Steve Lloyd

US media asleep?

Kremlin spies acquiring ‘Trojan horse’ network of sites that could be used to launch sabotage campaigns

Anthropic abandons safety pledge under Pentagon pressure, Stephanie Ruhle reacts Anthropic, the company behind the AI chatbot Claude, abandoned it's safety pledge amid a pressure campaign from Trump's Pentagon.

Forced to ALLOW BOTH.
Are you terrified YET?

"Anthropic... previously told Hegseth it would not allow the Pentagon to use its model for mass surveillance of Americans or to help with the development of weapons that fire without human involvement."
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After DEMANDING that Hillary Clinton's testimony on the Epstein scandal be held behind closed doors, and even threatening her with contempt for her insistence that reporters be allowed in, the GOP has been sending out photos and info to far-right influencers.

Hypocrisy is the GOP brand.

Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first Water super-heated by rocks will also provide the UK's first domestic supply of the critical mineral lithium.

Solar. Wind. Geothermal is coming too.

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I wonder if Comer got any of the answers from Hillary that he was looking for, I mean someone told him that a First Lady was intimate with Epstein and had firsthand knowledge of his crimes.

I mean he couldn't have gotten the wrong First Lady, could he? 🤔

This week's cover @thelancet.com

United States abstains in UN vote on support for peace in Ukraine. Fascist Russia voted against.
The US objected to text in the resolution on the territorial integrity of Ukraine and the need to achieve a just peace.

Under Trump, the US has fallen so very far, so very fast.

WATCH: Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers Democratic response to Trump's State of the Union Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger offered a sharp contrast to President Donald Trump’s depiction of the nation as being in a “golden age” during his State of the Union, arguing in her Democratic rebutt...

Or watch Governor Spanberger - “The scale of the corruption is unprecedented. There's the cover-up of the Epstein files, the crypto scams, cozying up to foreign princes… and billionaires…, putting his name and face on buildings all over our nation's capital," www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

From The Guardian today, 2/24/26.
"Putin could finish ______ any time he likes with photos, tales and evidence he no doubt has on ______ in Russia.”

From an article on ex-Prince Andrew.

Who did you THINK it was about?

From The Guardian today, 2/24/26.
"Putin could finish ______ any time he likes with photos, tales and evidence he no doubt has on ______ in Russia.”

From an article on ex-Prince Andrew.

Who did you THINK it was about?

At least give him another trophy.

Murder. Serial killings. Straight up.

Can't we just make him King of the World and get it over with?

Fatal shooting of San Antonio man by federal agents raising serious transparency concerns AUSTIN, Texas — Rep. Ray Lopez, a San Antonio Democrat, invoked a new Texas House rule to force a public hearing into the killing of 23-year-old American citize

According to Texas authorities, video evidence calls into question ICE's own accounting of the fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez. A US citizen was shot and killed by ICE agents and then ICE and DPS attempted to cover it up for nearly a year. news4sanantonio.com/news/local/f...

Susan Rice is right. Now Netflix must choose. The institutions and individuals who betrayed democratic principles will bear that mark of shame well into the future.

Recently, Rice told Preet Bharara on his podcast that “it’s not going to end well” for “the corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, [and] the media” that bend the knee to Trump. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...

US bishops warn ICE mega-detention plan is 'moral inflection point' for America The bishops' conference issued a stark critique of plans to double federal immigration detention capacity: "The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the cons...

"The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American," said Bishop Brendan Cahill of Victoria, Texas, chairman of the bishops' Committee on Migration: www.ncronline.org/news/us-bish...

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The link above is the 10/16 filing with the Southern District of New York. A complaint against Donald Trump for raping a 13-year-old child multiple times and threatening her and her family.

Trump told her "he could do what he wants." SOUND FAMILIAR?

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Exactly right. That speech was a declaration of war on federalism.

A drawing of a young boy sitting at a table saying “Mom, when I grow up I’m gonna be a libertarian.” His mother responds, “ well son, which is it? You can’t do BOTH!”

Exactly.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The White House has been caught.

The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Trump is reportedly holding billions in infrastructure funding hostage unless Dulles Airport and Penn Station are renamed after himself.

Can you imagine if Obama had done this?

ICE’s Campaign Of Terror Is Not Over, Says Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Trump’s surge of federal agents is trending down but “certainly hasn't stopped and ... people are very much on edge,” he said.

ICE’s Campaign Of Terror Is Not Over, Says Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey

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DOJ Removed Record of Multiple FBI Interviews with Underage Trump Accuser, Epstein Data Shows The FBI spoke at least four times with a woman who credibly accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor, Epstein files show. That document is no longer accessible on the DOJ website.

This is not something that can be swept under the rug. The American people deserve answers about these serious accusations against the President.

Transparency and the accountability are the bare minimum.

No clearer symbol of Trump ending free and fair elections is possible. This and the ballroom. Democracy is finished unless you save it. We pray you do. ❤️🇨🇦❤️

ICYMI Justice is blind, not loyal to a child raping fascist.

"Seeing Trump’s face on the facade of Main Justice simply verifies what Americans have been witnessing for months: Trump has completely taken over the federal agency intended to implement an impartial—and non-partisan—rule of law."

Someone better take this shit down.

Trump’s illegal domestic deployments cost taxpayers $496 million—and counting.

Including $21 million in Illinois.

There’s no money for health care.

But half a billion to waste on intimidating Americans in their own communities.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions: