Susan Silvy

I am an artist and teacher of Zentangle, metal clay and lampwork beads. By day I'm in the studio, by night tangling away in my recliner. Life's good!

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

Oh.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This woman has a warning for the white male patriarchy. 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯👇

[Tim O'Brien @TimOBrien]

“Kamala Harris will protect your right to disagree with her.”

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

You’ve heard Trump say these things before. But not like this.

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

Is the average US citizen actually this dumb? God help us

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

I just approved an emergency declaration from the State of Florida and ordered federal assistance to supplement response efforts that may arise due to emergency conditions resulting from Hurricane Milton.

We expect this storm to again make landfall in western Florida and are working quickly to preposition federal response personnel and assets.

[James Singer @Jemsinger]

Illegal crossings at U.S. southern border reach lowest point in over 3.5 years
https://t.co/2ji6GUMBNR

[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

TE1. Literally.

Congrats @TKelce!

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

NEW: Russia is now throwing all of its disinformation resources behind operations designed to undermine the Harris-Walz campaign, according to a Microsoft report released Tuesday.

https://t.co/CGTon4bGUK

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Some misinformation in today's US presidential debate about who bears the cost of tariffs. So let's talk about how tariffs affect what you pay for a suit. 🧵

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

🚨🚨NEW

ABC News obtained audio of Donald Trump praising Tim Walz's handling of the George Floyd protests in Minnesota: “Very happy” “I fully agree with the way he handled it... [Walz is an] excellent guy”

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

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[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: After initially refusing to show their latest polling, Fox is admitting President Biden is winning. Fox admits the main reason is that President Biden has successfully reduced the price of gas and groceries. Retweet so all Americans see this.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Let’s talk influence campaigns.

You should read this no matter what side of the aisle you’re on.

I think people are still misunderstanding the concept of influence campaigns, particularly when it comes to Russia.

Let’s look at an example from ten years ago that I think didn’t get near enough attention.

In September of 2014, Russian trolls from the Internet Research Agency (IRA), started a Facebook group called “The Heart of Texas”

This group promulgated all kinds of bullshit, including secession/TEXIT, Dems are coming for your guns, etc.

They also created “The United Muslims of America”

This group also promoted of crazy rhetoric, including sharia law in America (which has always been a weird political hot-button issue for the right even though it’s literally not a thing).

In 2016–after growing in popularity, partially due to a massive Russian botnet—these groups orchestrated competing rallies and counter-rallies across the street from one another in Houston.

They were trying to stoke the flames of cultural violence, and it almost worked.

These groups accumulated millions of likes, hundreds of thousands of comments, and influenced thousands of people from a building in Moscow.

None of this was organic, and it almost completely devolved into violence anyway.

This is only one example. This same story has played out over multiple states, and multiple flashpoints.

These efforts have accelerated since 2016, and Russia (and to be fair, China, Iran, etc.) has only gotten better at obfuscation.

If you see something online that feels like it’s meant to piss you off, that’s probably because it’s meant to piss you off.

While they may have a political preference, the overarching goal of most foreign intelligence agencies is to sow division in the United States.

If Russia can make us doubt the process, question the facts, or lose faith in our system(s), it doesn’t matter *who* wins, because they’ve stacked the deck so *they* (Russia) won’t lose.

It would be great if Americans could stop helping them with these goals, wittingly or unwittingly.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

This👇👇

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

At the end of Robert De Niro's remarks outside the courthouse, a Trump supporter called Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone, who were beside De Niro, "traitors."

De Niro shot back: "They stood there. They didn’t have to. They stood there and fought for us. They fought for you, buddy. You’re able to stand right here."

"They are the true heroes. I’m honored to be with these two heroes today."

[Tom Arnold @TomArnold]

Happy Memorial Day #NeverForget✡️🇺🇸

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

This is so worth 5 minutes of your time. Tears. Thanks, to @TomArnold and to all the crabby grandpas.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

(THREAD) If you want everyone to understand the stunts Trump and his lawyers pulled today in cross-examining longtime Trump fixer Michael Cohen, please RETWEET this thread.

I’m a NYT-bestselling Trump biographer and former criminal defense lawyer, and I’ll explain what happened.