I am a member of the WHCA but wasn't at the dinner tonight. Instead, I'm checking in on the response from the MAGA forums. They are angry and, even with no real information on what happened, the rhetoric is white hot:
Jen Golbeck
@jengolbeck.bsky.social
Computer scientist, psychologist, journalist. Professor at UMD On the dystopia beat- AI, social media, extremism, radicalization, privacy, information warfare, and bad stuff people do on the internet she/her
I helped consult on this episode of @lastweektonight.com and even got a special thanks over this giant parsnip!
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver@lastweektonight.com · 5mo agoThis week’s main story is about Twitter. Or “X” if you’re a hall monitor. How it went from bad to worse under Elon Musk, how it’s impacting us all, and why there’s exactly one account there that we’re still fine with.
Johnny Young was a self-described incel who went viral for posting videos of himself sexually harassing women and pepper spraying them when they resisted. I wrote about his story and the violence lurking in incel communities for @esquire www.esquire.com/news-politic...
He Filmed Women as He Harassed Them. Incels Made Him Their Hero.
In the dark corners of the Internet, a growing number of angry men fantasize about violence against women. Johnny Young went viral for turning his twisted vision into reality.
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On Friday, Trump signed a proclamation raising fees for H1B visas to $100K. It takes effect tomorrow. H1B workers who are out of the country have been told to return to the US immediately lest they be denied entry. 4Chan & MAGA is trying to block them🧵 magareport.news/p/4chan-trie...
4Chan tries to block Indians from returning to the US - MAGAReport 9/20/25
4Chan and MAGA are trying to book up the flights to H1-B visa holders cannot return, calling it "Operation CLOG THE TOILET"
magareport.news
I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited
Trump's idea to ban trans people from owning guns tests the MAGA faithful who have been 2nd amendment absolutists but who also hate trans people. Today, we learned that humiliating trans people is more important. 2A be damned! Today's MAGAReport: magareport.news/p/maga-finds...
MAGA Finds the Limits to their 2nd Amendment Support: MAGAReport 9/4/25
Banning trans people from owning guns seems like a fine idea
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Me to ChatGPT: give me a diagram of my body when i have a kidney stone and am pregnant. in the style of a school textbook (NB: I am neither pregnant nor do I have a kidney stone)
Today's MAGAReport is about how the hard core MAGAs are so so mad about tweets like this from Gov. Newsom's office open.substack.com/pub/jengolbe...
If you couldn't reach me in the last couple weeks, it's because I've been with @v0max.bsky.social in California in federal court... www.courthousenews.com/meta-violate...
Meta violated privacy law, jury says in menstrual data fight
The jury got to decide how seriously Big Tech takes privacy, the attorney for a class of Flo users said in closing arguments.
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Serge Egelman@v0max.bsky.social · last yr.So, umm, in other news, @jengolbeck.bsky.social and I are partially responsible for Meta now being liable for several billion dollars.
Apropos, jury trial in SF kicks off tomorrow against Flo Health (and Meta) for sharing this type of data with advertisers.
Eerke Boiten@eerkeboiten.bsky.social · last yr.Paper hasn't been peer reviewed yet, but at this point in time (especially in US, but bodily autonomy under threat elsewhere too) I would argue doing any ML research into pregnancy detection is unethical full stop. appleinsider.com/articles/25/...
I was reading a patent years back and fell in love with its illustrations of men looking anguished at computers. Now, I share them with you
MAGA is not buying Trump's line that Dems are creating a "Jeffrey Epstein Hoax". I wrote about the MAGA take in today's MAGA report magareport.news/p/they-think...
"They think we're completely incompetent" - MAGA Rejects Trump's Latest Spin: MAGAReport 7/16/25
Trump's narrative on Epstein is failing as the controversy heats up
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Trump calls the Epstein scandal “bullshit” and says he no longer wants the support of “weaklings” who care about it
In the last 24 hours, a new Epstein narrative has taken hold in the MAGA forums: since the Biden FBI had the files, they probably corrupted them, deleting Dems and adding Trump, so they can't be trusted. magareport.news/p/the-new-ma...
The New MAGA-Epstein Narrative: Biden Corrupted the Files- MAGAReport 7/15/25
In the last couple days, the MAGAs are finding a way out of the Epstein bind with a new conspiracy theory
magareport.news
How the MAGA rank-and-file are responding to the Epstein crisis (tl;dr: they mad!) magareport.news/p/trump-epst...
Trump, Epstein, and the MAGA Fracture - MAGAReport 7/14/25
How MAGA is reacting and what effect it will have (if any)
magareport.news
I am SO PROUD of my friend @gwenfilosamedia.bsky.social, a 2x Pulitzer Prize winning journalist in Key West She broke the news of Key West PD's partnership with ICE that led directly to last night's meeting where the city commission voided the 287(g) agreement gwenfilosa.substack.com/p/key-west-c...
A defiant Key West voids police chief's agreement to help ICE patrols
'We’re Key West, that’s what we do here,' a city commissioner said. But Florida's Attorney General said he's coming after Key West leaders 'very soon.'
gwenfilosa.substack.com
Interesting app - does not collect device ID or IP address, doesn't save your location www.cnn.com/2025/06/30/t...
How is MAGA reacting to the bombing of Iran? They aren't happy about it, but they are sticking by Trump. magareport.news/p/maga-on-ir...
MAGA on Iran Bombing 👎: MAGAReport 6/22/25
Bombing Iran is not "America First"
magareport.news
I wrote a piece about the police shooting at journalists at the LA protests, including me, and what it means for a free press. But I want to make it clear that I know that the big story here is not about journalists, it's about what ICE is doing www.huffpost.com/entry/journa...
I'm A Journalist Covering The LA Protests. Here Are The Shocking Things I Witnessed Police Do.
"Because we were part of the press, bearing witness to what was happening, we initially assumed that we couldn’t possibly be the intended targets."
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I have had like 15 exchanges with ChatGPT trying to get it to change the labels on the axis of a chart and I'm pretty sure it's trying to gaslight me. It absolutely cannot show whole numbers (or no numbers) on that axis, but it says it has!
First time I've seen the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church version of the Proud Boys shirt in the wild since they won the lawsuit that awarded them the trademark. Note the Black Lives Matter at the bottom www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...
I was out doing some photojournalism again today (Thursday) in LA 1/
It's just before 5 PM in Los Angeles and this is the scene in front of City Hall where the downtown protests have been taking place. Send it to anyone who thinks LA is on fire lip
I filled out this form and it said it sent me a six-digit code, but it did not. It would have been funny if it went to spam, but it didn't even go there. Just doesn't work at all
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.This is an official website of the U.S. government
I went to LA to photograph the demonstrations today. Here are some scenes from the day. There were a LOT of police, but the demonstration was peaceful. If a person got too confrontational or loud, the crowd would make them back-off. "Peaceful Protest" was one of the common chants
The calls for the government to use violence against protesters is ramping up on the MAGA forums. I give a glimpse into it in today's MAGAReport. I'm heading to LA tomorrow to cover the protests, so keep an eye out for updates starting Wednesday afternoon. magareport.news/p/appetite-f...
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The @apnews.com just put a photo of the White House Tesla on the wire 👀 newsroom.ap.org/detail/Trump...
Elon and Trump are fighting and it's a real 🍿moment. Musk was live tweeting clapbacks as Trump spoke in the Oval Office today. Here's today's MAGAReport where I go through the drama and show you what the MAGAs are saying (tl;dr- they are on Trump's side) magareport.news/p/elon-and-t...
Elon and Trump are Finally Fighting - MAGAReport 6/5/25
Everyone knew the time would come. Here's what the MAGAs have to say🍿
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I talked to the AP about grok's "white genocide" meltdown. A few hours after publication, xAI admitted to hard coding it. This is important accountability journalism because people use AI as an arbiter of truth & here we see AI owners making the tools match their politics apnews.com/article/elon...
Why was Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok preoccupied with South Africa's racial politics?
Much like its creator, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was preoccupied with South African racial politics on social media this week, posting unsolicited claims about the persecution a...
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