73 percent more to go.

Breaking rules to facilitate AI data center construction is so evil.

"OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI erotica in its ChatGPT product."

OpenAI: we're not like other tech companies. We're a cool tech company Also OpenAI: *doing the most tech company thing possible*

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight. The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Politeness doesn’t require respect”: aha, but she believes otherwise!

🚨 Tune in to the Democrats' House Oversight hearing on DOGE's damage to the federal workforce & how to rebuild. It's a good example of how Democrats, even in the minority, can conduct oversight and amplify the voices of those harmed by this administration.

People who've palled around with Bari Weiss, traded amiable podcast appearances*, praised or even "pros and cons" her... you were always gross. * I don't believe in platforming/deplatforming, but acting like pals is different than having a debate oriented persona. Politness doesn't require respect.

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

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6/ As long as Russell Vought remains at the helm of OMB, the task of monitoring DOGE’s plans to erode the federal government and punish people at home and abroad, remains a critical oversight responsibility.

5/ Our own report shows that OMB Director Russell Vought has happily assumed the role of chief wrecker, leading the drive to institutionalize DOGE’s mission across the federal government.

4/ As Oversight Dems note, DOGE’s willfully opaque operational structure shielded the organization from necessary accountability, even as the rogue initiative enacted plans to wreck the federal government.

3/ As DOGE gutted vital public services, Congress passed legislation that poured more money into the coffers of the wealthy. This contrast must remain top of mind as @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social seek accountability for all those who unjustly benefited from DOGE’s shenanigans.

2/ DOGE was hailed by its supporters as a pathway to making government more efficient, ultimately benefiting everyday people. The reality was anything but, as program and funding cuts led to lost jobs, worsened government services, and disrupted life-saving interventions

Great to see the new House Oversight Democrats’ report on the schemes behind DOGE's creation, the benefits it offered the billionaire class, and the harms it brought to taxpayers, federal workers, and public services. 🧵 oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Here we go. This was long expected. What Trump here doesn't matter - what's going to matter is whether Roberts & the 5 other Republican ops. on this #MAGA SCOTUS will give him and his big oil/polluter billionaire donors the license to destroy our communities (planet) making us sicker & die faster

Epstein engineered intimate relationship for Tesla’s Kimbal Musk, emails show www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

And now Gail Slater, the chief antitrust enforcer at DOJ, has just resigned, a prelude to this settlement happening. Slater was cut out of the negotiations with MAGA lobbyists on the Live Nation case. DOJ is just a corrupt shell at this point.

So @elienyc.bsky.social and @strictscrutiny.bsky.social have speculated that Alito may retire soon. I agree. Elie lays out the case here—it'd be odd to release a memoir in October if he's (a) still serving and (b) unable to promote it because he's hearing arguments. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Two more data points: Mollie Hemingway, MAGA pseudo-journalist, is writing a laudatory book about Alito and I bet he's participating. And Alito just gave a rare interview to Politico (home of the Dobbs leak!) in which he reflects fondly on highlights of his service: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Did we expect anything else when this regime put in a MTV reality tv show bro turned Fox News right wing blowhard in charge of the Department of Transportation?

People Keir Starmer has hired, then fired for stuff he knew about when he hired them, a thread and a list: 1. Tulip Siddiq, given the economic crime brief, despite her aunt being PM of Bangladesh and mired in corruption allegations. Siddiq herself had faced questions over London properties.

The official page for Democratic Members of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee is similarly focused on sports rather than the latest FAA and DoD scandal.

Key Democrats are not raising hell. Ranking member of the Senate Transportation committee @cantwell.senate.gov has been silent. Cantwell has two posts about the Superbowl over the past 24 hours. Zero posts about El Paso.

Senior Senators are often somnambulists--i.e., sleepwalking through the corridors of power. DO SOMETHING!

The New York Times is now reporting the closure was "precipitated when Customs and Border Protection officials deployed an anti-drone laser on loan from the Department of Defense" without sufficient notice to the FAA. The admin's severe incompetence is putting Americans in danger. And yet ... 🧵

As someone born & raised within NY-17, let me tell you a few things wearing solely a personal hat: 1. @mikesacks.bsky.social understand the law, politics, and the politics of law better than ANYONE I have worked with--he'd be an awesome Member of Congress. secure.actblue.com/donate/websi...

This episode has been a nightmare for my city and state, but I hope people realize it’s also a profound defeat and political catastrophe for Trump and DHS, who are slinking away having accomplished nothing. Minneapolis simply wouldn’t bend to them and they lost

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

What @daviddarmofal.bsky.social said!

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

"Can you spare a few million quid for an elaborate tax dodge, Guvnor?"

what I most appreciate about this update: when I first heard of this story I *do* recall thinking "no this isn't dumb enough" bsky.app/profile/tyle...

Democrats Are Field-Testing New Ways to Talk About the Epstein Scandal. In the piece, I recommend invoking Epstein liberally--in any discussion involving economics or class in any way. www.notus.org/democrats/de... #WhatAboutLutnick

Innocent people were always going to get punished by the fascist deportation machine. But when they’re white, people start to notice!

Right side of history

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What a nice thing to say! It also means absolutely nothing. Anthropic doesn’t own or even lease data centers and thus does not pay power bills on anything other than its office space

Epstein engineered intimate relationship for Tesla’s Kimbal Musk, emails show www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Maybe take seriously the idea that the people at the levers of implementation will try it even if it's *not actually any good*. www.nobhillgazette.com/arts_and_cul...

The upshot of "More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity" by @adambecker.bsky.social is that effective altruism is really stupid & INSANELY influential. Abundance, Elon Musk, climate crisis backlash: all driven by EA.

In case you needed more evidence that billionaires tend to be idiotic degenerates...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

We are in a separation of powers conflict and the branch being held down needs to get on its horse and use every political tool possible to reassert its power.

This scandal cannot simply be brushed aside. Americans deserved to know the true reason for the initial closure and why the FAA and Pentagon are seemingly still struggling to communicate over a year after the deadly DCA crash that took 67 lives.

Dems need to press for complete transparency and demand the chairs of relevant House and Senates committees conduct real oversight. But, thus far, @cantwell.senate.gov, ranking member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee has been silent. Here's the House Dems statement ⬇️

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Late last night, the FAA abruptly announced a 10-day closure of the El Paso airspace. Mere hours later, the decision was reversed. Now, we have competing stories about what really happened. The administration's incompetence is once again interrupting people lives. Congress must investigate.