William A Owen

If it wasn’t clear before that X is a surveillance platform, Musk said in his post announcing the change: “Grok will literally read every post and watch every video (100M+ per day) to match users with content they’re most likely to find interesting.”

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This is true—Bessent owns $25 million of farmland in North Dakota—and a reminder of why farm bailouts are nothing more than a giveaway to feudal lords who demand the government grossly distort agricultural economics to make their tax haven "farms" even more valuable to them.

Run before the Grok gets you!

whenever someone says they "don't know what party they're affiliated with", they're a republican

It would help to have a National Day of Action re: SNAP - perhaps on November 1. It would take rapid response but houses of worship could take the lead in mobilizing their members. Educate everyone about the cuts, encourage local donations, pressure Congress, etc...

Here’s an article from August about how Bessent still hadn’t divested from all his assets, including farmland, as he had pledged to do before his confirmation.

Now he’s just going on TV bragging about it in the most pathetic way possible.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

“The legal term for my people was ‘slaves.’”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson rejects the term “illegal aliens” for immigrants.

Video by Jake Sheridan, reporter for the Chicago Tribune, from Suzie Rizzio via X (@Suzierizzo1)

Quote from Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million to the U.S. military, so you know who we’re dealing with:

“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations”.

They abolished the House of Representatives ... solely to prevent the release of information about the president's best friend, the pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring.

Pajama Pants Guy turns out to be a former prosecutor and gave an interview to the Trib

He really, really gets it

You have to envision yourself resisting so you're ready to resist when the time comes

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Anyone know any good scifi novels that are logic puzzles? Kinda like something like Death Note or Issac Asimov books?

Live image inside Twanker HQ as they switch control to Grok

Please give to my dear friend Tasneem in Gaza. And to the many others there in need. ❤️🙏

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Friendly reminder that this starter pack exists ❤️

A new image from Etsy seller ArtLight Media. It shows a blue stylized lighted torch on the left. A quote from Ursula K. Le Guin reads: You've cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit or it is nowhere.

Goodnight, friends.

Ursula K. Le Guin shared this bit of wisdom in her novel The Dispossessed, and tonight, I'm sharing it with you.

We may not have the wealth that our technocapitalist overlords do, but that's ok. The revolution is not for sale.

The revolution is US.

I love you.

There are ten times as many home health aides in the US as there are miners

We love to see it!!!

And if you want to order them already printed, you can get them printed by a union shop 15 different languages! $40 for packs of 100, get a thousand for $95!

Canada was caught, red handed, putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan’s Speech on Tariffs. The Reagan Foundation said that they, “created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address,” and “did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter.” The sole purpose of this FRAUD was Canada’s hope that the United States Supreme Court will come to their “rescue” on Tariffs that they have used for years to hurt the United States. Now the United States is able to defend itself against high and overbearing Canadian Tariffs (and those from the rest of the World as well!). Ronald Reagan LOVED Tariffs for purposes of National Security and the Economy, but Canada said he didn’t! Their Advertisement was to be taken down, IMMEDIATELY, but they let it run last night during the World Series, knowing that it was a FRAUD. Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs

Trump backer Timothy Mellon identified as donor of $130m for US troop pay during government shutdown Reclusive Republican donor is descendant of gilded aged industrialist and former treasury secretary Andrew Mellon

Comes out to $100

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When ICE comes to Philly it’s going to be brutal

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If this didn’t happen domestically, it would be a war crime.

It should be a crime to fire at civilians within the United States within certain distances.

We have never seen civil disobedience *or even outright riots* in which short-range is anything but punitive and cruel—it doesn’t aid control.

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Clocks go back in the UK tonight. They change in the US on November 2nd. Welcome to the Week When No One Knows What Time It Is 😆

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