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Luke O'Brien retweeted
Do you know about Clearview AI? It knows about you.
Read @lukeobrien’s new investigation into the facial recognition firm that could help to fuel Trump’s authoritarian agenda ow.ly/gtpp50VvI4o
Luke O'Brien retweeted
Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
@lukeobrien reports: motherjones.com/politics/202…
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Jack Posobiec has boosted not one, not two, but *three* Russian intelligence-backed operations. One of them, a website called SouthFront that U.S. Treasury sanctioned in 2021 and said "receives taskings from the FSB," regularly published disinformation on Ukraine.
Luke O'Brien retweeted
I’m listening to Republican strategist Sarah Longwell on NPR talking about public opinion of Trump’s tyrannical posture and she just said:
“When I ask voters in focus groups if they think Donald Trump is an authoritarian, the #1 response by far is, ‘what’s an authoritarian?’”
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Wow. A preview of what happens when the world’s richest man is also chief shareholder in the US presidency.
🚨🚨Scoop: Elon Musk joined Trump's call with Zelensky axios.com/2024/11/08/musk-tr…
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Wrote some quick thoughts about what Trump's electoral win last night means for the radical right going forward and the revenge fantasies that they now have the power to enact.
The next four years is going to be dark. And probably the next twenty. postsfromunderground.ghost.i…
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Why the Stakes in this Election Are So Enormously High
Democracy itself is on the ballot. If Trump wins, the extreme Right will be in a much better position than ever before to abolish it.
Some thoughts from my new piece - while we all nervously wait (link in bio):
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ALT My latest “Democracy Americana” newsletter: “Why the Stakes in this Election Are So Enormously High: Democracy itself is on the ballot. If Trump wins, the extreme Right will be in a much better position than ever before to abolish it.”
Luke O'Brien retweeted
Door knockers said they had no idea they would be canvassing for Donald Trump until after they signed an NDA. trib.al/8hYawM1
Irresponsible of NYT to quote Ian Miles Cheong on American politics without making it clear that Cheong isn't an American, let alone a registered Republican. He doesn't live here, has never been here. He takes dark $$ to attack our democracy from Malaysia.
nytimes.com/2024/10/31/us/po…
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The Nazi Party targeted children with mandatory youth organizations, school courses on racial purity, and anti-Semitic children's books.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/conte…
Surely, you, as a parent, can't wait to tuck your kids in at night with a children's book about a trans giraffe written by an antisemite who runs a hate platform that radicalized the neo-Nazi who committed the deadliest attack on Jews in American history.
Amazon is here for you.
Luke O'Brien retweeted
This is at least the second elected GOP official who has been directly confronted with Trump's "enemy from within" quotes and given the proper context, only to claim that Trump is being misrepresented and misquoted.
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I'd be very surprised if there isn't serious internal consternation at @nytpolitics about the persistence of this kind of thing
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The person Musk is quoting here is Marko Jukic, whose writing was once syndicated in white nationalist Richard Spencer's publication and who has advocated for the "segregation and separation" of Jews.
huffpost.com/entry/clearview…
Luke O'Brien retweeted
Another break in the action. In which we can pause and ponder the question of why Facebook moderating policies and organized insurrection are the same.
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Someone needs to put these back to back Newsmax host tweets in a time capsule so future generations understand what happened here. 🌍
Fascism depends on ignorance and dishonesty to thrive. It cannot survive in an arena where facts prevail.
⚡️UPDATE: Newsmax just settled their defamation lawsuit with Smartmatic over their election lies — at the last minute.
Another reminder the 2020 election was not stolen, as Trump prepares to tell the same lie in 2024. finance.yahoo.com/news/newsm…
