Hey, @medialawprof: Do the earlier Dominion settlements create any new actual malice issues for any of the speech here?

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

People keep telling me we just have to "accept" the harms of ChatGPT as the necessary price of progress, & that I'm a Luddite for not using it, but, well, I'm genuinely finding it hard to accept that so many kids simply "have to" die. IMHO it needs a product recall. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

I don’t like to throw around the term rape culture often for a variety of reasons, but this? THIS is rape culture. It exists to intimidate women into minimizing their public prominence, which serves to strengthen male dominance in culture, society, and politics.

So much this. 👇🏼 Institutions are only ever as good as the people who lead and work for them.

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

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I am not surprised.

The House Armed Services Committee also was not briefed, I've confirmed.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Thanks, John Roberts, really well done.

"By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors." NYT Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Shocker.

Speaking of which, can Trump kidnap himself so we can indict him for war crimes in Den Haag?

The US has captured Maduro? What is going on?

“The Congress shall have power … To declare war.” Art. I, Sec. 8 “THE CONGRESS” constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...

Once again:

This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about

Just re-upping this, given current developments:

Look, the peace president is hard peacing again:

If this turns out to be as good as it sounds, I might have found my new phone:

Yes, that:

Yeah, man, socialists aren’t allowed to buy things, everyone knows this

Das MAGA-Netzwerk um Trump und die AfD treiben ihre Vernetzung voran. Mit welchem Ziel—und welchen Konsequenzen für die Demokratie? Dazu haben @anneuenfeld.bsky.social und ich in der Zeitschrift @internationalepolitik.de geschrieben: internationalepolitik.de/de/vergiftet...

Essayistinnen gesucht! ✍ Gemeinsam mit WIIS.de schreiben wir den Sylke-Tempel-Essaypreis 2026 aus. Das Thema: „Die hohe Kunst des Kompromisses“. 🔗 Alle Informationen gibt es hier: lnkd.in/gnJZcTuJ Weitersagen, teilen, kommentieren – oder selbst zum Stift greifen!

Sending book proofs on December 30th and asking for them to be returned five days later (on a Sunday) is exactly my kind of humor.

Is that a tsunami?

Christmas fucking miracle right here

What the KENNEDY Center used to be… Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.

1/ Tina Peters is in prison for criminally breaching election security, not for exposing fraud. No court, audit, or investigation found widespread voter fraud in Colorado. Mail-in voting in Colorado has existed for years, is used by voters across parties, and has been upheld by courts.

Heute ist ein guter Tag, um etwas für die Ukraine zu tun: Als Co-Präsidentin der @de-ua-gesellschaft.bsky.social bin ich überwältigt davon, wie viele Spenden wir schon für @bravery-ev.bsky.social sammeln konnten. Das erste Evakuierungsfahrzeug ist bereits reserviert, jetzt für das zweite spenden!

Score one for “fuck you, make me”

This unbelievably dim loser thinks he comes off well in this video, as he tries to force his way into a daycare. The employee asks “what department” they’re from, and he says “we are from ourselves” — because being an entitled white man empowers you to act like a vigilante, apparently?

Well, I'm still here.

Happy New Year everyone!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE

I'd get sworn in on the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe

Quick reminder that #Trump was responsible for #January6th:

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This.

So much this:

Jesus Christ, kann jemand mal die Gefahr ernst nehmen?

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

Das sagt Volker Bouffier im ZEIT-Interview. Ich habe die Untersuchungsausschüsse in Hessen zur extremen Rechten eng beobachtet - und die hessischen Behörden haben jahrelang, auch unter Bouffier, die extreme Rechte unterschätzt. Und der letzte Satz spricht für sich. www.zeit.de/2026/01/volk...

Don't threaten me with a good time:

The idea that the U.S. emerged as a "global superpower" in the 1920s because a switch got flipped in 1921 that restricted immigration would be batshit even before you started asking questions like "how did the U.S. economy do in the interwar period in comparison to other 10–20 year periods?"

Let's all practice billionaire negativity. Like, really. Liberal democracy is incompatible with billionaires.

Bonkers.

Why Huntington was a shitty political scientist, exhibit 8,637: