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The Algorithmic Reich— MAGA’s War On Reality
The Banality of Disinformation— Trump Seems To Be Using Orwell As A Manual The real news of the second Trump term is bad news— sometimes...

Howie Klein
Apr 117 min read
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Will Trump's Biggest Con Job Ever Work In 3 Weeks? Or Have Americans Smartened Up?
Or Has COVID Made People Dumber? It’s not next week or the week after; it’s the week after that. I mean Election Day, which isn’t a...

Howie Klein
Oct 15, 202411 min read
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MAGA Is The Biggest Grifting Operation In American History— Courtesy Of Trump And His Acolytes
Michele Fiore & Tina Peters, Found Guilty, Going To Prison You may remember Colorado crackpot Tina Peters, last week the first election...

Howie Klein
Oct 6, 20249 min read
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Which Members Of Congress Have Been Taken In By The Kremlin’s Disinformation Campaign?
It Isn't Only Marjorie Traitor Greene And Lauren Boebert With 2 top GOP committee chairs, Michael McCaul (Foreign Affairs) and Mike...

Howie Klein
Apr 9, 20249 min read
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Historically, Accountability For Trump-Like Characters Has Gone Very Badly For Them—Lying Didn't Pay
Russian cyberespionage agents and hackers are targeting politicians again and will be active in the November elections. This time their...

Howie Klein
Apr 2, 20245 min read
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At The Heart Of Trumpism— As With All Authoritarian Movements— Is A Raging River Of Disinformation
Anne Applebaum has a good understanding of how authoritarian regimes have used disinformation to grab power. Yesterday she watched clips...

Howie Klein
Mar 18, 20244 min read
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GOP Impeachment Circus Was A Russian Psy-Ops Concoction Fed To Gym Jordan & James Comer
Marjorie Traitor Greene may not be the stupidest member of Congress— remember Lauren Boebert— but she is certainly the least self-aware....

Howie Klein
Feb 22, 20245 min read
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A Defeat For Trump & The Russo-Republicans In The Senate-- Aid Package For Ukraine Passes Bigtime
After a week-long series of votes to override an intense campaign by Let’s Make Russia Great Again Russo-Republicans— primarily Rand Paul...

Howie Klein
Feb 13, 20244 min read
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We've Been Interfering In Other Countries' Domestic Affairs For Decades-- The Tables Have Turned
Menendez, Putin & The GOP Yesterday, commenting on the GOP’s refusal to condemn Bob Menendez’s corruption, Noah Berlatsky noted that “The...

Howie Klein
Oct 17, 20236 min read
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Can Congress Outlaw Lying Online? Is That Even A Good Idea?
Now that it is almost universally recognized that disinformation is among the biggest threats to democracy, Obama recently told a...

Howie Klein
Apr 21, 20229 min read
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The Putin Wing Of The Republican Party-- The Democrats Have A Big Tent, But Not That Big!
This isn't news to DWT readers, but yesterday Jonathan Chait told his readers that the GOP has a pro-Putin wing. He noted it is also a...

Howie Klein
Apr 8, 20225 min read
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Disinformation, DeFunding Of Public Education, The Conservative Movement... And War
Earlier we saw how Pennsylvania Republicans are accusing each other of disloyalty to America Mehmet Oz whining about David McCormick...

Howie Klein
Mar 19, 20229 min read
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The Capitalistic System And Democracy Are Incompatible... Even Antithetical
Banksy created this disturbingly provocative image and I got it from Umair Haque's latest piece about how the capitalistic system is...

Howie Klein
Dec 4, 202110 min read
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The Misinformation & Disinformation Being Pumped Into The Body Politic Will Have An Impact
Yesterday, Monmouth released a new poll with data they described by noting that "Three in ten Americans now believe the nation’s system...

Howie Klein
Nov 16, 20215 min read
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Disinformation Nation-- An Apogee Of Capitalism
This morning, the NY Times reported that Mayor de Blasio has ordered all NYC municipal workers-- all 340,000 of them, including teachers...

Howie Klein
Jul 26, 20217 min read
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Trump Took Russian-Style Disinformation And Information Warfare & Applied It To American Politics
The Firehose Of Falsehood How the hell did Hitler ever become the head of Germany's government? Were the Germans that stupid-- or evil? I...

Howie Klein
Jul 11, 20215 min read
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Did Aliens Plant Trump In The White House To Weaken America? The Proof Is... Coming Soon
I'm surprised that UFOs weren't more central to the strategies behind the Trump Regime. I'm not knocking UFO's-- between 1969 and the...

Howie Klein
May 17, 20217 min read
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