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T. Kenny Fountain

@tkennyfountain.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of English, UVA. Scholar of rhetoric (old & current), studying conspiracy theory belief, disinformation, extremism, and visual media. Writing a book, Imagining Conspiracy Theories.

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T. Kenny Fountain @tkennyfountain.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It's crazy how he and this administration don't even try to pretend. He plans on never leaving office, and they allude to this everyday.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This is the message. Any Democrat willing to sacrifice trans folks—especially kids—will sacrifice anything.
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T. Kenny Fountain @tkennyfountain.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This is incredibly desperate! In 2024, Trump & Vance scared voters by falsely claiming Haitian immigrants were eating dogs and cats. Now Pratt is seeking to do the same to LA voters. They demonize vulnerable populations to spread hate & promote themselves. And Fox News is always there to amply it.
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End the Kakistocracy @ice-follies.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
First "they" were eating the dogs. Now, "they" are raping the dogs. But if you kill the dogs, you get a cabinet position.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
States need to start disbarring the people who work on these cases. This is a gross perversion of our justice system.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
If I hear another Republican whine about the weaponization of the DOJ under Biden...
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T. Kenny Fountain @tkennyfountain.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Image of a UFC arena being built behind the White House.Image of reporter Julie Tsirkin's confused reaction to sounds of gun fire at the White House.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Way to instantly kill any theoretical credibility you might've had. The author, Steven Rosenbaum, tries to downplay this but the details make it clear this is a massive and disgusting error.
nytimes.com
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.
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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 20/05/2026
Free speech maximalism is having to pay money to a far-right unhinged billionaire to participate in the global town square he manipulates algorithmically to promote a fundamentally anti-democracy agenda
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/05/2026
“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”
hollywoodreporter.com
Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”
'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else."
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T. Kenny Fountain @tkennyfountain.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"The internet has already allowed us to feel more connected than ever while becoming lonelier than ever. A.I. lets us cut out the human part of human interaction entirely." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | What A.I. Did to My College Class
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 11/05/2026
A managed and staged democracy in the making ... "An Iowa lobbyist was caught offering $100 cash payments—plus referral bonuses—to pack JD Vance’s Des Moines rally this week." iowastartingline.com/news/politic...
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Reynolds-connected lobbyist recruited paid attendees for JD Vance's Iowa rally on behalf of ‘an ethanol company’ -
An Iowa lobbyist was caught offering $100 cash payments—plus referral bonuses—to pack JD Vance's Des Moines rally this week.
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T. Kenny Fountain @tkennyfountain.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The number of leftists defending MTG, who is still 100% a conservative republican, is proof positive that we are too easily seduced by the supposed "renegade" figure. We too easily eat our own just to prove how "radical" we are.
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T. Kenny Fountain @tkennyfountain.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We are so fucked!
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The Rabbit Hole Cartographer @quacksanonymous.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
They went a little bare-bones on describing the time-traveler conspiracy theory, which has been around since Trump's first term but has recently gotten some viral attention, & is now somehow newsworthy.
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T. Kenny Fountain @tkennyfountain.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The goal has always been to control SCOTUS. Who you elect as president matters there. The GOP & Dems aren't the same at all when it comes to SCOTUS. GOP & Trump have created a SCOTUS that's undoing decades of progressive gains. I'm a lefty but I know a Dem's SCOTUS judges wouldn't gut the VRA.
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T. Kenny Fountain @tkennyfountain.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Remember that time Trump fantasized about guns shooting Liz Cheney? @jamiedupree.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
politico.com
Suggesting ‘nine barrels shooting’ at Cheney, Trump reverts to violent rhetoric
Former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney warned that Donald Trump is an “unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🤦🏼 Senator Tuberville preaching about “demonization of Trump & Republicans” with a 9/11 post about Zohran PINNED to the top of his feed really sums their disingenuous “rhetoric” nonsense up nicely
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T. Kenny Fountain @tkennyfountain.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
They're not going to argue now that the taxpayers should pay for that $400 million ballroom, right? Come on!
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T. Kenny Fountain @tkennyfountain.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
We live at a time in which it seems impossible not be to suspicious and distrustful, of corporations, institutions, governments. And even if all is as it seems, and our pattern-loving sense-making is just doing what it does, our suspicion and distrust is so easily weaponized against us.
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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The WHCD shooter will be used to justify things that have nothing to do with the WHCD shooter. Mark this moment.
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J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Everything is possible and nothing is real. Baudrillard wins again.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Alex Jones taking everything the Onion says extremely seriously is one of the funniest new genres' of comedy
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I have lived long enough to see an obviously white supremacist presidential administration accuse the Southern Poverty Law Center of being the real racist collaborators.
Embattled FBI Director Kash Patel claims the Southern Poverty Law Center funded the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
How the Tech World Turned Evil Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way — and they have to be stopped.
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How the Tech World Turned Evil
Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and th...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2026
"The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as real victims of racism. In the DOJ’s telling, advocates who spent decades dismantling the Klan are its secret benefactors, 'enriching' themselves by secretly creating racism — something in such short supply it can only be generated."
publicnotice.co
Trump DOJ will avenge the KKK by taking out SPLC
The racism is not subtle.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
There's a war on for your mind. theonion.info
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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
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Don Isaacs @donisaacs.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
If the Ellison deals go through, Trump aligned billionaires will control TikTok, X, Facebook, CBS, CNN, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. That is not a free press. That is a captured press. Source: mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/a-historia...
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A Historian Spent 30 Years Interviewing Nazis. He Identified 12 Warning Signs of Fascism. All 12 Are Present in Trump's America Right Now.
The evidence is not opinion. It is public record. And it demands your attention before November.
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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Y'all are gonna lose your minds when you hear about horses.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Mamdani: "To be honest, I don't think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery-to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION per day to kill people in Iran and Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/04/2026
Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19/04/2026
So this is what prompted Melania to make that bizarre speech. What’s incredible is that Ungaro’s tweets didn’t mention Epstein or claim Melania met Trump through Epstein, just that she had damaging info. So why did Melania leap to that the next day? www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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Ex-model, arrested by Aventura police and deported, causes White House stir
A Brazilian brought to the U.S. on an Epstein plane at age 16 lashes out at the Trumps, saying she was betrayed by her friend Melania.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Before Trump started the war in Iran: Iran was not building a nuclear weapon The Strait of Hormuz was open Thousands killed during the war were alive
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New Epstein-linked revelations show how neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer aka “Weev” became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging “memetic warfare” against their enemies. By @barrettbrownlol.bsky.social
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The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire
New Epstein-linked revelations show how neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging ‘memetic warfare’ against their enem...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter. And I think today was an important turning point
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T. Kenny Fountain @tkennyfountain.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
So, Sharon Simmons from Nevada works Door Dash in DC. Umm, okay. Sure. Staged photo-ops like this are exactly what they've accused Dems of doing for years. And now they're doing it themselves.
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NPR @npr.org · 14/04/2026
New evidence finds that sight and imagination rely on the same neurons and use the same neural code. n.pr/4mpWUEd
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In the brain, objects seen and imagined follow the same neural path
New evidence finds that sight and imagination rely on the same neurons and use the same neural code.
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T. Kenny Fountain @tkennyfountain.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It's like a clip from the movie Idiocracy but it's our actual reality.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
“Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what AI tells them without question…Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80% of the time—a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Since everyone is talking about Generation Lead, here is Kevin Drum’s huge 2013 investigation that first exposed the connection to a broad audience www.motherjones.com/environment/...
motherjones.com
America's Real Criminal Element Is Lead
The hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and the maybe even the ADHD epidemic.
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Join us for this, our second Scholar-Advisor book talk of the year, featuring the inimitable @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social in conversation with @tkennyfountain.bsky.social and hosted by @drewjakeprof.bsky.social !
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/04/2026
Farmers are realizing, oh, gosh, they're deporting our workers too! Gosh! Golly fucking gee!
seattletimes.com
‘Get them all’: Why are WA farmers blindsided by an ICE crackdown?
Farmers are speaking out about immigration raids on farmworkers, saying they're startled by it and disappointed. Are we living in different information bubbles?
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T. Kenny Fountain @tkennyfountain.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Surveys on political opinions should ask respondents where they get their news. We need to a richer picture of polarization & the roles far-right & conservative media play. www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/...
Chart from survey of confidence in Trump's foreign policy.
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