sarah jeong
@sarahjeong.bsky.social
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sarah jeong
@sarahjeong.bsky.social
· Oct 2
Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America
But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.
www.theverge.com
Let's be clear: Trump's attacks on "antifa" are an attack on America. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...
this reminds me of the macedonian fake news industry
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
this reminds me of the macedonian fake news industry
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i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
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thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
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thank you for supporting striking Starbucks workers, Comrade Hilary Duff
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
thank you for supporting striking Starbucks workers, Comrade Hilary Duff
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship
I’m a law prof & a YLS grad and anyone familiar w elite law schools knows it is beyond laughable to describe these places as radicalism hotbeds. Cruz knows this, as does JD Vance. But they assume that their marks are too unsophisticated to know it too. It’s condescending as hell.
Ah yes. Harvard Law School in the early 1990s, well known for its Communist professors.
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship
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This is right and the other thing here, especially because Lizza doesn’t present evidence, is that “catch and kill” means something specific—putting a source into a contractual obligation so that they don’t have the option of taking a story elsewhere and then not running it.
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is right and the other thing here, especially because Lizza doesn’t present evidence, is that “catch and kill” means something specific—putting a source into a contractual obligation so that they don’t have the option of taking a story elsewhere and then not running it.
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
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When you've got at least three story parts worth of bamboo harvested from the tale you shared.
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
When you've got at least three story parts worth of bamboo harvested from the tale you shared.
can't believe ryan lizza is up against zamdani hypnotizing trump and mtg leaving congress and people are still going to pay to get past that paywall to read more about bamboo
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
can't believe ryan lizza is up against zamdani hypnotizing trump and mtg leaving congress and people are still going to pay to get past that paywall to read more about bamboo
wait he just kept going with the bamboo???
November 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
wait he just kept going with the bamboo???
TIL RFK Sr had 11 children and somehow we got stuck with that one
In celebration of what would have been Robert F. Kennedy’s 100th birthday, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy has penned an op-ed celebrating his father’s legacy—and savaging his brother, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for tearing it down.
RFK Jr. Blasted by Brother for ‘Betraying’ Father’s Legacy
Maxwell Taylor Kennedy has savaged the Health Secretary in an op-ed.
trib.al
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
TIL RFK Sr had 11 children and somehow we got stuck with that one
i love how bsky posters are so eager to appear worldly and wise that they'll jump to say "AND YOU'RE SURPRISED????" to the craziest shit that's ever happened. if bluesky existed on 9/11/01 you fucking bet these people would out here with "obviously, everyone with a brain cell could see this coming"
does mamdani smell really good in person or something. like he seems very charming yes but what the fuck lol
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
i love how bsky posters are so eager to appear worldly and wise that they'll jump to say "AND YOU'RE SURPRISED????" to the craziest shit that's ever happened. if bluesky existed on 9/11/01 you fucking bet these people would out here with "obviously, everyone with a brain cell could see this coming"
god it's like not even good joke fodder because it's too much
TRUMP: [playfully batting at Mamdani] Go on...
^ like what the fuck lol
how are you supposed to make jokes when that's a transcript of reality
TRUMP: [playfully batting at Mamdani] Go on...
^ like what the fuck lol
how are you supposed to make jokes when that's a transcript of reality
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
god it's like not even good joke fodder because it's too much
TRUMP: [playfully batting at Mamdani] Go on...
^ like what the fuck lol
how are you supposed to make jokes when that's a transcript of reality
TRUMP: [playfully batting at Mamdani] Go on...
^ like what the fuck lol
how are you supposed to make jokes when that's a transcript of reality
having the dawning realization that south korea spent all that time making hamburger patties with ketchup kimchi or whatever when they could have just sent in bts
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
having the dawning realization that south korea spent all that time making hamburger patties with ketchup kimchi or whatever when they could have just sent in bts
does mamdani smell really good in person or something. like he seems very charming yes but what the fuck lol
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
does mamdani smell really good in person or something. like he seems very charming yes but what the fuck lol
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Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
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NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
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i was literally just looking for that to make this point. More people have been "cancelled" for charlie kirk blasphemy than the during the entire cancel culture panic.
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
i was literally just looking for that to make this point. More people have been "cancelled" for charlie kirk blasphemy than the during the entire cancel culture panic.
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Truly mind-blowing levels of hypocrisy from this admin on using government strong arming to threaten social media companies into censoring
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Truly mind-blowing levels of hypocrisy from this admin on using government strong arming to threaten social media companies into censoring
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
i support men celebrating international men's day so we don't have to hear "why don't we have an international men's day???" every fucking year on on international women's day
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
i support men celebrating international men's day so we don't have to hear "why don't we have an international men's day???" every fucking year on on international women's day
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Breaking: Meta won the antitrust case brought against it by the FTC. Judge rules it's not a monopoly. www.theverge.com/news/823191/...
Meta is not a monopolist, judge rules
The FTC failed to prove it broke US antitrust laws.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Breaking: Meta won the antitrust case brought against it by the FTC. Judge rules it's not a monopoly. www.theverge.com/news/823191/...
i'm sorry but the possibility that jeffrey epstein scored an awesome deal on seo reputation management has k*lled me www.theverge.com/report/82231...
November 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
i'm sorry but the possibility that jeffrey epstein scored an awesome deal on seo reputation management has k*lled me www.theverge.com/report/82231...
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if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove
Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats
NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
www.npr.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove
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Grateful to @oregonian.com and @oregoncapitalchronicle.com for sharing our story about Fox News' misleading coverage of Portland before Trump ordered the National Guard.
ICYMI: www.propublica.org/article/port...
ICYMI: www.propublica.org/article/port...
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Grateful to @oregonian.com and @oregoncapitalchronicle.com for sharing our story about Fox News' misleading coverage of Portland before Trump ordered the National Guard.
ICYMI: www.propublica.org/article/port...
ICYMI: www.propublica.org/article/port...