Karen Wickre

When the media covers war, every other topic fades Trump will do anything to distract from the political damage of the Epstein files

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Thank you Margaret. This needs to be highlighted. Keep your focus on the margins of what is not reported!
#proudblue #pinks

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Republicans are literally incapable of comprehending that the world doesn’t simply follow Trump’s orders the way that Republicans, or American CEOs, or Supreme Court justices do

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

Q: "Do you think Trump should be deposed by this committee?"

HILLARY: "Absolutely. Trump has been held civilly liable for sexual assault by a jury of his peers. That is behavior that fits a pattern."

cc: all the large firms who folded

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After Netflix Drops Warner Bros. Bid, GOP Senator Cancels Planned Antitrust Hearing; Top Democrat Vows To “Exercise Congress’ Oversight Authority” — Update Mike Lee dropped plans for a hearing next week.

months and months of phony "antitrust concerns" by the GOP (propped up by a press that lets them pretend they have credibility they never earned) magically disappears now that it's a Trump-allied billionaire zealot buying Warner Brothers

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Time to relearn the Pottery Barn rule

Oh, I got this one: they can go fuck themselves to infinity

If even a single Democrat makes even a single noise about finding this argument anything less than repulsive, they should be removed from office

Trump in 2020: "We've spent $8 trillion in the Middle East. And we're not fixing our roads in this country. How stupid is it? We're not fixing our highways, our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals, even."

the NYT updates on the war are like 2003 updates about the Iraq War run through some kind of Idiocracy translator

The thrill Trump gets from having people blow up & kill other people, and from watching other people fight at UFC, comes from deep insecurity rooted in his personal cowardice. It makes him feel tough. It makes him feel adequate. Things he has never been but always wanted to be.

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

Today is a good day to take note of all those telling you how swimmingly this is going to work out so you can stop paying attention to them forever

We have illegally and under false pretenses launched a war that in no way benefits us and isn't going to ever truly end

A MISTAKE WE HAVE MADE BEFORE

User Chris: What was the core difference why you think the DoW accepted OpenAI but not Anthropic Sam Altman: I can't speak for them, but to speculate with the best understanding of the situation. *First, I saw reporting that they were extremely close on a deal, and for much of the time both sides really wanted to reach one. I have seen what happens in tense negotiations when things get stressed and deteriorate super fast, and I could believe that was a large part of what happened here. *We believe in a layered approach to safety--building a safety stack, deploying FDEs and having our safety and alignment researcher involved, deploying via cloud, working directly with the DoW. Anthropic seemed more focused on specific prohibitions in the contract, rather than citing applicable laws, which we felt comfortable with. We feel that it it's very important to build safe system, and although documents are also important, I'd clearly rather rely on technical safeguards if I only had to pick one. *We and the DoW got comfortable with the contractual language, but I can understand other people would have a different opinion here. *I think Anthropic may have wanted more operational control than we did

I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.

A strip map from 1675 showing the route from London to Bristol — kind of like an early modern TripTik for those Americans who grew up in a family with a AAA membership.🗃️

Screenshot of press release: Yes, it’s real: http://rutherford.house.gov/media/press-releases/rutherford-statement-operation-epic-furry Text rutherford.house.gov CONGRESSMAN JOHN H. RUTHERFORD Enter keywords Home » Media » Press Releases Rutherford Statement on Operation Epic Furry February 28, 2026 | Press Release WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Saturday, U.S. Congressman John H. Rutherford (FL-05) released the following statement on Operation Epic Furry, the U.S. military operation in Iran: "The Iranian regime has set the table for Operation Epic Furry through their forty-seven years of state sponsored terrorism and murder of American citizens. The Iranian regime has continued their pursuit of "death to America" through their continued development of nuclear weapons capable of striking America. "Tens of thousands of Iranian people have been violently murdered by the Iranian regime for seeking freedom and basic human rights. It's clear: this evil regime seeks to kill and must be obliterated. "The President, and many before him, have given Iran every opportunity to make a deal for peace to end this long conflict, but the Iranian regime has time and time again refused. Now, the hour of freedom is at hand. "For the freedom of the Iranian people, and the safety and security of the entire world, I stand behind President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu, and our U.S. military servicemen and women.

Not @theonion.com:
Florida Congressman Praises Trump’s “Epic Furry” Operation

(The harried, stressed Congressional staffer who hit publish & is about to delete this release needed to have had the discipline to read the title & body copy out loud to catch this error, as well-trained editors do.)

U.S. Ability to Determine What Comes Next in Iran Might Be Limited

Understatement alert

I realize that "Orwellian" is over used but come on.

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

Ah, he meant “Bored of Peace”!

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There is nothing much to say right now other than that this war is illegal, unprovoked, and unconstitutional, and Trump and Netanyahu are both war criminals who belong in the Hague. And that I hope for as few people to die because of their madness as possible.

All this grandiose talk is to justify a short made-for-TV war. He does not have the will to make this happen. He gets to kill Iranian and look like a war president. Once that's achieved, he'll TACO.

so we went from war on anthropic to war on iran in a matter of hours

Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world