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NEW Working Paper: “The #Attribution Crisis in LLM Search Results: Estimating Ecosystem Exploitation” www.infodocket.com/2025/06/29/w... #GPT #LLMs @ssrc.org

Republican senators have been racing to pass their bill before people learn about these numbers. But at some point Americans are going to notice anyway. Including the ~half of Medicaid recipients who voted for Trump.

Republicans’ domestic policy bill that is making its way through the Senate would result in deeper cuts and more Americans losing health insurance coverage than the original measure that passed the House last month, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.

Total jackass, sure, but he’s also correct.

"While a successful democracy depends on some degree of reasonableness from voters, a successful liberal democracy also depends on some degree of responsibility and even courage from elites." The people are passing this test, and the elites are not.

honestly does seem like the basic dynamic in american politics right now is that a critical number of voters treat Democrats like their (nagging) mom or their (bitch) wife and treat Republicans like the “cool” dad or husband who is at best a deadbeat

Donald Trump and Republicans are trying to steal food from hungry people to give huge tax breaks to billionaires. @tokuda.house.gov shows just how difficult it is for thousands of Hawaiians – and millions more across the country – who rely on $6 a day from SNAP to feed their 'ohana (families).

Watch @timmiller.bsky.social on the Israel-Iran conflict: "There's one thing I do know, I wish that a genocidal maniac was not leading Iran and that a corrupt, indiscriminate, prime minister was not leading Israel and that a fucking moron was not leading our country."

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

How many broken campaign promises is that now? I mean, we know he’s making good on the getting rid of brown people stuff. 🤔

SO MUCH WINNING 🫠 #Trump

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

There’s stupid … and then there’s Trump Stupid. That’s a whole other level of stupid.

Unfortunately this weird, sick cult of grifters and rubes that worships a bumbling, incompetent, malevolent, mentally ill, narcissistic congenital liar in orange makeup has control of the government. Scary times.

Perfect float for trump military parade.

Sat next to Dick Gephardt at a restaurant in DC in 2008ish, watched him get drunk with a dinner companion and gush about how great it is to be on a corporate board and get a new, free Ford Fusion every year.

Never forget

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

Is this just kind of like repeat it until you believe it yourself? Your boss pardoned everyone who assaulted law enforcement on January 6th. Ass!!!

I'm not the most unbending person politically speaking. I understand strange bedfellows and big tents and all of that practical stuff. But you have to have some principles and no principled person can look at Musk and RFK and say "if only we embraced them things would be better." Fuck this guy.

🟡 NEW: Rep. Ro Khanna is working to pull Elon Musk toward Democrats and talked with one of Musk’s “senior confidants” on Thursday about whether he might want to help the Democratic Party in the midterms.

One of the wildest things about reactionary psychology is that they seem *genuinely hurt & dismayed* when people react badly to their violent, stupid behavior.

The cops that grabbed this New Yorker are part of a secretive, aggressive unit that's particularly close to Mayor Eric Adams. I recently did a detailed investigation of the unit, which has often executed on Adam's priorities -- and has a long of abuses. www.propublica.org/article/eric...

The federal budget is our money– not my money that was stolen from me and your money that was stolen from you, but OUR money, pooled from a bit of each of our incomes, so that we can fund the country we all share. Where do you want your money to go? www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

The Trump folks obviously knew and this is, in fact, important for the public to know, given Musk’s deleterious impact on so many. Kudos to @kirstengrind.bsky.social and Megan Twomey for having the guts to report out yet another condition that is in plain sight. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

“Congress shall have power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises” and “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.” - Article 1, Section 8

Great – looks as if the White House used AI to draft a health report and wound up inserting citations for articles that don’t exist. They put cheating high schoolers to shame. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

Here's a complete list of *everything* in the GOP megabill, thanks to heroic efforts from @aliciaparlap.bsky.social @emmbadger.bsky.social and Josh Katz. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

turns out the GOP budget bill adds so much to deficits that it will automatically trigger cuts to Medicare (not just Medicaid). Older voters unlikely to be happy about this when word gets out democrats-budget.house.gov/news/press-r...

Let’s call it what it is: the MAGA Murder Budget — a calculated assault on the most vulnerable Americans under the guise of fiscal responsibility. Read the latest from @joetrippi.bsky.social for Lincoln Square www.lincolnsquare.media/p/its-not-bu...

The US has officially accepted the free jet plane from Qatar and the Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to rapidly upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for Trump. @ericlipton.nytimes.com Eric Schmitt www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

Scott Bessent can't stop making an ass of himself www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4aR...

Donald Trump cut funding for cancer research by 31% in the first three months of his term. This is an attack on every American family who has loved someone with cancer.

There's always a tweet.

Rhode Island: Bill to Protect RI #Libraries From Book Bans Moves Forward (via @wpri12.bsky.social) www.wpri.com/news/politic... #bookbans

“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.” - Dr. Carla Hayden This is a Dr. Hayden appreciation post.

"The excesses of the woke era"

Can we just go to Trump’s birthday parade and demonstrate our deep contempt? No permit required, just some Americans on a parade route…

Ugh. Despite some fairly decent reporting of late, the WSJ editorial page is still odious.

in an op-ed for @wsj.com, Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent makes a series of highly specific promises of economic improvement in the second half of 2025. Bookmark to review later. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

A coalition of Democratic U.S. senators, led by Sen. Alex Padilla, held a floor block on Wednesday to push back against the GOP-backed SAVE Act. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It’s a 15 round fight and we’re in round 2. They’ve been playing a ton of rope-a-dope, but not a ton of solid punches. Stay alert, keep on your toes. Don’t stop fighting, don’t pull your punches, and dont let up! www.tickcounter.com/countdown/61...