Renee DiRestaJun 16
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Real people are suffering economically here in the US because a narcissist no-nothing and his team of sociopaths played Twitter Files with the federal government.
#Elon Musk
Show threadRenee DiRestaJun 16
They spun lies into reality, unabashedly, and never corrected themselves when they were shown to be wrong. This is how “eating the pets” worked, too. It’s also how they fed there public the bullshit story of a “censorship complex” censoring 20 million tweets. They lie and lie and lie. Musk is completely divorced from reality.
Show threadRenee DiResta
Petty resentments drive the government.

NYT story here. Gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8._ycH.u2Hz0TOdPxWv&smid=url-share
Jun 16 at 1:11pmWeb
Show threadRenee DiRestaJun 16
I wrote about how Twitter Files logic was being used to dismantle the government with this specific example back in march. Learn to recognize the signs:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/disinformation-online-doge-policy/682134/
The ‘Twitter Files’ Took Over the Government

Online fantasies are now an excuse to take apart the government.

The Atlantic