Bring Back Democracy

Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI. Before that, she led the technical AI safety program at what is now Coefficient Giving. Dwarkesh Patel podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50z...

Just the tip of the iceberg of what is WRONG with the United States.

Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)

How likely is the race to superintelligence to end in disaster? Ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo: "I would say something like 70% chance that this goes horribly wrong, like human extinction." Do the AI CEOs think there's a chance of human extinction? Kokotajlo: "Yes."

Thank you to these public servants for standing up for the rule of law against abuse of public power.

 Instead of waiting to see what happens in 2026, we are taking action with our Protect Our Polls Act to make it impossible for the President to use the military to steal an election. Our bill stops that in three ways.

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

The outcry is only going to grow No president — of any party, going back to the founding — has ever done anything like this $1.7 B taken from the American people to hand cash to those who violently assaulted cops @ms.now👇 -TN

This isn't just corruption or grift, it's a full-on criminal enterprise. If Republicans in Congress hadn't sold themselves out completely, they'd shut this down immediately.

Why should any American pay their taxes? If the President can get a lifetime pass on tax fraud, why can’t we?

Be careful, there are some really bad drivers out there. cbs12.com/news/florida...

LEE: I asked Chairman Comer, if Pam Bondi did not come, would he force her to or if he would move for contempt hearings as he did for other people who did not respond to our subpoena? Instead of answering as an adult, he said that I was “bitching”

Khanna on Fox News: "There was no imminent threat. Now there's a threat to the United States. We've created a threat."

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

Here’s last night’s story about USAID, why the Trump Administration has gutted it, who is being impacted, and how many nice things John can say about George W. Bush. It’s more than zero! By a very narrow margin, it is more than zero. youtu.be/tU8S13xYJNM

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

Neal Katyal: "In America, the chief justice said only Congress can impose taxes on the American people, and that's what tariffs are. Tariffs are taxes."

Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman announced his campaign to oust GOP Sen. Ashley Moody, who was appointed to replace former Sen. Marco Rubio last year.

Federal immigration enforcement authorities are facing scrutiny and criticism over their tactics, including the lack of body-worn cameras, following the killing of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. n.pr/4k4OUaE

The FBI raided the home of a Washington Post reporter. This is a blatant attack on press freedom — yet Jeff Bezos has so far been silent. Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.

“The President of the United States is a criminal. He’s not just a convicted criminal. He should have been convicted for the crimes he led on January 6th. He is running the government like a mob operation.“

These are absolutely monstrous people "Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"

They're acting like we killed an ICE agent and they're taking revenge, which is, you know, insane

WELKER: Where is that $50,000? Did you keep it? HOMAN: I didn't take $50k from anybody & that's a question for the FBI. Bottom line I did nothing illegal. WELKER: But was there $50k in the bag? HOMAN: I'm not addressing it WELKER: But did you keep the money? HOMAN: $50k is ridiculous

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

Whenever I see this picture, my eyes well up. Eugene Goodman, Capitol police officer, diverted a crowd of bloodthirsty rioters in the Capitol during the bloody J6 insurrection from the US Senate chambers. He is a great American hero. 🇺🇸 #ProudBlue #Pinks #EugeneGoodman #Capitol

Jack Smith, in compliance with a subpoena, is testifying before Congress today, but behind closed doors, at the insistence of Jim Jordan and his fellow “weaponization” propagandists. What are they afraid of? www.ms.now/opinion/jack...

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

That was fast

Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection. Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

"This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this" - Jimmy Kimmel

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Today it was confirmed that the president told the world's most infamous pedophile and child sex trafficker: "We have certain things in common." For any other president, it would be the biggest scandal of their lives, possibly career-ending. For Trump, it's just Monday.

The ‘antiwar’ president today tried to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War. Can’t make this stuff up.

Days in office: 1,671 Epstein clients arrested: 0

"Ghislaine Maxwell remains the only child-rapist in history to receive well-wishes from a president of the United States." Lawrence O'Donnell