Capitulation in advance without even the threat of blackmail.

The thing that people need to realize is that, on the state level, a lot of Republican lawmakers don't act or think like Congressional Republicans and don't perform as pure toadies for Trump. Some do. Many don't. I see both in Mississippi. You can't view state politics through the lens of D.C.

Excuse me?

Inshallah Dems get ahold of government again and deport these criminals to The Hague. Get them outside the US Justice system.

🧵 Lowe's CEO, one of 8 Black Fortune 500 CEOs, stands firm on DEI. "Championing Diversity Through Action: Ellison’s approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is rooted in practical change rather than public statements" Home Depot, meanwhile, allows ICE agents to raid its parking lots.

Today is a great day to spend time with your friends and family, do something good for your community, or shop at local, Black and immigrant-owned small businesses. Skip the Target run, Home Depot christmas tree, or Amazon binge. Tell Trump enablers that #WeAintBuyingIt

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

Latosha Brown: “ This Thanksgiving, I’m taking power back…I invite all Americans who are fed up to do the same.” I don’t know about you, but “I’m Not Buyin’ It!” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio... @blackvotersmatterfund.org

If you think you can predict what’s going to happen around and because of the DC Nat’l Guard shooting, I beg you to please log off. It will take time to see what becomes of this. Nobody knows what’s next, and anybody who thinks they do does not, in fact, know.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.

This is not good. Contractors will have even fewer fucks to give than the few fucks ICE has.

who knows the future of AI, its real world value, what it can achieve, what profits it will drive. But we can more confidently say something very weird is happening here when we look at the question of resource allocation and the very small number of individuals driving it.

My grand unified theory of suburbia is that camera doorbells are like SUVs, they provide an illusion of security while making you more paranoid

Lining up conspiracy theorists and hate mongers to arbitrate reality is always a good idea.

Fear is contagious, but so is courage. I remain steadfast in my oath to the Constitution and am grateful to those across the nation who stand with us. Don't give up the ship.

This is… not new? There was an entire industry created around 2016 that looked at disinformation and foeeign influence. I was a part of it! What’s new is that the guardrails were torn off and the industry can’t find funding because those who thrive in these environs are in power.

This is a wild ass thing to get supported for doing for 24 hours when it’s been a known phenomenon since 2012 With multiple researchers ( some of whom I don’t even like) noting this phenomenon

This is what happened to me. Employers across the board need to be aware of how harassment campaigns work and do better to protect their employees from them. These people should not have a platform to profit off of harassment.

Schoolslop. Yes! That's exactly what it is. A great breakdown of what teaching is like in high school rn. www.tiktok.com/@busynessgir...

Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning sure takes a lot of exposition just to solve the “put the thing in the thing to prevent the boom.” One of the most needlessly convoluted movies I may have ever seen.

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

While the economy is definitely high up there, I wouldn’t undercount how much the frequency of these stories are killing Trump’s favorability. (Though I’d argue that the real killer is actually the totality of all of the awful, to also include bottomless and obvious corruption.)

This thing I'm mad about isn't real, but imagine if it were. Wouldn't that be terrible

This is farcical and awful.

I really wish people would stop using substack Especially to write about tech ethics or disinformation

speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency

Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.

WTF is “adversarial prompting” against what slop the AI responds to a prompt with. Like, yeah, people are gaming the prompts against the programming, but who’s responsible for the programming?

They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern. They had misidentified the intern.

America 2025.

Really disappointed in @steveinskeep.bsky.social over his interview with Senators Curtis and Kelly on their new Section 230 bill this morning. Steve, how did you not manage to ask a single question about the free expression and human rights concerns? ACLU and hundreds of orgs oppose this approach

Little fingers fit better into industrial machines, so this makes way more sense than having schooling under a Department of Education.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

It’s kind of wild that we’re finally going to stop minting the penny, and it’s barely in the news… because it is such a footnote in this backdrop. Under any low intensity administration, it would be a notable news item, IMO.

Ellison, if all goes according to plan, will soon own CBS, CNN, and a part of TikTok. He's very openly trying to create a massive new right wing propaganda and lowest-common -denominator infotainment empire to rival Fox.

I don’t understand how all these stories of AI being shite tech and causing people to lose all perspective on what is valid use of such tech haven’t led to the entire industry being questioned. ie, why some people are so uncritically boosters. (NB: this is a rhetorical point)

Yesterday, striking baristas took action at Starbucks’ biggest distribution center that serves the entire east coast. Today, union stores in 25+ MORE cities are joining our national, open-ended ULP strike! Our union isn’t slowing down… in fact, we’re just getting started. #NoContractNoCoffee $SBUX

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Pete Hegseth Reacts as Six Democrats Urge ‘Refuse Illegal Orders’ #DUIHireHegseth responded to the lawmakers' video, posted on X by the conservative account Libs of TikTok, with "Stage 4 TDS," referring to the phrase "Trump Derangement Syndrome." 🧾 Newsweek: www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth...

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

This is...sort of brilliant.

NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —

"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'" bro what-- what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?

Wasn’t he eulogizing* free speech champion Charlie Kirk just a month or so ago? *free association rambling and ranting about and around

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action. Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?

"Early analysis shows that this season’s flu shots offer some protection against being hospitalized with this variant, especially for kids." Get your flu shot! (And your covid-19 shot if you haven't already)