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I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism.

I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm.

This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

why yale decided to continue to shower money and prestige on this kind of guys is beyond me🤣

For folks unfamiliar, this was a bog standard position for Nazi and incel 8chan/board culture back in the day.

He's not inventing, he's regurgitating and repackaging

Rep. Becca Balint's grandfather died in the Nazis' Mauthausen concentration camp.
Pam Bondi just suggested Balint was antisemitic.

holy shit -- Bondi's new tactic is refusing to answer Democratic questions, then using time during the next Republican questioner to smear the previous Democratic member and accuse them of being complicit in violence crimes

Ro Khanna names 6 Epstein co-conspirators who the DOJ was protecting up until yesterday:

Salvatore Nuara
Zurab Mikeladze
Leonic Leonov
Nicola Caputo
Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem
& Leslie Wexner

He asks congress to cease having 2 tiers of justice & finally hold the Epstein class accountable for crimes.

Literally searching for outgroups to scare people about

"That has left the G.O.P. looking for ways to address its voters’ concerns over the number of immigrants who came into the country during the Biden admin. while avoiding the increasingly unpopular policy of mass deportations under Mr. Trump."

Reason Mag Writer: I Was Dumped for Being Too Anti-Trump The leading libertarian outlet has been a vocal critic of “cancel culture.” And now it has its own cancel culture problem, says one newly ousted writer.

also

www.thedailybeast.com/anti-cancel-...

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.

It was a "sideshow," I was told.

黎智英案判刑　官斥黎是主腦兼推動者並有預謀　判監20年 壹傳媒創辦人黎智英，被指用其國際人脈，在2019年更透過「重光團隊」，極力遊說多個國家，向中港兩地政府及官員作出制裁。他又同時利用旗下的《蘋

Pro-democracy media magnate Jimmy Lai, 76, has been sentenced to 20 years for national security crimes.

Since the day he was arrested, everyone has been predicting the government will make sure he dies behind bars. Everyone was, of course, right — but it’s still, to say the very least, a gut punch.

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

“Lorin Stein, the disgraced former editor of The Paris Review who resigned after accusations of sexual impropriety, forwarded to Wolff an email from the writer Stephen Elliott, who intended to sue the list’s creator… Epstein promises to ‘help anyway i can.’”

This is the message of a competent politician in a competitive race in one of the most competitive states in the country—and it's not just a message about the economic havoc of Trumpism

image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”

Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone.
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
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The G.O.P. Senator Who Can’t Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained Katie Britt is uniquely positioned to reason with the Trump administration — when she chooses to speak up.

Representative Joaquin Castro of Texas said in a post on social media that he had picked up Liam and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, from the Dilley detention center on Saturday night and escorted them to Minnesota on Sunday morning. He shared photos of the two on social media, including one showing Liam at the airport clutching what appeared to be a Pikachu toy and wearing a Pikachu backpack. Mr. Castro was part of a delegation of Democratic lawmakers who visited Liam and his father at the detention center last week, where he said Liam’s father had reported that the child was “very depressed” and hadn’t been eating well since they were detained earlier this month.

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:

A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"

But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

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I talked to a woman who quit an AUSA job recently. She was asked by main DOJ to dismiss a Medicare fraud prosecution because the defendant was the daughter of a girlfriend of a MAGA figure.

30 years old, joined the DOJ in January 2025, seems to have spent some minimal time at a couple private firms before that but of late was in the White House as counselor to the president and chief of staff for Bove. So, another no-experience person tapped for fealty not ability.

WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

a 30-point swing isn't a flip, it's a Sunset Flip Power Bomb

They’re using AI facial recognition tools as the end-all, be-all, despite those tools being significantly less accurate on darker-skinned people and on women in general, and notoriously bad for Black women sanford.duke.edu/story/dr-joy...

DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold.

It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.

We already have a warrant requirement. It's called the US Constitution. If that's not fucking binding them, what the hell does your little agreement mean?

Speaking of children not being able to walk to school, ICE agents are snatching kids off the streets of Minneapolis (and St. Paul!) and parents are having to form patrols to guard against kids getting abducted at pick-up and drop-off.

This is one of the big findings from my work on campus sexual violence.

Training made school administrators more practiced in discrimination. They treated survivors *worse* after training, not better!

This is Minneapolis.

Collective trauma, and neighbors helping neighbors.

This is our 24/7 every day lives right now, not just a 10 second news clip.

consistent pattern: trump says a dozen contradictory things & the media focuses on the sane one

they treat this as a guarantee & the rest as bluster