Chris Floyd

All of this could easily be stopped if the Republicans in the House and Senate cared about this country. They could easily impeach and remove Trump from office just based on his pardons for bribes. Once he is gone from power, they will be free, and the country will heal.

@OrganikHipHop Thousandaires will support billionaires with the hopes of one day being a millionaire all the while selling out people already poorer than even the thousandaires.

Pretty surprising how many humans will defend billionaires subjecting low class citizens to an even lower class lifestyle.

MacFarlane: Here's the first sign that you have an indefensible idea. You have to pervasively put out false information to defend that idea. The critics of the January 6th prosecutions have alleged it was a Biden launched weaponization. It was Donald Trump's first term in which those prosecutions were launched. It was Trump's department of justice that did so. They called themselves victims of weaponized prosecutions. That assumes that every single grand juror and every single trial juror, hundreds of people were all in on this, which is a preposterous notion.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations. The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead. Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described. The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding. The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months. Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight. Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now. She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

@nicksortor Indicted by Biden DOJ. Turned in by Minnesota state officials.

🚨 BREAKING: The mastermind behind the Feeding Our Future fraud scam in Minnesota has just been sentenced to 41.5 YEARS in prison Holy CRAP! Aimee Bock orchestrated the $250 MILLION scam during COVID, billing taxpayers for fake meals for children. She deserves every single day of this sentence! MORE OF THIS! 🔥

@Saritaregresa @EnriAlejandroTV @jeromesilverma2 Jesus weeps at your support for someone like Trump. Not one thing about Trump is Christian. FDR was elected 4 times because the Republicans caused a Depression and he saved the country and won WW2. Hoover was an economic idiot like Trump, and Trump learned nothing from history.

@EnriAlejandroTV @jeromesilverma2 Democrats have always been commies. That’s why Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to pack the courts and served as President of the United States 4 times. He only left bc he died.

While Donald Trump is indicting Cuban communist dictator Raúl Castro, Barack Obama was attending baseball games with him in Havana.

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…

@OleTimeHardball Long Gone is an underappreciated classic, and honestly, I like it better than Bull Durham.

What’s the greatest baseball movie of all-time?

@NearApocalypse8 @isailinares6 @MelAaronGibson1 He wouldn't have been charged if it was considered self defense. And once he was charged then the bond would be significantly higher.

@cffloyd @isailinares6 @MelAaronGibson1 you cant defend yourself if you are out on bond?

🚨 BREAKING: Outrage is erupting nationwide after a known violent criminal with over 60 CHARGES killed US Marine Daniel Montano, 21, in Wilmington NC Davy Spencer LENGTHY record includes felonies and violent offenses. They knew. But judges released him. LOCK UP THE JUDGES.

@EricSlentz @MelAaronGibson1 GOP is in charge of all three branches of government

@MelAaronGibson1 And had the marine defended himself he would be doing life in prison. You cannot win as a white man in Democrats America

@isailinares6 @MelAaronGibson1 Chud was out on bond when he committed this offense. So that's why his bond was so high. Stop being racist and read something.

@MelAaronGibson1 Why yall surprised 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Want to buy a truck? DENIED. Want to buy a gun? DENIED. Want to protest the government? ACCOUNT FROZEN. This is the future under a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)—total government control over your money, your spending, and your life. Ban CBDC. FOREVER!

Fun fact for the $10 billion lawsuit crowd. The IRS leak that exposed Donald Trump’s tax returns happened between August 2019 and November 2020. 405,427 other taxpayer returns were also leaked. Trump was president. His own pick, Charles Rettig, ran the IRS. The contractor who did it, Charles Littlejohn, worked on a Trump-era IRS contract and is now serving five years in federal prison. On January 29, 2026, Trump sued the IRS and Treasury for $10 billion over a breach that happened on his watch, under his commissioner, by a contractor his administration paid. He is suing the federal government he ran, for failing to stop a leak that occurred while he was running it. The taxpayer foots the bill either way.

@TheELBushman @MlbSieradzki Run differential, the Rays are closing the gap on the Yankees. And the Rays are 13-11 against teams above .500. The Yankees are 1-9. Not only do the Rays do way better against better competition, but they also played more than twice as many games against teams above .500.

@MlbSieradzki Gotta have the run differential lol

BUT BUT THE RUN DIFFERENTIAL AND XYZ RECORD?!?! #RaysUp

@_the_real_balla @smooooooochie @tlschwerz Griffin Jax ERA since joining the Rays 3.73 Taj Bradley since joining the Twins 4.37 Still early but wouldn't say Twins won the trade

@smooooooochie @tlschwerz We literally got Taj Bradley so still won the trade

Tonight was former Twins reliever Griffin Jax's 5th start as he transitions to the rotation for the Rays. His numbers: 19.0 IP 13 H 4 R 3 ER 1 HR 8 BB 14 K 1.42 ERA

@stoolpresidente @OldTakesExposed

As somebody who won a ton of Eastern Conference Finals I want to tell Knicks fans not to give up. That looked like a rust game to me. Plus probably over confident after beating a pathetic Sixers team. Long series. Keep your head up. I knew it wouldn’t be easy. You guys aren’t that good but you can still win this thing. Chin up.

A mind-blowing-but-true fact about Trump's stock trading. Trump traded up to ~$700 million in stock in Q1 of 2026. The 535 Members of Congress made ~$635 million in trades in 2025. Trump bought and sold more stock in 3 months than all of Congress put together did in a year.

@bkrickles @DanClarkSports If only there were infinite places to make that wager. You will be a millionaire in October. It's called the under.

@DanClarkSports I bet they don't get to 90

The #Rays are on pace for 109 wins.

@Eugene646 @DanClarkSports Swept the Yankees. Have won 8 series in a row. Haven't been swept this season. But yeah, say more dumb shit.

@DanClarkSports Can’t play Boston every week

@confusion_reign @Packersplswin @daysduringnal Yeah, guy running Yandy Diaz fan account, be calmer when attacking a dumb hypothetical trade disrespecting Yandy Diaz and his value and also the Rays viability. You act like the Tigers are a piece a way. Lolololol.

@Packersplswin @daysduringnal You can just say that you don’t think the Rays will trade him. That’s allowed

how can anything change when the entire org praises these shitty baseball players and doesn’t ask for more

@TKras Throw at Henderson's hands. Diaz did not deserve that. That was chicken shit by Cano. I don't advocate for throwing at the head ever or for beaning a guy because he celebrated. But there has to be a deterrent for this. Throwing at Yandy because he had success? That's bush league.

Yandy Diaz left the game after being hit by a pitch in the 8th. Hopefully it isn’t bad.