Seemingly overnight, the internet was flooded with photos of former President Donald Trump seemingly surrounded by adoring groups of Black voters. In one idyllically posed portrait, Trump has his arms around two smiling Black women as a larger group scrambles to get in frame.

There’s just one problem with the photos: they’re all allegedly fake.

A BBC investigation revealed that dozens of photos circulating of President Trump and Black people were AI-generated deep fakes…

Source: Photos of Trump with His ‘Black Supporters’ Are Everywhere … Can You Tell They’re All Fake?

…Establishment Republicans, meanwhile, seem shocked and concerned at the consequences of the politics they have pursued for decades. Texas’s Catholic governor, Greg Abbott has scrambled to express support for IVF, while Donald Trump has called for the Alabama state legislature to find a workaround to protect it.

Make no mistake: things are only going to get weirder and more dangerous from here.

As someone who grew up evangelical in America’s Bible Belt in the 1980s and 1990s, it was drilled into my head that ‘life begins at conception’ and that abortion ‘kills babies’ from as far back as I can remember.

Over the decades, I’ve watched mostly white, right-wing Christians push state-level fetal personhood bills and constitutional amendments across the country – most of which always seemed doomed to fail…

Source: Alabama IVF ruling: Hypocrite Republicans likely to bend rules on fetal personhood | openDemocracy

” Será uma boa mãe de família segundo as doutrinas de alguns padres- mestres da civilização, isto é, fecunda e ignorante.”

Machado de Assis. Várias Histórias

Machado de Assis. Várias Histórias de Um Mestre/ Alcides Villaça. Série  Bom Livro. Ática. 1997

Marii Freire

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 4 de março de 2024

Source: Machado de Assis – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Source: Seating – One Word Sunday – Cee’s Photo Challenges

Now, someone else on another blog said – yes, they did, which is why they wrote those sections in the 14th Amendment that Colorado used to throw the Orange Menace off the ballot. I understood what they meant, but THIS GOP has turned its back on its oath, by enabling and abetting the Orange Menace at every turn. No matter how wretched, or how against accepted norms, there was no policy position, even those longheld supposedly by the Republican Party, that they wouldn’t turn their backs on, in devotion to the Orange Menace. Not one of them stood up against him.

They are presently turning their backs on Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, because of this spinelessness.

Source: Open Thread | The Constitution Stands Up | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Source: Former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury charges – UPI.com

Artist José Manuel

At Plaza Manuel Garridoi n Córdoba, Spain. A sculpture by José Manuel Belmonte of an old man and a kid watering the plants in patio pots.

Source: The grandfather and the child (3 photos) | STREET ART UTOPIA

There is a strange malady in Russia since Vladimir Putin decided to be the new Stalin. His critics die of a bullet to the head or the heart, they die of poisoning, they fall out of buildings, they commit suicide. In the most recent case, Alexei Navalny died in an Antarctic prison camp, and no one knows for sure what happened. But one thing is certain: he’s dead and can no longer mock Putin or challenge his rule…

Source: The Mysterious Deaths of Putin’s Critics | Diane Ravitch’s blog

“For many people, the only tangible value is money. And of course money has its place, but the value of cultivating a compassionate attitude is much more effective. When we only pay attention to material values, there’s little room for concern for others, or for mutual regard.”

His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama

Source: Cultivating a compassionate attitude! – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

Estamos en medio de la vida y del mundo, despiertos o somnolientos y dormidos, entre suspiros, realidades y sueños, y, a veces, aunque creamos saberlo, preguntamos en silencio de dónde venimos, quiénes somos, qué hacemos y cuál es el destino del viaje y del ser. Quienes no lo hacen, indudablemente ya son espectadores y se conforman con poseer los boletos y ocupar las butacas de la comedia burda y grotesca que ĺes ofrecen los dueños de la carpa y los titiriteros.

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Source: En medio de la vida, despiertos o somnolientos – Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga