NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

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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Carlson has been talking about this for how many years? I suppose he has more fellow travelers now but for example Elon claimed he would do this, has actual money to do so, hasn’t, and is now just spending on republicans again in the midterms

The payoff to Flynn was a forerunner of what Trump wanted to do with his $1.8B slush fund to pay insurrectionists who beat up cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Republicans are pretending that shameful idea is “dead,” but they could reinstate it after Todd Blanche gets confirmed as AG. 4/4🧵

How Cornyn and Tillis’ deal on Blanche falls short of their demands

Trump has already said the GOP senators didn’t get anything beyond what Todd Blanche had already said.

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After Trump lost in 2020, Flynn threatened a “shooting civil war” and urged Trump to suspend the Constitution and declare martial law so the military could conduct a new election. That’s the kind of person who got $1.25 million of your money. 3/4🧵

Michael Flynn calls for Trump to suspend the constitution and declare martial law to re-run election

‘Only then can the winning candidate be accepted as legitimate’

independent.co.uk

In December 2015, before Trump won the presidency and chose Michael Flynn as his national security adviser, Flynn took a $45,000 fee for giving a speech in Moscow at an event for RT, a state-controlled Russian “news” outlet. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin sat beside him at the banquet. 2/4🧵

Russians paid Mike Flynn $45k for RT speech, documents show

The former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency earned more than $50,00 from giving speeches RT and two other Russian companies.

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🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)

The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.

nytimes.com

🇬🇧🇺🇦 Zelensky: I was delighted to welcome the UK Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting, to Kyiv for the first time. We discussed how the UK can help Ukraine better protect its cities and communities from such ballistic threats.

Unusual drone sighting situation at Leipzig airport in Germany: a drone, possibly armed with some kind of explosive, has been found on the ground at Leipzig airport. Later, an aircraft reported a collision with an unknown object. More info certainly to follow. www.bild.de/regional/lei...

Neue Details zur Sperrung am Flughafen Leipzig: Drohne trug ein Päckchen mit Zünder

Drohne mit möglichem Sprengsatz stoppt Flugbetrieb am Flughafen Leipzig/Halle.

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Spoke to WELTTV about the drone found at Leipzig/Halle airport. Given that it was apparently armed with explosives, the consequences could have been catastrophic.

Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:

Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 24m ago

we should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something

Kyiv claims that a North Korean unit equipped with approximately 120 ballistic missiles is being deployed in Russia. The Allies know what they must do: neutralize the archer rather than attempt, with all the uncertainties that entails, to shoot down the arrow. www.bfmtv.com/internationa...

Kiev affirme qu'une unité nord-coréenne équipée de missiles balistiques se déploie en Russie

Une unité nord-coréenne spécialisée dans le lancement de missiles balistiques a commencé à se déployer dans l'ouest de la Russie et pourrait orienter ses lanceurs en direction de l'Ukraine, a déclaré ...

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The experience of being chased by a murderous kamikaze drone, a flying machine that behaves as if it were alive, is not one that humans are equipped to understand: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Dystopian Future Dawns in Kherson

Putin’s human safari in Ukraine is the beginning of a grim new normal.

theatlantic.com

SEN. COONS: The combination of Trump administration actually imposing sanctions on Russia, buyers of Russian oil and sanction evaders, and giving Ukraine the Patriot PAC-3 interceptors they need and deserve, could resolve this war in a matter of weeks, if not months at the most.

I know we are chalking the success of some leftist candidates almost entirely to the DSA. However, it seems like the more common theme is that these are candidates with organizing experience?

This is 5-year-old Emilia and 10-year-old Sofia Dvornychenko, Russia killed them in a terrorists attack on girls own home in Sumy on August 4. 🕯💔 Russians struck the family's home with a guided aerial bomb, completely destroying it and killing two children…

Good and important messaging, but it is striking how Muslim candidates are repeatedly defamed as “terrorists” and then have to turn around and issue such statements when there is no similar expectation that Christian or Jewish candidates need to do the same for their Muslim-American constituents.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

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?"

WSJ: “.. One problem Republicans face in this year’s midterm elections is that the socialist label has lost its sting. .. On Monday, Mr. Trump told reporters that U.S. oil companies are ‘making too much money.’ He took the words right out of Bernie’s mouth.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/soci...

...Ukraine. “It can't always be bad, good times are bound to come” - a phrase I've often heard throughout my life. Kramatorsk is one of the few remaining large cities in the Donetsk region.

2018: Kostiantynivka, there are no russians. 2026: Kostiantynivka, the russians have arrived.

Amazon says most refunds come from suppliers, not them, and pledges to reimburse customers only in a limited set of circumstances they haven't defined. That vagueness is doing a lot of work. The Supreme Court struck the tariffs down for everyone; companies like Amazon just hold the check.

Police using Flock to warrantless follow people across state lines is an act incompatible with our legal system--especially in a country where many things are legal in some states in criminalized in the other. First we saw it with abortion care, now we will see it with marijuana.

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

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Imagine being a US Senator pretending to care abt the child rape of the Epstein files; and then hiring Todd Blanche to help protect the rapists.

“AI slop is for pussies” is a slogan I can get behind because it resonates.

It is a GENIUS messaging strategy to link AI and data centers to dick swinging toxic masculinity and I want more of it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

El-Sayed: "Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can make himself feel a little more manly by making an AI video ... he's a guy who went back to Florida so he could lick every single boot Donald Trump owns to bet for his endorsement."

Fraud Force? With the Trumpnazis, the goal is to promote fraud, not prevent it.

Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D.@drharmony.net · 1h ago

couch fucker doing a fraud theater thing to distract from our economy collapsing, our loss of the iran war, our loss of the petro dollar, murdered soldiers, and the epstein files www.youtube.com/watch?v=zot3...

In the US, zero emissions buses accounted for only 5.6% of total new bus registrations in recent data theicct.org/publication/... US is absolutely falling behind on this metric, and things seem to be getting worse in recent months.

Warspitefella 🇬🇧🇺🇦@warspitefella.bsky.social · 9h ago

Electric Buses Point of no return - have gone from 12% to 56% of new city bus sales in Europe in just 6yrs Europe's 2035 target of 100% zero emission bus sales could be reached as early as 2028 Bravo Europe 🇪🇺!

as noted yesterday, Trump has now come around to treating an Iranian toll system covering the Strait of Hormuz as a given. Hard to overstate the level of strategic failure. US started the war purely as a war of choice and ends up dramatically empowering Iran and given the Iranian govt big wins.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2h ago

Reuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be ​unlikely to risk transit without paying."

btw if you’re ticked at AIPAC for whatever reason them spending a maximum amount of money to barely lose is ideal, 10/10, just as a pure matter of don’t-know-ball and forward outcome for them as an organization. this cycle has been catastrophic for them purely in terms of inputs and outputs

Fascist funding from AIPAC and oligarch Harlan Crow is why. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

BLITZER: Why is Israel, another country, your red line right now, rather than a domestic issue that impacts Americans' everyday lives? FETTERMAN: Yeah, absolutely. And I agree with a lot of Democrats too. I called trash Platner.