K Cottle

It’s ok to bribe the president when he’s on a break

-$1.5T in new tax cuts predominantly for the rich
-$700B in Medicaid cuts
-$500B in Medicare cuts
-$300B in SNAP cuts
-Leasing public lands to Big Oil
-Ending IRS Direct File
-Ending clean energy tax credits
-Banning AI regulation in the states

The oligarchy's wish list.

Tweet by Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat If it thinks you're doing something egregiously immoral, for example, like faking data in a pharmaceutical trial, it will use command-line tools to contact the press, contact regulators, try to lock you out of the relevant systems, or all of the above.

welcome to the future, now your error-prone software can call the cops

(this is an Anthropic employee talking about Claude Opus 4)

🔥 @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social : “I don’t work for you, sir.”

"You said there were no cuts to scientists, and then the HHS spox said, 'Actually, there were cuts to scientists and now we're trying to rehire them.' It gives the impression you're not sure about personnel actions in own agency." -- Jon Ossoff just dismantled FDA Commissioner Makary

Judge halts dismantling of Education Department, orders fired workers to be reinstated U.S. District Judge Myong Joun said the announced cuts would "likely cripple" the agency.

ICYMI: "While the administration says the reduction in force 'was implemented to improve ‘efficiency’ and ‘accountability,’ the 'record abundantly reveals that Defendants’ true intention is to effectively dismantle the Department without an authorizing statute.'"

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Judge Orders Education Department Employees Reinstated A federal judge ruled today that the massive reduction in force at the department was tantamount to dismantling it, which only Congress can do. The Trump administration has already challenged the deci...

Judge Orders Education Department Employees Reinstated www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Boyle: We just verified with the congressional budget office and of 13.7 million Americans who will lose their health care because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants

GALLEGO: You requested $50m for a Gulfstream jet. Meanwhile, Rs are about to kick 13m off Medicaid. How can you justify that?

NOEM: It's to replace a jet that's over 20 years old

G: Would you be using it for travel?

N: No idea

G: We've seen the Instagram photos. Some really bad weapons handling.

There aren't AI experts we can just hire to do the important integration and training work for us yet. It is too new. Teachers are the leaders right now out on the frontiers. Via @emollick.bsky.social over on LinkedIn. #EduSky #AiEDU #AISky

www.linkedin.com/posts/emolli...

Core Views on AI Safety: When, Why, What, and How AI progress may lead to transformative AI systems in the next decade, but we do not yet understand how to make such systems safe and aligned with human values. In response, we are pursuing a variety o...

Have you read Anthropic's safety position paper? www.anthropic.com/news/core-vi...

🔥 “There’s something wrong in this country… everything has gone up but wages… how many yachts and houses does one person need? — They want us to stay poor, stay hidden, and die silently.” 🇺🇸 #FightTheOligarchy

H/T @violadavis.bsky.social

ICE has begun raiding the homes of American citizens. A widely shared story out of Oklahoma describes a disturbing incident where a woman and her children were dragged into their yard half-naked. Reports are mounting across multiple states of agents targeting the wrong properties.

I just think it’s funny that the president thinks making everything more expensive will be no big deal in a nation that exists because its ancestors overthrew their government rather than pay an extra tax on tea

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

Ok I am completely broken by this. The Hague and UN need to see this.

#Texas

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off.

We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

Alt text not available, so --smiling protestor holds up two fingers on each hand in apparent peace symbols, has large poster hanging in front from cord necklace. Sign says, Not Voting is the #1 cause of unwanted presidency. Cartoon image of an orange tinted baby trump is in the corner of the poster.

We the people are taking action to stop a hostile government takeover. On April 5, 5.2 million people across the country stood up to say HANDS OFF our democracy!

Save the date for our next national day of action on April 19th.

#50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #April5 #HandsOff

75%

Reposting with alt text information since it's missing. Cartoon Trump is golfing. He has just swung and hit the ball (a globe) down a line graph that shows a volatile few weeks and then a sharp drop with the globe sitting at the bottom of the chart. The path of the shot is labeled, "Tarrified."

It would be great if you also included information about the lack of transparency about exactly how much VOCs are in products. In my experience, these are the culprits of my asthma flares.

If you can’t alt text, tag alt4me and a volunteer will come help you!

If we work together we can make this platform accessible.

Disabled people often can’t attend protests & are left out of boots on the ground action.

We are restricted to digital activities & need inclusivity!

Meme: Trump pointing to the following message: "After the last tariffs in 1930, Republicans lost the House and Senate for 50 years!"

Alt text for post. Poster on white cardstock with three pictures. First picture of is of trump labeled fraud Second picture is of Vance labeled waste. Third picture is of Musk labeled abuse.

It really torks me that there is not any regulation at all for body sprays and such. These are literally poisonous for some people.

I actually found that some people will be jerks about it and intentionally cause harm, just because they find it funny.

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#GVerse Portland, Oregon Resists! #HandsOff!