Alexander B. Howard

“A steady longwave of open government advocacy, transparency demands, & tech analysis. Substantive, consistent, & focused on the public’s right to know.”— @Grok

[Patrick Tucker @DefTechPat]

X today is the no. 1 source for Russian disinformation laundered through bot accounts w US flags in their profile pics.

Reporters are still the no. 1 source for news.

Journalism has always been on life support.

https://t.co/Awin1azAZp

[Tom Malinowski @Malinowski]

This is a great example of an effective action on Russia/Ukraine members of Congress can take, instead of just complaining about something Trump has done. Kudos!

Those enabling the administration's unlawful acts should generally be on notice about the risks they are taking.

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

@grok @AngryFleas @JayTC53 @CommunityNotes Have any of your fact-checks or notes led to Musk no longer repeating false claims yet?
Is there any evidence it alters the behavior of paidcheck @PremiumBusiness accounts farming engagement with false or misleading claims or governments?
Are notes tied to demonetization yet?

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

@iisaacson82 @JayTC53 @holocaust Nope: I’m spreading history.

I’ve been to museums, studied the books, attend the classes, & cited original evidence.

Go to the @HolocaustMuseum & then come back to retract your claim.

Dig yourself out of their propaganda.

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

I went the @HolocaustMuseum in DC.
I’d never been, & this
#HolocaustMemorialDay was time.
I recommend it to my fellow Americans, but not our children.
One cannot unsee the horrors inside, nor knowledge of the evil humans can do.
https://t.co/OSsl4X6rMC

#HolocaustRemembranceDay

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

@AngryFleas @JayTC53 You can try, but offline reality is stubborn.

When you add @grok & @communitynotes, that can get complicated.

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

@AngryFleas @JayTC53 We have always had one. Remember the know nothings?

Where could the lie possibly be coming from?

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

@iisaacson82 @JayTC53 Nope. You’re literally regurgitating Nazi propaganda. Come visit the @Holocaust museum in Washingtonand enlighten yourself.

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

@ScottJenningsKY Not at all: Trump & Congressional Republicans claimed they’d “repeal & replace” the ACA, but instead settled for trying to sabotage the law & making health care & food stamps harder for the poorest Americans to access, while reducing taxes for corporations & elites — like you.

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

One reason Republicans are "silent" on healthcare, @Axios: https://t.co/tcYqK2fplv is because the ACA is the conservative vision for healthcare, conceived in @Heritage & implemented by @SenRomney in MA. Liberals wanted a public option.
Progressives now support "Medicare-for-all."

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

Government subsidies for private healthcare insurance sold through marketplaces is a conservative plan for healthcare, modeled on what worked in Massachusetts.
Liberals support adding a public option to Medicare.
Social Democrats & Greens support a system like Canada or UK’s NHS.

[Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) @BrendanNyhan]

Authoritarian leaders frequently struggle because they reject accurate information or it doesn't reach them

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

@MAFAT3k @JayTC53 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to confidently tweet out falsehoods as fact, & confirm it.

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

@JayTC53 Nope. Toss whatever books or sources misled you & stop trusting whoever claimed this to you.

Visit @HolocaustMuseum in DC & learn history.

Stop publicly accusing people of lying who aren’t paid to deceive because you don’t like the facts they use to rebut your false claims.

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

The extent to which Trump regime officials behaved badly in 2025 when they imagined permanent majorities & pardons for corruption is not widely appreciated by all Americans.

House investigations of corruption will inform folks who tuned out, & inevitably lead to Trump, & Musk.

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

After an illegal war & Trump’s brazen self-enrichment, more Americans now understand why re-electing the most corrupt President in history has led to abuses of entrusted power without parallel in our history. But the worst is yet to come, as we learn more.
https://t.co/DicODRzuNO

[WIRED @WIRED]

Two US senators say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program. https://t.co/Nc4TBrnij6

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

@GadSaad @realDonaldTrump The amended indictment is online: https://t.co/dIbofS4SLE A public trial would have helped more Americans to be know these facts, inoculating us against denialism like yours & Musk.

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

@GadSaad @realDonaldTrump He literally attempted an autocoup & then conspired to defraud the United States, inciting an insurrection with lies, seeking to prevent the peaceful transition of power for the first time in our history.

I bore witness. It was one of the worst things to happen in my lifetime.

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

@GadSaad Gross denialism. He never conceded & left in disgrace in 2021, after his autocoup failed.

He conspired to defraud the USA & invited his partisans to DC on 1/6, where he incited an insurrection to prevent the peaceful transition of power for the first time in American history.

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

@elonmusk Delusional. Trump literally attempted an autocoup & then conspired to defraud the United States, inciting an insurrection with lies, seeking to prevent the peaceful transition of power for the first time in our history.

It was one of the worst things to ever happen in our union.