[Exit Queen.]

Trump just fired all these people www.justsecurity.org/146430/elect...

One of the biggest lies of the AI bubble is that Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta are "growing because of AI." In reality, they're using the continued growth of their other business units to cover the meager returns from AI, and the massive waste of their trillion+ in capex.

Roosevelt spent years educating the public about the tyranny of courts. These institutions exist primarily to preserve the current order. And throughout history, this is how courts have been everywhere. And that is why courts in most democratic countries are strictly limited in their powers.

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

Newsom Nix (NOO-səm niks), noun 1. A political maneuver in which one loudly champions an unachievable version of a reform in order to quietly kill the achievable one. 2. The art of occupying both sides of an issue by ensuring that the side you appear to favor has no chance of success.

"Gish Gallop" is a debating term for an opponent who makes so many claims that "it's impossible to address them in the time available" (it's named for Creationist Duane Gish): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_ga... I think about the Gish Gallop whenever I'm asked to comment on AI. 1/

NEW: @elisethomas.bsky.social reveals multiple links between Viory, a video news agency supplying national press agencies across Africa, Asia and the Middle East and Ruptly news agency - a branch of sanctioned Russian propaganda outlet Russia Today. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...

Pelley took direct aim at Bari Weiss, the network’s controversial editor-in-chief. “She’s murdering 60 Minutes,” Pelley said, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that.”

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Bang the drums of impeachment. www.rawstory.com/samuel-alito...

The perception of those who listen to Republican propaganda is that the Democrats, who are mostly led by center-right neoliberal corporatists, are basically all Marxists, no matter how far that is from the truth. To say the Harris campaign moved left is to accept that frame and spread that lie.

If the campaign truly had made defending trans rights a part of their campaign, if they had promised to stop aiding the genocide in Gaza, if they had run on universal healthcare, and they lost? …OK, maybe you could say they moved left and lost. But they were out there with the Cheneys. Be for real.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

Said Leonard Leo behind closed doors the last 30 years. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

From May 2021:

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

1/ The world faces a catastrophic cliff-edge shortage of oil due to the Strait of Hormuz blockade in the next four weeks, analysts warn. This will cause a deep recession, fuel rationing, the shutdown of entire industries, and oil prices potentially as high as $370 per barrel. ⬇️

I wrote up the Comey indictment. www.popehat.com/p/the-comey-...

Yes, Republicans are challenging the results of Virginia’s redistricting referendum, and this is a concern But they keep turning to the same MAGA judge in Tazewell County, whose decisions have routinely been overturned by the Virginia Supreme Court So the will of the voters will likely prevail

They think you're stupid.

Amanda Ungaro was 16 when she was flown to the US on an Epstein plane. She later became close to the Trumps On Apr. 8, she went on X to threaten legal action vs Melania “and your pedophile husband” On Apr. 9, Melania made that odd public statement about Epstein www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

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I'm worried that the seven companies that comprise 35% of the S&P 500 are headed for bankruptcy, as soon as someone makes them stop passing around the same $100b IOU while pretending it's in all their bank accounts at once. 12/

It’s because he is an absolute traitor to what he told us he would be. And now we can see those same fault lines forming in Maine with Platner and Dems are like, “who cares about the rotten person, we have numbers to meet.” And I ain’t playing that game anymore.

☀️ It's #SunshineWeek, a time to celebrate freedom of information and the public's right to know! To recognize the occasion, here's a thread of some @rcfp.org resources to help journalists and others access public information:

I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

"Trump is not the architect of the Iran war, only its vehicle." On who's really in charge: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

"I watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government. I never want to see that again and I'm not going to stand by and watch my neighbors run away scared."

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs. Cases of workplace deployment of AI have suggested that the tech is far from being ready for primetime. futurism.com/artificial-i...

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Look at these sickening pedo emails. Why are they protecting these people? Why did Kash say there was no trafficking going on? Why do Republicans not care? @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @RepOgles @SenatorHagerty @RepJohnRose

The leadup to Jan 6 taught us: ratfuckery is ALWAYS preceded by organized efforts to set a narrative. So when a GOP Rep goes on TV and says, "it's dangerous that states run their own elections, really it should be the federal government", LISTEN. He's prepping the ground for stealing an election. 1/

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

When THEY KNEW went into paperback, I wrote a description of its chapters. Some excerpts, including Chapter Three, "Epstein Wasn't the First": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/its-safe-t...