BuzzFeed News
In 2020, Disinformation Broke The US
Summary · 14+ min · · Lies about science, civil rights, and the vote itself have turned Americans against one another. · Shared by 219, including getAbstract, Mark Little, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Andreas Staub, Mike Monteiro, cisgendered male, Brian Stelter, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Mark Kaigwa, Scott Santens
The New York Times
The American Abyss
19+ min · · A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next · Shared by 839, including Niall Ferguson, Jeff Zeleny, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Charles Arthur, Wolfgang Blau, Matt Goodwin, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Barry Ritholtz, Nouriel Roubini, emily bell, felix salmon, Brian Stelter, Jason Stanley, Kevin M. Kruse, Stefan Ottlitz @hierprivat@mastodon.social, Jay Rosen, John Battelle, Ida Bae Wells, Rob Wijnberg, Alfie Kohn
The Atlantic
Donald Trump Is Out. Are We Ready to Talk About How He Got In?
8 min · · “The First White President,” revisited · Shared by 139, including Rick Klau, Nilofer Merchant, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Brooks Rainwater, Megan Garber, Larry Ferlazzo, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Christopher Knight, Karen K. Ho, Felix M
The New Yorker
Obituary for a Failed Presidency
8 min · · One last Letter from Trump’s Washington. · Shared by 74, including Brian Stelter, Xeorge Xonway, Luminous Kaleidoscope, August is National Water Quality Month, Barry Ritholtz, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Robin Wigglesworth, Patricia Smith
The Atlantic
How the Pandemic Defeated America
Summary · 20+ min · · A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees. · Shared by 1057, including Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🥼🤹🦟🧀, Niall Ferguson, zeynep tufekci, Matthew Herper, George J Huba PhD, Brendan Nyhan (@Brendan.J.Nyhan on 🧵🧵🧵), uché blackstock, md, Cleavon MD 💉 💉 💉, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦, David Wallace-Wells, Ida Bae Wells, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Brian Stelter, Steve Silberman, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, Ibram X. Kendi, Mathew Ingram, Alexis C. Madrigal, Eric Topol
CNN
New details about Trump-McCarthy shouting match show Trump refused to call off the rioters
4 min · · In an expletive-laced phone call with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy while the Capitol was under attack, then-President Donald Trump said the rioters cared more about the election results than… · Shared by 89, including Ken Norton, Jerry Saltz, Esther Schindler, Joshua Benton, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Mkay, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, David Frum, Carly, Hugh Howey, Shaun King, Judd Legum, Brent Toderian, Scott McLeod, Pete Skomoroch, Steve Markowitz, Dave Kellogg, W. Blake Gray, TonyParisi.eth, Data Pointed
The Atlantic
The Republican Party Is Radicalizing Against Democracy
12+ min · · The GOP is moderating on policy questions, even as it grows more dangerous on core questions of democracy and the rule of law. · Shared by 91, including Brendan Nyhan (@Brendan.J.Nyhan on 🧵🧵🧵), Aniyia ❤️, Jay Rosen, Mkay, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Nolen Gertz, corey robin, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Ezra Klein, Joshua Benton, Christian Surchi, Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org), Brian Stelter, Ibram X. Kendi
The Guardian
To restore trust in democracy, the US should lead a global 'fact fightback'
4 min · · Facebook, Twitter, Fox News – by blurring the truth, all pose a risk to democracy itself, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash · Shared by 52, including Luminous Kaleidoscope, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), luis antónio santos
The New York Times
Opinion | They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.
12+ min · · Times Opinion was able to identify individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data. · Shared by 278, including Esther Schindler, Eghosa Omoigui, hakan, Ben Jones, Graham Brown-Martin, Edward Harrison, Carl Morris, Michael (मुकेश), Stuart A. Thompson, Privacy Matters, Carissa Véliz, Elena Neira, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Kara Swisher, Edward Tufte, Mathew Ingram, Inga Saffron, Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org), Matthias Lampe, John Battelle
TIME
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
20+ min · · For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions · Shared by 337, including Benny Johnson, Molly Ball, Xeorge Xonway, frankcunhaiii, ckrickson, Tim Bray, Mkay, Eli Pariser | @elipariser@mastodon.social, Peter Todd/mempoolfullrbf=1, Michael Shermer, Matthias Lampe, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Nick Szabo, Barry Ritholtz, Jörgen Camrath, Luzius Meisser, ...und meine Frau ist auch Elon Musk!, Jason Stanley, Chris Fralic, Noah Smith
The New York Times
Opinion | Democracy ‘Prevailed’? Survived Is More Like It.
5 min · · The crisis Trump set in motion is far from over. · Shared by 49, including Luminous Kaleidoscope, Matthias Lampe, Ezra Klein, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Carrie Brown, Andrew Sullivan, Stowe Boyd, Jason Stanley, Brendan Nyhan (@Brendan.J.Nyhan on 🧵🧵🧵)
youtube.com
Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War
· Russia’s meddling in the United States’ elections is not a hoax. It’s the culmination of Moscow’s decades-long campaign to tear the West apart. “Operation In... · Shared by 148, including Luminous Kaleidoscope, Akshat Rathi, Hannes Grassegger, Rebekah Jones, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Yana O, Essaadi, Reda El Arbi, niazakhan
Pew Research Center
How America Changed During Trump’s Presidency
18+ min · · Donald Trump's four-year tenure in the White House revealed extraordinary fissures in American society but left little doubt that he is a figure unlike any other in the nation’s history. · Shared by 203, including Philanthropy News Digest, Beate Chelette, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Steve Farnsworth
The New York Times
Opinion | Three Weeks Inside a Pro-Trump QAnon Chat Room
12+ min · · Here’s what it sounded like. · Shared by 140, including Richard Dawkins, Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈🗽🌹, Paul Kedrosky, Yaryna Serkez 🇺🇦, Barry Ritholtz, Brendan Nyhan (@Brendan.J.Nyhan on 🧵🧵🧵), Richard Deitsch, Stuart A. Thompson, Amicitia, Noely ⚡️🏐, Neil Hart 💙, Kevin M. Kruse, Ken Schwencke, Xeorge Xonway, Luminous Kaleidoscope, August is National Water Quality Month
NPR
When White Extremism Seeps Into The Mainstream
8 min · · Professor Kathleen Belew explains how people on the mainstream right become radicalized, and why white nationalism grew so influential after the Vietnam War. · Shared by 45, including Keri Leigh Merritt, Ph.D, Juan Cole, Luminous Kaleidoscope, David Folkenflik
Bellingcat
The Making of QAnon: A Crowdsourced Conspiracy
15+ min · · Three years ago, QAnon stitched together the most widely-held beliefs of the darkest corners of the internet. Here's the backstory to its sinister success. · Shared by 146, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Carly, Kevin Roberts, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ceferino Díaz, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Michael Seemann, Nils Hitze, Luminous Kaleidoscope