I just posted an essay to my blog titled Evil's Spokesperson. It makes some points that relate politics to AI. netsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/04/evil... #AI #MilitaryTargets #Ethics #Evil #UsefulIdiot #politics #USPolitics

If we're lucky enough to put a sane, freedom-loving President back in US office, our once-allies mustn't accept vacant rhetoric like Biden offered in 2020, when he declared we were back. We were never there, always one election from a 2024 event, which can & will recur until we fix our Constitution.

BREAKING A federal judge GRANTS a preliminary injunction protecting Anthropic from the Pentagon’s retaliation. Background www.allrisenews.com/p/anthropic-...

@bsky.app It'd be hard to overstate how much HARDER you've made it than ex-Twitter to find a #recipient name to address a post to or to figure out what #keywords would be good to attach. Part of why I post iess here is that absence. Don't say #BlueSky is too new. #discovery #UX

#Google #Android, STOP STOP STOP telling me for 50th time I have "unused apps". They're there for contingencies. Your OBSESSION with the falsehood that "not recent = not interesting" sinks your credibility. Ask about unreviewed apps maybe but don't make it MY job to protect each from your peskiness.

Wow, I just spent 1.5 hrs on phone hold, waiting to talk to office of @hassan.senate.gov, only to be summarily dropped without connecting and without taking a message about how we seem on track for WWIII as pure narcissistic whim, distraction from criminal prosecution. #EpsteinFiles #25A #Impeach

As a matter of public record, @samsungmobileus.bsky.social, you CAN tell me I must agree to your terms to continue to use the phone that holds essential data and apps, but you're making me 'sign' under duress. If a dispute does arise, expect me to cite the fact that I lacked meaningful free choice.

Web hosting from #IPower gets worse and worse. Bought by #IPage, who were bought by @networksolutions.bsky.social. NS is BY FAR worst managed transition I've seen. I'll jump ship soon. They don't believe in compatible transition, want me to instantly do things their way. I serve them, not they me.

A bit surprised they won't use them as-is. Their cruelty doesn't seem to require a proper facility. I sense a fetish for gadgets & pageantry of cruelty here. Locks, barbed wire,... Terrorism at scale. Also a self-image of powerful whim. With corporate greed atop: any moving money will be skimmed.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Global society reveres wheeler-dealerism, mesmerized by spectacles of cash, gambling and cat videos. All as we offer less money and attention to teachers, artists, and caretakers of sick friends & relatives. Money is a distributed way to manage society's priorities. Is it working? Are these ours?

In my fifty years in politics, I don’t think I’ve seen anything like this before. I haven't always agreed with Jerome Powell, but what Donald Trump is doing is out of the dictator’s playbook. Kudos to Powell for speaking out.

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley

I'm having trouble finding the "America Mourns Rob and Michelle Reiner" piece from the NY Times Editorial Board.

Japanese chess player calls out association's pregnancy bias

It's horrifying, not just that they'd do this, but in the name of We The People. I certainly don't want guests treated this way. And it will hurt business because many will just go elsewhere. Shame on them. This is nothing but raw thirst for power coupled with the cowardice of indefensible policies

This is no different from how Russia talks about just annexing Ukraine and claiming it needs the land as a "buffer." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

If you think Paramount is just trying to buy Warner Brothers so Ellison can stop CNN from criticizing Trump… you’re right! www.wsj.com/business/med...

Trump is using your taxpayer dollars to fix a mess he created after his tariffs nearly put so many farmers out of business. And meanwhile, his tariffs are still inflating your grocery bills. The American people deserve better.

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

It’s all transparently bullshit and immune to rationality, but if struggling to stabilize half a burning boat to avoid drowning is “getting back in the fight,” what they’re really saying is there’s nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And that definitely isn’t the law.

Lots of studies showing a similar result: people who buy "plug-in hybrids" do not, as a rule, plug them in. They are mostly used & operated as gas cars. (My take is, EVs are improving so fast, PHEVs are gonna look like a silly kludge w/in 5 years or so, well within the lifetime of a car.)

Hey, #Google... Count me SUPER-annoyed that, EVERY time I plug my #Android phone into my car, I get 2 pointless #AndroidAuto notifications. I can TELL it started because I see the icon. I can tell I plugged in USB because I plugged it in. Your notification clutter risks I'll miss REAL notifications.

BREAKING: Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, has appointed himself to prosecute the case against Trump and others in Fulton County. The move follows a court ruling that disqualified Fani Willis from pursuing the case.

As a voter in #NH ostensibly represented by her, I am angry that @shaheen.senate.gov voted to open the government. It's time for someone new. Please, someone primary her. She has no concept of how to effectively confront the modern political landscape. #politics #USPolitics

@nicollewallace.bsky.social #DeadlineWH Maybe the reason Trump thinks that it's a con job that the prices are up is that he's so rich (e.g., doesn't know the word "grocery") that he doesn't actually know people feel price directly. He may only "feels" cost through accountants or through the news.

The silver lining to the surrender by 8 Dems is that the House GOP must return to vote on it. Johnson must swear in Grijalva, and the discharge petition on the Epstein files must force a full floor vote. Stay tuned.

Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake: The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him. (@jonathanbchait.bsky.social) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Every time you capitulate to a bully, they'll come back at you twice as brutally. If you didn't learn this life lesson in third grade, GTFO of the US Senate.

New: The real story is the Democratic leadership collapse: presswatchers.org/2025/11/the-...

I’m shocked by how the mainstream news coverage of this vote is dominated by logistics and timing, rather than being about what an epic collapse this represents by Democratic leaders.

"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."

"... In o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ democracies, interviewers don't tolerate that." #FTFY

Excellent framing by John Fugelsang!!

A subtext of a lot of writing is that stupid is a kind of authenticity, or at least stubborn and defiant is, and it's possible voters may prefer that to the antiseptic polish on a career politician, but it doesn't mean anyone covering it is obliged to overlook what is in a best-case-scenario stupid.

We're...gonna have to make future presidents sign a lease and put down a deposit.

“Trump wants to destroy a symbol of restraint, dignity and honor that doesn’t belong to him. He is obliterating something to achieve a political objective. He wants to smash things because smashing things is his route to his claiming more power.” steveschmidt.substack.com/p/smashing-t...

I would posit that the reason so many people are shocked by the image of the White House being demolished is because it shows that Trump views it 1) entirely as his property and 2) that he doesn't really expect anybody else to live there.

News agencies hide much sin, bias, laziness & incompetence behind quest for neutrality. But this isn't hard, blurry, or a slippery slope. It's PREPOSTEROUS to say POTUS is operating in an appropriate way. Congress not impeaching is breach if sworn oath & active conspiracy. News media must say so.

the story of 2024-2025 in a nutshell: "shit sucks, let's give this trump guy another chance" "wait a minute, we hate donald trump!"

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

@chrislhayes.bsky.social @allinwithchris.bsky.social OF COURSE it matters he lied in the election. Some active lying, some "strategic ignorance". Candidates are sold to us like products. But politics has no consumer protection laws. Blatant fraud is fair game and, apparently, a winning strategy.

In all the commentary I've heard so far, no one has made plain the point that has been nagging at me: Among the many he assembled to endure it, at least SOME must have heard: "Prepare to enter your own home town and be told to shoot at neighbors, perhaps your own family, as they are now The Enemy."

I can't believe how irresponsibly bad the "journalism" is that I see coming from #KatyTur. I had been away from TV awhile and tuned in to #MSNBC to hear her maligning Dems as saying just a lot of words. Pro tip: When a lot is wrong, it takes "words" to say so. LISTEN. HELP EXPLAIN. (It's your job.)

So it's official. Trump is enthusiastically using the powers of the state to target his political enemies. There's a word for that. The MSM can either enable him by not using it, or can speak the truth. Which will it be?