Sanho Tree
@sanho.bsky.social
Fellow, Inst. for Policy Studies. Ex-historian posting about drug policy, social justice, Ukraine, & such. Fighting culture wars since Pat Buchanan declared it in 1992. Professional border crosser. Interdisciplinary before it was cool. Personal account.
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Sanho Tree
@sanho.bsky.social
· Jun 25
Authoritarianism and The Weaponization of Social Media
YouTube video by Institute for Policy Studies
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My talk last week about Authoritarianism and The Weaponization of Social Media is now up. Please share if you like it.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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If I were an American I would save money by simply buying lottery tickets with winning numbers and not those with losing numbers.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If I were an American I would save money by simply buying lottery tickets with winning numbers and not those with losing numbers.
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#Tehran may be evacuated as #Iran faces worst drought in decades. Iran is seeing nationwide #water shortages with over 16 million people in danger of their taps running dry. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Tehran may be evacuated as Iran faces worst drought in decades
Iran is seeing nationwide water shortages with over 16 million people in danger of their taps running dry
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
#Tehran may be evacuated as #Iran faces worst drought in decades. Iran is seeing nationwide #water shortages with over 16 million people in danger of their taps running dry. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Instagram has become a marketplace for neo-Nazis. Influencers are using the platform’s massive reach to glorify Hitler, deny the Holocaust, and sell merchandise. Their content, drenched in antisemitism, misogyny, and racism, reaches millions daily. Meta knows it — but refuses to act.
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Instagram’s Antisemitism Economy
Instagram has become a marketplace for antisemitism. Influencers like Hayden McDougall, Dylan Shane, Jake Shields, and Myron Gaines are using the platform’s massive reach to glorify Hitler, deny the H...
globalextremism.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Instagram has become a marketplace for neo-Nazis. Influencers are using the platform’s massive reach to glorify Hitler, deny the Holocaust, and sell merchandise. Their content, drenched in antisemitism, misogyny, and racism, reaches millions daily. Meta knows it — but refuses to act.
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Spreading a little joy from Joyce Carol Oates.😈
This Acclaimed Author's Roast Of 'Uncultured' Elon Musk Is An Absolute 'Beauty'
Joyce Carol Oates used the billionaire's platform to expose what he "never posts" about.
www.huffpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Spreading a little joy from Joyce Carol Oates.😈
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If it gets to a jury trial, Berkeley residents will know what to do.
4 UC Berkeley undergrads who put up a cardboard insect to protest Turning P*int USA’s sold out campus event are being charged with FELONY VANDALISM.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation
UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.
www.dailycal.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
If it gets to a jury trial, Berkeley residents will know what to do.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Imagine being the richest human in history and crashing out this pathetically over 88 year old writer Joyce Carol Oates. This is breathtaking.
omfg
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Imagine being the richest human in history and crashing out this pathetically over 88 year old writer Joyce Carol Oates. This is breathtaking.
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it's also fun that she's incinerating him in between cute cat posting while he's running around the sight weeping and insisting he has a soul.
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
it's also fun that she's incinerating him in between cute cat posting while he's running around the sight weeping and insisting he has a soul.
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Jefuf Chrift
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Jefuf Chrift
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If your city is next, mutual aid and neighborhood watch networks are the most important things to scale up, but whistles are a great tool to get people taking the first step.
linktr.ee/apwhistles
linktr.ee/apwhistles
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
If your city is next, mutual aid and neighborhood watch networks are the most important things to scale up, but whistles are a great tool to get people taking the first step.
linktr.ee/apwhistles
linktr.ee/apwhistles
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She nails it on the head here, as only she could.
Elon's problem is that no matter where he goes, there he is.
Elon's problem is that no matter where he goes, there he is.
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
She nails it on the head here, as only she could.
Elon's problem is that no matter where he goes, there he is.
Elon's problem is that no matter where he goes, there he is.
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Kinda like renting, for 50 years in your own home. You’re as good as dead.
About Trump’s 50-year mortgage idea…😂
How would a 50-year mortgage work?
YouTube video by Dave Jorgenson
youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Kinda like renting, for 50 years in your own home. You’re as good as dead.
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so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
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He’s been hearing it a lot as they stick a needle in the back of his hand
what is with the whole “are you ready” verbal tic lately
INGRAHAM: Is affordability a voter perception issue of the economy, or is there more that needs to be done by Republicans?
TRUMP: More than anything else, it's a con job by the Democrats. Are you ready? Costs are way down.
TRUMP: More than anything else, it's a con job by the Democrats. Are you ready? Costs are way down.
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
He’s been hearing it a lot as they stick a needle in the back of his hand
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In a single day, two different federal officers point guns at two different @chicagotribune.com photojournalists in and around Chicago. This is dangerous stuff.
1/2 Are there any experts out there who can correctly identify the weapons being pointed directly at these two @chicagotribune.com photojournalists?
What type of gun is this?
cc: @mandophotos.bsky.social
What type of gun is this?
cc: @mandophotos.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
In a single day, two different federal officers point guns at two different @chicagotribune.com photojournalists in and around Chicago. This is dangerous stuff.
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"I have been on two humanitarian-esque missions with the guard, which were awesome, doing the things you see on the commercial, helping these communities," says J. "And then you want me to go pick up trash and dissuade homeless people in D.C. at gunpoint. Like, no dude.“
In an encrypted group chat, National Guard members question Trump deployments
As President Trump's call for National Guard deployments rings out across the U.S., a small contingent of Ohio guard members is quietly expressing concern in an encrypted group chat.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"I have been on two humanitarian-esque missions with the guard, which were awesome, doing the things you see on the commercial, helping these communities," says J. "And then you want me to go pick up trash and dissuade homeless people in D.C. at gunpoint. Like, no dude.“
About Trump’s 50-year mortgage idea…😂
How would a 50-year mortgage work?
YouTube video by Dave Jorgenson
youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
About Trump’s 50-year mortgage idea…😂
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Fourth Amendment in a MAGA induced coma rn
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Fourth Amendment in a MAGA induced coma rn
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You are 61, you have had a heart bypass, a knee replacement. Here's $2000. Get negotiating.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
You are 61, you have had a heart bypass, a knee replacement. Here's $2000. Get negotiating.
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NEW: Some math teachers took a photo wearing t-shirts reading "Problem Solved" on Halloween
There was no connection to Charlie Kirk, but some right-wing influencers and GOP politicians insisted there was
Dozens of death threats followed. Here's what happened -->
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
There was no connection to Charlie Kirk, but some right-wing influencers and GOP politicians insisted there was
Dozens of death threats followed. Here's what happened -->
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
One photo, a deluge of threats: Inside the Arizona high school turned upside down by right-wing activists
A group of math teachers — some of whom were fans of Charlie Kirk — had their lives turned upside down this week over false accusations about a Halloween photo.
www.nbcnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
NEW: Some math teachers took a photo wearing t-shirts reading "Problem Solved" on Halloween
There was no connection to Charlie Kirk, but some right-wing influencers and GOP politicians insisted there was
Dozens of death threats followed. Here's what happened -->
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
There was no connection to Charlie Kirk, but some right-wing influencers and GOP politicians insisted there was
Dozens of death threats followed. Here's what happened -->
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
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“The Republican senators whose phone records were subpoenaed … were: Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming.”
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
“The Republican senators whose phone records were subpoenaed … were: Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming.”
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The 8 democrats gave away another concession.
This one begs important questions:
Why did Republican Senators insist on this protection?
Why are they so terrified that the public prosecutor and thus potentially the public… might discover something about their actions on January 6?
This one begs important questions:
Why did Republican Senators insist on this protection?
Why are they so terrified that the public prosecutor and thus potentially the public… might discover something about their actions on January 6?
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The 8 democrats gave away another concession.
This one begs important questions:
Why did Republican Senators insist on this protection?
Why are they so terrified that the public prosecutor and thus potentially the public… might discover something about their actions on January 6?
This one begs important questions:
Why did Republican Senators insist on this protection?
Why are they so terrified that the public prosecutor and thus potentially the public… might discover something about their actions on January 6?
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'At the direction of' protects Hegseth from NOTHING when the the trials start. And they will start.
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
'At the direction of' protects Hegseth from NOTHING when the the trials start. And they will start.