Michelangelo Signorile

Grok is now creating AI video deepfakes of celebrities such as Taylor Swift that include nonconsensual nude depictions. Worse, the user doesn't even have to specifically ask for it, they can just click the "spicy" option and Grok will simply produce videos with nudity.

Video from @theverge.com.

Brazil’s Supreme Court orders house arrest for former President Bolsonaro, a Trump ally The trial is receiving renewed attention after U.S. President Donald Trump directly tied a 50% tariff on imported Brazilian goods to the judicial situation of Bolsonaro, calling it a “witch hunt.”

So Trump's interference actually made things worse for Bolsonaro, who's now had all communications cut off, including from his sons who were lobbying Trump, as house arrest is ordered.

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How did we go from Trump is going to release the Epstein files ('24) to Trump is not releasing them and moved one of the top sex offenders to a cushy prison camp ('25)?

The racism here is on steroids, as Trump tried to make case to MAGA that farmers need exemptions.

Says brown people do hard labor "naturally" and don't get bad back, while also saying they've tried to replace them with people "in the inner city" but they can't get them to do the work.

Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families

Miller's choice:

ICE officers told the couple they could leave US with their child & return to their native Russia, which they had fled seeking political asylum. Or they could remain in immigration detention in US — but their 8 y.o. son, Maksim, would be taken away
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

Trump trails Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders in favorability polling: Gallup President Trump trails progressive stalwarts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in favorability polling, according to a new survey conducted by Gallup.  The…

I see an unhinged Truth Social post in 3,2,1....

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Chilling.

Rollins: there are always "exceptions" but we have to "change the rule"...Obviously if someone's been here multiples of generations there's no issue...but we've gotta start somewhere."

“I think Andry Hernández is still going to be the same Andry as always,” he said. “I’m still the same person who cares deeply about the world of makeup – and about justice, especially when it comes to diversity and the LGBTQ community.”

Why the jobs report is a mortal threat to Trump The authoritarian project could be doomed unless Trump convinces enough people, fairly quickly, that the economy is booming.

"The authoritarian project could be doomed unless Trump convinces enough people, fairly quickly, that the economy is booming."

www.signorile.com/p/why-the-jo...

The racism here is on steroids, as Trump tried to make case to MAGA that farmers need exemptions.

Says brown people do hard labor "naturally" and don't get bad back, while also saying they've tried to replace them with people "in the inner city" but they can't get them to do the work.

OVERNIGHT: DOJ confirms that the Epstein grand jury transcripts it is seeking to unseal were largely already made public during court proceedings and public victim/witness statements. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

To interview Trump now is to either ignore the lies completely or challenge them briefly before he lies some more.

Brazil’s Supreme Court orders house arrest for former President Bolsonaro, a Trump ally The trial is receiving renewed attention after U.S. President Donald Trump directly tied a 50% tariff on imported Brazilian goods to the judicial situation of Bolsonaro, calling it a “witch hunt.”

So Trump's interference actually made things worse for Bolsonaro, who's now had all communications cut off, including from his sons who were lobbying Trump, as house arrest is ordered.

apnews.com/article/braz...

Fleeing Texas was the only way Democrats could block Trump’s plan to rig the midterms “The Republican members have outsourced our democracy to Mar-a-Lago”

Re-gerrymandering a state to rig an election & then threatening to arrest and expel the members protesting that election rigging is pure authoritarianism

Texas Dems who fled state are fighting for very survival of American democracy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Will Rural America give up on Trump? These small-town activists think so. Rural organizers say Medicaid and SNAP cuts could help Democrats win rural votes in 2026. Republicans say: Don't count on it.

great article featuring some of my faves: Matt Hildreth and Dom Holmes from @ruralorganizing.bsky.social and @lilyfordelegate.bsky.social, running in VA HD-41

Will Rural America give up on Trump? These small-town activists think so.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Why the jobs report is a mortal threat to Trump The authoritarian project could be doomed unless Trump convinces enough people, fairly quickly, that the economy is booming.

"The authoritarian project could be doomed unless Trump convinces enough people, fairly quickly, that the economy is booming."

www.signorile.com/p/why-the-jo...

Virtually zero legacy media coverage of this statement. A couple of stories, that’s about it. The lies and insane statements have become completely normalized and are largely ignored now by Big Media.

Trump, Abbott and Texas Republicans are way too busy trying to protect Trump. Can't be bothered helping actual Texans

Only person in the state Trump cares about right now is Ghislaine Maxwell

How stupid were you if you thought Trump was going to pay for--or gives a shit about--IVF?

Bonus aspect of Trump firing labor statistics chief is that he's elevated the story of crashing jobs numbers.

Friday story that could be buried is now going for several cycles, complete with the damning fact of the revisions.

Few beyond hardcore cult will actually believe numbers are faked.

How stupid were you if you thought Trump was going to pay for--or gives a shit about--IVF?

shocking

Democratic Lawmakers to Flee Texas in Bid to Halt Redistricting Democratic lawmakers said they are leaving the state of Texas in an effort to temporarily block Republicans from redrawing its congressional maps — a redistricting initiative pushed by President Donald Trump.

Breaking: Democratic lawmakers said they are leaving the state of Texas in an effort to temporarily block Republicans from redrawing its congressional maps — a redistricting initiative pushed by President Donald Trump.

A cover-up in plain sight.

www.axios.com/2025/08/01/v...

This is the subtitle of the piece. Did I miss the winning streak?

"The president had been on something of a winning streak. But when faced with facts and foes that wouldn’t bend to his will, he responded with impatience and disproportionate intensity."

NYT: Lashing out over Russia and Jobs Data, Trump Displays his Volatile Side.

Wait, there's a non-volatile side?

How are these people still writing things like this?

This administration and its supporters have no values, no morals, no principles other than adherence to Trump and seething hatred for anything not-Trump. A despicable pedophilic predator is a hero if not-Trump opposed them. They are less than human.

Trump fires the Commissioner of Labor Statistics after jobs numbers fall short of expectations:

BREAKING on MSNBC:

Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney has confirmed to NBC News that Maxwell has just been moved to a federal prison in Texas.
 
That prison — FPC Bryan in Bryan, TX — is a minimum-security federal prison camp.

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....

Breaking Bloomberg:

The FBI redacted Trump's name in the Epstein files.

"An FBI [Freedom of Information Act] team redacted Trump's name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the documents, according to three people familiar with the matter."
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