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"Across the country, the empire builders of AI have sold themselves as the gateway to the future you’ve always dreamed of, and the solution to the problems they helped bring about." @timothypmurphy.bsky.social on the rise of our AI oligarchy.

America’s defense secretary is fixated on a fringe, violent version of Christian Nationalism.

The celebration offers a cocktail-fueled look at the tech behemoth’s rightward pivot.

This is lunacy.

America is losing a talented researcher today. Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

I find it so funny that pointing out Pedolfs failures and extreme gouging of our pockets is considered "Evil" 🤔 These clown lovers are an abomination that I consider truly evil!

A United/American merger is like combining shit and piss and trying to pass it off as a birthday cake.

PG&E. Haliburton. Amazon. Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal and fucking Disney. Billions in profits. $0.00 in federal corporate income taxes. That money should be funding schools, hospitals, healthcare, and public services. This is why people are fucking angry, pissed and worse.

Amazon pays $20.5M for contaminating groundwater. Communities stopping data centers and winning. The power to change the system is real. Keep organizing. Keep winning.

In a major state antitrust investigation, California's Attorney General has unsealed hundreds of records revealing that Amazon illegally pressures its marketplace sellers to engage in price-fixing. While Trump's DOJ lets corporate lawbreakers off the hook, states are still holding them accountable.

We're making a free online add for Xavier Becerra, and by we I mean you. #freeBecerraadd

Actually House Democrats killed the bill demanding reforms. Just a handful of GOP went along. Well done Speaker Jeffries. Of course the corporate media and dumbest among us will never give Democrats credit.

Good morning. ☕️ 📷 Peggy Sirota

Tonight’s movie: “Normal” (2026), directed by Ben Wheatley

Uh-oh. Eloon and Zuck aren't going to be happy about this.

Epstein on tape advising former Israeli PM Barak to approach Palantir founder Peter Thiel. And there you have it 😲🤬🤬🤬

We live to fight another day! A victory tonight—as we killed a backroom deal Johnson and the WH cut to extend FISA authority for five more years. Dropped in the middle of the night. We killed it on the Floor. But, it will be back. So we must keep fighting!

A 91-year-old grandmother was reported unresponsive, prompting a welfare check by police. When officers arrived, they found her in her room, busy setting a new personal record on a video game.

“He cheated on the golf course. He cheated on his taxes. He cheated on his wives. He cheated the business contractors he stiffed. He tried to cheat in the 2020 election. And now he’s trying to cheat on the 2026 midterms - because he knows he can’t win.”

Temporary Squeaker Mike is so dumb it hurts.

I’d like to see Pete Hegseth eat one of these meals for his dinner.

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This is certainly news to Thom Tillis and North Carolina residents.

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

I wouldn’t serve this to my dog. WTF is Pete Hegseth even doing? (I mean, besides shots.)

BREAKING: Louisiana has advanced one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country. It would force homeless people to choose between jail and involuntary treatment, make them pay for it, and if they can't pay, force them to perform unpaid labor. buff.ly/d6rXj5h

Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United. Harlan Crow's political contributions then went up 862%. Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit. But go on about how "progressivism" is a problem...

FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is FAR lower than private-sector retirement programs.

NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East. This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family. Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships. Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

NEWS: Democrat Analilia Mejia wins NJ-11 special election, defeating Republican Joe Hathaway and further narrowing the GOP’s razor-thin House majority. She fills the seat vacated by Gov. Mikie Sherrill. 📸 Kyle Mazza via Reuters Connect

While death and destruction rained down on Iran during the war’s first month, the world’s 100 biggest oil and gas companies brought in an extra $30 million per HOUR in windfall profits. Yes, $30 million per HOUR. All because of the deadly and reckless decision making of one man.

Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."

"The Trump administration cut the agency deeply last year, leaving some forecasting offices short-staffed... “You’re missing data from the Four Corners region, the northern Plains, part of the central Plains, and that’s where the storms were developing,” he said..." www.nbcnews.com/weather/torn...

And among the minority who received a larger break, most of the money flowed to already well-off households.

Republican Sen. Roger Marshall wants Americans to stop complaining about gas prices because they're necessary for "national security." "I'm sorry the gas prices are going up, but help is on its way, and your national security, yes, is even more important than your pocketbook."

Pictures and biographical information from Norden’s LinkedIn and social media closely matched information that HowlingMutant had posted, including employment history and living in New York.

NEW: We’ve identified the man who runs the far-right troll account on X “HowlingMutant,” whose jokes about rape and the Holocaust have earned him nearly 200,000 followers, which include Vice President JD Vance. His name is Alexander Norden, from Rockaway Park in New York City.

“They absolutely impounded. He just lied to America,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, told TPM in response to Vought’s remarks. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/he-just...

Ian Bremmer has a way of explaining this stuff that makes it not just understandable but interesting to an idiot like me. Great episode.

I understand you want me to talk about Eric Swalwell.

I LOVE politics and one of my favorite things on EARTH is watching someone campaign that gets it. @xavierbecerra.bsky.social has been grinding away and it shows. The latest poll numbers show him surging! Well done sir. Well done.

Dave Chappelle is happy to make tens of millions of dollars on anti-trans comedy routines, but now apparently draws the line at Republicans turning those jokes into policy.

I like this name for them because it is true the billionaires are welfare queens. l.smartnews.com/p-7xTU3YeQ/L...

This Tax Day, every American should know: Because of Trump, Amazon avoided paying over 90% of the taxes it owed. That's $17.5 billion that should be going to health care, schools, child care, and more. But instead, Jeff Bezos gets wealthier. Congress needs to tax the rich.