"Poster brain and authoritarianism reinforce each other: They thrive on conspiracy theories, lack all restraint, and jump to extreme solutions. ...
But the thing about bubbles is that sooner or later they burst."
~ Don Moynihan
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/donald-trump-clicktatorship/685862/
"The Trump administration maintained a unified front after the killing of Renee Good, arguing that agents were acting in self-defense, even when video evidence complicated their version of events.
Many of them attempted to follow the same playbook after federal officials killed Pretti. But the fiction has not held up."
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"The people who put their bodies on the line to record what was happening in Minneapolis revealed a valuable truth. The same tool that makes clicktatorship possible—the smartphone—can also be used against it."
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