Robert Mackey
@robertmackey
Report + edit @us.theguardian.com | Past: visual investigations @forensicarchi.bsky.social (The Murder of June Knightly and @theintercept.com (Meet the Riot Squad | +2,500 @nytimes.com bylines
19 years ago, a 20-year-old Lionel Messi posed for a photo with a baby from the outskirts of Barcelona for a UNICEF calendar. The baby was an infant Lamine Yamal.
On social media, many people spread viral false claim the newspaper in McConnell's hand looked fake, and so was proof the whole image was AI generated. Far-right conspiracy theorist, and Trump adviser, Laura Loomer got over a million views for that false claim, and Elon Musk's Grok "confirmed" it
Washington Post report on Mitch McConnell's health oddly fails to note photo released by his office includes a newspaper — which I reported yesterday was the cover of Sunday's WaPo sports section — even though AI generated summary of reader comments notes that their readers think the image was AI
Shade from Telemundo, acknowledging English-speakers watching in part because they do not cut to commercials during the pausas de hidratación — and also donnot have basketball announcers ignorant of football doing commentary
My first day as a construction worker in Queens, one summer during college, the other guys told me the most important rule of the hourly job, with overtime, was: "Make the work last".
'Our Pool is Bigger than Skyscrapers,' Trump assures an anxious nation www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Minor OSINT scoop: That "Thank you, PRESIDENT TRUMP" banner Trump had plastered all over DC to take credit for taxpayer funded renovations features a photo of him in a hard hat taken last July — as he toured the Federal Reserve renovation he called a huge scam www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
An image of the suspected gunman shared first by the president on his own social media platform, right next to an ad for snake oil in his timeline
Trump confirms government could 'just buy' Spirit Airlines, then confuses Obama with Biden and Jet Blue with People Express www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
When he says "it was shocking" because "we didn't think" Iran would retaliate for US strikes by hitting Gulf states with US bases, he is admitting he did not think of a likely Iranian response a member of his own Iran negotiating team until last year predicted would happen in an article in February:
Netanyahu has been wrongly predicting Middle East peace can be achieved through US and Israeli bombing since JD Vance was in high school. "If you take out Saddam," he told Congress in 2002, "I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region," particularly "in Iran"
Very clear asessment of what is actually happening from @emilyhorne.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/spinclas...
Netanyahu says a regime change war on Iran will bring peace 24 years after he offered Congress his "guarantee" that regime change war in Iraq would "have enormous positive reverberations on the region" including "right next door, in Iran" where people "will say, the time of such regimes... is gone"
Mullin never served but often speaks as if he did. After Jan 6, he told CSPAN he directed police and actual vet Jason Crow how to respond to riot, and said "I haven't seen a thing like that since stuff you see overseas". When asked to explain his service experience, he said: "I would prefer not to."
JD Vance calls Donald Trump's attack on Kaitlan Collins for not smiling 'so perceptive' www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Musicians Against Ice takes over a busy Portland street corner and lays down a protest beat to honks and waves of solidarity
The French foreign ministry has an official account dedicated to "riposte" and here is their riposte to Musk calling the UK fascist for protecting X users from abuse
"Self-deportation" was also, originally, intended to be such a self-evidently stupid term that no one could take it seriously when it was invented by the satirist @laloalcaraz.bsky.social aka Daniel D. Portado in 1994 archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blog...
What's that in Epstein's bookcase, behind the vase? Why it's Epstein's copy of "Trump: The Art of the Comeback", which The New York Times reported in July was inscribed by Trump in 1997 with a handwritten note: “To Jeff – You are the greatest!”
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