Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦🪬
@badtoss.bsky.social
Guggenheim Fellow, Prof Emerita and Author: The Gilded Edge (Dutton) and forthcoming, a book on America's home grown Soviet spy (37Ink). Oh, and tennis tweets. Expect them.
Lit rep: Mackenzie Brady Watson
Stacks at https://prendergastc.substack.com
Lit rep: Mackenzie Brady Watson
Stacks at https://prendergastc.substack.com
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A Century of Russian Disinformation: Part One
The Little Known Story of Russia's First Efforts to Provoke Revolution in America
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If you want to blame anyone for the decline of a once flourishing labor movement in NYC, you have to blame the Communist Party in the 1920s, which set as its sights capturing the movement from the Socialist Party to make it bow to the Kremlin.
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I'm going to start asking people screaming about messaging to apply for jobs as messengers for Dems.
No really, put your fucking money where your mouth is if you think you know the magic cheat code to convince white voters to change up a 60+ year voting pattern.
No really, put your fucking money where your mouth is if you think you know the magic cheat code to convince white voters to change up a 60+ year voting pattern.
January 21, 2026 at 5:36 AM
I'm going to start asking people screaming about messaging to apply for jobs as messengers for Dems.
No really, put your fucking money where your mouth is if you think you know the magic cheat code to convince white voters to change up a 60+ year voting pattern.
No really, put your fucking money where your mouth is if you think you know the magic cheat code to convince white voters to change up a 60+ year voting pattern.
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And so the US NATO drawdown begins/continues: Reports say the United States is planning to cut about 200 staff positions at NATO command centers, affecting units involved in military and intelligence planning. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/usa-...
January 21, 2026 at 6:01 AM
And so the US NATO drawdown begins/continues: Reports say the United States is planning to cut about 200 staff positions at NATO command centers, affecting units involved in military and intelligence planning. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/usa-...
I would even take a WH press pool report that simply states the President is on that second plane.
We need proof of life at this point.
January 21, 2026 at 6:06 AM
I would even take a WH press pool report that simply states the President is on that second plane.
Did that White House Press message really say that cellular signal was bad on that second plane? Huh? In the middle of an Air Force base?
January 21, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Did that White House Press message really say that cellular signal was bad on that second plane? Huh? In the middle of an Air Force base?
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Ukrainians were unprepared when Russia invaded Crimea in February 2014. But by the time Russia invaded Luhansk and Donetsk in April 2014 the Ukrainians were raising volunteer battalions.
Today, Europe and Canada are in the same predicament with the USA. We must mobilize now.
Today, Europe and Canada are in the same predicament with the USA. We must mobilize now.
January 20, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Ukrainians were unprepared when Russia invaded Crimea in February 2014. But by the time Russia invaded Luhansk and Donetsk in April 2014 the Ukrainians were raising volunteer battalions.
Today, Europe and Canada are in the same predicament with the USA. We must mobilize now.
Today, Europe and Canada are in the same predicament with the USA. We must mobilize now.
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Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.
January 20, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.
Not confirming that Trump is on that second plane is weird at this point.
January 21, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Not confirming that Trump is on that second plane is weird at this point.
This is the way.
If we all start going "That isn't Donald Trump, that's clearly a body double" I bet we can make everyone in the White House lose their minds within a week. But we have to _commit_ to it.
January 21, 2026 at 5:47 AM
This is the way.
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this is like all the failed assassination attempts on Hitler but all the attacks are coming from within his own body
January 21, 2026 at 5:33 AM
this is like all the failed assassination attempts on Hitler but all the attacks are coming from within his own body
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i am GOING TO get my hopes up every single time. NOT because i am gullible or desperate but because it is FUN
January 21, 2026 at 5:14 AM
i am GOING TO get my hopes up every single time. NOT because i am gullible or desperate but because it is FUN
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*Biden sneezes*
the press: ITS THE END OF THE WORLD ORDER HOLY FUCK PLEASE LET ME SAY A SLUR
*whatever the fuck is happening with Trump*
The press: I pretend I don’t see it
the press: ITS THE END OF THE WORLD ORDER HOLY FUCK PLEASE LET ME SAY A SLUR
*whatever the fuck is happening with Trump*
The press: I pretend I don’t see it
January 21, 2026 at 5:27 AM
*Biden sneezes*
the press: ITS THE END OF THE WORLD ORDER HOLY FUCK PLEASE LET ME SAY A SLUR
*whatever the fuck is happening with Trump*
The press: I pretend I don’t see it
the press: ITS THE END OF THE WORLD ORDER HOLY FUCK PLEASE LET ME SAY A SLUR
*whatever the fuck is happening with Trump*
The press: I pretend I don’t see it
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Donetsk Oblast, a Russian ammunition dump suffers a massive secondary explosion tonight after a Ukrainian strike.
January 21, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Donetsk Oblast, a Russian ammunition dump suffers a massive secondary explosion tonight after a Ukrainian strike.
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This site rn
January 21, 2026 at 5:22 AM
This site rn
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Meanwhile ADF doing the angels’ work, winning the first two sets against the loony giant.
January 21, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Meanwhile ADF doing the angels’ work, winning the first two sets against the loony giant.
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At the risk of being too conspiracy-minded…do we know who’s on it?
January 21, 2026 at 5:19 AM
At the risk of being too conspiracy-minded…do we know who’s on it?
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Pool report timed 11:53pm:
“Pool didn’t see POTUS board replacement AF1, which is the smaller aircraft (757). Sending now as cell coverage poor inside this plane. We will be wheels up for Zurich at some point soon.”
“Pool didn’t see POTUS board replacement AF1, which is the smaller aircraft (757). Sending now as cell coverage poor inside this plane. We will be wheels up for Zurich at some point soon.”
January 21, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Pool report timed 11:53pm:
“Pool didn’t see POTUS board replacement AF1, which is the smaller aircraft (757). Sending now as cell coverage poor inside this plane. We will be wheels up for Zurich at some point soon.”
“Pool didn’t see POTUS board replacement AF1, which is the smaller aircraft (757). Sending now as cell coverage poor inside this plane. We will be wheels up for Zurich at some point soon.”
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This is like playing the lottery. You won't win, but dreaming about what you'd do feels amazing and it passes some pleasant hours until you lose.
January 21, 2026 at 5:10 AM
This is like playing the lottery. You won't win, but dreaming about what you'd do feels amazing and it passes some pleasant hours until you lose.
Sick dropper from Gauff🎾
January 21, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Sick dropper from Gauff🎾
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Come the fuck on, if we have to live with a state media apparatus, the least they can do is give us proof of life and let us go to sleep
January 21, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Come the fuck on, if we have to live with a state media apparatus, the least they can do is give us proof of life and let us go to sleep
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It's incredible how every time Trump isn't present for like 5 seconds, or there's a change of plans, people start hoping, praying, and rooting for him to be dead. I can't think of anyone else in my lifetime who so many people wished dead in real time.
January 21, 2026 at 5:00 AM
It's incredible how every time Trump isn't present for like 5 seconds, or there's a change of plans, people start hoping, praying, and rooting for him to be dead. I can't think of anyone else in my lifetime who so many people wished dead in real time.
I might pour myself a drink…
January 21, 2026 at 5:03 AM
I might pour myself a drink…
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I'm not gonna sleep tonight because I'll be refreshing this app every thirty seconds lol
January 21, 2026 at 4:58 AM
I'm not gonna sleep tonight because I'll be refreshing this app every thirty seconds lol
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So what I’m getting from this is no independent reporter can currently confirm if the President is alive. Is that correct?
January 21, 2026 at 4:52 AM
So what I’m getting from this is no independent reporter can currently confirm if the President is alive. Is that correct?
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Ok, it's a long shot, but we're still in this
January 21, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Ok, it's a long shot, but we're still in this