One thing about Jamelle is that he absolutely drives a lot of his peers crazy because he’s better at his job than they are at theirs. I think the reasons for that are not hard to figure out.

“More than just being unconstitutional, and very clearly illegal under international law, this war is also morally reprehensible. It's wrong,” says Chris Hayes. “All of this may sound obvious, but it must be said.”

as always "how would the court rule on this case to maximally advance Republican interests" is a better barometer for SCOTUS' actions than "how should the law be reasonably applied based on past precedent"

is everyone on glue

Bingo. This is it. Some others come to mind for justifiable consideration of who is the best, but I’ll save recognizing them for another time, given what’s currently going on. @jamellebouie.net is simply the best political columnist of the moment. Period.

So loads of people are sharing an obvious ai "glow up" of an actual photo. I never share ai stuff even to dunk, but in this case I'm sharing a comparison to show the problem. We have to stand against this slop at every level or it becomes normalised. They want us to stop caring. See alt text.

This court really has no legitimacy left, the tariff decision not withstanding.

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The liberal justices call out the *rank* hypocrisy of their Republican colleagues on the Court

The Supreme Court is simply illegitimate under this conservative majority. They have simply undermined the rule of law too consistently (to say nothing of providing criminal immunity for the president and enabling him to break his oath over and over and over again).

The one thing that had been really helping to hold inflation down has now jumped up 10% or more!

Seems like a thing more people should be mad about

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

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So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

This is what’s called a coverup. Who was president in 2019? 🤔

"The most relevant question is not 'is this government bad?' or 'do they deserve it?' The most relevant question is 'will this use of military force make things better, enough to be worth the death and suffering it’ll impose?' It’s hard to see how this will." www.liberalcurrents.com/internationa...

With everything we know about OpenAI, I think it’s safe to assume that they don’t care. They can’t be forced to care! Even if 100s of billions of their “deals,” aka spending commitments (they announced spending deals like they were the ones making $), aren’t real, they still owe 100s of billions!

This is... interesting. People who have just enough ethics to switch their LLM use, but not enough ethics to stop using LLMs (on their phones, so this is probably not even work use). The people bragging about their new ethical stance on X, home of CSAM Grok and DOGE Musk, are especially fascinating.

Hard to see this as anything other than Stelter sucking up to his future bosses over at Paramount

Listen this is some next level trolling. It’s not just that Charlie Kirk is up there. It’s who he’s with. Catherine Beecher, while an advocate for women’s education, also fiercely opposed women’s suffrage and wanted women’s political power to be mostly constrained to their role as mothers. 1/2

“Hostility is the basic mode in which we engage with each other and our government, and filming has become a hostile act. Meta’s glasses are a sleek version of the weapon everyone already has in their pocket; the addition of facial recognition will accelerate the ongoing breakdown in public trust.”

“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”

Hooo boy. There we go. It was about domestic surveillance after all.

Truly psychopathic stuff.

Glad he looked into it, but with everything we know about Altman and OpenAI, I didn’t really need someone to tell me this was true…

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

If you viewed the Anthropic side of the dispute as driven purely by a cynical calculation that the publicity would drive their success, then this won’t convince you that you were wrong…

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

While operations are coordinated at a members-only, private beach club — in between fundraisers and parties.

It is both possible to recognize that Democrats are not in a position to do much about what has happened bc of structural reasons AND to recognize that they often fail to do ANYTHING and are in this position due to their leadership group who are completely unfit for the moment.

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the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default “I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck

Banger after banger from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-countr...

Reposting w alt text Insider trading for war crimes is nasty work. Looking forward to Murphy's legislation

At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.

There is that "anti-war realignment" in the Republican Party we heard so much about

This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls. But since she asked, "Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States." www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...

We're no more than a few hours away from the next phase of digital propaganda: unverified videos of "liberated people celebrating" will go viral. Many of these videos will later be revealed to have predated the illegal war, or be entirely unrelated to current events Upshot: verify before amplifying

Unrelated, but remember in 2019 when the secret service at Mar-a-lago caught an intruder with a flash drive and *plugged that flash drive into one of their government computers* and it immediately downloaded a bunch of malware.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Remember the rule of law? Good times.

Cruise missile diplomacy turns out to be even stupider and less effective then gunboat diplomacy.

No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil My instant column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

I realize that "Orwellian" is over used but come on.