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This is how you protest. #FuckTrump 🇺🇸🖕🏻🇺🇸

@Variety Actually there are whole bunches of things we can do about it. Like insisting the original artists get compensated if their work was used as training data. Or just flat out refusing to watch this trash. Which I already have done. Use AI to make your movie? No one will watch it.

George Lucas says AI makes it "much easier for us to make movies" and "there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.” “Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies. It’s very much like sitting here saying, ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’ There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.” (via A Rabbit's Foot) variety.com/2026/film/news…

France has given the blueprints for its Scalp-EG cruise missile to Ukraine as part of a defence deal. The pact grants Kyiv the right to produce the French weapon – essentially the same low-observable cruise missile as the Storm Shadow – at factories in the war-torn country. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

This is alarming. 😳 The Rio Grande River in New Mexico is completely dried up. Yet, we have massive data centers which use billions of gallons of water, rapidly expanding across the U.S. 😡 kob.com/new-mexico/alb…

@JamesMartinSJ Give them peace by holding their murderers accountable.

Rest in peace, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, and Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26, beloved children of God.

30-foot border wall panels are piling up across the Big Bend region. Communities, outfitters and ranchers will be walled off from the Rio Grande. Access to agricultural pumps will be cut off while new industrial wells suck already-stressed aquifers dry. And for what? Border Patrol data show that almost nobody crosses the border here. The only winners here are the politically connected contractors who will pocket billions while carving apart the wildest place left in Texas. This corrupt plan is rotten to the core. And yet Texas' senators remain silent, standing by and watching while the natural heritage and rural economies of their state are sacrificed for a wall that provides no discernable border security benefit.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked promotions for seven senior Navy officers, mostly women or people of color. nyti.ms/4aVqixP

New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n…

🚨This is exactly how ICE agents create the very situations they later use to justify murdering citizens. In the video, they box in the vehicle of a U.S. citizen. They approach with guns already drawn, and try to open her car door… while repeatedly ordering her to unlock it, and ignoring anything she says. And notice how they don’t identify themselves. They don’t explain why she’s being detained. They don’t tell her what crime they suspect her of committing. To the person inside the car, it’s just a group of masked, armed men surrounding her vehicle and trying to force their way in. That’s how panic starts. And when people panic, move their car, or try to get away from what they reasonably perceive as a violent threat, ICE agents open fire, and later claim the vehicle was “used as a weapon.” Law enforcement cannot detain people without legal justification. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures, and officers are expected to clearly communicate their authority, and the basis for their actions. They are supposed to de-escalate situations. Instead, they use tactics to create fear and confusion… making it more likely someone will panic, and easier for agents to claim deadly force was necessary, while they violate the person’s constitutional rights. When these tactics become standard practice, accountability becomes nonexistent.

@BillKristol Because it’s literally not a thing, and it’s not 1950.

Here’s the amount of money the U.S. military should get for “fighting Communism on our own shores:” $0.

Michael Fanone: “I saw Senator Cory Booker eulogize Lindsey Graham in his post and talk about how, ‘he was nice to me at one point.’ Keep that experience to yourself, Cory. You’re minimizing all of the harm this man has caused to regular Americans. If you can’t say something honest, shut the fuck up”

Whoever wins tonight, a strong European team will be in the final!

I had the honor of celebrating the installation of community solar panels across a portfolio of more than 70 properties in the Bronx. These installations will reduce the electricity supply charges on ConEd bills by 20% for low-income families while cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Lower energy costs. Cleaner air. A greener Bronx.

🚨 Gov. Shapiro has now fully funded free school breakfast for all Pennsylvania children.

@PoliceThePolic1 So this was a 4th Amendment violation, and breaking & entering, and property damage. I hope she sues the fuck outta them.

🚨 A woman’s camera caught officers pushing her AC unit in and trying to force entry into her home. She says that while she was being detained, another cop spit on her belongings before she walked out and shut the door.

THE DISEASE VECTOR IS PICTURED BELOW ON THE LEFT. #FireRFKJr Charge him with #NegligentHomicide

Brutal ad from the Ossoff campaign on Mike Collins protecting sex traffickers and child abusers. Glad to see Democrats fighting like this.

Very moving to see The Grenadier Guards take part in the 14th July parade down the Champs-Elysées, together with many other European Nations in a show of joint strength Zelensky also visibly moved as the Ukrainian soldiers march past 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦

BEAUTIFULLY STATED‼️