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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · Nov 11

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 1h

New from me www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1h

this persons entire crashout over defending bari weiss, the far right billionaires chosen bulwark of dismantling trusted media organizations, has been pretty funny

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 1h

You shouldn’t call yourself a journalist

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1h

Great article with some onsite analysis of cellular signals indicating the use of cell-site simulators at ICE protests in Portland, Oregon

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower may have surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 8h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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James Croxton @jwcroxton.bsky.social · 4h

‼️ Read @kevinhfoster.bsky.social's posts from last night and note how the protest in front of ICE had been peaceful, with little to no interaction with feds, until the right-wing propagandists and influencers showed up.

Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 17h

A crowd of right-wing agitators just stormed through chanting “Whose streets? Our streets.” A woman appears to have been shoved to the ground (hear clothes were dirty and hand had a small cut). A right-wing man may have been punched.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 5h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h

It's notable that one of the people who was invited to the White House for their "antifa round table" was Nick Sortor, a guy who has literally worked for "InfoWars." The feds are approaching the media aspects of this situation like an unabashed authoritarian state would. bsky.app/profile/opb....

OPB @opb.org · 1d

Right-wing media influencers are now being welcomed into the federal government to promote its messages. This kind of media access shows a deepening alliance between the Trump administration and an online world willing to misrepresent facts if it means furthering political goals.

Right-wing influencers shape nation and Trump’s understanding of Portland protests

Social media personalities, conservative media outlets and the Trump administration itself are blending online content to serve the administration’s policies.

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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 15h

Far-right asshole Josh Fulfer, who called for vehicular assaults on Portland protestors, has come up from California & is filming on the ground tonight.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 19h

Pritzker’s goons shutting down protests at ICE Detention Center in Broadview.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 1d

Weird a man on a bike who looked like this stared at me angrily because I was standing in the middle of the sidewalk yesterday he didn’t say anything though I just looked at him for a second and then moved

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 1d

This has always been part of the GOP playbook: Downplay incidents of right-wing violence, and then repurpose them as supposed acts of leftist terrorism for public consumption. They first did this in 2020.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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[trash] @trashocracy.bsky.social · 1d

Perry County is one of the smallest & poorest counties in TN. It’s also home to violent neo-Nazi Sean Kauffmann of the Tennessee Active Club.

Linden, the county seat, holds an annual WWII re-enactment during which a giant Nazi flag is draped from the courthouse - presumably at taxpayer expense.

September 2025 – A photo shows Sean Kauffmann of the Tennessee Active Club, standing outside the Perry County Courthouse in Linden, Tennessee. Kauffmann is dressed in a black leather SS-style overcoat and officer’s cap. Behind him, a large red and black Nazi flag is displayed on the courthouse façade as part of preparations for Linden’s annual World War II “re-enactment,” which depicts a fictional scenario in which Nazi forces invade the rural Tennessee town during the war.

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 2d

NEW from LCRW: @katerqburns.bsky.social covers the Christian supremacist provocateurs behind the 'Mayday' tour partnering with the Liberty Counsel. They're suing L.A. and Seattle for not accommodating their events enough and the court documents reference public masturbation for some reason

plots & prayers: ANTI-QUEER ‘MAYDAY’ ORGANIZERS WAGE LAWFARE OVER SEATTLE, LOS... | Left Coast Right Watch

Ross Johnston and Jenny Donnelly have a new strategy for spreading Christian supremacist ideology across America: sue anyone who gets in their way. Last month, both Johnston and Donnelly took to both...

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

There are a number of accounts on Tiktok and IG that do extremely important work walking viewers through AI-generated slop videos like this and help them think critically about what they are seeing, how to spot it, etc. It’s a new era of critical media literacy instruction and I am happy to see it

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

A DHS camera man calmly films this kavanaugh stop.

Eventually the public will see some (though not all) of this recorded footage, and it will reveal human rights violations beyond what we thought we knew.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

In Broadview, IL this morning outside the Chicago area ICE detention center—

Just rolled up, immediately saw ISP/CCSO arresting a protester w/ a guitar (he appears to be in good spirits over it).

ICE vehicles have been coming and going, including a large bus driven by a masked agent seen earlier.

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 1d

NEW from LCRW: @azrww.bsky.social covers a Phoenix-area neo-Nazi AI slop-poster obsessed with Goyim Defense League agitprop who's facing charges for threatening a local synagogue.

COURT RECORDS: GOYIM DEFENSE LEAGUE FANBOY ARRESTED FOR THREATS ON SYNAGOGUE | Left Coast Right Watch

A Phoenix area neonazi fan of the Goyim Defense League is set for a hearing next month after being arrested for threatening to target a local synagogue

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

Very serious person Andy Ngo has now been reduced to pleading with his audience to please please PLEASE take the dancing antifa muppets seriously

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 1d

Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet responded to the harassment their organization contributed to that forced Rutgers professor Mark Bray to flee the country. The full statement is long, but here’s how he ended it:

Good riddance to him and good luck, Spain.
America and Rutgers are better off without him. But it begs the question: Why is Rutgers employing an advocate for political violence? He should be immediately fired and the university should disavow his vile, un-American ideas.

Archive: https://archive.is/5nf3L

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 1d

Kevin Pyles was arrested on felony charges related to violent threats he made towards a Phoenix synagogue. This briefly hit local news following his arrest but, thanks to court record requests and some digging, we were able to confirm Pyles’ affiliation with the neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League.

LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 1d

NEW from LCRW: @azrww.bsky.social covers a Phoenix-area neo-Nazi AI slop-poster obsessed with Goyim Defense League agitprop who's facing charges for threatening a local synagogue.

COURT RECORDS: GOYIM DEFENSE LEAGUE FANBOY ARRESTED FOR THREATS ON SYNAGOGUE | Left Coast Right Watch

A Phoenix area neonazi fan of the Goyim Defense League is set for a hearing next month after being arrested for threatening to target a local synagogue

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