🤮 Why is this still being allowed to happen? If the federal government refuses to act to shut this down, can’t state AGs sue?

WIRED@wired.com · 6h ago

Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

NEW: The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump’s grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there: presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...

The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump's grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there | Press Watch

Journalists are treating his ‘vandalism’ claim as if it were a normal, disputable argument. But it’s completely delusional.

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"Unfortunately, I can't give anyone a view into my heart and mind." Why? Are you unfamiliar with them? Ellison's whole "I'm not allowed to express my specific political opinions here, but trust me" approach is transparent nonsense. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

Opinion | David Ellison: In Defense of the Paramount-Warner Deal

The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of CNN

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And meanwhile the actual current HHS secretary is openly promoting sending children to work camps in lieu of mental health treatment but sure, imaginary quarantine camps that never happened are the real threat

The NIH has quietly dropped its loan repayment program for researchers doing health disparities research and for researchers from disadvantaged backgrounds. As an LRP awardee who had six figures in medical schools loans, I know how transformative this funding can be. Losing this funding will…

Wait, what? He doesn’t have to pay if he actually owes taxes? So again, he simply doesn’t have to obey tax law if he doesn’t want to? How is this remotely reasonable?

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

America votes in more than 10,000 different election jurisdictions, each with different rules set by state and sometimes local governments. That structure makes the nation's elections extraordinarily complicated — and also safe from widespread fraud. https://to.pbs.org/3T4duz3

Here's what makes American elections so complicated and secure

One of the strongest security features of U.S. elections is the fact that they aren’t conducted at the federal level.

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This story ran 14 months after the pandemic hit NYC www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/u...

Bodies of Covid-19 victims are still stored in refrigerated trucks in NYC | CNN

The bodies of New York City coronavirus victims are still being stored in refrigerated trailers converted into makeshift morgues during the height of the pandemic one year ago, according to the medica...

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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

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If you're curious about how the right is going to try to frame the horrific fires in Spokane Washington, it looks like they plan to blame them on homeless people, local (DEM) city leadership, and state (DEM) mismanagement of forests. So, many of the same frames as the LA fires.

We opened an ICU that had been shuttered for well over a decade so that a hospital that has 18 MICU beds could fit 46 patients on ventilators

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Shouldn’t be shocked at any lie RFK Jr tells, but he whined to Dana Bash that businesses were shut down during the pandemic “with no just compensation.” There was an almost trillion dollar PPP loan program, and his organization got millions from it, none of it paid back, to make payroll.

He’s a roadkill enthusiast not a scientist

JD Vance in the Washington Post in February.

Heritage foundation said less than a month ago that after the SCOTUS ruling on trans sports in Idaho they were gonna move to eliminate Title IX and women’s sports to emphasize activities like Yoga which “promote fertility” 🤢

Here's the original story from last year. It's so grim & vicious — imagine if North Korean commandoes slaughtered a bunch of American fisherman & then disposed of their bodies — that you can understand why Trump & co want to punish the reporters who revealed it: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart (Gift Article)

The 2019 operation, greenlit by President Trump, sought a strategic edge. It left unarmed North Koreans dead.

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He’s just repeating ludicrous conspiracy theories at this point. Again, we know what causes Lyme disease: a bacterium that existed long before we discovered it. That’s science! Meanwhile, measles rages on. And Cyclospora. And Ebola spreading in Africa now that HHS and US AID have been decimated.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Just shameless lying. I reported on this in 2020. Many hospitals were overrun *and literally forced to make their own protective equipment.* They were desperate for a reprieve. Loudly pretending all of this didn’t happen is .. a choice. A really bad, horribly irresponsible one.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr: Trump wanted to end lockdowns. In Fauci's diary, he talks about how the president was calling him trying to get him to reopen the country BASH: The lockdowns were down by governors K: They cited Fauci B: Govs were hearing from hospitals that their ICUs were overrun K: That's not true

This week hackers penetrated critical infrastructure in 7 US states. Rather than developing a plan to mitigate and counter Trump blamed.....Tim Walz? It's a searing sign of how vulnerable US has become under Trump & why we must fight now for a better path 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-ter...

Trump's Terrible Presidency Is Leaving America Weaker, More Vulnerable Now. Democrats Must Step Up And Aggressively Fight For A New And Better Way

Trump's global wrecking ball is leaving the world, and America, far less safe. We cannot wait until next year to force a course correction......

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Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?

Like the hypocrisy and the open corruption, the naked, brazen lying is itself aspiring authoritarianism. They aren't lying to cover anything up. They're saying, "We know we're lying. You know we're lying. And we know you know we're lying. And there's nothing you can do about it."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it

That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...

This. Just monstrous. The vaccine, the very one that saved millions of lives (and won a special commendation from Trump!) has been twisted into a villain - and by association, Fauci. The revisionist history on full display by FOX and the GOP is as ludicrous as it is vile. Shame on all of them.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 5d ago

10. The slander is such that millions of Fox viewers now believe, years later, that the man most responsible for saving their lives is actually the most responsible for the decimation of trust in government. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Just shameless, ludicrous lying. Now proven as such. Again, this is precisely why responsible media should relentlessly question *everything* this administration says. Everything.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it

Kinda wild that @jamellebouie.net is the only person saying this clearly in a high-profile media outlet, but I'm so glad he is.

Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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Least surprising news ever.

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...

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Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d ago

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

huh the only fast casual restaurant that's thriving hates AI wonder if that means anything

It’s exhausting. For years, decades, right wing media have lied and told us #climate breakdown was just woke nonsense. Now, it’s whoopsies, yes it’s real, but relax everyone & enjoy our new “Mediterranean” climate as Europe goes up in flames around us.