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Seth Rogen accepting Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for The Studio #ActorAwards

02.03.2026 02:02 👍 2599 🔁 503 💬 7 📌 68
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Losing the War on Truth Iran and what to make of it

Trump seems lost as to which lie he wants to tell. We are in a war on truth; but truth can win – if it finds friends.
snyder.substack.com/p/losing-the...

02.03.2026 18:03 👍 958 🔁 332 💬 22 📌 28
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People rely on their existing political beliefs to identify election misinformation | HKS Misinformation Review Rather than assuming that people are motivated to fact-check, we investigated the process that people go through when and if they encounter political misinformation. Using a digital diary method, we a...

Another study finds that people judge political misinformation based on their own political beliefs. Since very few people actually fact-check, politicians can make unverified claims because most voters won’t check them or hold them accountable.
misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/peop...

02.03.2026 14:49 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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Why Attack Iran? Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

28.02.2026 14:15 👍 3127 🔁 1449 💬 124 📌 140
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Trump in 2011: “Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective.”

28.02.2026 15:36 👍 3254 🔁 1373 💬 174 📌 88
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence Chatbots to Employ Bypassing and Correction Strategies for Addressing Misinformation About Contraceptive Use - Christopher Calabrese, Haoning Xue, Xinyu Zhang, Yoo J... We examined whether bypassing and combined (correction with bypassing) strategies delivered through artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots can address contracept...

New study found that bypassing corrections (providing a positive and truthful statement instead of directly countering a negative or inaccurate one) was effective in Reddit conversations.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

23.02.2026 21:50 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Photographer who snapped fight between a bald eagle and Canada goose calls it 'very symbolic' | CBC News A bald eagle may have thought it spotted an easy lunch in a Canada goose sitting on an icy bay in Burlington, Ont., but according to Mervyn Sequeira — who watched and photographed a 20-minute battle b...

The goose did better than that photo suggests. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

24.02.2026 01:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Susan Collins hands Trump the 50th vote against free and fair elections When it comes to free and fair elections, Collins is as conservative and anti-voting rights as they come.

Collins stood silently in the Oval Office clutching a red MAGA hat as Trump told lies about our elections and repeated his call for the federal government to take over vote counting in certain parts of the country. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...

21.02.2026 03:14 👍 3710 🔁 1454 💬 416 📌 158
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Indeed

17.02.2026 17:34 👍 33 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
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A+++ post

12.02.2026 16:47 👍 9607 🔁 2182 💬 182 📌 58
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

12.02.2026 04:00 👍 3154 🔁 1997 💬 85 📌 211

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

07.02.2026 22:25 👍 39679 🔁 7196 💬 305 📌 145
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NEW EPSTEIN SURVIVORS AD: “3 million files still not released — stand with us. Tell AG Pam Bondi to release the files. It’s time for the truth.”

08.02.2026 17:06 👍 7147 🔁 2718 💬 113 📌 95
Services | asian-art-research

Big fan of yours from afar (Canada). Also big fan of Anthony M. Lee, a classmate, who does this stuff if you're looking for appraisals / consultation. He also really, really loves food.

www.asianartresearch.com/services
www.instagram.com/asianartcana...

08.02.2026 20:41 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Radley Balko O @radleybalko
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GOP: He didn't do it.
Trump: I did it.
GOP: He didn't mean to do it.
Trump: I wish I'd done it sooner.
GOP: He did it for benign reasons.
Trump: I did it for the worst reasons.
GOP: He's sorry.
Trump: I'm never sorry.
GOP: He's chastened.
Trump: I'm doing it again tomorrow.
11:41 AM • Feb 5, 2020 • Twitter Web App

Radley Balko O @radleybalko く GOP: He didn't do it. Trump: I did it. GOP: He didn't mean to do it. Trump: I wish I'd done it sooner. GOP: He did it for benign reasons. Trump: I did it for the worst reasons. GOP: He's sorry. Trump: I'm never sorry. GOP: He's chastened. Trump: I'm doing it again tomorrow. 11:41 AM • Feb 5, 2020 • Twitter Web App

07.02.2026 01:27 👍 1526 🔁 318 💬 15 📌 12

Perfection

05.02.2026 12:56 👍 2471 🔁 639 💬 78 📌 30
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Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists and Flock-Fleecing Frauds:

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...

02.02.2026 00:29 👍 629 🔁 174 💬 15 📌 12
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DOJ Drops Millions of Epstein Files, Then Briefly Pulls 1 Listing Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Trump “I was 13 years old when Donald J Trump raped me. Ghislaine Maxwell was also present,” reads one of the files, compiled from an FBI tip line record.

“I was 13 years old when Donald J Trump raped me. Ghislaine Maxwell was also present,” reads one of the files, compiled from an FBI tip line record.
www.jezebel.com/doj-drops-mi...

30.01.2026 22:27 👍 1048 🔁 619 💬 40 📌 40

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

31.01.2026 00:06 👍 13432 🔁 3763 💬 237 📌 125

This poll is the worst high-quality poll for Trump that I’ve seen this term.

29.01.2026 20:40 👍 2556 🔁 538 💬 144 📌 28

“There’s no topping Premier Kinew” Carney says.

Was not familiar with his game!!!!

30.01.2026 03:20 👍 462 🔁 89 💬 15 📌 4

Many TikTok users recently reported problems uploading videos, sudden drops to zero views, or posts getting stuck “under review.” Almost all of those complaints involved videos criticizing ICE or discussing the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

27.01.2026 04:35 👍 6323 🔁 1966 💬 504 📌 170
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Lies and Lawlessness The Camps, the Executions, and the Future

We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...

25.01.2026 19:25 👍 1785 🔁 734 💬 35 📌 62
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The NRA is a gun rights organization the way the Ku Klux Klan is a speech rights organization.

25.01.2026 05:45 👍 5913 🔁 1175 💬 157 📌 89

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

25.01.2026 01:15 👍 23334 🔁 11266 💬 440 📌 692
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JACK SMITH to @repcohen.bsky.social : “I had a duty to protect witnesses in this investigation. Trump suggested one witness should be put to death.”

22.01.2026 18:17 👍 2206 🔁 929 💬 47 📌 35
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After Charlie Kirk was killed, Kash’s focus was what he was going to tweet — regardless of the accuracy.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

22.01.2026 22:03 👍 552 🔁 208 💬 27 📌 10
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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.

Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

11.01.2026 02:44 👍 24515 🔁 9948 💬 1990 📌 935
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A deleted tweet by a Toronto Sun national politics reporter.

10.01.2026 12:16 👍 3764 🔁 1194 💬 171 📌 194
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Friday Round Up! 1/9/26 It was a bad shoot.

I wrote up my analysis of what Ross's movements and actions reveal about whether or not he had a "reasonable belief that he was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury" (the legal standard). I list 7 crucial moments that suggest he did not. asharangappa.substack.com/p/friday-rou...

10.01.2026 17:57 👍 2263 🔁 877 💬 145 📌 83