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tracking the cultural trends that determine our politics | editorial photographer | brand expert

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Joined October 2012
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Hey Photographers : When Balenciaga hires you to shoot their new lookbook & you show up to find a toddler laid across a sofa with wine glasses & bondage gear arranged around them, you walk away. Period.
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@MattWalshBlog Amber Rose basically told Progressive American women who hate Trump to “go call your dad” which may be the most needed message in politics right now
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The Big Short of this Balenciaga scandal is going to be if Adidas manages to get out without people realizing the image containing child porn papers was a Balenciaga x Adidas collab, completely separate from the BDSM Gremlin Clutch photos. #BoycottBalenciaga
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James Lindsay & Joe Rogan just introduced millions of people to the idea of “Groomer Teachers” as well as the living repository of embodied postmodern collateral damage known as @libsoftiktok . You can’t stop the signal.
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@GabrieleGalimba I love a lot of your work & understand the industry pressure on shooters but some principle would have told you not to involve your name in this nonsense.
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Worth noting, regardless of Kanye’s ethnic/political views(or your opinion of them), he is currently cutting up and repurposing his entire Balenciaga collection into $20 Ye brand apparel & has vowed to get his daughters away from this brand. @kanyewest @Cernovich
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@michaelshermer This is horrible, stupid science lol How about “Porn is influencing everyone who comes in contact with it and the sex they have after that point is based on pornographic representations; not what they ‘want’.”
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Trump broke Sam Harris’s brand without ever saying his name.
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@Heathie0215 Because he had just been involved in a hit & run. The police were chasing flagging him down running away from the scene of an accident he caused.
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@libsoftiktok I made a Target logo that says what they’re doing.
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I got “Am I trans?” as a related search on Google & saw it as an opportunity to observe what a parent or child exploring the topic within today’s culture might find when following Google’s suggestion. A 🧵 thread on what stood out to me & a new Groomers rebrand I made. >>>
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@jewels_y The priority is not attending to Anderson’s intoxication. The priority is to protect the public from a guy involved in a hit & run who is now fighting with the police in traffic.
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@alexstein99 Here is a remade Target logo that says what they’re doing
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@nytimes This doesn’t read like you think it does.
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@GavinNewsom Here is a remade Target logo that says what they’re doing. #BoycottTarget
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Important nuanced point : @shoe0nhead released all these images as a pack but if you look into it, this image featuring the child porn papers is actually from a separate Balenciaga x Adidas collab. Important because Adidas does WAY more consumer sales in US.
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The Big Short of this Balenciaga scandal is going to be if Adidas manages to get out without people realizing the image containing child porn papers was a Balenciaga x Adidas collab, completely separate from the BDSM Gremlin Clutch photos. #BoycottBalenciaga
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@jimmykimmel Trump isn’t wrong here though; your medium is pathetic at this point no matter how good you are at it. Be the top of the former empire if you want. Everyone knows you came from boob humor.
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@ConceptualJames Queer theory kills more kids than mass shootings by a longshot
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@PshrinkEmeritus @DanielleMuscato Lmao in this scenario, only criminals and women are out after 9pm. You good with that?
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🙋‍♂️ Instagram story posts about this yesterday which the photographer, Gabriele, definitely saw :
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This is significant because Adidas does multiples higher consumer sales & holds much greater goodwill/brand influence in the U.S. than Balenciaga. They have far more American consumer trust and yet…☝️🙄
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I updated the Disney logo to better reflect their values.
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@POTUS You literally won’t even debate your own party.
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Do you normally think of yourself as a “good person?” @michaelmalice contrasts the simple presumption that “people are good” with realities about how normal people react to incentives + highlights how current American culture misinforms us about ourselves in this way
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A person with any moral map short of Foucault wouldn’t need public feedback to know what they “should” have done here.
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Balenciaga has apologized and removed the photos from all platforms. Not good enough. They need to explain how this all came to be in the first place and commit to giving a portion of sales to multiple child protection non-profits that work to stop the sexualization of kids.
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@POTUS You bragged about it
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@POTUS Dude you threatened to fire everyone who wouldn’t take the Trump vaccines you bought from big pharma with their money.
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@Heathie0215 He was a pedestrian running through the middle of traffic. He was a danger to himself and a liability to everyone driving at the very least. And all of that would have been ok if he hadn’t fought with the cops.
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@MrJonCryer By coup, you mean the riot where capitol police shot & killed a civilian?
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How it started How it’s going for Balenciaga: for Balenciaga:
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@thevivafrei @JoeBiden You think he showers with her or it stopped with her aunt?
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@POTUS Trump’s tax cuts for corporations resulted in significant pay raises for low skill workers like my single mother & the whole office of mostly minority women she worked with processing paychecks when that bill was passed.
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60% of the people interacting with this video didn’t watch past the first minute. Just something to keep in mind.
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Every professional advertising dollar spent has a specific buyer in mind. Who do you think was Balenciaga & Adidas target demographic for this ad?
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@CNN Do an article about the cartel members & Chinese spies coming through our border instead of just talking about the people they hide behind.
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@libsoftiktok Toxic Masculinity.
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@CNN Here’s the video if you want to just see it instead of letting this shamed news outlet tell you “What to know” lmao
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To conclude, I would argue that even without making any speculations on intent or collusion between @Google & resource sites it presents, a parent or child using Google to go anywhere near the Trans identity topic is algorithmically groomed by global corporations & foreign govts.
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@yaf @MattWalshBlog People need tools.
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Here are some media tools for people who want to voice their frustration about Target targeting kids messaging about sex & gender for #Pride2023 . Feel free to share & use them. People need tools. #BoycottTarget
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@POTUS Does anyone believe the economy is doing well right now?
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Donald Trump tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins “Our country is being destroyed by stupid people.”
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@GG_iZNX It’s weird being me watching this go all over the internet right now & wanting to argue with everyone who is saying the cops were wrong to tase him.
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Critical Theory(and it’s racist/sexist niches) is meant only to dirsupt societies by meditating on imperfections & pathologizing the compassion of good people who don’t know what hit them. Dr. James Lindsay delivers a scathing warning for families, churches, & corporations.
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@ConceptualJames James did tell you so.
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@ReduxxMag I’m actually glad the court made record of his pronoun obsession.
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@TranslatorBot2k @PshrinkEmeritus @DanielleMuscato 😂 Oh, and don’t forget - anyone who identifies as gender non-male, right?
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You don’t shadow ban the sitting President. Period. #TwitterFiles3
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You have to know that you’re not God. This is the fundamental unifying Identity under which any sustainable Liberty is possible. Get to this truth however you like but you have to get there & the more explicitly you know it, the better.
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@CNN We notice when you do/don’t include certain info about the shooters and victims. It’s messed up.
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@libsoftiktok It’s so gross and materialistic how their arguments all boil down to ownership.
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@libsoftiktok It puts the progress on its values
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🙅‍♂️ Not even the “nice” ones! 🙅‍♀️
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If a parent or child asks Google, “am I trans?”, their first search returns are 1. a paid ad for hormones 2. a @PPFA link. To clarify my bias, I’m not a fan of Planned Parenthood’s legacy in the “family development” space so my internal alarms began chirping when I saw this.
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@KimKardashian As an influential person, can you be more specific about what these redemptive expectations would be as to set an example for other fashion companies that push aesthetic limits? What do you say for the Balenciaga x Adidas campaign?
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The Big Short of this Balenciaga scandal is going to be if Adidas manages to get out without people realizing the image containing child porn papers was a Balenciaga x Adidas collab, completely separate from the BDSM Gremlin Clutch photos. #BoycottBalenciaga
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@POTUS Trading a pothead female athlete for high level Russian arms dealer is a perfect microcosm of 🇺🇸 culture under Biden leadership.
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A "cousin" of #BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors (the one w/the multi-million dollar homes) died after committing a felony hit & run, trying to steal a car, resisting arrest & getting tased by LAPD. He tested positive for cocaine. Cullors is calling for the police chief to resign.
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@GrahamAllen_1 @StealthMedical1 Everyone skips the fact that Mulvaney consistently called it “girlhood.”
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Reddit is banning the word “groomer” on their platform so I flipped their logo. #Groomit
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Reddit is banning Groomers. …not banning the actual Groomers using the site for various ends though; just the use of the word by people who see it and think it’s gross.
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@PedroSAcosta1 @Heathie0215 They deescalated the situation for the 100 people Keenan’s behavior was putting at risk and probably gave Keenan too much room to calm down before he ran back into traffic.
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If a parent or child uses Google to learn about how to relieve the displeasure of gender dysphoria(which can just mean “unhappiness”), @MayoClinic tells them 1. Hormone therapy 2. Surgery Seems like an irresponsible blanket recommendation to me. Tag an expert here if you like.
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@POTUS Think of the number of people who are going to have their kids prescribed a lifetime of medical interventions and surgeries before they’re old enough to know what is right because this president is telling them it’s good.
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@washingtonpost Not a defense of racist politics but America is telling Maoist China to hold our beer
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“Mass shootings will continue until we change gun laws” sounds like a terroristic threat to me.
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@lporiginalg The photographer finally deleted their remaining Instagram post at some point today. Attached is a post I wrote addressing fellow photogs about editorial ethics.
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Hey Photographers : When Balenciaga hires you to shoot their new lookbook & you show up to find a toddler laid across a sofa with wine glasses & bondage gear arranged around them, you walk away. Period.
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@TranslatorBot2k @PshrinkEmeritus @DanielleMuscato Lol robots are surprisingly efficient at stereotyping. I counted 2-3 in a single sentence just then.
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@charliekirk11 Here is a remake of the Target logo that says what they’re doing.
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Trump broke Sam Harris’s brand without ever saying his name.
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@POTUS Everyone knows you were into segregation, big guy.
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Progressive gun reform would be lowering taxes for lawful gun owners who attend regular training because of the public service they provide.
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If a parent or child uses Google to learn about gender dysphoria in girls, @ACONhealth says that it’s different for everyone & can even manifest itself as “unhappiness”. Note the selective, quark-ish, tactical recognition of mental disorder as a feature of Trans literature.
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@WhipKClark It’s messed up what you did, Rep Clark
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@benshapiro Mia Khalifa might actually still be more worn out than the Gaza Strip
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@shoptemu Very bad idea
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If a parent or child uses Google to learn about who typically exp gender dysphoria, @CedarsSinai tells them 7 year olds are the leading demographic. This may be statistically accurate but I would argue the nuance & caveats around this answer are more pertinent than the answer.
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@jewels_y The high guy rolling around with the cops in the middle of traffic after fleeing a car accident is an immediate risk to everyone around him.
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I bet Gomorrah had adults giving kids “Expert” advice about sex too.
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@DaHannibalBarca I do think it will become very relevant based on the video and cultural context I picked up on because I figured BLM and associated outlets would go crazy with an edited video (which they have) so I wanted to make people on my end of the political spectrum aware. I could be wrong
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@Scott_Wiener Should there be more or less of this, Scott?
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@ScottAdamsSays Climate models unite the whole world in victimhood.
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If a parent or child uses Google to ask if gender dysphoria is a phase, @QldGov tells them it is “not a phase.” Worth noting that this has been their position for at least five years & that, again, the caveats around an answer like this are more valuable than the answer itself.
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@CNN This is the one they’re mad about
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@libsoftiktok The real conversion therapy
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If a parent or child uses Google to ask whether “gender-fluid” is a phase, @WebMD tells them, “It’s not a phase.”, but rather, the experience of any gender is a just phase for gender-fluid people. I’m beginning to feel somewhat dysphoric trying to follow this information.
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@ScottAdamsSays Bill Maher holds Trump & God at the exact same level of phobic prejudice. Makes himself look damaged on both.
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@jordanbpeterson @Mike_Pence Pence is the State. Not gonna work.
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America would rather let its children be society’s front bumper than to tell someone they’re wrong about what they want.
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@wsmartin218 @JDVance It’s like the Open Border strategy was to make a mess so big that trying to clean it up makes you sound ridiculous.
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@POTUS Not a joke!
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@EricRWeinstein @lexfridman I have always seen @lexfridman ’s strategic meekness & “Explain Like I’m Five” approach to be an example of an interviewer who is in it for their audience/for history/posterity rather than one who is in it for themselves.
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@DavidGornoski @Tomhennessey69 @ScottAdamsSays Video of the arrest. Pay attention to student’s voice.
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@Timcast I’da choked him out for sure
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For the record, simply looking for news about “pro trans legislation” is what lead @Google to suggest this question to me.
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@Cernovich @AP AP decided to change their style guide to capitalize “black” in the middle of race riots that they made public health excuses for in the middle of a pandemic before vaccines were even available. Now, AP wants to criticize people for rejecting science & institutions…
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If a parent or child uses Google to ask if gender dysphoria can be caused by trauma, @smithcollege tells them formulations linking gender dysphoria to trauma are “harmful”. …saying nothing of what is true, who is “harmed”, nor what other outcomes that “harm” is weighed against.
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