Susan P Walsh @spwalshct.bsky.social

I had it in my head that I wanted the Silence=Death in my #AnimalCrossing House (along with a Keith Haring image). Then I hear today that Larry Kramer has died. RIP, and #ACTUP’s fight was a benefit to more than the Gay community. We’re all human. 1/2

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt breaks down how the US government spies on US citizens through the Data Broker Loophole: “The US government isn’t allowed to point it’s own cameras at the American people, but it is allowed to buy data from private companies who just happen to be collecting data on us and use that data to spy on us”

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court permanently disbarred John Eastman — a key architect in Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election — delivering one of the most consequential professional penalties yet for an election denier. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ke…

LMAO brilliant 😭😂🤣

Imagine this scene at Fox News. I’m going to shut down your factory of lies 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Vance publicly lectured the Pope on theology. Trump posted an image depicting himself as Christ. Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse during a Pentagon presser because he saw it in "Pulp Fiction" and thought it was a real verse. These people claim to be defending Christianity.

Another real banger from the Iranians, no lies detected.

If you want to understand the consequences of using AI in a military context, take a listen to this clip featuring journalist Shane Harris. For reference, Maven is a U.S. AI system which combines satellite intelligence, logisitcal data, and open-source intelligence into a single interface for target designation purposes. It was responsible for selecting the elementary school in Isfahan where 180 civilians were killed most of them children. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRVXgYjA/

No greater metaphor for this entire week than Pete Hegseth quoting a fake Bible verse from the movie Pulp Fiction to Pentagon staff.

The United States is so toxic on the world stage right now that it can’t fill hotels or sell World Cup tickets. Let that land. FIFA projected $30.5 billion in economic impact from millions of international visitors. That demand never showed up. Hotels in Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia and San Francisco have slashed match-day rates by a third from their peak. FIFA has cancelled tens of thousands of reserved rooms across all 16 host cities. Some hotels report cancellation rates above 95%. The reasons aren’t hard to find. Anti-American sentiment. Fear of border crossings. The Iran war driving up oil prices and airfares. And tickets priced into the stratosphere, with finals seats hitting $10,990 a pop. Industry executives are now openly blaming the Trump administration for the shortfall. Tourism economists say the Iran war made an already bad sentiment problem worse. Empty stadiums are now a real possibility. It happened at the Club World Cup last summer. It could happen again, on American soil, at the biggest sporting event on the planet. The White House says this will be “the greatest World Cup ever.” The market disagrees. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@JakeSucky What was she playing???

A 91 year old grandmother was given a welfare check after being unresponsive to her family. When police showed up, she was in her room breaking her personal record on a video game😭 Via News 5 Cleveland

🚨 NEW: Abigail Spanberger just signed a law ending the tax exemption status for the United Daughters of the Confederacy and other Confederate groups.

If we lived in a normal country, this would be the biggest story, and the biggest political scandal, but we live in Trump’s America so it’s, like, the 7th least controversial thing we heard from this administration this week.

100% of the U.S. Senators who committed a multi-billion dollar Medicare fraud are named Rick Scott.

Never too thug for a hug

THE CHAOS TRUMP HAS CAUSED TO THE WORLD ORDER - this week alone! * Mexico’s President is angry at Trump over deaths of Mexican nationals in ICE custody and the Cuba blockade. * Italy’s PM is upset with Trump’s treatment of the Pope. * Canada’s PM’s party won big in an election in a refutation of Trump * Trump’s pal in Hungary lost in a landslide * Saudi Foreign Minister, “The era of relying on the US has ended.” * Europeans are planing a “European NATO” without us * Europeans are planning a post war Strait of Hormuz effort without us. * China’s President says the world order is “crumbling into disarray” (he’s right) * Gallup finds the world views China’s leadership more favorably than the US under Trump.

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu aren’t just killing thousands and displacing millions in the Middle East. They’re now plunging tens of millions of people into poverty across the world.

So apparently Viktor Orbán has been bankrolling CPAC for years with taxpayer money, and the new Hungarian prime minister is planning to pull all their funding. What do you bet Russia was funneling money to conservatives via the Orbán regime? Massive scandal, IMHO.

140 police officers were beaten. With flagpoles. Batons. Baseball bats. Four died. Today the Justice Department erased the convictions of the men who organized it. And called it justice.