CAT - (Cathy) 🇺🇸⚖️🇺🇦 🦅 🇬🇱 2026 🔭

👇🏻and very appropriate at this time.

This is amazing. The New York Times put together a graphic of how much time cabinet members spend kissing up to Trump in meetings. "On average, at least one of every six sentences either flattered Mr. Trump, gave him credit or criticized his political opponents." North Korea.

Somos la generación de la Inteligencia Artificial, de la secuenciación del genoma humano y la que conquistará el espacio. La posteridad no nos juzgará por esos logros sino por cómo fue posible que millones de personas murieran de hambre pudiendo evitarlo. Hagamos que esa pregunta nunca llegue a formularse.

@gregolear We’re living in IDIOCRACY 🤦🏻‍♀️

Sunday, June 14, 2026 is Flag Day and, more importantly for our purposes, Donald Trump’s 80th birthday. On that day, ostensibly to celebrate the nation’s semiquincentennial, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, or UFC, will hold a mixed martial arts extravaganza on the South Lawn of the White House, not far from the ruins of the East Wing. The event is being promoted as “The Most Historic Sporting Event of All Time,” which it most assuredly is not; the hyperbolic copy sounds suspiciously like something the Birthday Boy came up with himself. UFC Freedom 250 features the two things (other than golf and sexual assault) that Trump loves most: 1) bloodsport and 2) sweaty, handsome, rugged men with big muscles.1 In Donald’s mind, he is a Roman emperor at the arena, presiding over a bevy of interchangeable gladiators—the ultimate arbiter of life and death for the vanquished, Avē Imperātor, moritūrī tē salūtant and all that. In actuality, this is Trump’s twist on Marilyn Monroe singing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” to JFK. Trump first floated the idea at the Iowa State Fair last July. “Does anybody watch UFC?” he mused. “The great Dana White.” Context clues would suggest that Dana White is one of the legends of the sport. Not so! Dana White is the guy who looks like a hybrid of Joe Rogan, Hank from Breaking Bad, Daddy Warbucks, and a baby manatee. He’s not the Patrick Mahomes or the LeBron James of MMA. He’s not even an athlete. He’s a businessman—the CEO of UFC. Saying “Does anybody watch UFC? The great Dana White” is like saying, “Did anybody see Pulp Fiction? The great Harvey Weinstein.” Needless to say, Dana White is a big Trump supporter. “We’re going to have a UFC fight on the grounds of the White House,” Trump continued. “We have a lot of land there. Dana’s going to do it. Dana’s great, one of a kind. We’re going to have a UFC fight, a championship fight, like full fight, 20, 25 thousand people and we’re going to do that as part of [Freedom] 250 also.” About “250 also.” In the two headliners, a Brazilian national and a Georgian national will attempt to kick the shit out of each other. Then, a Frenchmen will attempt to kick the shit out of a white dude from Arizona. Other bouts include a Canadian, an Englishman, and another Brazilian. This would be a fitting homage to the diversity of the American people, if the regime that commissioned the event wasn’t run by a xenophobic white supremacist currently building concentration camps to detain immigrants—and also if more than one Black man was involved. (Dana is not the only thing about the UFC that’s White.) Having spent one malarial summer in the nation’s capital, I can confidently predict that it will be hot and jungles-of-Vietnam humid on June 14th. There will also be, White tells us, an army of gnats annoying the shit out of the fighters and the spectators both. So, come on down to MAGApalooza! White Nationalist Woodstock! Burning Manchild! There will be blood! And sweat! And lib’rul tears! There’s a lot of land there! Seriously, though: even after all the crazy of the last 16 months—and there’s been a record high of crazy—I still can’t quite believe that this is actually happening. READ MORE: gregolear.substack.com/p/ufc-freedom-…

@FPWellman @capnhap73 Mind numbing stupidity with the oligarchs

Because AI isn’t just a tech issue. It’s a moral one. Who are we as humans? Do we prioritize unchecked tech over human well-being? Do we destroy our planet for wealth? Only the rich seem to think we are idiots for questioning them. All of the people on this screen are very rich.

This is how it feels to be treated by Trump like a terrorist or war criminal (comprehensive financial sanctions) simply for having affirmed as an International Criminal Court judge the wholly valid and justified war-crime charges against Israel’s Netanyahu and Gallant.

@Patrickwebb @J1gglyf3lla He must be due in court tomorrow? 😝

BREAKING: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been admitted into a hospital in Jerusalem, per Jerusalem Times.

I feel like I'm eating crazy pills when I read the countless bad takes around how the Vatican would have virtually anointed Anthropic. When if you read the Pope's encyclical it's actually a COMPLETE repudiation of everything Anthropic - and U.S. AI generally - stands for. Read this part of the encyclical for instance (paragraph 110: #Artificial_intelligence" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">vatican.va/content/leo-xi…): "Finally, I would like to employ the expression 'to disarm,' which is close to my heart. Disarming AI means freeing it from the mentality of 'armed' competition, which today is not limited simply to the military context, but is also an economic and cognitive phenomenon. This entails a race for ever more powerful algorithms and larger datasets, driven by the desire to secure geopolitical or commercial dominance. To disarm means discrediting the assumption that technical power automatically confers the right to govern. To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity. It means freeing technology from monopolistic control and opening it to discussion and debate, therefore making it human-friendly and restoring it to the plurality of human cultures and ways of life." In a nutshell what the Pope is saying is: 1) The "AI race" mentality itself is the disease: there is no "winning it responsibly", we need to stop seeing AI as a way "to secure geopolitical or commercial dominance" 2) Technical dominance and being the most powerful does not give you the right to set the rules 3) AI must be "freed from monopolistic control", opened to scrutiny, and "restored to the plurality of human cultures" Now compared and contrast it with what Anthropic is officially saying - namely Dario Amodei in his famous essay "Machines of Loving Grace" (darioamodei.com/essay/machines…): 1) Where the Pope says stop the AI race. Dario says win it: "A coalition of democracies [should seek] to gain a clear advantage on powerful AI by securing its supply chain, scaling quickly, and blocking or delaying adversaries' access to key resources like chips and semiconductor equipment." 2) Where the Pope says technical power doesn't confer the right to govern. Dario says it does: "This coalition would on one hand use AI to achieve robust military superiority (the stick) while at the same time offering to distribute the benefits of powerful AI (the carrot) to a wider and wider group of countries in exchange for supporting the coalition's strategy." 3) Where the Pope says free AI from monopolistic control and restore it to the plurality of human cultures. Dario says concentrate it and use it to impose one model: "If we can do all this, we will have a world in which democracies lead on the world stage and have the economic and military strength to avoid being undermined, conquered, or sabotaged by autocracies, and may be able to parlay their AI superiority into a durable advantage. This could optimistically lead to an 'eternal 1991.'" These aren't cherry-picked gotchas. This is the central thesis of Dario's essay. And Anthropic keeps repeating this over and over. On May 14, just days ago, Anthropic published a 5,000-word policy essay titled "2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership" (anthropic.com/research/2028-…) urging the US to "lock in a 12-24 month lead" over China by blocking chips, cutting off model access, and ensuring that "democracies, not authoritarian regimes" control AI. They warn that "a lead in frontier AI will enable a widening lead across the full national security technology stack" and urge America not to "squander our advantage." This is, almost word for word, everything the Pope is condemning in his encyclical. I'll grant Anthropic one thing: they have an excellent PR team. Turning what's an obvious repudiation into a perceived endorsement is pretty masterful. But it doesn't mean you have to fall for it...

The President’s stock dealing, $1.8-billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund, and grant of immunity from the I.R.S. demonstrate the need for major ethics reforms. newyorker.com/news/the-finan…

You can’t spend two months telling America you destroyed Iran’s military and then call new strikes “self-defense.”

A Kazakh mining company partly owned by the Trump family has a $900 million taxpayer-backed line of credit from the Export-Import Bank, a federal agency that subsidizes U.S. companies’ overseas dealings.

One of the downstream consequences of pretending that Trump was ever fit to be president is that the GOP is training its voters to want unserious performers and conspiracy theorists (as Trump was/is) to play a serious role in American politics and that should scare us all.

Just in: “U.S. forces conducted self-defense strikes in southern Iran today to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces, US CENTCOM spokesman told CNN in a statement Monday when asked about explosions reported around the Strait of Hormuz. “Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines. U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.”

BREAKING: US forces struck two IRGC boats laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz and missile sites in Bandar Abbas, per CENTCOM spokesperson. A source close to Iran's Ghalibaf says Iran's "decisive response" is now underway. The deal is off.

@DrewLgb3000 @valleonardcomc1 @NPRinskeep Yea, right dipshit Drew 🤡

@valleonardcomc1 @NPRinskeep @Real_Chatty_Cat Not tax payer money; UFC and TKO groups are paying for the entire thing. Including lawn restoration if any is damaged. Google is free. 🤡

Over the weekend, the UFC announced this rendering of what MMA cage matches on the White House lawn should look like on June 14. 1/2

@ForeignPolicy You mean 😢 like this??

Like Homelander, Trump’s own ego could eventually make him a target of the very frustration and resentment that he himself helped cultivate, Tim Brinkhof writes in his review of the final season of “The Boys.” foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/22/the…

It is a honor to represent the estate of USCP Officer Brian Sicknick in litigation against President Trump.

This result could single-handedly cause MAGA to go insane.

Russia announces that it will systematically bomb Kyiv, including diplomatic missions. Trump & the US do not even protest. Trump is the greatest coward the US has ever had as president.