Scott Gosnell

Incarcerated workers are paid so little, it can take thousands of hours to afford filing fees

"I can only hope that the next time indigent prisoners facing this issue raise nearly $1,000 each just for the opportunity to knock on this Court’s door, my colleagues will choose to open it" heartbreaking

Trump has no plan. This is a damning summary from The Economist’s Middle East Correspondent Gregg Carlstrom.

Who loses from the Anthropic fight? Maybe Elon Musk and Alex Karp. Arbitrary state power can cut in many directions

Soviet zombie economics is today's tech billionaire choice. Do I become a knuckle under kleptocrat? Or do I allow this grabby President to push me around and lock in a pattern of corporate capitulation? #Anthropic HT @himself.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/programm...

These are frantic, DESPERATE moves of a regime terrified of the people demanding our right to representative democracy.

everything these dopes think candidates are getting out of a podcast applies to like 10 podcasts in the world and if you're not talking about one of them you're better off taking the 10 canned answers you'd show up with, turn them into youtubes/tiktoks or instagrams, fuck off and do something useful

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

lmao even the KSA gets to learn where doing business with trump eventually leads

We're on Mission Accomplished Day on the 3rd day of the war with Iran.

We cannot possibly engage on the distracting subject of just and unjust wars until every last Oberlin sophomore has been put in their place

i think it's wild that we're always on here making references to really funny things brilliant people online have written or drawn or made otherwise

and like half of em, legends on the world wide web, work at e.g. a warehouse, fast food place, nowhere formally but scrape by, call center,

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4 days ago Schumer already said "Closed-door briefings are fine, but the administration has to make its case to the American people on something as important as this"

He doesn't oppose it at all in principle, only that it's not done via correct procedure.

A screenshot from the linked op-ed. It reads: "The administration’s policy on the other hand, is the continuation of the GOP by other means. There are claims, and there are outcomes, connected only by wishes or threats. Whether the enemy is Cuba, Minneapolis or a transgender person, the war is the purpose of the war. Its prizes are nihilism and hatred at best. No greater project awaits an armistice. There are only enemies, victories and different enemies. There is no strategy, because realizing the ostensible macro purpose of each war, besides having it, requires committing to an absurd and criminal totality, because their own rhetorical stakes have demonstrated that nothing less than an American Iran, an American Cuba, a transgender-free nation or a Minnesota with only the correct voters will be acceptable. Carried to their conclusions, you can do one of two things: exterminate the enemy or the treasury and destroy yourself as a nation."

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yknow the empire is beyond cooked when everyone can predict the emperor starting a war days in advance bc he's only doing it to soothe his wounded ego after a totally unrelated defeat.

anyway so I hear the US is bombing Iran now the tariffs have been struck down

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

Analysis | With Stephen Miller running America's domestic policy, Benjamin Netanyahu running its foreign policy, and Donald Trump heading up interior decorating and bribe-taking, the executive branch has tripled its efficiency.

Transcript: Trump Racist Tirade at Dems Bursts MAGA Post-Speech Bubble As Trump fumes at Democrats who attacked his speech (which some Republicans found lacking), a Dem strategist explains what it means for the elections that Trump doubled down on tariffs and deportations.

He is desperate to stay within this world that he’s constructed that you once called Foxlandia—this sort of imaginary world where he’s young and virile and the economy’s booming and everybody in the world loves him. trib.al/IRPtOkY

Jack Shanahan, retired US Air Force General and first Director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center:

This guy is dropping truth. Awesome man.

Voting rights groups sue Georgia for refusing to release voter purge records Without full access to the records, plaintiffs say they cannot determine whether eligible voters were wrongly removed.

🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for refusing to turn over key records related to his office’s sweeping 2025 voter roll purge — a purge that canceled nearly 471,000 registrations, about 6% of the state’s voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

First he said he was “entitled” to 5 more House seats.

Now he says he’s “entitled” to a 3rd term.

No one is entitled to power in America. Donald Trump is a threat to our Constitution.

so… the whole thing was a play by Altman to shiv Amodei and destroy his company? that’s sort of what I’m getting here

openAI saying that the USG consented unconditionally to the conditions which Hegseth alleges make Claude a national security risk is a, uh, bad fact for the defense against claims that the national security justification was pretextual

a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

Hey folks, I hadn't thought of it in these terms, but protesting planned AI data centers in your local area *could literally bring the entire fascist house of cards down*, b/c the big fascist tech cos have bet HEAVY on AI, but the demand ain't happening so their $100s of billions of Nvidia chips...

Multiple CBS News staffers who were not authorized to speak to the media resorted to curse words after reading the news. "Fuck, fuck, fuck," said one producer at the network. "Well, fuck," said another CBS News staffer.

mood

The Hill mentions Hegseth's postgrad studies at Harvard but omits that he was a Princeton undergrad. Specifically, he was ROTC which means the military paid for him to study there as part of his qualification for becoming an officer.

Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers.

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