🍉🪶 Lauren 🩷💜💙

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

All the flags? Together we are America? Grammy to Liam? Fighting all of the hate with ALL of the love? Benito understood and delivered in all aspects!
THAT’S WHAT HUMANITY AND COMMUNITY IS.

Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.

What a moment.

Bad Bunny ends his Super Bowl halftime show in front of a sign reading "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE"

Rohan Nadkarni @RohanNadkarni This is incredibly cool — A source familiar with Bad Bunny’s performance tonight tells me that the couple in the halftime show got married for real. They invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and in turn he invited them to get married during his performance.

Sports reporter with NBC News reporting that the couple in Bad Bunny’s halftime show got married for real

So you're saying not even Trump watched the TPUSA show? Kid Rock must be inconsolable.

*Tapping the PSA announcement sign*

Ao3 is free for all fanfic writers because it is legal protection under fair use from being sued by the creators of the works said fanfiction is based off of. Monetization (making money off it) removes that protection.

Do not sell anything on Ao3.

Murder victim Alex Pretti about 45 seconds before his death.

DHS Sec Kristi Noem said Pretti attacked officers, & CPB Commander Bovino said Alex wanted to do “maximum damage & massacre law enforcement.” In posts on X, Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller called Pretti "a would-be assassin.”

You saw what you saw. They're lying to you.

JD Vance, Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Pamela Bondi, Greg Bovino, and Kristi Noem Have conspired against the US public; they should be held accountable for their crimes. Impeachment is too light of a consequence. Life imprisonment is necessary.

I won’t vote for any politician who doesn’t speak out against what happened and happening in Minnesota. These are our family, our friends and it’s our country too. Speaking out is the least you can do.

It’s time for the dems to grow a fucking backbone and DO SOMETHING. Fuck your optics. Fuck your useless clinging to rules and norms that went out the window long ago. Fuck your piddly handwringing and strongly worded letters. Get in the mud and DO SOMETHING.

BUT what are you going to do RIGHT NOW. People are DYING senator. Our govt is killing our own people and you’re doing nothing. Get into the Senate and be loud. BE DISRUPTIVE. THIS IS INSANITY

This is loser messaging from a sitting elected representative. I don’t care if you’re angry, every conscious semi-moral person in the world is angry but most of us aren’t elected US politicians. He actually is and the best he can do is “accountability will come so long as our democracy survives”?!?!

ABOLISH ICE
FUCK TRUMP

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

A new video appears to show the moments leading up to a fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis, with the individual appearing to simply record on his phone as agents escalated the situation.

🎥 dangjessie / Threads

EPSTEIN FILES NOW 🤬

If you support Trump, ICE and the BS that’s happening politically, block me. I will not be nice. 🥰

McGovern: Well, he said a lot of crazy shit today. I think it’s time to take the keys away from grandpa. He doesn’t seem like he’s all there.

Another reminder that Kushner’s company will be buying EA and the Sims, making their revenue complicit with a holocaust genocide of people.

Jack Smith arrives for a deposition on Capitol Hill | Francis Chung/POLITICO

Jack Smith: “The investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity — no one should be above the law in this country & the law required he be held to account”

The President of the United States of America should try to focus on America and lowering costs—not on Venezuela or Greenland.

PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”

"What Swift’s defenders didn’t realize, however, was that they were pushing back against a false narrative that had been seeded and amplified by a small network of inauthentic social accounts. Worse, they were helping to disseminate those bad-faith allegations by earnestly engaging with them. That’s according to new research from GUDEA, a behavioral intelligence startup that tracks how such reputation-damaging claims emerge and go viral on the internet. In a white paper examining more than 24,000 posts and 18,000 accounts across 14 digital platforms between Oct. 4 (the day after The Life of a Showgirl came out) and Oct. 18, shared first with Rolling Stone, the firm concluded that just 3.77 percent of accounts drove 28 percent of the conversation around Swift and the album during that period. This cluster of evidently coordinated accounts pushed the most inflammatory Swift content, including conspiracy theories about her supposed Nazi allusions, callouts for her theoretical MAGA ties, and posts that framed her relationship with fiancé Travis Kelce as inherently conservative or “trad,” with all of this framed as leftist critique."

“I’m a pop-culture girl,” says Georgia Paul, GUDEA’s head of customer success, who suggested the company look at the conversation around Swift after she had a “gut feeling” that the ideologically charged remarks about The Life of a Showgirl she was seeing might trace back to manipulative actors. Paul and her colleagues confirmed that suspicion, identifying two distinct spikes in misleading activity related to Swift. The first came on Oct. 6 and 7, with approximately 35 percent of the posts in GUDEA’s data set for that time frame generated by accounts behaving more like bots than human users. The second took place over Oct. 13 and 14, after Swift released a merch collection that included the lightning bolt necklace (commemorating the song “Opalite”), with about 40 percent of posts shared by inauthentic accounts and conspiracist content accounting for 73.9 percent of the total volume of conversation. "

“The internet is fake,” says Keith Presley, GUDEA’s founder and CEO, only half-jokingly. He notes that some 50 percent of the web is now made up of bots. “This is something that we’ve seen escalate on our corporate side — this type of espionage, or working to damage someone’s reputation.” While Presley and his team don’t know the identity of the individual or group behind this attack, they did discover “a significant user overlap between accounts pushing the Swift ‘Nazi’ narrative and those active in a separate astroturf campaign attacking Blake Lively,” according to the paper. The actress has claimed in an ongoing sexual harassment lawsuit that actor and director Justin Baldoni organized a chorus of smears against her on social media as the two waged a bitter legal and PR war over the troubled production of their 2024 film It Ends With Us. Their data, GUDEA researchers wrote in their report, “reveals a cross-event amplification network, one that disproportionately influences multiple celebrity-driven controversies and injects misinformation into otherwise organic conversations.”

"“When we put our doomsday hat on, I think we can see that reality,” Paul says of the test-run scenario. It could be, she speculates, “that there might be other nefarious actors, not U.S.-based, who have reasons to see, ‘If I can move the fan base for Taylor Swift — an icon who is this political figure, in a way — does that mean I can do it in other places?’” While the true intent of the person or persons behind the account cluster remains a mystery, the mechanics of their deception are relatively transparent: convincing authentic users to mock or refute outlandish claims simply enhances their reach in a given digital ecosystem. “That’s part of the goal for these types of narratives, for whoever is pushing them,” Presley says. “Especially with these inflammatory ones — that’s going to get rewarded by the algorithm. You’ll see the influencers jump on first, because it’s going to get them clicks.” Downstream of these well-known figures, anonymous followers will start churning out their own takes."

Fantastic read by @milesklee.bsky.social
So be aware, and remember:

51% Of all internet traffic is now bots. Of that 51%, 37% of that is bad bots.

"If I can move the fan base for Taylor Swift — an icon who is this political figure, in a way — does that mean I can do it in other places?’

Taylor Swift's Last Album Sparked Bizarre Accusations of Nazism. It Was a Coordinated Attack Data analysis from startup GUDEA reveals inauthentic social media network that pushed false narrative about her ties to MAGA world and white supremacy

"In a white paper examining more than 24,000 posts and 18,000 accounts across 14 digital platforms between Oct. 4 - 18 the firm concluded that just 3.77 percent of accounts drove 28 percent of the conversation around Swift and the album during that period." IT WAS ASTROTURFING!
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"Sources in the Trump administration have previously told Zeteo that officials will at times intentionally use popular music from vocally anti-Trump performing artists, in order to trigger a negative response from a famous liberal and provide further amplification of their pervasive culture war,"

ORALÈ RESISTERS
NORTH CAROLINA
30,000 STUDENT WALKED OUT TO PROTEST LICE
#USDemocracy #NorthCarolina #NCStudents #Resist #NoKings

What is with people announcing their crimes with their entire chest - especially one involving a minor and teacher

Ahhhjsksllxwmxk the trailer dropped !!!!!!!! Omfg I can’t wait to watch this, it’s gonna be amazing !!!!!