we there yet?

Sam Altman in Damage Control Mode as ChatGPT Users Are Mass Cancelling Subscriptions Because OpenAI Is “Training a War Machine” (Futurism) OpenAI just handed one of its biggest rivals a massive PR victory, in a blunder that even CEO Sam Altman admitted had optics that “don’t look good.” On Frida...

The story of EVERY tech-bro:
1. They begin w/a world-changing, amazing idea.
2. It generates billions of dollars.
3. Wealth corrupts.

“How did you go from ‘a tool for the betterment of the human race’ to ‘let’s work with the department of WAR’? asked one user.”
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Nobel Prize-winning expert issues grim prediction for Iran war's impact on US economy (Raw Story) A Nobel Prize-winning economist has warned that the war with Iran will spike the price of a US commodity in the next few days. It all depends on whether the ...

“This isn’t even a war of choice; it’s a war of whim, with near-total lack of planning... One shouldn’t exaggerate the economic fallout from this war.”
“…this could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back — a straw that becomes heavier the longer the war goes on.”
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Trump fails to 'bring back religion' as church attendance in America death spirals (AlterNet) Religion News Service writer Yonat Shimron recalls President Donald Trump actively courting Christian evangelicals during his 2024 campaign and as president ...

They brought it (predictably) on themselves!

Women’s growing indifference appears to be matching that of men. And with American youth rejecting religious service by 61 percent, Gallup predicted generational replacement leading to a “long-term trajectory of decline.”
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Trump fails to 'bring back religion' as church attendance in America death spirals (AlterNet) Religion News Service writer Yonat Shimron recalls President Donald Trump actively courting Christian evangelicals during his 2024 campaign and as president ...

😂 they literally framed free-thinkers as the RADICALS!

“Among the biggest declines, according to surveys, was the percentage of Black Americans who fell from 85 percent to 63 percent since 2005. Democrats fell from 60 percent to 37 percent over the past two decades.”
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Troops fed up with military leaders' 'right-wing evangelical theocratic thinking' (AlterNet) As Trump marches troops into danger in Iran, his commanders appear to be beating the drums of the End Days, and soldiers are getting sick of it. Former MS NO...

“The complaints — which are anonymous to prevent retribution from commanding officers —arose from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told Larsen Monday.”
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It’s not left vs right… it’s top vs bottom.

Democratic leaders all say this. It’s true.

It’s time to hand True Blue Dems the levers of power, for at least the next 50 years. It will take time to fix this cruel, hateful world that so-called conservatives have birthed into existence.

I'm imagining Trump calling the same oil executives who've rebuffed him on Venezuela begging them to hold down prices.

The Supreme Court's Republicans just seized the most dangerous power in constitutional law — Vox The Supreme Court’s Republican majority just did the legal equivalent of grabbing J.R.R. Tolkien’s One Ring, placing it on their collective fingers, and dancing around singing, “I just can’t wait to b...

OMG WTAF
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Please, yes. This IS what their culture war is about.
An entrenched class of pampered, unaccountable people who think they should be aristocrats, each ruling over their own personal serfdom.
They create a culture of defectiveness that encourages ignorance.
It’s why the Titan submersible imploded.

#Treetops Emit #Ultraviolet Sparkles During #Thunderstorms. Researchers Just Filmed It in Nature for the First Time

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The way Hillary Clinton reduced fascist republicans to nothing and refused to take any of their vile bullshit whilst delivering truth jabs is exactly why they didn’t allow her to testify publicly. They’ve spent over a decade trying to blame her for crimes their tyrant has done.

The United States now has a Democratic Party and an anti-Democratic Party.

i don't know about y'all but i think THE USA could use a REGIME CHANGE

Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.

They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.

Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.

Watch how they vote this week.

🎩 @jackcocchiarella.bsky.social 🇺🇸 #usa

He never should have been given power!

No one is safe 🌎 as long as he’s in office!

BREAKING: The Texas Secretary of State DID NOT UPDATE the precinct maps on their website last December. MY GOD @msnowreports.bsky.social

Hmmmmm… interesting.
Good news is needed.

Oh WOW, Trump is blaming Obama and Biden for the Iran War 🙄🙄 Because apparently every problem that has ever existed, does exist, or will exist in the future can be traced back to those two. No one could have seen this coming... except, you know, literally everyone.

Iran is a murderous dictatorship, a Russian proxy, & terrorism sponsor.

It is currently being bombed at the request of Israel, which just killed 73,000 Gazans, and Saudi Arabia, a murderous dictatorship that produced 15 of 19 9/11 bombers.

But Britain is the bad guy for refusing to get involved? 🤔

It’s assault: Watching our knowledge base disintegrate before our eyes

Some of these words look similar to the recommendations of my “suddenly illiterate” (as of Feb 2025) spell-check on my phone. 😤

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

After 30+ years, thousands of lives and trillions of wasted dollars, most Americans know this much.

Stay the hell out of the Middle East.

Watching the most delusional and incompetent administration in our lifetimes try to convince us otherwise, would be comical if it wasn’t dangerous.

Military Religious Freedom Foundation – Protecting the Constitutional Guarantee of Separation of Church and State in the United States Military

This is the original source, they’ve been around since early WoT years helping soldiers counter the New Crusades maniacs

www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org

I think it's time for me to take a long break from posting.

It must be nice for those of you who are new to paying attention to domestic & foreign policy. You must still be able to construct calming narratives for yourself about our collective futures.

I feel like I am going insane. Drowning.

THIS 👇 IS SO TRUE........

Dispatches from Minnesota: I can't even find words for how royally fucked everything coming out of our federal administration is. It feels like they're engaging in war crimes abroad to distract from the war they're waging against their own citizens.