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AI fakes spread disinformation. Is the distrust they create even worse? Manipulated images undermine our shared reality—and the democracy built upon it.

A few weeks ago, I saw a group of people in a Facebook comments section trying to figure out if a picture of Ilhan Omar was real. (It was not.) I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I wrote about what I'm calling "strategic memes against public participation." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I got a text message from an Urgent Care that said, “We miss you!”

HELLO??? The feeling is NOT mutual!

The College Republicans of America just appointed a groyper as their political director. Kai Schwemmer was in Fuentes' inner circle in 2021, & since then has strategically downplayed his support to avoid controversy. CRA claims over 300 campus chapters across the country

An enormous swing and miss

Getting anything of value in return for the taxes you pay in America is like squeezing water out of a stone, so it’s not really that surprising that ‘I hate taxes’ is a universal American political sentiment.

Americans are still 100% accustomed to austerity and unless they travel a lot, they don’t know it’s possible to have anything else.

American Psycho movie interpreters unite: the real estate agent def knows he did it and cleaned up after him, underscoring the satire of the amoral unaccountable rich, right?

a beautiful small Hijet truck on a picturesque street

thinking about small trucks again

this and a dog would fix me

Once Trump leaves the big political question we’re going to face is, what are we going to do with the Trumpist officials?

The Democrats are going to split on this issue and many of the current ones are going to behave like Jared Polis, and act to prevent any kind of accountability or consequences.

Rail Transit Development Hasn’t Kept Up with US Population Growth. Here’s How Policymakers Can Expand Access Subway lines or light rail routes offer Americans low-cost, environmentally sustainable, and rapid travel options. To improve and expand access to these rout…

The US is thus already struggling with actually getting rail lines under construction. The administration is making the whole situation more difficult.

Our research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social lays this all out:

www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...

Have the Abundance people been made aware of this

Joss Whedon: greetings whedonistas and whedonistos!
Clive Barker: who're you?
Whedon: i'm
Whedon: i'm joss whedon!
Whedon: c'mon, you remember me!
Whedon: i was everyone's woke 90s bae!
Barker: hm doesn't ring a bell

DOG OF WAR:
This dog also came to support women at the March. He walked half the way in front of Sasha, but then asked his owner to pick him up.

we've been saying for ages the perfect product in the minds of tech ceos is one that can generate revenue and has no actual users

Imagine if anyone said this about literally anyone else

Lol

How the Arvada Center shaped — and supported — Colorado art over the last 50 years

Over the past two decades, the Arvada Center galleries have emerged as the most important showcase for Colorado artists, taking that mantle from the region’s larger art institutions that have large…

Maybe two of these moist establishment Democrats in Colorado, John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet (who are both running for office, unlike Polis) should lean hard on Polis, since pardoning Peters will damage the Democratic brand in the state… 🤔

feels like insanity is catching these days

We should ask why

The Day Million-Dollar Earners Get Richer by Stiffing Social Security High earners stop paying Social Security taxes once their income passes the cap, raising questions about the case for eliminating the payroll tax limit.

People making $1,000,000 a year are done paying into Social Security for the rest of 2026.

Does that sound fair to you?

no, this is a GREAT trailcam

Every day the economic experts get up and are like “we think today is the day the racists will use logic”

It is now

Homeland Security @DHSgov Democrats must end this DHS shutdown NOW.

it is not normal for official government social media channels to behave like arms of the Republican Party

Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount U.S. President Donald Trump bought more than $1.1 million of Netflix bonds over the last three months as the streaming giant unsuccessfully fought Paramount Skydance to ​buy Warner Bros Discovery , ac...

Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Also, Democrats seem to believe that expressing outrage by voting to impeach Trump is of no political value.

I‘m not sure why they think that.

First and often glossed over is the fact that no Republican will vote to impeach, because we don’t have a Trump problem as much as we have a Republican Party problem.

What does this say about our government, our parties, and our leaders? Nothing good.

that is staggeringly incompetent leadership if true