May-lee Chai (she/her)

Bill Gates, Leon Black Testimony Sought for Epstein Probe The congressional committee investigating disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is seeking transcribed interviews with Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black.

The congressional committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein is seeking transcribed interviews with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black

News of the Day (1931)
by Jean Mammen

Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Seeks Fame and Fortune, Escorted by an F.B.I. SWAT Team

You may not know Alexis Wilkins, but she may be among the best-protected country singers in the US. FBI agents have ferried her to a British resort before a Windsor Castle dinner and to a Nashville hair salon. Wilkins, 27, is FBI Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

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The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It occurs to me that if the government did force UK writers to hand over their work to the big AI companies, that would now among other things mean contributing to the development of US advanced weapon systems.

Elon Musk to take stand in Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of deflating stock before purchase Elon Musk is expected to take the stand in a shareholder trial Wednesday in San Francisco, where he’s accused of making false and misleading statements that drove down Twitter’s stock price before he bought the social media platform for $44 billion in 2022.

Elon Musk is expected to take the stand in a shareholder trial Wednesday in San Francisco, where he’s accused of making false and misleading statements that drove down Twitter’s stock price before he bought the social media platform for $44 billion in 2022.

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

How many countries can America attack at the same time.

I guess it's time to do another late night on what the fuck is happening in the Asian markets thread.

If you're wondering why they still haven't called the Texas race even though Talarico has a big lead, it's because nearly all of the Talarico strongholds have fully reported.

There are still 200,000 to 250,000 votes left to count in Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth, all areas where Crockett is ahead.

I've been on websites for I think four different literary agencies tonight and every single one of them has a pop-up saying "people are impersonating us, please double check email addresses" holy shit the scammers are out in FORCE these days apparently

There Are 47,635 Epstein Files Offline for Review, DOJ Says Among the unreleased documents are a woman’s unverified allegations against President Trump.

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Awesome!

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

whoa. @dataandpolitics.net any thoughts?

The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. - Bolts North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.

JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal."

She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%!

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Seeing some folks seeming to think Talarico has it over Crockett. But Dallas hasn't reported anything so far and Harris has 35% of the vote left to go.

Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Has this ever happened before? (@aedwardslevy.bsky.social @pollsandvotes.bsky.social @gelliottmorris.com)

Your regular reminder that normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform

so we’re just calling it “the war” now?

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Wow: In the early vote, it's a blow-out *so far*.

Rodney Sadler, the progessive pastor and activist, leads state Representative Carla Cunningham 75% to 18%.

(Stay tuned as we see how the Election Day vote compares, but that's an ominous start for the incumbent.)

Context:

A large crowd, amid which are two vehicles bearing stages and a small elevated monument with people standing on its platform. A headline reads: Thousands in Iran Attend Burial of Children Killed in Bombing of School. Photo by Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News Agency, via Associated Press

A photo distributed by Iranian state media showed thousands in the streets of a town in southern Iran on Tuesday during the funeral for victims of an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school that killed at least 175 people, many of them students, on Saturday. nyti.ms/3N6jh4i

The total lunar eclipse last night from Fairbanks, Alaska with a searing bright aurora right overhead. Insane combo.

Republicans stand by Trump’s war against Iran, reject war powers role for Congress | Alaska Beacon Republican lawmakers said after classified briefings they don’t intend to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to continue the war in Iran.

Republicans stand by Trump’s war against Iran, reject war powers role for Congress, write @jennifershutt.bsky.social and @ashleymurray.bsky.social for our D.C. bureau @statesnewsroom.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/03/03/r...

The vote-reporting in NC was blocked for an hour by a judge, and that's ending in 5 minutes; I'd expect a lot of info to stream in after that. That's also when polls close in Arkansas, where there are many interesting things — including a state supreme court race & a state House special election.

Live updates: Polls begin to close in Texas and North Carolina 2026 primary elections Follow live updates and news coverage as voters head to the polls in Texas, North Carolina, and Arkansas for the 2026 primary elections for U.S. Senate, House, and gubernatorial races.

Live updates: Polls begin to close in Texas and North Carolina 2026 primary elections.