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Unmasking how politics & markets blur reality: propaganda tactics, vilification, fallacy ops | Open-source investigative analyst | Critical Thinking adjunct.
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It’s not dopamine. It’s cortisol.
It is infinitely easier to induce a mass fight-or-flight hysteria and raw threat response than it is to build nuanced, reasoned understanding. Chronic outrage floods the nervous system with stress hormones, locking people into perpetual defense mode where hate feels like survival.
Because posts like Oman, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the UAE all publish from the same centralized diplomatic communications database, the RSS/STEP system pushes out notifications nearly simultaneously. To automated alert aggregators monitoring these feeds, this appears as a "sudden 9-country wave," even though it is generated by a single baseline regional advisory update pushed through multiple embassy portals
Because posts like Oman, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the UAE all publish from the same centralized diplomatic communications database, the RSS/STEP system pushes out notifications nearly simultaneously. To automated alert aggregators monitoring these feeds, this appears as a "sudden 9-country wave," even though it is generated by a single baseline regional advisory update pushed through multiple embassy portals
⚠️ Several US Embassies in the Middle East have issued security alerts and warned that US interests may be targeted by Iran and its terror partners.
@StateDept: “Due to tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation.
Americans currently in the Middle East should exercise heightened vigilance and be aware of potential flight cancellations, airspace closures, and travel disruptions.”
“U.S. diplomatic facilities, including outside the Middle East, have been targeted. Iran and groups supportive of Iran may target other U.S. interests overseas or at locations associated with the United States and Americans throughout the world, including U.S. businesses and other institutions.”
Because posts like Oman, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the UAE all publish from the same centralized diplomatic communications database, the RSS/STEP system pushes out notifications nearly simultaneously. To automated alert aggregators monitoring these feeds, this appears as a "sudden 9-country wave," even though it is generated by a single baseline regional advisory update pushed through multiple embassy portals
"...the potential for unexpected/unforeseen escalation" and warning citizens to prepare for "airspace closures and flight cancellations"—is the exact boilerplate wording the State Department utilizes for regional security alerts across the Middle East.
Alan Mandel retweeted
The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem has just issued a notice to U.S. citizens in Israel:
There is a possibility of unexpected escalation—U.S. citizens in the Middle East should prepare for airspace closures and flight cancellations.
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How can two institutions (a public-interest litigation firm like LDF, and the U.S. Attorney's Office) look at the exact same geographic voting district and define the "primary threat to democracy" in completely opposite ways?
🚨 JUST IN: California election fraudster Brenda Armstrong just AVOIDED PRISON TIME after being exposed by James O'Keefe for collecting fraudulent signatures from Skid Row homeless people in exchange for money
Sentenced to 18 months probation and community service. For trying to rig our elections. She took a plea deal and cooperated to lower her sentence, which could've been YEARS in prison
She even used FAKE ADDRESSES when registering people to vote, which could be used to mail them ballots 🤯
Keep exposing the cheating, @JamesOKeefeIII!
Alan Mandel retweeted
🚨 JUST IN: California election fraudster Brenda Armstrong just AVOIDED PRISON TIME after being exposed by James O'Keefe for collecting fraudulent signatures from Skid Row homeless people in exchange for money
Sentenced to 18 months probation and community service. For trying to rig our elections. She took a plea deal and cooperated to lower her sentence, which could've been YEARS in prison
She even used FAKE ADDRESSES when registering people to vote, which could be used to mail them ballots 🤯
Keep exposing the cheating, @JamesOKeefeIII!
How can two institutions (a public-interest litigation firm like LDF, and the U.S. Attorney's Office) look at the exact same geographic voting district and define the "primary threat to democracy" in completely opposite ways?
Why do federal voting rights organizations focus on statutory ballot access while federal prosecutors handle individual petition fraud? What does this tell us about institutional specialization?
Free enterprise. You do not have to order it for insider trading. It delivers posts from the platform’s 10 most influential accounts (Trump’s is by far the biggest) in near real-time / low latency (milliseconds), faster and more machine-readable than normal app notifications or manual scrolling.
Would you believe it? Trump has found another way to profit from the presidency.
His new “Truth API” reportedly charges Wall Street firms up to $100,000/month for faster access to his Truth Social posts.
Turning presidential power into a payday is corruption. Plain and simple.
Alan Mandel retweeted
Would you believe it? Trump has found another way to profit from the presidency.
His new “Truth API” reportedly charges Wall Street firms up to $100,000/month for faster access to his Truth Social posts.
Turning presidential power into a payday is corruption. Plain and simple.
Alan Mandel retweeted
BREAKING: Donald Trump Jr's investment firm has posted a return of 200%, per NYT
UK says to "defend itself".
The truth is they are assisting the Americans.
They would be called "puppets of Trump" with massive protests if they said "helping the Americans." So complete is the brainwashing.
🚨 JUST IN: The IRGC is furious, now THREATENING the UK for allowing President Trump to launch a B-1 Lancer heavy bomber from a British air base to decimate Iranian targets
That's what an ALLY should do, let us use their territory to destroy our enemies! 🇺🇸🇬🇧
UK: "The UK stands ready 24/7 to defend itself."
As a CUNY professor teaching communications, rhetoric & public address, I recognize classic propaganda techniques reminiscent of Goebbels-era methods: the Big Lie, selective framing, and scapegoating
Rhetoric like this doesn’t inform—it mobilizes through division.
Critical thinkers reject recycled agitprop. Emotional polarization—pitting “the people” against a caricatured elite enemy, a staple of authoritarian propaganda.
