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Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi - Apparently Friedman missed Easterly overseeing CISA when it was engaged in some of the most controversial activity in the history of the DHS, partnering with groups like Stanford’s Election Integrity Project to police online speech
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Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreyatucker
Wherein Thomas Friedman calls Jen Easterly of CISA fame "one of America’s most skilled nonpartisan cyberwarriors."
https://nytimes.com/2025/08/04/opinion/columnists/friedman-trump-labor-firing.html
https://x.com/mtaibbi/status/1952860361843253615

Matt Van Swol @matt_vanswol - I turned on CNN for probably the first time in 6 months.
I used to watch it every morning with my coffee for years.
What an absolute dumpster fire of propaganda and manipulation.
It's wild... no matter what is happening it's ALWAYS:
"The end of democracy!"
Always.
Messaging never changes, it's just:
Trump = end of Democracy
Democrats = pro-Democracy
Now that I've spent some time away from liberal news outlets... I think I've become numb to just how much I was lied to on a daily basis.
Some things I'm just now finding out about.
For example: the entire Russian collusion scandal was a hoax created by the Hillary Clinton campaign
That was a line I remember hearing from MAGA friends and I thought they all were insane.
...but they were right
Trump was right.
Even SAYING, "Trump was right" would have been enough for me to lose friends back then.
I don't think people who are stuck in the liberal bias bubble quite understand how much the news "system" is stacked against them.
It's a huge firewall.
- CNN is on a TV at the gym (you only read the chiron)
- Instagram shows you a headline from the NYTimes
- Co-workers call Trump insane, stupid, and a fascist because of something he did that day (because somehow that's ok at work, but the opposite is not??)
...and here's the kicker
THE WHOLE STORY WAS PROBABLY FALSE.
An entire mindset shift occurred in a person about Trump that was built of a story that was a lie.
That's the point.
The point isn't to tell the truth.
It's not even for you to read the article or dig deeper for more information.
The point, the goal, is that you hate Trump MORE than you did BEFORE you read the story.
The reason you see liberal making viral videos screaming at the phones, is because this cycle JUST happened to them.
It seems totally crazy from the outside looking in, but this sort of "wind-up-liberal-toy-soldier" news cycle is by design.
It's why you see so many people over 65 protesting when they should be doing ANYTHING but protesting.
It's an anger machine, designed to spur you into DOING something about Trump/the administration.
Wear the shirt.
Buy the yard sign.
Slap on the bumper sticker.
Join the protesting.
...because if you aren't DOING something, you are a part of the problem and Democracy is dying because you are apathetic
It's not enough to vote (says CNN)
It has to become YOUR LIFE.
Once you start to understand this... it all makes sense.
https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1952377440720064930
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