El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
A really funny complaint about the Zohran discount grocery store idea is that non-poor people could use it when there’s a grocery store half a mile from my grocery store that has everything cost 20% more that rich people go to because they don’t want to shop with normal people.
I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
El-Sayed: "Mike, I'm gonna say it right now, I know you're gonna say no because you're a coward: Five debates, alright? ... By the time we're done, you are not gonna have safe quarter from people holding you accountable to what you've done for them here in Michigan. We will send you back to Florida"
It's really not good that the government is trying to force AI companies to make their LLM chatbots "anti-woke" (biased in favor of the right).
Mike Ludwig@mludwig.bsky.social · 11h agoTrump’s Federal Trade Commission Is Threatening to Punish Big Tech for “Woke AI” Free speech groups sound alarm about a proposal from Trump's FTC to jawbone companies into training AI models on white nationalist narratives and undermine state laws. Meanwhile, Elon Musk wants his nude deepfakes...
What am I missing here? I've been in orientation meetings all morning, so I'm a bit dizzy. But didn't Biden win the 2020 election?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoBLUMENTHAL: Judge Cronan, you're already on the district court. Who won the 2020 election? CRONAN: Joseph Biden received the majority of electoral votes B: You have nothing to lose. You have a lifetime appointment, and yet you're unwilling to state the simple fact that Biden won the 2020 election
LEADER OF THE YEMENI REVOLUTION ORDERS GENERAL MOBILIZATION. SANA'A PREPARES FOR A FULL-SCALE CONFRONTATION WITH SAUDI ARABIA - TASNIM
BROWDER: Trump’s policies towards Putin don’t make sense and not in America’s national interest. Why is Trump so apprehensive about holding Putin to account? Who knows what deal he has with Putin. There’s a pattern of foreign governments enriching Trump or people close to him.
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 22h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
NEWS — Haley Stevens has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan U.S. Senate race against Republican Mike Rogers.
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
SCHWAB: “.. Stagflationary trend for #ISM Services PMI continues, with prices (blue) remaining in an uptrend and employment (white) in a downtrend.”
Microsoft is introducing budget limits for AI use but says it still wants to be an ‘AI-first’ company. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Read @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social story here: www.404media.co/microsoft-te...
This is a 1,600 bed facility, so it will instantly become one of ICE's largest facilities. It will also be one of (if not the actual) largest ICE jail/prison in the midwest.
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.
Positioning for a future bailout?
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 12h ago$MSTR - STRATEGY JOINS INVEST AMERICA BUSINESS PLEDGE, CONTRIBUTING TO TRUMP ACCOUNTS TO SUPPORT THE FINANCIAL FUTURES OF EMPLOYEES’ CHILDREN STRATEGY: TO CONTRIBUTE $250 EACH YEAR TO TRUMP ACCOUNT FOR EVERY ELIGIBLE CHILD UNDER 18 OF ITS U.S. EMPLOYEES
“Last winter, Minnesotans banded together and rejected the harm caused by ill-informed, unplanned and costly federal immigration overreach. As DHS takes steps to reopen Appleton as a federal facility, our response should remain the same: Minnesota is not the place for this.”
Four years after being extradited to the U.S. on drug trafficking charges, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is home again after a pardon from Donald Trump—and is already rebuilding his old political machine, WPR columnist James Bosworth (@bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social) writes.
Hernández’s Return to Honduras Tees Up a Presidential Power Struggle
Honduras’ controversial former leader is expected to get involved in politics again, putting President Nasry Asfura in a tough spot.
worldpoliticsreview.com
As an aside, this is also how you know the United States is still a democracy. Autocracies hoard the treasure but spend blood freely. When Trump thinks he can spend a few divisions to salve his ego as Putin has, instead of just some missiles, you will know the republic died some time ago.
Pye Wacket@jackindabox22.bsky.social · yesterdayThe desire to spend treasure over blood has been a hallmark of US military policy since WW2. Certainly this admin is particularly cowardly and hates losses moreso than any other, but the treasure over blood impulse plays to US strengths anyway.
Nothing? How about impeachment? How about exercising the 25th amendment? How about rejecting Blanche for AG? How about any number of actions that the majority of Americans would support? What a toad.
People across the political spectrum want candidates who stand up to Silicon Valley billionaires and AI data centers. 66% of Independents & 47% of Republicans want to back candidates running to pause data center construction. That's how we'll win today, and again on Nov 3rd.
Its embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.
Trump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
Trump Baselessly Claims He Is Viral 40-Pound Tabby Cat Named Daddy Cinnamon https://theonion.com/trump-baselessly-claims-he-is-viral-40-pound-tabby-cat-named-daddy-cinnamon/
Probably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure
@GottaLaff@gottalaff.bsky.social · 2d agoABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"
David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland High School shooting who co-founded the progressive youth group Leaders We Deserve, is calling for radical change in the "geriatric" Democratic Party. n.pr/4bmZYNm
Progressive youth leader David Hogg calls for change in 'geriatric' Democratic Party
David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland High School shooting who co-founded the progressive youth group Leaders We Deserve, is calling for radical change in the "geriatric" Democratic Party.
n.pr
Max Miller released audio recordings of conversations he has with his ex wife. In one of them, she accuses him of clandestinely recording their conversations. “I have never recorded our conversations” he says, while recording their conversation. This is domestic violence. Ask me how I know.
