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New York, August 1, 2024–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes reports that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) editor Alsu Kurmasheva will be released as part of a prisoner exchange, and calls on Russia to release other jailed journalists and stop harassing those in exile.
“Evan and Alsu have been apart from their families for far too long,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg. “They were detained and sentenced on spurious charges intended to punish them for their journalism and stifle independent reporting. Their reported release is welcome – but it does not change the fact that Russia continues to suppress a free press. Moscow needs to release all jailed journalists and end its campaign of using in absentia arrest warrants and sentences against exiled Russian journalists.”
Gershkovich and Kurmasheva were sentenced on July 19 to 16 years and 6½ years in prison respectively. Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, spent 16 months in detention before being convicted on charges of espionage; Kurmasheva, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen, was held for more than nine months before she was convicted on charges of spreading “fake” news about the Russian army.
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We look at a new Washington Post investigation titled “Money War” that traces the effects of U.S. sanctions under the last four presidents: Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden. According to the report, the U.S government has instituted, in some form or another, sanctions against a third of all other countries around the world, despite no clear evidence that they are effective in influencing target nations’ politics, and in fact may often entrench the power of ruling parties. We speak to Jeff Stein, one of the authors of the Post investigation, about its findings, including on the effects of sanctions in Venezuela and Iran.
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What does your creative practice consist of?
I would say writing and space making. I have written books, I have a Substack newsletter and I host online and in-person retreats. I like to think about how we can create spaces where people can connect over the things they care about. And currently, as a creative who has been self-employed for 15 years, I’m interrogating how creativity can be present in my life without being monetized. I’m taking a long in-depth herbalism course right now, just for fun. And in 2025, the year I turn 40, I’m taking what I’m calling a grown-up gap year. The only work I know for sure I will be doing during that sabbatical is writing on Substack. I’ll live off of that income and my savings and I’ll see what happens—hopefully I’ll learn to garden and will grow some food.
Tell me about your Substack newsletter.
I’ve been publishing personal essays online since 2007, which feels like a wild amount of time at this point. I’ve always been really drawn to real-time story sharing so people can be in conversation with those ideas. I’ve used Blogspot, Wordpress, and various email newsletter platforms. I don’t have a memory of myself as someone who wasn’t a writer. In high school it was suggested that I could only be a professional writer as a journalist or if I were lucky enough to write a successful novel. But, as I said, I’ve been self-employed for 15 years now—I basically came up with my own multi-dimensional job.
I was so excited when Substack came along as it really allows you to make an income as a writer. Prior to that I ran a Patreon community for a listener-funded podcast and writing. I closed that down last summer to focus on my Substack.
Doing both was too much?
This could be a much longer story, but I had a mental health crisis last summer. It was a combination of your run-of-the-mill brain chemistry depression and what I have started to think of as “parasocial energetic burnout”—the ramifications of having been so available to many thousands of people on so many platforms for so many years with very personal content.
That in combination with social media, podcasting, and hosting various online groups eventually led me to feeling overexposed. I had to make some changes to feel better, one of which was closing down Patreon; not because I didn’t like it, but because I really wanted to clarify, “What do I feel really good about making public and what is just for me?”
I needed to learn to navigate the boundary between honesty and privacy as someone who writes and shares personal stories. I can lead with honesty without feeling I owe people every detail of my existence. So, closing Patreon and quitting social media were part of my effort to reformulate my public practice.
The last year has been about reevaluating for you?
Yeah. What is the purpose of writing? What parts creatively fulfill me? What parts earn me money? How much am I willing to share with readers, and why? It’s helped me realize you can make changes…just because you’re known for a certain thing or have been really active on a certain platform doesn’t mean you need to keep doing that for even one more second.
I had a lot of fear about making these changes and what it would mean for my income, for promoting my books—but if having less eyes on my work enables me to feel more mental freedom then I’m fine with paying that as the cost of admission.
Making those sort of changes is very brave, de-growth in a culture that wants us to churn out more and more content.
The concept of “enoughness” is something that I think about in all areas of my life. It’s really easy to get caught up in what our industry, mainstream culture, or peer group has defined as success. To be honest, I’ve never wanted a big career, like capital “C” big career. The messaging in a lot of self-help spaces, especially those directed at women, says that if you aren’t reaching for these huge goals, you’re playing small or are afraid of visibility. And while this might be true and encouraging for some, I want to create things in a way that feels good to me, is aligned with my values, and remains sustainable.
I want to earn enough money to thrive, I don’t just want to scrape by, but I also don’t want to step on an escalator of perpetual growth leading to the hoarding of wealth.
Enoughness is a great concept to think about in the context of a creative practice…
How often do I write, what is enough? Some people only feel satisfied if they write every day…I don’t write everyday. I look for the “point of enoughness” in all these different areas of my life. I think of my business as a sort of a self-employed-writer-artist-model—I’m not an entrepreneur. I’m not looking to grow something that’s bigger than me. I’m not looking to hire a bunch of people. Again, not because that’s wrong but it’s just not what I want.
You have to figure out what fits for you.
A lot of my writing is about exploring your inner wildness and being in an honest conversation with yourself about what fits for you and that’s different for everyone. There are no right answers, but that’s certainly something I was told, that success must look a certain way, and that lead me to feeling like there’s something wrong with me for not wanting what we are all supposed to want.
I can relate to that. You wrote about “time wealth” in one of your newsletters. I’m someone who values time spent with myself or friends way more than monetary wealth, yet it can be challenging to have more time and less money than others.
I once gave an example in my newsletter about an afternoon last winter. I had finished my deadlines for the day and had a free afternoon. A friend going through a hard time randomly called me and we talked for hours. That was my whole afternoon. I felt so grateful for having that time wealth to be there for her.
Time wealth is also something that can be shared with others. You were able to give your struggling friend company and solace through having time.
For years I only measured value in monetary terms. If I’m not producing work that produces money I’m less valued. It’s been so helpful to be in dialogue with my Substack community about these topics: “How can we more creatively envision getting needs and desires met outside of Capitalism? If we can reduce the need for as much wage labor, how much more of our time can we put towards more fulfilling things?” Of course there are people in my community who are in an almost opposite situation, who want big careers and have been shamed for their ambition.
It comes at you from all sides.
Again, I’m not interested in the prescriptive, “Well, everyone should live this small life…” It’s about being able to question, “What definition of success was sold to me? If I’m in pursuit of it, who does it benefit and why? Who does it oppress and why? What feels like enough for me?” And a lot of the enoughness, if we take it outside of money and into the realm of art or public art practice, has been about ego stuff for me. How much attention feels like enough? How much validation feels like enough?
Did this lead you to quit Instagram?
Yeah. Instagram was the last social media I was using, and it was my biggest platform, meaning it’s where I had the largest audience. I really had to check my own ego; realizing part of me didn’t want to leave because my following made me feel special. And I can be self-compassionate about this as we all want to feel recognized, but being able to get to the point of: “I don’t need exponentially more attention. I don’t want exponentially more attention,” because that’s how I wound up in that deep parasocial energetic burnout last summer.
That’s one of the reasons almost everything I do on my Substack is behind a paywall—the limited audience size and only allowing paid subscribers to comment creates a sense of mutuality, reciprocity and respect. And again, sometimes we want growth, and growth isn’t a problem but, to me, the problem is unchecked exponential growth for the sake of growth. If “more” is the only thing making us feel good, what happens when our income, “likes,” or followers decrease or stagnate? Tying my self worth to numerical values feels real dicey to me.
I love the use of dicey in this context.
I felt an immense pressure to mine myself for more and more content, and especially as a personal essayist there’s a real delicate balance between good sharing and cannibalizing your own life for art.
Where are you currently at with this?
I’m constantly checking in on these feelings because I still have tender spots around this topic. I haven’t reached a point where my self-worth isn’t attached to these things. If I see fewer “likes” on a Substack letter I’ve sent out I still feel something, but now I’m consciously trying to orient to a mindset where collecting “likes” is not the purpose of the practice.
What helps you in these moments?
Zooming out to a systems level helps me, and asking myself: “Who benefits when I do that? Who benefits when we can never be satisfied? The Zuckerbergs of this world, the corporations, the algorithms…”
I’m in a combination of unlearning some of this stuff and revisiting things I’ve always felt to be true for me but that used to make me feel like a weirdo.
Such as?
Such as, “No, I’m actually not going to hide the fact that I don’t have big goals.” I have what I like to call “soft ambition” and that’s actually fine.
I felt immediately drawn to your work when I read that you like to think/write about: “How to close the gap between what I say I want and what I actually do.” I know all about that gap and can give myself a hard time for its existence. What have you learned venturing into that gap?
I’m curious about what it would take to close that gap in more areas of my life without being mean to myself, without weaponizing that gap against myself. And I’m not looking for perfection or moral purity because I don’t believe in their existence but I’m curious about this big gap and why it’s there. For me, part of closing the gap is unlearning my deeply rooted individualism—I’ve told myself time and time again that I need to close this gap on my own and I’m just bored of that narrative. It’s lonely, it mostly doesn’t work and if it does work…what’s the exhaustive self-exploitative cost? I’m interested being in community with people whose gaps are similar to mine, like doing a project with a friend even if it’s via a call or just having people to be in the gap with.
What can create the gap in your experience?
It can be fear. It took me over a decade to write my first book because I was afraid it wasn’t going to be good enough. The gap can appear from being overwhelmed, not knowing where to start. It’s about being honest with myself about that particular gap’s characterization. Sometimes what I say I want is actually something I think I should want, and I’m not making progress on it because, real talk, I don’t want to do it. So great, if I’m honest about that, then maybe the next step is giving myself permission to say, “This goal is not for me. I’m out. Bye.”
To me, being a good friend means spending time together, honesty, vulnerability, showing up for each other, listening to each other, respecting each other, and having fun together. So why would my relationship with myself require anything other than that? And so the better I become at being a good friend to myself, the less the gap makes me feel like I’m failing.
Nicole Antoinette Recommends:
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Try: Removing the email app from your phone
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The vision
“Native people are still here regardless of what the settler colonial state might try and say. You can uplift and amplify that ongoing relationship with the land here and now.”
— Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, PhD
The spotlight
Climate change is a world-ending problem: Flooding, fires, hurricanes, and heat are threatening life and land, and could render parts of the planet uninhabitable. But when Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles gives their students advice on what to do about it, one of the things they recommend is to simply go for a walk. Smiles is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and a leader in the field of Indigenous geography. They are a citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibewe, and they research how Indigenous people have cultivated relationships with the land that are ceremonial, historic — and ever evolving, including in the wake of climate change.
As colonial governments engage with traditional ecological knowledge more seriously, Smiles’ work is a timely reminder of how seemingly small changes to your routine can have a big impact on your point of view. Indigenous geography offers a stark contrast to a worldview based on extraction and exploitation.
Many societies have cataloged the world around them to make maps and meaning out of the land, but colonial ways of contextualizing the world have also often utilized geography as a way to divide and sequester land from Indigenous peoples.
In a 2008 paper, RDK Herman explored how the field of geography cements its scholarship in colonial ways of thinking. Herman, who is not Indigenous, wrote that this removes many of the ways original inhabitants of the land related to the lakes, rivers, sky, and the Earth — often justifying violent land possession under the guise of empirical and enlightened thought.
There are multiple Indigenous geographies, Smiles said — as many as there are tribes in the world. But collectively, the field is about a worldview in which people are a part of the land they’re on, something “modernist geography” fails to incorporate. In Hawai‘i, for example, the Indigenous ʻŌiwi people consider the ocean an important relative that is afforded agency.
Though there is growing interest in traditional knowledge from tribes, in academia, approaches like these challenge the status quo. Incorporating tribal epistemologies into the field of geography has gotten Smiles accused of not being objective.
“Objectivity does not mean you’re not passionate about these kinds of things. It’s about if we can really tell the truth about what’s going on,” they said.
If the last time you engaged with geography was looking at place names on a map, or directions from Point A to Point B, Smiles’s point is that geography can be a tool for examining large issues like climate change through a series of relationships — not just a collection of lines drawn on a map by colonial powers.
I spoke with Smiles about how Indigenous geography shakes up what most of us understand the field to be. It’s an academic pursuit, but also a shift in thinking that suggests something as simple as taking a walk can change a person’s colonial outlook on the world. Their responses have been edited and condensed for clarity.
Q. My only experience with geography on the day-to-day is Google Maps, so what is geography as a field of study?
A. Geography is the study of the relationships between space and place and the people and things that inhabit these things. It sounds really broad on its own, but that’s kind of the beauty of geography. It is essentially how we understand the spaces and places around us that we call home, that we move through. How do we interpret their meaning, and how do we figure out the relationships between spaces, between places, and between people.
So geography can be maps, looking at spatial relationships. But it can also be something deeply personal, like how we interact with space.
When I get home after a long day and I see my wife and cat, I feel relaxed. That’s geography, because that’s a relationship with space that I have.
Q. What is Indigenous geography? What makes it different?
A. Dominant geography is that we are observing space in place, and doing it in a way that holds us separate. It’s top-down and analytical.
As an Ojibwe person, in our own creation story we have certain obligations to the environment and the spaces we move within. That’s Indigenous geography. This deep relationship with the land.
I’m not talking Disney, Pocahontas, talking to trees and racoons. But if something bad happens to the land, that is followed up by something bad happening to us as a people, because we are deeply dependent on the land in order to have our cultures and our way of life.
The beauty of Indigenous geography is that it drives home that deep interconnectedness. We are part of the environment, we are part of a space, and we are not separate from it, nor should we try to hold ourselves separate from it.
Q. How does climate change integrate into your research and point of view?
A. Climate change is something that can really disastrously affect the geographies around us. Here in British Columbia, towns like Lytton are literally burned off the face of the planet due to forest fires.
I think about wild rice, an important food to us, and it relies on a certain amount of water and oxygen and water temperature and lack of pollution. In Minnesota, we are starting to see all these things slip away.
Indigenous people are often at the center of these events, placed on marginal pieces of land, the most susceptible.
I kind of chuckle a little bit in a weird, ironic way, when people are like, “This is the end of the world.” Well, for Indigenous peoples, the world already ended multiple times, right? Settlers tried to eliminate us, tried to starve us out. Genocide beat our language and culture out of us. It’s just another end of the world, right?
It becomes interesting where Indigenous communities don’t really fall into the fatalism that you find in settler frameworks.
When I do work around cultural responses to climate change, I point to Indigenous nations. These are the people that you want to be looking at and talk to when it comes to how to survive these sorts of things. Because, for better or for worse, we Indigenous folks have become really damn good at surviving things that were meant to kill and eliminate us.
Q. You teach geography as a professor at the University of Victoria. How do you explain this to students, and how does it help fight climate change to engage with the world this way?
A. I tell my students it’s very accessible to think this way. Some students are like, “Oh, are we going to do ceremonies?” And I tell them no, we are just going to learn how Indigenous peoples view the world. Which is not super mystical, but it is very mundane, very everyday.
Q. What do you tell them to do?
A. Be present and have connections. Intentionally see where you are and move through your local space.
Q. Can you tell me more about that? How does that help with climate change issues?
A. When people view themselves as interconnected to the environment in various ways, they realize, “There’s a lot I can do to help create a better world.”
I want to be careful. There is a lot of individualization of climate change: “It’s up to you to make an impact,” right? And it’s a good way of obscuring the role of capitalism and corporations and extraction that has caused this.
But there are some things where there’s strength in numbers, and there’s a way that even one individual action can help inspire others. It leads to more wholesale, structural changes on a societal level.
— Taylar Dawn Stagner
More exposure
- Read: about how Hawaiian activists drew on their creation story to successfully advocate for a ban on deep-sea mining (Grist)
- Read: how the green transition, dominated by a Western science mindset, threatens to make inequalities worse for Indigenous communities (Grist)
- Read: about how Indigenous peoples in Alaska are adapting to climate change (Vox)
- Read: an interview with one of the leaders of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, a California organization working to rematriate Indigenous land (The 19th)
A parting shot
Two hundred people gathered this summer to celebrate and name a white buffalo calf born in Yellowstone National Park, fulfilling an Indigenous prophecy — a blessing and a warning. Watch some clips from the celebration here.
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Indigenous geography could change how we relate to the Earth on Jul 31, 2024.
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We speak with legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw about the historic presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, who is facing a slew of racist and misogynist attacks from Donald Trump and others as she runs to be the first woman and the first woman of color to occupy the White House. Crenshaw, who coined the term “intersectionality,” says Harris’s candidacy is leading to backlash from those who fear the emergence of a more diverse country. “The challenge is, quite clearly, that those who support Kamala Harris and those who support our democracy have to take back the ground that they have ceded in the war on woke,” says Crenshaw, executive director of the African American Policy Forum, which is hosting its annual Critical Race Theory Summer School in Nashville this week.
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A nutritionist for China’s national swim team claimed that Chinese players have been “unfairly treated” in the leadup to the 2024 Paris Olympics with frequent anti-doping tests, while American swimmer Gretchen Walsh had not had to take any such tests.
But the claim is false. Walsh underwent several anti-doping tests in both 2023 and 2024. The number of tests varies for each athlete since the World Anti-Doping Agency prioritizes testing top performers at high profile international competitions under a practice it terms “target testing”.
The claim was shared by Yu Liang, a nutritionist for China’s national swim team, on Wiebo on July 19, 2024.
“Chinese swimmers had been unfairly tested at a disproportionate rate in the leadup to the 2024 Paris Olympic,” his now-deleted post reads in part.
His post included a spreadsheet showing that Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei underwent 43 doping tests in 2023 while American swimmer Gretchen Walsh had not been tested at all.
Yu Liang, a nutritionist for the Chinese national swim team, wrote that the team had tested at a disproportionate rate in the leadup to the 2024 Paris Olympic. (Screenshot/Sina Weibo) While Yu had removed his original post, Chinese media outlets such as Guancha cited him in reports claiming the United States used underhanded tactics in preparation for the Olympics.
A former Chinese diver, Gao Min, also claimed that frequent drug testing against China’s swim team interfered with its performance.
Chinese netizens and media outlets claim that Chinese and American athletes are being treated differently for doping tests in the lead up to the Olympics. (Screenshots) But the claim is false.
Tests on Walsh
The Aquatics Integrity Unit, a branch of the World Aquatics responsible for anti-doping testing, told AFCL that Walsh had been tested nine times in 2023 and nine times in 2024 following standards enforced by the World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA.
Records kept by the United States Anti-Doping Center also show such tests had been conducted.
These 18 tests do not account for any additional tests that Walsh, a collegiate athlete, may have been tested under the National Collegiate Athletic Association system in the US, although the association has not disclosed the exact number of tests Walsh has undergone through their organization.
Official records of drug tests per Olympic national team in 2024, as per the World Aquatics Federation. (Screenshot/World Aquatics) Better performance, more tests
The World Aquatics commissioned the International Testing Agency, or ITA, to conduct drug tests for teams participating in this year’s Olympics.
According to ITA statistics, the 31 members of the Chinese swim team were tested an average of 21 times each, totaling more than 600 tests. In contrast, the 46 swimmers on the U.S. swim team were tested a total of 276 times, which averages to about 6 tests per swimmer.
In section 4.5 of WADA’s most recent doping test standards, the organization states that it prioritizes testing top-performing athletes in high-profile international competitions through a practice called “target testing.”
Zhang Yufei, who won 23 gold medals in 59 events in 2023, was tested 43 times due to her outstanding performance. In contrast, Gretchen Walsh participated in fewer international events and won only three medals – one gold, one silver, and one bronze – throughout the year.
Translated by Shen Ke. Edited by Shen Ke and Taejun Kang.
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Days before the 2016 election, Rudy Giuliani went on Fox News promising a “big surprise,” emphasizing his point with a Crypt Keeper cackle. “We’ve got a couple of things up our sleeves that should turn this around.” The vast majority of the polls had Hillary Clinton comfortably winning.
Paul Manafort, the Kremlin’s longtime operative in Ukraine and Trump’s longtime friend and neighbor, had laid low in recent weeks following a bombshell report out of Ukraine that he took millions of dollars in off-the-books payments from Ukrainian kleptocrat and wannabe strongman Viktor Yanukovych. However, Manafort broke his silence days before the election and wrote on Twitter: “Battleground states moving to Trump en masse. Media not liking the pattern. By Sunday, Trump will be over 270 in polls.” But the polls said no such thing.
Why were Giuliani and Manafort suddenly so confident Trump would pull off an upset? The 400-page Mueller Report and the bipartisan Senate Intelligence report both exposed how the Trump campaign and the Kremlin came to power in 2016: through pumping out disinformation to suppress the vote, cyberattacks stealing sensitive data, and hacking the voting systems of all 50 states. That very illegal strategy has been in play ever since and is mainstream for the MAGA fascist movement openly trying to overthrow our democracy and install a Christian nationalist dictatorship, with Trump as their long-awaited strongman, a perfect God’s imperfect vessel.
This special episode of Gaslit Nation looks at the ways Trump is trying to steal the election and what must be done to stop him. This is an episode you’re going to want to share with your family and friends. Terrell Starr of the Black Diplomats Podcast and Substack also joins the show to discuss the US election in the context of global affairs. This week’s bonus show, available to subscribers at the Truth-teller ($5/month) level and higher, answers questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender ($10/month) level and higher, including on how to hold Rupert Murdoch accountable and reasons why Ukraine must join NATO. Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!
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Show Notes:
Clip: “‘Trump’s Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts: “We are winning… In ways that the other side doesn’t yet know… We’re not gonna tell you everything that’s coming… [Get] ready to fight’’ https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1816573433741795598
Clip: Trump: ‘You won’t have to vote anymore my beautiful Christians’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngy_VknAfXw
Clip: Venezuela elections could end Maduro’s rule https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-6PSFBwNt4
Clip: Maduro Wins Venezuela Election, Opposition Rejects Poll Results https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIfBk9F7rWU
Clip: Giuliani hinted at ‘a pretty big surprise’ days before the FBI announcement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDY4tSibYpo
Clip: ““To all the athletes who could not come and be here because Russia killed them. I dedicate this to them.” Olga Kharlan after winning bronze at the Paris #Olympics.” https://x.com/United24media/status/1818200501890023865
Clip: “.@jemelehill “Do you think Donald Trump is afraid to debate you? @KamalaHarris: “He should be.” https://x.com/notcapnamerica/status/1818039705038110886
A data tool being used to challenge voter registrations is raising many concerns https://www.npr.org/2024/06/04/nx-s1-4991945/voter-registration-mass-challenges-georgia
The Georgia Voting Machine Theft Poses a Direct Threat to the 2024 Election https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/georgia-trump-vote-theft-2024-election.html
Trump allies breach U.S. voting systems in search of 2020 fraud ‘evidence’ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-breaches/
Georgia Senate Democrats: “What the hell is this, @GaSecofState? Canceling voters?! This tool empowers conspiracy theorists and other bad actors to deny Georgians the right to vote. We demand this be taken down immediately.” #gapol #gasenatedems https://x.com/GASenateDems/status/1817949715234717988
Should Ukraine join Nato? Open letter We don’t agree that Nato membership for Ukraine would provoke a conflict with Russia https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/27/ukraine-nato-membership?fbclid=IwY2xjawEUeM1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQwuQZWseMmw8DF1C22ycT-d_bF-QPnEra88QCrAIlFgf8Kev-uDxqNPpQ_aem_qbpdJm26_W-KofKewkUVUw
Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election
Manafort tweets for the first time since being ousted from Trump campaign https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/paul-manafort-first-tweet-since-leaving-trump-230735
He Confirmed Russia Meddled in 2016 to Help Trump. Now, He’s Speaking Out Trump viewed the 2017 intel report as his ‘Achilles heel.’ The analyst who wrote it opens up about Trump, Russia and what really happened in 2016 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/cia-ica-report-author-trump-russia-1235067814/
Cyberattack hits Georgia county at center of voting software breach State officials in Georgia have severed Coffee County’s access to statewide election systems while the breach is being addressed. https://cyberscoop.com/cyberattack-hits-georgia-county-at-center-of-voting-software-breach/
Voting experts warn of ‘serious threats’ for 2024 from election equipment software breaches https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/voting-experts-warn-of-serious-threats-for-2024-from-election-equipment-software-breaches
Election officials prepare for a range of threats in 2024, from hostile countries to conspiracy theorists https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/election-officials-prepare-for-a-range-of-threats-in-2024-from-hostile-countries-to-conspiracy-theorists
Securing the 2024 Election Facebook X LinkedIn Federal, state, and local officials must work together to safeguard the democratic process. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/policy-solutions/securing-2024-election
Voters are being told that the election system is both under attack and vulnerable to manipulation. https://theintercept.com/2024/03/06/homeland-security-us-elections/
Georgia election officials withheld evidence in voting machine breach, group alleges A filing accuses county election officials of withholding records related to unauthorized copying of voting software by Trump allies in 2021. https://cyberscoop.com/georgia-election-officials-withheld-evidence-in-voting-machine-breach-group-alleges/
How DEF CON’s election hackers are trying to protect themselves There may be lessons for 2024 election workers in the precautions taken at the conference to protect election security researchers from harassment. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/13/def-cons-election-hackers-2024-00110981
Electronic pollbook security raises concerns going into 2024 https://apnews.com/article/arizona-united-states-government-2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-los-angeles-651d0e923973daf28ff3b9d6105b4d74
Cyberattack forces Georgia county to sever connection to state voter registration system https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/politics/georgia-coffee-county-cyberattack-voter-system/index.html
The Coalition of Good Governance on the Coffee County, GA April 2024 Cyberattack and Government Response https://myemail-api.constantcontact.com/And-Now–a-Fourth-Coffee-County-Breach–.html?soid=1109272168263&aid=ToQ-Ima3GxI
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Days before the 2016 election, Rudy Giuliani went on Fox News promising a “big surprise,” emphasizing his point with a Crypt Keeper cackle. “We’ve got a couple of things up our sleeves that should turn this around.” The vast majority of the polls had Hillary Clinton comfortably winning.
Paul Manafort, the Kremlin’s longtime operative in Ukraine and Trump’s longtime friend and neighbor, had laid low in recent weeks following a bombshell report out of Ukraine that he took millions of dollars in off-the-books payments from Ukrainian kleptocrat and wannabe strongman Viktor Yanukovych. However, Manafort broke his silence days before the election and wrote on Twitter: “Battleground states moving to Trump en masse. Media not liking the pattern. By Sunday, Trump will be over 270 in polls.” But the polls said no such thing.
Why were Giuliani and Manafort suddenly so confident Trump would pull off an upset? The 400-page Mueller Report and the bipartisan Senate Intelligence report both exposed how the Trump campaign and the Kremlin came to power in 2016: through pumping out disinformation to suppress the vote, cyberattacks stealing sensitive data, and hacking the voting systems of all 50 states. That very illegal strategy has been in play ever since and is mainstream for the MAGA fascist movement openly trying to overthrow our democracy and install a Christian nationalist dictatorship, with Trump as their long-awaited strongman, a perfect God’s imperfect vessel.
This special episode of Gaslit Nation looks at the ways Trump is trying to steal the election and what must be done to stop him. This is an episode you’re going to want to share with your family and friends. Terrell Starr of the Black Diplomats Podcast and Substack also joins the show to discuss the US election in the context of global affairs. This week’s bonus show, available to subscribers at the Truth-teller ($5/month) level and higher, answers questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender ($10/month) level and higher, including on how to hold Rupert Murdoch accountable and reasons why Ukraine must join NATO. Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!
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Book Launch Reception for In the Shadow of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones – Sept 16
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Monday September 16th 7pm at the Ukrainian Institute of America join us for a wine reception and live taping of Gaslit Nation with Terrell Starr for the launch of the graphic novel adaptation of Andrea’s film Mr. Jones! Get in free by subscribing at the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon!
Indivisible x Gaslit Nation Phonebank Party! — August 15 at 7pm ET
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Every third Thursday through election day and on election eve in November we’re calling voters in Republican-hostage states in the Midwest with Indivisible to ensure a Democratic Senate. Sign up here to join us: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/628701/
Sister District x Gaslit Nation Phonebank Parties! – Every Wednesday in October!
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Every Wednesday through October, we’re phone-banking with Sister District, calling voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Georgia. Sign up here to join us: https://www.mobilize.us/sisterdistrictnyc/event/642096/
Show Notes:
Clip: “‘Trump’s Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts: “We are winning… In ways that the other side doesn’t yet know… We’re not gonna tell you everything that’s coming… [Get] ready to fight’’ https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1816573433741795598
Clip: Trump: ‘You won’t have to vote anymore my beautiful Christians’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngy_VknAfXw
Clip: Venezuela elections could end Maduro’s rule https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-6PSFBwNt4
Clip: Maduro Wins Venezuela Election, Opposition Rejects Poll Results https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIfBk9F7rWU
Clip: Giuliani hinted at ‘a pretty big surprise’ days before the FBI announcement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDY4tSibYpo
Clip: ““To all the athletes who could not come and be here because Russia killed them. I dedicate this to them.” Olga Kharlan after winning bronze at the Paris #Olympics.” https://x.com/United24media/status/1818200501890023865
Clip: “.@jemelehill “Do you think Donald Trump is afraid to debate you? @KamalaHarris: “He should be.” https://x.com/notcapnamerica/status/1818039705038110886
A data tool being used to challenge voter registrations is raising many concerns https://www.npr.org/2024/06/04/nx-s1-4991945/voter-registration-mass-challenges-georgia
The Georgia Voting Machine Theft Poses a Direct Threat to the 2024 Election https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/georgia-trump-vote-theft-2024-election.html
Trump allies breach U.S. voting systems in search of 2020 fraud ‘evidence’ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-breaches/
Georgia Senate Democrats: “What the hell is this, @GaSecofState? Canceling voters?! This tool empowers conspiracy theorists and other bad actors to deny Georgians the right to vote. We demand this be taken down immediately.” #gapol #gasenatedems https://x.com/GASenateDems/status/1817949715234717988
Should Ukraine join Nato? Open letter We don’t agree that Nato membership for Ukraine would provoke a conflict with Russia https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/27/ukraine-nato-membership?fbclid=IwY2xjawEUeM1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQwuQZWseMmw8DF1C22ycT-d_bF-QPnEra88QCrAIlFgf8Kev-uDxqNPpQ_aem_qbpdJm26_W-KofKewkUVUw
Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election
Manafort tweets for the first time since being ousted from Trump campaign https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/paul-manafort-first-tweet-since-leaving-trump-230735
He Confirmed Russia Meddled in 2016 to Help Trump. Now, He’s Speaking Out Trump viewed the 2017 intel report as his ‘Achilles heel.’ The analyst who wrote it opens up about Trump, Russia and what really happened in 2016 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/cia-ica-report-author-trump-russia-1235067814/
Cyberattack hits Georgia county at center of voting software breach State officials in Georgia have severed Coffee County’s access to statewide election systems while the breach is being addressed. https://cyberscoop.com/cyberattack-hits-georgia-county-at-center-of-voting-software-breach/
Voting experts warn of ‘serious threats’ for 2024 from election equipment software breaches https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/voting-experts-warn-of-serious-threats-for-2024-from-election-equipment-software-breaches
Election officials prepare for a range of threats in 2024, from hostile countries to conspiracy theorists https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/election-officials-prepare-for-a-range-of-threats-in-2024-from-hostile-countries-to-conspiracy-theorists
Securing the 2024 Election Facebook X LinkedIn Federal, state, and local officials must work together to safeguard the democratic process. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/policy-solutions/securing-2024-election
Voters are being told that the election system is both under attack and vulnerable to manipulation. https://theintercept.com/2024/03/06/homeland-security-us-elections/
Georgia election officials withheld evidence in voting machine breach, group alleges A filing accuses county election officials of withholding records related to unauthorized copying of voting software by Trump allies in 2021. https://cyberscoop.com/georgia-election-officials-withheld-evidence-in-voting-machine-breach-group-alleges/
How DEF CON’s election hackers are trying to protect themselves There may be lessons for 2024 election workers in the precautions taken at the conference to protect election security researchers from harassment. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/13/def-cons-election-hackers-2024-00110981
Electronic pollbook security raises concerns going into 2024 https://apnews.com/article/arizona-united-states-government-2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-los-angeles-651d0e923973daf28ff3b9d6105b4d74
Cyberattack forces Georgia county to sever connection to state voter registration system https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/politics/georgia-coffee-county-cyberattack-voter-system/index.html
The Coalition of Good Governance on the Coffee County, GA April 2024 Cyberattack and Government Response https://myemail-api.constantcontact.com/And-Now–a-Fourth-Coffee-County-Breach–.html?soid=1109272168263&aid=ToQ-Ima3GxI
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- Harris campaigns in Georgia as part of a concentrated effort to win the state in November.
- Israel launches targeted strike on Hezbollah commander in Beirut believed responsible for weekend rocket attack that killed 12 children.
- Senate approves bill that would hold tech companies responsible for online content harmful to children.
- Firefighters gain some ground on the Park Fire as suspected arsonist enters not guilty plea.
- San Francisco activists mark 59th anniversary of the passage of Medicare and Medicaid.
- Anti-war activists protest jet fuel shipment headed to Israel.
- Sierra fires continue to burn mostly uncontained.
- Anti-war activists protest jet fuel shipment headed to Israel.
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- Biden proposes Supreme Court reforms amid recent fairness and ethics concerns on the high court.
- FBI to interview former President Trump about the July 13 attempt on his life.
- Member s of bipartisan House task force on the Trump assassination attempt named.
- Opposition and international voices decry Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro’s Presidential election victory claim.
- Fresno County considering homeless encampment clearance ordinance.
- Northern California firefighters gained some ground on Park Fire, which has scorched areas of 4 counties.
- Democratic leaders warn of consequences of possible second Trump term in press call.
- Fresno introduces homeless encampment clearance ordinance.
- San Francisco Supervisors considering first in the nation ban on rent-setting software.
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We speak with Politico reporter Ian Ward about JD Vance, who has become a lightning rod for controversy since being picked by former President Donald Trump to be his running mate. Ward spent months with Vance earlier this year for a profile about the freshman Ohio senator and his political evolution from a “Never Trump” Republican to one of the MAGA movement’s most prominent voices. He recently wrote a new piece about Vance headlined “The Seven Thinkers and Groups That Have Shaped JD Vance’s Unusual Worldview.”
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