basedhomo

Don’t have all the answers, but unafraid to ask questions

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

@Wario64 Contract rush was my favorite indie of 2025. Depressingly overlooked gem, very thankful that you featured it!

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

I know many Philadelphia gays. I believe it is now your existential responsibility to campaign against Moor over the next two years. Sadly, it seems the self-preservation instinct has gone the way of the gag reflex in urban gay men, but I’m open to being surprised by my community between now and 2028.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

@AhmedMoor Even Abdul El-Sayed denied connections to the Muslim Brotherhood despite all the evidence. At least you don’t practice taqiyya and are open about your support for Islamic terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. I’ll give you that.

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

@AhmedMoor Philadelphia has one of the nation’s largest gay populations. Please describe how, if elected, you plan to represent the interest of LGB Philadelphians. I’ll wait.

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

@DanBurmawy You’re a hero Dan. Thank you for answering the call

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

@iam8bit I’ve been reaching out regularly for WEEKS about my messed up Lies of P order, hoping for a resolution. No response at all, it’s been massively frustrating. Can a human from @iam8bit please respond? 🤞 thanks.

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

@ldrumm @TheMagaHulk Yep but not just conservatives — anyone who considers themselves a decent, moral person should no longer be able to use those adjectives if they support Chappelle after this disgrace.

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

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[TBC @TBC_on_X]

Dunder Mifflin preps for the Blue Tsunami 🌊

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

It’s so disappointing that @timcast appears on this list. But he deserves it. His transformation to hyperbolic tabloid-style YT videos was a blatant downgrade. Specifically, his amplification of Tucker’s “nuclear war” fear-mongering psyop the day before the election was f*cking dangerous. Thought he cared about America but it seems he’s genuinely become that which so many have accused him of for years: a grifter.

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

@realBenDykes @WassonWatch @Timcast As a former fan of @Timcast I agree he belongs on this list. He is tabloid / temu Tucker Carlson these days

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

@RepLauraGillen Please describe, Madame Congresswoman, how exactly your TPS extension bill helps solve the #1 issue Americans care about according to 2026 exit polling: everyday cost of living.

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

Proud of you for making this decision, as I’m sure it wasn’t an easy one for someone as dedicated to the work as you to make.

We lose ourselves when we sideline everything for everyone else. That only ends up diminishing the quality of our work in the long run. I bet you’ll come back reenergized and ready to continue your tireless fight for America.

Enjoy every moment of your wedding journey. It all goes by so quickly. Be present and have a great time 💐

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

This + unimaginable inaction by the GOP since 2024 = the 2026 midterms

[Ashley Rindsberg @AshleyRindsberg]

Everyone wants to weigh in with their Most Astute Take™ on the midterms.

But no one wants to even factor in the glaringly obvious: the US has been under the most sustained information attack by foreign states in decades, if not generations.

Foreign adversaries have learned to weaponize the very protections and safeguards – First Amendment, Section 230, privacy laws – that make discourse online possible. They use our shield as their weapon.

These actors have learned that they don't need to "hack Facebook" — as the press claimed Russia did in 2016. (In fact, that had no measurable impact.) They found that they don't need to infiltrate voting systems.

Instead, they have learned to focus on seeding poisonous narratives into virtually every open information system online. It's not only effective, but it's remarkably efficient.

The influence happens in various ways:

1. Bot manipulation – Accounts/shows that see enormous engagement surges on particular issues are motivated to double down on the messaging that the bot swarms respond to.

2. Direct incentives – Money and influence. This comes in the form of corporate financing, advertising deals materially larger than their market value. (Did Hasan Piker go to China just for kicks?)

3. Information poisoning – Bringing fringe narratives into the mainstream by seeding them into open, trusted platforms (e.g. Wikipedia).

4. Discourse radicalization – Actors tied to foreign adversarial states pull the discourse further to the fringe. There is no accountability mechanism, so these actors are free to not just say, but endlessly repeat, the most extreme, toxic, and false claims.

5. Network building – As one example: the Singham Network can build, fund, and run ideological networks with alarming success rates.

These are broad categories; they break down into thousands of smaller tactics.

Further, they innovate. Foreign adversaries have an ability to test and experiment, since state budgets are virtually unlimited relative to the cost.

Even more damagingly, there is almost no mainstream journalistic reporting on, or investigation into, malign influence by foreign actors in information spaces.

Can we name a single public investigation into information operations by US adversaries like China in recent months?

(It's as if, after a decade of "Russia, Russia, Russia," the press simply forgot this is a thing.)

Even in the rare cases where we catch and expose these activities, there is almost never consequences:

Example 1 - Recall the right-wing influencer taking $10m per year from the Russian government, whose posts seemed design to sowed division? Far from consequences, this individual was entirely let off the hook and even invited back into the country.

Example 2 – Al Jazeera's digital network, AJ+, was ordered by DOJ to register as a foreign agent – and simply ignored the order. Were they shut down? Did their operation even slow down?

Example 3 – Chinese operatives work in plain site on social platforms, disclosing their affiliations while dragging the discourse into the anti-American fringe.

Example 4 – The CCP-linked Singham Network, which funds groups like Code Pink, was exposed in recent months and still functions seamlessly.

Example 5 – Influencers and podcasters traveled to Cuba, apparently coordinating with the Cuban government, and are caught doing so. Have any one of them ceased or even decreased their activities?

WHAT REALLY MATTERS
This is the core imbalance: autocratic states running these operations have no – literally zero – checks on their capabilities:

+ They face no domestic journalistic investigation.
+ There is no Oversight Committee demanding answers.
+ There is no FOIA process to produce information.
+ There is no consequence in rare cases of exposure.

Total freedom to maneuver on the information battlefield.

We think, naively, that because these platforms are owned by US companies and regulated by American bodies that they are "ours."

Nothing could be further from the truth.

[Ashley Rindsberg @AshleyRindsberg]

Everyone wants to weigh in with their Most Astute Take™ on the midterms.

But no one wants to even factor in the glaringly obvious: the US has been under the most sustained information attack by foreign states in decades, if not generations.

Foreign adversaries have learned to weaponize the very protections and safeguards – First Amendment, Section 230, privacy laws – that make discourse online possible. They use our shield as their weapon.

These actors have learned that they don't need to "hack Facebook" — as the press claimed Russia did in 2016. (In fact, that had no measurable impact.) They found that they don't need to infiltrate voting systems.

Instead, they have learned to focus on seeding poisonous narratives into virtually every open information system online. It's not only effective, but it's remarkably efficient.

The influence happens in various ways:

1. Bot manipulation – Accounts/shows that see enormous engagement surges on particular issues are motivated to double down on the messaging that the bot swarms respond to.

2. Direct incentives – Money and influence. This comes in the form of corporate financing, advertising deals materially larger than their market value. (Did Hasan Piker go to China just for kicks?)

3. Information poisoning – Bringing fringe narratives into the mainstream by seeding them into open, trusted platforms (e.g. Wikipedia).

4. Discourse radicalization – Actors tied to foreign adversarial states pull the discourse further to the fringe. There is no accountability mechanism, so these actors are free to not just say, but endlessly repeat, the most extreme, toxic, and false claims.

5. Network building – As one example: the Singham Network can build, fund, and run ideological networks with alarming success rates.

These are broad categories; they break down into thousands of smaller tactics.

Further, they innovate. Foreign adversaries have an ability to test and experiment, since state budgets are virtually unlimited relative to the cost.

Even more damagingly, there is almost no mainstream journalistic reporting on, or investigation into, malign influence by foreign actors in information spaces.

Can we name a single public investigation into information operations by US adversaries like China in recent months?

(It's as if, after a decade of "Russia, Russia, Russia," the press simply forgot this is a thing.)

Even in the rare cases where we catch and expose these activities, there is almost never consequences:

Example 1 - Recall the right-wing influencer taking $10m per year from the Russian government, whose posts seemed design to sowed division? Far from consequences, this individual was entirely let off the hook and even invited back into the country.

Example 2 – Al Jazeera's digital network, AJ+, was ordered by DOJ to register as a foreign agent – and simply ignored the order. Were they shut down? Did their operation even slow down?

Example 3 – Chinese operatives work in plain site on social platforms, disclosing their affiliations while dragging the discourse into the anti-American fringe.

Example 4 – The CCP-linked Singham Network, which funds groups like Code Pink, was exposed in recent months and still functions seamlessly.

Example 5 – Influencers and podcasters traveled to Cuba, apparently coordinating with the Cuban government, and are caught doing so. Have any one of them ceased or even decreased their activities?

WHAT REALLY MATTERS
This is the core imbalance: autocratic states running these operations have no – literally zero – checks on their capabilities:

+ They face no domestic journalistic investigation.
+ There is no Oversight Committee demanding answers.
+ There is no FOIA process to produce information.
+ There is no consequence in rare cases of exposure.

Total freedom to maneuver on the information battlefield.

We think, naively, that because these platforms are owned by US companies and regulated by American bodies that they are "ours."

Nothing could be further from the truth.

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

This, dear devs, has earned a follow.

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[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

@PMStudiosUSA @XENOTILT Yes! Was so worried LRG abandoned this, ecstatic to see its indeed coming

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

@PokemonRestocks Ha! I see why it was so easy: this was above market. Ugh.

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

@PokemonRestocks Wow got one finally. Thank you!

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

@LeaderJohnThune @MattWhitlock Hope the CCP paid handsomely for your tireless work on destroying America from within over the past two years. But will you be able to sleep at night with the never-ending calls to prayer echoing throughout American neighborhoods and your conscience weighing so heavy?

[basedhomo @JonathanHigbee]

I’m convinced @LeaderJohnThune is a CCP agent, with his entire mission wrapping up successfully tonight with the midterms results. No other explanation for the historic congressional inaction of the past two years on the heels of a decisive mandate and control of the three branches.