"America is on the brink, so of course the #media doesn't get it. Last week, the disconnect between rising GOP #fascism - on a debate stage, in #Trump's arrest posturing - and journalists covering 'a normal election' was really jarring

Now what?

The media is really not getting it about 2024, GOP authoritarianism and the election"

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.©.. & I thread it. 1/...🧵

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html#loaded

X appears to have deleted all images posted directly on the website between 2011 and 2014; links that used Twitter's native shortening service are also broken (Matt Novak/Forbes)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/08/19/twitter-deletes-all-user-photos-and-links-from-2011-2014/
http://www.techmeme.com/230820/p1#a230820p1

A really good commentary on the issues surrounding #geoengineering from Climate Adam: https://youtu.be/71jlEyIc1Pk

Long story short: we care about #ClimateChange because it causes disruptions in the weather patterns: longer and deadlier heatwaves, droughts, floods, fires, etc. While geoengineering may lower the global temperature it may also have other weather-disrupting side effects. In other words, by fixing one problem it could create another.

Here’s the story of how a 37-follower Twitter account seeded a propaganda narrative about Hawaii that made headlines around the world, thanks to a network of right-wing influencers — and amplification by both Russian and Chinese state media.

My latest — a very deep dive into a coordinated campaign:
#socialmedia #disinformation #propaganda
https://open.substack.com/pub/weaponizedspaces/p/russia-amplifies-right-wing-influence?r=1aupz&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

For days press-freedom advocates have been in an uproar over the recent government raid on a small-town Kansas newspaper’s offices and the homes of its reporters and publisher. The aggressive action is said to have contributed to the death of the Marion County Record’s elderly owner. Following days of public outcry and pressure, the local prosecutor has agreed to withdraw the search warrant and return seized materials to the newspaper and its reporters.

But a similar case has been brewing in Florida for several months that raises the same questions about government searches and seizures of media. It has received much less attention, however, and so far attempts by the journalist in question to get his materials returned has been unsuccessful.

The case involves a freelance journalist and media consultant named Timothy Burke, whose home and office were raided in May after un-aired Fox News video clips he provided to Vice news and another online entity got published last October and in May. Fox News contends the clips were obtained illegally, and prosecutors in Florida seem to agree.

The government says Burke violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). But Burke’s lawyers say his only “crime” was embarrassing Tucker Carlson and Fox News, and that the government has wildly misread the CFAA in order to find cause to seize Burke’s work materials — materials that may include additional unpublished videos that could embarrass Fox News.

By @kimzetter

https://zetter.substack.com/p/did-a-journalist-violate-hacking

Steve Bannon is now issuing threats to people holding Trump accountable

"I keep saying the J6 thing with President Trump in Georgia. We're gonna ram the stealing of Georgia, down her throat. And we're going to ram it up the a** of the governor…

“That's the revolution of 1776 right there!”

Remember when threats like these were illegal?

Throw Gin Laden in a cell.