"Conservative media launched an immediate attack, focusing on well-trod partisan claims of elitism. The decision to keep the garden free of pesticides and other chemicals sparked particular outrage, perceived as a slight to American farmers,
"and therefore the entirety of middle America. The Mid America CropLife Association, a representative of companies such as DuPont Crop Protection, Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences, sent a letter of protest to the White House within a week of the garden’s opening."
"The Justice Department investigation is continuing, suggesting that officials are not certain whether they have recovered all the presidential records that Mr. Trump took with him from the White House."
"Two former White House officials, who had been designated as among Mr. Trump’s representatives with the archives... tried to facilitate the documents’ return.
Mr. Trump resisted those calls, describing the boxes of documents as “mine,” according to three advisers."
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, oh man. What a complete shit-show. Way to fucking go, minimizers and enablers.
But then again, if they did that they wouldn't be able to force me to endure the same stupid "how do we fight misinformation???????" bullshit every year or two as they discover it yet again
Remember all the times I've mentioned hanging around on woo forums because no one else was going after the disinformation that was getting ladled on over there like crazy? I was talking about this sort of thing:
"Stephanie Alice Baker, a sociologist at the City University of London who has studied wellness influencers, said that there is a quest for “purity” and “raising awareness and consciousness” at the heart of wellness culture that makes it particularly vulnerable to conspiracy...
thinking. She told me that she noticed that practices that were prevalent in wellness — things like doing a cleanse, taking supplements to rid one’s body of vague “toxins” and experiencing “ascension” or “awakening” — shared an underlying moral framework with political slogans...