Karam Bales
@karambales.bsky.social
Counter Disinformation Project, Former NEU and ATL union executive
Freelance journalist & researcher @bylinetimes @whowhatwhy
Educator
Counterdisinformationproject.substack.com
Freelance journalist & researcher @bylinetimes @whowhatwhy
Educator
Counterdisinformationproject.substack.com
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Karam Bales
@karambales.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Greetings everyone, starting to transfer over to here, posts will increase as the account builds
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Epstein, Thiel, and the Obscene Projection at the Heart of MAGA Memetic Warfare
The Epstein Files reveal the prolific billionaire abuser's role in pumping out propaganda during the 2016 election, falsely accusing Trump’s opponents of being exactly what he was
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
The Epstein Files reveal the prolific billionaire abuser's role in pumping out propaganda during the 2016 election, falsely accusing Trump’s opponents of being exactly what he was
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
The Troll Army and the Paedophile: Epstein, Thiel, and the Obscene Projection at the Heart of MAGA Memetic Warfare
The Epstein Files reveal the role the prolific billionaire abuser played in pumping out propaganda during the 2016 election, falsely accusing Trump’s opponents of being exactly what he was
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Epstein, Thiel, and the Obscene Projection at the Heart of MAGA Memetic Warfare
The Epstein Files reveal the prolific billionaire abuser's role in pumping out propaganda during the 2016 election, falsely accusing Trump’s opponents of being exactly what he was
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
The Epstein Files reveal the prolific billionaire abuser's role in pumping out propaganda during the 2016 election, falsely accusing Trump’s opponents of being exactly what he was
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
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Why didn’t we hear about antivaxxer interference in government vaccine policy or the lockdown studies that showed it was school return that was damaging. There really hasn’t been enough depth in the @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social I am extremely disappointed. Many more stones need to be turned!
We also didn’t hear all the studies on the impacts to children from lockdown. There were several that portrayed a different picture. This study showed that ‘school opening’ not ‘societal lockdown restrictions’ led to psychiatric probmems jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 School Disruptions and Mental Health Status
This cross-sectional study examines the number of emergency department visits for acute psychiatric events in children and adolescents in Italy associated with school closures and reopenings during th...
jamanetwork.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Why didn’t we hear about antivaxxer interference in government vaccine policy or the lockdown studies that showed it was school return that was damaging. There really hasn’t been enough depth in the @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social I am extremely disappointed. Many more stones need to be turned!
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Institutions fail us.
We won’t forget their cowardice.
We won’t forget their cowardice.
February 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Institutions fail us.
We won’t forget their cowardice.
We won’t forget their cowardice.
Reform go to war against Bangor University in faux free speech outrage
MAGAfication leads to Reform producing policy for the Welsh elections based on misinformation
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
MAGAfication leads to Reform producing policy for the Welsh elections based on misinformation
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
Reform go to war against Bangor University in faux free speech outrage
MAGAfication leads to Reform producing policy for the Welsh elections based on misinformation
open.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Reform go to war against Bangor University in faux free speech outrage
MAGAfication leads to Reform producing policy for the Welsh elections based on misinformation
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
MAGAfication leads to Reform producing policy for the Welsh elections based on misinformation
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
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This is pretty menacing.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
February 10, 2026 at 8:53 AM
This is pretty menacing.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
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@karambales.bsky.social
Brings us this too!
Brings us this too!
February 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
@karambales.bsky.social
Brings us this too!
Brings us this too!
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SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals.
The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
HHS Has Been Using Anti-Trans Language From a Christian Right Think Tank
The department refers to gender-affirming care as “sex-denying procedures,” a term coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
www.importantcontext.news
February 9, 2026 at 5:51 PM
SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals.
The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
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Vance’s benefactor Peter Thiel, Epstein, and Russia’s ambassador Vitaly Churkin having an “important lunch” 1 month before the 2016 election — right before the Podesta emails were released by Wikileaks
Probably nothing! 🙃🥶
Probably nothing! 🙃🥶
January 31, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Vance’s benefactor Peter Thiel, Epstein, and Russia’s ambassador Vitaly Churkin having an “important lunch” 1 month before the 2016 election — right before the Podesta emails were released by Wikileaks
Probably nothing! 🙃🥶
Probably nothing! 🙃🥶
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Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
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A link here. Very worth subscribing to. Important on how we got to this point. counterdisinformationproject.substack.com
Counter Disinformation Project | Substack
Exposing Disinformation Networks
#HARTleaks. Click to read Counter Disinformation Project, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
counterdisinformationproject.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
A link here. Very worth subscribing to. Important on how we got to this point. counterdisinformationproject.substack.com
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I would like to challenge my followers to read all of the archives of the counterdisinformation project on substack. You can access without being on Substack but please do support. So much here that you never heard in the media since 2020. Please read!
Greetings everyone, starting to transfer over to here, posts will increase as the account builds
February 7, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I would like to challenge my followers to read all of the archives of the counterdisinformation project on substack. You can access without being on Substack but please do support. So much here that you never heard in the media since 2020. Please read!
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WTH is happening in the UK.
Reform's James Orr and the
Antichrist at Cambridge University
Cambridge Universitv hosted Peter Thiel todeliver his Antichrist Lectures, exploring Orrs associations with Thiel
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
Antichrist at Cambridge University
Cambridge Universitv hosted Peter Thiel todeliver his Antichrist Lectures, exploring Orrs associations with Thiel
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
Reform's James Orr and the Antichrist at Cambridge University
Cambridge University hosted Peter Thiel to deliver his Antichrist Lectures, exploring Orrs associations with Thiel
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:36 PM
WTH is happening in the UK.
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Reposted by Karam Bales
Reform's James Orr and the
Antichrist at Cambridge University
Cambridge Universitv hosted Peter Thiel todeliver his Antichrist Lectures, exploring Orrs associations with Thiel
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
Antichrist at Cambridge University
Cambridge Universitv hosted Peter Thiel todeliver his Antichrist Lectures, exploring Orrs associations with Thiel
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
Reform's James Orr and the Antichrist at Cambridge University
Cambridge University hosted Peter Thiel to deliver his Antichrist Lectures, exploring Orrs associations with Thiel
open.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Reform's James Orr and the
Antichrist at Cambridge University
Cambridge Universitv hosted Peter Thiel todeliver his Antichrist Lectures, exploring Orrs associations with Thiel
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
Antichrist at Cambridge University
Cambridge Universitv hosted Peter Thiel todeliver his Antichrist Lectures, exploring Orrs associations with Thiel
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
Reform's James Orr and the
Antichrist at Cambridge University
Cambridge Universitv hosted Peter Thiel todeliver his Antichrist Lectures, exploring Orrs associations with Thiel
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
Antichrist at Cambridge University
Cambridge Universitv hosted Peter Thiel todeliver his Antichrist Lectures, exploring Orrs associations with Thiel
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
Reform's James Orr and the Antichrist at Cambridge University
Cambridge University hosted Peter Thiel to deliver his Antichrist Lectures, exploring Orrs associations with Thiel
open.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Reform's James Orr and the
Antichrist at Cambridge University
Cambridge Universitv hosted Peter Thiel todeliver his Antichrist Lectures, exploring Orrs associations with Thiel
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
Antichrist at Cambridge University
Cambridge Universitv hosted Peter Thiel todeliver his Antichrist Lectures, exploring Orrs associations with Thiel
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
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BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism?
BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism
SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?
BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism
BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism
SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?
BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism
February 3, 2026 at 3:59 PM
BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism?
BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism
SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?
BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism
BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism
SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?
BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism
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Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
February 2, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
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@joho.bsky.social returns to the podcast to talk about MAGA’s enablers in the MAHA movement.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...
Brief: Did MAHA Put MAGA In Power? — Conspirituality
Dr Jonathan Howard, a neurologist and psychiatrist at NYU Langone’s Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center, returns to the podcast to talk about MAGA’s enablers in the MAHA movement.
www.conspirituality.net
January 31, 2026 at 9:36 PM
@joho.bsky.social returns to the podcast to talk about MAGA’s enablers in the MAHA movement.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...
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Lettuce not be ovverly distracted by that comedy timing of hers 🤪
A few years ago Truss was Prime Minister, now she's a radical right podcaster who has chummy chats with the likes of Steve Bannon and Curtis Yarvin
Her latest podcast guests⬇️
Her latest podcast guests⬇️
January 29, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Lettuce not be ovverly distracted by that comedy timing of hers 🤪
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🚨BREAKING: Outrage and grave concern about the midterm elections followed in the wake of the FBI’s court-authorized raid of the Fulton County, Georgia elections office Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
‘Five alarm fire for democracy’: Dems, voting advocates voice outrage at FBI raid of Georgia elections office
Outrage and grave concern about the midterm elections followed in the wake of the FBI’s court-authorized raid of the Fulton County, Georgia elections office.
www.democracydocket.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:55 PM
🚨BREAKING: Outrage and grave concern about the midterm elections followed in the wake of the FBI’s court-authorized raid of the Fulton County, Georgia elections office Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Occasionally see some of this pop up on Instagram and would be fascinated to know who is funding/behind it.
A few years ago Truss was Prime Minister, now she's a radical right podcaster who has chummy chats with the likes of Steve Bannon and Curtis Yarvin
Her latest podcast guests⬇️
Her latest podcast guests⬇️
January 28, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Occasionally see some of this pop up on Instagram and would be fascinated to know who is funding/behind it.