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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2024

@ricmac I find this one, isolated data point troubling: The Kremlin clearly tried to woo Zuckerberg in 2012. And they clearly had in mind how they could use their new pal to influence our election. Doesn't mean Zuckerberg did anything wrong or even let […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot from 2012 Forbes article citing the New York times says, Zuckerberg and Medvedev discussed Facebook's role in the U.S. presidential election.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2024

It worked. Voters can no longer weight information like "Trump sat watching TV while the mob tried to hang Mike Pence" against information like "Janet Jackson said Kamala Harris isn't black" or weight the fact of that little 4-year-old girl dying at the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of 2016 Garry Kasparov tweet says: The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2024

He's a real-life fascist who said he's coming after "the enemy from within" and specifically named a California Congressman. Thinking we're in any way insulated here is whistling in the dark. Trump will do what he feels like to California and if anyone […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot from Los Angeles Times Mastodon post says: California, it's going to be OK. This i our moment The California-as-disaster-epic narrative is back. Here are a few reasons not to buy into it, and instead to embrace the state as a bellwether for the country. #press latimes.com/california/story/2. «o = Yo 0

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2024

Act. Of. War. (Still free with email, link via @JosephMenn […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of Nov. 5, 2024, Washingon Post headline: Russia blamed for bomb threats at Georgia and Arizona polling sites
Federal officials say the false threats, which led to temporary shutdowns, follow bogus fraud claims and won’t threaten the orderly voting process.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2024

Reminder that America's enemies love it when he discredits democracy and are always willing to pitch ideas. (And note that he claimed there was cheating *even after he won*.) www.newsweek.com/wikileaks-told-tru…

Screenshot of 2017 Newsweek headline: Wikileaks Told Trump Jr. To Tell His Dad To Not Concede If He Lost On Election Day

Wikileaks urged Donald Trump Jr. to tell his father to not concede if he lost on Election Day, according to a bombshell report from The Atlantic that alleges the president's eldest child and the transparency organization secretly corresponded in private direct messages on Twitter during the U.S. presidential campaign.

The messages were turned over to Congress and copies were obtained by The Atlantic.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2024

@GottaLaff He wouldn't even have to think much about it. Putin has already created an easy-to-follow blueprint. www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/…

Screenshot of 2016 Guardian headline: The murder that killed free media in Russia

A decade after the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, news organisations increasingly avoid topics that could anger the Kremlin

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2024

"What a few million dead and crippled kids if I can trade their health for political support?" Our government is currency to him. Our lives are currency to him. Our democracy is currency to him. Our kids are currency to him […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of 11/3/2024 NBC News headline: Trump doesn't rule out banning vaccines if he becomes president.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2024

James Singer: GALLUP: Democratic enthusiasm higher than it was in 2008, 10 points higher than GOP Matt Bennett: This is a massively underreported fact. You can see it in the rallies, the field offices, and online. It could be decisive. h/t […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of Matt Bennett tweet says Dem enthusiasm is a massively underreported fact. ... It could be decisive.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2024

" Pastor Joel Webbon—a white nationalist whose bigotry often goes viral—argued recently for repealing the 19th amendment, and instead allowing for a ‘family’ vote decided by men. “Where women get their voice is from their father, from their husband. If […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot from Jessica Valenti's Abortion, Every Day Substack says: Why the GOP is joking (in quote marks) about women's right to vote.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2024

Musk committed crimes to live and *vote* here. So ... he's here illegally and his votes are fraudulent. Report: "In 1995 Musk had a place at Stanford University, which would have given him another student visa. Student visas give holders the right to work […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of 10/27/24 Daily Beast headline: Elon Musk Was Illegal Migrant Worker Who Abused his Student Visa.
His brother also lied to border agents. Now he is campaigning against “open borders.”

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2024

@heidilifeldman And it's not just a leaning or a bizarre sympathy. It's straight-up Putin advocacy. Really bad. They wrote an article defending Maria Butina and it's since been deleted.

Screenshot fo 2019 June Casagrande Twitter posts about the Nation, with pieces like a Nation tween that says Pundits are wrong about Russian social media involvement in US politics.

Screenshot fo 2019 June Casagrande Twitter posts about the Nation, with pieces like a Nation tween that says we falsely demonize Putin.

Screenshot fo 2019 June Casagrande Twitter posts about the Nation, with pieces like a Nation tweet of various headlines that suggest we shouldn't risk war with Russia.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2024

"The Nation" has a long history of printing Kremlin apologism and ignoring everything it does wrong. The publisher's husband has been called "Putin's apologist" by Slate, with very good reason. And, oh, look: They're bashing Dems running against Trump — just like they did in 2020 and 2016.

Screenshot of a headline from the Nation says: Kamala Harris does not deserve The Nation's endorsement.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2024

Nate Silver's gut doesn't contain a uterus. He is catastrophically ignorant about how half the electorate feel about the prospect of having Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas decide what must emerge from others' vaginas. Imagine the arrogance of writing about […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot from NY Times guest essay: Guest Essay

Nate Silver: Here’s What My Gut Says About the Election, but Don’t Trust Anyone’s Gut, Even Mine ... So OK, I’ll tell you. My gut says Donald Trump. And my guess is that it is true for many anxious Democrats.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2024

I'm now a proud subscriber to the Philadelphia Inquirer. If you're sick of villains controlling our news media, open your wallet and support journalism at other outlets. #PhillyInquirer #PhiladelphiaInquirer #WashingtonPost #LosAngelesTimes

Screenshot of email from The Philadelphia Inquirer says "Your subscription is now active."

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2024

Amazon & Blue Origin have contracts with fed government. Trump fucked with Bezos' contract approval as president. Bezos's publisher is Will Lewis, who was publisher at Murdoch's WSJ; editor of Telegraph, which is allied w/ Tory party; & was a consultant to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2024

Not only is WaPo's right-wing publisher not endorsing a candidate, he's gaslighting readers by calling it a return to the paper's "roots." Fuck off, fascist.

Screenshot of cancellation confirmation for my Washington Post subscription.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2024

Musk is dumping over $100 million into electing Trump and, oh, he's been in regular communication with Putin since 2002. Yank this motherfucker's defense contracts AND his citizenship that he obtained through fraud when he swore loyalty to our country. (PS […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of Oct. 25, 2024, Wall Street Journal headline says: Exclusive: Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin
Regular contacts between world’s richest man and America’s chief antagonist raise security concerns.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2024

My zip code had 1,211 Biden/Harris donors and 83 Trump donors. ✊ 😊 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of interactive Washington Post page that lets you enter your zip code to see how many donors each candidate got from your area.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2024

Still reeling from reading this yesterday. Hitler was sworn in in January 1933. The first concentration camp for political foes and "alleged subversives" was opened in March 1933. #Trump #Hitler #Fascism encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a…

Screenshot from the Holocaust Encyclopedia says: The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933. In the weeks after the Nazis came to power, the SA (Sturmabteilung; commonly known as the Storm Troopers), the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons—the elite guard of the Nazi party), the police, and local civilian authorities organized numerous detention camps to incarcerate real and perceived political opponents of Nazi policy. German authorities established camps all over Germany on an ad hoc basis to handle the masses of people arrested as alleged subversives.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2024

I've been a subscriber to the LA Times since the late 1990s. I've stuck with them through some really dumb shit they've done. But when the billionaire publisher steps in and tells the editorial staff to break their decades-long tradition of endorsing a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of Daily Beast headline from Oct. 22, 2024: L.A. Times’ Billionaire Owner Blocks Paper’s Planned Endorsement in Presidential Race

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2024

LA Times has been hemorrhaging reporters for decades. They barely covered "enemy from within" (and cast it as being about race instead of being about fascism). Yet somehow they always have the staff to cover People-magazine-flavored nonsense like this.

Screenshot of LA Times headline: "For Kamala Harris' LA neighbors, her house is a delight and an annoyance."

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2024

Sure, but why does Simone Biles have an advantage in gymnastics?

Screenshot of toot from The Economist says: Why Kamala Harris has the advantage in debating Donald Trump. She's better at it.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2024

So if you're concerned about racial injustice, looks like the only choice is Trump, apparently, according to the Washington Post. 🤦

Screenshot of 10/15/24 Washington Post headline that says: For many black men, harris fails to catch fire. Some residents of Pontiac, Mich, are inspired by the vice president's rise. Others wonder whether she really understands the community's needs.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2024

But Trump would never go as far as, say, Stalin because he's too ... what? Moral? Cautious? Respectful of democracy or human life? Trump is talking about using military force against elected officials. That's how shit like this starts. www.history.com/topics/european-his…

Screenshot from History.com (linked) says: The Great Terror of 1937, also known as the Great Purge, was a brutal political campaign led by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to eliminate dissenting members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat. Although estimates vary, most experts believe at least 750,000 people were executed during the Great Terror, which started around 1936 and ended in 1938. More than a million survivors were sent to forced labor camps, known as Gulags. This ruthless and bloody operation caused rampant terror throughout the Soviet Union and impacted the country for many years.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2024

Trump: The "enemy from within" is more dangerous than Russia or China and should be handled with military force. That includes some Dem politicians. Adam Schiff is "the enemy from within." He's talking about using MILITARY FORCE against elected officials […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of Washington Post 10/13/24 headline (linked): Trump urges using military to handle ‘radical left lunatics’ on Election Day
The former president asserts that those he labels the “enemy from within” are more dangerous than threats from rival nations such as Russia and China.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2024

How can you possibly expect us to trust a candidate who didn't have a reality show on the teevee?!? — The swing voters who hold the fate of democracy in their hands

Screenshot of 10/11/24 Yahoo Finance headline: Commentary: Swing voters still wonder: Who is Kamala Harris?

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2024

Boris Johnson on CNN saying Trump was tough on Russia in part because he agreed to sell javelin missiles to Ukraine. He doesn't mention that Trump did that only after Ukraine agreed to stop cooperating with FBI's Manafort/Trump investigation. Boris, who […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of 2019 headline from Foreign Policy magazine: Did Trump leverage a missile sale to Ukraine for political gain?

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2024

Sunshine, lollipops, fun-fun-fun horse race coverage with nary a convicted felon, attack on birth control or threat to end all future elections anywhere in sight! Fun! 🙄

An LATimes.com headline under Trump, Harris faces says: Column: Cool weather, hot races forecast for November

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2024

"Melania isn't pro-choice. She's pro-Melania. ... She's hawking a $40 book on the backs of dead women." — Jessica Valenti's Abortion Every Day newsletter jessica.substack.com/p/melania-trum…

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2024

Russia and China love crypto because it weakens the US, undermines democracy, and makes Western economies vulnerable to catastrophe. finance.yahoo.com/news/cryptocurren…

Screenshot of 9/26/24 AP story says: WASHINGTON (AP) — A network of people and virtual currency exchanges associated with harboring Russian cybercrime were hit with sanctions on Thursday, in a government-wide crackdown on cybercrime that could assist Russia ahead of President Joe Biden's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

U.S. Treasury sanctioned alleged Russian hacker Sergey Ivanov and Cryptex — a St. Vincent and Grenadines registered virtual currency exchange operating in Russia. Virtual currency exchanges allow people and businesses to trade cryptocurrencies for other assets, such as conventional dollars or other digital currencies.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2024

What? They're lying about who paid Melania almost a quarter of a million $ for a "speaking engagement" but the group she supposedly spoke to denies paying her? So who the hell is paying her and why does it look like the Trump campaign is covering it up? […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot from 9/23/23 CNN story says: Melania Trump has barely been seen on the campaign trail this year. One of the few times she has appeared at a political event, she’s received a six-figure paycheck – a highly unusual move for the spouse of a candidate.

The former first lady spoke at two political fundraisers for the Log Cabin Republicans this year, and she was paid $237,500 for an April event, according to former President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure form. The payment was listed as a “speaking engagement.”

Trump’s latest disclosure form said Melania Trump was paid by the Log Cabin Republicans for the April fundraiser. But it’s a mystery who actually cut the check: Charles Moran, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, told CNN earlier this month the group did not put up the money for her to speak, and the disclosure form did not give any more information about the source of the payment.

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2024

This is how middle school kids behave, not business executives, not leaders of industry. We should not be giving defense contracts and satellite surveillance and communications capabilities to a tantrum-prone freak who flunked Adulting 101 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot from CNN story says "Musk later denied giving the vehicle to the Chechen leader. then quote Musk: Are you seriously so retarded that youthink I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2024

I've been psychologically traumatized by what I saw in an old, forgotten jar of salsa in the fridge.

Disgusting image of a fungus zombie from the Last of Us TV show

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June Casagrande @junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2024

Every sixth-grader in America understands the difference between private conversation and a public statement on social media. He's either an elementary-school-brained moron, spinning to pretend it was a "joke," or both.

Elon Musk tweet

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