Conspirador Norteño
@conspirator0
Data Scientist/Musician/Participant in the General Confusion. Oppose autocracy and research/counter disinformation. I serve the realm. Caution: frequent cat photos.
I reviewed FEC data for the AIPAC-linked United Democracy Project PAC that contributed to Haley Stevens' campaign. This PAC's donors are not all liberal, and in fact fund Republicans, Democrats, and other AIPAC-linked PACs in roughly equal measure, giving slightly more to Republicans than Democrats.
A similar pattern emerges when looking at FEC individual contribution data: a greater proportion of the money received by the Stevens campaign from individual donors is from outside Michigan than that received by the El-Sayed campaign. (Data is current through March 31st, 2026.)
I took a look at the Bluesky users who most frequently posted about Democratic Michigan Senate candidates since May 1st. Based on self-stated location, a larger proportion of the accounts that most often post in support of Haley Stevens are from outside Michigan than those supporting Abdul El-Sayed.
It is once again the perfect moment to ask: should cats play bass? #CaturdayEve
Interestingly, this account renamed itself while I was studying it. The screenshots in this collage were taken three minutes apart; in the first, the account has the same display name as handle, “bloglink.bsky.social”. In the second screenshot, the display name has been changed to “Fern Hart”.
The blog posts produced by this spam operation use a mix of AI-generated images and stock photos as preview/thumbnail images. In some cases, however, these images do not match the content of the articles to which they are attached, possibly as the result of some automated process going haywire.
The Bluesky account posting links to the spam blogs, bloglink(dot)bsky(dot)social, generally posts around the clock, and until a surge in activity on June 12th, experienced spikes in activity at precisely the same times each day, strongly suggesting the account is automated.
The biographies of the authors are also extremely similar in style and structure. Amusingly, the links to LinkedIn and Twitter not only do not work, but in some cases contain impossibly long handles.
The content of the articles is extremely similar, with certain elements recurring over and over from post to post. For instance, the first paragraph of almost every article contains a reference to the number of years of experience the alleged author allegedly has in some field of work.
Each site publishes prolifically, with numerous similar articles such as “Ultimate Cat Body Language Guide (2025)”, “Ultimate Guide to Reading Cat Body Language (2025)” and “Ultimate Guide to Cat Body Language (2025)” posted per day. Many of the titles include "(2025)" despite being posted in 2026.
This network of spam blogs consists of at least 44 distinct websites, with a wide range of themes. The domains were registered in two waves, with the first 26 domains registered between October 16th and November 12th, 2025, and the remaining 18 between May 28th and June 11th, 2026.
The watchcat contemplates guitar tunings on a #Caturday afternoon.
It's a great day to ask the eternal question: should cats play bass? #Caturday
Strangely, almost every account in this network has posted at least one post claiming that large numbers of largely fictitious earthquakes have just been reported in the account’s alleged state of origin, accompanied by (often inaccurate) maps of the state in question.
Rather ironically, the Facebook accounts in this spam network also regularly post anti-AI data center memes produced with AI image generation models. These images generally feature aerial views of farms and beaches with anti-data center messages written on the ground in an enormous font.
The content posted by these Facebook accounts consists of repetitive AI image spam, with several recurring themes. Images of farms with signage expressing opposition to importing food from China and anti-property tax memes are among the common types of recurring posts.