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@JohnE_Fabb @samfbiddle So it's just a coincidence that they used white supremacists or nationalist songs and posters on multiple occasions? Especially when those are not used in other places.

This is the biggest load of trash that Colorado has put out yet. CIAC is being run into the ground by leftist dogma. It used to be great, and I actively had an agent assigned to them in the past. Their hate of immigration policy and President Trump is overly evident. This is an opinion hit piece. ICE does not want to or try to recruit white supremacists. In fact, a large percentage of ICE and Border Patrol officers are minorities. Colorado is run by socialist democrats who control much of the media and even try to control language.

NEW: A U.S. counter-terror fusion center believes ICE's tweets are so racist they could incite acts of violence by white supremacists and encourage neo-Nazis to get hired, according to an internal memo we obtained. theintercept.com/2026/05/21/ice…

"The only way they can win is to cheat." This is something he's been saying for years, and it is a bottomlessly irresponsible thing for an American president to say. Just standing alone, it's disqualifying, impeachable even.

@jimmy1220x @jribas @Acyn No one said they were going to be successful or smart about it

@jribas @Acyn “Reporting”. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Did you report on how an unarmed crowd led by a guy in a buffalo hat was gonna overthrow the worlds greatest superpower. You that kind of reporter. It was an op. Just like Russia Russia Russia. Sorry to steal your innocence.

Rep. Norman: January 6th was an issue that was made up in the first place. Reporter: Made up? Norman: That was a staged thing from day one. Reporter: The riot was staged? Your Republican colleagues barricaded themselves in their chamber. You think they were acting?

@pitdesi Anthropic was so smart to avoid video and image generation

For every $1 OpenAI made in Q1 ($5.7B), it lost $1.22. For every $1 Anthropic makes in Q2 ($10.9B), it expects to make 5 cents in operating profits. (don't have OpenAI Q2 data nor Anthropic Q1 to compare apples to apples)

@YIMBYLAND Well most company towns were extractive taking a resource not trying to attract people and take resources from other places.

Bentonville is such an interesting case study in how a company town can be done right and thrive.

Today I learned that Bentonville funds their infrastructure through Walton family loans to the order of a quarter-billion dollars. 🤯

@jasonc_nc I live in a fairly walkable neighborhood with at least 10 different places. You can get food within a quarter mile. I still see my neighbor order doordash for McDonald's or some other random worse and just as expensive place. It makes no sense to me

So I polled the staff at one of our restaurants and was shocked at how many order from DoorDash weekly if not multiple times per week.

The Police Chief of Cambridge with decades in service had to plead to a 23 year old councilwoman to not get rid of Shot spotter as it was saving lives. The Police chief was unsuccessful. State of the nation.

@pasracic @jake_zuckerman Why should trillion dollar companies get tax breaks that citizens have to pay? Plus with those abatements there are still sometimes citizens have to make up the difference for resources

Do people understand that "tax breaks" aren't "taking money?" If the company doesn't invest in Ohio, you're starting at zero tax dollars. The amount you might collect with no abatements is never realized without the investment. Sales tax % X 0 = 0. You also need to include income tax paid by those employed in constructing dc and sales tax on private purchases they make. None of that state money exists without the initial investment.

Ohio's sales tax exemption for builders of new data centers was expected to cost ~$136 million in 2025. The Department of Taxation now says the tax break cost Ohio **$1.57** billion in lost revenue, with most the savings flowing to Big Tech. signalohio.org/ohio-data-cent…

@PokeysaurusRex @JeremiahDJohns Also Subway ended the $5 footlong in 2014 over 12 years ago.

@JeremiahDJohns Notably the $5 Footlong was implemented in 2008 because the economy was crashing to the ground. It wasn’t just how cheap things used to be, things were MORE expensive before that and prices dropped.

Here's the thing - and this will make people furious but it's true - the economy is not shit. It's fine. Weak in a few spots, but if you think 4.3% unemployment is a shit economy you're just not living in reality. 2009 was a shit economy. 2020 was a shit economy. 2026 is fine.

@Shizcrey Subway ended the $5 footlong in 2014 over 12 years ago. Maybe you just have nostalgia for a time that didn't exist

I own a home. I cook food. 10 years ago I could get a $5 footlong at Subway and eat half for lunch and half for dinner. Stop being dense, economy is shit and telling zoomers it's all fine they just need to eat like it's the great depression isn't the rebuttal you think it is.

This is why I always preferred GenAI to output code or steps that could be reproduced to see other results. It's amazing at many tasks but verification is still important. Trust but Verify might make a comeback

“They” didn’t leak Trump’s tax returns. An IRS contractor did - along with thousands of other tax returns - during Trump’s first term. Biden’s DOJ prosecuted the contractor, who got the max: 5 years in prison. This is shameful spin from SDNY U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton.

@CircumjovialLLC @OpenAI We built the machine that could do this. That is the human achievement

@OpenAI This is not a human achievement. We exist for human achievement. A world where we are all passive observers while AI models do all the achieving is a nightmarish dystopia and humanity can choose not to take that path.

Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids. An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better. This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.

@Tom4theright @rg_viza @ChrisMurphyCT Yeah it's weird how they only change the regulations after they were given millions of dollars

@rg_viza @ChrisMurphyCT Yes, because those restrictions are fucking stupid. They should have been and would have been rolled back with or without a donation.

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy #donation-big-tobacco-vaping" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/05/2…

@optiontrader001 @theDigitalCCH @MikeLevin Again, the financial disclosure form says it wasn't the trust that made the decision to buy them. So most likely it was the family, why else do you think it was a coincidence that they bought stock and then promoted it in the same day?

Now that’s fucking retarded. I didn’t say those trades weren’t made on his behalf by his trust. I said he didn’t personally make them. It’s also pretty crazy how financially ignorant you people are. The stocks he’s buying are the same stocks everybody is buying. Those stocks are in almost every fund you can buy, because the MAG7 are the stocks that drive the market. Anybody involved in the market is buying those stocks. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it. Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago. IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued. The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk. The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit. Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.”  Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million. The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out. This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president. Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues? nytimes.com/2026/05/19/adm…

I can't believe we are still doing this. Underage voters: This is flatly false. Georgia's Secretary of State investigated this claim by comparing the full list of people who voted against their birthdays. The audit revealed there were zero underage voters in the 2020 election. Raffensperger stated directly: "They said there were 66,000 underage voters. There were zero." Dead voters: Vastly overstated. State officials investigated this and found a total of two instances of a deceased person's name being used to cast a ballot. "Usually, that's somebody who died recently, and a family member votes with [the name]," a state official noted, adding that such a handful of cases is consistent with every election. Felons illegally voting: Significantly exaggerated. The Trump campaign alleged 2,056 felons voted illegally. Georgia officials said they were investigating a total of 74 potential felons who may have cast ballots. When Georgia's State Election Board referred cases for prosecution, among them were just four incidents of felons voting or registering to vote in the 2020 general election. 2,423 not registered to vote: Also false. Raffensperger specifically addressed this: "They said that there were 2,423 non-registered voters. There were zero." 1,043 voted via PO box: This claim conflates voter registration addresses with actual fraud. Having a P.O. box associated with a registration record is not itself illegal, and investigators found no evidence of fraudulent voting tied to P.O. boxes. A state audit examining this issue found no proof of fraudulent ballots. 4,926 voted after registration: This claim has also been investigated and found to be based on data mismatches — primarily clerical errors in dates, data entry issues, or voters who were already on the rolls and whose records were updated after the election. No credible evidence of people actually voting before being registered was found. 395 voted multiple states: This claim was based on matching names and partial data across state lines — a notoriously unreliable method that generates false positives. Investigators found no substantiated cases of double-voting that would have affected the outcome. 40,279 voted after moving counties: This one has the most merit and actually is the hardest to part, but it's largely a misunderstanding of the law. Georgia election officials have repeatedly said they found no credible examples of election fraud related to address changes. Critically, federal law is directly relevant here: the National Voter Registration Act explicitly states that a state cannot remove a voter from the rolls on the ground that they changed residence unless the registrant confirms in writing that they moved outside the jurisdiction. In other words, voters who have moved but haven't updated their registration are often still legally entitled to cast a ballot in their former jurisdiction under federal law. Sworn affidavits: Yes, they exist. Affidavits allege but do not prove. The point of an affidavit is for a court to review it. Courts reviewed these extensively. Trump's legal team's challenges were repeatedly rejected in court, with one judge writing that plaintiffs presented "strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations... unsupported by evidence." So, yes, cool list. All B.S. Also, btw, all super old (we knew most of this 4-6 years ago).

@MeggieSkywalk @optiontrader001 @theDigitalCCH @MikeLevin Except his form says the opposition and they were recommended by an outside source to the broker. Plus you really think it's a coincidence the same day he makes a big purchase in multiple companies he posts their stock ticker? finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks…

@optiontrader001 @theDigitalCCH @MikeLevin I bet he’s not even communicating with the people managing his trades. He would absolutely never do something like that. It’s not like he’s a crook or anything.

@optiontrader001 @theDigitalCCH @MikeLevin Who told you Trump or his family didn't make the trades? In their form they file there were lots of unsolicited trades which are initiated without formal broker recommendations and just coincidentally are the same days he visits or posts about the ticket? finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks…

@theDigitalCCH @MikeLevin People don’t even realize Trump didn’t make those trades himself.

There is just some insanely stupid discourse around food delivery. Getting food delivered is expensive