Paige Osborn

RTs for my benefit not yours

[Paige Osborn @firebug2006]

@RoseGoldLady1 @EruditeElf @HollyEm46009654 Never trust anyone who argues against feeding children.

[Paige Osborn @firebug2006]

@Milajoy What is about Republicans and their hatred of Due Process?

[Paige Osborn @firebug2006]

@GardinerIsland @ryanjreilly Trump is a much bigger crook than anyone in any of those countries.

[Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer]

The indictment of Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is a case study in racism, sexism, and hypocrisy. The charges relate to her efforts to secure a state cannabis sale license—and she is being held to a standard that does not apply to Donald Trump and his family. https://t.co/n0z1abZsYK

[Ross Adams @radamsWAPT]

Large crowd gathering inside Columbus high school gymnasium for a community rally featuring @KamalaHarris and @scott_colom as the race for the U.S. Senate heats up in Mississippi.

[Warren @swd2]

A Russian operation made AI deepfakes of a real former student accusing James Talarico of sexual assault. The real student says "it's not me" and that Talarico "never messed with me." The video still passed 850,000 views on X in its first 24 hours.

Here's how it worked.

On October 20, an account that X lists as signed up from Romania posted the video, claiming abuse when Talarico taught middle school in San Antonio. Lead Stories reached the real Zyon Lewis, and he called it "very bad AI." Detection tools rated the videos more than 99% likely to be AI-generated.

Three research teams attribute it to Storm-1516, the same Russian operation that ran fake scandals against Tim Walz in 2024. Fifteen bot accounts shared it right away. About 12 hours later, big verified accounts reposted it, including a pro-GOP account with 185,000 followers, and it exploded. NBC calls it the most prominent example yet of foreign meddling in these midterms.

It's not the only operation. Bloomberg reviewed 130 fake videos and doctored front pages from a second Russian network, called Matryoshka, including fake ABC and CBS clips, AI videos of De Niro and Cher attacking Democrats, and a made-up claim about Jon Ossoff's properties.

On October 21, the top Democrats on both intelligence committees said a classified briefing showed Russia targeting Democrats right now.

Nobody is saying Russia changed votes. It doesn't have to. It makes the lie, and Americans spread it for free.

[Paige Osborn @firebug2006]

@GlennMcCJr @cindyhydesmith No thanks. She’s done nothing to help Mississippians, and everything to enable this corrupt lawless President.

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

BREAKING: The Mississippi Free Press has obtained bodycam footage from the Senatobia police officer who fired the fatal shot that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.

The footage shows he was standing on the side of the car when he fired into it, hitting the child.

[Scott Colom @scott_colom]

Mrs. High Prices got one thing right: she’s in trouble and has to call her MAGA daddy!

[Noah Shachtman @NoahShachtman]

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story here in @VanityFair

[David Jolly @davidjollyfl]

New reporting shows that state-funded charter schools have paid more than $30 million to private companies tied to Byron Donalds' family. I'm calling on him to divest.

https://t.co/WVF6ada0ns

[Delbert Hosemann @DelbertHosemann]

For years, Mississippians facing cancer have had to travel hours away from home and loved ones to receive treatment during some of the scariest moments of their lives. Today, that begins to change at @UMMCMedicine

Breaking ground on Mississippi’s very own cancer center is nothing short of historic, and I am proud of the Legislature’s support of UMMC’s mission to improve cancer outcomes and bring hope to families across our state.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. https://t.co/8AyV60gg1X

[Jacob Wasserman @jacob_wass]

New footage obtained by TMZ shows Britt McHenry -- a U.S. State Department press advisor -- tossing a drink at someone in the crowd at last night’s Washington Wizards game

https://t.co/giSs3Fb7KT

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, in new comments, did not rule out that the Department of Justice (DOJ) could try to prevent a state from certifying its election results — a process over which the federal government has no authority. https://t.co/QXxuegTirb

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Thomas Frank, author of "The Conquest of Cool," on the cult of creativity: https://t.co/UgJvbw47vl

[Paige Osborn @firebug2006]

@chad_mizelle lol sure Jan

[VANITY FAIR @VanityFair]

“In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story,” writes Matthew Cole. “The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet.

Six months later, I found myself speaking with someone else about the UAE government and their use of mercenaries in conflicts around the Middle East and Africa when I asked, on a whim, whether they knew anything about Kushner and bank transfers from a UAE account. My acquaintance grew quiet. Then they replied, ‘Yes.’” Kushner’s lawyer denied the bank account existed.

Read an exclusive excerpt from Cole’s book, ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’: https://t.co/PRoWgY5pSo

[John Della Volpe @dellavolpe]

Cost of living and corruption top young voters’ midterm priorities.

Among registered 18–29-year-olds with at least a 50–50 chance of voting:

• 91% call cost of living important
• 88% say the same about corruption

Can I afford a future—and whose interests does government serve?

[John Della Volpe @dellavolpe]

Just 25% of young Americans expect to surpass their parents financially. For the first time in our polling, more expect to fall behind than get ahead.

49% say their finances have worsened since this administration took office.

77% disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy.