1. We're moving forward on an investigation that I think could be groundbreaking that requires lab tests
2. @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social will be helping us file public records requests + writing stories
3. My intern Lizzy is working on stories that I don't have time for but should still be covered
Presented without comment.
Panel one: what a senator said about AIPAC, which lobbied against holding countries receiving US military support to international law
Panel two: how ADL characterized and condemned his remarks
My new Olurinatti Production is out now! youtu.be/2WEeSgfrZ8M?...
Here’s the thing about fascists: they have no bottom. They just look for a new bottom and say, “we have the technology to go lower.”
The only proper way to deal with fascists is at the barrel of a gun. They can’t be reasoned with as they care not for it. Leaving them alive threatens society again
This is f***ing shocking. GOP total cowards. When they go low, wait a minute, they will go lower...
GRAPHIC VIDEO WARNING:
heres the moment a veteran's arm is broken by sitting us senator sheehy (r-montana)
brian mcginnis is an anti war protestor, former marine, and green party senate candidate for north carolina.
he's heard shouting "no one wants to fight for israel."
this is who we are now
we can't miss the historical significance of pastor fredrick haynes' texas primary victory
its easy to forget that in 2008, obama's political career was almost killed by his pastor's condemnation of u.s. foreign policy
in 2026, being a pro-palestine pastor actually supercharges political careers!
we can't miss the historical significance of pastor fredrick haynes' texas primary victory
its easy to forget that in 2008, obama's political career was almost killed by his pastor's condemnation of u.s. foreign policy
in 2026, being a pro-palestine pastor actually supercharges political careers!
New: Internal tension at the Associated Press over use of AI. One of the AP newsroom leaders leading the company's AI initiatives told staff that many editors preferred an AI-written article to a human one, and told them when it comes to using AI in the newsroom "resistance is futile."
News Corp is essentially an AI ‘input company’, chief executive says, after US$150m deal with Meta
see also
bsky.app/profile/us.t...
my favorite genre of post this weekend has been wealthy westerners giving surprised pikachu face to strikes across the gulf states as though 9/11 could never happen *to them*
if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE
it will result in dead trans people
and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing
you see the pipeline right?
we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die
WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS
its me!
filling my camelbak with spaghetti
yeah im playing blackjack on my phone 5/end
zeteo is also a good mix too.
to the speech, amazed fred trump got a mention. donald must really be dying. 4/
move on / meidas touch state of the union is the best stream ive seen so far. not gonna name names, but whole lotta comparative mid live streaming this tuesday 24 feb evening.
i can say it! 3/
ive produced, covered, or hosted state of the union analysis for a decade (give or take)
now more than ever ive earned my break. especially since its a two hour speech. im probably gonna fall asleep or catch up on a tv series. 2/
im going to live skeet my #sotu thoughts while i do my taxes, a thread 1/?
X is actually, by design, an echo chamber. Bluesky is a place where likeminded people organically collected in opposition to the echo chamber
Imagine if people made impassioned pleas for everyone to be on YouTube Shorts the same way people argue we need to be on X. YouTube Shorts, meanwhile, has roughly a gazillion more active users
#Schumering
WE WILL WIN!!! WE WILL WIN!!! @danfromtheinter.net @alwaysflacko.bsky.social
Article: The political effects of X’s feed algorithm Abstract: Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
Figure 2. ITT estimates of feed-setting changes on engagement and political attitudes. ITT effect estimates of switching the algorithm on and off (in s.d.). Left, effect of moving from the chronological to the algorithmic feed for users initially on the chronological feed. Right, effect of moving in the opposite direction for users initially on the algorithmic feed. For each outcome, the results of two specifications are reported. Blue, unconditional estimates with robust s.e., controlling only for the initial feed setting and, where applicable, pre-treatment outcome levels. Orange: conditional estimates, controlling for pre-treatment covariates using GRFs; 90% and 95% CIs are reported. Numerical effect sizes and P values correspond to the conditional estimates (all tests are two-sided). The unit of observation is respondent. From top to bottom, sample sizes are n = 4,965, n = 3,337, n = 4,965, n = 4,965, n = 4,596, n = 4,596 and n = 4,850. Tests are described in Methods. Supplementary Information Table 2.16 reports the exact numerical point estimates, s.e., CIs and sample sizes for every specification. All outcomes are standardized. Additional results are presented in Supplementary Information section 2. PCA, first principal component from principal component analysis.
X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution electionlawblog.org?p=154326
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🚨🚨🚨 @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social just announced that we will be hosting our first public hearing on Epstein in Palm Beach, FL in April.
Expect to hear from survivors and key witnesses who have critical information to share. We are taking this investigation to Epstein and Trump’s backyard.
maybe the reason dems are so dog awful at social media is bc the algo rewards consistency and these mfs only show up 6 months before election season
