Beachbard

Beachbard

@beachbard.bsky.social

Welcome to the Klepto-Kakistocracy! Equality, what a concept. “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” ― Stephen King

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You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught from South Pacific You've got to be taught To hate and fear, You've got to be taught From year to year, It's got to be drummed In your dear little ear You've got to be carefully taught. Premiered in 1949

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Friends, I'm going to say this as gently as I can. This is not moral or ethical advice. That should be the priority but let's put it aside for a second. This is financial advice. Listen closely. If you buy stock in an AI company, you're a clown and a mark and you will lose your money. Don't do it.

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For the 1st time in US history SCOTUS has more rulings on its shadow docket -- unsigned and with no opinions -- than it has cases where it has heard oral arguments and issued signed rulings. IOW they are hiding their deliberations while stealing our democracy. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

propublica.orgA Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little JustificationProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.

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Backlash to data centers might very well be the biggest issue in the midterms, with nearly 70 percent of Americans opposing them. Is it any wonder why?

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Everyone keeps asking me how I’m feeling about early voting so far. I’m feeling like nobody *actually* knows anything, and this is the most important midterm of our lives. I’d rather be us than them, but we can’t get comfortable. We can’t get complacent. Go vote like we’re down 3%.

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Me: "You've said 'because of the war' maybe 7 times..." Ex-Trump adviser: "Because it spiked prices..." Me: "But you're treating the war like it's a natural disaster... like it fell from the sky. The war was started by your guy, deliberately, a war of choice." Full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLJV...

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“We made it, friend.” That’s what Harriet Ida Pickens said to Frances Wills on graduation day in 1944. Together, they became the first Black women commissioned as officers in the U.S. Navy. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

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In less than 12 hrs, cyber researchers were able to penetrate Anthropic’s systems using AI agents—including Slack channels where the most sensitive models are discussed. Just weeks after whistleblower Joseph Coxon charged the company w/launching “a hubristic gamble” from a “private company’s Slack.”

washingtonpost.comHow an AI start-up founded by ex-DOGE staffers broke into AnthropicThe start-up firm Cathedral’s ability to penetrate sensitive programs at one of the nation's leading AI companies comes amid mounting concerns about security in the global AI race.

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What Jason Crow says. Indeed, isn't it obvious? How can a self-respecting country cede control over vital military systems in the middle of a war to a foreign drug addict? And how could this not be a defining issue in the midterm election? Yet US corporate media want to simply look the other way.

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Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

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Homeland Security agents knocked on doors in nine states asking people about voting. Some carried guns. Nurses sued. A federal judge ordered DHS to stop until the polls close. Trump’s regime needed a court order to quit scaring voters. Think about that.

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U.S. arms manufacturers must be apoplectic right now, but there's nothing they can do. The credibility of U.S. arms internationally is now gone. Neither President Trump nor Elon Musk honor their commitments so no promises will matter. The loss of scale will raise U.S. defense procurement costs.

Maria Drutska@mariadrutska.bsky.social

Fallout from the Starlink restrictions could hit US weapons exports such as the F-35. There were already concerns that the F-35 has a built-in software kill switch. And the US actions on Starlink just turned that risk from theoretical to something proven and real. Very costly choice by the US.

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Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

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NEW: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. with @nytimes.com

propublica.orgThe Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His NeighborsIngram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of t...

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WSJ's Alex Ward points to obvious logical incoherence in Elon Musk's claims. Keeps making me think of the two WSJ stories on Elon Musk's severe Ketamine addiction.

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Attorney General Todd Blanche isn't even pretending that Trump isn't directing him to file lawsuits

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Political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security wanted CISA, an agency that protects election systems, to acquire and hack a voting machine, which shocked staffers. “This goes against everything CISA represents,” a former official said.

propublica.orgTrump Appointees Asked a Federal Cybersecurity Agency to Secretly Acquire a Voting Machine — and Hack ItThough not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for its own ends while draining it of resources to help its mi...

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Remember when Media & Political Elite promised US that Trump was tapping into “economic anxiety” not racism?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

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Flanagan on Tafoya: "She made a point of having ICE terrorizing our neighbors in her campaign launch video. And just days after Renee Good was killed and little Liam Conejo Ramos was taken, she went on Fox News and said ICE treats children 'really really well'...she is running to stand behind Trump"

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

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Anyway damn everyone who over the last 10 years tried to gaslight us into believing that we were not seeing what we were obviously seeing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Libya, Hemen, Haiti, Somalia -- remember what I called them? Shit house countries."

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It’s never been more clear that racism is a scam perpetrated by wealthy elites to convince working people to blame someone other than the wealthy elite.

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“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

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I may not be able to talk, but my vote can’t be silenced! I voted early and in less than 10 minutes. Check out your local early voting sites and VOTE 🗳️