And flipping the site to an obvious parody is going to actually help Alex Jones migrate his audience to a new channel more quickly.

It’s good to disrupt Alex Jones’ revenue stream, but this is just a branding stunt for The Onion.

Might have had at least some opportunity to counteract previous disinfo there, and instead they will just smugly mock it.

I get that the internet loves him but he’s not able to fulfill his campaign platform because it was all dependent on tax changes he doesn’t control. Dems can’t run on empty promises and expect to hold power if they don’t deliver.

Yeah I don’t love that Mamdani — who got just over 50 percent of the vote in one of the bluest cities in the country — is going on the Sunday shows to tell us what’s wrong with the party he’s not really a member of.

Analysis: Ramaswamy seems to criticize Acton for being a victim of child sex abuse Republican candidate for Ohio governor Vivek Ramaswamy posted the undated video of a campaign speech to his X account April 14.

Ramaswamy crossed a line you can’t uncross.

Vile.

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Until Republicans nominate a Romney themselves, I think the baseline of the party is in a pretty good spot ideologically, but every take is either they must move sharply to the left or right.

It is a wild bit of immediate memory-holing that everyone treats 2024 like it was Reagan-Mondale in 1984 and Dems must absolutely tear down the party and start over to win.

Harris would win a rematch *today* and it’s weird that people ignore that.

As soon as I started seeing “Russiagate” scoffing *from the left* I knew something was pretty cooked in those online circles as well.

This is not grassroots Maine politics, it’s flooding a nationalized candidate with cash in an attempt to buy a primary election.

We’re seeing a shift to Ds consistent with every special election of 12-13 points, this is a district Harris won, and the takeaway is not a paradigm shift where a “Bernie-AOC progressive” is the way to flip GOP-held seats. That’s never happened in over 10 years of trying.

And the right would love nothing more than to push many of Hasan’s positions on Dems at large, because they know the far left doesn’t exist in the large numbers you see online.

There are bad and obvious things happening right now, and I wish every mainstream journalist who’s written Hasan defense pieces recently would consider this.

I’m really fascinated by how Bluesky is not manipulated by algorithms but more by the big accounts who can’t engage with any pushback.

kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristineke... • 42m It's astonishing that congressional Democrats haven't openly connected our military deaths to Russian assistance. There's literally a monument in my town to the 13 deaths while ending war in Afghanistan; where's the outrage over our military dead in this senseless war?

Oh no! I got blocked by a power user who gets likes for blaming Democrats for things Republicans do!

It’s astonishing that only Democrats have any agency in whatever world you live in online.

It’s been really beneficial to me in figuring out who benefits from anything that Trump does geopolitically because it’s literally always Russia.

Like genuinely this stems from a belief that there must be a lot of young online left-leaning voters just like my followers in Maine, so he things this is dumb, and that makes me think he’s dumb and shouldn’t be listened to as far as politics in Maine.

He’s not thinking about Maine voters here at all, just about how something reads in his lane of social media.

Then he contributes to that, not in an effort to add anything except maybe get some cheap reposts and likes.

Here’s why I don’t like online journalists and don’t think you should trust them.

They accept what they see online as true, and they see any issue through that lens.

They post things they think will get engagement, and they think it’s a mistake to not take the position they see most online.

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

Cenk’s smart enough to know that “Patriots versus Israelis” is just Die Volk versus Die Juden rephrased and that makes doing it unforgivable. It’s a play for the Fuentes set, and that he feels the need to go after that group to make money and gain followers should tell you something’s rotten.

"It's not about left versus right, it's about the top 1% versus the bottom 99%." is common campaign theme from Platner.

This goes beyond just trying to reach voters on the right, it’s about finding common cause with them.

Graham Platner’s campaign reposting Stew Peters in recent weeks. Just over a month ago he went on Valhalla VFT on YouTube as a “longtime fan” …

There definitely has been an online convergence around borderline conspiracy theories about a vague “establishment” that’s been ramping up pretty hard lately.

Reminder that Jon Favreau (a way more mainstream player than Cenk) was positively sharing a Tucker Carlson video a week or two ago.

Cenk has been working the tankie left --> far right matchup for a long time now, possibly as someone paid. There is a concerted effort now to merge the ends of the horseshoe. Cenk and really anyone from TYT should never be trusted as a genuine, independent voice.

We have a word for this; it's antisemitism.

This is why I think fleeing Twitter for Threads is kind of “out of the frying pan and into the other frying pan” as far as who steers the algorithms that determine what ideas get boosted.

This is from 2005. The same year RFK Jr spread a conspiracy ridden article about vaccines in Rolling Stone. He was already a monster at this point.

It really, really sucks when large accounts do this “Platner, who I do not support” posting with a layer of “sucks that no one good is running” with some “gerontocracy” and “establishment” for good measure.

I’m not in Maine, but I have a brain and don’t think it’s a difficult choice at all.

Piker operates in a lane of the online left that tells you anything bad you’ve heard about the Soviet Union (or China or North Korea) is just western propaganda.

That lane also laps up any anti-West propaganda anyone will feed them.