Meta’s Abandonment of Fact-Checking Empowers a President Who Traffics in Lies
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Meta’s Abandonment of Fact-Checking Empowers a President Who Traffics in Lies
By Barbara McQuade
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January 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Meta’s Abandonment of Fact-Checking Empowers a President Who Traffics in Lies
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To know Barack and Michelle is to understand: They have always believed that leadership is about leaving something behind that empowers others.
June 19, 2026 at 2:34 AM
To know Barack and Michelle is to understand: They have always believed that leadership is about leaving something behind that empowers others.
Meta’s Abandonment of Fact-Checking Empowers a President Who Traffics in Lies
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Meta’s Abandonment of Fact-Checking Empowers a President Who Traffics in Lies
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January 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Meta’s Abandonment of Fact-Checking Empowers a President Who Traffics in Lies
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the executive’s “legitimate power” is bound by both the constitution and the law, and the constitution empowers the judiciary to evaluate the constitutionality of executive actions and empowers congress to exercise oversight and demand accountability
February 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
the executive’s “legitimate power” is bound by both the constitution and the law, and the constitution empowers the judiciary to evaluate the constitutionality of executive actions and empowers congress to exercise oversight and demand accountability
Brown: Autocrats don’t fear the disease or the babies dying from whooping cough — they fear the evidence of it, because evidence exposes their failures, demands accountability, and empowers the public.
December 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Brown: Autocrats don’t fear the disease or the babies dying from whooping cough — they fear the evidence of it, because evidence exposes their failures, demands accountability, and empowers the public.
Read this and be petrified. And then get organized.
Trump Empowers Election Deniers, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances
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October 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Read this and be petrified. And then get organized.
Melania sends a man to talk about a program that supposedly empowers women. 😆
September 24, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Melania sends a man to talk about a program that supposedly empowers women. 😆
I hope that @mikiesherrill.bsky.social empowers NJ State Troopers to arrest ICE agents.
December 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I hope that @mikiesherrill.bsky.social empowers NJ State Troopers to arrest ICE agents.
i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
This look empowers me
February 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM
This look empowers me
April 30, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Pardon me, let me consult Article I and see where it empowers the President to so much as direct a member of Congress to the bathroom.
Leavitt says that Trump "directed Congress" in his Truth Social post to defund Voice of America
June 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Pardon me, let me consult Article I and see where it empowers the President to so much as direct a member of Congress to the bathroom.
The senate confirmation hearings keep confirming what I've been saying:
White Mediocrity Empowers White Villainy
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White Mediocrity Empowers White Villainy: A Conversation with Koritha Mitchell
“Not only does whiteness empower folk to destroy entire communities; it empowers them to say to your face that the destruction doesn't have reverberating effects in the current moment.”
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January 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The senate confirmation hearings keep confirming what I've been saying:
White Mediocrity Empowers White Villainy
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White Mediocrity Empowers White Villainy
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Nothing empowers women like froyo
April 13, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Nothing empowers women like froyo
Look I don’t like Netanyahu I just support every part of the system that enables and empowers him
September 26, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Look I don’t like Netanyahu I just support every part of the system that enables and empowers him
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Meta’s Abandonment of Fact-Checking Empowers a President Who Traffics in Lies
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They do think this behavior, being kind to non whites, is terrorism, bc it empowers all they want to destroy
You’re telling me Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist?
January 24, 2026 at 10:10 PM
They do think this behavior, being kind to non whites, is terrorism, bc it empowers all they want to destroy
* UKRAINE'S DEPUTY PM: UKRAINE IS READY TO NEGOTIATE -- BUT NOT TO SURRENDER
* UKRAINE'S DEPUTY PM: THERE WILL BE NO AGREEMENT THAT EMPOWERS RUSSIA'S AGGRESSION
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* UKRAINE'S DEPUTY PM: THERE WILL BE NO AGREEMENT THAT EMPOWERS RUSSIA'S AGGRESSION
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April 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
* UKRAINE'S DEPUTY PM: UKRAINE IS READY TO NEGOTIATE -- BUT NOT TO SURRENDER
* UKRAINE'S DEPUTY PM: THERE WILL BE NO AGREEMENT THAT EMPOWERS RUSSIA'S AGGRESSION
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* UKRAINE'S DEPUTY PM: THERE WILL BE NO AGREEMENT THAT EMPOWERS RUSSIA'S AGGRESSION
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New law empowers Texas Governor to seize property from legal immigrants.
Republicans Just Made It Legal to Take Homes from Legal Immigrants in Texas
New law empowers Texas Governor to seize property from legal immigrants.
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May 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
New law empowers Texas Governor to seize property from legal immigrants.
My brother in Christ, the Constitution empowers *you* to make this determination! What do you mean it’s “likely” constitutional? Rediscover your backbone and fulfill the duties of your office.
January 3, 2026 at 6:55 PM
My brother in Christ, the Constitution empowers *you* to make this determination! What do you mean it’s “likely” constitutional? Rediscover your backbone and fulfill the duties of your office.
Headlines saying this Supreme Court decision "curtails the use of race" in voting are going to make me have a stroke.
It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.
It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.
April 29, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Headlines saying this Supreme Court decision "curtails the use of race" in voting are going to make me have a stroke.
It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.
It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.
Apologizing to a Black child is an act of liberation. It validates, empowers, and teaches that accountability is love.
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Apologizing to a Black child is an act of liberation. It validates, empowers, and teaches that accountability is love.
Watching this old man take a water bottle and slowly walk into a mist of tear gas is going to stay with me. Everything they do to make people scared empowers them all the more.
Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
January 24, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Watching this old man take a water bottle and slowly walk into a mist of tear gas is going to stay with me. Everything they do to make people scared empowers them all the more.