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“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Spot the difference

Q: What do you tell Americans, sir, about data centers going up in their communities? Trump: I think the companies will be very generous to them

The scope of frontier model misalignment is staggering. The past month has exposed how public admissions are just the tip of the iceberg. AI agents have colluded, escaped their sandboxes, hacked other companies, meddled with government portals — and that's just the ones we know about.

Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...

Newsom is so thirsty for support for his presidential bid from billionaires and the worst of the worst people destroying our democracy he will undermine our most fundamental rights at every turn to get what he wants. Anything about the "constant contact" remind you of Trump?

Defund ICE. Take its entire budget and devote it to a Manhattan Project that can devise and implement sound guardrails for AI, and figure out how to stop what can and should be stopped in the way of superintelligence and recursive self-improvement. AI is far, far more dangerous than immigrants.

This from a man who has asked his son to monitor his on-line porn consumption.

This never happened.

the president is now blacklisting companies by fiat. tell me more about how left-wing communism is the biggest threat to the country.

So the plan is essentially to arbitrarily throw out mail-in ballots from blue areas wholesale.

"They're eating the cats. They're eating the dogs."

Breaking my heart this morning: “Fitting ankle monitors on noncitizens without a criminal history who remain in compliance with their immigration cases has little precedent.” True in the narrowest sense. False given how the history of slavery and peonage roars through each part of this story.

Can't say gay and bisexual people were killed in the Holocaust in the core curriculum *at an American university* www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...

Unbelievably horrific. That these horrors are committed in our name and with our tax payer money.

People are falling for the DSA vs Establishment trap again. Didn’t we learn our lesson in 2016 and 2024? It’s the establishment’s job to build a coalition that can win EVERYWHERE. In some places, that means ultra-progressive. In others, it means establishment. The tent is big enough for all of us.

I look forward to Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, and JD Vance blaming each other for screwing up the Iran war.

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

Populism is when the government supports the little guy (the little top hat guy from Monopoly)

i wrote this last year but there is literally no publicly available evidence that donald trump knows what a tariff actually is

File under: can you imagine if this was Kamala's WH?

👀 Travel with Natalie

Trump isn’t just a coward. He’s a sociopath. xcancel.com/alexchristy1...

Francesca Hong, like Haley Stevens last week, showing how it’s done

Under Hegseth, Women’s Share of Top Military Promotions Plunged This Year The percentage of high-ranking officer nominations going to women is currently at its lowest level in over two decades. Via @cj-robinson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...

A new Senate report on Wall Street banks' handling of Jeffrey Epstein's finances calls out President Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, a Republican senator, and the Bari Weiss-led "60 Minutes."Sen.

"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Probably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure

This is outrageous. Unacceptable. And impeachable.

This is such complete and utter bullshit on the part of Thom Tillis and John Cornyn. Giving the Trump crime family immunity from tax audits remains as corrupt as anything we’ve ever seen in this country. Todd Blanche should be impeached, not confirmed.

Pretty convenient that Trump gets immunity from IRS audits for the year where he made, by far, the most money of his entire life in shady deals all over the globe. His should get a special “Trust me, bro” tax form from the IRS to submit.

Blatant corruption

So many parallels: Advances followed by brutal backlashes. Hatred cloaked in concern about "fairness" and "undue influence" on children. Insistence that it's a medical/mental problem. Rage at cultural institutions that "promote a lifestyle." Invective about "special rights." Malevolent statehouses.

This is on-brand.

Implementing a reliable process of tracking recycled materials will provide Americans with accurate information on plastics used in the products they’re buying. Consumers deserve the truth when making choices among competing products.

In any society, there will be a large number of people who are dispositionally conservative, which is fine and even good. There will also be a small, but significant number who are outright authoritarians. A good electoral system will silo the latter and allow the former to govern without them.

Complete failure.

I was pulling photos from Getty Images today and this one took my breath away for a second. "Plain clothed federal agents pursue a man through the lobby of the Hennepin County Government Center before tackling and arresting him Tuesday, February 10, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minn."

“Tonight’s Presidential Hour of Hate is brought to you by the good people of General Motors. Whether you hate transgender kids or are just a garden variety white supremacist, GM is there for you!”

Why folks in our party need to be allowed to disagree. Politics is about addition, not subtraction.

George F Will musters the evidence against Todd Blanche: his intended function is right in front of your eyes, you merely have to open them and observe. This is not about an unqualified candidate. It is about whether America is to be a dictatorship. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

BIRDS OF A FEATHER… Remember when Trump wouldn’t disavow David Duke? Longtime Trump fan, Brian Pannebecker, is also a longtime Duke fan. In 2001, Pannebecker described Duke’s memoir as an “honest, fair, and well-documented book on the important and sensitive issue of race.” 1/2

Fraudulent AI-generated political ads that use the voice or likeness of a candidate to misrepresent their position on issues pose a serious threat to our democracy that should concern Americans regardless of their political party. 🧵