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In June 2025, rumors abounded that Isra Hirsi, daughter of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, had posted "death to the colonial empire" from Los Angeles to Rafah in Gaza on an Instagram story. Instagram stories are posts that disappear after 24 hours unless the accounts that post them highlight them on their profile page. For example, X user End Wokeness shared a screen capture of the supposed Instagram story alongside a photograph of Hirsi with her mother Omar (archived): As of this writing, the End Wokeness post had gained 10,000 and 660,000 views. The screen capture appeared...

My name is Captain Jennifer Wilcox. My pronouns are she and her. I am a Caucasian female, wearing a black shirt uniform, eyewear, and a black hat.

LA officials say they do not have enough firefighters… they literally TERMINATED firefighters for not taking a COVID vax ... Let me get this straight. • California is burning. • All of its fire chiefs were selected based on their LGBTQ status. • Gavin Newsom spent all of the state’s fire resources on illegals. • He hasn’t called in the National Guard. • The LA Mayor is nowhere to be found. Gross incompetence. Gross mismanagement. ... First rule of Government You do not tell the truth about government ... In 2020 Janice Hahn worked overtime to fire the firefighters that...

Exciting new AI tools are still being shaped by human beings.In February, freakouts over artificial intelligence took a fun twist. This time, it wasn't concern that humans are ushering in our robot overlords, panic about AI's potential to create realistic fakes, or any of the usual fare. It wasn't really about AI at all, but the humans who create it: woke humans. The controversy started when @EndWokeness, a popular account on X (formerly Twitter), posted pictures generated by Google's AI tool, Gemini, for the prompts "America's Founding Fathers," "Vikings," and "the Pope." The results were all over the people-of-color spectrum,...