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I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is 81The Atlantic by Charlie Warzel / Oct 10, 2024 at 5:30 PM//keep unread//hide https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/hurricane-milton-conspiracies-misinformation/680221/ View All The truth is, it’s getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality. As Hurricane Milton churned across the Gulf of Mexico last night, I saw an onslaught of outright conspiracy theorizing and utter nonsense racking up millions of views across the internet. The posts would be laughable if they weren’t taken by many people as gospel. Among them: Infowars’ Alex Jones, who claimed that Hurricanes Milton and Helene were “weather weapons” unleashed on the East Coast by the U.S. government, and “truth seeker” accounts on X that posted photos of condensation trails in the sky to baselessly allege that the government was “spraying Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton” in order to ensure ma...

Politics / October 10, 2024 A Lesson in Basic Civics for People Who Stubbornly Defend the Electoral College https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/the-electoral-college-is-bad/ All the problems with all the reasons some people claim the Electoral College is a good thing. Elie Mystal Share Attendees at the 2024 Republican National Convention look at a map of the US Electoral College. Attendees at the 2024 Republican National Convention look at a map of the US Electoral College. (Eva Marie Uzcategui / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Recently, I was doomscrolling Twitter, reading the Republican-aligned election polls Elon Musk forces into my feed in an effort to make me die from alcohol poisoning. I decided to express my rage (which is the only thing Twitter is good for anymore) at the silent enemy of democracy in this and every election: the Electoral College. Here is what I tweeted: As you can see, the thing has 3.8 million views (so far) and generated 13,000 comments. Most peopl...

A List of Everything Trump Claims Is ‘Election Interference’ Portrait of Ed Kilgore By Ed Kilgore, political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/everything-trump-claims-is-election-interference.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part After the 2020 election, Donald Trump and his campaign spent a lot of time in courtrooms and on the airwaves seizing on every rumor or right-wing conspiracy theory about voter fraud to back up his claims he had a right to overturn a “stolen election.” The courts dismissed nearly all of his lawsuits, people laughed at his clownish lawyers, and ultimately his big bid on January 6 to seize the presidency failed. In his 2024 comeback bid, Trump hasn’t let go of any of those fatuous 2020 claims — and this time he’s dispensed with the toil and trouble of alleging tangible, verifiable violations of election or voting rules. Instead, Trump is relying on vast, sweeping claims of “elect...