“Everyone has an opinion about what Democrats should do next. Move to the center. Go left. Fight. Compromise.” See open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

“We are retired Harvard Business School professors. …We ask that the leaders of the business world in the United States — some of whom it has been our privilege to teach — speak out now, act now, in defense of democracy.” poetsandquants.com/2026/02/28/n...

Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.

Not the most important thing going on now but still dismaying: Apparently officers can only spend time at right-wing think tanks and universities now. Hegseth is politicizing and dumbing down the military. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Opposition to data centers surged in Wisconsin. Republicans remain mildly opposed but independents and Democrats became strongly opposed since October. open.substack.com/pub/charlesa...

The draft executive order floating around wants to force people to re-register to vote between now and the midterms. Clearly beyond Trump’s authority, and completely pointless unless your goal is to limit turnout

About that order by Judge Aileen Cannon purporting to forbid the U.S. Department of Justice from releasing the Jack Smith final report: "federal courts do not have the sweeping 'supervisory authority' over the Justice Department that Judge Cannon claims." [Andrew McCarthy, National Review]

Primary is in two days

A curtained SCIF? 🧐

Republicans in Congress could steer voter registration drives into a ditch with bills that would all but prevent civic organizations like churches and grassroots community groups from collecting and submitting registration forms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This Sunday, Bill Whitaker follows up with Salas and speaks with judges who say they are under siege.

Here's the PPI trend line. It's not good. 2/

A lot going on right now but don't miss that Trump got one of the worst inflation reports of his 2nd term yesterday. The PPI came in hot, way over expectations. 1/

This is what these liars promised and what tens of millions of marks swallowed.

"The only way they can get elected is to cheat" Also Trump: pass me a law so I don't have to win fair elections Students, Seniors, Married Women & Disaster victims — all turned away over trivial paperwork My publisher's note on why it won't stand this week on @contrariannews.org 👇-TN\

Anthropic, by contrast, in the statement from yesterday argued for a different standard: "Even fully autonomous weapons (those that take humans out of the loop entirely and automate selecting and engaging targets)" This is opposition to fully autonomous systems entirely due to unreliability.

Thus, an AI system could decide to launch an attack and a human could opt to overrule or allow it. The human would have "responsibility" for the action, but not have made the engagement order.

Smart take

“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking

Either Altman is lying in this story, or the Anthropic ban was completely pointless.

I don’t think goodness had much to do with it

You missed the part where earlier in the day, Altman said he shares the same red line as Anthropic. Obviously, that was a lie.

A year ago I predicted Elon would try and fail to control the government via blackmail. I also said, my instinct is that Sam Altman somehow takes over, though I have no proposed mechanism beyond 'Everyone just hates Elon that much.'

I think it's the bit in small print that Antropic was not happy with, it basically gives them a 'work' around those two conditions.

Yes, I would guess the deal is structured to give OpenAI the plausibile deniability while letting the military do whatever it wants

The answer probably lies in Altman’s phrase “human responsibility for autonomous weapons systems”. Which is not the same thing as not having autonomous weapons.

Anthropic gets booted from the Pentagon for not wanting to power mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, then OpenAI gets a Pentagon contract that bans mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Someone is obviously leaving something significant out.

The government illegally took your money. They won’t give it back.

And of course AC Transit needs more funding to restore and expand service. We have to pass the @connectbayarea.bsky.social measure this November to do that.

As I said many times during the Realign outreach process, Realign slashes bus service in West Contra County with only a few small improvements at the margin. I warned that ridership in West County would plummet, and it has. I urge AC Transit to fix this now that the data is so clear.

This is Trump's former AI adviser

Lauren Boebert is asked to define “inflation.” It does not go well.

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.

Not to mention Melania

Wow, hope this is accurate

Telegram reporting: Yandex founder Arkady Volozh renounced Russian citizenship, according to Bloomberg. Volozh condemned the special military operation and left Russia, taking a portion of Yandex worth $5.4 billion with him. 1/2

Bird flu has wiped out 7.4 million chickens in Pennsylvania in the past month, a swift and devastating loss. Infections of flocks raised to produce eggs and meat extend a U.S. outbreak that began four years ago and has eliminated 196 million birds nationwide. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Hard Times At The Pseudo-Contrarian Dictator-Fluffer Channel

Literally

This is negligent homicide. We demand justice for Shah Alam and his family. He was nearly blind, and they left him five miles from his home, forced to try to walk home alone in the dark and the freezing cold.

Good point

@kenmartin.bsky.social how about bringing Bill Barr in for questions about Epstein? Epstein was alive and jailed

My Voice My Choice coordinator Nika Kovač: "Today is a victory for women in Europe and a good day for European democracy. For the first time, the Commission confirms unequivocally that EU funds can be used to guarantee access to safe abortion care – particularly for women in vulnerable situations."

He seems to have no self-awareness

Boy I hope he’s right.

t.me/NewsInsideUk... t.me/c/1966917236... Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: I suspect Trump thought if there were no further supplemental package, Ukraine would find itself in difficulty much faster, & the war might therefore be brought to an end because Ukraine would be forced into concessions.

Interesting to see how in the UK everyone is making massive generalised conclusions from a by-election. They are by their nature unrepresentative. Yet everyone using it to prove their own political theses. See also: I went to talk to voters and they also confirmed my priors.

JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...