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Trump rode to political prominence on birtherism and spent the last month of his campaign claiming that Haitians were eating cats. The rise of authoritarianism in America *must* be understood as a misinformation crisis.

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

submitted 10 days ago • 740 comments

I know complaining about NYT headlines is old hat, but this is NUTS to me – every word choice glamorizes him as an exciting provocative badass, instead of focusing on the danger and illegality of what’s happening

submitted 18 days ago • 166 comments

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

submitted 20 days ago • 1097 comments

the right seized on a small group of people they thought couldn’t fight back, who they could scapegoat for any and everything, and then likened those people’s freedom to the collapse of the nation—and those in power who said they opposed such things failed to stop them

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

You spend years platforming and agreeing with Nazis and the next thing you know people are not charitably interpreting a hand gesture

submitted 32 days ago • 26 comments

A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up

submitted 55 days ago • 177 comments

"An artist needs to have control of every aspect of a painting. A writer needs to have control over every sentence in a novel. And you simply cannot have control over every sentence in a novel if all you gave was a pretty short text prompt."

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

the important question isn’t “did Harris lose because the left is too woke?” it’s “why isn’t Donald Trump in federal prison?” We’re being subjected to lectures about politics by the people who held all of the power and let this dipshit slip through their grasp.

submitted 103 days ago • 202 comments

This is the whole ballgame for me: You cannot run a functioning democracy in a media environment where voters do not know basic facts about what candidates do and believe. Voters are living in a post-internet world and legacy institutions have not kept up.

submitted 108 days ago • 87 comments

שיר של יום

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

lol this is amazing: at the Winter Youth Olympic Games last month a speed skater in a longer distance (1500m) short track race lapped the field at the start and then settled in at the back of the pack and the other competitors forgot she was a lap ahead of them www.sbnation.com/2024/2/2/240...?

submitted 386 days ago • 5 comments