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☆ Opinion: The latest example of Trump’s seeming obsession with Nazism
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Opinion Dean Obeidallah | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Dean Obeidallah CNNIt’s not the first time Trump has kicked off an event by playing this song that celebrates the January 6, 2021, attackers. But that wasn’t even the most offensive thing Trump did at Saturday’s private luncheon for donors, which was held at his Mar-a-Lago club. It was Trump, after all, who has said that he would be a dictator on “day one” of his administration. And the fact is, there is one major party presidential candidate who repeatedly has invoked Nazi language — and it’s not Biden. In December, Trump caused a firestorm when he parroted language used by Hitler by describing migrants as “poisoning the blood” of the United States.

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☆ ‘This Is Personal’: Dearborn’s Arab Americans Endure the Agony of War
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Kurt Streeter | More About Kurt Streeter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Dearborn, a suburb of roughly 110,000 people bordering Detroit, has one of the highest percentages of Arab Americans among U.S. cities. Census figures show that it is roughly 54 percent Arab American, a figure experts believe is a significant undercount. When he took office in 2022, Mr. Hammoud — the son of Lebanese immigrants, raised in the city’s working-class east side — became the first Arab American Muslim mayor in Dearborn history. This is a community suffering intensely as it beholds the carnage wrought by the war between Israel and Hamas. The recent pause in fighting brought a respite, but Mr. Hammoud, like many in Dearborn, believed it would only be temporary.

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☆ Paid canvassers for DeSantis are showing up 'a little stoned' in neighborhoods, knocking on doors, and ignoring 'no solicitation' signs, WaPo reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Washington Post reported that paid canvassers are supporting Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign. In one conflict, captured via Ring camera, a door knocker told a voter he was "a little stoned" as he worked. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. In another incident, a paid DeSantis canvasser didn't even look up from his phone to speak with a homeowner whose door he had knocked on. DeSantis' presidential campaign representatives declined to comment on the canvassers' behavior.

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☆ Someone made a hyper-realistic deepfake of Ron DeSantis as Michael Scott from 'The Office' wearing women's clothes. It's the latest instance of AI being weaponized to take DeSantis down.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A deepfake video of Ron DeSantis as Michael Scott in "The Office" has gone viral on Twitter. Ron DeSantis acting as Michael Scott in an episode of "The Office" is going viral on Twitter, and it's just another example of how artificial intelligence can be weaponized against politicians. The deepfake video features DeSantis' face superimposed on that of Steve Carell's iconic character. The deepfake DeSantis replies indignantly: "No. Trump's camp has launched numerous attacks on DeSantis since he announced his bid — this deepfake video is just the latest example of how AI has been used against DeSantis.

☆ How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World
▼ + stars: | 2019-04-03 | by ( Jonathan Mahler | Jim Rutenberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +61 min

Murdoch family, 1987: Lachlan, James, Anna and Rupert. The second season of HBO’s “Succession,” whose fictional media family, the Roys, bears a striking resemblance to the Murdochs, airs this summer. ‘A press dictatorship’To understand how the Murdoch empire works, it is essential to return to its origins. The bigger Murdoch’s empire became, the more power he had to clear away obstacles to further its expansion. Like his father, Lachlan considered the idea of meddling with such an important profit driver a form of madness.

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