This strategy—using fake AI profiles to boost political causes—was tested during the 2022 recalls in San Francisco.
We called them the "Wencils" and they disappeared after being mapped and exposed. And now:
Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...
This administration has absolutely destroyed the Justice Department. Prosecuting a storied civil rights organization for investigating white supremacist groups while vacating convictions for January 6th insurrectionists.
good, productive feminism explains that gender isn't innate and the patriarchy can be deconstructed; essentially telling young women that all men are creeps and predators and will never change is actually just weirdly reactionary and purposeless
12/ I’ve posted about NatCon many times due to its close links to Thiel, Vance, and Christian Nationalism. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
“Good Law Project can reveal that the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation (RSLF) has received…more than 90% of its funding – from Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) since 2023. This private college based in Budapest has close ties to Hungary’s [former] …prime minister, Viktor Orbán.”
2/12/26 … 1/
Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.
I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.
As well as being a great scoop by Guardian colleagues, this feels potentially very, very bad for Keir Starmer.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
📌Pope Leo XIV TODAY:
“The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants. Blessed are the peacemakers, but woe to those who manipulate religion and the name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”
He is NOT backing down.
1/5. I want to try to amplify this point — Vance does not believe that morality is an autonomous sphere of life at all; only fools think that, in his world.
Niblett has secured a Commons debate in the autumn on lifelong sex education
In the meantime, she wants to speak to a "whole bank of organisations": "So we can talk about sex all summer... to help shape that speech for the chamber, but then also we shape our next steps.”
4/5
My warmest congratulations to Chloe Mawson @houseoflords.parliament.uk on becoming the 66th Clerk of the Parliaments, the first woman to occupy this role in its 700-year history. I value her experience, knowledge and expertise and am looking forward to working with her 👏🏛️
Looking forward to it
Trump is torching the coalition that made him president, seemingly unaware of — or simply unconcerned by — the depth of discontent permeating his movement.
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
Feminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored | Laurie Penny
One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro
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I honestly didn't think I could be truly shocked by anything these people said, I was very wrong.
#SheShed
I need this. 🤣🤣
#SheShed
Wow, Mark Carney speaks on multiculturalism (what a contrast to island of strangers Starmer!)
Mark Carney, "Canada is a nation forged through accommodation, not assimilation"
"Through partnership, not domination"
"The founding insight of our country is that unity does not require uniformity"
SHE’S A WITCH..!! 1/06/2020 DEMOCRACY
Putin’s Puppet
Every accusation is a confession
What a soul-crushing binary choice. Boot out one spineless disappointment of a Prime Minister, just to replace him with a loud-mouthed, faux pint-swilling grifter who’ll sell the country out to the highest bidder.
We’re not just in trouble - we’re completely fucked.
Interesting story. Could be worth following—who knows?
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Two observations on the statement by Melania Trump, which are in tension with each other.
1. It is hard to see what professional advice led to her making it.
2. The statement was well drafted but she seemed unfamiliar with it, which indicates it was drafted at least in part by someone else.
Odd.
“Why aren't you criticising Donald Trump more vocally? He is clearly now habitually lying, delusional and you're not standing up to him. Worse than that you're sending the King to play nice with him" - Krishnan Guru-Murthy
The Lebanese Health Ministry says Israeli strikes have displaced more than one million people.
That’s more than a sixth of the entire population.
I view this as a massive victory against the most annoying people on social media
Secret Election Funders (via NYT) U.S. politics has seen a stunning increase in dark money donations, undermining promises from the Supreme Court.
i’m so old i remember when obama called out SCOTUS for citizens united during a SOTU, predicting this would happen, and alito shook his head and said “that’s not true”
Two pictures of the pillsbury dough boy: once is on a purple background with the caption “he is risen! happy Easter!”, and the other is tan and brown, similar to a cracker, on a white background saying “he is not! Happy Passover!”
It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.
