id=00000187-0f #law

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