I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

If you’re looking for a way to support independent comedy, check out @dropout.tv ❤️ Start with Game Changer - Season 7, Ep 1. Thank me later.

KEY to the story about ABC suspending Kimmel's show: Nexstar and Sinclair, two big owners of ABC-affiliated stations, both need FCC approval for pending deals. With a lot of $$ on the line, both have reason to curry favor with the Trump admin. Both decided to yank Kimmel's show.

I'm horrified to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah. Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence. Mark and I are praying for Charlie's recovery.

🚨BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit in California state court against OpenAI for defective product design and wrongful death after ChatGPT encouraged and aided a 16-year-old California boy’s suicide — including by providing detailed instructions on how to hang himself in the final hours of his life. 🧵

The exchanges between Adam and ChatGPT are devastating. This, in my mind, is the worst one. One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human."

The Trump administration’s forthcoming AI action plan will center industry interests & lead to the unrestrained, unaccountable roll-out of AI into every part of our lives. With @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, we’re among the 90+ orgs demanding AI policy that puts the people first. peoplesaiaction.com

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

I think you should be able to say things the president doesn’t like and still be a citizen. Maybe we should write that down somewhere.

When ICE targets one vulnerable community (immigrants), it has a cascading effect on other vulnerable communities (children, the disabled, etc.). This is great reporting from @19thnews.org showing exactly how ICE is destroying families and communities.

Thinking a lot lately about how the bar has moved even lower for transparency - from “who wrote/said/did what” to “is it even a person?” And this occurs in all sorts of scenarios and industries - customer service chat, journalism, law, and policing.

1 in 5 Montanans rely on medicaid. Reading estimates that 31,000 Montanans alone will lose their healthcare because of the BBB. Not to mention the $5.4B that our rural hospitals could lose. Daines, Sheehy, Zinke, and Downing this is on YOU.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Red alert for the big bill blocking state tech laws! There’s a new draft of the AI moratorium and it’s WORSE. The exceptions narrowed so “generally applicable” laws only survive if they do not create an “undue OR disproportionate burden” on AI. This creates huge uncertainty for which laws survive.

I mean, if everything is going in the shitter, there’s no reason to have anti-gay people have all the fun; start making religious objections to all sorts of stuff. The Ten Commandments getting put into class all over, for instance. That’s at least 40% religious orthodoxy.

News: Senate Parliamentarian OKs the revised reconciliation provision tying federal broadband subsidies (BEAD) to states not enforcing AI laws for 10 years, according to Dems on the Budget committee www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Seeing cowboys, farmers, first-time protesters turnout in small towns in red states like MT is filling my heart with hope. Let’s go!

If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe.

The only king I serve.

📢 Big news: Check My Ads just launched our first-ever Policy Platform. checkmyads.org/policy/

in so many videos out of LA i am seeing officers aiming rubber bullets right into crowds, this is filling me with a deep and anxious rage knowing what happens when they do that www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

at lake and bloomington where ICE were seen. large group of angry people

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

"Within only a couple months, Sewell became addicted to the app." Big decision denying motion to dismiss on 1A grounds today in Garcia v. Character A.I., the first case against a chatbot for allegedly contributing to a teen's death. Full opinion here: tinyurl.com/496s4epn

In case you hadn't noticed:

🚨Google declared a monopolist once again! This time, in the ad exchange and publisher ad server markets. More analysis to come but there are some fantastic nuggets in this case - especially around market definition.

ICE appears to have deleted its X post making clear (if we needed more proof) that it believes its mission is to stop certain "IDEAS" from crossing the border. Here's a perma.cc link to the post: perma.cc/2FLY-4S6J

Today feels like March 13, 2020 when we were all going to work from home for a few days.

💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.

⚡ In less then an hour the Sen Judiciary Cmty will discuss how we can break up entrenched power & bring transparency to the heart of the internet economy - efforts that are crucial to preserving a healthy democracy where no single entity holds outsized influence over public discourse & our data.

Last minute edit to the testimony for 2:30. I’m thinking he’s tied up.

Ezra Klein and Jon Stewart over-simplify and caricature the restrictions on this $42.5 billion broadband grant program to falsely paint the whole thing as an irredeemable waste. But they fail to mention a lot of important stuff because they didn't actually understand what they were talking about...

Not just "proactively threatening" but firing them, canceling their grants, rescinding their security clearances, and arresting, imprisoning, and threatening to deport them!

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept. He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:

NIST has issued new instructions to scientists that partner with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) that eliminate mention of 'AI safety,' 'responsible AI,' and 'AI fairness' in order to reduce 'ideological bias, to enable human flourishing and economic competitiveness.'

Extremely proud listening to @ariellesgarcia.bsky.social testify before the VT legislature on the privacy harms posed by adtech middlemen. “The false promise of precision targeting only props up the tangled web of adtech middlemen not small businesses.” 🔥🔥

Big ruling out of federal court in DC, on DOGE and records, finding that it is likely subject to FOIA. —>

Will now be referring to myself as “Barbie nine jobs” tyvm. 💅

The question is settled, this is going to funnel money to quacks and grifters to create a CDC-approved fake "study" that supercharges vaccine misinformation. It's not just a public health failure, it's a terrorist attack on public health.

These kind of votes are born out of trans representation in government. Rep. Howell & I have built solid relationships with Republicans and those relationships change hearts, minds, and (eventually) votes. It is painful, grueling work. But it makes a difference.

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

Advertisers hit back at Rumble lawsuit in a new filing, calling it an attempt to 'weaponize' antitrust laws www.businessinsider.com/advertisers-...

Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.

The new chairman of the FTC wants to investigate cENsORsHiP on social platforms and boy do I have a platform for them! www.platformer.news/ftc-censorsh...

We (@knightcolumbia) are launching a new research initiative on "Federal Funding and the First Amendment"--a topic that has suddenly become hugely significant. The call for proposals is here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/call-fo...

Deeply concerning to say the least. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...