Andrew Scott Waugh

Secession is unthinkable, but this is the kind of thing that triggers it. The reporting says the FBI "has agreed" to help, but on what basis? Apparently a senator's request, which is not a law. So, we're looking at a lawless action by FBI targeting another state entity w/in its plain legal authority

"Defend your culture; No undergraduate degree required" is kinda the last 10 years in a nutshell

Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era

Donald Trump Doesn’t Want You to Read This Article The president keeps trying to change the subject from Jeffrey Epstein, but his tactics are only making it worse.

Donald Trump doesn’t want you to read this article. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this.

Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

If you have nothing to hide, you release the files.
If you are reeking of guilt, you get your deputies and toadies together to plot your response.

Let me get this straight. The Vice President of the United States of America and numerous administration officials are meeting this evening for a private meeting to discuss how to protect the President from accusations regarding sex trafficking and abuse of children.

Did I get that right?

maybe next they can have an AI posthumous epstein say trump never did anything wrong

LOL. Ghislaine Maxwell also said Jeffrey Epstein never did anything disturbing around her! That's how she caught two perjury charges.

No!!!!!! It's a computer!!!!! You gotta stop thinking like this!!!!!

This headline! 🥇

What, Exactly, Is the ‘Russia Hoax’? To start with, it’s not a hoax.

The main thing you need to know about the "Russia hoax"? It's not a hoax
from @dgraham.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Literally millions will die because of the shuttering of USAID (for all of its faults). Millions more will die (versus the policy status quo) if we undermine progress in creating new mRNA vaccines, which could save us during the next pandemic and much more.

I’m trying to think of a pointless, badly-motivated, ignorant, contemptible and tragic rejection of a demonstrated public health advance with the same promise and on the same scale as RFK Jr’s mRNA vaccine decision. It’s hard.

What you need to know about the Russia hoax:

1. It’s not a hoax

There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...

Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Imagine sitting around a table dreaming about bootlicking

What the F are we doing, people????

@kairyssdal.bsky.social has been setting an example for broadcasters (public and private) and mainstream reporters in his strict "let's the cut the BS" insistence on truth.

All other broadcasters and (especially) headline writers: Follow his lead.

Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.

AI is undeniably useful in completing school-related artifacts more quickly and efficiently, but that utility is sometimes the opposite of learning. This is why I believe we need to focus at the level of experience and only then ask how AI might be used inside that experience.

A) not true, as Ron says

B) Trump literally says “there are no details”

C) if you can’t tell Trump is making this stuff up on the fly, that’s a you problem

It’s crazy how they can just start chucking law-abiding people in prison and change societal expectations around that, so that many people just say “welp, that’s just a thing that happens here now (and it ain’t me)!”

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

"how would you describe the moral culpability of a man who casually destroys a program that will result in the deaths of millions *without even achieving his stated aims of saving money*?" www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs

I really hope the World Cup and Olympics fans are aware that they should absolutely not come here under any circumstances.

The kids are all right!

👇🎯 This cannot be said often or loud enough. Again, there are two, & only two, solutions to our authoritarian problem, & <both> involve a subset of Republicans deciding they value democracy over power. <Everyone's> allocation of effort is wildly misallocated right now:

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