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Et tu, Scaramucci? instagram.com/reels/DU16qowD… What has to be "done about Citizens United" is the only thing that could be done: reverse the lower court decision that extended it to create SuperPACs. That's what Neal "the tariff slayer" Katyal is going to do in DTA v. Schneider - bit.ly/EndSuperPACs

Something has to be done about Citizens United. Since January 2010 we’ve had unlimited money go to politicians. Campaign donations are up eight times since then and 36% of all that money is coming from the top 0.1% of the population. You think those people are donating out of patriotism? They are buying protection. Corporate tax cuts. No antitrust enforcement. No breakups. No accountability. And it is working perfectly. We used to bust monopolies in this country. Teddy Roosevelt made it a centerpiece of American democracy. The idea was simple — concentrated power in the hands of a few is a threat to everyone else. We don’t do that anymore. Not because the monopolies got more virtuous. Because the monopolies got better at buying the people who would have stopped them. This is not a left issue or a right issue. This is a math issue. When 36 cents of every dollar in politics comes from a fraction of a fraction of the population — those are the only people getting served. The rest of us are just paying for the system that ignores us. Reform Citizens United. Bring back antitrust enforcement. Or watch it get worse. Loved my time on @RealTimers @billmaher

Coming to SXSW? I’m joining The Knowledge Paradox: When Does Sharing Become Theft? at SXSW Innovation. ➡️ Sat, Mar 14 | 2:30–3:30 PM CT ➡️ Thompson Austin, Red River Ballroom A session to confront complexity (and to out myself as an alien in this debate).

i am so thrilled my song is in this game called SEED . congratulations everyone !!! warmth , björk

The number of troubling “coincidences” keeps piling up regarding the death of Jeffrey Epstein. The investigation into Epstein’s death must be reopened and conducted by an independent entity, instead of by people who work under a giant banner of trump’s face.

Wow. RIP courage@BBC reddit.com/r/videos/s/LsJ…

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An extortionist caving: wsj.com/us-news/law/tr…

This is a beautiful act of integrity and principle, incredibly rare for our time. Thank you, Anthropic. anthropic.com/news/statement…

This is a great idea

Yes, This Latest Trump Revelation Out of the Epstein Files Seem Big talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/yes-thi… via @TPM

Tired of winning

“Intercepted phone calls and messages from senior Russians ridiculing Trump have been shared by the British with the Americans. ‘We have continually shown them intelligence that shows the Russians are lying,’ a senior security source revealed. ‘The Russians are privately mocking Trump over his naivety about Putin’s intentions. Putin doesn’t want to end the war.’” archive.ph/DONGl

Useful. The Internet never forgets. Unfortunately, these formally rational people have forgotten what it's like to be moral. #Hypocrisy

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/…

The SAVE Act would make voting harder for millions of Americans. It’s based on the lie that noncitizens routinely vote in our elections — the truth is that noncitizen voting is already illegal and vanishingly rare. bit.ly/4qS8wBr

A new report from @pressfreedom finds that nearly all Palestinian journalists imprisoned by Israel were subject to abuse, sometimes including torture, rape and starvation. cpj.org/special-report… I'd just add that the Biden and Trump administrations were both complicit.

Translation.

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Just so I understand this. Anthropic's leadership is saying, hey, we have this amazing product we are comfortable with you using provided you don't use it for mass surveillance of Americans or to have weapons fire without humans involved. And the Pentagon is saying, no?