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Taylor Carik
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"Originally considered a critical failure, it has since gained a cult following"

Producer of #bienvenidosdystopia, former publisher of arts + culture print pub DISPATCH, plays in WRRC MPLS and PARISHES, among other things
AI porn generator and ERP chatbot Secret Desires left millions of images and videos exposed in unsecured cloud storage. I took a look and found folders called "faceswap," where people had uploaded tons of stolen content and random photos of women www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Did Hodges mess up big time and lose the election over this? Yes. Has Frey messed up like 1000x worse but somehow got reelected twice? Also yes! Did the Strib clearly hate Hodges but love Frey? Yes again!
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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i’m sorry

but i noticed something for @mcsweeneys.net

and the resemblance is uncanny

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/who...
Who Said It: The Hell Priest Pinhead or Olivia Nuzzi?
“Olivia Nuzz did it all for love. The former political journalist has written a combustive portrait of America, President Trump, and the scandal wi...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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The media story of our time…

Why are we still getting sanewashing coverage of POTUS?

Is there any credible journalist who believes this man is mentally fit to be President?

#ShouldBeFrontPage but isn’t

bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump on AI: "You can't go through 50 states. You have to get one approval. 50 is a disaster. Because you'll have one woke state and you'll have to do all woke. You'll be back in the woke business. We don't have woke anymore in this country. It's virtually illegal. You'll have a couple of wokesters"
November 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
America, including Minneapolis-St.Paul, is openly hostile to artists and art. You don't even need to talk to someone from Europe, just look at the numbers and what gets financial support and recognition.
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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If we care about stopping countries that abuse human rights, we should invade Israel and Saudi Arabia. If we care about stopping the flow of refugees, we should have boots on the ground in Sudan. Why is Venezuela being singled out for an attack?

www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-h...
There Have to Be Consequences For Advocating Illegal Wars
Yet again, the New York Times’ Bret Stephens advocates the overthrow of a sovereign government. Why do the readers of the “paper of record” tolerate this dangerous propaganda?
www.currentaffairs.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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"In my country, we have no bungholes" he says, calling to mind Deleuze's body without organs, the never-penetrated plane of pure immanence.
Cornholio in many ways is a manifestation of the madness he lives under. Forced to be a pawn he yearns for freedom, he lashes out against the world around him but cannot bring himself to do so *as himself* because to do so would mean to confront the devil Butthead and the suffering he has inflicted
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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New video: We asked leading historian and author, Jack Goldstone, the internet's most burning questions about revolutions- why they start, how they end, and what they mean for us today.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kiv...
Historian Answers Revolution Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Uber but surveillance state
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public

www.404media.co/contractor-p...
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Ever notice is never student loan data that manages to be "irretrievably destroyed"
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Through more than 70 interviews with former inmates and officers, reporters from @mississippitoday.org and @nytimes.com discovered a system where guards in a Mississippi jail ordered beatings, inmates who participated were rewarded, and those trying to raise an alarm were ignored.
How a Mississippi jail turned its inmates into weapons
After a violent scandal involving his deputies, a popular sheriff survived calls to resign. But another scandal was already brewing in his county jail.
revealnews.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If this were a mistake it wouldn’t have happened 78 times; it’s the core function of news media
Since January 2023, the New York Times has cited Rep. Ralph Norman, R-SC, in 78 stories. None mentioned that Norman secretly urged the Trump White House in 2021 to declare martial law – in effect, a military-backed coup. Norman wasn’t charged, but the NYT gave him a “pardon” anyway.
My newsletter.
How the media ‘pardon’ political criminals
News outlets paper over the ugly pasts of right-wing extremists
www.stopthepresses.news
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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About 30 cars of ICE and DEA agents staging st Newell park in St. Paul
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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'After Savagery' reveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized.
🍉

If Israel is the West and the West is Israel, then Palestine is the world and the world is Palestine.
📚🍉

'After Savagery' by Hamid Dabashi.

@haymarketbooks.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."

I chose Larry Summers.

Better late than never.

Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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finally……. another entry in the LORENZO’S OIL cinematic universe
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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The Epstein emails have damaged Trump beyond repair, because the public has now seen the gross moral rot behind Trump's presidency and the elites who prop it up (and fawned over a convicted sex creep)

Take your money out of AI and into pitchforks. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...
Epstein’s emails are the end of America as they ruined it
If the evil banality of the world's most powerful people exposed in the Epstein emails doesn't cause a revolution, nothing will.
www.inquirer.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
been awhile since I felt a literal chill down my spine but this honestly scared the shit out of me
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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About the same time the NYT sat on a scoop tying Trump to Epstein, Maggie Haberman was downright giddy (y'all) about NYT promoting an anti-Hillary Clinton book.
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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🌈 Today is RELEASE DAY for COLOUR INTO FOCUS: QUEER AND TRANS COLLAGE #1! 🏳️‍⚧️ Contains works from 31 artists (on four continents!), published in a full-color half-size format. Copies available in-person at the Midwest Queer and Trans Zine Fest or online here: shop.nonmachinable.com/product/preo... 🔥
October 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
for real
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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tiramisu is just dessert lasagna
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM