I’m embarrassed reading these same headlines week after week. Imagine what it must be like to write them
Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 4h ago
James Fredrick
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Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 4h agoGonna be a contrarian here and say this might work because there’s literally no food in this country like Chipotle. However, if Chipotle insists on calling their slow roasted beef “barbacoa” and their pulled pork “carnitas”, no chance it works
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2d agoThe first of what executives hope could be as many as 200 Chipotles opened this month at a large shopping mall in the Monterrey area of Mexico, bringing to life what might seem an absurd proposition — one that Taco Bell attempted, and failed at, twice.
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...
A company offering printed books to AI companies to train on because they’re free of AI slop has stopped after our reporting. Thanks to 404 Media subscribers, we’re able to continue reporting stories that bring real life impact. Read now: www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
Turned one of the country’s best opinion sections into one of the most staid and irrelevant: mission accomplished!
Natalie Korach@nataliekorach.bsky.social · 5d agoNew: Washington Post Opinion editor Adam O’Neal is leaving, he announced in an internal memo Friday
IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
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at least Nigeria ended up in the same region. you'll never believe where they put Cameroon and Ivory Coast lmfao
Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."
Honestly, I’m offended Victor Marx is bringing this weird swamp Pentecostal shit to Colorado. We have our own evangelical weirdos (see: Focus on the Damily, New Life Church, et al). We don’t need new ones!
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · last wk.Colorado GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx says God has given him a "gift" to uncover people's demons and rid them of evil spirits through a specialized prayer. Marx says you, too, can learn how to do it. The eight-part course is $99. www.9news.com/article/news...
I don’t know if anyone has ever combined investigative journalism and (not sleazy) entertainment like this before. @pablo.show is a genius His ongoing reporting also makes it so clear how there are basically no other sports journalists anymore: they’re all either fans, stenographers, or commentators
Pablo Torre@pablo.show · 7d agoWe brought @davidpsamson.bsky.social and @darthamin.bsky.social back for this. Come join us in the chat at 8p ET: youtu.be/k7yjAxUqmTg?...
I don’t know if anyone has ever combined investigative journalism and (not sleazy) entertainment like this before. @pablo.show is a genius His ongoing reporting also makes it so clear how there are basically no other sports journalists anymore: they’re all either fans, stenographers, or commentators
Pablo Torre@pablo.show · 7d agoWe brought @davidpsamson.bsky.social and @darthamin.bsky.social back for this. Come join us in the chat at 8p ET: youtu.be/k7yjAxUqmTg?...
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult
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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A good design decision to put the domestic money at the bottom, so you can see that it — putatively Trump’s real business genius — barely moved at all.
Why has bombing 67 civilian boats failed to make a dent in US cocaine supplies? Maybe because "small boats on the high seas" is just one of a menu of options that nimble drug traffickers can choose from. See WOLA's new report on the boat strikes at www.wola.org/analysis/kil...
![Smuggling inside shipping containers aboard boats carrying licit cargo. No estimates exist for how many tons of cocaine are smuggled this way each year, because it is impossible to know what has gone undetected. However, large-scale container seizures have become more frequent in recent years, especially at European ports.[236]
Submarines and semi-submersible craft. These have larger payloads than small boats and are harder to detect. Authorities in Colombia and Ecuador periodically raid sites, often hidden in dense Pacific mangrove estuaries, where traffickers build these vessels.[237]
Small boats making short hops up the coasts of South and Central America. This is more time-consuming than using the open ocean and probably requires paying off more corrupt authorities along the way. However, it involves less time in international waters and is less vulnerable to interdiction, lethal or otherwise, from U.S. forces.
Overland transshipment, usually along road networks, perhaps combined with shorter maritime routes. Land routes are the principal vector for migrant smuggling, and drugs are harder to detect and easier to conceal than humans.
Riverine routes. Traffickers are particularly using the Orinoco and Amazon rivers, and their tributaries, to move cocaine to eastern areas of South America, closer to markets in Europe. The Defense Department’s Humire testified that, in response to the boat strikes, traffickers’ “movements shifted eastward through Venezuela and Guyana into Suriname.”[238]
Aerial routes. Smuggling via small aircraft appears to be less frequent than it was during the 20th century, as U.S.-backed “airbridge denial” programs in Colombia, Peru, Honduras, and elsewhere—which today rarely kill people aboard civilian planes—have made aircraft easier to detect and intercept at their destinations. Still, a significant portion of cocaine travels at least part of the way by air. During the 2010s, maps produced by SOUTHCOM estimated that aerial trafficking made u…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t5hgkoxrsxpe3wfisqfeymg5/bafkreigpmyec34kifhfilsd7ek5xd4prn6vbmnkrxo7x5hnj5s2pveqa5y)
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to hang out in the middle east while he starts the same war every day. when a missile blasts you into pieces he'll say your last words were "we must build a new ballroom in the white house" before your body is even cold. good luck soldier
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"
This Friday, we're releasing "Killing Spree," the first report covering all aspects of the lethal US boat strike campaign: why it's illegal, the sloppy targeting, the victims, other countries' roles, the failure to affect drug supplies, and how to hold people accountable. More soon.
An AI is the ultimate Yes Man. For a lot of us, this is a downside, but if you think you’re the main character of reality, this is a feature.
I regret to report from Mexico City that AI slop has reached street food stands
I wrote about being at the FIFA World Cup final and the entire sordid scene. I spoke to a few people who bought five-figure tickets. I tried to make sense of the senseless. @defector.com (This is a gift link, but you should subscribe to Defector, the rare outlet that would commission this.)
FIFA Got What It Came For | Defector
A WELL-KNOWN VENUE IN THE MEADOWLANDS THAT FIFA WOULD THANK YOU TO CALL “NEW YORK NEW JERSEY STADIUM” BECAUSE IT DIDN’T GET PAID BY THAT STADIUM’S CORPORATE SPONSOR — The grass told the entire story. ...
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I LOVED watching the World Cup, so much so that I almost cried watching that BBC end credits highlight reel. AND This story from @leanderalphabet.bsky.social just makes the whole spectacle baffling. Do we really have to let FIFA plunder and ruin everything to put on a World Cup?
Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens@leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 2w agoI wrote about being at the FIFA World Cup final and the entire sordid scene. I spoke to a few people who bought five-figure tickets. I tried to make sense of the senseless. @defector.com (This is a gift link, but you should subscribe to Defector, the rare outlet that would commission this.)
If you haven't seen it yet, BBC's montage at the end of the World Cup was fucking tremendous www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Fi...
BBC FIFA World Cup 2026 Closing Montage
YouTube video by Pick Six Productions Xtra
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🚨GLOVES OFF🚨 Tim and his ex duke it out on air. InfoWarriors, it's time to weigh in: who deserves that horse?
I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.
Opinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.
Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.
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ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:
He died at Irwin, the detention center made notorious by allegations of unwanted gynecological procedures, and that Biden had shut down. Trump reopened it. Now it’s the site of yet another death in ICE detention following claims of medical neglect.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3w agoICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:
