"Seventy-two percent of American teens have turned to A.I. for companionship." Grok creates propaganda fitting Musk's ideology. OpenAI's President is one of Trump's biggest donors, & now ChatGPT shows adds based on chat context We are steps away from mass political manipulation of a generation

BREAKING: The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/mRYS7FH

This is a simply incredible decision from Judge Brasel. Stunning. In that you will be stunned. She captures perfectly the experience of trying to locate and help clients disappeared by ICE. And the stories of detainee’s experience while ICE plays hide-and-seek with their lawyers are soul crushing.

OpenAI's new privacy policy is out: ChatGPT will use "context from your chats" to personalize ads - i.e. decide what ads to show Many people use ChatGPT as their confidant. Imagine if your therapist profitted off you by using what you said in your most vulnerable moments to upsell you products

I read the Trump-backed voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on this abomination: 202-224-3121. TY. 1/

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis. It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake. The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0 www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

Really smart take here. A good amount of harm that generative AI is producing in modern society is coming from the fact that a ton of people (sometimes including police) have bought into fantasies about what the technology can actually do.

At least 50 students hoping to win a prestigious graduate fellowship this year from the National Science Foundation have already been turned down without even having their research proposals reviewed. https://scim.ag/3MsRbA7

We knew this was coming. Even so, it's depressing to see what little progress we've made on climate change at the federal level continue to get rolled back "The Trump administration has repealed an EPA rule that classified carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases as a threat to public health"

If we believe DHS’s numbers, ICE spent three months in Minnesota and arrested just over one person per agent in that time. The Minneapolis resistance worked. And let the momentum lead to abolishing ICE altogether.

Nearly a year ago, Zohran Mamdani confronted Trump “border czar” Tom Homan after ICE took Mahmoud Khalil. Republicans targeted pro-Palestine students. Then, with no firm pushback, expanded their operations to what we see today. Mamdani was among the few Democrats who immediately stood against it.

OpenAI's new privacy policy is out: ChatGPT will use "context from your chats" to personalize ads - i.e. decide what ads to show Many people use ChatGPT as their confidant. Imagine if your therapist profitted off you by using what you said in your most vulnerable moments to upsell you products

You deserve access to abortion care if you are pregnant and do not want to be. Full stop. Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough. Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.

It’s terribly sad that James Van Der Beek passed away. Even sadder that he had to sell memorabilia to afford treatment. People have this misconception that all actors are wealthy, but truthfully, most are just as exploited by capitalism as the rest of us are.

This is a long read, but we should all take the time to go through it It examines how the 2026 elections could be legally manipulated/suppressed through enactment of the Presidential Emergency Action Documents - which only a select number of people have ever seen. Not even Congress

Oh my God. 10 dead in a high school mass shooting (7 killed inside the school) in the small community of Tumbler Ridge in north-eastern British Columbia today. One of the deadliest school shootings in Canadian history. This is an unthinkable nightmare that isn’t supposed to happen here. Or ANYWHERE.

The new voter suppression bill—called the "Save America Act"—would require 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates to register to vote. Most don't have these documents. This is a poll tax by another name. #StopTheSaveAct social.demcast.com/s/2EpurQwZ

What types of jobs did all these "dangerous criminals" have that it would negatively impact the jobs report so much? Does the government consider "drug dealer" and "gang member" to be legitimate employment? How well do these unfilled positions pay? Asking for a friend

Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein

A 2 hour flight on a private jet emits slightly less carbon than the average car does in an entire year Looks like one of those jets flew from San Francisco to San Jose, which is absolutely wild We're never going to convince the rich to fight climate change - we just have to eat them

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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

This article is incredible. It says everything us actual authors have been saying for years, but with a smile on its face. “If you hide that there’s A.I., it sells just fine,” she said. Uh huh? Tell me more. Like how you published 19 novels to sell 20,000 copies. An average of 1000 copies a title.

🇵🇸 🇮🇹 Palestinian citizens make up about 21% of Israel’s population, yet they are absent from how the state defines itself, including in sport. A new promo from Israel’s 2026 Olympic bobsled team declares: “We don’t need permission. Because when it comes to Israel, it’s in our DNA. We just do...

Siccing local and state police on protestors outside the Broadview, IL ICE facility was explicitly part of the state's legal defense against the Trump admin deploying troops to the Chicago area. Shockingly, it did little to convince protestors that local police were on their side.

Amsterdam will ban fossil fuel and meat advertisements in public spaces and on public transport starting May 1st. 🥳

"Eventually” Ms. West said, “readers will not care.” How much disdain must you have for your readers to say something like this and have your name attached? It's like saying "hey little piggies, come get your romance slop"

This detailed, comprehensive & contextualizing clarity is required reading for everyone in the US & elsewhere

Homeland Security is monitoring anti-ICE Reddit posts, an intelligence bulletin leaked to me reveals: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...

they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American

"A man & woman, playing characters called Oli Garch & Trilly O’Naire, said they worried what would happen if the tax passed. "There's a small chance that my helicopter won’t be able to have a sauna in it just cause some kids want dental work or something,” said the woman,as she adjusted her tiara."

Today's the day - the March for Billionaires Now that we know that this was indeed the work of an individual who is oddly passionate about billionaires (and not a corporate front group), it will be interesting to see if the march actually happens and if so, how many people show up

🧵 This is what leadership looks like For way too long, we've been told that change is a slow and difficult process. That we can't expect our elected officials to keep their promises - that's just how politics works Mamdami is showing us we deserve more. In just 5 weeks, he has:

My contribution (a little late) to the #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMPLS comic posts. My experience with ICE in my city so far, keeping the language as vague as possible to protect the groups on the ground helping people here.

I am so incredibly sick of gen AI's obsession with this sentence structure: It's not xxx. It's yyy. Usually done in a dramatic "this is a breakthrough" tone. And it's often nonsensical It is so overused & is an immediate tell that the text was written by a slop machine Two examples in the pics

As a keen forager whose speciality is seaweed and sustainable sourcing I beg you to sign this. There are currently two corps with applications to strip the Irish west coast of seaweed. We cannot let this happen. Please sign and share. #irish #ireland

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

New polling shows that 60% of California voters support the proposed one-time tax on billionaire wealth. www.nestpointgroup.com/post/new-nes...

Good thread on more Board of Immigration Appeals changes 13 of the 15 members of the board were appointed by Trump, and it includes William Barr and Pam Bondi BIA also eliminated or limited bond hearings last year, so immigrants have to file habius corpus petitions in federal court

🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.

Breaking News! Code Yikes! Current global sea surface temperatures now rank 3rd hottest on record, as of Feb. 4, 2026, or about 4.36 standard deviations above the 1982-2011 mean (first 30 years of data). The Climate 8-ball says, "F&%kery ahead!"

I agree with this, but, and this is important, I really also wish we had listened to the law students who spoke out about his sexual harassment, and about his wife (Amy Chua) enabling and threatening those who also spoke out about it.

I knew about the tow truck wars in Toronto but I did not know that MORE THAN 1 IN 8 bullets fired by guns anywhere in Toronto in the year 2024 were related to tow truck driver turf wars??? And the police force is not just complicit but LEAKING INFO TO HITMEN????

In contrast, when I taught at a minority serving institution, I had quite a few students who had accomodations but didn't want to use them out of shame I also had plenty of students who needed accomodations but couldn't navigate the system to get them - it was nowhere near as easy as at Stanford

The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away. Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data. www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

Elon Musk bought Twitter and broke it Larry Ellison bought into TikTok and is ruining it Lex Luther bought the Washington Post and is now dismantling it Maybe we should stop letting billionaires buy up methods of information dissemination?

I went to college with Aliya. Here, she speaks to Congress about being assaulted by ICE in Minneapolis, pulled violently out of her car, and taken to detention, where she blacked out. "You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you already being called a body."

Personally, I think the nonprofit news room is the way to save news (and maybe democracy). 1/n