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Well, at least there's no pretending going on here. #AIEthics www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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I'm here outside the Tesla showroom in Devon, Pa. west of Philly where about 10 hearty souls are protesting unelected billionaire Elon Musk #TeslaTakedown

Just the loveliest www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DI5...

Following Trump’s new Executive Order re: the S.F. Presidio, here’s a shareable link to an unrolled version of my highly sourced thread about the Tech Bros’ plan to build a “Freedom City” in the Presidio. The MSM has yet to connect these dots, & it’s driving me crazy! skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

Kristi Noem last night said the $200 million DHS ad campaign to scare immigrants and praise Trump was his idea — and that he specifically demanded the ads “thank me for closing the border.” I’m not sure why, but this is news you can only get at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Worst. Episode. EVER.

This is so unconscionable. Elon Musk is personally extorting Ukraine to get access to their minerals for his car batteries. Once again, Elon Musk is an existential threat to everyone on this planet. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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Here's a straight line: In 2019, Pete Hegseth encouraged President Trump to pardon accused war criminals. In 2025, Pete Hegseth and President Trump fired the military's top legal officers.

Uhhhhhh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jordan Peterson is another example of what I call a competency cosplayer. Informed people immediately identity him as an intellectual fraud, but uninformed people can fancy him an intellectual who flatters their unexamined prejudices.

People with doctorates are the most liberal and progressive. The entire mission of destroying academia is to eliminate entire voting demographics. They explicitly spell this out. Shutting down PhD programs isn't an accident, it's the goal.

No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.

Every so often I remember that Oprah brought us Dr Phil, Dr Oz and The Secret but the only person she brought back to destroy on her show was the guy who pretended to be a worse drug addict than he actually was in a book

"Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mr. Zelensky, I expect you to die"

It’s wild how Bluesky keeps the one billionaire around so he can continually show his ass and give us our daily reminder that there are, in fact, no good billionaires.

If you support this, you’re an awful human being

The worst part of this North Korean style sycophancy is that we all know Lutnick doesn’t believe a word of this and Trump knows Lutnick doesn’t believe a word of this.

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

“As of now, Trump administration officials say they are planning on using the bases as a holding facility before the immigrants can be deported.”

🧵 I went to work in Congress with a Member who was raised in South Africa and part of the anti-apartheid movement. She taught me how to optimize the power of the opposition in the House. Like the trimtab on the rudder, members can steer the ship. Here are the six R's of minority power.

its amazing the way conservative arguments fall completely apart in court when there are actually penalties for lying

Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

Congrats to Trump’s new picks for top military posts for meeting the job description. You don’t have to say yes, you know.

You told NPR on the record you were removing stuff to comply with the executive orders. This is a lie about planned revisions. The site also removed gender identity from legal services provided. Stop gaslighting us. You erased trans people and only responded when called out.

In 2015, a study showed that 1.6 million students attended schools that had a cop, but not a counselor. Schools are overly surveilled + overly policed. AI is an extension of this surveillance + policing. On that note, kids: do not ever say anything about your mental health to AI.

America's best idea: National parks. America's worst idea: Electing a President whose number one priority was staying out of jail.

Following Elon Musk, the world's richest man, two speakers at CPAC, Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui, have now given Nazi salutes. This is a major scandal + should push us all to mobilize, protest, and call out #CPAC for what it is: a Nazi rally.

I literally reported this Wednesday.

Vague? But they were written by the finest AI lawyers!

Wow, another DEI hire who just has decades of experience and more medals than I can count. Good riddance! www.navy.mil/Leadership/F...