Anne ApplebaumThe accounts given by Ukrainians who have fled the occupied territories sound like accounts of people who escaped Stalin's Soviet Union https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-border-crossing.html
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"X users were presented with video game footage passed off as footage of a Hamas attack, images of fireworks in Algeria presented as Israeli strikes on Hamas & old video from the Syrian civil war repurposed to look like it was taken this weekend"
https://www.wired.com/story/x-israel-hamas-war-disinformation/
DAME Magazine"While all major world events are now accompanied almost instantly by a deluge of #disinformation aimed at controlling the narrative, the scale and speed at which disinformation was being seeded about the #Israel-Hamas conflict is unprecedented—particularly on #x
via Wired Magazine
https://www.wired.com/story/x-israel-hamas-war-disinformation/
Truth or FictionOld disinformation narratives never die -- they get resurrected every election season, as with Larry Sinclair's long-debunked claims that he had secret gay sex with Barack Obama back in 1999:
Barack Obama's Gay Past-Unproven! – Truth or Fiction?
This is an interview posted on YouTube of someone claiming to have attended high school with Barack Obama. She alleged that while the young future President was in Hawaii he was gay and and sex with older white men to get cocaine.
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽The Daily Beast is reporting that Elon Musk ordered engineers to switch off his Starlink satellites just as Ukraine was preparing to attack the Russian naval fleet with drones. He said he feared nuclear retaliation by Russia. It’s high time we ask the question: How much power and influence does it make sense to hand just one person?
Jason LeopoldAfter 11 years, the Defense Intelligence Agency, one of the WORST govt agencies when it comes to #FOIA, responds to a request I filed on July 12, 2012
For context, I was seeking records about the use of mind altering drugs on detainees at Guantanamo and elsewhere
Texas ObserverTwo years ago, if a Texan needed an #abortion, they’d have to travel an average of 44 miles to get one. Today, that number is 497.
Our Winter/Spring 2023 Fellow @sarahutch interviewed Representative Donna Howard, the #Austin Democrat who chairs the #Women’s Health Caucus in the Lege, about what she's doing to improve access to reproductive #healthcare after Roe v. Wade:
https://www.texasobserver.org/donna-howard-abortion-after-roe-texas-legislature/
#RoeVWade #TXlege #Democrats #Texas #USpol #politics #ReproductiveRights #children #medicaid
Chad LoderRight-wing extremists committed EVERY ideologically driven mass killing in the U.S. in 2022, with an "unusually high" proportion perpetrated by white supremacists, according to a new report published Thursday. https://www.axios.com/2023/02/23/mass-killings-extremism-adl-report-2022
Dare ObasanjoThe economy of every major city in the US is built around a bunch of office workers driving to expensive office buildings, eating expensive lunches and having expensive drinks & dinners after work.
They won’t go out quietly.
Parker MolloyPolice arrested a man for making fun of police, SCOTUS approves.
Where's the "free speech" brigade when the state is actually censoring speech? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-ohio-mans-bid-sue-police-arrest-facebook-parody-rcna70435 #FreeSpeech #SCOTUS
