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The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

Funny how all the most predatory & dangerous pedophiles are attracted to power positions in the Republican Party.

That’s what happens when your party openly presents as the party of unaccountable behavior.

Sixty Russian agents identified: Prigozhin’s influence network taken over by the foreign intelligence service - Forbidden Stories A data leak has allowed Forbidden Stories to identify more than 60 of its agents tasked with expanding Moscow’s disinformation efforts across three continents.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service controls a sprawling network of propaganda agents. A data leak has allowed Forbidden Stories to identify more than 60 of its agents tasked with expanding Moscow’s disinfo efforts across three continents. Here they are: forbiddenstories.org/russian-agen...

Dozens of U.S. Planes Are at Jordan Base, Satellite Images and Flight Data Show

War, on the mark of three... But Americans are too busy enjoying their Olympics. Satellite images from today show at least 70 U.S. military aircraft of various types are parked at Muwaffaq Salti air base in Jordan -- a massive influx over just a few days.

Historian here Bayer living up to its tradition of supplying the gas for concentration camps in Nazi Germany.

Correct.

Rep. Jody Barrett (Left)
Sen. Mark Pody (Right)

I hope John Roberts signed all his mortgage paperwork correctly

Is he referring to Opus Dei?

I dunno. Looks fine to me. Neat and tidy. My cupboards are full to the ceiling with packed boxes and totes right now. Next stop likely overseas.

Please continue to share this until all the questions are answered!!!

According to Kristi Noem, when you name-call government officials like this, you are encouraging other people to assassinate them—and that is treason.

In the backyard of a school in one of #Kyiv’s districts, where many homes remain without heating due to Russian strikes, the smell of fresh bread fills the air.

It’s 43-year-old French volunteer Loïc Nervi baking bread in his mobile bakery.

I’m all for combative primaries but this is ugly shit

🇺🇦🤝🏻🇵🇱 Poland continues to finance Starlink's work in Ukraine

During a full-scale war, Poland transferred over 29,000 Starlink terminals and continues to financially support their operation. This is a colossal contribution to the resilience of Ukraine.

‘A war room’: Inside Epstein’s campaign to influence public opinion Epstein turned to a group of some of his closest confidants to help him counter the public narrative after a Miami Herald investigation.

Here’s a gift link to a Miami Herald story about Epstein’s pals who tried to help him develop a positive spin about his rape of children:
/ Steve Bannon, Trump ally
/ Ken Starr, ex-solicitor general
/ Kathyrn Ruemmler, Obama ex-deputy counsel
/ Michael Wolff, “journalist”
/ Noam Chomsky, academic

Your now-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress are okay with all of this...

Chuck Schumer: "I will fight for aid to Israel. All the aid that Israel needs! I will continue to fight for it and we delivered more assistance than any other ally under my leadership than ever, ever before!"

Israelis have free healthcare while ~200,000 Americans die each year without healthcare.

YES.

You want transparency?

DOJ Deleted Record Revealing That Maxwell Holds Potential Blackmail Over Trump The document, which was re-posted after I reported the removal, shows Maxwell's lawyers possess three FBI interviews with an underage Trump accuser that haven't been released to the public.

Roger Sollenberger: DOJ Deleted Record Revealing That Maxwell Holds Potential Blackmail Over Trump. The document, which was re-posted after I reported the removal, shows Maxwell's lawyers possess three FBI interviews with an underage Trump accuser that haven't been released to the public.

Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporter

An IT blunder suddenly reveals a network of companies that exist to launder the export of Russian oil and gas. www.ft.com/content/4310...

I don't listen to lying criminals and neither should you.

Jess is going to Harvard 🎓 @piperformissouri.bsky.social
/ @lesliejones4mo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social @angeloftheozarks.bsky.social @anneserling.bsky.social @morgfair.bsky.social @harttandsoul.bsky.social @tebarrett.bsky.social @stltoday.com @kansascity.com

Oklahoma Senate Republicans introduced a bill last month which aims to prohibit non-governmental organizations including churches and charities from providing support such as food, shelter, or clothing, to undocumented immigrants or asylum seekers.

Roughly 70% of Oklahomans identify as Christian.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

White House moves Obama portrait to display painting of Trump after assassination attempt The new Trump painting takes a spot traditionally reserved for the most recent official presidential portrait.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

A fake assassination attempt that only succeeded in murdering two people does not belong anywhere in the public domain.

Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.

Donald Trump giving the Waldorf Astoria treatment to drug kingpins.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“When a jurist of his stature, background, and conservative pedigree warns of an existential threat and calls for civic courage, we all must listen.”

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