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During a campaign stop in Coachella last month, for example, Trump blasted the state as a wasteland of high costs, overregulation, homelessness and crime, mixing real problems facing the state with a litany of falsehoods.

Trump has blasted the nation as a wasteland of crime, promised the largest mass deportation in history, ridiculed transgender people, suggested Harris isn’t really Black, and advanced the dangerously racist idea, used by dictators past, that immigrants bring “bad genes” into the country.

The ire of Zuckerberg’s fiercest critics is now focused on Elon Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla chief who took over Twitter, renamed it X, turned it into a desolate wasteland of unmoderated right-wing propaganda, flooded it with his own conspiracy theories, and is campaigning for Donald Trump.

Earlier this year, the actor starred in the first season of Prime Video’s Emmy-nominated post-apocalyptic video game adaptation “Fallout,” playing a sheltered young woman who ventures into a violent wasteland to save her dad.

I have been in only once, in the first month of the war, when Israeli firepower had already turned the areas of northern Gaza that I saw into a wasteland.