"American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show" #giftlink

If you don't already know him, let me introduce you to John Mark Dougan. Sorry.

This article connects to a few other things in heavy rotation on Mastodon today.

#uspol #russianinterference #douganNetwork #johnmarkdougan #disinfo #disinformation #russiandisinformation #uselections #news

https://wapo.st/4dYOKNr

Speaking as a physicist with a PhD:

We #STEM folks should really stop assuming that some amazing piece of tech we might invent will somehow magically solve our world's problems. Solving the world's problems will ALWAYS require social change, and if we don't understand society, we will fail.

So respect the Liberal Arts, damnit!

US Public Schools are spending $3.2 billion dealing with right-wing attacks 🤯 😡

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/oct/23/public-schools-culture-war-cost

If we can’t outlaw dark money and wake people up, who will be the next Trump trying to end democracy in America?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/if-we-dont-break-the-cycle-a-trump-ec5

Twenty-three Nobel Prize-winning economists endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump in a joint letter released Wednesday. Morning Joe economic analyst Steve Rattner joins Morning Joe to discuss the economic plans of both Trump and Harris.

Steve Rattner: Trump’s mass deportation and trade war plans will tank the economy
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/steve-rattner-trump-s-mass-deportation-and-trade-war-plans-will-tank-the-economy-222554693649

#GOPWeirdos #DonaldTrump #TrumpWillLose2024 #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueUpAndDown #USPol

António Guterres, Secretary-general of the United Nations, shaking hands with Russian war criminal Putin at a BRICS summit hosted by Russia in Kazan. Putin is wanted by the ICC for war crimes in Ukrainian occupied territory.

@UN What on earth are you doing?