#American hockey player #BradyTkachuk said Thursday that he did NOT appreciate a DOCTORED #TikTok video shared by the #WhiteHouse that made it LOOK like HE was disparaging #Canadians after winning #Olympic gold, calling it fake and something he would NEVER say. www.nbcnews.com/sports/hocke...

The #WhiteHouse gets called out as #American hockey player and Olympic champion, #BradyTkachuk, rips apart their insane post attacking #Canada as a doctored video and detrimental to the Tkachuk's reputation with his team. @johniadarola.bsky.social and #WosnyLambre react. youtu.be/RkHJzSLvA30?...

some notes: "human responsibility for the use of force" is not the same as "no fully autonomous killer robots". it simply means that someone is considered responsible for the killer robots. the only difference wrt surveillance is that Sam is taking Hegseth's word, and Dario explicitly was not

The government wants to Huawei any company that pursues a radical woke ideology like "no domestic mass surveillance" except it has no legal basis to do so and its rules for compliance are gobbledygook www.wired.com/story/anthro...

The funny thing is that Elon Musk controlling SpaceX is very obviously a security risk, and this has been true since early 2024 if not longer. I don't know if this is the *exact* legal tool you want to use but you gotta do something.

Guess who didn't say no to fully autonomous weapons and spying on Americans. His name rhymes with Damn Salt Can.

Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Czechs got conned by a blitz of Russia's anti-inmigration populism and voted in pro-Russian kleptocrat Babis, who is now doing Putin's bidding, being the ONLY country to aim for a REDUCTION in military spending.

Plans to make refugee a status of perpetual limbo will do nothing to stop people who need help seeking it nor make it possible for them to rebuild their lives and contribute. I call for humane and effective asylum reforms because I am true Labour, not blue Labour. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Jack Shanahan, retired US Air Force General and first Director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center:

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet. OpenAI: We'll do it

Well, colour me shocked.

so… the whole thing was a play by Altman to shiv Amodei and destroy his company? that’s sort of what I’m getting here

As predicted! (Gift article) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... @financialtimes.com Anthropic to sue Trump administration after AI lab is labelled security risk -- Steff Chávez in Washington and George Hammond in San Francisco

RIP Neil Sedaka www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

This looks like an unintentional consequence: that many women will never qualify. I expect the govt to drop the idea that high earners get settlement in 3 years while their dependents wait 10-15 years. But the proposals have deliberate consequences that are hard to fix www.ft.com/content/ca14...

Several canvassers say the *settlement* reforms (make over a million voters wait 10-15 years for settlement, not 5, is a top of mind concern for those affected & friends, family A basic fallacy in Home Office citing more in common polling on asylum reform - a different issue - and net migration

NEW: Georgia removed nearly 471,000 voters from its rolls last summer — roughly 6% of all the state’s registered voters. Now voting rights groups are suing, arguing the state is illegally hiding records about how the purge was carried out.

I don’t think that we need to think Anthropic are heroes of the resistance or whatever, but I do think it’s illuminating who is able to see a couple years down the road and think “oh shit, I might be held liable for this stuff” in a way that, say, Planatir clearly isn’t.

NEW: Any Lucia López Belloza, a freshman at Babson College, was deported by mistake, in violation of a judicial order. A judge ordered her return by Friday. Now the Trump administration has said it will deport her again if she comes back. Free gift link >>> www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues. In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."

Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.

Back to science agencies. Normally, agencies get a 30-day chunk of their funding right after a budget is signed. Not anymore. The OMB tweaked the rules, restricting early payments to just essential expenses like salaries to assert more control over the cash.

All of this week's columns from Civil Discourse, collected for you in one place in case you missed anything. (You'll especially want to listen to Nils Lofgren's anthem for democracy, No Kings, No Hate, No Fear). open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

I maintain that the only reason to ever interview Trump is to ask him basic questions about how the world and government function. How does a bill become a law? How is it that tariffs costs are not passed onto customers? When will we normalize relations with Wakanda?

This is from Hegseth's post. I'm no expert in this authority but am I understanding correctly this would mean that any company which has ANY contract with the U.S. military (Google, Microsoft, etc...) is now required to immediately cancel their Claude subscriptions and must divest from Anthropic?

Netflix, Warner Bros bonds among $100 million purchased by Trump reut.rs/3ZgjB2T

Why did SCOTUS strike down Trump’s tariffs? Former US Solicitor General Don Verrilli joins @preetbharara.bsky.social and me on a new episode of @cafedotcom.bsky.social Insider to break it down. Listen: cafe.visitlink.me/r1_SKM

No kidding

Congress and the courts are refusing to give Trump what he wants, so he’s concocting a new plan to seize control of the election. Here’s what you need to know: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

🚨 President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution electionlawblog.org?p=154326

The Trump administration on Friday released the names of 614 people whose Chicago-area immigration arrests may have violated a 2022 consent decree, and only 16 of them have criminal histories that present a “high public safety risk.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/o...

Men's Health was not the open government advocate I expected, but pretty cool!

Trump has dismissed Vice Admiral Fred Kacher, deputy director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for issuing warnings to him about what might go wrong in a new war against Iran, Reuters report. www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

If HBO was already pressuring the Pitt TV show to make an ICE interfering in the emergency room story line more balanced, just imagine what's going to happen when the Ellison's take full control. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/hbo...

You don’t have the votes, you don’t have the votes. You’re gonna need congressional approval and you don’t have the votes. (Write your Senators anyway).

Can confirm. A left-leaning radio show is currently the most popular in the UK’s commercial ‘Talk’ sector, despite being in neither of the traditionally ‘prime time’ slots. Modesty prevents me from disclosing further details…

What a lack of grace we've seen across the board today. Whether you agree with her politics or not, Hannah Spencer was evidently a top notch candidate and Parliament will be richer with her there. Obvious from the off. We all need to drink the water from this democratic well.

Mea culpa: I made an error in my reporting. I went back and added every single year of capex from Amazon from 2002 to 2017. Amazon spent $37.8 billion in that period in total capital expenditures for its *ENTIRE* business included AWS and eCommerce. OpenAI raised $42bn in 2025 alone.

Trump just said that Howard Lutnick is “a very innocent guy.“ He obviously didn’t read this.

There is an enormous difference in voice and tone between the bombastic hyperbolic victory speech which Galloway gave in Rochdale in Feb 2024 and this one last night, esp on the priority to the motive of wanting to be a voice to unite www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

And the Lancet's editorial that goes with it www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I was brought up to make mayonnaise by hand with just a bowl and a whisk, and it’s only #RecipeOfTheDay – the glorious Golden Garlic Mayonnaise – that made me feel good about using machinery. This takes scarcely a minute with a stick blender and it’s the real deal! www.nigella.com/recipes/gold...

Democrats are seeking ways to fight warehouse takeovers as Kristi Noem's N.J. plan proposes housing up to 1,500 people in a space that currently has just two bathrooms.

"Boycott the ceremony – defend dignity" The Ukrainian Canadian Congress issued a statement expressing its deep disappointment the Canadian Paralympic Committee shows such disregard for the crimes Russia is committing.

closest you're gonna get to Trump publicly backing down is him just cancelling Anthropic's contracts instead of designating them a supply chain risk as was threatened. real kudos to Anthropic for standing up, real dumb moves by the WH to start this episode.

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

Enjoyed the discussion on this Channel 4 podcast, after Zack absolutely smashed it at the start... www.youtube.com/watch?v=heQU...

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Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.