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Herb Scribner @herbscribner.bsky.social · 32m

Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World

Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 2h

People who live in big cities and have MAGA relatives in rural and suburban areas are getting deja vu, that's for sure.

We've all had conversations with relatives who insist they know better than us what our cities are like. That we must be deluded not to see the constant riots and muggings.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Toph @iamthetoph.bsky.social · 25m

I think all the governors are afraid of ordering guardsmen or police to do anything to help and having them not obey those orders.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 17h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16h

I know this sounds extreme. It is.

I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am.

Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever.

But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.

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Emily Schnall @emilyschnall.bsky.social · 1d

Daring to ask the real questions, like what if a goblin was tall

Long goblin with a grimace, red background

Long goblin with a grimace, black and white with halftones

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 23h

As everyday folks are furloughed or forced to work w/o pay, as nonprofits like Philly's only rape crisis center are forced to lay off employees and pause services, as schools go w/o funding, it's reprehensible our state and federal politicians are still getting paid for not doing their damn jobs 1/2

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Toph @iamthetoph.bsky.social · 1d

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Remember how the Trump administration raged about "transgender mice" because of studies involving transgenic mice?

Well, the woman who just won the Nobel Prize in Medicine wrote her thesis using transgenic mice.

Early life and education

Brunkow was born in 1961 in Portland, Oregon.[2][3] She graduated at St. Mary's Academy in Portland in 1979.[3]

Brunkow received a BS in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Washington in 1983.[4] She received a PhD in molecular biology from Princeton University in 1991, where her advisor was Shirley M. Tilghman.[5] Her doctoral dissertation was titled Expression and function of the H19 gene in transgenic mice (1991).[1]

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 2d

👀⚖️‼️👇🏾 #ice

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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