Wilson Shmeep

The massive displays are threat performances.

They’re tools of intimidation.

They’re done to make a point

To inspire people to stay in their place

To discourage resistance

Dictators rely on fear to maintain power. They have little else, given they usually do NOT reflect the will of the majority

Traders Are Fleeing Stocks Feared to Be Under Threat From AI Artificial intelligence’s imprint on US financial markets is unmistakable. Nvidia Corp. is the most valuable company in the world at nearly $4.5 trillion. Startups from OpenAI to Anthropic have raised...

Not to say the market has wisdom or is right about anything, but it is notable that 'the market' doesn't believe AI is going to improve productivity. The market believes the big money is in selling AI / chips / data centers, not in actually doing something useful with them.

Hope is doing a lot of work here.

It's always so enraging hearing "you should show gratitude toward this country" from anyone representing this regime that's actively trying to destroy just about everything good about it.

every week is infrastructure week

LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member.

RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.

Zohran should propose “Cuomo’s Law”, a law that bars sex offenders from being mayor of New York City

Landlords Commit $2.5 Million to Help Cuomo's Mayoral Campaign The money, the largest example of outside spending by a single donor in the New York City mayor's race, will go toward campaign ads on Andrew M. Cuomo's behalf.

When you see Cuomo attacking Mamdani over his rent stabilized one bedroom in Queens, do recall this please:

HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a report on the country’s...

Exclusive: HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests

'They understand the microscope they’re under': White House ratchets up redistricting pressure Indiana Republicans remained noncommittal following a conversation with Vice President JD Vance.

Details on JD Vance's attempt to get Indiana to do a mid-decade gerrymander. He inappropriately took WH Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair, White House Counsel Dave Warrington and Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Director Alex Meyer w/ him, who attended the meeting in their personal capacities.

"Russign culture and Russian history is sort of baked into Alaska," said Brandon Boylan, a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who has researched Alaska's role in U.S.-Russia relations. "There's a lot of remnants of the Russian American legacy."

The faculty have been waiting decades to get this quote into the Times.

this is an amazing collection of sentences

“who knows what they did?” asks the guy second in command of the US government’s investigative agencies

Could refusing to sell a pierogi to a child sex predator be considered a war crime of starvation? This George Washington University professor thinks so.

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?

ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles

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They keep signaling over and over again that they will steal the coming elections because they feel that they have the impunity to do so

managed to get in touch with a human staffer when calling a senator's office today, and they said that regional offices have been getting calls about RFK's mRNA vaccine fuckery

keep it up with the calls, folks!

FBI dispatches agents to D.C. streets as Trump vows crackdown on crime The unusual move comes as President Donald Trump threatens a federal takeover of the nation’s capital.

The rest of the FBI is focused on deleting Trump's name from the Epstein files, leaving no remaining agents to perform their actual jobs.

Trump is rushing to build his ballroom. A review process could take years. The National Capital Planning Commission has taken years to approve much smaller White House projects than a ballroom planned by President Trump.

Three former members of the National Capital Planning Commision "told The Washington Post that a review of any exterior construction project at the White House is required by federal law." Reviews of smaller projects at the White House have taken years in the past.

This seems desperate. As in if Trump were in the clear, you wouldn’t have to deflect attention.

Fine. Release the files.

Ground and laws will be broken simultaneously.

Mamdani should start posting on LinkedIn and explode some heads lol

Goodbye, camera

a chart showing rising dc power consumption but flatlining renewable growth levels

Nice FT citing Ireland, where data centre power demand has massively outpaced clean power growth - meaning increased burning of fossil fuels

You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism.

www.ft.com/content/0f61...

OK, a few things on this absurdity:
1. The 2020 Census was conducted by the Trump administration.
2. The only systematic results of undercounts that the Census has acknowledged were undercounting communities of color in almost all states.

Love that he goes on Fox News to answer softball questions and he STILL sounds evasive as fuck

Just sayin’...

I Came from Rural Texas to Harvard’s MD-PhD program. Now, Trump Defunded that Program. These decisions affect not just the archetypal Ivy League student many imagine—they affect people who grew up in places like Lindale.

In 2024, the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program’s 208 students co-authored more than 180 peer-reviewed publications. Those students regularly work more than 12 hours a day conducting and repeating experiments in laboratories followed by reading, writing, and coding at home.

The emerging Republican position is that women should not be free to vote, to report so-called “sexual assault,” or to say things like “dear isn’t that your fourth, you’re driving.”