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Jesse Lehrich
@JesseLehrich
co-founder of . former foreign policy spokesman for .
Chicago, by way of BostonJoined March 2009

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call me old-fashioned, but I think it's alarming that the entire GOP is lining up behind the guy who maintains it's just true – "unfortunately or fortunately" – that stars like him can grab women by the p****
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here's a clip from Trump's deposition where he comments on the Access Hollywood tape
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It's a little surprising says it was so blindsided by allegation it violated the 2020 consent decree, as scooped back in 2021 that the independent assessor found significant “gaps and weaknesses" in compliance. mlexmarketinsight.com/news/insight/f
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Breaking: @meta is facing an unprecedented penalty from the @FTC for allegedly violating a #privacy consent order for the 2nd time, the last time being the 2020 - under the proposed penalty the former #Facebook would be barred from making profits from teens or kids under 18.
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new order would, among other things, require to: – stop monetizing youth data altogether – halt all product launches until they're formally assessed to be in compliance w/ the privacy order – obtain users' affirmative consent for any future use of facial recognition
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NEW: Tech companies want to kill children’s online safety laws – and they’re using trade groups to do their dirty work. TTP’s latest report tracks relevant bills and examines Big Tech's lobbying and litigation strategy.
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"It’s perhaps not the best time for firms building or deploying #AI to remove or fire personnel devoted to ethics and responsibility for AI and engineering. If the FTC comes calling ... these reductions might not be a good look." More 🔥🔥🔥 from the
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This has long been the prize of the radical right: To gut federal regulation on everything from the environment to health care to guns to voting to consumer protection to banks in one swoop. It’s all on the line now.
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#SCOTUS grants review in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which it has been asked to consider overruling its 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natl Resources Defense Council, on deference to administrative agencies. Justice Jackson is recused from the case.
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they didn't "take a $523M loss." they paid severance for the mass firings, announced a $5.7 BILLION Q1 profit + $9.2B stock buyback, & their valuation has tripled in 6 months.
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Meta is laying off 21k people and took a $523M loss in Q1 as a result of its TikTok-driven headwinds. Meanwhile the DC Meta Derangement Complex is really trying to make 2018 and Cambridge Analytica panic happen again. twitter.com/zamaan_qureshi…
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The story not getting told enough in the ongoing trainwrecking of Twitter is how, despite the fact that it was always a problematic platform, genuine public goods became bound up in its infrastructure—and more than anything, that's what Elon is destroying
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Musk's dilemma is that if none of the celebs who populate his platform with content are verified, not only will he have an impersonation problem, none of their stuff will show up on the default algorithmic feed. No content no engagement no revenue.
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anyways, instead of watching the infomercial that aired in primetime, read this great piece & !
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the recent @60Minutes piece on @Google's Bard was SO bad. they cast the shoddy chatbot as a godlike gift to humanity, got basic facts about AI wrong, interviewed *only* @Google execs, & failed to push them on the litany of harms. bloomberg.com/news/features/
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wait Lily, do you mean to tell me that properly funding the IRS was *not* a ploy to create a new, politicized army of agents to harass everyday Americans!? it was just to streamline the IRS & stop ultra-wealthy tax cheats from bilking the rest of us??
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Reuters >> IRS clears massive backlog of unprocessed paper tax returns reuters.com/world/us/us-ir
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after 'Twitter Files' authors *repeatedly* smeared Renee w/ false attacks in hearings & media hits, just plagiarized her seminal work on speech vs. reach & embraced it as their core "enforcement philosophy" 🙃
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Always interesting to see where your work winds up… (cc @aza)
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this is the man has vowed to pardon before he's even been sentenced. the man posted on FB he might "have to kill a few" protestors, ran a red light & drove into a crowd, then shot a veteran 5 times.
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'I am a racist:' Texas man convicted of murdering BLM protester’s social media posts reveal racist comments, anti-protester views statesman.com/story/news/loc via @statesman
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it's literally not taken down at all, Elmo is just a pathological liar. they clearly explain how federal funding supports the broader public interest media ecosystem: npr.org/about-npr/1786
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NPR literally said “Federal funding is essential to public radio” on their own website (now taken down). What hypocrites!
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
NPR still mentions Federal Funding on their website. npr.org/about-npr/1786…
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just spitballing here, but maybe he should've... not done so many crimes?
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Jordan also said he's "really concerned” Trump will be indicted in Georgia or that the Special Counsel appointed by DOJ will bring charges against him as well. "I think it's so wrong," he said
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