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When Anthropic was created, its co-founders pledged to commit 80% of their personal equity holdings in the company to philanthropic causes.
As they prepare to take the company public, they appear to be walking back that pledge.
Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have.
We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”
No passport, but a millionaire's yacht? Flávio Bolsonaro rumoured to have fled Brazil after presidential election loss www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
just heartbreaking stuff
Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.
For my last Better Win a District, I wrote about TN-09. Republicans gerrymandered Memphis, the Blackest city in Tennessee, out of a seat in the House.
Or at least they tried. Then along came Justin Pearson.
Now TN-09 is a real fight.
www.liberalcurrents.com/better-win-a...
Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.
Alaska authorities strongly oppose the Trump DOJ’s attempted “interference” in the election.
This is significant because there were concerns the state—which sought to DQ the second Sullivan—would take the same side.
But it didn’t. Quite the contrary. buff.ly/EJHtDpX
Interesting. In our pod chat Nicole Hemmer and I discuss whether JD Vance can replicate Trump's misogynistic magic or whether the conditions for it have passed:
www.mediaite.com/politics/pic...#USDemocracy#ProudBlue
MAGA Sen Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi gave the shortest( yet still fawning ) speech ever to show her slavish allegiance to Donald Trump.
In 9 words Hyde-Smith told us everything we need to know about her and how she will vote in Senate
Trump’s visit to Mississippi to save a Senate seat, during which he failed to draw a crowd (approximately only 1,400 MAGA cronies), shows that his influence, and that of the Republican Party, is collapsing, which works to the Democrats' advantage!
#ProudBlue#DV1
You’ll notice the American state media treated Hunter Biden’s laptop, the lies spread about him by GOPers and his selling of paintings as more of a earth shattering story than criminal slumlord committing treason by taking billions of dollars in bribes whilst shaping US foreign policy. Disgusting.
BREAKING: New damning evidence has surfaced of the White House and DOGE directing the termination of National Science Foundation grants for congressionally mandated programs.
🔗 bit.ly/3Wcbw11
After tech companies were warned that data center expansion could cost Republicans competitive midterm elections, Fox News’ pro-data center coverage increased by 420%.
Republicans are laser-focused on enacting policies that create the conditions for suffering.
They love to lecture us about the "sanctity of life" as they champion abortion bans that kill women.
VOTE YES ON PROP ONE IN IDAHO!
Overnight, DOJ rolled out a new (draft) complaint against Nikki Floris and Brad Benavides, the FBI agents Jeanine Pirro claims lied to cover up their knowledge of Hunter Biden investigation.
It reveals the FBI had misrepresented a key witness' knowledge of the Hunter Biden investigation.
I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise.
The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
“Pearson is uniting outrage over the treatment of Memphis with frustration over affordability and opposition to data centers.” www.liberalcurrents.com/better-win-a...
🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.
SCOOP: The CDC's deputy director is leaving.
Jen Shuford, an infectious-disease physician who had been Texas's health commissioner, was hired to help restore trust in CDC. Now she's out after six months.
More with @lenasun.bsky.social.
Meta suspended @nokingscoalition.bsky.social’s account for over an hour during one of the largest protests in U.S. history.
Democratic AGs are demanding answers.
In battleground Senate races, almost 13% of Hispanic and 11% of AAPI early voters didn't vote at all. Compare that to 3% of white early voters.
Why does that matter? In early vote analysis you have to consider if these voters would have just voted anyhow...
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
Regarding the Catholic Priests in the photo at the WH: save the excuses. You were NOT “tricked.” You were invited…and you went. Should there be a GOD…he or she is fucking pissed at your dumb asses.
“DOJ documents indicate that, in 2019, FBI interviewed a Jane Doe who came forward to allege abuse in SC in 1983. Initially, a 3rd party contacted FBI to share that Jane Doe, when 13–14 years old, allegedly “bit Trump while performing oral sex” & then he “hit [her] in the face after she laughed.”
Donald Trump and his administration are telling you that you’re on your own during a hurricane, tornado, fire, or flood.
Know that Illinois will keep fighting to make sure you’re protected when disaster strikes.
NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report.
Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.