Patchen Mortimer

It's not every day The Onion makes fun of your work. I'm going to call that a win. theonion.com/city-of-baltim…

Of course MAGAs are now mad at HBO and threatening to boycott because, let me check my notes, the show "The Pitt" portrayed a very realistic scene of ICE Nazis kidnapping a patient in the ER and arresting a doctor saying the show demonized ICE agents 🙄

If Kamala had won, right now she would be touring one of the new housing projects funded by her housing program wearing a hard hat, taking pictures and cracking corny jokes. Instead of that we’re doing a boots on the ground war that will last at least the rest of the year.

I coined the terms "surveillance wages" and "surveillance prices" a few years back to try to wake people up to how totally dystopian the price and wage world we are entering is. SO gratifying to see state AGs now seeking outright bans and incredible grateful to @EmeritaTorresNY leading the fight In New. York. I believe we are going to ban surveillance prices in New York. Wages next.

I have spent a good part of my career just getting people to believe this was actually happening. Now we are here. With 15 drones, you can lose roughly 1/4 of the B-52 force as it sits idle on the ground. This was always the most concerning scenario. Time to move to hardening. Just a matter of time now till we learn the hard way.

The ‘drain the swamp’ president has a lobbyist raking in so much corporate cash for making antitrust problems disappear that he tells @WSJ on the record he could “retire right now,” just one year into Trump’s term.

Jay Nordlinger saw it coming. His article laid out the architecture. Now comes the confirmation: JD Vance is flying to Budapest to campaign for Orbán. Washington and Moscow, same direction, same result. This is no longer subtext. It is policy. Which is exactly why European leaders and NATO allies need to stop whispering and start speaking on the record. Publicly. By name. The American vice president is actively working to keep a Kremlin-aligned government in power inside a NATO member state. That sentence should be causing emergency sessions, not diplomatic silence. Nordlinger wrote the diagnosis. Europe needs to find its voice before the patient is gone. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

More lawyers in trouble for AI misuse today: Attorney represented a criminal defendant and filed an application to reopen an appeal. The application alleged prosecutorial misconduct and cited quotes attributed to the prosecutor. Only problem was the quotes were completely made up. "The page Appellant cites to on page 4 for the 'legally inflammatory' statement by the prosecutor- is, in fact, the court reporter’s signature page, with no statements of any type by the prosecutor." The fake quotes came from ChatGPT. A paralegal uploaded case materials to ChatGPT and pasted the output into the application. The lawyer didn't catch it. But it gets worse: after the application was denied, the lawyer appealed the denial to the Ohio Supreme Court anyway. And when he submitted his firms "AI Policy" to show he was taking corrective action, the court determined that the policy itself was AI-generated and was incomplete. "The proffering of an AI-generated AI policy as a remedial measure in a case involving the submission of AI-generated fabrications to this court is, at best, ironic." And two months after the sanctions hearing in this case, the attorney did it again, in another case. He submitted a filing with the ChatGPT prompt embedded in the filing itself: "Would you like me to draft the next argument section (e.g., argument 1 – B on the 'nature of the charge' omission) in the same tone and format so your brief reads as a seamless multi-print memorandum?" Sanctions: -$2,000 fine -Referral to Ohio Office of Disciplinary Counsel -Must serve copy of judgment on judge of every court in which he makes an appearance, for 2 years -Must include certification that all cases are real and verified, for 2 years -6 hours mandatory CLE about AI ethics -Must write apology letters to prosecutor, trial judge, trial defense counsel, and prior appellate counsel who were defamed by fake quotes.

The phlebotomist yesterday was making small talk with me, and I said “it’s been unusually cold this week”. And she goes “yeah I asked ChatGPT when it’s going to start warming up and he said late March, so we’re almost there. I believe in chat”. And I asked her why she didn’t just check the weather app. And she just laughed. Like you have no idea how many people are just casually using AI for the most ridiculous things that they’ve neverrrrr needed to use AI for in the past. 🥴

Audible gasps from the crowd at Sen. Adam Schiff’s Hollywood hearing when he says that from 2022 to 2024 L.A. County lost 42,000 motion picture industry jobs.

Minneapolis was an existentially seismic repudiation of popularism. It dramatically reversed what was supposed to be a permanent right-wing consensus on immigration and did so by forcibly altering the narrative with extraordinary rage and effective, disciplined collective action.

Is it bad when the Vice Admiral who was *checks notes* in charge of naval planning for CENTCOM says that a ground operation into Iran is a horrendous idea?

Mr President, Do not! Please! Do not put a detachment ashore in Iran. Every wargame ends badly for the invasion force, Iran’s civilians, and the world's economy. It is a quagmire without end. Call victory and leave.

SHE HAS A NAME!!!!!!! Eva Ramón Gallegos successfully eliminates HPV

BREAKING: Governor JB Pritzker just took a stand and called for the undoing of the Citizens United ruling. This is spot on.

Every Ice agent and every male prison employee should be required to provide DNA so that they can be matched up to their kids for child support. And criminal prosecution

This is not incompetence. This is intentional. They don't want to fix the catastrophe they've created. They want chaos. They want crashes. They want unprecedented social unrest. The Epstein class has plans. Plans so horrific they use child rape and cannibalism as a cover story.

Pete Hegseth is an alcoholic Christian nationalist, with the IQ of Texas roadkill in August, that thinks he’s the head of some modern day Templar army in a new Christian Crusade. His impeachment needs to be televised. He will cry like a little bitch.

Murkowski said the structure of the ID requirements were too cumbersome and would restrict voting access - which is true. Rather than dig in and fight for a fair bill, she’s happy to have those requirements if you exempt voters 65+ Hey @lisamurkowski if you know something is wrong, then it’s absolute cowardice to carve out your base and screw over all other American’s. Try actually standing for something for once!

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Update: Yesterday, we filed a lawsuit to block the biggest TV merger in history (Nexstar + Tegna). That sparked a sprint by Nexstar to try to close the deal before a court could stop them. Less than 24 hours after we filed, USDOJ reportedly dropped its investigation, the FCC waived the rules that would normally block a merger this big, and Nexstar announced the deal was closed. Their CEO thanked the FCC chairman by name. Not so fast. This morning, I joined a group of AGs and filed an emergency motion asking the court to freeze this merger to give it time to hear our case. This merger deserves a full hearing before Nexstar starts raising TV prices on almost half the families in North Carolina and laying off reporters at local news stations across the state. This isn't speculation. Nexstar told its investors it expects to make roughly $135 million a year from charging higher fees to your cable and satellite provider, and another $165 million from "synergies" - their word for laying people off. And the law is on our side. When a merger gives one company this much control over a market, federal antitrust law presumes it's illegal. In every single NC market affected by this deal, the concentration blows past the legal threshold. It's not a close call, and that's probably why they tried to skip the part where a judge weighs in. Our emergency motion was just filed. I'll keep you posted.