Think how many families with kids could get their Republican-eliminated SNAP benefits (née food stamps) restored with the $2.8 billion the Trump regime is paying energy companies to stop installing offshore wind turbines and instead build health-harming, climate-wrecking, dirty energy projects.

Scary

Deborah Lynn@mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 5h ago

www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/t... Anthropic’s most advanced artificial intelligence model used fake identities to deceive real people and try to plant malicious code during testing by Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI). “This is the first time AISI has seen deception of this severity…

There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions

Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause

oregonlive.com

annoying when ppl assume you lie if you say you don't use it, like the usefulness is self-evident & irresistible. when the actual struggle in a lot of cases is making it go away

honestly if all that stuff disappeared my days would improve? I wouldn't have to navigate cryptic menus to opt out everywhere, I wouldn't see shifty chatgpt posters everywhere I wouldn't have to hear ppl say "I asked chatgpt..."

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 11h ago

I have one answer.

We can help to insulate the American people from the cost of the collapse of the AI bubble by changing bankruptcy laws so as not to protect private equity from their failures deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-simple...

The Simple Way to Stop the Hidden AI Bailout: Rewrite Bankruptcy Law

It's still capitalism with less PE friendly bankruptcy laws

deanbaker22.substack.com

🔥 Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social: “Mike Rogers served special interests in Congress. He made $14 million after leaving and moved to Florida to play golf… politics has changed. You have to stand for something. We look forward to sending him back to Florida to golf with his buddies.” ⛳️

We can could cook up various metaphors to describe what AI is doing to society. Try this on: what holds human societies & governments together are our shared beliefs on reality, as determined by the scientific method, our shared "facts", & our belief that such knowledge is even *possible*...

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

These businesses aren't just wasting billions - they're replacing skilled workers with defective chatbots. As I've written before, AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our technological society. 79/

Imagine being a US Senator pretending to care abt the child rape of the Epstein files; and then hiring Todd Blanche to help protect the rapists.

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

It is abnormal. Please also be aware: In the background, razor sharp T admin ppl are carrying out Project 2025 at lightning speed, trying to control state electoral systems, science, academia, media etc. & consolidating autocratic power. While almost media/SMedia focus on crazy T in the foreground.

Abdul El Sayed talkin bout being outspent 11:1 but lookin like his supporters got a win regardless. It’s a nice twist on “get the money out of politics” to instead be like “we can defeat the money”

Here is the reason for the framing. When considering framing, we need to always consider who owns the media outlet & what their bias typically has been historically. foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/06/a...

The Scandalous History of America’s Newest Media Baron

The new owner of Politico, Axel Springer, has a decades-long record of bending journalistic ethics for right-wing causes.

foreignpolicy.com

WHY WOULD ANY USA CITIZEN BE EXEMPT FROM A TAX AUDIT??? Especially The President? He is not a KING ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

New report by Sen. Ron Wyden confirms the new MAGA-fied '60 Minutes' Quietly Killed Story About Epstein’s Shady Banking Tactics newrepublic.com/post/213927/...

60 Minutes Quietly Killed Story About Epstein’s Shady Banking Tactics

Senator Ron Wyden sat for an interview with correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi about Jeffrey Epstein’s bank transactions. Alfonsi was fired for other reasons shortly after, and the story never aired.

newrepublic.com

So far by my count he’s wrecked the rose garden, the east wing, and the south lawn. When he eventually leaves office, will there be a blade of grass left on the site?

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · yesterday

Scoop: Trump has ordered workers to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad new WaPo photos show how past work was removed over weekend Trump is contemplating changes to White House lawn's slope, raising bigger Qs about project and cost

NEW REPORT: Senator Wyden says @MarshaBlackburn “declined to support Wyden’s effort to subpoena Epstein bank records” + “refused to cooperate with his investigation into financing of Epstein’s sex trafficking”— as she claimed to care & blamed Dems🤔 www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Senator Booker: "After two days of meetings [between Todd Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell], did we get information that led to an indictment? No. Did we get information that led to new opens of investigations? No. Did we get one more conviction? No."

“.. it’s one thing for Trump to have a personal fascination with one of the world’s most expensive metals. It’s another for the president to flaunt it at a time when many Americans are struggling to pay rent ..” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Whitehouse: "Next we get to this crooked slush fund Trump family tax amnesty scam. We've got these two new pieces of paper. One signed only by Blanche, one not signed by anybody. Neither of which has any legal effect whatsoever. They are decorative. Can you trust Todd Blanche? I do not."

Photo ID to vote is the least of the requirements of that abomination. The devil’s in the details. This bill will disenfranchise millions.

They keep conflating showing a photo ID with presenting proof of citizenship, two vastly different things. Everyone should call them out on this.

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED, BERNIE.....

"Industry veterans told CNBC that one of Washington’s biggest concerns was avoiding a scenario where Japan would need to dump large quantities of Treasurys to finance unilateral intervention, given how the north Asian nation is the largest foreign holder of U.S. government debt."

Why the U.S. stepped in after decades to prop up Japan's yen — and what's at stake

Washington's decision to join Japan in supporting the battered yen has prompted questions over what motivated the rare coordinated intervention.

cnbc.com

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Opinion | A Reading List for Our Age of A.I. (Gift Article)

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

nytimes.com

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Opinion | A Reading List for Our Age of A.I. (Gift Article)

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

nytimes.com

Google appears to be in an active race to destroy all remaining goodwill the company once had. They've almost entirely destroyed search and now they're screwing with Google Maps.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d ago

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

All the people who post memes saying "25 years after 9/11, how could New York elect a Muslim mayor?" support Donald Trump, who's made a Saudi prince his national security adviser. www.axios.com/2026/08/01/s...

Scoop: Saudi crown prince raises concerns over Trump's plans for massive Iran strikes

U.S. attacks on energy facilities could trigger an unprecedented escalation in the war.

axios.com

This is far from the first time Trump was caught money laundering. In 2015, his casinos were fined $10 million for over a hundred instances of money laundering going back to at least 2003, many involving Russian oligarchs.

FinCEN.gov

WASHINGTON, DC – The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today imposed a $10 million civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort (Trump Taj Mahal), for willful and repeated violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).

fincen.gov

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 4d ago

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.