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"Self-evolving" Like modeling their own slop in a perpetual loop of regression. bsky.app/profile/hype...
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 55m ago“Once AI has ‘squeezed out’ all the expert data from humans, it won’t need any more input from humanity. That is the time AIs will start just self-evolving by themselves. Right now, the human is the bottleneck.”
"Republican Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn each reneged on their promises to meet with victims of Jeffrey Epstein, with Tillis even leaving them waiting in his office for 45 minutes before they gave up." Ghoulish but predictable move from these Trump de facto bootlickers.
Epstein Survivors Say Republicans Ghosted Them Before Blanche Vote
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse say they were stood up after having scheduled a meeting to speak about Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general.
newrepublic.com
Drop the evidence box and pick up the wine box. bsky.app/profile/greg...
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h agoIt's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
Sure looks like Trump is gonna get beaten by Murdoch once again over that stupid Wall Street Journal lawsuit. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
Judge signals Trump’s defamation lawsuit against Wall Street Journal may be dismissed again
Obama-appointed judge seemed unmoved by Trump attorneys’ arguments in case also naming Murdoch
theguardian.com
El-Sayed on Rogers: "What he's missing is that politics has changed since 2000 when he got in office. Now, it's not enough to just get $70m & run 30 second ads. You actually have to stand for something, & this is a guy who doesn't want to explain why he's backing Trump on the most ridiculous war..."
According to Tiny Temper on channel 4 rich people are building second kitchens hidden behind their fancy kitchens so that their nice kitchens don't look dirty (aren't used). For the love of god tax the rich.
NEW: DHS wants to pay private contractors bounties to hunt down people who already left the country, photograph their homes, and demand money. It told them leaving the US would wipe out fines. It was the pitch for self-deporting. Experts tell WIRED this is a pointless escalation of tactics.
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
wired.com
There may well be active duty troops in the Middle East right now who have family members locked in ICE jails. Congress authorized Military Parole-in-Place specifically to avoid this situation. But the Trump admin has shown little care to families caught in this situation.
AILA@aila.org · 9h ago"President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families to pursue its mass deportation agenda." https://bit.ly/4br4M4m
Associated Press lede: "Jeanine Pirro this week found out there is a trade-off between loyalty to President Donald Trump and being loyal to reality." apnews.com/article/trum...
No evidence? No problem. Trump pushes ahead on false claims that Reflecting Pool was vandalized
Jeanine Pirro this week found out there’s a trade-off between loyalty to President Donald Trump and being loyal to reality.
apnews.com
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
Update: “President Javier Milei’s latest push to lure private [tech] investment to Argentina suffered a setback Wednesday as lawmakers watered down,” but did not eliminate, apparently Thiel-aligned “legislation to ease limits on foreign land ownership in response to fierce backlash.” 8/5/26… 1/
Milei Guts Bill to Ease Property Laws in Face of Public Uproar
President Javier Milei’s latest push to lure private investment to Argentina suffered a setback Wednesday as lawmakers watered down legislation to ease limits on foreign land ownership in response to ...
bloomberg.com
God forbid an American born epidemiologist might get elected to pursue policy progress to protect people's lives. bsky.app/profile/just...
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h agoNot to be undone in Racist Olympics over at Newsmax, anchor Rob Schmitt delivers this hateful tirade that ends with him warning that the "anti-Western DSA-endorsed Muslim Egyptian candidate" with a "name they can't spell" may "try to impose Sharia Law."
Dying at the right-wing activists that (1) held a call with Todd Blanche in which Blanche made a lot of anti-abortion promises, (2) said "uh this is off the record" like doing so would magically ward off journalists, and then (3) UPLOADED IT TO THEIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Are people starting to finally catch on to the perpetual bullshit strategy?
for reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
Spartz won this district 58-38 (5% going to third party candidates) in 2024.
Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 2h agoIndiana - 5th House Polling: 🔴Spartz: 48%* 🔵Ford: 46% Impact Research / July 20, 2026 (Ford Internal) (Current model result has IN-5 at GOP 52% - DEM 43%) unitedstatespolling.com/p/the-republ...
Private prison firms CoreCivic and GEO Group donated $2.8 million to fund Trump's 2024 election. bsky.app/profile/reic...
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2h agoICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.
When a fascist oligarch scam for mental manipulation isn't normalizing fascism enough to protect a desperate administration. bsky.app/profile/mlud...
Mike Ludwig@mludwig.bsky.social · 8h 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...
In Bari Weiss' Free Press, Olivia Reingold reported from El-Sayed's watch party that "there were keffiyehs as far as the eye could see ... keffiyehs on heads, keffiyehs as belts, keffiyeh-printed phone cases." Not a single one made it into images from Reuters, a local ABC station, or Detroit News.
The Secretary of Harm has just one job. Ensuring mass death. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoRFK Jr: "I'm announcing that HHS has begun the decertification of Network for Hope, the organ procurement organization."
It's even worse than the corporate hands when they won't bite the fascist hands of Netanyahu's AIPAC that feeds them. bsky.app/profile/rbre...
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2h agoMichigan Democrats chose Abdul El-Sayed because he’s a fighter willing to stand up to the tyrant in the Oval Office. Corporate Democrats like Chuck Schumer aren't up to the task because they won’t bite the corporate hands that feed them.
Wow! @menendez.house.gov says that the EXACT scenario I flagged two months ago, where ICE "releases" someone having a medical emergency solely so their death won't be recorded as occurring while in custody, happened last month at the infamous Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ.
Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · 20h agoDays before the death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo, ICE officials did not report the death of another man who’d been detained at Delaney Hall — because they had technically “released” him in the middle of a medical emergency, Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) alleged. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...
When your party only protects corruption on behalf of concentrated capital and embraces fascism to attack scapegoats as a demonstration of oppression for intimidation. bsky.app/profile/ronf...
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h agoWhen your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.
