"If you are a weatherperson, you’re a target. The same goes for journalists, election workers, scientists, doctors, and first responders. These jobs are different, but the thing they share is that they all must attend to and describe the world as it is. This makes them dangerous to people who cannot abide by the agonizing constraints of reality"
Charlie Warzel on the flood of hurricane-related bullshit
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
Unpaywalled: archive.is/PhRvu
I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is
What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis.Charlie Warzel (The Atlantic)
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Clive Thompson • • •Reminder: GOP billionaires fund #MadMarjorie
axios.com/2024/10/10/mtg-hurri…
Diane Hendricks funded the Jan 6 coup too.
wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/w…
forbes.com/sites/michelatinder…
And Scott Walker
wisdc.org/news/press-releases/…
These Billionaires Kept Funding Legislators Who Refused To Certify The Election After Jan. 6
Michela Tindera (Forbes)Nicole Parsons reshared this.
Clive Thompson
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01
yep -- she's been riding this train nonstop
Randy for Harris - Walz
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Randy for Harris - Walz • • •@AoaI
#MadMarjorie is protected by her billionaire patrons from consequences.
Just like Trump is shielded by legions of #KochNetwork judges, Federalist Society lawyers, and loyal operatives willing to commit crimes & go to jail for "The MAGA Cause".
newrepublic.com/post/186963/jo…
nytimes.com/2024/09/15/us/just…
propublica.org/article/judge-a…
newrepublic.com/post/184514/bi…
cnn.com/2024/07/25/politics/bi…
theguardian.com/us-news/articl…
Corrupt political machines no different than Huey Long or Tammany Hall
Steve Bannon turns himself in to prison after supreme court appeal rejected
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horen
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