I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Hmm. The US is giving $10 billion in taxpayer dollars, not appropriated by Congress, to a fake board set up by the President and which he put himself in charge of *for life*... seems very, very illegal.

The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings The problem with AI isn't going to be Skynet. It's going to be amoral extraction class assholes applying half-cooked automation at scale onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country t...

good piece by @karlbode.com karlbode.com/the-problem-...

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The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiation The Democrats demanded that Trump's immigration cops follow the law and the Constitution. The Republicans called those demands "nonstarters."

New at The Watch:

The Democrats' demands to "reform" Trump's immigration thugs aren't reforms at all. They're already the law, the Constitution, and widely accepted police practices. And in a free society, they'd never be negotiable.

So the confrontations, violent apprehensions, and general fear bearing down on communities like Minnesota is only the beginning of the nightmare. Behind the scenes, Orwellian anti-judicial antics thwart lawful recourse. And hidden from sight, non-citizens are tortured for being noncitizens.

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“If a government’s actions in a democracy require masks — if the people being governed in that democracy cannot know who is acting — that is a problem with what the government is doing, not with the governed.”

(1) Any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film, video game, computer software game, or similar visual representation or image of a person or portion of the human body, that depicts nudity, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sado-masochistic abuse, and that is harmful to minors; or (2) Any book, pamphlet, magazine, printed matter, however reproduced, or sound recording, which contains any matter enumerated in subdivision (a)(1), or that contains explicit and detailed verbal descriptions or narrative accounts of sexual excitement, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sadomasochistic abuse, and that is harmful to minors.

TN is considering a new bill that allows parents to sue large platforms that allow "material harmful to minors"— including sculpture, drawings, photos, music or video games— that describe or depict nudity, sex or "excessive violence"

The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.

The Pew Research Center has published a new survey of Americans' opinions on immigration enforcement. Four highlights:

* "61% say it is unacceptable for officers to wear face coverings that hide their identities while working." /1

Mike Johnson wants to spare ICE the hassle of getting the right warrant before forcibly entering a home Here's a quick reminder of what the Fourth Amendment has to say about that.

House Speaker Mike Johnson thinks ICE should be spared the hassle of “getting a judicial warrant” before forcibly entering private homes. He claims to be a "constitutional expert." But this statement shows he has never read the Fourth Amendment, nor studied any of the jurisprudence surrounding it.

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

The George Will Rule Demonstrated Again: document discovery in litigation surrounding the DHS midnight raid on a Chicago apartment building establishes beyond any doubt that every claim DHS made about Tren de Aragua in order to justify the raid was a simple lie, known to them to be a lie.

Do you know what to do if you’re subjected to a search or arrest at a protest? Join EFF for a livestream discussion about how to protect your electronic devi... EFFecting Change: How to Protest with Privacy in Mind

Joining those standing up for our First Amendment rights in the wake of ICE's actions? Be prepared before you protest with "How to Protest with Privacy in Mind" eff.org/protestprivacy

We finally know what happened to DOJ's (frivolous) misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg:

It was transferred by Chief Justice Roberts from the D.C. Circuit to Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeff Sutton, and Sutton dismissed it in a ... direct ... memorandum and order just two weeks later:

The president if the United States is trying to rob taxpayers of billions of dollars. No help for you, he’s helping himself.

That does not end the Court's concerns, however. Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. The extent of ICE's noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated. This list is confined to orders issued since January 1, 2026, and the list was hurriedly compiled by extraordinarily busy judges. Undoubtedly, mistakes were made, and orders that should have appeared on this list were omitted. This list should give pause to anyone — no matter his or her political beliefs-who cares about the rule of law. ICE has likely violated more court orders in -2- CASE 0:26-cv-00107-PJS-DLM Doc. 10 Filed 01/28/26 Page 3 of 4 January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence. The Court warns ICE that future noncompliance with court orders may result in future

Although Judge Schilitz has now cancelled the contempt hearing for ICE director Lyons, he notes that ICE has violated 96 orders in 74 cases in the District of MN *this month*—likely more “than some agencies have violated in their entire existence.” ...
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Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Those focusing only on the voter rolls piece are missing the point. This is attacking state and local in preparation for the Insurrection Act.

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN:

"I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind."

and

"The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back."

Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans’ Safety and Freedom The agent who killed Renee Good should face the same accountability as the migrant who killed Laken Riley

Legitimate functions can be assigned to other agencies. "Abolishing ICE is becoming more popular, with 43% of Americans supporting the idea, an eight-year high, according to one tracking poll. The agency’s approval rating now is at -13, compared to +16 about a year ago." [@shikhadalmia.bsky.social]

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all:

The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

A hideous, unbelievable insult to our allies, who suffered a full third of the war dead in Afghanistan. And this from a soulless swine who knows everything about using his bone spurs to stay all the way back, entirely off the front lines.

Every day, he shames the United States as a nation.

I haven't seen the video, but I agree with Tom on this point. Storming into a church, even for _all the right reasons_, and disrupting the worship inside just makes your cause look bad. Don't hand your enemies effective propaganda against you.

Surely you know that's not the right statement of the moral principle.

Grok Supercharges the Nonconsensual Pornography Epidemic Without meaningful pushback from regulators and users, Grok’s example risks setting a dangerously permissive precedent that, writes Kaylee Williams.

Deepfakes are a free speech issue: "the steady threat of being digitally 'undressed' can push women to self-censor, avoid weighing in on contentious topics, or leave digital platforms altogether—particularly when the abuse is happening in public replies." www.techpolicy.press/grok-superch...

Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.

Musk and xAI enabled widespread sexual harassment on X.

@cwarzel.bsky.social and I asked xAI's key investors, as well as Google, Apple, Nvidia, and more: Do you endorse the use of Grok to undress people? If not, will you cut ties with xAI? Few replied; none answered our actual questions.

DOJ’s top civil rights prosecutors depart as office is cut out of key probes Prosecutors resigned from the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota as well amid turmoil over an investigation into a shooting by an immigration officer.

When DOJ attorneys resign as a matter of principle, it underscores just how corrupt the administration of “justice” has become. Kudos to the Civil Rights Division lawyers who made this wrenching decision for their integrity and dedication to the rule of law.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

Trump’s Folly The United States has turned dark, aggressive, and lawless.

“The ethic in some nations may be that might makes right, but not in the United States. Until Donald Trump, that is. Now everything is different,” Peter Wehner argues: