Stolen image (of course)!

incredibly wild that we live in a country that the government gets you to upload your id in order to have a chug so as to "protect children" while simultanously shurgging as our social media overlords allow for their ai to create inappropriate images of children.

Some LLMs databases contain CSAM, it appeared even on Forbes when it was discovered 🤢. www.forbes.com/sites/alexan....

more on the nightmarish situation on X where users are apparently generating non consenting pirnographic imagery & sexual images of minors (csam) using xAI’s Grok. Musk merged xAI and X (fka twitter) last year.

so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform

x dot com, where almost every member of congress talks about the issues

International aid agencies warn of 'devastating' impact on Gaza after Israeli ban

Every country should be declaring Israel's government and military terrorist organizations, and enacting every sanction possible against the country. That they haven't done so decades ago is bad enough.

Danny Rebel also wishes he could join Nick Fuentes, Ye and Milo Yiannopoulos inside Pete Davidson's dick. 🤔

80% of “mild mannered” conservative twitter people have gone full Nazi

🧵 Chris Sims (@/chrisxsims) and @/dannyrebel333 are harassing a Somali American operated daycares in Kent, Washington. The woman that answered the door told someone to call the police. The “journalists” appear to have or had an amateur porn career.

Remove the regime.

I’ve spent literally months dismissing concerns about Vance in the context of Trump being removed and Vance is left holding the bag. It doesn’t apply if Trump kicks the bucket.

Trump needs to be brought to justice before he dies because if he dies of natural causes, that’s going to validate everything he did as fine and let Vance do whatever.

And see the Politico piece below for Yarvin’s influence on Vance. Yarvin is a MAGA “intellectual” - but if you spend any time with his work you realize that’s an incredibly low bar. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.” Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget. How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy? t.co/jIObxTAoeL

What the fuck is going on with the Minnesotan senators making no statements about the terror campaign being inflicted on their own state?

btw it shows Harris performed worse than Obama, better than Hilary and similarly to Biden, among white voters. it means her failure is not that about race.

this is what assured Netanyahu he was free to do whatever he want 🤷

House Dem leaders funneled millions to an AIPAC-funded group that backed pro-Israel candidates in primaries, according to newly-released tax documents.

The group 314 Action hopped into a Dem primary in a safe Portland, Oregon district last year to spend $1.7 million backing state rep Maxine Dexter against progressive county commissioner Susheela Jayapal. @314action.bsky.social denied it, but had received $1 million from AIPAC. More in tax docs:

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The current leaders of House Dems like to have their primary voters deluged with ads from groups that have undisclosed donors like AIPAC. When that happens while mail ballots are out, that's great for them, if the spending is against progressives.

Hakeem Jeffries doesn't have to be in charge of the caucus—it could be someone who doesn't condone dark money swamping Democratic primaries. But there is virtually no way for grassroots party members to petition their reps to hold a "no confidence" vote in leadership. The party cuts that off.

In January, we scrutinized how Trump's AG nominee Pam Bondi was paid nearly $3 million in Trump Media & Technology Group shares last year.

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We uniquely totaled up the hard dollars that lobby group AIPAC’s PAC gave to Congress’ campaigns, as lawmakers approved tens of billions in military aid for Israel without conditions.

We dug into the corporate and billionaire donors behind the centrist group Third Way’s dark money, as it presses Democratic operatives to drop the party's small donor base and progressive groups.

We were first to report the first-ever disclosed donations from TikTok billionaire Jeff Yass to Donald Trump, made as the president was delaying a law banning the app and negotiating new U.S. ownership for it.

We published an exclusive list of Congress members who bought stocks in defense contractors since Election Day, as they voted to increase weapons spending. Many of them sit on key defense committees.

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The guy who wrote one of the most fascist immigration bills in American history?

if the campaign spam people, it means they don't need money to campaign, they just scam money into the wallets of consultants. no matter who they're, Kelly or DSA.

No.

I wonder what part of lower bills, tax billionaires they're panicking about most? Cry harder. Join.greenparty.org.uk

“The idea that squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything is fantasy and we do need to expose that.” Good job no one’s ever actually said that - including me. So why is Labour again repeatedly lying to avoid taxing the super-rich? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

They probably think it's impolite to point out the the NYT and WSJ's owners were paling around with Epstein lest their own connections to Epstein get brought up in news stories. Kind of like MAD during the Cold War.

Never Ask A Woman, Her Age A Man, His Salary Wes Streeting, how much money he's taken from private health ghouls since he's been an MP.

What I would say about Joe Dromey is that I spoke to him as my local counsellor in Lewisham back in the day and all he could offer on the chronic flytipping problem was circular, airy talk and sharing my frustration. Plus ça change, Joe www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nothing from @klobuchar.senate.gov either. Holy cow.

This appears to still be holding. Wow. She traditionally comments on just about anything like this.

I swear we are all going to find out in 10 years that the Murdochs and the Sulzbergers were the sources for both their paper’s “exclusives” on Epstein.

Did they mention Rupert being in the black book yet.