In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

Hell yes.

I have used all of these things.

Hard to argue with that.

They have a point.

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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

“If you haven’t been poor, don’t legislate for the poor.” - Rep Lateefah Simon, CA-12

Today, we remember Uvalde. We remember the 19 children and 2 teachers who were mercilessly gunned down. The kids who hid underneath their dead classmates to survive. The parents who had to submit DNA to identify their own babies. We need an assault weapons ban. Now.

As Paramount considers settling a lawsuit with Donald Trump over a "60 Minutes" interview, the Freedom of the Press Foundation warns that it will sue over a deal that allegedly “could amount to a bribe.” www.wired.com/story/freedo...

At this point, ICE is illegal.

everything means the opposite for these people. freedom means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.

Raskin: The lowest 100 day approval rating since polling began. He controlled the agenda. He controlled the House, the Senate— he’s got everything going for him and his numbers are in the gutter

Good Night World

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

It’s elementary. If only one side is pushing it will get a lot of its way. The only workable remedial action is to make clear to all relevant parties that there are two sides pushing. And act accordingly.

NEW: Judge Xinis largely rejects DOJ's opposition to discovery requests in the Abrego Garcia case, accusing the Trump admin of "a willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations," citing their continued denial to acknowledge what the Supreme Court ordered.

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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

I still don’t like Bolton, but in this I have to agree with him. I can’t see any nations feeling secure in any treaties with the US.

Beautiful.

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance. Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."

Just a reminder that 17 US intelligence agencies found that Russia helped elect Drumpf in 2016. Nothing that happened today should surprise anyone. He is at the very least a longtime Russian asset, perhaps even a Russian agent.

We might as well start flying the flag of the Russian Federation.

Trump wants to be Putin’s bitch.

There is no way the Trump team didn’t have this ambush planned in advance.

This is unconscionable.

Meanwhile in Europe: "We have happily paid three times as much to Ukraine as the USA. We are not asking for anything in return and we are not extorting the Ukrainians while they are fighting for their lives. Because we are not assholes." - Rasmus Jarlov, Chairman of Denmark's Defence Committee.

Legitimately the stupidest man alive I cannot fucking STAND this shit

Sign of the day…

Not that it matters but SpaceX fraudulently submitted faked and incomplete test results to TCEQ and EPA last year, which is a felony that they used to put people in prison for, and the EPA ignored it.

we gotta bring back "broken windows theory" but for billionaires

Katie Britt is the Nancy Mace of Lauren Boeberts.

"The United States is in a constitutional crisis" Agree: 54% Disagree: 27% Unsure: 19% YouGov / Feb 6, 2025 / n=1106

Why aren’t Democrats doing interviews with patients enrolled in the cancer trials that Musk just cut funding for?

The Trump administration said it is pulling almost all U.S. Agency for International Development workers off the job and out of the field worldwide, moving to all but end a six-decade mission to shore up American security by fighting starvation, funding education and working to end epidemics.

The battle over US AID illustrates how much power Musk has accumulated, how his exercise of that power is driven by ignorance & conspiracy theories. See, e.g. Musk's lie that 50 million was spent on giving condoms to Hamas. Or his claims that 90% of US AID spending is wasted.

Here are some basic questions that the media & Congress could ask: Can public & private businesses trust Musk with their data? How many of the officials accessing sensitive data have security clearance? Do older adults know that Elon Musk now controls payment of their Social Security & Medicare?

Tell Congress: Pass the bill to prevent anyone from meddling with our payment systems and data

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.