company that creates deepfake CSAM raises $20 billion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/t...

Tapping my “silicon valley is Like That in no small part because its a ton of young awkward people who are largely disconnected from their old social structures and plunked down in one of the most alienating architectures in the us amidst sex predators and abusive bosses”

You could see this forming in realtime even a decade ago, but it wasn’t that bad, fairly innocuous. It has now permeated everywhere

No sign of this being remotely true, by the way

Just how bad is Grok's nonconsensual porn problem? Musk's AI chatbot is generating another sexualized image of someone without their permission every single minute:

State propaganda.

A vision for a *what now*, new york times writer?

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

More coverage like this, please

5 years ago, Donald Trump tried to subvert our democracy. He has since pardoned those who beat police officers bloody on that dark day. Now he wants to rewrite history. We cannot let him. Trump doesn’t give a damn about democracy here at home, in Venezuela, or around the world.

The response to Jan. 6 was a stated attempted to restore and protect democratic governance. Five years on, I think it's safe to say it—we—failed. Latest newsletter for the five-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol: postsfromunderground.ghost.io/jan-6-was-ou...

The regime has announced two proposed rules intended to make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for trans youth to receive the healthcare they need. Your public comments probably won't sway this transphobic regime, but they will be very important for future lawsuits:

everyone with a platform could write about this. But not a one-off. Send annoying YouTubers and tiktokers to document the “free speech crisis at Texas A&M.“ make it really fucking annoying. not the general *concept* of conservatives censoring speech, but this specific incident

Biden gave one speech about the threat of democratic backsliding to which the press response was "did you see how sinister the background lighting was"

So, hear me out on this, I want my taxpayer dollars going to feeding, hungry people, educating kids, and building better roads. I have no desire to buy Donald Trump an island, & last time I checked, the power of the purse, still belonged to Congress.

I believe the original sin Democrats, and especially the Biden administration, made after January 6th was viewing January 6th as the *end* of something, rather than the *beginning* of something. My post on how to remember this somber anniversary for democracy: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-...

Another theory I have is oligarchy: owners of capital don’t care. They’re investing more in xAI even after the child p*rn and Naziism, likely because of Musk’s influence in the administration. This is a real pic from my twitter timeline today (I censored it, Grok used the real hard r)

This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.

Remember: they tried this same shit with Brazil, Brazil said "yeah whatever dude" and still tried Bolsonaro, and...Brazil tariffs have been lessened and Brazil is pointedly not on the list of "countries Trump talks about invading" at the moment. "Fuck you, make me" undefeated when dealing with Trump

Senator, will you demand an investigation into who was running the ops against Greenland?

i Am so tired and I don’t think anything is going to get better. Feeling real low

this is the best take re: impeachment

five years ago the president of the united states incited an insurrection in order to try to retain power and it is a comprehensive failure at every level - media, law enforcement, courts, politicians and most of all the voters - that he has returned to power and threatens the stability of the world

I gotta find a way to spend less time paying attention to what's going on because all of it is completely insane and I can do very little about it

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

Ultimately I just don't think it's a close question. I've never heard a convincing counter-argument. He believed himself to be the rightful president? Doubt lol, but also it's just irrelevant. His "army" was a raggedy mob of MAGA idiots? Also immaterial!

Did Donald Trump levy war against the United States? Yeah. We all saw him do it on the teevee. But if that immediate intuition isn't enough, I also take a look at Blackstone, probably the best source we have for understanding what "levying war" treason means (H/t @pwnallthethings.bsky.social)

he should be impeached for this alone

i know musk is responsible for the deaths of lots of people with those aid cuts but grok violating people and no one lifting a finger is just pitch black darkness

I for one don't like that the ruling ideology of the underwriter of the global system is dementia gangsterism

Pelosi was lowkey right that Milley shoulda just arrested him the day of

So like if an incoming democratic Congress passed a resolution like this on 1/3/2027, what would happen then? Like mechanically, what processes would this set into motion?

The New Lost Cause

I spent weeks watching hundreds of videos from Jan 6th to place them in time and space as part of a collaboration with Richard Engel, and I can categorically say this version of events is bullshit.

Pretty much every successful act of obstruction you remember Mitch McConnell for (like blocking Garland's appointment to the Supreme Court) happened *after* the GOP regained a Senate majority and he became Majority Leader, not while they were a minority.

Fact check true

long-running pet peeve of mine is outlets baselessly referring to Democrats as "liberal" or "progressive" because of a few superficial stances, and we really reached the apotheosis of the genre with the NYT piece on Goldman that leads by saying he has "liberal bona fides"

Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."

time to boycott hilton

good example of how Trump wants to LARP as a dictator in a pathetic, impotent way. I’m constantly in awe of how this administration is full of whiny losers who think it should be illegal to dislike them

Benjamin Franklin, hands down, especially if we get access to the burner account he uses to interact with OnlyFans models

I don’t think it mattered either way that much but also “who was that for” is an equally dumb question: Biden won Arizona and Georgia narrowly with George Bush voters who couldn’t stand Trump which is the exact niche that would appeal to, clearly worth a shot for zero cost or policy concessions

This “embrace of neocons” thing remains extremely dumb. Harris did like 2 events where Liz Cheney—who torched her career to oppose Trump—attacked Trump and defended democracy. If that is the thing that made you decide you were indifferent to Trump winning again then you were looking for an exuse

I do think we underrate how much work “Elizabeth Warren reminds me of my mom” and “Secretary Mayor Pete reminds me of a guy I didn’t like in college” have been doing in a lot of this dumb Online Left discourse

it's actually both the institutions and that people are stupid.

you'd have to be pretty stupid or evil to vote for trump but it might've been helpful to the stupid people if, like, the media hadn't told them that the top political scandal on election eve was that biden called a republican comedian who made a racist joke "garbage"

Okay, I did it New at The Evening Constitutional! Why Donald Trump is an actual factual traitor, within the meaning of the Treason Clause eveningconstitutional.net/donald-trump...

To the extent that this is true beyond right-wing people liking universally popular things, it's because they don't have the ability to adequately interpret the books or films.

Average Tuesday is seeing Europe kindly ask that the Americans do not invade Greenland as my neighbors organize a defense perimeter against the secret police for the schools in the Mexican part of town.

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them