Sheila O 🌻

If only…

The White House is obsessed with hiding the President's involvement in a child sex ring. It's what they spend most of their time on.

Trump: "The only way they can get elected is to cheat."

Also Trump: I need you to find me 11,780 votes.

Also Trump: "we are entitled to five more seats" in Texas. - TN

“Long and wrong”

“It’s no longer a political calculus. It’s a moral and legal and Constitutional obligation of Congress to [impeach]. It would be a violation of the oath of office for a member of Congress not to push for impeachment when it is possible.”

Also—just a hunch here—they probably didn't want their Olympic gold medal achievement to be overshadowed by being photographed and filmed with an adjudicated sexual abuser of women.

Wow.

punchbowl.news/article/sena...

Sociopaths are terrific at spotting other sociopaths.

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Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them.

We have a government conducted by self-interested opportunists and zealots beholden to the interests, the ego, and the whims of a single man—an individual who can only accurately be described as a sociopath utterly incapable of truthfulness, honor, decency, integrity, conscience and remorse.

The cover of the Lancet says it all.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting.

Legal experts called the order blatantly unconstitutional. Read the full, 17-page order below👇 https://bit.ly/4l0gmXp

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

The new American dream, for some of its citizens, is to no longer live here. Put aside Trump's deportations, America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves in lands they find more affordable and safe. @drewhinshaw.bsky.social Joe Parkinson www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

This would pretty much be America’s Enabling Act moment.

What if a nation's legislature cedes its responsibilities to an executive? Sound familiar? In March of 1933 the Reichstag enacted a statute that gave the German cabinet, and as a result gave the new chancellor—a man named Hitler—emergency powers to override the Weimar Constitution.

What Developers Know About the Dangers of Unbounded AI Large language models are too powerful and too new to be set free from human oversight.

Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon isn't about pacifism versus militarism—it's a fundamental dispute over how to manage the risks of the most transformative technology since the splitting of the atom, Thomas Wright argues:

Respect.

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@hillaryclinton.bsky.social: "I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is."

70% - Trump isn't honest or trustworthy

56% - Trump is not mentally sharp enough

56% - Trump is not committed to our rights

62% - Trump's using the presidency to enrich himself

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Jack Shanahan, retired US Air Force General and first Director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center: