How The Five, America's most popular cable news program, shapes viewers' perspectives on politics and culture.

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One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

Chosen solitude may be the most significant social fact of our age, @dkthomp.bsky.social writes. The emergence of the anti-social century is changing childhood social development, our physical infrastructure, and even our relationship to reality.

I'll say it until I'm blue in the face. There is just too much media, too much communication to be inauthentic. These days leople can sniff you out in an instant. Just be normal, it shouldn't be hard. @schatz.bsky.social really nails it in this interview.

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Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed.

The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.

Had a great chat with Adam Geller on Toplines, Tabs, & Trends. We tackled trust in institutions, shifts in media (hello, Joe Rogan), and where both parties should head next. Catch it on Spotify for the latest in public opinion.
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I'd never actually listened to Joe Rogan's podcast despite it being the most popular in the world. After the election made its cultural significance inarguable, I spent time listening, totaling 30 hours, hoping to get a sense for how it shapes listeners' views.

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Here's a graphic explaining how the Big Lie was seeded and mobilized into the events of January 6, 2021 through a kind of "participatory disinformation" process. Trump's "war on drugs" refrain could catalyze a similar kind of participatory propaganda and mobilization cycle.

New: Recordings from private autism conferences show Trump HHS pick Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vilifying & conspiracy theorizing about agencies he's set to lead. Videos show RFK Jr comparing CDC vaccine programs to "Nazi death camps" & calling for researchers to be jailed. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

If Democrats are so smart, they should be able to explain complicated things simply. How about:

"The GOP wants to give the new president unlimited power over nonprofits, letting him label any group he disagrees with as a terrorist supporter—without any checks or fair process."

Let me say something that is controversial because our brains are broken:

Vaccines are a miracle and amazing

Bluesky by the Numbers today:

1.3M people Posted 6.5M posts
2.3M people Liked 37.5M posts
2.9M people Followed 41.5M people (!!!!!)

Over 1,000,000 people joined the network!!!!!!

We broke all-time traffic records by over 30% today across the board.

Follows are up 20x from 2 weeks ago!

Holy Moly

GM. Is Boebert for EdSec a bit we're doing or is that real?

So Matt Gaetz is about to be the subject of a damning House Ethics Committee report exposing his illegal behavior… and in order to give him a pretense under which he could resign and evade accountability… Trump offered him the role of the top law enforcement official in the United States of America.

Already resigned. Any suggestion that he is a sacrificial lamb is silly. When has Trump played by the old rules (of accepting losing one or two noms)?