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I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
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How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point
Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.
spitfirenews.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
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The fuck is he talking about? You don’t have to say an “if trump” he calls his media enemies the “enemy of the people” a term used by the Khmer Rouge to describe its many torture and murder victims; can someone check the tape on whether this dipshit - whose desk I asked to spit on when I first…
Matt Taibbi has been melting down over Zohran Mamdani saying "collectivism" and now he's comparing Mamdani to Stalin.
January 3, 2026 at 2:45 AM
The fuck is he talking about? You don’t have to say an “if trump” he calls his media enemies the “enemy of the people” a term used by the Khmer Rouge to describe its many torture and murder victims; can someone check the tape on whether this dipshit - whose desk I asked to spit on when I first…
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The Iranian regime divides and isolates the opposition, writes Saeid Golkar, which is how it survives mass discontent. Also it has help from friends in China and Russia
open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
Why the Iranian Regime Endures
Protests have broken out across the country. We’ve been here before.
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The Iranian regime divides and isolates the opposition, writes Saeid Golkar, which is how it survives mass discontent. Also it has help from friends in China and Russia
open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
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Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business
Banks Notch Higher Fees From Green Bonds Than Fossil Fuel Debt
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business.
bloom.bg
January 2, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business
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Yes, Trump is the January 6th president, not only because of his own actions since that day, but because his coordinated, violent attack on democracy appealed to people who hate the US and its institutions, and because they now staff his administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Yes, Trump is the January 6th president, not only because of his own actions since that day, but because his coordinated, violent attack on democracy appealed to people who hate the US and its institutions, and because they now staff his administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
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Remember that there is a legitimately elected president of Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez. He won the election in 2024.
January 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Remember that there is a legitimately elected president of Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez. He won the election in 2024.
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A very good thread on the man behind the right wing movement in Czechia. As usual a mixed race immigrant is behind an anti-immigrant, pro-Russian party. He should be stopped.
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce our first Czech vatnik, Tomio Okamura. He’s best known for building a political career on xenophobia while being of mixed origins himself, and for pushing Kremlin narratives in Czechia, a country otherwise very supportive of Ukraine.
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January 3, 2026 at 11:22 AM
A very good thread on the man behind the right wing movement in Czechia. As usual a mixed race immigrant is behind an anti-immigrant, pro-Russian party. He should be stopped.
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People seem surprised that the multi polar world they've lusted after is as peaceful as they were told it would not be.
Odd.
Odd.
January 3, 2026 at 12:23 PM
People seem surprised that the multi polar world they've lusted after is as peaceful as they were told it would not be.
Odd.
Odd.
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You were saying?
January 3, 2026 at 12:15 PM
You were saying?
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try to make sense of it
So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago.
And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.
And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.
January 3, 2026 at 12:46 PM
try to make sense of it
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In November, I sat with two Venezuelans who fled the country after protesting Maduro.
Trump's masked ICE agents had just taken their son.
The boy's mother told me, "In Venezuela, if they take you, you don’t come back. This left me with the same impression.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-h...
Trump's masked ICE agents had just taken their son.
The boy's mother told me, "In Venezuela, if they take you, you don’t come back. This left me with the same impression.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-h...
How a ‘Habeas Machine’ Reunited One Family That Was Pulled Apart by ICE
The agents were on the hunt, but as they staked out the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:09 PM
In November, I sat with two Venezuelans who fled the country after protesting Maduro.
Trump's masked ICE agents had just taken their son.
The boy's mother told me, "In Venezuela, if they take you, you don’t come back. This left me with the same impression.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-h...
Trump's masked ICE agents had just taken their son.
The boy's mother told me, "In Venezuela, if they take you, you don’t come back. This left me with the same impression.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-h...
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“Whether the outcome is ultimately good for Venezuelans, as I hope, or bad, Trump has betrayed Americans,” Conor Friedersdorf argues. “He could have tried to persuade Congress or the public to give him permission to use force. He didn’t bother.”
Trump’s Risky War in Venezuela
The president has violated the Constitution and is showing contempt for the will of the public.
bit.ly
January 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
“Whether the outcome is ultimately good for Venezuelans, as I hope, or bad, Trump has betrayed Americans,” Conor Friedersdorf argues. “He could have tried to persuade Congress or the public to give him permission to use force. He didn’t bother.”
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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“We’re going to be very strongly involved in it,” Trump says about the future of Venezuela’s oil industry on Fox News
January 3, 2026 at 2:41 PM
“We’re going to be very strongly involved in it,” Trump says about the future of Venezuela’s oil industry on Fox News
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Mike Lee, who fancies himself an intellectual, advances the premise that US agents can walk into the Venezuelan president’s rooms in Caracas at any time and exercise a plenary police power, and if anyone in that sovereign state might get in their way the military can just start blowing shit up.
January 3, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Mike Lee, who fancies himself an intellectual, advances the premise that US agents can walk into the Venezuelan president’s rooms in Caracas at any time and exercise a plenary police power, and if anyone in that sovereign state might get in their way the military can just start blowing shit up.
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Agreed. Should the United States be the Unilateral World Police? If the answer is "no," this needs a better justification than "he's bad" or "his election was tainted."
(If the answer is "yes," then there's a huge list of far more dangerous leaders we are inexcusably leaving in power.)
(If the answer is "yes," then there's a huge list of far more dangerous leaders we are inexcusably leaving in power.)
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Agreed. Should the United States be the Unilateral World Police? If the answer is "no," this needs a better justification than "he's bad" or "his election was tainted."
(If the answer is "yes," then there's a huge list of far more dangerous leaders we are inexcusably leaving in power.)
(If the answer is "yes," then there's a huge list of far more dangerous leaders we are inexcusably leaving in power.)
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It’s darkly humorous he can’t even muster the ability to give some lip service to democracy or allowing the Venezuelan people to choose their leader.
FOX & FRIENDS: What do you think is next for the Venezuelan people now that you have removed Maduro so he can face American justice?
TRUMP: Well, we're making that decision now. We can't take a chance on letting somebody else run it, just take over where he left off. So we're making that decision
TRUMP: Well, we're making that decision now. We can't take a chance on letting somebody else run it, just take over where he left off. So we're making that decision
January 3, 2026 at 3:13 PM
It’s darkly humorous he can’t even muster the ability to give some lip service to democracy or allowing the Venezuelan people to choose their leader.
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Good point. Too bad we don’t have that anymore thanks to Trump.
January 2, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Good point. Too bad we don’t have that anymore thanks to Trump.
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The billionaire President is mad that a member of Congress didn't help him enough with his pedophilia scandal, so rural Colorado has to keep drinking contaminated water.
Trump vetoes bipartisan bill to provide clean water to rural Colorado
The legislation to complete the Arkansas Valley Conduit passed Congress with unanimous support but was branded an ‘expensive and unreliable’ project by the President.
www.cpr.org
January 2, 2026 at 2:53 PM
The billionaire President is mad that a member of Congress didn't help him enough with his pedophilia scandal, so rural Colorado has to keep drinking contaminated water.
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One year into Trump’s second term, the oligarchy continues to grow more powerful. They take your money, your healthcare, and they’ll happily take your lives to pad their bank accounts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRNlfBoKWrc&list=PLmHDGpDOjacoTxbrY068uPDU6lYhubjg4&index=20
Golden Circle
This is what oligarchy looks like.
The Lincoln Project is a leading pro-democracy organization in the United States -- dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy. Our fight against Trumpism is only beginning. We must combat the...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
One year into Trump’s second term, the oligarchy continues to grow more powerful. They take your money, your healthcare, and they’ll happily take your lives to pad their bank accounts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRNlfBoKWrc&list=PLmHDGpDOjacoTxbrY068uPDU6lYhubjg4&index=20
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Pardoned by Trump. After the pardon, arrested for Sexual Assault and Kidnapping.
January 1, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Pardoned by Trump. After the pardon, arrested for Sexual Assault and Kidnapping.
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like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
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It’s not true that Trump only pardons rich white guys. He also pardons rich foreigners who put hundreds of millions in his pocket through his crypto company.
January 2, 2026 at 12:11 AM
It’s not true that Trump only pardons rich white guys. He also pardons rich foreigners who put hundreds of millions in his pocket through his crypto company.
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one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!
It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.
January 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!