NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

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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Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue fever

Virginia resident has state’s 1st locally acquired case of dengue fever - WTOP News

Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue, a viral disease usually associated with international travel.

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They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterday

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Given how close the primary was, it seems likely she could have won if she had held the exact same policy positions but refused campaign money from AIPAC. Hard to imagine other Dem politicians not noticing and learning the lesson.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 13h ago

A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

Michigan is so weird this is the normal way our dogs hold a frisbee

Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · yesterday

I've seen enough. Michigan is a weird state

Seconded. It’s wrong on principle, it’s unamerican—we rejected religious tests for office and dual loyalty smears with JFK, Jewish Americans, more—and every minority (especially but not exclusively religious) should recognize it as yet another assertion that only white Christians are real Americans.

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 21h ago

i really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office

This level of spending actually makes me deeply angry. Let's never do this again in a primary ok

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 21h ago

Unfathomable

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

No cheating, post your lock screen

Atlas (Unreliable Narrator)@atlasboscrispa.bsky.social · yesterday

No cheating, post your lock screen

man, @peters.senate.gov cannot retire soon enough

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · yesterday

Everyone should be calling their Senators right now to put a stink on this bill. But if one of these is your boy, drop what you're doing to take two minutes and tell them NO on SCREEN. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/

house was bitten by a radioactive Laura Ashley

ianVisits@ianvisits.co.uk · 2d ago

If you've ever wanted to live in a MagicEye house... www.anthonywebb.co.uk/properties/2...

Heads up: The Trump Justice Department says it's monitoring polling sites in four Michigan cities today: Detroit, Lansing, East Lansing, and Hamtramck.

A happy, healthy country where people look out for each other out of shared interest in having a decent society has no need for an elite class of horrible spiteful shitheads working constantly to make everyone frightened, angry and resentful.

BREAKING: Reports confirm that Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo has died while detained at Delaney Hall, reportedly due to inadequate medical care. More than 50 people have died in immigration detention under the Trump administration.

ACLU-NJ Responds to the Death of Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo at Delaney Hall  - ACLU of New Jersey

This tragedy is another devastating result of the rampant inhumane conditions at Delaney Hall and detention centers across the country.

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It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

There are more people who've parlayed middling athletic prospects into profitable careers decrying the inclusion of trans women in sports than there are trans women in sports.

As a Muslim I'd like it if a Democratic candidate for senate could be a bit more direct and condemn these kinds of racist comments?

I am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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the wnba alienating their core audience for the sake of people who wouldn’t watch a wnba game to save their child’s life is a bold gambit, to be sure

Animal Collective with Feels, Strawberry Jam, Merriweather Post Pavilion

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

Those of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem:

A good commissioner steps in now before every WNBA game becomes a rightwing performance space, like school board meetings were during peak CRT. You just have to throw the hammer down on this. Do not give them an inch.

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d ago

riley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos

They already got their hours in against Britta Curl-Salemme, Sophie is B team even for sports TERFs in Minnesota

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Sophie Cunningham is getting booed every time she touches the ball here in Minneapolis

“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d ago

Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.

saw Tears of the Black Tiger last night; spent half the movie trying to hoard color palettes for future house decorating purposes

Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 7d ago

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

Dear Prime Healthcare: Welcome to the Streisand Effect. www.youtube.com/shorts/ha7Te...

I Received a Cease and Desist

YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken

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if an elite lobbying effort can convince you that you have to ban trans people from sports to survive in politics you straightforwardly do not have it in you to pass electoral reform, or stand up to the fossil fuel lobby, or do any of the difficult things that have to be done