Dan Silverman

🚨Publication day — my first book is out! “Seeing is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better” is a deep dive into factual misinformation in modern war and conflict, and why people do and don’t believe it. @cambridgeup.bsky.social cambridge.org/9781009523585

In about 24 hours, poles will open here in Israel. In what is a strong contender for Israel’s most critical elections. The election pits Netanyahu’s extremely unpopular coalition against a non-coherent, but moderately more liberal, opposition. Here are some thoughts as we head into it.

The most frustrating part of Yglesias’s paradigm is the failure to recognize that you can shift what the “issue” is The Minnesota anti-ICE protests and killings of Pretti and Good made the issue at hand be about civil liberties and state killing/violence more than it was about “immigration” per se

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Mass shooting reportedly by terrorists/political extremists leaves 7 dead and 40 wounded at a Greek Orthodox church funeral in Jordan One of the biggest and deadliest attacks on Jordanian Christians in years

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

The RSF reportedly killed 6,000 people *in the first 3 days* after they took over El-Fasher a year ago

I don’t usually share random unsourced political memes, but this is gold

Does Musk genuinely think he has not already "picked a fight" with Democrats, with much of the federal government, and with American democracy in general?

Sixers fans realizing they have a confident and composed basketball team capable of making the right play down the stretch

It’s kind of weird to just be living through the President repeatedly using Bobby Newport’s fictional election stunt in Parks and Rec

We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

ironically, a program seemingly designed to just give money to the regime's friends and allies is textbook fraud

We’re back with our second story about how Trump’s purge of the FBI killed a sweeping bribery probe in D.C. This time, we take you to South Carolina, where two powerful politicians escaped scrutiny: Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. James Clyburn. THREAD 👇

Don’t look away from how shocking this is. Yes, unsurprising. Still shocking.

“We screwed up so badly that no one knows how to fix it. Anyway, vote for us again” isn’t really the most airtight closing argument I’ve ever heard

Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

I mean, it’s pretty much the same story we’ve seen around the world. There are Bolsonaros, Trumps, Chávezes, and Dutertes everywhere. It’s just MUCH more consequential when they take power in the global hegemon.