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Collaborative social news reporting from the former editor of The Lede blog, @RobertMackey

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

"A clear visual clue that the photograph was not taken in Portland was that the first officer’s shield is marked 'Policia', the Spanish or Portuguese word for police."

As you can see, I had to use the latest cutting edge #OSINT techniques for this one:
https://t.co/ZEnXWOpcob

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

Oregon Republicans can't use a photo of the actual (small, tame) protest in Portland to illustrate Trump's fever dream, so they had to fabricate one by combining two stock photos: so four South American cops with "Policia" riot shields float above a Brazilian crowd waving flares

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Trump's belief that he understands science better than scientists goes way back. This is from 2016: “I said... 'so if I take hairspray and if I spray it in my apartment, which is all sealed, you’re telling me that affects the ozone layer?' 'Yes.' I say, no way, folks. No way!”

[Mona Seif @Monasosh]

الصورة اللي طلبتها 😍

تصبحوا على خير
💛💛💛

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

Looks like David Rem, who was billed as Trump's "childhood friend" before he addressed Trump's MSG rally last October — but he is 17 years younger than Trump and does not know him. He called Kamala Harris the antichrist in his speech and declared that he was running for NYC mayor

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The Irish bill only bans the import of goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, which the International Court of Justice ruled last year are all illegal and must be dismantled for violating prohibitions on "racial segregation and apartheid".

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

We are on the brink of war, but in a situation where pointing out that every part of this statement from the President of the United States is a lie feels like nit-picking to most of the press corps

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

Vance arrived LAX 1:35pm; got to Westwood federal building 2pm; shook some hands, sat for a Fox News interview, held a presser with no local reporters but questions from the Daily Wire; left for an RNC event at 3:30; was back at LAX on his plane at 6:05pm: https://t.co/U3wxRDZHjQ

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

In fact, Trump supported the US invasion of Iraq in 2002 and turned against it in 2004. He first said the US should "keep the oil" not in 2003 but in 2011, when he told Bill O'Reilly: “I’ve never said this before. This is a first, on your show” Receipts:
https://t.co/sLiS0eg3by

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

In 2002, Netanyahu urged Congress to invade Iraq to prompt "regime change" in Iran https://t.co/Vn50vKDeY3

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

Video from CBS News of the moment when Senator Alex Padilla interrupted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday shows that he was not close to or lunging at her, and she continued with her prepared remarks

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

CBS video of Padilla interrupting Noem with a question appears to undermine her claim that he lunged at her https://t.co/bB85YRcVT3

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

Trump again claims he's "too busy" to think about Musk. Here's what he's done in the past 24 hours: talked about Musk in separate phone calls with NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN; inspected ballroom he's installing in White House; inspected golf course at army base; flew to his NJ golf course

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

This video is not from the pope's funeral in the Vatican, but from the re-opening of Notre-Dame in Paris in December. Original clips both posted here: https://t.co/DSBLLXQFKD

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

In the midst of a financial crisis he caused, the President of the United States directs his education secretary to respond to a plea from his favorite morning TV host to use the power of the federal government to help the host's high school keep its Native American mascot

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

also eagerly boosted by the Kremlin:

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

Whatever the explanation, the image, and the Salvadoran president's caption about "sipping margaritas," was very clearly propaganda set up to provide exactly this viral content for Trump apologists:

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

Not the main point, obviously, but why are those large glasses of what Bukele claims are margaritas not present in the senator's photo of the same table, which shows just coffees and waters? They didn't Photoshop those giant cocktail glasses in did they?

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

So strange that he remains seated as she is forced to stand. He did the same thing with the freed Israeli hostages who visited the Oval Office.