whoa if true

Television pioneer Fred Rogers, gone 23 years ago today. His acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award is always worth a watch. #RIP 💔

#NovaScotia #NSPoli #TimHouston

The Trump admin's push to war with Iran sure feels like the Bush admin's WMD debacle with the Iraq war!

Signs of the Times #AdamZyglis

Mental health check, memes only

Ouch.

Jst one of MANY I could illustrate about this horrible, corrupt person. It popped into my head as I watched an award show presentation.🤣 Happy Friday, everyone! 🤘 #politics #political #politicalcartoon #drawings #sketches #illustrations #resister #ArtYear #bskyart #satire #ClarenceThomas #SCOTUS

Is the point of the various Trump cabinet workout videos to get every gym rat and personal trainer on the internet to goof on them? Because that seems to be what’s happening.

So Trump, Hegseth, et. al., are now trying to destroy a company who turned them down? Don't let a GD Republican ever tell you again that they believe in the "free market".

Another innocent human being, murdered by the Trump regime. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

NEW: Georgia removed nearly 471,000 voters from its rolls last summer — roughly 6% of all the state’s registered voters. Now voting rights groups are suing, arguing the state is illegally hiding records about how the purge was carried out.

shorter Anthropic: lol fuck you, you’re way out over your skis and we’re going to beat your asses in court

@hillaryclinton.bsky.social: "I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is."

Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Hegseth just shot down a DHS drone with a laser because he thought it belonged to a Mexican cartel, but let’s let him preside over a radical shift to unrestrained AI on our most advanced weapons systems. What could go wrong?

Khanna: I think that there was some sexism in the way Secretary Clinton was treated. She was treated worse than President Clinton was treated.

For decades, Republicans have used our public money and time to put on Stalinesque show trials, featuring Clintons and Bidens.

DoD is shooting itself and the IC in the foot by banning Anthropic, bc Claude and Grok are the only AIs approved for classified use. Which means all those contractors they like (Palantir, Anduril, etc) are boxed out if they can’t use Claude and Grok isn’t good enough.

The TikTok ban was the government camel's nose under the tent. It set a precedent for the era of government meddling in private companies' affairs. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

It’s like the US doesn’t want anyone to invest in its tech industry

This fall is going to be rough.

It’s way late for the chorus of surprised GOP virgins. American conservatives have been the party of greed and selfishness and inequity all my long adult life.

Before and after you sell your soul to the devil.

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.

Trump's "Golden Age"

WHO updates all 3 viral strains to be included in fall flu shots The recommendation for vaccines for the next flu season includes a new influenza variant—subclade K—that started to increase last fall. www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...

...of murdering innocent people in the streets and terrorizing communities throughout the nation.

Either the DOD is taking a softer stance with OpenAI (which seems hard to believe) or OpenAI is prepared to make more concessions here than it is acknowledging

Keith Andrews signs new six-year contract at Brentford

Something that's being overlooked: The Saudi government—yes, the same gov't that butchered a Washington Post journalist a few years ago—is set to be a part owner of CNN. Watch the full episode of Power Lines on YouTube: youtu.be/nWEG5jUrP2Q?...

Iftar, Day 10

I don’t know how much less surprised I could be that Trump isn’t familiar with Reconstruction.

Trump floats ‘friendly takeover’ of Cuba ft.trib.al/ZgD9Ze0

White House gives Democrats new DHS funding offer as partial government shutdown drags on

SCOTUS does have a mechanism for this but they haven’t used it since 1965. None of the current justices have even served with a justice who’s used it.

GOP Rep. Jefferson Burton claimed 300 dead people have voted and said a county told him they caught people voting multiple times. The Tribune asked Burton to provide proof. He said he would on Thursday, but never did.

I love the little AI that I use. But I hate the reckless, mindless, dangerous greed AI companies commit trying to race to be the new Apple or Amazon.

Republicans broke open the door to a business takeover of government, a threat Eisenhower saw long ago. Conservatives hated Ike.

Korea's book market is being inundated with AI-created books, largely produced by a single publisher www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/bo...

Prisoners for profit is infamy in the making.

Once again, Republicans use our money and time to put on Stalinesque show trials.