Covering the 2024 campaign has convinced me that disinformation is THE story of our time. But the experts who study disinformation are being forced out of business. The people forcing them out are the ones who profit the most from disinformation washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Ryan Shead It's the IncEl Camino

NEW from me and kelseybaker: The Army's recruiting problem can be tied to overall trends of men disengaging from society in what some researchers call a 'crisis in masculinity,' fueled by partisan attacks on institutions & a troubled education system
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Yesterday, we acquired a nighttime Dwell image of Havana Harbor, Cuba, through cloud cover and rainy conditions. It shows the presence of several Russian navy vessels in the port. See the second image in the carousel for a detailed view.

Meanwhile, Stanford is shutting down its 'Internet Observatory' disinformation research program under pressure from Congressional Republicans

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Another middlebrow market vanishing. I don't bother with a true polish but often use Kiwi quick-shine sponges. But we're headed towards expensive specialty waxes for the shoe nerds and the masses being dull and scuffed bc no one cares about things anymore Tom Nichols

In today's maritime news. 🤡

Next week: renaming the days of the week after Trump.

House Democrats are out with a whip note on the NDAA urging Dems to vote NO on final passage.

They cite Republicans “poison pill” amendments added today and say Armed Services ranking member Adam Smith “now strongly opposes this bill.”

35-1. We are just determined to not fix our housing crisis

Never, ever understand the drive for power & to stay in power. It outweighs everything else:

This is true of pols in both parties. And it’s true here

First in Punchbowl News AM — Trump’s closest Senate allies unveil sweeping new blockade of Biden nominees in protest of Trump conviction

Expansion of existing blockade to now include noncontroversial nominees to boards, commissions & int’l orgs/summits

punchbowl.news/article/senate…

NASA: plays simulated emergency tape over live circuit

NORAD:

Nuts, but a typical nuts:
1. Too-broad drug possession law
2. MN supreme court says per law, bong water counts gram for gram identical to crystal meth
3. Everyone agrees 'dumb' but pols scared to vote a fix
4. Most DAs ignore, but crusaders exploit

Raises serious questions about the NSC process if Biden was set to announce the use of a highly specific military capability before the Pentagon knew anything about it or could weigh in practical feasibility.

40% of male Trump supporters less than age 50 think gains women have made in society came at the expense of men.

Woofy good news -->> Rhode Island achieves ‘no-kill’ status: All savable cats and dogs were left alive in 2023 thepublicsradio.org/local/rhode-is…

Well this is awful: Texas suing for the right of UT professors to punish students who miss class for abortions, to refuse to hire women who have had abortions as TAs / RAs, and to allow profs to discriminate against LGBT students

salon.com/2024/06/03/tex…

Trump’s conviction in state court doesn’t count because Biden “corruption” is somehow to blame.

Biden’s son convicted in federal court and Biden declines to pardon him which is all somehow further evidence of Biden’s corruption.

Exhausting.