In June, my colleagues and I called on SCOTUS to establish an independent investigative body and ethics counsel.

Chief Justice Roberts refused to commit to these critical reforms.

Americans sense a crisis of legitimacy with this court and inaction is simply unacceptable.

The Republican Party has pledged loyalty to a crook who is only loyal to himself.

Yes, Donald Trump is facing an unprecedented 91 criminal charges and nearly 100 felony counts.

No, that doesn't disqualify him from serving as president. The Constitution does, though. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

WATCH: Rep. Congressman Andy Ogles (aka “Pinocchiogles”) snuck out the back of the Williamson County Library in FRANKLIN to duck 🦆 protestors (aka his constituents) to his car, which was parked in a handicapped spot — as his goons tried to bully us, even after he was gone.

The duplicity and coercion that the Trump team exerted on Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman, summarized here via Ron Filipkowski meidastouch.com/news/geogia-tr…

AI experts warn that the use of “personalized disinformation” techniques is rising thanks to tools like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, a WIRED report states.

occrp.org/en/daily/17920…

Remember when Lindsey Graham tried to get Brad Raffensperger to throw out legal mail-in ballots in Georgia in order to help Trump?

Is Graham an unindicted co-conspirator?

Let's RICO the FSB!

Good Night!

In so much as “Badd Company” has proven via a tweeted fact that the “enemies of the States attempted to deny the current president, his rightful place as President & duly elected; I honor BADD by acknowledging they are spreading the truth to the American people.

Kudos

Dear Mark Meadows and Indicted Ones

You can petition to move this to Federal Jurisdiction but the reality is, This is a States Crime, a Crime against the State of Georgia.

Y'all made it a States Issue and that's what it will be.

But wait, there's more

Arizona, Michigan,…

What a sweet puppy.

For the past decade, we’ve mistakenly thought of surveillance capitalism as something unscrupulous Western advertisers use via Facebook etc. Too few recognize that enemies of democracy, both foreign and domestic, have been using these weapons in war against democracy itself.15/🧵

I discuss this third level within a related thread (esp. starting at post 7). It relates closely to the neuroscience of patriarchy.
twitter.com/scafaria/statu…
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Amazingly, the same brain wiring for Sanctity operates at three levels:
(1) cleanse the body (e.g. vomit if you swallowed rotten meat)
(2) cleanse the community (e.g. see those “others” as disgusting; needing to be eliminated)
(3) cleanse the nation(!)
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They promote nihilism and ending democracy as part of a libertarian fever dream. Influencing primitive brain wiring and sorting populations based on elemental disgust reflexes was the far easier and salient task. This was the true mission for Bannon, the Mercers, and Putin. 12/🧵

Many have minimized the Cambridge Analytica scandal, saying it provided insufficient data to influence our buying behaviors. But the Mercers didn’t fund Cambridge Analytica to make a few bucks from advertisers. 11/🧵

The people who are most sensitive to the core personality trait for Purity/Sanctity are more easily activated by demagogues.
Sapolsky explains this further in a clip I’ve borrowed within my Neuroscience of Fascism video. 10/🧵
youtu.be/RZqNFhYqJJs

'Nazi propaganda depicted Jews as cockroaches and rats; Hutu instigators denigrated Tutsis as cockroaches during the Rwandan genocide... identifying the enemy with an object of disgust throws up strong emotional barriers to empathy.' 9/🧵
nature.com/articles/44776…

“Propagandists throughout history have been quick to pick up on the possibilities raised by the blurring of visceral disgust into a weapon for the in-group/out-group border patrol.” 8/🧵
nature.com/articles/44776…