Elektrine lite

← Feed

Dave Troy :toad:

davetroy@toad.social

<p>Publisher and Editor, America 2.0. Entrepreneur, investor, tech pioneer. Columnist, Washington Spectator. Speaker. Cook. Pilot.</p><p>Host of <a href="https://toad.social" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">toad.social</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> — a trusted source of news, analysis, and thoughtful discussion, and a part of the federated social universe.</p><p>📍Baltimore/Washington/Europe</p>

Posts

  • View post

    🛑 NEW: THE SILENCE OF THE TROLLS was a great story. It just isn&#39;t supported by any real data — just a handful of misleading charts. Researchers tracking actual troll networks saw no drop. Why did so many want to believe it anyway? We dug in... https://america2.news/motivated-reasoning-and-confirmation-bias-drive-viral-claims-of-russian-bot-declines/

  • View post

    We have a real problem brewing with the &quot;Board of Peace&quot; and it needs much more attention. 1) There is no legal entity for &quot;Board of Peace&quot; organized under the laws of any country, meaning it is subject to NO country&#39;s laws. 2) Trump is acting like the US is party to it as a treaty organization, but only Congress has the power to approve that.

  • View post

    🇷🇺 EXCLUSIVE: Every week, Russia&#39;s Security Council reports what the Kremlin thinks. And they&#39;re not just fighting for territory in Ukraine — they are fighting to remake the world order by fighting to win over hearts and minds globally. https://america2.news/what-russia-believes-weekly-reports-reveal-the-kremlins-distorted-worldview/

  • View post

    📻 NEW: A divided, atomized society is a soft target for information warfare. Historian Scott Reich joins me to make the case why national service could be how we rebuild trust and repair our frayed democracy. https://america2.news/podcast-the-case-for-national-service-with-scott-reich/

  • View post

    📄 EXCLUSIVE: With the White House set to launch a new website about &amp;quot;aliens,&amp;quot; we dug into the backstory — with new, original reporting on the networks and motives behind the effort. https://america2.news/trump-administration-set-to-launch-new-ufo-information-offensive/

  • View post

    1/There is nothing more embarrassing than watching hordes of liberals willingly herd themselves into a pen funded by Russian capital. Blue sky’s principal funder Blockchain Capital LLC is run in part by Kirill Dorofeev, who also works for VK, Russia’s state social network.

  • View post

    As everyone is now in a sufficient state of shock, what we are seeing now is the rollout of the plan for fast and total capture and destruction of the United States, as outlined in &amp;quot;Project Russia.&amp;quot; See paper below. Other democracies are next. https://web.archive.org/web/20190428031337id_/https://muse.jhu.edu/article/690692/pdf

  • View post

    X Corp&amp;#39;s new CFO, Mahmoud Reza Banki, received pardon from Donald Trump along with Steve Bannon and others on January 20, 2021. https://archive.ph/SAKgQ

  • View post

    📄 NEW: A dispatch from the not too distant future warns that our crisis is more metaphysical than political, and urges us to use our collective imaginations to defeat autocracy. My latest. https://america2.news/a-letter-from-the-future-your-crisis-is-metaphysical/

  • View post

    @huntingdon no evidence of that right now. Right now the USPTO is the &#39;owner&#39; and Trump can&#39;t use it as a cutout, besides through executive control.

  • View post

    🚨SCOOP: Trump&amp;#39;s Board of Peace trademarks are being held by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an apparently unprecedented use of executive branch power to protect the interests of a murkily defined supranational organization. https://america2.news/board-of-peace-trademark-filings-reveal-its-murky-legal-status/

  • View post

    Are we witnessing the final unraveling of Donald Trump and the fragile coalition that brought him to power? His choice to pursue war in Iran has all but sealed his fate. My latest. https://america2.news/the-unraveling-of-donald-trump/

  • View post

    Been hard at work on tools that can be helpful for journalism and research. If you use Signal on a Mac desktop, check out SignalRAG, a new library for full text searching Signal messages w/RAG support + integrated into Claude Code. https://github.com/davetroy/signalrag/

  • View post

    Just memorializing the fact that this was all visible over a year ago. This assessment was developed between mid-2020 and early 2021, in fact, and it was obvious Kanye was part of their network too. Now what I’m telling you is the debt ceiling is a huge timebomb that Putin is hoping will spoil aid to Ukraine and help him usher in a asset-based BRICS bank to oppose the “golden billion.”