damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

If it were about crime they’d be targeting male citizens. They’d be talking about the only crime that’s increased in the 2025 statistics: domestic violence. Instead the people most likely to commit violent crimes—especially domestic violence—are the ones empowered to roam the streets in masks.

“States can’t ban conversion therapy but they can ban gender-affirming care. They can’t regulate ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ but they can ban abortion. This is required by the Constitution. If you say we’re just doing politics you’re responsible for political violence.” —The U.S. Supreme Court

Did you or a friend or a family member get attacked by Trump’s brown shirts this weekend? I’d like to hear about it and maybe do something about it. My email is jchavez [at] ojrc [dot] info. Please put “Seeking Legal Advice re: ICE Building” in subject line. All inquiries are confidential.

THIS is the story national media needs to pick up in Portland. MAGA accuses their opponents of all the things THEY are doing. In this case it’s a well-funded influencer network coordinating with Noem to instigate violence on the ground and create a false narrative that aligns with Trump’s lies.

People are asking: Why is Trump screwing American farmers so badly when they’re his most loyal voting bloc? Maybe because it’s a cheap land grab. Run farmers out of business, then he and his billionaire buddies buy up millions of acres for pennies on the dollar. Are the farmers catching on yet?

The government is rounding people up and putting them into camps and nobody is talking about it as political violence Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Sarah Kendzior wrote that the phrase "Nobody saw it coming" basically just tells you who society deems to be "nobody". (Scholars, experts, poets and artists saw it coming. Black women saw it coming. Disabled people saw it coming. Trans, gay, poor, indigenous, marginalized people saw it coming.)

Now imagine if this was everything

The great news is, if you successfully resist the MLM-like pressure from vapid MBAs in your organization, you can take an active role in helping the worst humans who have ever existed lose half a trillion dollars.

Bill Kristol, like every Iraq War cheerleader, owns his share of this, but what's useful is that now supporting the continued existence of DHS makes you *to the right of Bill Kristol"

“Yes, Republicans have gutted healthcare, but the nice young men working with them have offered you these MAGIC BEANS to fix it! It’s definitely not a trick to do fascism! Why won’t you take the magic beans???” (Meanwhile, democrats irl: “Good news, we used your money to buy these magic beans!”)

it takes a genuine marvel of lechery and talentless gall to be the most repellent hack in all of hollywood, but somehow bill maher does it

It is very late to get off the bus supporting this war effort, but it is not too late. Have a think; are you really going to be the last person you know making excuses, as the situation gets worse and worse? If not, why not get ahead of the curve and stop now?

Make Trolls Inexplicable Yet Harmless Maniacs Again

We have to reset our priorities from top to bottom.

How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible.

these dipshits are going to dunning-kruger humanity right off a fucking cliff

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

I think talking immediately about how it's too bad Zohran can't run for president or how Lander should run for Congress is missing the point. we don't need to elevate individual heroes as high as possible, we need to find as many principled people as possible and empower them everywhere

pretty sure thomas would burn the constitution to the ground for a shrimp cocktail. he ain’t turning down a ride on a private jet.

“Good news, we put the foreigner in a concentration camp, but those lazy poors are still eyeing your cookie when there’s thousands of job openings working the fields for slave wages.”

There are more dedicated events Monday, Thursday and Saturday. Monday is bring flowers and signs. Thursday is #GoodTroubleLivesOn, the event starts at Willamette Park. Saturday event is a march from the Battleship Memorial.

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

I hate Bluesky, the website with annoying leftists who refuse to create a computer Hitler

Breaking: Zohran Mamdani’s soft support among youth resurfaces with discovery that his crush responded “not sure” to the “do you like me?” note he passed her in social studies.

Fascists can write “we’re going to give 700 quadrillion dollars to the Gestapo to build a new concentration camp in every city” on paper and there’s little we can do to stop that. The infrastructure that makes it actually real passes by and through us. That, we can and will stop.

Thomas Kinkade is like analog AI slop

This will fund concentration camps. This will fund the persecution of minorities. This will fund the silencing of political dissent and journalism. In a police state, they can do much worse than tear away our healthcare. ICE must be entirely abolished.

Vote for city leadership that embraces being yelled at in the street.

Still time for Paramount to say “fuck you” and go to court where they’ll win. Engaging in this charade to secure a merger is a) effectively paying a bribe, an abandonment of integrity that disqualifies them as purveyors of news, and b) stupid af if they think a vindictive bully can be trusted.

Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

It’s easier than ever during the misinformation age for the powerful and malign to convince the oppressed to fear one another instead of recognizing their common cause. Condemning antisemitism while actively practicing Islamophobia is a gift to white supremacists and war mongers.

Grateful to all who’ve read and supported my AI coverage lately. This is probably the most difficult work I’ve done on the subject to date and I hope it it can be a wake-up call. My profound thanks to Kent Taylor for trusting me with his son Alex’s story.

The broligarchs and their AI cult is an arm of the authoritarian project.

If Democrats aren’t willing to force ICE to comply with law, the law is meaningless. They have a clear case. Show up in numbers and refuse to leave. They’ll either let them in or arrest them, revealing themselves as a lawless gang. Don’t talk to me about good trouble. Go make it.

Every day a different Democratic member of Congress should go to an ICE facility to inspect their detention facilities or speak to a detainee—and bring the media. That’s such an easy fight to have.

Heads up, trans and nonbinary folks, get your passports right the fuck meow 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️💨

They want trans children to die.

The elite power structures journalists compromise their integrity to cling to… Free busses? Rent freezes? Insanity! Cuomo’s false claim that record high police budgets have been cut and that on day one he’ll solve homelessness and get people “help”? Sensible! It’s as nefarious as it is brainless.

You are either for the American people and the principles or liberty, or you’re for the continued existence of ICE and American fascism. There is no middle ground.

Plenty of Latinos out there playing Gestapo, too. But here’s the thing—and this is crucial— White supremacy is irrational for everyone. It does not make more sense for white people. It is a hateful, destructive ideology, period. It’s born of fear, self-loathing, belligerent rage, and failure.

From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video. Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!

A woman is hospitalized and receives staples in her head after LAPD trampled her with their horses. LAPD also impeded her receiving medical attention.

Patting the gestapo on the back for a job well done. Hope you did your math right on support for fascism in #Oregon ‘s 5th @bynum.house.gov.

Netanyahu is striking Iran while the administration is heading there to negotiate for the same reason Kristi Noem’s goons tackled a US Senator for asking a question for the same reason active military is invading our cities: Trump is weak.