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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El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
In 2018, Abdul El-Sayed lost his primary for governor to the normie Midwestern Democrat Whitmer and Stevens flipped a red seat. It reflected how Democratic voters wanted a "return to normal." Now, they think "normal got us Trump." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Progressives leave primaries as victors - but its not the night they hoped for
Abdul El-Sayed pulled off a victory for the left thanks to Democratic voter frustration. But it was not on the level progressives wanted, Eric Garcia writes
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$1,388 per taxpayer is being devoted to mass deportation in my hometown of Bakersfield, CA. Or nearly $150 million total, which could have funded 390 school teachers. Or medical care for over 2,200 veterans. Or 6,600 public housing units. Or 63,422 SNAP recipients. Or 386 firefighters. Or, or, or...
MeteorBlades@meteorblades.bsky.social · 16h agowww.epi.org/deportation-... The Economic Policy Institute has released the Cost of Deportations Calculator. The tool shows how many tax dollars are paying for deportations in each state, county, and city. The calculator shows what that money could be spent on instead—such as school teachers.
President Donald Trump’s administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families, an AP investigation has found.
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
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For months, the Trump administration has refused to pay lawyers and organizations that represent unaccompanied kids. Groups like the Defending Our Neighbors Fund are stepping up to fill the gaps and support trusted legal groups, but many kids face the real and tragic risk of facing court alone.
Trump Has A Tactic To Make It Easier To Deport Children
“We know what happens when children go to court without an attorney,” a lawyer said. “One word: deportation.”
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His point was that teaching more words to the word-guessing program would produce consciousness, an argument I always liken to "breeding horses to run faster and faster until one of them foals a locomotive." 11/
"A new analysis of Black voters in the South indicates that Republican attempts to dilute their political power is driving them to the polls in larger numbers and shifting their counties further left."
Republican disenfranchisement bid drives Black voters to polls, study finds
Black voters in south motivated to turn out by Republican push to redraw maps after supreme court ruling
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In its most recent quarterly financial report, Palantir reported $1.28 billion in total US revenue. Of that amount, $687 million came from U.S. taxpayer-funded agencies—an EIGHTY FOUR PERCENT INCREASE year-over-year. Cool. Cool … 1/
BREAKING: New York just sued Kalshi — alleging it’s an illegal gambling operation. New York AG Letitia James alleges Kalshi failed to obtain a state gambling license and pay taxes. Her office is seeking an order enjoining Kalshi’s operations, plus fines, restitution and forfeiture of profits.
New York sues prediction market Kalshi alleging it’s an illegal gambling operation | CNN Politics
The New York attorney general’s office is suing Kalshi, one of the largest prediction markets, alleging it’s running an illegal gambling operation in the state.
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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...
ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds say
Immigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.
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36 years after the ADA, disabled people live in a eugenicist hellscape run by monsters trying to preferentially kill us --- and succeeding. My list of the shit the Trump Regime has done since 1/20/25 is public. No Patreon login required; please share it. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
The Day After ADA Day | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
On July 26, 1990, George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. Thirty-six years later, we find ourselves in a eugen
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Tim Bernard reviews a new preprint study by Jeba Sania, Marta Ziosi, and Fazl Barez examining how six AI systems across democracies and autocracies embed features that can enable authoritarian practices.
Researchers Detail How AI Systems Can Enable Authoritarianism
A new preprint study of authoritarianism-enabling AI presents another set of evidence of the gaps in safeguards, writes Tim Bernard.
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This year’s devastating snow drought along the upper Colorado River was made 14 times more likely by climate change, according to new research. "Lower emissions scenarios would reduce this risk and should be pursued ambitiously." coloradosun.com/2026/07/22/c... @coloradosun.com
Colorado drought increasingly linked to long-term climate change
Climate change has made a repeat of this year's historic low snowpack 14 times more likely, Colorado School of Mines researchers say
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FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.
Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI "Pervert Glasses"
Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen.
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National reporting on the sentencing missed the actual story almost entirely: that a group of people opposed to the government’s ethnic cleansing policies were given decades-long prison terms for their political views and the exercise of their First Amendment right to protest.
Corporate Media Failed to Report the Facts and the Stakes of the Prairieland Case
The extremely harsh sentences for Texas anti-ICE protesters did not set off any alarm bells among mainstream papers, and were underreported by national news outlets that should have covered their clearly national implications.
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"Your government is making the most vulnerable Americans jump over more and more bureaucratic hurdles, rooting for them to fall, so that it can take the money it would have spent helping them and give it to the richest Americans."
Scott Cory@jscottcory.bsky.social · 2w agoRead this. The cruelty is the point. Thank you @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social for synthesizing and humanizing the data being returned from the impact of the Trump Regime and its enablers' catastrophic and existential policy choices.
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Free newsletter: The $500bn in AI data center debt is the subprime mortgage crisis of the AI bubble. The dangerous financial instruments and SPVs funding the data center buildout pose a systemic risk on the level of the great financial crisis. www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-data-center-crisis/
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"Galloway has been somewhat critical of higher education... suggesting that such schools should lose their tax-exempt status."
Brendan Cantwell@cantb.bsky.social · 2w ago
Instagram influencers are repeatedly going viral by making fake cease-and-desist letters from Flock that suggest they are at risk by talking about surveillance. These videos have millions of views. Meanwhile, useful projects like DeFlock got actual cease-and-desists www.404media.co/the-rise-of-...
The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout
Instagram influencers are creating fake cease-and-desist letters, making themselves go viral and muddying the waters about mass surveillance.
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You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...
A report from 1937 Germany. Seems a lot like ICE in 2026 America.
Live your life free from all potential sources of friction and human emotion. It's called elevating human consciousness, sweaty, and it's inevitable.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago“…the team of researchers found that large language models, or LLMs, can potentially act as a surrogate in facilitating those serious illness conversations.”
I can’t wait to read this book. It will be a necessary archive of the Biden administration’s aiding and abetting (and sometimes actively collaborating) with Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s actions in Gaza.
Akbar Shahid Ahmed@akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · 2w agoBiden's team had 16 months of warnings about their policy Gaza & moral, legal + strategic reasons to change course. They consistently chose to fuel Israeli violence. Now, they're trying to recast their record + views. My book charts how they acted when it most counted: wwnorton.com/books/978132...