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So X hasn't solved the problem, they've just monetized it
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery Editing function to be limited to paying subscribers after X threatened with fines and regulatory action
January 9, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Here's Grok basically doing this crap at scale.
January 7, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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I'm already seeing people on here use AI face tools to try to identify the masked ICE agent in Minneapolis. It's a truly terrible idea and here's why
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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This is the ICE agent President Trump says was "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over ... hard to believe he is alive."
January 7, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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A video of their "wartime recruitment" plan:

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January 7, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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Last week, we published a story detailing ICE's strategy for recruiting new officers, including targeting "gun rights" supporters and geo-fencing ads around gun shows.

Ex-ICE director told me: “That mentality you’re fostering tends to inculcate in people a certain aggressiveness"

wapo.st/3Ngmo9C
January 7, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Like this mostly
January 7, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
January 7, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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Resigned congressman Matt Gaetz, feuding with resigned deputy FBI director Dan Bongino, invites him to "take a chill pill" by sharing an affiliate link to an online ivermectin store. Promo code Matt10
January 6, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Trump: The military is ready to launch a second attack if Venezuela doesn't start making money for U.S. oil companies fast enough www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
As everyone knows, the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust, a total bust, for a long period of time,” Trump said. “They were pumping almost nothing, by comparison to what they could have been pumping, and what could have taken place.” “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country, and we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so,” Trump said.
January 3, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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So stoked to be on @texasmonthly.bsky.social's "Stories We Wish We’d Published" list www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
“Inside the life of a 24/7 streamer: ‘What more do you want?’” Drew Harwell, The Washington Post What happens when one’s entire life—from the most meaningful moments to the most mundane—becomes a performance for digital strangers? That’s the fascinating question The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell explores in his immersive feature about Emily, an otherwise ordinary twentysomething in Austin who is the world’s longest-running live streamer on Twitch. To reach hardcore online fame, Emily has renounced privacy and embraced a life defined by a contradictory mixture of hyperstimulation and acute isolation—her camera stays on as she eats, sleeps, and cries. More than three years in, her livelihood, notoriety, and personal self-worth are dependent upon her willingness to keep the reality show going, even as her real-world social connections erode and her isolation intensifies. Like the iconic 1990s documentary Hands on a Hardbody for the social media age, Emily’s life has become a bizarre experiment in endurance, one that says as much about our collective slide into voyeuristic obsession as it does about the digital diehards willing to trade their physical health and sanity for 2025’s equivalent of a brand-new Nissan truck. —Peter Holley
January 2, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller having a great time as "Ice Ice Baby" plays at Mar-a-Lago on New Year's Eve.
January 2, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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While complaining that America is "besieged" by foreigners, DHS used an image by Japanese artist Hiroshi Nagai
January 2, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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We saw private chats for the DHS / ICE media teams that make this stuff and, yes, they're quite proud of this.

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America after 100 million deportations We will not live like this anymore
January 1, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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ICE wants to hold 80,000 people in warehouses.

ICE's acting director in April: "We need to get better at treating this like a business ... Like Prime, but with human beings."

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Map of warehouses
December 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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We read thousands of internal ICE chat messages. They show officials racing to raids go viral.

Full story, free to read: wapo.st/4s6YnC5
December 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Someone who is good at the economy please give us 3 billion more dollars for Compute. We were forced to turn off all AI research to generate photos of Sam Altman as a hot dog
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Once uncommon for the government to post like this
Tis the Season for Mass Deportations
December 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Has Feminism Failed Women? Brought to you by Bank of America.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Stephen Miller to Vanity Fair photographer: “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.”

Photographer to Miller: “You know, you do, too.”

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Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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The new CBS News
Erika Kirk stories x4
December 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Love this @jeremybmerrill.com @fox.computer piece mapping TikTok's brain, especially the tool they made to find a content theme's diametric opposite.

People who like the "Fallout" games, for instance, aren't very interested in videos about having hair

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December 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
December 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Sabrina Carpenter is now the president
White House removed video using Sabrina Carpenter song
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
dhsgov Deliver justice to criminal illegal aliens. Become a deportation judge. Save your country.
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM