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@Acyn NOT interested in what Qball thinks

Fetterman: TSA agents are all hurting. They’re union government workers, and now if we refuse to give them a paycheck. They'll talk about affordability, if you don't even provide them with a paycheck.

PADILLA: Thanks to a lawsuit, we KNOW that the Trump Administration gave DHS the sensitive Social Security data of nearly every U.S. resident.

Trump just gave 13 tech billionaires the keys to America's AI policy. But there's a HUGE conflict of interest... The White House just announced the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Sounds boring. But wait until you understand what this is actually about. Here's who's on it: - Jensen Huang. CEO of Nvidia. His company sells the chips that EVERY AI company on Earth needs to survive. Nvidia is worth $4.4 trillion. And Jensen now gets to advise the president on the rules for the industry his company monopolizes. - Mark Zuckerberg. CEO of Meta. Currently planning to fire 20% of his workforce (15,000 people) while spending $135 billion on AI this year. His company just took a Pentagon contract. Now he's advising on AI workforce policy. The same guy firing 15,000 workers will help decide what happens to American workers displaced by AI. - Larry Ellison. Executive Chairman of Oracle. His company is $125 billion in debt. Bleeding cash. Betting everything on AI data centers funded by borrowed money from foreign banks. US lenders already turned him down. And he's now advising on AI infrastructure policy. The guy who can't get American banks to lend him money is going to shape how America builds its AI future. - Marc Andreessen. The venture capitalist who literally wrote the manifesto called "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto" arguing that AI regulation is dangerous. His firm Andreessen Horowitz has billions invested in AI startups. He's now advising on AI regulation. - Sergey Brin. Google co-founder. His company is spending $75 billion on AI this year and just issued $20 billion in debt including a 100-YEAR bond to fund it. - Lisa Su. CEO of AMD. Nvidia's direct competitor. Both CEOs are on the same council. Both will advise on chip policy. Both have financial interests that directly conflict with each other AND with the public interest. - Michael Dell. The guy who just dropped $6.25 billion on Trump's child investment accounts and gained $6 billion in market value the same week. - Safra Catz. Oracle's CEO. Same company. Same debt crisis. Two Oracle execs on a 13 person council. - Fred Ehrsam. Co-founder of Coinbase. The crypto exchange. On a council co-chaired by David Sacks, Trump's AI AND crypto czar. Crypto and AI policy being shaped by the same people who profit from both. - Jacob DeWitte. CEO of Oklo, the nuclear startup Sam Altman chaired until last year. Oklo builds reactors to power AI data centers. Now advising on the energy policy his company depends on. - Bob Mumgaard. CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Backed by Nvidia and Google. Building fusion reactors for AI data centers. His investors are sitting next to him on this council. - David Friedberg. Venture capitalist. Part of the Sacks network. - John Martinis. Google's former quantum computing lead. Built the chip that achieved quantum supremacy. That's 13 people. Combined market cap of the companies represented: Over $12 trillion. Combined AI spending commitments for 2026 alone: Roughly $700 billion. Zero consumer advocates. Zero labor representatives. Zero independent scientists. Zero ethicists. The people spending $700 billion on AI are now advising the government on how to regulate AI. The people firing hundreds of thousands of workers are now advising on workforce policy. The people $125 billion in debt from AI bets are now advising on AI infrastructure spending. This isn't a "council." Every regulation this council recommends will directly affect their stock prices, their market positions, and their competitive advantages. Jensen Huang advising on chip export policy affects Nvidia's revenue. Zuckerberg advising on AI safety regulation affects Meta's product roadmap. Ellison advising on cloud infrastructure policy affects Oracle's survival. Andreessen advising on AI startup regulation affects his portfolio returns. In any other industry, this would be called regulatory capture. In tech, they call it the "Golden Age of Innovation." 11 more seats are open. The first meeting hasn't been announced yet. But the rules of AI in America are about to be written by the people who profit the most from keeping them loose. What do you think about this?

Republicans reject a Democratic motion to fund TSA for the 10th time

Here is a video of you voting against TSA funding literally this week

@Acyn How out of shape can you be to navigate stairs like you’re 80?

Cammack on Lindsey Graham: I absolutely think that he should have his Oval Office credentials revoked.

Here is a video of you voting against TSA funding literally this week

Trump: "The Public is loving ICE. They are Great American Patriots, they just happen to have much larger, and harder, muscles than most — which is what they’re supposed to have. Thank you to ICE for the GREAT job you are doing. America very much appreciates it! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Congress had allocated billions of dollars for the expansion of low-cost wind and solar energy to help Americans afford their energy bills, but President Trump stopped it. Why? Because his billionaire oil donors asked him to.

@matthewstoller We are not going to survive as people or a nation for 3 more years. They are destroying our way of living in a functional society every single day.

The day after a jury convicts Meta of illegally endangering children, Trump puts Mark Zuckerberg on a panel overseeing AI regulation.

Reporter: President Trump has railed against mail in voting as rigged and said it’s a form of cheating as recently as Monday. In the special election yesterday, he voted by mail. How do you square those statements? Johnson: Some states handle mail in balloting well. Florida is a great example. They don't allow fraud. That is not true in other parts of the country. That's the concern especially in a state like California.

@atrupar Nope. Not exciting. But a toilet salesman may think so with all the 💩that he has to flush.

NATO Ambassador Matt Whitaker: "It's an exciting time to be in the US, to be an American citizen, but at the same time this is peace through strength"

Q: President Trump has railed against mail in voting, but yesterday he voted by mail in Florida. How do you square that? MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I think some states have handled mail-in balloting well. Florida is a good example of that. They don't allow fraud. That's not true in other parts of the country.

It’s a FELONY to steal someone’s Social Security data and give it away without consent– living or dead. Elon Musk ordered his DOGE goons to put 500 MILLION SSNs on a private server, which made us vulnerable to fraud, scams, & identity theft. Can we make some noise about this?

@TMT_arabic @KremlinTrolls Nah. All bullcrap. They have been saying it for months. Stop with this. 🤬

"Now, the United States and Israel should be worried." "The world-renowned hacking group 'Anonymous' has announced that it will soon release the full Epstein files, exposing everyone involved one by one."

Testimony just now at House Homeland Security Cmte is truly alarming Head of CISA, the US's cybersecurity agency, said they have *1,000* vacancies right now Post-DOGE and post-shutdowns.... that number is striking This agency protects against attacks on our infrastructure

Florida election records show Donald, Melania, and Barron Trump all voted by mail in the Florida HD-87 special election. This is despite the fact that Trump calls voting by mail "cheating" and is trying to significantly restrict voting by mail in his SAVE America Act.

@MollyJongFast But she’ll carve out something for just her constituents just like in the BBB and vote for it. Lady of the evening strikes again. Untrustworthy.

It’s a feature not a bug

The US Navy sent its two most powerful warships to fight Iran. Both are now gone from the front. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the most expensive warship ever built at $13.2 billion, left the Red Sea after a fire broke out in its laundry room. That’s the official story. The real story is what a Pentagon testing report quietly revealed at the same time. The Ford’s jet launch system is unreliable. Its radar is unreliable. Its weapons elevators, the lifts that move bombs and missiles to the flight deck, are unreliable. Pentagon testers said there is simply not enough data to assess whether the ship can keep operating if it takes enemy fire. Fixes for these combat systems have been identified. Most remain unfunded. The ship also doesn’t have enough bunks. It needs at least 159 more. This is the Navy’s flagship. Delivered years late. $13.2 billion. Deployed into a war zone with systems the Pentagon itself cannot certify as combat-ready. Then there’s the USS Abraham Lincoln. Iran claimed repeatedly that its missiles forced the Lincoln to retreat. The US called it propaganda. What’s not disputed: the Lincoln moved from 350 kilometers off the Iranian coast to over 1,100 kilometers away. Both carriers are now parked far beyond the range of Iranian anti-ship missiles. The Pentagon calls it “tactical repositioning.” The Ford has been at sea for nearly 11 months, one of the longest carrier deployments in modern US history. Maintenance on nuclear carriers takes months under normal conditions. After a fire, an 11-month deployment, and a backlog of deferred repairs, analysts are now talking about 12 to 14 months out of action. America went into this war with two carriers. It now has zero operating near the fight. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1