I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

The vice president’s comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith, writes digital editor John Grosso.

LET'S GOOOO www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.

@mobinkarami.bsky.social the only reason I know what's going on is because I have friends in two Iranian cities. Most of the news media here have not even picked up on this, let alone realised how absolutely fucking momentous all of this is.

Earlier today, Elon Musk endorsed full-on Neo-Nazi blood and soil ideology.

we fought, and I'm not kidding you can look it up, a whole revolution to stop shit like this

A key part of this story is: Alaska officials themselves were wrong about the law, and communicated incorrectly with these residents about their rights... ... and then now are turning around, prosecuting them, and threatening them with years in prison.

Here's the War Powers Resolution vote moving forward a resolution "to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress." www.senate.gov/legislative/... Here are the Republican senators fine with ending Congress:

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

She had stuffed animals in her glove box.

Tim Walz: "Our administration is going to stop at nothing to seek accountability and justice. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is working on the investigation."

taking up several blocks

I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...

I will not sit silently while Republicans try to rewrite history. The truth of January 6th will not be erased.

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

What an absolute dereliction of duty by basically everyone in Congress, no? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money. Famously, we know that's people working in child care.

Five years ago.

TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force? MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO T: So force is on the table? M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

Cool shot from last night!

New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped

Because laws don't matter in our courts anymore, because we are no longer a nation of laws. One dictator kidnapped and jailed another. U.S. capture of Maduro may be illegal; that probably won’t matter in court www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.

For nonlawyers, it’s worth noting that statements like this have—as a formal matter—important legal effects as a matter of international law. If such statements are *not* made, and in volume, future arguments that Trump’s invasion sets a legal precedent will stand on much firmer legal ground.

The Senate will hold a vote next week on another bipartisan resolution blocking the use of military force against Venezuela without the express authorization of Congress, Sen. Tim Kaine announced

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Spouse of shadow president promises occupation of a NATO ally’s territory. Surely just for likes.

If you let him get away with this, he’ll do it with Iran and whatever other neocon bugaboos have been lingering around conservative media since Obama first started running. Maybe Greenland but less intense because white. One of them will invariably respond in the mainland U.S. Stop him before then.

oh my god he posted so many action shots from the makeshift mar a lago situation room and they were just looking at tweets together on a gigantic screen

Trump is posting a bunch of photos without captions, presumably of him watching the Maduro kidnapping. Is this the inside of a SCIF at Mar-a-Lago or did they just toss up some pipe and drape?

7/10 Removing Maduro beheads the autocracy but doesn’t dismantle it. The coercive apparatus—and its ties to organized crime—doesn’t evaporate. The risk ranges from just a coup to even "warlordism." It remains unclear who will rule in a fractured, armed landscape.

But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?

So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago

Quick, someone contact the WHCA to ask if they know what type of marble he bought yet.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.

Elon Musk’s XAI faced a huge backlash after its Grok chatbot generated and spread explicit & nonconsensual images all over the social network X… www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/m... (tw - discusses csam / ncii)

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

What Weiss and Adam O'Neal at the Post are really signaling is that nothing like the 1619 Project will be produced under their leadership. 1619 was not unpatriotic, but called for America to live up to its ideals, not its history and practices.

For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!