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"The government of Israel has engaged in systematic crimes against humanity, war crimes & genocide, including indiscriminate & deliberate attacks against the civilians of Gaza which killed more than 59,000 adults & children"
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NEW @WIRED: Trump aides casting around for a scapegoat for midterm losses have landed on James Blair since he owned a backfiring redistricting strategy — and they can’t exactly tell the president he’s at fault for starting the Iran war wired.com/story/its-the-pres…
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• One facilitated the bogus Cyber Ninjas audit
• One is friends with a guy filmed on J6 shouting “1776”
• One was set to rally with MyPillow's Mike Lindell
These are not fringe MAGA influencers, they are GOP candidates for AG in swing states
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Election offices in at least 32 states have received suspicious letters, many including white powder, over the course of the last week
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In 2020, Maricopa County in Arizona became the epicenter of the nascent election denial movement.
Six years later, Trump, Bannon, the RNC and MAGAworld is once agin pushing baseless claims that Maricopa is "a very, very dishonest county."
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Just weeks to go to the midterms and one of the new conspiracy theories being promoted by far-right groups like the Election Integrity Network?
“These left-wing groups go into the nursing homes and they basically steal the votes of these most vulnerable"
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With just weeks to go before the midterms, far-right groups have a new target: nursing homes
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Internal ICE emails show the agency has been discussing the use of a Palantir-supported tool to track noncitizen voters
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Ever wondered what it would feel like spending @elonmusk's money?
@nealagarwal has got you covered
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Dozens and dozens of high profile MAGA influencers and pundits have weighed in. “The laughable fake polls are rolling out,” Catturd posted on X. wired.com/story/election-den…
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Midterm polling for Trump and the GOP has been historically bad.
So, obviously, it must be a PSYOP
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The threat to the #midterms does not come from fringe extremist groups like Patriot Front, it comes from the tens of millions of regular US citizens—on the left and right—who have accepted violence as a regular political tool, @ProfessorPape says
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I asked the DoD to comment on the fact one of the Pentagon's influencers had:
• Praised dictators
• Called women a "pestilence"
• Said only people with children should be allowed vote
Its response?
"We are proud" to work with someone like this
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A Pentagon influencer called liberal women a "pestilence" who will end western civilization.
He's also:
• Praised dictators like Franco and Pinochet
• Said people without kids should not be allowed vote
• Called immigrants "semihuman savages"
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Trump 2.0 has made extremist views acceptable
In November, candidates will run for federal and state-level positions who have expressed racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views
Many have been endorsed by Trump
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I want to thank @paulmurphy_TD for raising #Chlorinedioxide #bleach abuse of #Autistic people in Dáil yesterday.
Minister for health @CarrollJennifer replied saying this bleach is illegal yet @meta @telegram @facebook
platform bleach groups which are harming #Autistic children.
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NEW: took a look at the intellectual split happening on the left over how to regulate AI, and whether or not to believe the companies prophesying AI catastrophe: wired.com/story/inside-the-s…
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Want to know if there's an election denier running for office in your state this November?
Now you can, thanks to data from @statesunited and the incredible work of my colleague @tenuous
Try out our interactive map here:
wired.com/story/hundreds-of-…
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EXCLUSIVE:
Data shared with @wired by @statesunited show that 197 election deniers will contest congressional and statewide races in the midterms.
Critically, 33 of them will be in races for positions that will have oversight of the 2028 election...
wired.com/story/hundreds-of-…
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This is inexcusable (and "think tank" is a euphemism). wired.com/story/a-trump-alig…
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I've been covering prediction markets intensively for just over six months now and felt like it was the right time to unleash this take... to understand them, you need to understand that they are a type of media company: wired.com/story/prediction-m…
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