That is the greatest evil of the #TantonNetwork. That's also the primary reason they exist, to promulgate and whitewash this horrific lie so its adherents can commit atrocities. They want to harden borders because they think it will help them control the American population.
Here's a thread I did about it a while back. It's part and parcel of every aspect of what we are in right now globally
It's common for successful campaigns to be reused again and again with a few key details changed. This vintage disinformation narrative shares many of the same elements, for example truthorfiction.com/hillary-clinto…
This one is kinda the grandpappy of all the biolabs bullshit we're dealing with today though, I think npr.org/2018/08/22/640…
Holy shit. I spent all of 2012 and 2013 trying to pitch this exact story (and Kumeyaay practices around finding groundwater also), lest you ever need an example of how long I've been on this tear cnn.com/2022/04/03/us/…
I'm really happy California got here. Sure wish all those editors hadn't turned down my enviro and indigenous rights stories!
Also, in the course of this work I recently found some new things to get mad about: Kumeyaay star culture and Black classical composers, or rather the lack of information available on those two once-vibrant topics thanks to mediocre white colonizers destroying so much
It's called "resilience targeting" and I also just saw it referenced as "weaponized vulnerability" for the first time today by @kimberleyanhkimberley.thomasresearch.org
Entering weaponized disinformation into the public record should be grounds for immediate dismissal by the public. These people are building alternative media and historical ecosystems in order to try to bypass democracy, don't you see?
Why would you bring on this person to influence public opinion and culture in the middle of an ongoing global disinformation attack that specifically has to do with Ukraine, @CBSNews? theguardian.com/us-news/2019/n…
Then again, this is the network that inflicted Lara Logan upon us all and now refuses to so much as take a glance at her past reporting even given that her current statements reveal outrageous racist biases. (And I say this as somebody who worked for CBS for years. Vile.)
"Black robe and swill, I believe Anita Hill
That judge will rot in hell
It's the song I hate, it's the song I hate"
-Sonic Youth (1992)
Gen X knew all along
For those of you who didn't live through this awful time: Someone leaked Anita Hill's statements about extreme sexual harassment to the FBI before Thomas's confirmation hearing and then she was forced to testify about them. She was absolutely publicly pilloried.