Once again, as far as I can tell, the primary functions of consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." are cheating, disinfo, and fraud.

America250, Pensacola @JonAustenLinch 🤯 Blue Angels flyover way too close for comfort!

The WSJ is reporting that China is already talking to and working with the Kremlin insiders that they expect to take over Russia once Putin is dead. China does not expect Putin to hold on to power much longer.

I’m continually shocked how little anyone is discussing OpenAI’s direct risk to the future of Oracle - especially as Oracle stock is so crucial to the paramount/WBD closing in September! Also: this situation is one that’s uniquely resistant to bailouts as Oracle’s stock is valued in vibes.

"Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They're not killing 'THEM'. They're killing 'US'." Graff in the NYC subway referring to the killing of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE agents in Houston, TX on July 7. He had been driving a work crew to a construction site when an ICE officer shot him

Wild stuff; the Trump admin appears to be getting ready to claim that Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, shot and killed by ICE on his way to work, had multiple baggies of meth just sitting in plain view on the DASHBOARD for anyone to see. I know the truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but COME ON.

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

Did you see these are made by the porn robot company that the company marketing this acquired. The kids are going to just reset them to original programming & post the results on TikTok or whatever social media site they’re using.

Rep. Ilhan Omar has introduced legislation urging the U.S. to join the ICC, pushing back against Marco Rubio’s campaign to “dismantle” the institution. The move comes as Rubio has been slapped with a new lawsuit accusing him of unconstitutionally sanctioning the court’s officials.

In a post to social media, Trump called the practice of federal immigration officers conducting enforcement during traffic stops “one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective” tools. floridaphoenix.com/2026/07/15/r...

Advocates, elected officials call for statewide siren system after 14 tornadoes touch down near New Orleans As Tornado Alley shifts east, tornadoes have grown more common in Louisiana, sparking concerns over public safety.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a new policy to provide mandatory testosterone level testing for servicemembers over the age of 30, aimed at increasing testosterone levels — a move that has been discouraged by health experts.

It’s gonna be tough for the world to get more stupid than this

An Iranian official says they privately warned Vance about how Trump’s son-in-law and his special envoy to the Middle East were destroying peace talks. trib.al/jVtFvlm

Whitehouse to Blanche: "You are wrong. In the history of the DOJ, this kind of criticism by federal judges is unprecedented and it comes from judges of every different political persuasion."

The most extreme GOP candidate in the nation

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Todd Blanche: ✔️Trump's attorney ✔️Defender of Jeffrey Epstein ✔️Ally to January 6th insurrectionists. UNFIT to be Attorney General

Trump justified his complete dismissal of the Election Assistance Commission by asserting his presidential power. But that’s not the only reason, Marc Elias says. “[Trump] doesn’t like there to be true experts who are willing to tell the truth to the American public.”

BREAKING: Cuba has plunged into darkness again after its national electrical grid failed today. Today’s nationwide blackout is the third in the last eight days, and the fifth since the Trump administration imposed its oil blockade in late January.

Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?

"We don’t see a pattern where, as a result, ICE officials on the ground feel fearful that if they shoot someone, they’re going to be suspended or they are going to lose their job. And I think that is quite dangerous." trib.al/fO3GoBH

I very rarely see people going hard about getting off meta platforms - insta or threads or fb - in the way I hear them talk about twitter and substack, even though meta has nazi problems too (among other serious problems). I don’t think those platforms are indispensable either

🚨BREAKING: In a win for Virginia voters, a federal court dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking access to the state's unredacted voter registration list. The ruling marks the department's 14th loss in its sweeping legal effort to acquire voters' private data.

BREAKING: The DOJ asked the 4th Circuit to expedite its appeal for access to Maryland's unredacted voter rolls, claiming it "is necessary to secure" the midterms. It argued the state needs time to "maintain" its rolls, despite federal law limiting voter roll purges too close to an election.

Someone please piss test this guy. He's either drugged out of his gourd or completely delusional.

This sucks any way you look at it, but also: those countries are essential to our national defense. It is not "America First" to imperial our early warning of bombers and ICBMs, it is "Putin First."

Ossoff: "I think it's time for the president to do something of value for the American people instead of lining his pockets while he's in office"

Ossoff points out that Trump's conspiracy theories "put Georgia Rs in a terrible bind, because now not only do they have to defend this president's economic record, not only do they have to defend doubling health insurance premiums, they also have to defend all these bizarre conspiracy theories"

Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.

I couldn't understand why the FBI was investigating Lindsey Graham's death—in the absence of any suspicious toxicology report in the autopsy—until I realized it gave Trump and his lawyer Kash Patel an excuse to enter Graham's house and remove potentially incriminating documents

Scott Maxwell writes in Opinion: "I’m tired of indulging ignorance. And of politely explaining why authoritarian censorship is a bad and anti-American thing."

Stephen Wolfe says that Christian nationalists are gaining "real power at the local level" by taking over their local Republican Party: "It is happening. We don't talk about it publicly because it's still kind of under the radar." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

*taps sign*

Trump posts an image featuring a map showing the United States taking over Canada and Greenland

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.

the problem isn't their training you doofus. jesus christ

wrote about why ICE keeps killing people. it's because they're part of a pretty explicitly genocidal project. trump wants them to kill people, and so they do. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ices-missi...

Important bit in here -- the Intelligence Community under Trump confirmed before he left office in 2021 that "We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections."

This isn’t a surprise. At all. Raise your hand if you’ve been worried about keeping (or finding) a job because of a disability or medical issue? 👋 I’m barely 33 & my spine has already long been in serious trouble. Wouldn’t have been the case in a non-predatory system/if I had access to care.

“Our immigration system is the only time people can be detained against their will without having access to an attorney.”

A full course of Rabies Immune Globulin (RIG) costs upwards of $15000 in the US. UK: $0 Spain: $0 Canada: $0 Brazil: $0 France: $0 Denmark: $0 Sweden: $0 New Zealand: $0 Italy: $0 Australia: $0

E. Jean Carroll has finally been paid $5,625,005 by Donald Trump. This payment, plus interest, is what Carroll was owed after Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation.

New York Becomes First State To Impose Data Center Moratorium https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/14/1520222/new-york-becomes-first-state-to-impose-data-center-moratorium?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

🧵👇!!!! My contribution: They're going to expand what they're already doing, which is Revolutionary Warfare=Guerrilla Warfare+Political Action (RW=GW+PA). Let me start w/the Political Action part. This has two tracks: federal & w/in the states the GOP control. 1/

U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, who previously ran a company that provides aircraft for fighting wildfires, has proposed ending Forest Service inspections of those aircraft. One of the company’s aircraft failed an inspection because of a crack in its wing. (Published June)

Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries and self-tanners. Scientists are itching to know how sugars form because they’re a key ingredient for life as we know it.

$81 billion in tariffs you paid given to companies.

Very important 🧵!!!!