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Joined September 2025
This is the most authoritarian administration in history. On top of being the most corrupt administration in history. No one hates America more then the Republican Party. @GOP @HouseGOP @SenateGOP
Several @nytimes journalists were subpoenaed by the Trump administration on Friday. – Reporters covering AF1 security concerns have been compelled to testify before a Manhattan grand jury next week – Federal agents turned up at some reporters' homes – NYT calls it a "brazen act"
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Insane levels of corruption
SCOOP: Julio Herrera Velutini, a Venezuelan billionaire, really wanted a pardon. He got it not long after his daughter hired Alina Habba, a lawyer close to Trump, in a deal worth more than $50 million. Habba was also working at DOJ at the time. nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/po…
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Cmon man
Replying to @lrozen
β€œHowever, after what was described as a β€˜night of carnage’ in Kyiv because of the blackout, a senior source said Mr Musk had been alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe.”
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The Pope is subtweeting Anthropic
Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data β€” as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can β€” but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins β€œwith the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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Without Trump’s GOP tariffs, "goods prices would have fallen slightly."
New from @NewYorkFed: Trump's 2025-26 tariffs contributed 2.9 percentage points to US goods price inflation, via higher prices for imports AND domestic goods. Without the tariffs, "goods prices would have fallen slightly." 😯
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Trump is killing off government data and transparency so he can loot the public coffers and lie to you that things are still working as he breaks them
Trump has systematically dismantled the data collection capacity of the government, and its cost is the slow disabling of democratic accountability itself. Great piece from Kevin Schultz and Jason Oh. prospect.org/2026/10/05/arch…
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Most corrupt administration in history
Hours before Krist Noem left her job as D.H.S. secretary, her agency bought 5 planes from a donor at a big markup, records show. They were supposed to fly deportees but have largely sat idle -- a striking symbol of gov. waste under President Trump. nytimes.com/2026/10/04/us/po…
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These people are insane. AI founders are insane.
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious. Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers β€œto take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm. For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
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Wow. @Eric_Schmitt , in addition to being a coup-supporting insurrectionist and one of the most anti-American senators to ever defile the halls of Congress, is also a flaming moron who doesn’t know the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and Iowa Hawkeyes
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. Watch the whole thing:
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A predictably total strategic backfire, except our leaders are retards
My friend @HosseinHamdieh has written a perceptive op-ed in the Guardian about the ways that war has changed public sentiments in Iran. "One can witness the birth of a strong dislike for the US, alongside a growing desire to build Iran back better. There is a wider sense that this war is clarifying something." theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Trump’s net worth hit $7 billion in 2026. That’s triple where it was in early 2024, according to Forbes data.
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The Republican Party and Donald Trump are actively working against American national security interests. #TrumpFifthColumn
It is extremely unfortunate and regrettable that the Department of the Air Force has decided to shutter the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI). CASI, along with its sister institutions the China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), China Landpower Studies Center (CLSC)…
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Donald Trump is actively damaging the national security and strategic interests of the United States and the only people with any ability to stop himβ€”Republican Senators and Representativesβ€”are doing nothing. @SenateGOP @HouseGOP
πŸš¨πŸ‡»πŸ‡ͺ NEW: President Trump says β€œto the victor, belongs the spoils” regarding Venezuela’s oil β€œIt was a war, but it’s perhaps the biggest deal ever made”
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FAFO
"I want the Americans to be mad that we have been put in this situation." MF you put yourself in this situation. Be mad at your own dumb ass.
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The Republican Party simply cannot be trusted to govern. They: - Start wars - Create inflation - Worsen the economy - Placate our enemies - Destroy our cultural heritage - Embrace bribery and corruption - Destroy our R&D advantage - Abuse state power to gather political enemies
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Trump is destroying the United States through incompetence if not outright malice, and no Republican is lifting a finger to stop him. @SenateGOP @HouseGOP @NRSC
Virtually every decision trump makes weakens the standing of the US in some way through policy, geopolitics, trade, etc etc etc ad nauseam…
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You can’t just declare to be the best country in the world, you have to actually DO it. Trump is so used to talking his way into and out of things that he can’t compute that you actually have to execute.
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He should look in the mirror and ask why the world is pricing in so much political risk. Maybe if he hadn’t destroyed what made us great and turned us into an unreliable shit show disconnected from the rule of law, we’d still be priced like the world’s most stable country
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The neocons were so fucking mad Obama figured out how to reduce Iranian enrichment capacity without war. They wanted that war so damn badly! And now they got it thanks to @realDonaldTrump and YOU are paying for it! At the pump, at the grocery store, and with AMERICAN LIVES!
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