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- The Hound | June 25
The Hound | June 25
Federal judge rules Trump cannot implement proof of citizenship requirement for voting, Pentagon posts QAnon content, and more.
Hi there,
It’s Thursday. A federal judge has ruled Trump cannot implement proof of citizenship requirements in order to vote, but the USPS has bent the knee to Trump on vote by mail. And the Pentagon has now posted multiple QAnon memes and one of its spokespeople has explicitly supported the Great Replacement theory, showing a troubling pattern of posting conspiracy content.
Yet too much media coverage continues to treat these episodes as isolated embarrassments — individual posts that go viral before being quietly forgotten. They are not isolated. They are a pattern, and that pattern reveals something important about who is actually staffing and running the United States government right now.
An administration whose official accounts traffic in QAnon mythology, white nationalist rhetoric, and antisemitic language is not a normal administration having a bad social media day. It is an administration that has been captured, at least in part, by people who believe and promote dangerous, unhinged conspiracy theories — and who are doing so on the public's dime.
🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to cover the Trump administration's conspiracy theorist problem not as a series of quirky outrages, but as a serious, ongoing governance story.
Who is posting this content? Who hired them? Who is responsible? The public deserves reporting that connects the dots — and that treats the infiltration of the federal government by extremists and conspiracy theorists as the national crisis it is.
Read about this, and more, with today’s stories:
The Defense Department Is Posting QAnon Memes (Mother Jones)
U.S. Postal Service Bends the Knee to Trump on Vote by Mail (The New Republic)
Crypto Industry Gets Its Way on GENIUS Act Rulemaking (The American Prospect)
Trump’s ‘Short-Sighted’ Cuts Jeopardize Philadelphia’s Clean Energy Future (Inside Climate News)
Until next time,
Harry from The Hound
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