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Wow. A former athletic director at a Baltimore County high school was arrested & charged for using AI to impersonate the school’s principal in a fake audio recording that made it sound like the principal was making racist and antisemitic comments. cbsnews.com/amp/baltimore/…

To be clear, Christian nationalists are openly celebrating the rise of antisemitism. They’re not marching to show their support for Jews; they’re marching because they see this as a sign of the end times. This is apocalyptic cult stuff and they’re deadly serious about it.

I’ve read many takes on the campus protests; some resonate with me and my own experience, and some don’t. But this one goes deeper and is more comprehensive than anything else and is, in my view, a must-read.

This is an important thread well worth your time to read

“The larger strategy is to create divisions ... and then exploiting those divisions in order to win elections and build power,' Mulvey said. 'It's cynical, it's disingenuous, and the consequences for higher education and democracy are really devastating.'

Ive been writing about the billionaire-funded right-wing war on free speech for nearly a decade, and it has played out exactly as I’ve warned. Expect to see more disinformation campaigns targeting prominent left-leaning faculty members once they lose the protection of tenure.

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Is there a diplomatic equivalent of “conscious uncoupling” for breaking it off with a shitty ally who you still love but need distance from to re-establish healthy boundaries? Asking for tens of millions of Americans.