NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

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New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

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Hang it up, Nick. Nobody’s going to let you rest as long as you work for Bari.

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Scoop: New "60 Minutes" boss Nick Bilton sent a memo to staff about leaks, which naturally leaked to @status.news. Details here: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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NEW: In 2025 ICE obtained DNA from nearly one million people and funneled it into an FBI criminal database. The collection likely included DNA from young children and was backed by the threat of criminal prosecution. The raw genetic material is stored indefinitely. Free to read:

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

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For decades, people have talked about the toxic food environment and how it’s stacked against most people. For decades, little’s changed policy-wise, even in this #maha moment. I increasingly think there’s only one way out. That way is litigation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/o...

Opinion | Want a Better Food System? Use the Anti-Tobacco Playbook. (Gift Article)

A teenager’s lawsuit against the food industry shows us the path to a better food system.

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Trump truly is the master of disinformation. “I think Minnesota is behind it,” Mr. Trump said on Friday in response to a reporter’s question about Iran’s possible involvement. “I don’t think there was an Iranian cyberattack.”

Dustin Volz@dustinvolz.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: The known reach of cyberattacks on water systems continues to expand to include Michigan + other states and could be far wider. Officials say Iran remains top suspect despite Trump's rejection of the notion. Water remains safe, but experts are spooked www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...

Idiocracy rules.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d ago

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Carlos Cordeiro, FIFA's adviser on the White House Task Force for the World Cup, resigns in protest at its private equity plan.

FIFA adviser on White House Task Force for World Cup resigns in protest at private equity plan

Senior FIFA adviser Carlos Cordeiro, who represented the soccer body on the White House Task Force for the World Cup, has resigned in protest at its private equity plan.

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From @kaine.senate.gov's remarks about the Trump administration's lethal, illegal boat strikes, delivered on the Senate floor yesterday. (In this part of the Congressional Record: www.congress.gov/congressiona...)

Durov did not directly comment on the charges. Shortly after they were made public, however, Telegram’s account on the social media site X posted an old image of him raising his middle finger. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/w...

Russia Charges Telegram’s Founder Pavel Durov With Facilitating Terrorism

The case against Pavel Durov reflected an ongoing fight over one of the world’s most popular messaging and media apps, which is widely used in the country.

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NDAs between public officials and Facebook enabled this project. We should not be allowing NDAs between public officials and private companies - especially when laws are subsequently written in secret, as here, to benefit the plutocrats. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

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Who else is investigating this? @apnews.com @nytimes.com @miamiherald.com @reuters.com @elpais.com State-backed murder? What exactly was the slain prosecutor finding out about U.S. military killings?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last wk.

Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...

Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...

I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms

Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda

Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news.

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The shameful end of protected status for Haitians demands resistance in NYC to deportation sweeps: “Socialist New York can be the first city to channel the widespread anger and disgust at ICE into a concrete municipal agenda that other towns, cities and states can adapt to their own circumstances.”

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · last wk.

There’s a fight that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has been deferring. Now that TPS for Haitians is gone, he can’t defer it any longer. The road to abolishing ICE begins with local obstruction — not just the noncooperation of so-called sanctuary laws. And not taking it risks discrediting socialism.

Ah, the time-worn narcotrafficking balloon metaphor …. Obviously blowing up low-level cocaine smugglers on the high seas doesn’t dent trafficking. It’s the murderous, snuff film-producing ego-flexing of a hypocrite who pardons friendly traffickers (Hernandez). www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.

The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.

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“For those of us who lost friends bringing democracy to other countries, it’s incredibly noxious seeing this secretary using American power to undermine credible elections in other countries for ideological purposes.” Quite the quote from a senior State Department official.

Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 2w ago

UPDATE Brazil has denied visas to the two State Department officials Trump planned to send to undermine confidence in the country’s electoral system

“All of them said very strongly, ‘Finish that ballroom.’”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"

The containment was inadequate, simply. Good analysis on the OpenAI/Hugging Face breach that argues for govt oversight. Problem is, our govt is neither serious nor responsible.

Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻@k8em0.bsky.social · 2w ago

The experiment escaped the lab. OpenAI's models broke containment and breached Hugging Face. We are holding radium in our bare hands. What governments and organizations should do next, and why tighter commercial guardrails are exactly the wrong move: www.lutasecurity.com/post/openfac...

“The USA is engaged in a war of choice to defeat itself.” Utter madness and the U.S. Congress, rather that putting an end to Trump’s hubris-fueled folly, is inert.

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 2w ago

New Midweek Update Out (mostly free). The US is weakening itself every day with this war against Iran. It is running down weapons stocks, degrading US institutions, alienating allies and strengthening China. Iranian strategy is proving itself superior. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

INBOX: the last dedicated science reporter at The Wall Street Journal, @aylinwoodward.bsky.social, has left the newsroom. This came after the Murdoch-owned newspaper dissolved its Health and Science Bureau last October. NPR, CBS, and WaPo also gutted their climate desks in the last eight months.

Melia, a major Spanish hotel chain, says it will completely shutter its operations in Cuba because of operational and financial difficulties on the Caribbean island nation linked to U.S. sanctions and an energy blockade.

Spanish hotel chain Meliá is leaving Cuba because of legal and financial hurdles from US sanctions

Meliá, a major Spanish hotel chain, says it will completely shutter its operations in Cuba because of operational and financial difficulties on the Caribbean island nation linked to U.S. sanctions and an energy blockade.

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Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

Thomson Reuters apparently whoring its vast data repositories to assist Trump regime election subterfuge.

404 Media@404media.co · 3w ago

NEW: DHS plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to its databases which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation information — to help ICE investigate “voter fraud”, according to documents reviewed by 404 Media.

Thomson Reuters apparently whoring its vast data repositories to assist Trump regime election subterfuge.

404 Media@404media.co · 3w ago

NEW: DHS plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to its databases which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation information — to help ICE investigate “voter fraud”, according to documents reviewed by 404 Media.