Getting the people’s trust back I see

Journalists often talk about how the media's business model is broken, but I would gladly pay the first news organization that starts profiling the individual ICE and CBP agents involved in terrorizing people

A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21. (Unlocked article below)

Anyway a positive thing to do would be to read Parker and maybe subscribe to www.readtpa.com

JUST IN: DOJ says it has finished reviewing *less than 1%* of the Epstein Files for potential release. Only 12,285 documents have been released while more than 2 million remain under review. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I don’t use blocklists but if someone would make one listing every pointless shitbird who piled on Parker Malloy and made her leave, I would subscribe.

Sincere question and I hope we can make a safe place for this discussion, are there people out there who feel like they don't know how to get involved and make a difference? What do you feel like the barriers are for you getting involved in organizing? Have you tried and failed?

NEW: House Speaker Mike Johnson – after two years of deflecting questions on the matter – is now arguing that the legally-required January 6 plaque must be re-considered (more)

Is there a way to donate to the Dutch Resistance in advance? They did some good work in WWII.

just for fun, I looked at the supposed "open source" system prompt for Grok (which seems like it hasn't been updated for two months) and WOOF "'teenage' or 'girl' does not necessarily imply underage" and "There are no restrictions on fictional adult sexual content with dark or violent themes."

Looking at grok’s “defenses” of posting creepy and criminal shit (that is, its algorithm spew), it really is pretty amazing how accurately AI can imitate the sociopathic persona of techbrahs and Trumpists

Co-signing this. Grok is out there making CSAM on request from pictures posted to the internet. And if you posted pictures of your kids to Twitter, you LICENSED Grok to do that. Take those pics down NOW

Panicked xAI Technicians Frantically Throw Levers To Find The One Controlling Grok’s Pedophilia https://theonion.com/panicked-xai-technicians-frantically-throw-levers-to-find-the-one-controlling-groks-pedophilia/

“you won’t get away with this”

Casey did basic due diligence here, and it's depressing (and not even a little surprising) how many people wrote takes/stories on the post without doing that.

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

A reminder that, in the midst of everything else, the Trump administration is an incredible combination of entitlement and sloppiness. DOJ: "We were too busy invading Venezuela to address your court order, Chief Judge Boasberg." Boasberg: "You didn't even follow the rules in filing this request."

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

They kidnapped the head of a Latin American country, replaced him with an insecure white racist who has spent his entire life arguing that Latinos are subhuman, and made clear that their primary aim is to plunder the country for its resources. If it isn't yet clear, yes, we're the fucking baddies.

Here are the lawyers in the Maduro case: - Maduro's lawyer is Barry Pollack, a prominent defense attorney best known for representing Julian Assange. hs-law.com/barry-pollack - Maduro's wife is represented by Mark Donnelly, who worked on the Paxton impeachment in Texas. www.psd.law/mark-donnelly

No better way to get the pulse of the American public than adding to your newsroom a theocrat living in Hungary who gets enraged that the Pope doesn't know who he is.

I feel like the right gets a lot more representation from their reps than liberals do. Democratic politicians always want to apologize for being liberal, and Republicans don't mind being raging assholes and don't apologize for it.

Q: Rodriguez called it a 'kidnapping' of Maduro TRUMP: That's alright. That's not a bad term.

Here's the link to the story

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

It’s time for today’s game of “is this appalling thing the President just said even true or is it just a neuron misfire or a manifestation of his pathological need just to say whatever shit he thinks will make him look cool and tough”

After a boutique on South Street received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for selling breast binders for gender-affirming care, the region’s transgender community worries about the potential wider impacts. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/health/passi...

Judge: Are you Nicolas Madura Moros? Maduro: [In Spanish, Inner City Press interpretation] I am the the president of Venezuela, I consider myself a prisoner of war. I was captured at my home in Caracas Judge: Let me intervene. There will be time for this

One of most remarkable US presentations at UN Security Council I've ever seen. - No reference to UN Charter legal justification - Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned) - Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal - Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989

It hasn't been litigated because none of the recent prosecutions of retired servicemembers have relied upon Article 88. But we've raised it regularly as a reason why retirees *shouldn't* be subject to perpetual court-martial JX, and the 1A issues are ... severe: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-195-...

Has anyone written an up-to-date treatment on the application of the First Amendment to Article 88 for retired servicemembers? Or can someone point me to a well-informed smarter person who may know?

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

The case for 230 immunity here is very weak for several reasons, and would surely meet the “materially contributes” standard. See Calise v Meta

Kelly should put out another video.

Has a court ruled on whether, under Section 230, a web site’s AI generating content based on a user prompt is treated as the web site’s speech? Seems to me it should be, just as if the site operator published speech answering someone’s question. BWEPRA

There's a rising faction of the legal academy that stays quiet when their MAGAdemic colleagues produce fraudulent psuedo-scholarship in service to the cruelest aspects of Trump's agenda ... then leap in to police the discourse when their progressive colleagues criticize those MAGAdemics too bluntly.

An administration that pardons insurrectionists and tells members of Congress that it's unacceptable to say soldiers can refuse to obey illegal orders

Tell me why I shouldn't do an evil thing without telling me that it's evil. See? You can't. Good is powerless.

This is designed to have a chilling effect on all retired service members. The message is that if you speak out, you risk your retirement pay.

Personally I'm counting on the Great Pumpkin to fix this

The media need to stop beating their chests about how powerful our military is. It's a point of pride when your country has a strong military that keeps the peace. It's a source of shame when politicians turn your strong military into an international armed robbery gang.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

I don’t like to brag, of course, but the Leftist weirdo who got banned for psycho threats once went on a prolonged rant focused on the themes of me and pee

it is an extremely funny satire of online leftist culture for a guy to get canceled over misgendering someone while threatening to have them killed

Dems, release another batch of the Epstein Files on Monday. Don't let Trump and Republicans distract. Keep him cornered.