Robert Waters

Deskilling is real.

This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.

Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

DNI Tulsi Gabbard politicized intelligence to fake a case against Obama and his aides. Now AG Pam Bondi is going to investigate. When an autocrat uses his intelligence services and law enforcement to concoct a sham prosecution and a show trial, that's a dangerous moment.

NEW: The most important scandal of the week is not Trump's Epstein mess. It's the Gabbard-Trump plot to fabricate evidence to set up a sham DOJ prosecution of Obama & others and perhaps show trials. A major abuse of power & a perversion of US intelligence & law enforcement. True authoritarianism.

NEW: Here's a new scandal bigger than the Epstein mess. Trump's top intel officer is fabricating evidence so his DOJ can investigate & prosecute Obama & his aides w/ possible show trials—as Trump says, "Whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people.”
link.motherjones.com/public/40858...

Happy Friday 💚 Here is some recent stuff. I painted the “Burning Bush” piece orientation a couple ways. I neglected to post the portrait version the other day. I hope you have a good day. #robowaters

Burning bush, acrylic on canvas, 20” x 24”, 2025.

“”I’m disillusioned and tired. Send me to a country that will accept me since my country doesn’t,” he told his brother”

Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website “People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.

Thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE, our adversaries now have access to sensitive information about one of our intelligence agencies.

Elon Musk and DOGE staff should NOT have access to sensitive national security information. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

Video of Trump getting seriously booed and repeatedly called a traitor at Superbowl 2025.

Trump burns down financial watchdog agency to spite Liz Warren And if it lets Elon get his payments app started without federal regulation, even better!

New in PN: Trump burns down financial watchdog agency to spite Liz Warren

And if it lets Elon get his payments app started without federal regulation, even better!

Four FEMA officials were fired for not following illegal orders to withhold spending.
The White House is saying of judicial decisions: "These unlawful injunctions are a continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump."

These are not warning signs. This is happening now.

If you are looking for someone to say that all is lost and the courts can't help protect democracy, you are following the wrong guy.

If you are looking for someone who fights hard and will never give up, I'm here for you.

'Mark my words': George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could 'end' U.S. democracy George Conway predicted that Donald Trump would engage in a constitutional showdown that could spell the end of U.S. democracy.Vice President J.D. Vance argued Sunday that federal courts “aren’t allow...

“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”

Amazing how this all overlaps with the Leonard Leo-version of Catholicism that has become the Republican Party in the form of JD Vance, the rectum of these two Venn Diagram cheeks.

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

Remembering all the times people criticized communism because the art it produced, socialist realism, was 'bad' and not 'real art'.

Well, here's what capitalism produces: slop. The most horrific, aesthetically empty, soulless, literally inhuman shit imaginable. Every accusation a confession

Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.

They are already claiming legislative power; next they will attack any parts of the judiciary that dares disagree with them.

Judges, I am begging you to understand before it's too late: they will not obey judicial orders. Order them to appear in court and arrest them when they lie to you, or else they are gonna wipe their ass with your orders.

Illegal and Unlawful and Somehow Still Happening A former Judge tells us how the law ends, and it’s not losing lawsuits.

The only question is whether lawsuits and injunctions and judges can roll this all back. With Judge Nancy Gertner and @mjsdc.bsky.social
slate.com/podcasts/ami...

Trump megadonor Steve Wynn has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects the media's ability to aggressively cover public officials. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Republicans are going to pass a budget with one of the biggest deficits in world history.

Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) letter to chair of Senate Judiciary Cmte, which is poised to vote on confirmation of Kash Patel:

“We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”

Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo

I would like our media to become permanently hyperfixated on Marco Rubio’s recent negotiations to put immigrants and US citizens in El Salvadorian prisons.

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

Sometimes when Trump does something especially egregious, I scroll through the papers on the Today’s Front Pages app and even worse than the sane washed version in the big national papers is how many local papers don’t have it on the front page at all. No wonder people often don’t even know.

Notably, Wall Street is quiet, apparently preferring to keep favor with fascists than to raise the rather important objection that the world's richest person and his friends having early access to, and the ability to manipulate, U.S. economic releases will be catastrophic to our financial markets.

American Coup, day 17

‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government 404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ...

From @404media.co: some of the government's top tech experts are being asked to do things that are "clearly illegal"

www.404media.co/things-are-g...