James McGuire

All of the tactics targeting corruption and grift at Congress’ disposal should be actively employed. Targeting specific prosecutions with appropriations defunding will backfire. It will look like protection and be spun as hiding guilt. Impeach officials. Use money for good governance.

Page 46: ".. models, including our own, have exhibited .. unexpected strategic or self-preserving behaviors, including attempts to resist shutdown, .. or generate outputs that could be interpreted as coercive, deceptive, or manipulative, including behavior resembling blackmail .."

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

Attn Seattle voters: Two mail bins containing undelivered ballots were found in a dumpster at Golden Gardens Park, according to King County Elections. All ballots have been reissued to the affected voters, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is investigating.

Users are getting fed up with the barrage of ads and data tracking on TVs and are looking to AI vibe coding for the answer. www.theverge.com/tech/1016116...

Our 'Average' Genome paper is out! # of Variants across ancestries # of ClinVar Pathogenic variants # and size of CNVs # of de novo variants Polygenenic risk scores across ~1m genomes 🎤 See Caroline's presentation #ASHG26 📑 link.springer.com/article/10.1... to bookmark for future reference 📑

I guess we’re just okay with the president offering explicit bribes for votes. As with the $5K “dividend,” he and/or the Congress he controls could have done this at any point in the last 20 months. He could still do it if the Democrats win control. He hasn’t, and won’t. Because it’s a bribe.

Ted Cruz's former intern and organizer for the largest conservative youth summit in Texas has just confirmed he voted for James Talarico.

JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of. 1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.

Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

(5/X) Thirty years from now, people will read that Trump started and lost a war in Iran for no reason, helped a Russian dictator kill Ukrainians, posted snuff films on social media, ran a multi-billion dollar crypto scam, and had his own personal army roaming the streets killing with impunity...

The Biden administration didn’t take Musk’s Russia-assisting intervention seriously. Treated it as something that could be addressed with contract language. Big mistake. In 2024, the US awarded SpaceX additional contracts worth billions of dollars. The next govt should go the oppoaite direction.

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Excellent piece by @jamellebouie.net

this is so obviously correct it is deeply bizarre and corrosive how many people who should know better are unwilling to simply say it

European politicians won't even get off X (neither will ours), but this should prompt an EU-wide attempt to expel Elon from the continent. And we need one here, too. You have to be Walter Isaacson to miss what's going on.

I actually don’t think most Americans understand how much damage has been done to the nation, the deep madness of choosing to be governed by people who themselves are a madness of “anything could be true but really nothing is” Everything we thought we stood for and we thought protected us is gone

JD Vance running around the country saying he’s fighting health care fraud while his nominee for the senate in TX who he completely supports is partying in Dubai with a guy whole stole over $300 million in health care fraud and gave Paxton $190,000. This is the Republican Party.

Legalized Bribery. (H/T @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social ) (Core Civic is based in Brentwood, TN)

If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.

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Anyone know why the house.gov USC website isn’t functional. Tried to access US code a handful of times in the last week and keep getting this message. uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

“For my enemies, the law.”

American small business owners largely see themselves as lower-level rentiers in a quasi-feudal economy as opposed to service providers in a competitive market economy, and part of that means not having to actually be competent at providing services

Nic Cage, forever a real one.

One of the biggest pieces of shit in all of politics, irrespective of party

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

This isn't a case of abusing some loophole or misusing discretionary authority. The law is unambiguous and he's breaking it, simple as that. If Congress isn't going to do anything about breaking the law that already exists, passing another law to make it double-illegal accomplishes nothing.

Mark seeing the big picture and articulating the stakes very succinctly.

"Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given...individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do." @timothysnyder.bsky.social

I think this analysis is correct. Reports out of Russia for the last six weeks show huge diesel shortages and long lines of cars trying to get it. Russia doesn't have the diesel Trump says he's buying for them. This is all for another purpose, which is psy ops.

This is clearly not acceptable

Traitor.

New in PN: Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low "It’s the certainty of staggering losses that makes clear this is nothing but a festival of bribery. No one who spends millions to attend these tacky dinners expects a return. They’re just giving the president money in hopes it'll buy them favors."

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead.

BREAKING NEWS: RFK Jr. to give 1.6M in CDC funds to allow his Danish friends to harm African babies in unethical trial. We will be launching ways to fight back in just a couple hours. GET IN, DORKS. We have an unethical study to stop! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“The Men and Women Who Chose to Serve Trump—and the One Who Has Made Cruelty a Government Policy”: A rogues' gallery of the Trump Administration by Steady State’s own Bill Piekney. buff.ly/MSLIDNE