Weird how they put all their efforts into using technology to replace human creativity and art and then say creative arts degrees are useless.

Deepfake Videos Just Got More Realistic…and More Dangerous | KQED We talk about OpenAI's Sora and what kind of destabilizing impact could it have on our society.

Really enjoyed going on the KQED forum to talk slop: www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns Read more here.

NEW: A report from pro-voting groups warns that if the Supreme Court rules to gut a key safeguard against racial gerrymanders this term, it’ll be “enough to cement one-party control of the U.S. House for at least a generation.”

Siva Vaidhyanathan on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities (to give up academic freedom in exchange for favorable treatment by the Trump government): “This ‘compact’ is more like an invitation to borrow money from the mob, with substantial control and future penalties assured.”

Greg Bovino's September 27 "Shitshow:" Batting 18% - emptywheel Of the eleven people the government charged in conjunction with a "shitshow" Chief Custom and Border Patrol Greg Bovino staged at Chicago's ICE facility on September 27, the publicly filed charges aga...

DHS claimed they had arrested 11 people at a "shitshow" Greg Bovino staged on September 27. Only 5 were ever publicly charged (another was a journalist who is suing). Of those 3 cases have been dismissed. [2 got no-billed.]

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The most frustrating thing about this war is that the US could step in forcefully now with harsh sanctions against Russia and a large military package for Ukraine with ranged weapons as the centrepiece, and the war would end soon with a Russian defeat.

Kristi Noem ‘stares down’ Antifa. It was reporters and a guy in a chicken costume Trump has claimed Portland is ‘war-ravaged’ - but residents and local authorities dispute that

Kristi Noem praised for ‘staring down’ Antifa. It was a dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit….

Republicans have soiled themselves with this clown show.

flip.it/kFbyTS

Fixed assets in the physical world are a huge part of the game. Bankrupting farmers and acquiring that land is the rural version of taking built assets in cities for gentrification. Watch what happens to the buildings, first in Aurora and now in Chicago, that were “cleaned out“ by ICE.

CNN: The judge presiding over the prosecution of Jim Comey has agreed to Comey’s request to schedule a near term trial. Comey asked for a Jan 12 trial date. The judge went with Jan 5. Comey is counting on the gov’t not being ready for trial. A good bet.

I mean, the Ninth Circuit doesn't seem that concerned.

I demand boots!

NEW: Comey is going to challenge the legality of Lindsay Halligan's authority. Here's an explanation from my show this past Sunday. You can watch the whole show here: www.youtube.com/live/PkEOK7J...

Epstein files instead of lies.

Greg Bovino's September 27 "Shitshow:" Batting 18% - emptywheel Of the eleven people the government charged in conjunction with a "shitshow" Chief Custom and Border Patrol Greg Bovino staged at Chicago's ICE facility on September 27, the publicly filed charges aga...

Greg Bovino's September 27 "Shitshow:" Batting 18% [corrected headline]

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The Senate Just Voted To Break Public Lands Every permit written on public lands since 1996 may have be rendered invalid

The Senate just voted to invalidate every permit written on public land since 1996. wessiler.substack.com/p/the-senate...

Fox News is the most successful propaganda venture of the last century just for the way it has pickled the brains of the Republicans on the Supreme Court

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

You will not defeat fascism if you don't peel off soft supporters. You simply won't do it.

At least some of these guys look Latino anyway, and we know Latino voters in TX are moving.

But literally, these people will go w/o pay for weeks. That's pretty persuasive.

Ice Fishing in Portland

Tax dollars and time wasted on developing targeted smears that served no purpose of import, instead of releasing the Epstein files.

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

Flashmobs of this nationally!

Ooooooo! A dancing chorus of Barney and Rainbow Unicorn inflatable costumes would be chef's kiss for non-violent protest.

Flash Mobs for Freedom and Inflatables. Let's GO!

How freaking many cameras ?????

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Blumenthal to Bondi: "He has been transparent. In fact, 5 days before the indictment of Comey, he put this post up as instructions to you. He didn't mince words. He was very open & public that you should indict Comey and&others because they are 'guilty as hell, no more delay, now.' 5 days before"

Two words: Epstein files.

Being pro co-op but anti-union seems very anti co-op.

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

Hey cool the NOAA guy who was found to have violated the agency's code of ethics for his role in Sharpiegate has been confirmed as the head of NOAA.