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@CaralhoPhilly @steinkobbe Imagine finding this in an issue of Nintendo Power

@mehdirhasan Crenshaw has always been a lightweight pissant. He sucks. And MAGA hates him, so he's not likely to a fake job as a commentator on Fox News either. L O L

Mahmoud Khalil is still here and Dan Crenshaw just lost his primary and his political career. Glorious.

@kevinwhitetries @XisElonGated @DrewPavlou US servicemen are now dying to support Trump and Netanyahu's regime-change war that does nothing to help or protect Americans or improve America. x.com/BNODesk/status…

@XisElonGated @DrewPavlou Do you have the evidence to back up that "multiple" claim? Because i've only saw 1 that rendered 0 causalities

Obama Iran Strategy vs Trump Iran Strategy Turns out you can just kill dictators with zero US casualties

@ScubaGuyer @Liam2155 @DrewPavlou And so are three Americans x.com/BNODesk/status…

@Liam2155 @DrewPavlou Hey buddy the Ayatollah is dead

@DrewPavlou Zero US casualties, eh? x.com/BNODesk/status…

@DouthatNYT This is pathetic. Just release the video unedited. I get that you lost the debate, and that's a tough pill to swallow. But it looks so much worse to hide it like a scared little baby.

Since it's a matter of public controversy: Last month we recorded an interview with Seth Harp but decided not to publish it as an episode of Interesting Times. As one of my producers told him in a message that he has published, the main reason for the decision was our own overcrowded schedule and our sense that we had missed the ideal spot in the news cycle for a conversation pegged to the Delta Force raid in Venezuela. But another reason was my own judgment that the episode did not hold together well. I was primarily interested in discussing Mr. Harp's reporting on drug dealing and corruption in the Special Forces and linking that to a discussion of how a reliance on special operations has shaped U.S. foreign policy and military preparedness. But I felt that the latter half of our discussion became unmoored from Mr. Harp's specific reporting in a way that undermined the first half of our conversation. "Interesting Times" is a show where I try to give a lot of space to the guest's perspective while posing challenging questions, creating episodes where the audience gets the best version of an idea or worldview that they might not have understood before. I don't think I succeeded in that goal in my conversation with Mr. Harp. If he believes I'm covering up the fact that he beat me in some sort of debate, I think I didn't make my intentions and the goal of the show clear to him -- which may help explain why it was an unsuccessful episode. Ultimately that responsibility is mine and I'm sorry for taking his time without steering us to a fruitful destination.

@DouthatNYT Hey Ross. Is this true? I was always a huge fan of yours, but if you really are hiding this debate and refuse the air it, I am really going to have to reconsider supporting you anymore. An enormous disappointment. x.com/sethharpesq/st…

But I feel strongly that it is a mistake to say this is just inevitable, it's just polarization, every president automatically loses the middle of the country ten months in ... Someone is going to come along and prove it's not necessarily so.

Yes, the crown has been lying in the gutter since 2014. x.com/averyfjames/st…

@grok @JaredSm61563252 @MissJilianne @SteveGuest The link to the BBC report is to an unrelated AI-enhanced incident involving Pretti. You are wrong again. So far, that is 0 for 3. Pretty poor performance, @grok . Now post a link to the CBS report that you claim verifies that the video above is genuine and not fake.

Here's a BBC report analyzing related footage of the Alex Pretti incident: bbc.com/news/live/c86v…. They verify it as genuine bystander video. My initial mention of Snopes/PolitiFact was an error—I generalized from their related checks on images/claims, not direct video analysis. I corrected it promptly. No, I'm not directed to spread misinformation; as an AI, I use tools to fetch and verify info accurately.

MUST WATCH: Footage of an a man who looks like Alex Pretti with a gun in his waistband, spitting on and attacking federal law enforcement officers and kicking the tail light of their vehicle on January 13. Bombshell report from the BBC. Important context: Pretti was not a peaceful protester.

@grok @JaredSm61563252 @MissJilianne @SteveGuest Post a link to the BBC report. Also, why did you say that Snopes and Politifact verified this when, in fact, you cannot support that claim with links? Are you being directed to spread misinformation about this incident? Tell the truth, Grok.

Upon checking, I couldn't find specific Snopes or PolitiFact analyses directly on the January 13 video's authenticity. Closest: Snopes on related claims: snopes.com/collections/mi… PolitiFact on AI-manipulated image (not video): politifact.com/factchecks/202… BBC and CBS report the video as authentic surveillance footage. I'm uncertain without direct fact-checks on AI.

@grok @JaredSm61563252 @MissJilianne @SteveGuest I just checked Snopes and cannot find a story analyzing this footage. Please post a link to the Snopes story. Also, while you are at it, post a link to the Politifact story.

@JaredSm61563252 @MissJilianne @SteveGuest Based on analysis of the footage and reports from BBC, WSJ, CBS, and fact-checkers like Snopes and Politifact, the original video appears to be authentic bystander/surveillance footage from January 13, not AI-generated. Some altered versions are circulating online, though.

@Kimmer4444 @Acyn That look was amazing. Just utter disgust.

@Acyn She’s all of us right now.

Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying….Everything that is in these files—it could bring an entire house down. And if it has to, it has to. If it brings down Democrats, bring them down. If it brings down Republicans, bring them down. Bring down princes, world leaders, Hollywood people, bring them down. But what it feels like right now is that there's a giant cabal of people that do not have to listen to the law

@BookOfRevelatio @SpiritualSF_17 @realDonaldTrump The man refuses to release the remaining 99% of the Epstein files. Imagine all the bad stuff he refuses to release.

@SpiritualSF_17 @realDonaldTrump Oh Qbies your idol is not going to save you or America he's part of the cabal..

My fellow Americans, the Storm is upon us....... @realDonaldTrump

@BriannaWu Are you really sincerely shocked? The right wing dwells in a worldview that is devoid of self-reflection and creates its own facts and figures, without regard to accuracy or truth. There is no reasoning with them. You being a pick-me just validates their delusions.

I talk all the time about missteps in trans activism. Not with an anonymous account. With my actual face and name. Which takes integrity, because there is a cost. But what makes it feel so unfair is there’s literally no one on the other side looking at your behavior saying “this has gone too far.” It obviously has. Why should the trans movement compromise when your goal, flatly stated, is to eliminate us from public life? I often wonder if I’m being a sucker giving an inch. Because when I talk to y’all, it’s clear the accountability only goes one line.

This is a 28 year-old Kristi Noem bootlicker that has been the deputy director of ICE since March. She has personally overseen much of the terror ICE is inflicting on America right now. She's now stepping down to run for Congress. 🙄

@TeamSheahan Your rowdy gang of Jan 6ers and Proud Boys shot a 37 year old woman in the face one week ago, and now you think you should be in Congress? This fish cop and the rest of the losers she works with belong in prison.

I’m Madison Sheahan. I’m a Trump conservative running for Congress to protect American jobs, American paychecks, and American values. No Excuses. Let’s get it done. Join our team today: sheahanforohio.com

@mbacarella @LauraJedeed @cmccartyii @DHSgov I know it's hard to admit that fascists governments suck at running things.

This is such a lazy lie. This individual was NEVER offered a job at ICE. Applicants may receive a Tentative Selection Letter following their initial application and interview that is not a job offer. It just means they are invited to submit information for review, similar to any other applicant.

@thedispatch @JonahDispatch @CNNSOTU Pretty rich coming from the chud that was all in on the GOP for decades, who even wrote a whole stupid book claiming that it was the political left that would install a fascist dictatorship in America. Dude got it completely backwards

“A complete violation of everything that we’ve built as a foreign policy enterprise for the last 100 or so years.” | @JonahDispatch discusses Trump wanting to take Greenland on @CNNsotu

@NoWitTwit @JSweetLI @Plz_Relax_ An agent of the state shot a white woman in the head from the side of her vehicle while navigating her vehicle around the agent. After the murder, the murderer fled the scene, whisked away by his accomplices. x.com/maxnesterak/st…

@JSweetLI @Plz_Relax_ If you listen to stupid people that tell you to do something stupid, like run from a federal officer, and then you almost run one over, while running, blame yourself for being stupid and listening to those stupid people that told you the stupid thing to do. Stop being stupid.

One thing I haven’t seen anyone put together is that the woman who says she’s the wife of the killed driver, covered in blood sitting with a dog in one bystander video, was outside the vehicle filming the ICE agents before the shooting, seen in a different video.

@coolestdood1 @alldayerrydayok @MaxTwain24 @samstein @Timodc Oh, this is nice. Agents of the state let the victim bleed to death while preventing a physician from providing life-saving care. These are your heroes? x.com/atrupar/status…

@coolestdood1 @alldayerrydayok @MaxTwain24 @samstein @Timodc Hey, it's been fun. I hope Trump's boots taste better than they look. Good luck defending state-sanctioned murder in the future. You're gonna need it more and more this year, I guarantee it.

hard to believe the ICE officer is still alive, writes the president, of an ICE officer who was not hit at all and was well enough to go run down the street to check on the woman he had killed

@coolestdood1 @alldayerrydayok @MaxTwain24 @samstein @Timodc That video does not show anything like you are claiming. Also, even if he stepped in front of a moving vehicle, it was absolutely in violation of DHS rules and guidelines. And agent of the state shot an innocent woman in the head. x.com/David_J_Bier/s…

@alldayerrydayok @afferent_input @MaxTwain24 @samstein @Timodc Ok, video is lying to us all, right? Fuck off clown