Failure has never been more glaringly obvious or easily predictable. 🙄😬🤦🏼‍♂️🤷‍♂️

The great Michael Caine, born today in 1933. His master class in film acting is always worth a watch. 🔥

“Sources close to the president have told Zeteo that on separate occasions over the past year, Trump has talked to longtime advisers about what it would take to officially make his birthday a national, federal holiday….

A former top Chevron executive was super tight with Delcy Rodriguez. He told the CIA to back her instead of Venezuela's democratic opposition,. The agency told Trump. Now Ali Moshiri is ready to cash in. He's raising $3 billion to get back in Venezuela's oil game. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” -- William Gibson, Count Zero

👀 (H/T @SafeH2o4Schools)

NEW: David Harvilicz, who co-founded a firm with a 2020 election denier, oversees voting machine security for DHS while the Trump administration is relitigating the president’s baseless claims that the 2020 vote was stolen.

Breathtaking.

True story, and the same reason Trump's been gutting the DOJ.

I have absolutely no doubt that come the midterms the GOP in Texas is going to do every single thing it can to suppress votes, including causing as much confusion as possible on Election Day. The GOP cannot afford to lose the midterms in Texas so be prepared for all kinds of shenanigans.

Andreessen is on the record saying that he spends a quarter of his media time 'talking' with LLMs, plus he is surrounded by sycophants who also 'talk' with LLMs Then all these people hop into a chatroom together, like a hall of illiterate oligarchical mirrors

The SAVE Act is voter suppression, plain and simple. And by not only effectively imposing a poll tax, but imposing documentation reqs that may require schlepping or make it harder to vote by mail, I argue it will also widen participation gaps between healthy & unhealthy. substack.com/@mirandayave...

I dunno man, I think precipitously canceling people's funding caused a lot of damage to other people's careers and lives and reputations and maybe they should live with the blowback. They come from a media ecosystem that makes public lists of insufficiently bigoted professors.

Who could have predicted the Department of Whiskey would be a clusterfuck?

Hegseth -- like the president -- just doesn't think the press should provide scrutiny. They want the propaganda Hegseth's old colleagues do at Fox. And they hope that's what Ellison seizing CNN will do to that network. They don't believe in the 1st amendment. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

Most California voters support the state’s newly proposed billionaire tax, according to new polling. Meanwhile, rich Californians are plotting a $500M slush fund to influence the state's politics. So they can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...

Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week. Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool. But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.

Yes, they're 'concentration camps'

The secretary of defense saying we almost have cnn in our grasp is some dark, dark shit

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gas is six dollars a gallon. But at least now they’re not tearing down a statue of a Confederate general that I’ve never heard of in a city that I’ve never been to.

Guys, I'm sure this is an isolated incident and that these kinds of pay-for-play schemes are in no way warping our collective view of politics.

Now watch MSM pretend it has nothing to do with 🍊 actions.

This is what happens when corrupt pols let private-sector sociopaths who are hyper-focused on reactionary social engineering have untrammeled economic power. Gotta regulate the ever-loving fuck outta these shitheads before they make serfs of us all. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

He wants to blow the whole fucking world up.... we all know it. SOS ANYbody.....

(cartoon Adam Zyglis)

Thank you, President Zelenskyy. We’re sorry our “President” is callous and indifferent with the lives of both our peoples. 😢

Resistance to the SAVE Act crosses party lines. Idaho Secretary of State rejected the DOJ demand to turn over the stat’s unredacted voter roll citing the 1960 Civil Rights Act that does not authorize the Department to require full disclosure on request. bit.ly/4hZ7BK7

Gillibrand: "How they missed this was a girls' school is very concerning to me. If Sec. Hegseth did not cut the funding for this area of review by 90%, if he did not continually try to undermine the rules & procedures our service members & generals take - I think he should resign bc of this failure"

The White House’s failure to think a step or two ahead—such as what Iran could do with the Strait of Hormuz—is another “reminder of what it means to purge government and decision-making of all the experts.” @profsaunders.bsky.social dropping some political science with @gregsargent.bsky.social.

1. CONSUMERS paid most of Trump's tariffs, which the Supreme Court ruled were illegal. But CORPORATIONS will receive the refunds. Will they pass that cash back to consumers? Or pocket the money? We asked them. 🧵 popular.info/p/consumers-...

It's like the bank rush scene in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE but he's trying to explain that all our money is in ExxonMobil's house, and ConocoPhillips' house, and ...

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - 1984, George Orwell

Monstrous motherfuckers.

The president of the United States took Air Force One to Kentucky today to try and unseat a congressman who exposed a child rape ring involving the president and his friends. How the hell does that get such normal ho-hum coverage? Oh that’s just Trump. What a rascal.

The Trump regime has no idea what it’s doing hour to hour, just in case you thought there was some grand strategy in Iran

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

The funniest thing about the Trump admin is how all of the "eff your feelings" and "cry harder lib" alpha males turn out to be the whiniest saddest snowflakes, unable to handle a negative picture and walking about in ill-fitting shoes to not upset Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

What does this war of aggression have anything to do with “our freedom”?

Trump Administration Offers Free At-Home Loyalty Tests https://theonion.com/trump-administration-offers-free-at-home-loyalty-tests/

If a majority is achieved from the byelections, Poilievre's days will be numbered. With no prospect of defeating the gov for 3 yrs, loss of power in committees, the CPC will turn inward thirsty for blood. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

It’s official Republicans flip a seat on the Prince William County Board Lots of turmoil for Dems after old social media posts surfaced for Dem nominee Sef Casin The Dem who lost the nomination mounted a write in campaign Dem vote split and Republican Jeannie LaCroix has won

All of Trump’s people are crooks and frauds who would be unhireable failures in any other context.

He does know what he was supposed to do. He knows he was supposed to terminate anything that amplified the voices of silenced, marginalised or discriminated groups. Including Jews in the Holocaust. And especially women.

“Most of my published work appears already to be inside these models, shaping their outputs in ways I never agreed to and will never fully understand. Grammarly just had the bad manners to put my name on it.”