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Seems like the Trump White House agrees with everyone who says the Trump White House had committed countless crimes
Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...
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It's bleak that Serious News Outlets will tie themselves into knots writing headlines that obscure the horrors of a story while @people.com just waltzes in and calls it like it is.
No DOJ doesn't have the power to block certification. But interpreting this literally is wrong. DOJ can and will file lawsuits with courts that do have authority to block certification. Any case will be argued all the way to SCOTUS. They are corrupt enough to slow walk past Jan 3rd.
What the Attorney General of the United States seems to not understand, but the people who matter do, is that Congress hasn’t given DOJ any authority to block states from certifying the election. This isn’t a thing. And we don’t have to pretend it’s a thing just because he says it’s a thing.
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Running against Musk isn't only good politics right now, it's good patriotism.
Talarico: Elon wants our land. He's already trying to buy one of our beautiful state parks down in South Texas. He wants our water for these AI data centers. And he wants his very own personal United States senator — and that's what he thinks he can get with Ken Paxton.
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“If I don’t win I won’t pay veterans poisoned by contaminated water on their base” is a hell of a closing strategy 😳
Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."
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Trump’s midterms closing argument
Trump: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"
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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.
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Trump will be out for revenge after he and MAGA are crushed in the midterms.
The perfect answer from Zelenskyy - a wry smile. This was his response when a Sky TV journalist asked the Ukrainian leader if he was being made a scapegoat by Trump for his myriad problems (18 days before the midterm elections!)
The models belong to all of us. Why I believe if frontier labs can't be stopped then you use their heavily subsidized accounts to crank out as much open source software as possible.
Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
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if people do not like a 200, or 300, or whatever person Supreme Court, supported by 1,000 memeber lower courts, then, perhaps, the judicary could be taught to MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS and rid us of their unelected supremacy. So, no race to the bottom. Just democracy, *by any means necessary.*
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This is how you get frustrated voters to haul themselves to a midterms voting booth. When ppl see you fighting, it makes them want to join in. They want to be associated with Guy Who Takes No Crap. They're going to think of this moment when filling in the little oval and they're going to _smile_.
OSSOFF: Mike Collins is one of the most extreme members of Congress. He's a Trump puppet election denier. I want to hear if Mike still believes the 2020 election was stolen. What do you say Mike? COLLINS: ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
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Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
I'm growing more suspicious whether OpenAI's unreleased new model is reasoning in a real sense. "Taste" implies it is not simply random. Too soon to say of course. Anything novel has an inherent appearance of brilliance even if discovered through brute force and nondeterminism.
If you're in the right public spaces you can see the different capabilities coming together. Within 12 months the debate will shift away from, "they aren't reasoning logically". It will be very clear that they can. These posts are intentionally vague. No, I'm not sharing exactly how. 🤫
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related to another bizarre feature of political discussion in the US: that it's supposed to mark you as reasonable/bipartisan/fair or whatever that you take these discourses on their own terms. as opposed to marking you as (at best!) a mark
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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My investigators have confirmed the Trump administration is hiding interview documents it conducted with some of Epstein’s banks, and there could be more. There’s no limit to how far Scott Bessent, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche will go to continue this cover up.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
SCOOP: White House officials, led by Susie Wiles, have told DOJ to delay any abortion-related action until after the midterms Wiles suggested to Todd Blanche that an aggressive approach on abortion would be negative for the GOP in November @washingtonsun.com www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...
Fun fact: LLMs can make decisions through logical reasoning. It still isn't thinking like us but the capabilities are there. The capability (algorithm) is more important than specific implementation (a brain or a model).
LLMs don't even WORK like a human brain does, it doesn't do that. It doesn't make logical connections, it makes a best guess based on data set and probability. If you think otherwise, then feel free to explain the exact mechanism besides "Well we don't know how that works."
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If the court says Trump jailed immigrants without due process, Trump can and will jail anyone without due process. This is a lawless court and it must be punished. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
The RMB replacing the dollar as the world's reserve currency is far fetched. But China is helping make the dollar so toxic there is a shot. EU would push the Euro as reserve, but oil and other commodities would shift to RMB, raising China's power significantly. The liberal world order is failing.
First it was Russia helping Iran kill Americans. Now it's China, too. www.cnn.com/2026/09/25/p...
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Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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im only a bit into this longread and it's already a brutal accounting of the Reconstruction rollback being carried out by the neoconfederates on the Court like, this is a deliberate effort by opponents of multiracial democracy to disempower and degrade--again. different century but same shit
By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.
Hospitalization on top of normal booking delay would probably keep him invisible on the locator for a bit regardless, but possibly another issue at play here: Since last week ICE has appeared to be excluding EVERY detainee with a final order of removal from showing up in the online locator.
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