People on Twitter sometimes ask me great questions that push my thinking to new horizons. Someone asked me, how do we end up at similar places to where we were fifty years or more ago, going backwards for a time, rather than building on our past progress to keep going…

This should be sung to the tune of If I Had a Hammer. Thanks to Pete Seeger and Lee Hayes for the songwriting. Thanks to Peter, Paul and Mary for making the tune famous. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —…

Here are a tweet thread and an article on recent news from the Dominion lawsuit against Fox. Here’s the article by Kurt Eichenwald. Fox News Does Not Deserve to Survive Fox News officials and hosts know their viewers are rage addicts who desperately crave propaganda that reinforces their…threats.substack.com Here’s a tweet thread on the situation by Jay Rosen, journalism professor at NYU. Thread by @jayrosen_nyu on Thread Reader App The latest filing by Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation suit against Fox theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/... nails…threadreaderapp.com

I was recently interviewed about propaganda on The Heartland Podcast. Here’s the recording. ‎The Heartland POD: Disinformation, Propaganda, and Dark Brandon | With Guest Julie Hotard, PHD and… Julie Hotard, PHD and Disinformation Expert joins Adam Sommer for a chat about the realities of disinformation in…podcasts.apple.com Good luck to everyone in all our Get Out the Vote activities. By the way, if you are on Twitter, I highly recommend following DouJBalloon, the NYT Pitchbot. He makes joke headline suggestions for New York Times…

There are a lot of Right Wing biased reporters and opinion writers in mainstream media. I wrote about that here: Mainstream Media’s Subtle Right Wing Propaganda Helped Elect Trump and Could Lose Congress for Democrats, if We Fail to Face It Mainstream Media’s Subtle Right Wing Propaganda Helped Elect Trump and Could Lose Congress for… Right Wing propaganda transmitted through mainstream media goes unnoticed by most people. For example, many people…upine.medium.com

We’ve got only a month until the election, so we need to focus on Getting Out the Vote for Democrats. Most of us are unlikely to be able to change any minds that are already made up, in this amount of time. …

Here’s a good movie to watch, in between our various Getting Out the Vote activities. A lot of people don’t understand how Trump supporters could get conned by him. However, getting conned is a pretty universal human experience — including getting conned by propaganda. Right Wing propaganda — in this…

President Biden is doing great. Would you like to help him and other Dem leaders to learn what they need to know, to keep going in this direction — of aggressively standing up to Republicans trying to destroy democracy? …

Congratulations to all of you who joined me in asking President Biden and other Democrats to take a more aggressive approach in standing up for Democratic voters against Republicans. We sure got a quick and big response from President Biden and other Dem leaders. President Biden has become so aggressive…