White House Push AI-Altered Images Of Arrested ICE Protesters To Manufacture Cruelty
from the department-of-just-us dept
We are being led by deeply unserious people. Not only that, but people who are manufacturing cruelty upon their very own constituents. That’s how bad this has gotten.
This week, the DOJ arrested three people in Minnesota for protesting ICE’s goonish activity in a local church, where the pastor there also heads up the local ICE field office. Among the three is Nekima Levy Armstrong, former NAACP chapter president and a local activist who the DOJ claims organized the protest and instigated the group going into the church during services. Just how true any of that is is anyone’s guess, since it’s become impossible to believe a single thing this government says about ICE protests. For example:
There was no attack. There was no violence. There were words and chants being voiced in a place of worship. You can find that repugnant, if you like. It’s still not an attack.
The law being cited for the arrest makes Armstrong’s detention dubious at best.
The law Bondi cited in her announcement — 18 U.S. Code § 241 — describes it pertaining to when “two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
While many in the faith community are obediently clutching their figurative pearls over all of this, I’m struggling to understand how walking into a church that’s open to the public and saying words, even interrupting services, violates that law. I don’t think it does, but then I also laughed out loud when I read Bondi’s claim that this was an “attack.” The plain meaning of words doesn’t appear to matter to these people all that much.
But then the fun really started. The official White House exTwitter account then went on to post a picture of Armstrong being arrested.
But here’s the thing: that picture has been altered by AI. Here is the unaltered picture of Armstrong’s arrest as circulated by the administration’s very own Kristi Noem.
Yes, the White House decided to take an image of law enforcement improperly arresting an American citizen, one of their own constituents, and have AI alter it to make it appear that she is in distress. Oh, and they made her skin tone slightly darker as well. Because they want her to have been in distress. It eats them up inside that she wasn’t crying. That want her to be “blacker” because they want all of their enemies to be people of color. They’re showing you want they want to visit upon American citizens.
And until they are put in check, they will continue to behave like a toddler with unfettered access to the internet and a permanently shitty attitude.
Asked whether the image had been digitally altered, the White House responded by sending a post on X from Kaelan Dorr, the deputy communications director.
“YET AGAIN to the people who feel the need to reflexively defend perpetrators of heinous crimes in our country I share with you this message: Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will continue. Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he said.
And thank you, Kaelan, for going outside and playing hide and go fuck yourself.
Again, deeply unserious people. Shitposters. Internet trolls. These are the people in charge of the government. The ones sending their goon squads into our cities. The ones threatening to use the military against its own citizens. The ones that believe they are beyond accountability for all they are currently doing.
I worry seriously that the president’s health is such that he won’t be available to stand trial whenever our government returns to sanity and the time for accountability arrives. But the same can’t be said for those beneath him. Bondi, Noem, Dorr, and many others will be held to account for what they are doing in this administration. The ledger will be kept and debts satisfied through the legal system, once actual justice is back on the menu.
For now, the fight against the toddlers continues.
Filed Under: 18 usc 241, ai, doj, ice, lies, memes, minneapolis, minnesota, nekima levy armstrong, pam bondi, propaganda, protests, trump administration, white house
Comments on “White House Push AI-Altered Images Of Arrested ICE Protesters To Manufacture Cruelty”
They don’t really get that adult life usually doesn’t work the way things worked back on the playground or in the schoolyard. On the playground or in the schoolyard, when some outcast gets subjected to some kind of standard bullying treatment, there’s a fair chance that that outcast really will break down crying or try very hard not to. But when you’re dealing with a reasonably well-adjusted and self-assured adult, that’s a lot less likely.
Since our fascist friends mentally never really grew older than 12 or 13 – that’s also why they think saying things like “the memes will continue” makes them look cool and tough rather than pathetic and ridiculous – they assume as a matter of course that the tricks that worked so well for them (or, in some cases, against them) at that age must certainly always work. They really do seem to believe that every time they call us “libtards” online, we’re so devastated that we cry ourselves to sleep the next night.
So when some grown-up person gets treated viciously by them and does not break out in tears as a result, this leads to a fairly strong “does not compute” reaction inside their heads. They have to pretend, and fool their supporters into thinking, that the adult in question did cry. That’s one reason why they pull shit like that.
I feel like we’re 3 weeks away from finding out that federal prosecutors are submitting LLM generated evidence photos in cases against ICE protesters. Even if they’re mildly smart enough to realize they’d be likely to get caught, I don’t doubt it has been suggested.
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I’m not assuming they haven’t already done that somewhere.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if when they get caught submitting AI deepfakes for cases, that the response is something along the lines of, “well, that’s how the ICE agent felt was going on and that’s all you really need to know. Therefore, the protester in question is guilty of the terroristic threat of existing and should be sent to the foreign gulags to be tortured.”
The right lives matter crew better stay on their toes. Maga doesn’t care who gets in their way when skulls need to be cracked or hollowed out.
Church Protests
ICE have just arrested a man for protesting in a temple. He allegedly upset the tables of some merchants and caused disruption. Dressed in rags and sandals, the man who gave his name as Jesus refused to comment. DOJ have promised he will be deported to some Spanish speaking country asap.
Trump has learnt from Putin who imprisoned the members of Pussy Riot after their church protest.
Fortunately the USA is not yet as far gone as Russia so now it’s up to the grand jury to do the right and patriotic thing and tell Bondi where to put this accusation.
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Trump: This “Jesus” guy pretends is from Israel but he’s been actually living in Palestine. He’s a terrorist, a false king, and a traitor, as my good friend Judas told me. He’ll be crucified and he won’t walk on water again. Believe me. God won’t have mercy for him. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Why shouldn’t all pictures of everyone in this administration be edited to have them in a soiled diaper?
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The administration is the soiled diaper. It’s full of nasty shit and it needs to be changed.
The more protesters willing to be taken into custody by the NeoGestapo ICE brigade, the more it slows down their illegal actions. They want to enter homes and private property without a judicial warrant? Fuck them. Protest them wherever they are hiding, including churches. Clog up the streets.
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SHE claimed she organized the protest. She made a whole FB post about it, named her co-conspirators, conveniently enough.
They forced their way in, refused to leave, and scared the hell out of little kids, yelling all kinda vile shit.
It is repugnant. It is also against the law. There is a federal law (the FACE act) specifically making this a felony.*
They are going to go to jail for a long time. Don Lemon, too. And if you are taking the side of people who interrupted a church service, you are the bad guys.
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It was a church service open to the public. How do you force your way in? Also, that’s not violence. Did they break a door down? Kidnap a person with a court order to not be removed from the country? Use a child as bait?
Maybe the cops let them in and they were just tourists…or something. Isn’t that how it goes?
It’s not really a protest if you leave.
Vance seems to be the source of the claim that the kids were scared. He’s a proven liar, so he’s not a reliable source.
The video from inside doesn’t show scared kids.
Bullshit. Were they yelling, “Quiet, piggy” or maybe “stupid bitch” or “grab em by the pussy?”
I watched a video of the protest. They said “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good” among other similar things.
You claim it happened, so again, cite a source. “Use your eyes.” Or are you just repeating what lying government officials and your preferred propaganda sources have told you?
A supposed man of god also working for a genocidal authoritarian government organization is pretty repugnant. But yeah, those kids not having to sing boring hymns written in the 1880s is really traumatic.
Actually it’s unsettled law. There is also a 1st Amendment right to protest. They hadn’t been trespassed yet, so until that point, they were there legally. And if they were trespassing, then that would be a state law they violated, not a federal law. But usually trespassing is a warning after you leave, not while you’re there unless the cops have to remove you, but this can vary by state. But sit in protests are a thing and have been for 60+ years. And the cops didn’t have to remove them. They left after about 25 minutes.
That’s a stretch. Did you read the act? I did. They weren’t using force or threat of force or physically obstructing. They were present, they were making noise, but they weren’t actually stopping people from being there, getting in or getting out.
You’re late to the game. I guess Fox News didn’t tell you that the judge refused to sign off on charges for Don Lemon yesterday. You should take in more sources.
Yes, the protesters who want the government to stop brutalizing, abducting, and murdering people, who want churchgoers to know that their pastor is a future Nuremberg defendant, are definitely the bad guys, not the supposed man of god who is violating more tenets of the bible than he can even remember.
They didn’t interrupt a church service. They called out a pharisee in his temple.
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Pretty sure when I’ve seen video of him in a room the couches looked pretty scared, is all I’m saying on the matter.
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Vance intentionally starts fights with his wife so he has to spend the night on the couch…
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There was no attack. There was no violence
“They forced their way in, refused to leave, and scared the hell out of little kids, yelling all kinda vile shit.”
Yes, exactly, we’re saying the same thing. Glad we agree there was not a violation of the law in this case.
They are not “manufacturing cruelty”. They are manufacturing crimes, to justify future (and very real) cruelty.
Of course its fake news, you made it!
That is some seriously wishful thinking short of an actual revolution, we’ve seen plenty times before, the moment the opposition get back into power, any concept of accountability will go out of the window for an insistence we need to “put it behind us”, and “move on”, retaining whatever systems of abuse were put in place, but saying they are in “safe hands”, because there is no conceivable way the people who faced absolutely no consequences for their actions could get back into power, right?
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Yeah. What happened to the Patriot Act, the no-fly list, the torture camps, and the illegal spying when Obama took over from Bush? Obama promised closing Guantanamo many times, and one would think the commander-in-chief could get that done pretty quickly. But it never happened, nor did Congress do much about any of that stuff.
And then Biden was gonna save us all, after we’d seen what Trump was like and were worried it could happen again (but worse). Did Biden give up a single Presidential power, or suggest to Congress to revoke any? They changed a few administrative policies, sure, and now the new people have changed them back.
Some accountability might come externally. Canadian leader Mark Carney said “Stop invoking [the phrase] ‘rules-based international order’ as though it still functions as advertised.” Europe’s trying to build some alternatives to American services, although it’s hard to be very optimistic—for example, the reason all payments go through the U.S. is because Europe’s leaders were dumb enough to let an American company buy Europay. And how many times have they adjusted their laws to let European data be stored in America, on slightly-differently-worded American promises?
If people actually turned away from the U.S., that would be a consequence of sorts. But it won’t work if everyone forgets all about it, and goes “back to normal”, when Trump’s gone (and a Trump impersonator is ready for the next election).
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Politicians are just too damn addicted to impunity, that they don’t want to give up not facing legal scrutiny for their actions. It is worse than that really, under their leadership they have created a culture around avoiding responsibility and taking power.
Accountability is the only way that the United States might recover as a nation. There needs to be a firm precedent that it doesn’t matter if you are the President, a Congressman, or a Supreme Court Justice. If you break the law you are going to jail. If that means literally every past president goes to jail, so be it.
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Using AI-altered images to portray arrested ICE protesters as cruel is deeply concerning and undermines public trust. Manipulating visuals to shape narratives erodes accountability and fuels polarization. Transparency matters—facts should stand on their own. Even brands like AutoFuel know credibility is built through honesty, not distortion.
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Not “unserious” but gormless, stupid, sycophantic and just plain lunatic nutcases.
MAGA… using AI to try and make reality look like their fevered dreams–their un-Christian, un-American fevered dreams.
IANAL
That doctored photo sure seems to make the “actual malice” requirement to sue a government official.
And when ICE use images of protestors or kidnap victims covered in the very real, visible injuries they’ve caused, chuds will exclaim that they’re ‘probably AI generated to send a message!’
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Can’t wait to see how ICE edits the video of its agents beating and gunning down an unarmed person in the streets of Minneapolis to somehow make them heroes.
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They don’t need AI to do that: just put in some patriotic songs and MAGA will lap it up.
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Edit? They’re the ones who posted the “fucking bitch” video and claimed it vindicated them.
They either don’t know how bad the videos make them look, or they don’t care.
Suggest? Please
That we send a letter, prefer it signed and returned.
About the Idea Who is at fault in Military conduct for Following Illegal Orders.
“What would Jesus do?”
A question increasingly answered when transposing most of the tales of him to our present contex with “Get arrested by ICE”
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And “killed” is increasingly on the table as well.
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Yes, there has been yet more of mind-breakinly dusgusting levels of that.
AS if you couldn't hate AI more
here is yet another reason. AI and generative pictures should not be.
also Timothy Geigner
Melinda Tankard Reist, of Collective Shout… you know the people that lied about video games and now credit card companies are smashing our fingers in the door?
she’s suing people for defimation … when it wasn’t defimation and now has a head stock in the australia e safety comission.
oh and uhh.
https://medium.com/%40hyenablood/collective-shout-and-the-puritan-censorship-trojan-horse-e967802d5e50
and yeah.
What they are actually manufacturing is a well reasoned distrust...
What they are actually manufacturing is a well reasoned distrust of the current regime.
They been saying one thing and doing another for a long time, but now they are simply lying in the face of multiple videos on multiple angles of proof otherwise.
Whether they are too stupid to realize we can see the proof for ourselves or they really believe we are too stupid to pay attention is yet to be determined.
Either way, every day, they teach us not to trust the regime.
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…dude, you seriously chose a slur as your username?
I understand that they don’t actually care about any laws being broken — they just want to **** people up.
And IANAL, but doesn’t this harm any legal case they might hope to try later?