Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

The is a declaration and act of war without congressional approval, and imperialistic jingoism.

Designating fentanyl a WMD will worsen fentanyl misinformation, which does not prevent overdoses -it makes them deadlier- & harms anyone who could ever need pain treatment, anesthesia, & more. Patients already refuse one of the safest, best studied, easiest-to-dose pain meds because of such misinfo!

Chicagoland braces for another wave of Border Patrol attacks today. 8 days until Christmas.

This article discusses seizing Venezuelan oil to cut off a crucial lifeline for Maduro (as markets game Ven debt) But Binance runs the crypto exchange that gives Venezuela access to capital — the founder of which POTUS pardoned after large “donations” from Binance www.ft.com/content/a8be...

Update from ORCL: they have an equity partner even though Blue Owl did not participate, and the project is "on schedule".

One of the Oracle (ORCL) Stargate data centers in Michigan doesn't have financing after Blue Owl (OWL) pulled out. Increasing signals that capital is starting to turn away from the sector having gorged for the past year.

"I’ve been reporting on the criminal justice system for more than a decade and have spent time in cities with a lot of law enforcement. I’ve also lived in an authoritarian country overseas, yet I’ve never experienced a police presence like this."

When you do stuff like this and it isn't covered as the massive scandal it should be, the permission structure to do equally awful stuff is quite high.

Here’s part 1 of this week’s three part Better Offline NVIDIA special. I walk you through why NVIDIA is specifically nothing like Enron, WorldCom or Lucent, and why investors might see a few similarities anyway. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

1. A blockade is an act of war 2. The idea that Venezuela has stolen land from the United States is so laughably stupid on its face that even some of his base is like 🤨 3. It’s always about oil.

This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...

ffs the only take on how the Brown shooter manhunt is going is that shitlords shouldn't be in charge of federal agencies. It's a different issue altogether than how the shooting shouldn't have happened at all, or why we aren't doing anything to prevent future mass shootings.

Well fuck

Mega heat pumps are coming. It’s great to see that so many projects are now underway around the world. There’s a real competition on who builds the biggest heat pump. Technology has come a long way and keeps getting better.

WTF? ICE is arguing in court that US CITIZENS can be detained, handcuffed, and biometrically screened unless they can prove citizenship on the spot. And that a REAL ID isn't enough. This isn't border security.

When Larry Summers is uncomfortable with the message you're promulgating

he's now on substack complaining about mccarthyism on bluesky and blaming, of course, Jamelle

i just don't think you have to take this guy seriously

very interesting that the guy who wrote the “i can’t find a job because i’m white” piece zeroed in on me as responsible for the negative response on bluesky, despite the fact that i wrote a single post about the piece well after the discourse had started.

LOL apparently Trump is giving his "malaise" address tomorrow. Except unlike Carter, who actually said something meaningful and got good numbers, Trump will pretend everything is awesome and if you don't believe it, you're woke or something. Gonna be a flaming disaster.

This is one of the most unhinged and blinkered pieces I’ve ever read in the English language, and yet the precise blindness it exhibits I think tells us a lot about the political winds of the last decade & why a certain set of white males is so angry at the world. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

Jared Golden isn't even pandering since he's not running for re-election. He just -- it seems -- really, really, really wants middle schoolers to be strip searched by men with histories of sexual abuse.

Moderate (on strip-searching 12yos) to win!

CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin. Via @ngluckman.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...

It's very cool that the Supreme Court invented a political system that gives these lunatics unlimited influence.

No wonder the FBI hasn't found the Brown University shooter yet when so many agents have been shifted to the campaign to make America whiter.

Shapiro: I think it’s insulting to the people of Pennsylvania that this guy shows up and tries to convince them to unsee what they’ve seen with their own eyes—rising prices. I guess JD was afraid to upset his boss, and this is what you get.

I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Amazon is talking about investing $10bn in OpenAI so that OpenAI can then hand some of that back as part of its $38bn cloud compute deal using trainium chips. This should get OpenAI to what, March? Utterly stupid and investors should actively punish Amazon www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.

People should avoid "tripping" and silly "mysticism" as a means of treatment, treat it as you would any other medication with measured controlled dosages and therapy. It's a chemical that enables new connections in the brain, use it wisely. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social: It is the responsibility of Congress to declare and authorize the use of military force. Congress has not authorized a military use of force. There has not been a case made, and I think the absence of one really speaks volumes.

oldie but a goodie

Why do I wear an N95 mask? Bc Covid will happily destroy your immune system, more each time you get it. It can give you a whole new syndrome and/or awaken & worsen dormant viruses+syndromes. You do not want a mystery disease like my loved one has now. Our system does not know what to do with you.

This article isn't political, but you can tell exactly who these people voted for, even if the estrangement wasn't about politics.

COLLINS: What do you say to people who say Republicans have had 15 years to change the ACA and they haven't done it? RICK SCOTT: Why didn't Democrats fix it?

Pathetic

A blockade is literally an act of war. Just mounting one is declaring war. Without Congressional approval or public support.

MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…” Lawless.

GAVIN NEWSOM - “issuing a correction to one of my previous posts; You do not in fact, ‘have to give it to RONALD REAGAN’

rewatching A FEW GOOD MEN and jack nicholson's explosion of fury at the climax of the trial is genuinely terrifying

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

This is wild! You know the Vanity Fair article with Susie Wiles that everyone’s talking about? Yeah. This is basically the audio version Narrated by Nicolle Wallace, and it’s not “taken out of context”. ☠️😭

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

Please read every word of this article, and please pass it on. We need to understand the day to day reality of what’s happening, and know how to help. It is no exaggeration to say that the United States is under occupation, and we are in the beginning stages of another Underground Railroad.

BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.