It's insane how AI is ruining art. Even artists themselves need to prove they made every single part of their pieces to show they aren't machines. Paradoxically, non-artists refuse to get artists' art, use AI and praise it and its low-cost. Open the schools, protect artists.

This is quickly becoming a worryingly specific pattern.

J.D. Vance called Trump Hitler.

Another one. PRRI asked adults how much they agreed "Immigrants are invading our country & replacing our cultural/ethnic background." States where people are more likely to affirm that "replacement" narrative are those w/the FEWEST immigrants. It's about fear, not exposure.

"Only 12% of GOP respondents said they feel very safe or somewhat safe in the Twin Cities compared to 87% of Democrat respondents."

This was what Trump was posting right before the incident at his golf course. The idea he doesn't use inflammatory rhetoric is ridiculous.

Rich Lowry, the editor of the right-wing National Review, uses the N word to describe Haitians.

Per Fortune, Twitter's revenue has collapsed by approximately 84% since Elon's takeover. fortune.com/2024/08/15/elo…

We have been able to verify that the footage of Rich Lowry's apparent “Haitian N-word” comment on Megyn Kelly’s show is real. Here is a screen recording of the original video.

After the Parkland school shooting (by a Trump-radicalized shooter), Florida Republicans passed a law putting armed police in every school, arresting kids as young as *6 years old* for minor infractions. But Ryan Wesley Routh was able to buy an AK-47 no questions asked.

Reminder.

Nah. You know exactly what you did. You misspoke. You didn’t mispronounce. We just got a window into who you really are. Because since when does “migrant” start w/ an “n”?🤔

EXCLUSIVE ---U.S. Secret Service showed a new president Donald Trump how photographers could shoot long-range pictures of him while he golfed at his Va. club -- and warned an assassin could kill him the same way. But Trump has insisted that his clubs were safe and kept playing. How

400 years into the American project and most whites are still racist.

Folks are at Atlanta City Council today, asking the city to force a vote on Cop City after ignoring 115,000 signatures asking for a referendum. They stopped the livestream and I’m hearing there are threats of arrest. Democracy!

Trump, his campaign, and many Congressional Republicans directly organized and encouraged the insurrection during Jan 6. If Democrats had personally recruited and directed the shooters, that would be a fair comparison. But they didn’t.

BREAKING META, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has banned RT and other Russian state media outlets from its platforms. "After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and

Oh shit!!!!

So much for the tough guy routine. After weeks of terrorizing entire communities with glee, one man hiding in the bushes and now VD is begging, pleading for peace. Not for the people he (continues to) target. But for himself and his friends.