NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse — where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls.
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what is the case for thinking that the duration of the conflict will be up to Trump?
Words, what do they mean
A firestorm of infighting in MAGA media over the war in Iran; Also, some pundits try to bridge the divide by pushing Trump to deport Muslim Americans.
This week's Media Matters newsletter:
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As a general principle I don't think the Iranians want the guy launching a bombing campaign to have any role in who leads their country
For those who don’t know, Chiang is a mystical Chinese conservative warrior Marco Rubio calls on when things are difficult. He has Chiang’s sword, which was given to him by Jeb Bush bsky.app/profile/eric...
These jokers seriously thought that the regime would completely implode once the leadership got knocked out. They are so fucking high on their own supply they can't even see straight.
Trump Rambles About Golden Drapes in White House as Americans Die Overseas
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I wonder if a hard-line successor will assume power and further destabilize the region just like every other time this has happened
please don't call this weakness or cowardice or whatever. schumer supports the war and wanted more cover than he got.
that's why dwelling on process stuff is ultimately a dead end: because even if every form was filled out correctly, this would still be an abomination.
Just thinking about the County Clerks who are largely Republican (fewer voters, but in rural and smaller counties) will go apeshit over this. They aren't geared up for this and it will require wholesale changes in their processes and they generally don't have large staffs.
The one thing we hate most!
Haphazard invasions of Cuba not sanctioned by the state are a US tradition going back pre-civil war.
Bari Weiss has fired the Animaniacs due to a lack of political balance
For some reason this Washington Post report does not cite my reporting from last October about this alleged executive order, which this article essentially confirms.
You kinda lose the benefit of the doubt that you're just a critic of Israel and Zionism when you parrot the antisemitic rhetoric of groypers.
Everyone in the admin has the political instincts of a playground bully
It feels too on the nose that MAGA really likes the Brit who's wikipedia page has a section dedicated to all the different crimes he's done
There's also the giant issue of his stance on Israel which is far to the right of the Dem base
But this isn’t just a regular account. Johnny MAGA appears to actually be a White House staffer named Garrett Wade who works for the Trump administration as a rapid response manager, helping to run the very same White House account his anonymous MAGA account amplifies. A phone number associated with Wade is linked to Johnny MAGA, according to a WIRED review of publicly available records, and the connection was confirmed by a source close to the White House. Wade and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.
The Johnny MAGA account was created in September 2021, according to its X profile. (It originally used a different handle, which referenced Wade’s birth year, according to records reviewed by WIRED.) While the account’s earliest available posts focused on NFTs, it has been a consistent pro-Trump presence since at least 2022. The operator of the Johnny MAGA account has not disclosed an official relationship with the White House while operating the Johnny MAGA X account. Multiple media outlets, including Mother Jones, TownHall, and the New York Post, have all linked out to posts on the Johnny MAGA account seemingly as organic reflections of public sentiment on political issues.
This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed. The White House's own staffers are running meme accounts to make them look more popular than they are. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...
I genuinely despise how important it became to the GOP to go after content moderation just so they could post stuff like this
democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly
Snore of the Union
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They're talking about @radiofreetom.bsky.social like he's Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
This is the exact same thing that Democrats would say about Joe Biden around 2023 and 2024 before Biden's disastrous debate.
If wannabe Nazis now confidently roam the halls of power—and the streets of American cities—it is because Republican leaders have made them feel at home.
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Trump Mocks Women’s Hockey Team While Congratulating Men on Gold
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There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange
