JUST IN 🚨: U.S. 30-Year Treasury Yield soars to 5.36%, the highest level since the run-up to the Global Financial Crisis 🤯 👀
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“Ally, from Chicaaago” 💥 💥 💥 💥 City dweller, devoted Cubs fan, GSD lover Music runs through my veins & always in my ears 🎧 Degrees in Political Science, Journalism & 25+ years in Finance Defender of Democracy and the United States Constitution 💙
"'It’s almost certain that there’s more going on here that we just don’t know about.'" - Andrew Yoon, a researcher with the California nonprofit CivAI
Raphael Satter@raphae.li · 2d agoScoop: OpenAI's rogue agents didn't just hijack a German wiki, they repurposed at least 10 sites -- and potentially many more -- to carve out communications side channels and cheat on tests. www.reuters.com/world/openai...
"Hi there! I'm the Secretary of Agriculture in a nation where just about every single kind of food has been recalled because it will give you explosive shits and then kill you dead. Well, I'm here to tell you about how government regulation and oversight is baaaaaaaad."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoBrooke Rollins: "Do you remember, especially the moms out there, when they told us what light bulbs that we could screw into our light fixtures, which washing machines we could use, and which toilets we could flush?"
It would be lovely to wake up to 4K followers tomorrow. Just need to find 100 more people who love things that fly.
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My grandfather, second from the left, taking a break with his fellow sheet metal workers in Chicago, ca. early 1940s. Happy Labor Day!
Cyclospora is about more than Americans getting sick. It’s about the cost of grift and broken institutions. And it raises questions about why DOJ, which has jurisdiction, doesn’t seem to be doing anything. joycevance.substack.com/p/bad-food?r...
Bad Food
It’s not hard to follow the money
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Pete Hegseth owes Americans the truth about the real conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. This administration has dismissed concerns and ignored questions, even refusing to confirm how many Illinoisans are there. Our service members and their families deserve answers.
Pritzker Demands Answers From Hegseth Over "Severe Breach" Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln
In a pointed letter obtained exclusively by MeidasTouch, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker excoriated Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over deteriorating conditions
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Intel Insider Trading Alert 🚨 CEO Lip-Bu Tan just bought $10 million worth of $INTC 🤑 This is the largest Intel insider buy in history 📈 🥳
Most of us actually agree on the biggest things we must do to make life better in this country - despite what the people in power right now want you to believe.
You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Stop the false equivalence. No other President sued his own government to secure immunity for himself and his family, created a fund to reward cop beaters, and demanded prosecution of his political enemies. Trump’s weaponization of DOJ is unprecedented and you just endorsed it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Tillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"
Poor Jeanine Pirro. It’s always sad when a vicious liar loses their job because they unscrupulously tried to ruin the life of an innocent American hero to appease the most repellent man in America. Drink up, sweetie.
“…an incompetent personal advisor…” The Tsar cannot be wrong. He can only be wronged.
In a review triggered by OpenAI's Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations. www.wired.com/story/anthro...
Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests
In a review triggered by OpenAI's Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.
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Two things can be true at once: Todd Blanche is unfit to serve as Attorney General... and John Cornyn can get his get-back while doing this country a favor. This felt like an UNO Reverse on Trump lol.
💯 “The national brand is terrible.” See Gifford’s interview with @samsteindc.bsky.social of #thebulwark today. youtu.be/pC4peCv_2aA?...
Top Democratic Fundraiser: There’s No Saving Ken Martin (w/ Rufus Gifford)
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 2mo ago1. NEW In a devastating piece, Rufus Gifford, who has held major national campaign fundraising roles for the Democratic Party since 2008, says that under Ken Martin’s leadership, the DNC is “spiraling towards irrelevance,” its staff is losing faith, and there is “no saving Martin’s chairmanship.”
NEW: Cornyn pulls a Columbo. JUST ONE MORE THING. Cornyn won’t vote for Blanche unless Blanche rescinds the Trump IRS settlement. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Cornyn wants Trump IRS settlement rewritten before voting for Blanche
The Texas Republican drew a red line ahead of a crucial Judiciary Committee vote Thursday.
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‘“For hyperscalers, watch CDS, not EPS,’ said Manish Kabra, head of US equity strategy at Société Générale, referring to earnings per share, a popular metric of stock valuation. ‘AI capex is still outrunning cash generation, driving [tech group’s] free cash flow towards cycle lows,’ Kabra said.” 👀
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo agoA closely watched gauge of risk in holding the debt of companies at the centre of the AI boom is rising rapidly, underscoring growing jitters over Big Tech’s vast spending on data centres, chips and computer memory. ft.trib.al/INz9FJ0
Given the current circumstances in our country, the answer to the headline question is YES.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2mo agoGood, harsh @mjtoma.bsky.social takedown of Ken Martin fiasco: "A party chair, when his party doesn’t control the WH, has two jobs. Raise money is far and away job one. But job two is...to be a very public attack dog. Martin seems to have failed operatically at both" newrepublic.com/article/2135...
On this official day of remembrance in Illinois on what would’ve been his 85th birthday: the gravestone of Emmett Till, a Chicago teen lynched in 1955 in Mississippi. You can find his grave at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.
