Renee DiResta

New from me: an essay on the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and its remarkable 30 year history of witch hunts & blacklists. It chronicles the progression of how industries & academia went from capitulation to defiance,& what we can take from that today www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...

What happened today is awful. People who fight against gun violence, people who loathe what Charlie Kirk stood for, must also condemn political violence. It’s a vicious cycle. This is a very dangerous moment.

MAHA wasn’t a response to COVID and any journalist who doesn’t understand that it *exploited COVID* intentionally, deliberately from day one should pack it in bc they’re a dupe. Cover people who want to improve nutrition if that’s what you want to talk about. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Since Michael Shellenberger namechecked me in his latest fundraising appeal for his "Civilization Works" grift, I pulled up his 990. Last year, he pulled in $1.6 million to fight the censorship complex that *he made up* -- double what he got the year before. These scam artists are raking it in.

Election denialist Jim Jordan is sending stupid letters to the European Commission telling them not to interfere in the Hungarian election while US VP JD Vance is over there campaigning on behalf of one of the candidates. MAGA: all projection, all the time

Mango for scale. Making tostones with Hawaiian plantains.

made me lol on the train eager to see who leads the reboot of the reboot of racket dot news

The two modes of MAGA media: cry victim or claim victory

I wrote about overt memetic propaganda: the Lego videos from Iran, the video game content out of the White House, and how state actors use culture and novelty to get audiences sharing, whether they actually approve of the message or not. time.com/article/2026...

In all seriousness this is a huge issue with the subsidized right wing bullshit machine. Articles written by well-funded news “foundations” are syndicated out with no paywalls. This is subsequently rewarded in several ways.

This is what the large red circles wanted to happen. They ref-worked a ketamine-addled approval-seeking crank to make this happen. This was the intended objective. It was always a political project. X is what Gab and Truth wanted to be. www.natesilver.net/p/social-med...

🌱 All 3 fig trees woke up — one seems to have died back a lot but it made it. The pineberry and strawberries are already back. 🍓 it’s already in the 80s today. But also going back to 30s at night next week.

Corrections are active measures. False accusations are professional. “You factchecked me so I’ll attack you with guilt-by-association. Check out these boogeyman buzzwords, guys…” This is how the right wing lie machine works…

I bet she starts a Substack when she gets fired. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...