Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and conspiracy theorist, lost her race tonight for Florida's 11th District against incumbent Daniel Webster. her supporters aren't taking it well... at all. tbf she isn't taking it well either

https://twitter.com/DeForestNews6/status/1562242537334755328

I'm watching Ron Watkins' election night party and it captures his campaign pretty well. It isn't at a bar, it's on a livestream with a couple friends/campaign people. “I just hope I’m not in last place. That would be terrible,” he says, before adding, "I ideally, I win, ideally" they told a wild story about getting approached by a strategy firm, who told Ron not to raise money directly because it hurts his image. the company said they'd raise $100ks but, in the end, the company didn't raise anything. Ron called it "demoralizing" and "dirty politics."

I don’t see how this is anything but an economic disaster. We’ve given homeowners billions for doing literally nothing, while condemning future generations to astronomical debt or plummeting quality of life, while cementing housing as an investment asset nytimes.com/2022/05/01/ups… From an economist’s perspective: haven’t we just rewarded risk and leverage, and shifted wealth creation from productive labor to nonproductive debt? ie we’re telling workers, you don’t get ahead through work anymore, leverage yourself into multiple properties asap?

i reported on privacy before coming to disinfo, so that meant using DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine loved by privacy activists. so it was odd when I entered disinfo spaces and found that they, too, seemed to use DuckDuckGo.

here's what's up: nytimes.com/2022/02/23/tec… first I heard DuckDuckGo getting recommended by the most popular conservative podcasters in the world, like Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino. then I'd see it pop up in social media, where people would say "duckduckgo this thing, don't use Google"