A lot of people are like “if someone as evil as Cheney is endorsing Harris that’s not a good sign, and if Harris is actively bringing her on stage and talking about how great she is that’s DEFINITELY not a good sign”

The Only Guardrail Left Is Us

Can anyone really be so dumb as to see people who Trump himself appointed to office and worked closely with saying “this guy is an evil wannabe dictator” and think “man, those guys are part of the deep state conspiracy to destroy Trump”?

Because rich Republicans also own the media.

I’m not sure I understand how deepfake porn is supposed to be ruining lives here. From the article it seems like the issue is not any concern that it would be mistaken for real, but instead just people having a very horrified reaction to seeing that sort of depiction of themselves? Mostly it seems like the deepfake aspect is sort of a trivial distraction to the real issue on display there of gangs of men targeting random women for online harassment. If there was no such thing as deepfakes other sexually explicit or disturbing images could sub in easily enough.

Maybe the new deepfake ban will be useful as a way of going after these harassment gangs that previously didn’t face legal consequences? But it’s sort of an inexact tool for that job, given that there are presumably lots of deepfake images out there not used for harassment, and that’s it’s easy enough for harassers to switch away from deepfakes if using them becomes a major legal vulnerability.

How can any line that is on the surface of a sphere be straight rather than a curve?

I assume this won’t swing many people’s votes, but it is a nice insight into what’s going on behind the scenes with Vance as he publicly claims to be this big anti-elitist populist

The hope is that he steps down as the nominee for the good of the country and thus improves our chances of beating Trump.

This was just a better article than the CNN one, and there are no direct links to the interviews Campos did with the medical professionals here.

Yeah they’re pretty reliable - it’s the group blog of a bunch of professors. And of course the piece is filled with input from medical experts, and links to a CNN report on the same topic if that’s more your speed.

As in you’re implying Kamala is Hillary’s protege? She is not, what gives you that idea?

You’ve got the wrong site, the “Intelligencer” here is a section of New York Magazine, not the Belleville Intelligencer that you linked to. Not sure how much credence I give to this media bias fact check site, but here is their page for New York Magazine (showing them to be on the left with a high level of factual reporting): https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-magazine/

Well not always - this story is about how for years and years there was a deadlock between the two parties at the FEC that has now been broken by a Democratic board member shocking everyone and siding with the Republicans.

Ordinary Mexicans

Trump may try to lie and cheat his way to the presidency in the face of an electoral loss, but he’d have even less luck with that in 2024 as a challenger than he did in 2020 as the incumbent president.

What do you mean the results of the election won’t matter? They’ll determine whether a deranged and vengeance minded Trump becomes president…

The problem is they’ve mostly now been negatively polarized against non-polluting energy.

Yeah it was a pretty dumb business move by Elon to become such a loud right-wing shithead when his core demographic of customers are people who are concerned about climate change.

Funny how this comment agreeing with the thesis of the piece is upvoted while the article itself is downvoted. I guess because this emphasizes the need to vote for Biden part while the article spends more time on his failings?

I obviously disagree with him there, but in a sense that just makes him having the integrity to acknowledge that anti-Zionism does not equal antisemitism more impressive.