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The Media Will Never Stop Falling For It Trump's fake plan to tax the rich shows how little the mainstream media has learned

yesterday i published this piece about Trump floating a bullshit plan to "raise taxes on the rich" in order to bait the media into talking about it. shortly after, the GOP released their tax plan, which naturally includes no tax such increase on the rich.

New GOP bill would basically ban porn, experts warn The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act would rewrite SCOTUS's definition of obscenity.

"The intent we're seeing over and over, whether it's Project 2025, or bills like this, or public statements, is that that they believe that 'pornography' should not be legal — and what they believe to be 'pornography' is this all-encompassing conversation about sex and sexuality."

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*

Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when

An LLM just generates text

Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

This is a nice thread about The Onion. Thank you for saying nice things, and I can confirm the premise: If you pay your staff well, and you allow them to do what they're great at, it works better than chasing algorithms. The art is better, the truth is found easier, and—bonus!—the revenue is better.

Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country

Jeras Ikehorn... Follow Back @jerasikehorn.bsky.social And here we go... BREAKING: Pam Bondi says, "Adam Schiff must be arrested. Creating a shadow government against President Trump is a serious crime and should be considered TREASON. April 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM & Everybody can reply 408 reposts 95 quotes 1K likes

I’ve seen this reposted into my feed a few times, and it’s fake. The reason I highlight it is to point out that *everyone* should be able to tell on sight that it’s wrong— there’s no story link, the poster has gone to some lengths to obscure the source of the false headline (ifunny.co I think), etc.

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

It was never about antisemitism From abducting college students to an attack on a Jewish governor, Trump’s real motivations remain clear.

I’ve been wanting to write this for a while. So I finally did.

Into the Arctic If I had to come up with a metaphor for my mind over the last few months, a wooden ship bound in pack ice would be a good one: wracked by pressures that...

just plugging my column again for the night owls.... i broke my writer's block by becoming completely obsessed with polar exploration buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.

This official MLB info on Jackie Robinson (!) strips all references to race, racism or the basic fact of the MLB once being segregated. They want to do this with all history because you can’t have a worldview based on bullshit lies about the present unless you have bullshit history that supports it.

"If universities are not willing to stand up for the free speech and academic freedom of their students and faculty, then what, if any, values do they stand for?"

Headline reading Ms. Rachel accused of spreading pro-hamas propaganda

The framing from legacy media on the Ms Rachel stuff is insane. Nowhere do they say that these are baseless claims, or that what she said (every child's life is precious and worthy) is not "Hamas propaganda." If u didn't know the background to this story and saw this post, you'd believe their smear

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

Israel just blew up a hospital completely in Gaza.

There's no other regime I can think if that has targeted medical workers and health facilities as persistently as Israel.

Horrific, unceasing crimes against humanity.

Hold onto every single reason for hope you can find. Jewish Voices for Peace gave you another one today.

WSJ Breaking News 2h ago The Trump administration is cancelling roughly $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University over allegations of antisemitism

You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time

ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs

Conservative ad: STAND FIRM! Against the UNSAFE $184 million landfill dig!

STAND FIRM! Heather Stefanson conservative candidate AD "For health and safety reasons, the answer on the landfill dig just has to be no"

Morgan Harris was killed by a nazi serial killer in Canada who murdered three other Indigenous women. Rebecca Contois, Marcedes Myran, and Buffalo Woman. Searching the landfill became an actual ad campaign for conservatives who opposed it saying it was too expensive
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I wish more people knew about the 1920s Klan because they—perhaps more than European fascists—are the model for Trumpism.

This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.