Hearings like this are a reminder that if you work for Donald Trump, you are a person of low character and have no integrity. There are no exceptions.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h ago

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:

Susan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics

A second man, Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, has died at Delaney Hall, the inhumane ICE detention center run by private prison contractor GEO Group. GEO Group’s profits have soared by over 700% since Trump has been back in office. Imagine profiting from death and suffering. Deplorable.

You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

David Ellison may think we are stupid, but we know who he is. We know what he has done to CBS. We know what he wants to do to CNN. Support independent media.

Oratomic skipped the intermediate product entirely — straight to fault tolerance, 20,000 qubits, $300M Series A. Barak Bussel of 7i Capital explains why that bet makes sense, how resource estimates for Shor's algorithm have compressed from 20 million physical qubits to roughly 500,000, and what a…

I spent a good portion of today and tonight writing about how a guy like Todd Blanche got so far in Trump's orbit and the shameful prosecution of David Hearn. Both of these pieces will be sent to Democracy Docket members. Help support this work: demdock.com/4w6emld

Trump’s war is helping Trump’s donors. Probably a coincidence!

They subpoenaed an 85-year-old man who has testified before Congress 250 times. They published his private diary first. Then screamed profanity at him for not talking. Six years of investigation. Zero charges. This is what having nothing looks like. www.JackHopkinsNow.com

It is “funny” that there are bums who wake up every morning and think to themselves, “i want nothing more than to simp for the pedo slaver aristocracy of the antebellum south”

The median voter (!) now says Abolish ICE and if you don't think a big chunk of that has to do with Trump and Vance, then I don't know what to tell you. He's speaking to normies right now. Not some fringe left group. We got yoga pants Brentwood types putting themselves in from of ICE vans now.

neuse river hag@neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 5d ago

i honestly want to talk to someone who thinks this is a bad thing to say

this is the kind of obstreperousness, don't tell me what to do-ness, i got rightsness that is the sheet anchor of American liberties.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 6d ago

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

We've gotta make the Monorail Simpsons episode required viewing for every city councilor in the country. Every single thing he says here is a lie. A Potemkin Village Imaginarium.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

Days after the WHCA dinner and legacy media still doesn't get it. Donald Trump is putting on a hat saying he's running in 2028, and they are sitting there eating a dinner. This is why independent media outlets like Democracy Docket are growing. Subscribe now to support its work. demdock.com/4w6emld

if you’re an immigrant and unemployed, you’re a freeloader, but if you’re gainfully employed, you’re stealing someone’s job. They just don’t want these people to exist except as targets for their hatred one way or the other bsky.app/profile/heba...

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

We actually had the 16th highest mortality rate in the world and it largely resulted from the ignorant asshats who were *resisting* the common sense protection measures Fauci was promoting like masking and distancing. What a colossal asshole.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

RFK Jr: "Because of Dr Fauci's leadership and other reasons, we had the highest mortality rate from covid of any country in the world" #OtherReasons 🙃

A significant chunk of quantum components are single-sourced and imported — and that quiet fragility is already slowing product delivery at real companies. Kate Timmerman explains what the $55M Bloch Tech Hub award actually targets, and why small Midwest manufacturers are the unlikely next link in…

"Today marks the six-month anniversary of Alex's murder," Susan Pretti wrote Saturday on Instagram. "No-one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone call from any governmental official. Six-months of pain, a roller-coaster of trauma over and over.” www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

Alex Pretti's Mother Says The Last 6 Months Have Been A 'Roller-Coaster Of Trauma'

It's been six months since federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, who was protesting ICE's crackdown in Minnesota.

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“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo...

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 2w ago

The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.

BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux: us.macmillan.com/books/978037... 11/

The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational Indie Bestseller"[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even...

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Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

Ballou: Based on reporting, Larry and David Ellison, talked about transforming CNN and potentially even firing anchors the president didn’t like. Once that happened, the regulatory barriers melted away. When you’re talking about giving a private benefit in exchange for a public act, that’s bribery.

"When I'm gone 💀 ⚰️ you'll be broke" - PDFile at WHCD tonight. Probably the only thing he said that's right. Michelle Wolff said that years ago at same function.

Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/