A Spotlight on Rumors
Handmade transcript of a 2025 faculty award lecture by Kate Starbird at the University of Washington, laying out a decade-plus of disinformation research findings
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Propaganda & Disinformation
When Do Villains Become Heroes?
“Reverse moral exceptionalism” is a nationalistic tendency to insist on oneself as central to every event of significance on the world stage and thus positions the United States as a singular source of evil in the world. This rhetoric sets the groundwork for an anticolonial discourse that paradoxically justifies oppressive regimes.
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Listening to Syria
It’s an overwhelming moment, it’s a huge opportunity—as 2011 was. I would just tell people to listen to Syrians as much as possible, as opposed to people who would speak on their behalf.
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Killing Is Killing: Yarmouk and the “Squeeze” of Being Palestinian-Syrian
Look what happened to the Palestinians in Syria! Yarmouk camp is a case study the left should be focusing on, to expose the hypocrisy of the regime Hafez and Bashar al-Assad built.
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A Year on the German Left after October Seventh
Who can we count on? Who can we still work with in good conscience, and who has drifted toward supporting reactionary ideologies?
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Destroy Fascism, Embrace Complexity
Leftist theory has not been updated with advancements in complexity theory, information theory, the modern technically interconnected world, cybernetics, or all these other things that have happened since the industrial revolution.
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“Shut your mouths, you who profit off our souls!”
You have made our blood into a cynical amusement, which the occupation forces delight in shedding.
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Special Feature: Southside Pride 2074
A future issue of a Minneapolis community newspaper was retrieved by a time traveler! Here’s a PDF. CW for highly specific inside jokes and lewdness.
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Do Not Suffocate Truth
Denying chemical massacres is a form of cognitive violence against us Syrians who strive for freedom, justice, and democracy. It hinges on a complete disregard for the truth and the lived experiences of communities subjected to political oppression.
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Avoiding the Traps Set Out for Us (2015)
Capitalism and its imperialisms in crisis are nothing other than nihilistic death cults. We are living in an increasingly violent and dangerous arena as they flail and expire. We must bring an end to them before they bring us down with them.
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