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https://www.europesays.com/iran/112807/ Lawmakers react to arrest of Lebanon man accused of threatening legislators #AccusedOfThreateningStateLegislators #action #CourtDocument #DemocraticProblem #GovJoshShapiro #kinkead #lawmaker #lawmakers #Lebanon #LebanonMan #legislator #MarshallCollege #MemorialDayOperation #OpinionResearch #police #PoliticalViolence #santarsiero #SenSteveSantarsiero #shapiro #SocialMedium #threat
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The stars of the conservative media movement have been duking it out
– in extremely personal terms
– over Donald Trump’s decision to enter the United States into a conflict with Iran.While it can be hard to cleanly group the warring factions,
much of the fighting has centered on disagreements about whether the US is too deferential to Israeli interests.Those arguing that position most prominently include former Fox News hosts Tucker #Carlson and Megyn #Kelly,
while conservative media personalities like Mark #Levin (a current Fox News host) and Ben #Shapiro have strongly supported both the American intervention in Iran and collaboration with Israel.
“There are the classic neocons,
there is the populist right,
and there are the anti-anti neocons,” said Curt Mills, executive director of the American Conservative magazine.On Tuesday, Shapiro defended Levin, called Kelly an “unbelievable coward” and accused her of eliding her criticism of President Trump. “You don’t like President Trump? You don’t like what he’s saying? Just say his name, you coward,” Shapiro said. “You unbelievable coward. Tucker and Megyn both – unbelievable cowardice.”
The tension between Carlson and Levin traces back to at least June 2025,
when Carlson accused Levin of
“lobbying for war with Iran” during a private lunch with Trump at the White House.Levin called Carlson a “maggot”,
and Carlson referred to Levin as a “warmonger”.He used the same label for another former Fox News colleague,
Sean Hannity.(This week, Kelly called her former colleague Hannity “a supplicant to Donald Trump”
and said
“he would never say anything other than to puff Donald Trump up”.)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/06/conservative-media-open-warfare-over-iran?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Die eskalierende #Rechtsmimesis in den #USA betrifft auch immer stärker jüdische Stimmen wie die #AdL & selbst Konservative wie #Shapiro. Auch etwa #NickFuentes & #TuckerCarlson befeuern immer stärker #Antisemitismus gegen #Israel.
Wer behauptet hat, #Trump & #MAGA seien „stabil“ gegen antisemitische #Verschwörungsmythen hat die Gefahren des #Rechtsdualismus , des fossilen #Faschismus verdrängt & verleugnet. https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2025-12/usa-konservative-richtungsstreit-trump-nachfolge
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J.D. Vance spoke Sunday at Turning Point USA’s annual #AmericaFest conference,
where Erika #Kirk, widow of the group’s slain founder, endorsed Vance for president in 2028.👉Vance demonized “the left,”
👉promoted Christian nationalism and right-wing populist conspiracy theories,
and, unlike other speakers,
👉refused to criticize far-right and antisemitic elements of the conservative movement like fascist personality Nick Fuentes.Other conference speakers were willing to challenge the movement’s bigots and extremists.
Podcaster Ben #Shapiro took on Tucker #Carlson for having provided Nick #Fuentes with an overly friendly platform from which to spread his poison.
(Carlson, also invited to speak, mocked Shapiro’s concerns.)
Former presidential candidate Vivek #Ramaswamy challenged Fuentes's bigotry along with racially coded ideas like “Heritage Americans” that have taken root in the MAGA movement.But Vance, who has his eye on 2028, was apparently not willing to risk alienating anyone on the right,
-- demonstrating the concept of #NETTR
—“no enemies to the right”
—that has been at the center of the ongoing turmoil over Heritage Foundation President
Kevin #Roberts defense of Carlson’s promotion of Fuentes.“President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless self-defeating purity tests,” Vance said from the stage
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'Chatham House Rule'
Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
#Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.#Andreessen lurks.
But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
sparring with conservatives.(“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)
The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.Both of those are now fading
(though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
“a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.“It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”
And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.
You can see it on X,
where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.“Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
said #Rufo.
“There’s a big split on the tech right.”The polarity of social media has also reversed,
and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
“now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
“This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
he wrote, shorthanding
“Trump Derangement Syndrome.”Then he addressed Torenberg:
“You should create a new one with just smart people.”Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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'Chatham House Rule'
Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
#Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.#Andreessen lurks.
But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
sparring with conservatives.(“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)
The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.Both of those are now fading
(though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
“a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.“It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”
And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.
You can see it on X,
where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.“Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
said #Rufo.
“There’s a big split on the tech right.”The polarity of social media has also reversed,
and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
“now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
“This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
he wrote, shorthanding
“Trump Derangement Syndrome.”Then he addressed Torenberg:
“You should create a new one with just smart people.”Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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'Chatham House Rule'
Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
#Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.#Andreessen lurks.
But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
sparring with conservatives.(“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)
The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.Both of those are now fading
(though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
“a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.“It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”
And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.
You can see it on X,
where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.“Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
said #Rufo.
“There’s a big split on the tech right.”The polarity of social media has also reversed,
and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
“now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
“This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
he wrote, shorthanding
“Trump Derangement Syndrome.”Then he addressed Torenberg:
“You should create a new one with just smart people.”Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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'Chatham House Rule'
Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
#Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.#Andreessen lurks.
But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
sparring with conservatives.(“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)
The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.Both of those are now fading
(though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
“a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.“It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”
And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.
You can see it on X,
where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.“Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
said #Rufo.
“There’s a big split on the tech right.”The polarity of social media has also reversed,
and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
“now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
“This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
he wrote, shorthanding
“Trump Derangement Syndrome.”Then he addressed Torenberg:
“You should create a new one with just smart people.”Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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'Chatham House Rule'
Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024,
naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that
trusted conversations require a degree of privacy.Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side,
but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist
#Larry #Summers and the historian #Niall #Ferguson,
and more partisan figures like #Shapiro and the Democratic analyst #David #Shor.#Andreessen lurks.
But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with #Cuban most often in the center,
sparring with conservatives.(“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)
The Group Chat Era depended on part of the American elite feeling shut out from public spaces,
and on the formation of a new conservative consensus.Both of those are now fading
(though Torenberg has invested in a company called #ChatBCC that wants to commercialize the heady experience of sitting in on texts among the power elite).Since Elon Musk turned X to the right
and an alternative media ecosystem emerged on Substack,
“a tremendous amount of the verboten conversations can now shift back into public view,” Andreessen told Fridman.“It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”
And Trump’s destabilizing “Liberation Day” has taken its toll on the coalition Andreessen helped shape.
You can see it on X,
where investors joke that they’ll put pronouns back in their bios in exchange for a return to the 2024 stock prices,
and where #Srinivasan has been a leading critic of Trump’s tariffs.“Group chats have changed on the economy in the last few weeks,”
said #Rufo.
“There’s a big split on the tech right.”The polarity of social media has also reversed,
and while participants used to keep their conservative ideas off social media,
“now the anti-Trump sentiment is what you’re afraid to say on X,” one said.By mid-April, #Sacks had had enough with Chatham House:
“This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS,”
he wrote, shorthanding
“Trump Derangement Syndrome.”Then he addressed Torenberg:
“You should create a new one with just smart people.”Signal soon showed that three men had left the group:
The Sequoia partner #Shaun #Maguire,
the bitcoin billionaire #Tyler #Winklevoss, and #Tucker #Carlson.https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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The US’s foreign broadcasters may soon be forced to become pro-Trump propaganda
If Trump’s first term is any indication, outlets such as Voice of America and Radio Free Europe will face political inquisitions
The agency which oversees them,
the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM),
has a budget of nearly $1bn
and reaches 420 million people weekly in over 100 countries
– numbers that make America’s biggest domestic radio and TV networks look like small fry.These outlets have long been a target for conservative critics who have felt that they are insufficiently patriotic or too kind to America’s adversaries.
But during his first term, Trump attempted to weaponize the networks in an unprecedented way,
turning them into propaganda outlets for his administration and its brand of far-right politics.And his recent nomination of former Arizona gubernatorial candidate #Kari #Lake to head Voice of America suggests he wants to do it again.
Trump’s attack on the public broadcasters began in his first term when he sent conservative journalist #Jeffrey #Scott #Shapiro to be a senior advisor to the Office of Cuba Broadcasting,
which oversees Radio y Televisión Martí.Shapiro accused the director of the office, the award-winning Puerto Rican journalist Maria Gonzalez, of being a Cuban spy
and forced a spurious security investigation to be initiated against her.When Gonzalez later resigned her post, Martí’s coverage began to reflect far-right themes,
including calling George Soros a “a non-believing Jew of flexible morals”
and decrying the “Islamization” of Europe.The same problems occurred on an even bigger scale when Trump appointed #Michael #Pack,
an ally of far-right figure Steve Bannon, as the head of the entirety of USAGM.Pack forced out or initiated spurious loyalty investigations against journalists and executives,
and he also sought to influence coverage in the newsroom in a pro-Trump direction.As a result, many journalists at Voice of America feared for their livelihoods and began to engage in self-censorship.
Like Shapiro, Pack also accused the journalists he oversaw of being spies,
and during his tenure he refused to renew the visas of foreign reporters working at Voice of America.Because many of these journalists had reported critically on their own countries’ regimes,
they faced persecution if forced to return home.But Pack shrugged off the idea that he had any responsibility for the safety of the brave journalists who made the existence of his agency possible.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/19/us-foreign-broadcasters-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Pennsylvania is at a crossroads: The resources that fueled Pennsylvania’s past growth are plateauing or petering out.
“Coal employment has gone off a cliff,” said Seth Blumsack, who runs the Center for Energy Law and Policy at Penn State.
“You had an influx of natural gas jobs
— that growth has largely leveled off, as Pennsylvania hit this kind of steady state of gas production.”This isn’t the first time Pennsylvania’s core economic drivers have waned.
Factories and steel mills took a beating in the 1970s and 1980s, as foreign producers competed in earnest with America’s industrial machine.
Plants that sustained whole towns closed down, with nothing to replace them.The ironworks Andrew Carnegie built in 1875 still operates on the bank of the Monongahela River, but owner U.S. Steel is desperately trying to unload it to Japan’s Nippon Steel.
These conditions have created new opportunities for the #clean #energy #transition to take hold.
Political leaders like Democratic Gov. #Josh #Shapiro and business owners are embracing low-carbon industry as an economic development strategy for the energy-rich state.
✅Shapiro has pushed to strengthen the state’s outdated #clean #energy standard for #power #production,
and he signed a bill this summer to establish ground rules for developing #carbon-#sequestration projects.💥His administration recently won $400 million in federal funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(“the second-largest federal grant in Pennsylvania’s history,” a spokesperson for the governor pointed out).Pennsylvania will disburse that money in competitive grants to industrial entities proportional to their ambitions at carbon reduction;
⚠️The Shapiro administration wants the ensuing projects to slash statewide industrial emissions 10 percent by 2050.
Given the state’s long history of oil and gas, #hydrogen production is sure to loom large.
In the lower-carbon future, clean hydrogen could become the next key energy commodity.
Last year, Biden’s Department of Energy awarded seven proposed hydrogen hubs around the country roughly $1 billion each.
Pennsylvania, as Shapiro regularly points out, was the only state to win funding for two:
🔸The Philadelphia-based hub is slated to produce hydrogen with nuclear power and renewables,
🔸while the Pittsburgh-based hub will focus on turning fossil gas into hydrogen and stowing the ensuing emissions underground. -
#press #news #israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #ceasefire #ceasefirenow #owens #propaganda #shapiro #usa #uk #misinformation #rap #journalism #music #video
"While some have argued that Candace Owens left The Daily Wire, evidence suggests she was forced out by Ben Shapiro who operates as part of Israel's mammoth propaganda machine. Rapper and journalist Lowkey dissects the web of misinformation Israel promotes with the help of its backers in the U.S. and United Kingdon"
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"The #grifters that make up the #troll-industrial complex are not okay.
"One can see the sheen of #desperation in the #world of self-identified #conservatives who make a living by "triggering" the #liberals. The usual dose of outrage bait isn't working as well any longer, so the #rightwingers are escalating the provocations. Tucker #Carlson, for example, gave a glow-up interview with manosphere "influencer" Andrew #Tate, who is being held in #Romania on charges of sex #trafficking and #rape. #DailyWire anti-trans provocateur Matt #Walsh is selling plushies of himself clad only in a diaper, which he encourages #people to give to #children. Daily Wire founder Ben #Shapiro, on the other hand, made a nearly hour-long video #tantrum about "#Barbie," complete with setting the dolls on fire. The clawing need to get attention from #progressives seems to be driving these engagement farmers a little nuts, as they up the weird-and-evil ante, hoping to get those precious clicks and plays.
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"The escalation of shock value tactics, on both the right and the pretending-not-to-be-right political classes, are likely rooted in the same cause: The slow motion collapse of #Twitter, now rebranded "#X," under the leadership of #Tesla CEO Elon #Musk. While these folks have various outlets, both in the #media and #socialmedia, ultimately their #business model of #trolling depends heavily on Twitter.
"Grifters need people to harass and a mainstream discourse to counter. As traffic takes a nosedive and Twitter becomes less a part of the conversation, it's going to be harder for these folks to make #money," Melissa #Ryan, a strategist who helps counter online #disinformation, told #Salon.
"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters #desperate"
The clawing need to get attention from progressives seems to be driving these engagement farmers a little nuts, as they up the weird-and-evil ante, hoping to get those precious clicks and plays.
"What Musk has proven through his actions and his statements is that he's committed to serving the trolls and the #fraudsters first and the ordinary good faith users second," explained Brian Hughes of American #University, who is the co-founder of the Polarization and #Extremism #Research and Innovation Lab (#PERIL). But, he noted, Musk is "blinded by his own #ideology" and can't see how this is backfiring. "As normal people, for lack of a better term, continue to leave Twitter, that's actually going to cause probably a reduction in the use of the platform by these trolls and these fraudsters. They don't have their audience of targets that they need," he continued.
https://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/bhughes.cfm
HAHAHAHAHAHA die mad about it, trolls. Full offense."
