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Destroying the U.S. economy, threatening family livelihoods, and endangering American lives. Washington D.C. do your job.

Just had a nightmare that was basically the plot of the horror film Brightburn, and I was the mother figure.

Felt like after reading all this OpenAI and adjacent stuff, my brain was contemplating AGI and the likely outcome of having people of poor character designing it.

Just excellent stuff coming from this campaign all the time

"Don't get mad; don't get even; get ahead." - Chris Matthews, Hardball: How Politics is Played

100pct you could turn it into some culture war and inception him to do it

42 million Americans may go hungry as soon as this weekend. Donate to your local food bank and tell Congress to do their jobs and end the government shutdown.

Good or bad?

Just logged on. What are we mad at today?

The great democracy stand around and completely overrun Manhattan 2025 action is in full effect

We are in fact nine years in.

THREAD

The AI bubble will continue to inflate, and will reach a scale few can comprehend. This increases the downside risk that will follow in the wake of it popping.

It's being fueled by two things.

1/🧵

Pride and Prejudice was the most dull thing I've ever read, couldn't finish, and 19th-century English society sounds like my personal hell.

so many hucksters in AI lmao. stop being gross

So true.

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Kristi Noem's secret police forces seized the federal courthouse where a hearing on the legality of their deployment in Chicago is scheduled to commence shortly. The chief judge says their presence was not requested and is not desired. This move is obviously intended to intimidate the judges.

Chicago. Pretty cool town

Mamdani Courts the Cops He is doing a lot better than you might think.

Interesting dynamic in NYC where Zohran Mamdani is blunting opposition from patrol officers by taking their poor job conditions seriously. Bob Kuttner has this one:
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

the trump administration attempted to assassinate a critic and when she lived, they prosecuted her for surviving

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Do Coconuts Go With Oysters? For Saving the Delaware Shore, Yes.

This is a *great* series @nytimes.com has been doing:

'50 Fixes From 50 States'

Local-level innovations for environmental repair and sustainability.

Series is here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Today's, on Delaware, is here (and surprising and interesting)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...

If Trump's plan succeeds in stopping Israel's razing of Gaza, allowing in humanitarian aid and freeing the hostages, it will be cause for celebrating.

That is not the same thing as peace, a rebuilt Gaza and accountability for the crimes committed by both sides.

Nor are the first two irreversible.

Western politicians love the excuse “Why should we invest in renewables when China isn’t doing anything?”
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Well, this is what China is upto:
China installing wind & solar equivalent of 5 nuclear plants per week
globalenergymonitor.org/report/china...

Jane Fonda relaunches her father's McCarthy-era free speech initiative The Committee for the First Amendment was originally formed by Henry Fonda in 1947.

Jane Fonda relaunches the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of “McCarthyism” during the 1940s.

Russians disguise mines as firewood&leave them along the border areas of the Kharkiv region,where centralized heating is partially unavailable,Viacheslav Zadorenko,head of the Derhachi community,reported

"Russians use so-called 'decoy firewood,'which contain detonators&initiation boards"he said

US GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: IMPACT ON ECONOMIC DATA KEY REPORTS SUSPENDED: • Jobless claims (Labor Dept.) • Nonfarm payrolls (BLS) • Consumer Price Index & Producer Price Index (BLS) • Retail sales, factory orders, housing starts, trade data (Census/BEA) • Employment

ME ON A TRAIN: Oh no, I accidentally clicked a video with sound! Oh god, people heard a second of loud sound from my phone. I have torn the social contract.

EVERYBODY ELSE ON TRAIN: Shit yeah, train time, time to watch the loudest TikToks

For some context, we could have made the monthly child tax credit that cut child poverty by 40% permanent for $100 billion a year. The return on investment would have been $15 per $1.