i've retruthed my truth social post about how things are going very well in an attempt to answer some of the questions raised by my truth social post about how well things are going

My Popular with Friends tab is 100% The Onion buys Infowars posts.

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.

Get excited.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

The heroes we need.

This is particularly funny because InfoWars wrote about me this weekend

The more I think about the techno-fascist tech nerds the more I wonder if the Nazis were just a bunch of angry nerds.

Let me tell you a story. When I was a child, I suffered from night terrors. It was always the same dream: I could hear my family and neighbors wailing in the street outside as they were pursued and then destroyed by a nameless malevolent force, something neither I nor anyone else could control, a great darkness that was, somehow, all my fault. Today, that childhood dream is finally coming true. Today I can finally say the sweetest nine or 10 words in the English language: Global Tetrahedron has completed its plan to control InfoWars.com. I’ve had a lot of time to think about InfoWars in the last year and a half. As the seasons have changed, my ambitions for the project have grown grander, crueler, better aligned with market data. Come, friends, and imagine with me…

Imagine a roaring arena packed to the rafters with pathological liars. High above you in the nosebleeds are podcasters, screaming that you’ll die if you don’t buy their skincare products. Below, on the floor, imagine demonic battalions of super-influencers physically forcing people into home fitness devices designed to dismantle their bodies bone by bone and reassemble them into a grotesque statue of yourself. Out of the throngs, an extremely sick looking man approaches you. He puts his hands on your shoulders. He explains that he is your life coach and that you owe him $800. Such is the InfoWars I envision: An infinite virtual surface teeming with ads. Not just ads, but scams! Not just scams, but lies with no object, free radical misinformation, sentences and images so poorly thought out that they are unhealthy even to view for just a few seconds. The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together: A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact.

With this new InfoWars, we will democratize psychological torture, welcoming brutal and sadistic ideas from everyone, even the very stupidest among us. It will be like the Manhattan Project, only instead of a bomb, we will be building a website. The InfoWars of tomorrow will converge into a swirling vortex of content about content, talent acquiring talent, rings of concentric media mergers processing all human artistry into one endlessly digestible slurry. This will be a dank, sunless place, one where panic and capital feed on each other like twins in the womb of a hulking, unknowable monster—a monster known by many names, but which I like to call modern-day America. All of this is to say that I believe in us. I believe that with the new InfoWars, we can alchemize the pioneering spirit of amateur inquiry, the profit-maximizing drive of corporations, and the cold mental clarity that comes only with disciplined daily ingestion of mind- and body-altering chemicals. If we can do that, what other great things can we do together?

I don’t yet know, but I’m excited to find out. Welcome home, warriors. The future belongs to us. We’re writing the story now. It’s going to be a long one, and it’s going to be a bad one. So settle in. Make yourself comfortable. Buy a tote bag. Nothing can stop us now that we’re in charge of a website. Infinite Growth Forever, Bryce Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours By Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron

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Mining China’s ‘Little Red Book’ for Open Source Gold - bellingcat Xiaohongshu, a female-focused lifestyle app, is a rare window into China for researchers outside the country.

The app has evolved from a shopping guide into a lifestyle and e-commerce platform, as well as a search engine. Despite its growth in and beyond China, Xiaohongshu remains underexplored by journalists compared to Weibo. Learn how to explore the app here:
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

The search bar on the top right and the Explore page are some of the most relevant features for journalists and researchers on Xiaohongshu. Source: Xiaohongshu

Xiaohongshu has about 300 million monthly active users, rivalling some of China’s largest social media platforms. It surged globally last year when US TikTok users joined over Trump-era ban fears.

Mining China’s ‘Little Red Book’ for Open Source Gold - bellingcat Xiaohongshu, a female-focused lifestyle app, is a rare window into China for researchers outside the country.

Researching China isn’t easy. With many foreign sites blocked, journalists depend on domestic platforms. Even under tight controls, Chinese apps are the main window into the country. Chu Yang’s latest guide explains how to research Xiaohongshu (Rednote). www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

The manifesto makes a straightforward case that government and Silicon Valley power must be fused in order to defend Western values - which are superior to others - with hard rather than soft power. For many, this sounds like techno-fascism.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Bokhan took Hitler’s speech from September 1, 1939, replaced "Danzig" (Gdańsk) with "Donbas," and "Reich" with "Russia," and, posing as representatives of the ruling United Russia party, suggested that teachers record an address to Russian soldiers.

Sam Coates reports "We've got some breaking news"

It turns out that the head of the civil service told Starmer he should get all the security vetting done before he announced who'd be the new ambassador

"Clearly Starmer chose not to do that, [he] chose to ignore formal advice"

What if verification can’t keep up with increasingly sophisticated AI-generated media? Bellingcat researcher @koltai.bsky.social spoke with @bendobrown.bsky.social and Reuters' George Sargent at #ijf26 on the role we can play. Watch back here: www.festivaldelgiornalismo.com/programme/20...

Consistent with comments from speakers at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit who represented the array of political parties—Green, Lib Dems, Labour, Conservative, Democrat, and Republican.

“X is now becoming a very unpleasant and a very dangerous place”

...says Nigel Farage today

Two teenagers arrested over arson attack on synagogue in north-west London Boy, 17, and man, 19, detained as Met says it is investigating claims a series of antisemitic attacks are linked to Iran

“This is recruiting violence as a service, and the people who conduct that violence often have little or no allegiance to the cause and are taking quick cash for their crimes.”

#Breaking
7.4 magnitude #earthquake strikes northern #Japan, sparking a #tsunami warning for waves as high as 3 meters.

Coastal residents to head to higher ground immediately.

Mario Scharfbillig, Analyst, European Commission, discusses the "Fantasy Industrial Complex" YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

Mario Scharfbillig (@scharfbillig.bsky.social), Science for Policy Analyst, European Commission, discusses the business-financial and geopolitical incentives behind the "Fantasy Industrial Complex."

Cambridge Disinformation Summit

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFME...

BREAKING Bulgarian ex-president Rumen Radev, an EU critic who has called for renewing ties with Russia, has won a parliamentary majority that could put an end to the country's years of political uncertainty, according to near complete vote results on Monday

U.S. forces have disabled an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel in the Arabian Sea after it did not comply with warnings, with the USS Spruance using her five inch gun.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/us-warship-fires-on-vess...

while @jamellebouie.net isn’t wrong to note that this sounds like warmed over David Duke ca 1990, it is also very much vintage Peter Thiel circa 1988. these arguments were circulating in the debate over Stanford’s western culture program, a debate Thiel lost.

he’s been bent on vengeance ever since.

What I have seen of Iran's presence at the negotiations has been very much like what they presented at the JCPOA negotiations - well-prepared, knowledgeable people with substantive proposals. Unlike the American clown show.

Maybe part of what Iran objects to is the reuse of the Steve and Jared show, whose ignorance led to the latest round of attacks.

BREAKING: New data shows ZERO oil tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz today, signaling what appears to be a complete shutdown of the Strait for the first time in history.

The Strait normally carries about 20% of the world’s oil supply.

A bombshell new report reveals that top military officials have kept Trump out of the room during Iran war operations because they fear his erratic behavior will put troops in harm’s way.

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...