Post AxKM1MOZF5i0SS2I2C by ERBeckman@historians.social
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 (DIR) Post #AxKM1GiCNBqYpbAsng by ERBeckman@historians.social
       2025-08-19T01:50:17Z
       
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       "...great deal of normalcy bias..." describes of so much of the mainstream coverage of the President. Here Marcy Wheeler applies to the latest events involving Russia.#USPolitics https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/18/trump-confesses-that-the-united-states-is-a-client-of-russia/
       
 (DIR) Post #AxKM1MOZF5i0SS2I2C by ERBeckman@historians.social
       2025-08-19T04:02:49Z
       
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       "It doesn’t need to be the case that Trump has stashed his Administration with actual Russian agents — narcissism and venality explain much of what we’re seeing — but there are somewhere between two and twenty Trump advisors who I have good reason to suspect are Russian agents. Over the past three years, right wingers have forced the tech platforms to eliminate the moderation that had provided visibility on Russia’s influence operations."