Amid anti-#DEI push, #NationalParkService rewrites history of #UndergroundRailroad
Since #Trump took office, the #ParkService -- an agency charged with preserving #AmericanHistory -- has changed how its website describes key moments from #slavery to #JimCrow
#whitewashing #WhiteSupremacy #History #racism #lies #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #USpol
https://wapo.st/4jdXL8m
"WIndows 10 Computers" are just computers with Windows 10 installed on them. Hardware doesn't expire. #Windows10 #MicroSoftPropaganda #Lies #CapitalistWaste
This man is an American hero.
‘He’ll have to confront his maker for those lies’: FDA’s vaccine chief who resigned slams RFK Jr.
CNN's Erin Burnett talks with Dr. Peter Marks, the former head of vaccines for the FDA, who says he was pushed out for not agreeing to spread misinformation about vaccines.
@georgetakei Oh, those wacky #MAGA folks 
#Lies #Lies #Lies
"Is Trump an economic ignoramus, or just a pathological liar? Both, most likely. It is precisely because his lies promote policies that wreak such havoc that news outlets, Democrats, and anyone who cares about truth must reject the notion that fact-checking no longer matters."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #tariffs #economy #LiberationDay #recession #inflation #stupidity #lies #FactChecking
/5
"Investors are turning bearish on the U.S. dollar as Trump tariffs loom"
#Crisis #Tariffs #USA #EU #News #Lies #Democrats #MAGA #Fascism #Security #Canada #NATO #Economy #GDP #Oligarchy #Inflation #USA #House #Elections #Polls
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/liberation-day-how-fx-investors-are-trading-currencies.html
Deception, Obfuscation & Misdirection
This is a concatenation of posts I originally made in 2016-2017--even more relevant today...
Most are familiar with the concept of #FUD—short for #Fear, #Uncertainty & #Doubt. It summarizes a strategy often used in marketing and political propaganda. Its effects are pernicious, divisive and lead to exploitation. Examples abound. Fear is a strong motivator! To resist FUD one must understand how it is practiced using the principles of #Deception, #Obfuscation and #Misdirection.
https://mdpaths.com/rrr/commentary/deception_obfuscation_misdirection/index.html
tbh, it's hella work to refactor in the /same/ language.
As long as #AI continues to routinely make up wrong answers (cutely referred to as #hallucinations because #lies involve intention, which AI lacks) via autocomplete, it is both foolish and irresponsible to use it for any seroius work.
It's not even cost-effective, as 40 hours of AI is orders of magnitude more costly than 40 hours of a team of developers.
“It has become clear that #truth & #transparency are not desired by the secretary [#RFKJr], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his #misinformation & #lies,” Dr. Marks wrote to Sara Brenner, the #FDA’s acting commissioner.
Hours earlier in WV, RFKJr asserted that #Covid did not kill healthy people, contrary to research showing that 30% of those who died early in the #pandemic did not have underlying conditions.
"These guys [Donald #Trump & #ElonMusk] don't start out with zero credibility and integrity. They have negative credibility and integrity. They'd have to do all kinds of visibly honest things for their credibility and integrity to rise as high as zero."
- @dangillmor
https://cornerstone.dangillmor.com/essentials-march-27-2025/
“Wes Streeting and the Guardian just got the treatment they deserved at a live event”
by Steve Topple in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour
“Therefore, it was good to see him [Streeting] getting shouted down by the very people his government’s policies will be affecting. And, we can expect to see even more of this type of resistance over the next few months”
Musk Slashes Social Security as Republicans Debate What a “Cut” Is
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-slashes-social-security-as-republicans
" DonaldTrump has long insisted that he would not cut #SocialSecurity benefits... which has forced the [GOP] to argue that the cuts #DOGE is making to the programs aren’t actually cuts, because they aren’t reducing the size of the Social Security checks... They’re just affecting many other things related to the delivery of those checks."
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Blasts Trump and Musk's Attacks on Social Security (3-minutes)
"The President is a Profligate Liar"
#socialsecurity #musk #doge #trump #autocracy #lies
Social Security, Buffeted by Turmoil, Awaits a New Leader
The billionaire Elon Musk has become fixated on finding #fraud inside the agency, which provides #retirement, survivor and #disability payments to 73 million Americans each month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/politics/frank-bisignano-social-security-upheaval.html
"Musk has claimed that vast numbers of #Americans are fraudulently drawing benefits from the agency, an assertion experts say is demonstrably false."
Sadly, at a time when *all* those organisations & institutions that should be protecting us from the worst instincts of power-hungry, amoral & self-serving politicians, most especially the press/ broadcast media, have “downed tools”, it probably *is* all we can expect to get!
Not so @UKLabour?
Bernie Sanders trying to fool us again
Ronald Filipowski of @meidastouch nails it:
"They aren’t even skilled liars. They rely on quantity of lies rather than quality."
Oh yes...
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnpavlovitz/p/fox-news-orphans-maga-refugees-and
Some #hope for recovering #TrumpVIrus / #GQP victims and #media / #cult believers ?? Compassion and "welcome" to the survivors of 'programming'/'mind control' such as seen in cults, are notoriously difficult to bring back from their alternate world, where #truth is said to be #lies and #evil is accepted as good.
Let them realize at their own comfort speed that their Emperor is wearing no #cognitive or moral clothes. They've been duped, but are ok now.....
Souviens 
Mechanic 
