A.J. Carrillo

i'm against barriers to the fanchise but it would be extremely funny if the republicans enact barriers to voting and nuke their voter base

given education polarization and MAGA's reliance on low propensity voters, something like the SAVE Act would almost certainly backfire on republicans (i'm reasonably sure senate republicans understand this too)

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Why was Dr. Oz inviting Epstein to parties 8 years after Epstein was convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution?

Fugees release “The Score” 30 years ago today — featuring their cover of “Killing Me Softly”.

“A pivotal moment in music for many young black women coming up in the mid-1990s,” wrote @theatlantic.com. “Never before had a female member of a hip-hop group been given center stage to shine like that ..

Yeah, he’s totally into being a king now.

“Whether approved by Congress or not!”

The hour’s getting late.

Again, this is for military families in Fort Bragg. This is ostensibly a military event and therefore nonpartisan. (Also, Braxton Bragg was a terrible general, even by Confederacy standards).

The previous president was forced to drop out of running for re-election because of concerns over cognitive decline, all while sounding far more coherent than this.

@kamalaharris.com went to the Munich Security Conference repeatedly. JD Vance is noticeably absent from this year's because he humiliated himself on this international stage last year. He is not ready for primetime. Not remotely ready.

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

What Energy Secretary Wright gets wrong about the grid Chris Wright trashed solar and wind for not providing much power during Winter Storm Fern — and ignored basic facts about how much renewables contribute…

Excellent, but lost the punchline: slowing clean energy drives the grid to fossil; higher-cost fossil drives money from customers to Trump donors.

Omg, this is beyond psychotic. The level of dehumanizing hatred you must feel towards someone to do this to children is jaw-dropping.

This is the sort of stuff that requires truth and reconciliation tribunals—there’s no crime here, but it demands public accountability.

Can’t wait for the tribunal.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

He's also a sociopathic scumbag

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter

Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

Trump will be out of office. Guess who will get blamed.

Bessent might as well have said "Prosperity is right around the corner."

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

Trump probably has no clue this is happening. Would be great if tge press would ask him. Then ask him again. If the press made this a big deal they could save lives.

So the spam texts that I periodically receive from his organization are not from scumbag consultants?

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

I’ve been thinking about @carlquintanilla.bsky.social tweet for weeks.

It suggests Canada could turn off the taps to the USA before the midterms, send gas prices skyrocketing, and break Republicans’ hold on Congress, with little downside to ourselves.

This should be planned and done.

TRUMP'S POPULIST ANTITRUST MOVEMENT NEVER EXISTED EXCEPT IN MATT STOLLER'S FANCIFUL IMAGINATION

It has always been using the power of antitrust regulation to ensure that political loyalists got exclusive rights to consolidation and power

Why do media give Trump the benefit of the doubt here

This is blood money.

And destroying our alliances with countries with functional economies in exchange for an alliance with a mafia-run gas station masquerading as a country is a bad deal.

These people are sociopaths.

Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem—”Close Personal Friend” Of Epstein— Resigns As CEO Of DP World Billionaire Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem resigns as DP World CEO after being named in Epstein files.

The chief legal council for Goldman Sachs resigned due to her connections to Epstein, British Ambassador to U.S. did as well, now this prominent CEO has announced his resignation.

Yet Trump's Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, who has been caught in repeated lies about his Epstein ties remains.

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling Brussels is going head-to-head with social media platforms to change addictive design.

great news: www.politico.eu/article/tikt...