We either stop Putin now or this only gets much worse. Appeasing him in Ukraine only emboldens him. People who say that he shouldn’t be fought too aggressively over Ukraine because it could trigger WWIII have it backwards.

It is dystopian and unacceptable. Prediction markets should be not be legal. They are massive invitations to corruption.

"Let them eat liver!"

Stating the obvious, but the problem here is not Anthropic "forcing" the government to honor their terms of service, it's the government trying to force the company into neglecting their terms of service for the government's sake.

YouTube video by Katie Phang Trump’s ICE Hits HORRIFYING NEW LOW After DEADLY Decision

Trump's CBP abandons a nearly blind Burmese refugee in the Buffalo cold. He is found dead 5 days later.

I break down the disturbing details & offer background to his case.

I am calling for accountability for Nurul Amin Shah Alam’s death & answers for his grieving family.

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How about eating roadkill? Or the occasional bear you run across? 👍 🤦‍♂️

There may be a thru line from Bush to Trump but Trump is way way more extreme, a fascist. It’s not remotely close. No one can convince me otherwise. Bye now.

It's a matter of degree. Being supportive of someone like GW Bush is not the same of being supportive of a fascist movement like MAGA.

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

My parents were Fox News watchers for many years and as it went from "conservative bent" to stark raving bonkers MAGA they were swept up in it and in a way kind of radicalized by it. They were not aware what was happening to them. /2

Well informed people will stop watching and find other avenues for news & reporting but the problem is all the people "in the middle", the less informed, less politically aware, who will just keep habitually watching & be more or less unaware of the changes. And they will be moved to the right. /1

Truth will simply not have a chance anymore on these networks. /2

I think it's both. People are influenced by what's being reported. CNN will become state news over time, like CBS News and Fox News, and it *will* move people to the right. The new CBS news anchor called Trump's SOTU address "extraordinary" and "vintage Trump". Really? He lied the whole time. /1

There's no question it will happen. CBS News's new anchor called Trump's SOTU address "extraordinary" and "vintage Trump". Really? It was 90 minutes or pure lies and grievance. That doesn't matter any more? Truth not matter anymore? That's where we're headed. We are sleepwalking into fascism.

This is an informative chart that show how misinformed people are on the right about the basic issues. How do they believe untrue things if they haven't been propagandized?

And now it looks like the RW oligarchy is gonna take over CNN too. We are screwed. I can't believe people don't get this.
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Bye now.

believe untrue things?

Harris ran both a positive campaign and a negative campaign against Trump. She warned people about Project 2025, about tariffs being inflationary, about the threats to our freedom if Trump was elected. She was right about everything. If it's not the propaganda, then why do people who vote R /1

Trump who has corrupted the separation of powers between executive and judiciary. /2

"Any other person who had stolen a single document, let alone hundreds of them, would have been arrested immediately" - that's now how this works. "Biden did not want Trump indicted." - Biden respected the constitution. He appoints the AG and the DOJ operates more or less independently. It's /1

In the end the charges were brought and Jack Smith had the cases locked down. Doesn't matter when they were brought, they would have been stuffed by Trump judge Eileen Cannon and the corrupt MAGA supreme court anyway. *That* is what prevented justice, not the timing of the indictments.

Again, the biggest reason she lost by orders of magnitude is that the country is pickled in propaganda. There's no way that an informed and not propagandized electorate would vote for a serially lying convicted felon insurrectionist over Kamala or virtually anyone else.

needed some big "change". /2

There wasn't a need for a big change. The country was on a good path. Lowest unemployment in 50 years, inflation coming under control, major gains in manufacturing, we had reset normal relations with our allies, major climate legislation. It's the propaganda that made people believe that we /1

If you’re gonna do a DARVO at least make it remotely credible.

Yes but it’s still very dumb, that this whole operation is running out of the basement of some random pizza joint. 🤦‍♂️

Yes she’s clearly talking about Pizzagate, which is an amazingly stupid and ridiculous conspiracy theory.

Yeah they got their asses handed to them.

Yep, this is a red alarm fire. We have to start doing something to fight back. We are sleepwalking into fascism. Virtually everything is gonna be state TV. The new CBS News anchor called Trump’s SOTU “exceptional” and “vintage Trump”. It was nothing but ridiculous lies and grievance. 🤦‍♂️