This is one of the writers who defined “scalping” as "a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans” for the @AP: @ByMoriah
(AP later stealth edited the story to tweak the definition somewhat - )
@AP @ByMoriah This is the other writer who defined “scalping” as "a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans” before @AP stealth-edited the farcical definition: @cbinkley
It can be interesting and instructive to, at times, put names and faces to these things.
Here’s how the @AP now defines “scalping”: "a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans and also used by some tribes against their enemies."
Completely ahistorical, farcical, CRT/Marxist definition from the “neutral” outlet.
While obviously there were instances of colonists scalping American Indian enemies, that is a completely one-sided whitewash of a brutal inter-ethnic conflict. Note also that the @AP broadly ascribes genocidal ambitions to all “white colonists” while begrudgingly allowing that “some” Indian tribes “also” practiced scalping—as a complete afterthought.
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🧵THREAD: Meet the Trump-hating “cult expert” quietly shaping FBI prosecutions — and how an “orgasmic meditation” company on trial just exposed the playbook.
It might sound salacious, but this isn't a story about “orgasmic meditation.” It's about how the DOJ is using therapy-speak, psychobabble and media narratives to criminalize disfavored groups.
If it isn’t stopped now, the Deep State will be doing it to us next.
Enter Steven Hassan.
Author of The Cult of Trump, a man who believes Trump supporters are brainwashed victims in a “death cult.” He tweeted that Trump “should be tried, convicted, and sentenced to decades in jail for his crimes!”
And, get this: Hassan is the FBI’s pet expert on criminal “cults.” The FBI cites his “BITE Model” in training materials to teach agents how to identify cults and “coercion.”
So what is the BITE Model?
It stands for Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotional control.
Sounds clinical — until you realize it redefines things like:
• Working long hours
• Emotional bonding
• Avoiding toxic people
• Following group norms
… as evidence of “mind control.”
JUST IN: The MIT Technology Review reports that the Deep State is highly upset after the State Department's Darren Beattie sought internal communications between U.S. and European government censors, disinformation “journalists”, and other deep state creeps.
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Creeps caught in the crosshairs: Anne Applebaum, former US cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs, the Stanford Internet Observatory, and Bill Kristol
Search keywords include Alex Jones, Glenn Greenwald, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and hilariously “Pepe the Frog” and “incel.”
The goal is a Twitter-files style document release to rebuild trust and increase transparency.
"In 2022, Jankowicz was appointed to lead the Disinformation Governance Board, an intra-agency best practices and coordination entity at the Department of Homeland Security; she resigned the position after a sustained disinformation campaign caused the Biden Administration to abandon the project."
"When Nina Jankowicz’s first book on online disinformation was profiled in The New Yorker last year, she expected attention but not an avalanche of abuse and harassment, predominantly from men, online.
All women in politics, journalism and academia now face untold levels of harassment and abuse in online spaces. Together with the world’s leading extremism researchers, Jankowicz wrote one of the definitive reports on this troubling phenomenon. Drawing on rigorous research into the treatment of Kamala Harris – the first woman vice-president – and other political and public figures, Nina also uses her own experiences to provide a step-by-step plan for dealing with harassment, abuse, doxing and disinformation in online spaces.
The result is a must-read for researchers, journalists and all women with a profile in the online space."