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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Trump’s pardons of white-collar fraudsters, GOP ripoff artists & unrepentant cop-beaters cheated the victims & taxpayers out of $1.3 BILLION in restitution & fines. Not content to steal from the poor to give to the rich, Trump’s now stealing from victims to give to criminals.

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

Let’s put on our thinking caps. What highly tariffed shipment would make an effective “dump it in the harbor” party? Phones from China?

someone explain to me how this is not a declaration of war

Disrupted at 5:50, Noem did not acknowledge or ask him to wait and security intervened immediately, at which point he introduced himself. Poorly handled all around. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-h...

A second international reporter has been targeted while on the air. An Australian journalist was shot with a rubber bullet live during a broadcast from Los Angeles.

It was never a lie. It was always the truth.

How in heck do I see my post or comment when notified of a reply to it?

Maybe another way of looking at the #TrumpMusk feud is to think about Russia. With Putin offering asylum to Musk, and Musk if he did rig the election certainly with Russian help, maybe this all about Trump not ending the war in #Ukraine?

⚡️ Moscow ready to grant Musk asylum if necessary amid rift with Trump, Russian official says. "I think Musk is playing a completely different game," Dmitry Novikov, deputy chair of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, said.

Kristi Noem less than a month ago: "There is no scenario where Abrego Garcia will be in the United States again." (No matter what happens, bringing him back to the US is a climbdown for the administration)

All across the country, this is what is happening. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/m...

They don’t care if you’re a citizen anymore. They enjoy torturing us.

And btw, the problem right now isn’t activist, unrestrained judges exceeding their constitutional authority. Not at all. The problem is an activist, unrestrained President exceeding his constitutional authority.

Brazen, open corruption. Presidency for sale. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

This 👇

The GOP Tax Scheme is top-down class warfare by the richest people in the world against everyone else.

BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from carrying out Trump's executive order calling for the closure of the Education Department.

Pete Buttigieg, with a truth bomb about Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 😳👇

The payouts to Babbitt’s family, the pardons of J6 insurrectionists and war criminals, and the growing push on the right to exonerate Chauvin all show that the GOP will forgive any crime if they see it as defending the set of hierarchies they believe constitutes the real America.

Or you have decided FASCISM is actually PART of your DAILY LIFE......🤔

For all the talk about “hard truths” etc that propagate our discourse we really don’t discuss how coddling conspiracy theorists has made things worse for everyone.

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They're arresting Members of Congress. Perhaps a sternly-worded letter is in order. Or, perhaps, it's time to play some damn hardball with the DOJ.