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Trolls, Bots, Fake News, Real Russians … and Hackers

Posted in 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Russia, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Yes, I borrowed part of that header from a chapter in Hillary Clinton’s book. Interesting not simply for their historical perspective, a couple of articles that popped up today present cautionary tales. The first, a report from Time on how Russian hackers attacked Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, provides not only a blueprint of how […]

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From the New York Times: The Plot to Subvert an Election

Posted in 2016 Election, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 21, 2018| Leave a Comment »

The Plot to Subvert an Election, from New York Times reporters Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti, does not contain everything we know about the Russian incursion into our culture and our 2016 election.  This compilation is, however, comprehensive enough to provide a good, quick survey course on the subject. Because, as Rachel Maddow pointed out […]

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Hillary Clinton: “We have to get back to regular order.”

Posted in Appearances, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, SCOTUS, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 19, 2018| 8 Comments »

In one of his final appearances on the Senate floor, Senator John McCain urged his colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get back to regular order. Hillary Clinton echoed that imperative on The Rachel Maddow Show last night. Appearing on the anniversary of the release of her book, What Happened, and upon the […]

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The Power of “We”

Posted in 2016 Election, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Russia, trolls, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on February 17, 2018| 5 Comments »

The news, yesterday, of Mueller’s  indictment of 13 Russian nationals who impersonated Americans on social media for the purpose of influencing the 2016 presidential election should serve as a reminder and a warning.  ABC News reports that Rod Rosentein remarked “This indictment serves as a reminder that people are not always who they appear to […]

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ICYMI: Hillary Clinton Reading from “Fire and Fury” at the Grammys

Posted in Appearances, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on January 29, 2018| 6 Comments »

When a dream comes true, even if only for a moment…   Hillary Clinton trolls Trump in a surprise appearance at the 2018 Grammys By Chloe Melas, Brian Stelter Updated 11:55 PM ET, Sun January 28, 2018 (CNN)Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance on Sunday night in a Grammy Awards comedy bit that took a […]

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Hillary Clinton with Mary Beard

Posted in Book Tour, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Uncategorized, What Happened, tagged , , , , , , on December 2, 2017| 4 Comments »

theguardian.com Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard: ‘I would love to have told Trump: “Back off, you creep”’ | Life and style Decca Aitkenhead 16-21 minutes Hillary Clinton is sequestered in a hotel room, giving a big television interview, when Mary Beard arrives at Claridge’s. While she waits outside on the sofa, though, it quickly becomes […]

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Trolling Joe Biden from the Blue Danube

Posted in 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on November 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Interesting, disconcerting, upsetting, disappointing, and depressing to see some longtime Democratic veterans engaging negatively in an unsourced (as is the practice) post by a pro-Hillary eastern European troll discrediting Joe Biden. This is but one of the dangers of trolls writ large, broad, and general. Not just anti-Hillary trolls. Pro-Hillary trolls, too. Trolls target emotions […]

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Become a Founding Member of Onward Together!

Posted in Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Onward Together, Uncategorized, tagged , , on October 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Friends — I could not be prouder of the groups we work with here at Onward Together. The leaders who are part of these groups are incredibly smart and passionate. They’ve taken the anger and frustration many of us have been feeling for the last year and turned it into action — like thousands of […]

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Update on the Steele Memos and Other Thoughts

Posted in 2016 Election, 2017, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Russia, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on October 8, 2017| 3 Comments »

The Christopher Steele memos are not going away. theguardian.com The Trump-Russia dossier: why its findings grow more significant by the day | US news Julian Borger 11-14 minutes Nine months after its first appearance, the set of intelligence reports known as the Steele dossier, one of the most explosive documents in modern political history, is […]

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Location, Location, Location

Posted in 2016 Election, terrorism, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 21, 2017| 1 Comment »

This from Daily Beast is interesting. thedailybeast.com Hundreds of Islamic State Supporters Could Be Giving Away Their Location on Instagram Joseph Cox09.21.17 12:00 PM ET 6-8 minutes It was just last week when congressional investigators said they favored more transparency to the general public about exactly which Facebook posts a Kremlin-backed troll farm used to […]

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