How subconscious prejudices warp conservatives' views| Richard Hanania's Newsletter
The big story is Trump yesterday (9/19/2025) signed an executive order imposing a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas. Many are celebrating this as a win against ‘big tech’. Reuters described it as a “blow to tech”. The Washington Post called it a “clampdown on legal immigration”. | Grey Enlightenment
Twitter’s 2022 revenue sharing program for blue/verified accounts has predictably opened the floodgates of slop for the purpose of boosting engagement and hence ad revenue. Slop differs from your typical spam, e.g. casinos or pills, in that it’s marketed under the pretext of being insightful or new, when it’s either stale and or clickbait. The objective is to get people to click out of curiosity and to elicit predictable outrage as it’s shared and retweeted. Because it’s less obviou...| Grey Enlightenment