It's time to state clearly that if MAGA and Republicans can't condemn any part of this shooting, continue to blame the victim for it, and even hint that it's a just outcome that others "deserve," that's a crossing of the line that the rest of us won't ever be able to forget.

You need to be willing to plant trees knowing you will never sit in their shade

Q: Is there anything stopping state law enforcement from conducted an independent investigation even if the feds don't want it? JACOBSON: Without assistance from the FBI, we would be at a loss to be able to initiate & conduct a thorough investigation. It would be very difficult if not impossible

The absolute best and easiest way to avoid fake AI garbage is to go directly to trusted news sources. Go to their websites. Follow their accounts and their journalists directly.

Ah well. Can't disagree here really. Americans did vote for masked agents of the state to kill innocent people, whether they understood that at the time or not. Too bad they didn't listen to anyone who tried to explain it to them bsky.app/profile/atru...

If everyone just lets this go, that's the ballgame. Anytime they want to kill someone they'll just say the FBI is handling it.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

NSA cyber directorate gets new acting leadership therecord.media/nsa-cyber-di...

There are legal tools in place to curb what’s happening on X, but the incident will be precedent-setting for how these laws and regulations are wielded for AI-generated images. via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/elon-musk-x-...

This is also a field test. If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with. Nothing.

"The cases suggest that some of the shots at suspect vehicles are taken out of frustration when agents who are on foot have no other way of detaining suspects who are fleeing in a vehicle." "It is suspected....agents intentionally put themselves into the exit path of a vehicle."

Eyewitness describes ICE agents issuing conflicting commands to Renee Good: "They didn't really know what they were doing. They were screaming at her to 'move, move, move,' and then they approached her vehicle aggressively and tried to open her door."

Today taps into the core problem much older than ICE. There's the obvious visceral fear of being hurt by agents of the state---but it's also having to live daily life alongside and in total deference to armed people who could kill you, lie to justify it, get away with it, and be celebrated for it.

On day three of trying to prove to DC that the baby in my arms is real and I am on parental leave, and I have even more questions about how people get away with defrauding the government

New from @derekbjohnson.bsky.social in @cyberscoop.bsky.social: AI, voting machine conspiracies fill information vacuum around Venezuela operation cyberscoop.com/ai-voting-ma... cc @gate15.bsky.social

"Maduro In Custody. His Blue Hoodie In Your Cart?" lolwtf

It's becoming standard procedure across all news media to explicitly not mention in the obituary of a Republican member of congress that they voted on Jan. 6, 2021 to overturn the election

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

A point from @marisakabas.bsky.social that should go in your most core user's manual of this era. "The Press" thinks people in power are good-intentioned and telling the truth not because of who the people are, but because *they are in power.*

I've said it a lot lately: the problem with nonconsensual deepfake porn of adults isn't the "porn" part, it's the "nonconsensual" part. That HAS to be accounted for when regulating, otherwise you're just banning legal porn, which is (1) unconstitutional but (2) what the Heritage Foundation wants.

✨ if you're reposting Grok nonconsensual nudity to make a point you're just perpetuating trauma and abuse ✨

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

New: The European Commission is “very seriously” looking into taking action against the social media platform X following an incident in which its artificial intelligence tool Grok was used to create sexually explicit images of a minor, a commission spokesperson confirmed on Monday.

Even worse, different members of the Trump administration have different things in mind. To the extent Rubio, Hegseth, and Trump have put any strategic thought into Venezuela, it's with different goals and different understandings of what matters in the situation. So the whole is even less coherent.

Ryan Rollins and Deni Avdija are a good argument that a worthwhile strategy is giving a shot to young players the Wizards give up on to see what they can do in a functional environment. Not foolproof, but worth a try.

found while cleaning out old photos, lol

THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture. In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.

i'm totally at a loss to explain it, i don't know that there's anything in recent history (or history *at all*) that you can compare it to. millions of people, over and over again, believing that trump's patting them on the back while everyone watching can see the KICK ME sign he's taping to them

It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

"Die Zeit" reveals that German foreign intelligence, in a multi-year campaign, intercepted Barack Obama's phone calls while aboard Air Force One because the encryption was flawed. Angela Merkel didn't know about it. They (accidentally) stopped in 2014. www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Trump was crystal clear about his intentions to exploit Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. But exactly what does that entail — and are U.S. oil companies even interested? The smartest piece you’ll read on the subject (while 2/3 of media ignores the whole “oil thing” altogether) from @mollytaft.com

It's embarrassing that this far in reporters still treat Trump personally lying to them as incredible access.

We need to be honest with ourselves and our leaders about Venezuela We are a rogue state, a global pariah Trump is ruling as a dictator, period An axis of evil wants to carve up small, resource-rich nations The message for 2026 is clear: No kings! My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

The entire article is like this: Wiles and others pretending to draw lines in the sand around constitutional governance in the first part of the year and then increasingly revising their views as their Mad King's actions became more blatant and absurd.

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

What the fuck is this headline

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

It's not even like Rubio being a Venezuela hawk is some new development. It's been one of his signature obsessions for many years. Every Democratic senator who voted to confirm him, which is all of them, has no excuse to now pretend it's a surprise.

You voted to confirm Rubio.

NEW from me: Currently on tap for Tony Dokoupil on his first day as CBS Evening News anchor -- taking a private plane to Miami to so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham. Take that, elites! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Skilled workers may ride this wave. We can automate our boring tasks, build useful tools, maintain our position. But the primary effect of AI deployment is transferring wealth upward while presenting that transfer as inevitable progress. This is a bargain that will not create anything good for us.

What's really interesting is that I think LLMs will end up being a sort of experimental dry run for how our society will react to technologies than can actually do what LLMs pretend to. America did not do well this time around, but perhaps we can learn from this period and get another chance.

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

I'm intrigued by MTG's pivot to a more gentle tone. I'm not fooled by her act, unlike some pundits. But it suggests she has a theory that voters are done with MAGA trolls. And she wants to meet that moment. I think she'll fail. My analysis. www.salon.com/2026/01/02/m...

the thing that strikes me about the Grok "apology" thing is that even those of us who are against "AI" as it is marketed to us have trouble not falling into the basic fallacy that they are trying to sell us, i.e. There's A Little Guy In There

This now has me pondering who of the four turtles would be the most likely to go MAGA. Honestly, Michaelangelo could very well have gone the Rob Schneider/Jim Brewer route so this is in play.

Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

in 2026 we are NOT hustling, we are NOT grinding, we are doing just enough Job to have money for Video Game

Iowa-based journalist Laura Belin compares Bari Weiss' adventures at CBS to Putin's makeover of supposedly independent Russian media, which she covered for RFE-RL twenty years ago. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...