Landman

Landman

@notonthemoon.com

Just a lil guy doing my part. Progress is planting a forest one little seed at a time. So plant a seed and help grow others :>

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If you want an easy list for who to boycott and who to support, here's www.dei.watch If they cut DEI then they bent the knee to Trump Pay attention to the "funded" section as those are the companies that gave more to Trump than Kamala Also fuck target, love Costco Kill their wallets! #boycott 1/

dei.watchDEI WATCHDEI Watch is broken into three categories: 1) DISMANTLED - companies that have ended or scaled back their DEI efforts; 2) COMMITTED - companies that have active DEI initiatives; and 3) FUNDED - organi...

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Anthropic is getting exactly what it hoped for out of this press release - breathless coverage of how “smart” these cooperative role-playing systems are that indulges the fantasy of their being just a little dangerous, when in fact they are responding exactly as prompted

Meg Gardiner@meggardiner.bsky.social

Headline of the day. Anthropic’s new AI model threatened to reveal engineer’s affair to avoid being shut down

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Nobody's ever really captured, to my satisfaction, the way that the internet -- though it promises infinitude, all of human experience & history & art & thought in one place -- has instead produced a kind of narrowing & flattening of experience, made the world seem *less* magic & full of wonder.

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Remember before the election when Trump promised IVF would be free?

NBC News@nbcnews.com

After he took office, Trump signed an executive order in February asking for a list of policy recommendations “protecting IVF access and aggressively reducing out-of-pocket and health plan costs for IVF treatment.” That 90-day deadline came and went Monday.

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House Republicans smuggled this👇attack on the federal judiciary into their reconciliation bill. Courts rarely require plaintiffs to post security, so this provision, if passed into law, would render a vast number of existing judgments—including Boasberg's contempt order—effectively unenforceable.

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Yup. The three Dem vacancies really just meant 2 Republicans got a pass to not vote for the bill. If there had been 215 Dems the final vote would’ve been 216 -215, 217-216 or 218-217. It’s still horrible that they have those vacancies, of course.

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This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

reuters.comModerna withdraws application for COVID-flu combination vaccineModerna said on Wednesday it has withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and COVID combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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New: The crypto folks who bought the President's memecoin in order to attend his elite dinner tomorrow spent over $1 million each on average, and nearly $400 million in total. Per @molly.wiki, nearly 3/4 appear to be foreign nationals who'd be legally barred from donating cash to candidate Trump.

nbcnews.comTrump's crypto dinner cost over $1 million per seat, on averageIn total, the 220 winners of the contest to attend the dinner spent $394 million on Trump’s official cryptocurrency.

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Replying to @muellershewrote.com

Lot's of folks asking "what can we do?" We have Good Trouble assignments each day on the Daily Beans podcast. You can join your local Indivisible chapter. You can run for something. There are tons of elections to help with between now and 2026. Head to mobilize.us for ideas. 2/

mobilize.usVolunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · MobilizeCreate change in your community. Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, and fundraisers in your local area, organized by charities, campaigns, political organizations, grassroots groups, and...

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Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

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Breaking news: Republicans slipped a measure into this gargantuan bill that would raise the cost of blocking Trump's executive orders. @notusreports.bsky.social got the first copy of a letter from Democrats demanding that the House Speaker cut this out. www.notus.org/congress/inj...

notus.orgThe ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Has a Tiny Provision That Could Tax the Trump Legal ResistanceA measure in the reconciliation bill would force judges to impose security bonds on organizations seeking injunctions.

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Eileen Laubacher is a Navy Rear Admiral, served on Biden's National Security Council, and importantly, she's running against Lauren Boebert. Let's elevate Eileen Laubacher to ensure that she can reach as many Coloradans as possible ahead of November 2026. If you can, contribute here:

act.linkGive now to help Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher defeat Lauren Boebert!Eileen Laubacher is the Democrat and retired U.S. Navy Admiral running against Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 4th congressional district.

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In the days of yore, this would end a political career. A DNI firing intel officials who reported something in contrast to a president trying to abuse emergency powers. We're the frogs and the water is at a rolling boil, folks.

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov

Anyone who has worked on intelligence matters understands the importance of apolitical analysis and speaking truth to power. In firing intel officials who did just that, Gabbard proved once again that she is unfit for her position.

Wow... fuck @davidhogg.bsky.social So much money and basically nothing spent on candidates. What a fucking scam @charlesgaba.com runs blue26 which lets you donate direct to candidates and he takes nothing. It's the best setup since you get to choose the candidate lists you want to support

A few weeks ago I posted a viral thread which broke out the ~$12 million raised/spent by David Hogg's Leaders We Deserve PAC during the 2023-2024 cycle. I just ran the numbers for LWD PAC for the first quarter of the 2025-2026 cycle; they raised just over $1.5M and have spent just under that:

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This month, World (formerly Worldcoin), the Sam Altman-backed startup that collects iris scans to provide “proof of human,” officially launched in the US. Sometimes something that looks dystopian is, in fact, dystopian, write David McNeill and Emily Tucker.

techpolicy.pressSam Altman’s World: Sometimes Things Are Just What They Seem to Be | TechPolicy.PressIf it weren’t Sam Altman trying to take over by selling our own humanity back to us, it would be someone else, write David McNeill and Emily Tucker.

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I think that it is deeply irresponsible for tech publications to obfuscate agency around AI systems in this way. A chat bot owned and controlled by a promoter of the white genocide conspiracy theory is promoting the white genocide theory. There’s no “can’t stop” about it.

wired.comElon Musk’s Grok AI Can’t Stop Talking About ‘White Genocide’In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about “white genocide” in South Africa.

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Senate Dems and the Biden administration dropped plans to set drug price caps based on the amount paid in other high-income countries, during talks years ago to push thru law that empowered Medicare to negotiate down the cost of prescription medications. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-d...

cbsnews.comTrump wants drug price caps tied to foreign nations. Here's why Biden never did it.President Trump is now seeking to implement the idea through an executive order.

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The Director of National Intelligence's FOIA website (which has reappeared after the entire site was briefly down) no longer has a reading room of released documents or links to its FOIA regulations which, were we to be picky, violates the EFOIA amendments of 1996. Amazing timing.

washingtonpost.comGabbard fires leaders of intelligence group that wrote Venezuela assessmentThe director of national intelligence fired top officials weeks after their group wrote an assessment contradicting President Donald Trump’s legal rationale for deporting alleged Venezuelan gang membe...

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REMINDER: The CBO projected that letting the IRA subsidies expire would lead to an avg. rate hike of 4.3% for 2026 alone nationally. This is only one state so far, but in Vermont it's 6.8%. This does not bode well.

📣📣📣 VERMONT posts preliminary 2026 #ACA rate change: +17.4% avg. 👀 6.8 points of this is due SPECIFICALLY to the impact of Republicans letting IRA subsidies expire, which is expected to cause ~14% of enrollees to drop coverage. That's an extra $864/yr per enrollee. acasignups.net/rate_changes...