TheDuchessofKitty 🇺🇸🇵🇷 Mariner’s Wife ⚓️

Fly & lodge them if you can. I’m sure others with $ will contribute. There are many singers out there willing and grateful to show their music + represent their State. This can be their chance. Hollywood can suck dirt.

@realDonaldTrump Dear Mr. President, Trouble keeping talent for 7/4 in DC? Bypass A-listers completely. You don’t need them. America’s got WHOLE LOTTA TALENT & willing to show it. Pick one musical act per each state & territory. Extend Fest Th/F/S.

@EndWokeness Every NYPD cop with some integrity left: resign or retire at once. And move yourself and family the hell outta dodge. Don’t risk your life for ingrate jerks. The City is lost.

BREAKING: Edwin Raymond appointed NYC Sheriff by Mamdani. He believes policing is systemically racist. He wants less arrests of non-Whites:

@Shem_Infinite @RonColeman How about musicians and artists from all the 50 States & territories? Isn’t there usually a Folk Fest at the National Mall around 7/4? Who better than artists representing their States?

Whoever President Trump gets to replace these washed up, America hating, crybaby musicians at the Great American State Fair will be a massive improvement.

@johnkonrad @PeteButtigieg Gotta ask, where’s all the Alumni $ going?… Because, isn’t that supposed to cover expenses that funding doesn’t? Every May, there’s a “Giving Challenge” week for all 5 Fed Academies. KP usually tops the others. Where’s it going? Or is it not enough?

Yep. The number of Black midshipmen at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy plummeted under @PeteButtigieg. The DEI theater distracted leadership and money from basic facility maintenance. Black candidates with strong SATs walked the campus, saw plastic forks, porta-poties, a flooded basement gym and cold showers, and asked the obvious question: why would I take this when I have a stack of full scholarships from real colleges? White candidates showed up anyway, because Kings Point was the only school offering them free tuition. That is the whole story. Performative diversity programs at the top, broken plumbing at the bottom, and the most competitive Black recruits walking straight out the door to schools that actually invested in their campus. DEI did not lift them. It literally chased them off.

@TeamTalaricoHQ But with damned good defense, he was cleared. Cleared. All y’all wanted was the mugshot. Take it away, @TonyBuzbee2 !

Three years ago today, Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party for using his public office to enrich himself and his donors.

@FedSlayer What is that thing called? The hubby may be interested.

Every guy who’s ever hung upper cabinets just watched this and whispered “where the hell was that tool 10 years ago.” Meanwhile half the comments are acting like it’s cheating instead of realizing construction spent 80 years turning two-man jobs into chiropractor appointments. One laser line, one support arm, and suddenly the install doesn’t involve balancing 90 pounds of cabinet on your forehead while your buddy says “hold on I almost got it.”

@esrtweet @TheLastRefuge2 The only person responsible for John Cornyn’s loss tonight is… John Cornyn. Period.

Ken Paxton's victory in Texas has, I think, interesting implications for the national political scene. Coming on top of a string of similar events, this is very bad news for anybody who wants to think MAGA is declining in influence or Trump is a spent force. I'm not MAGA - I'm too libertarian and insufficiently populist to fit - so I can analyze this without my wishes interfering with my vision. There have been a lot of very determined attempts to fragment the MAGA base and attempt to drive a wedge between them and the Trumpster. I see this on X and other social media - lots of indignant blithering about Israel and the Iran war that seems very light on substance and very heavy on attempting to fracture the Republican coalition. I don't think it's working. Tonight is evidence that Trump's endorsement matters, and the base is not kindly disposed towards any Republican pol who's perceived as not being on his team. Perform your strategic calculations accordingly.

@centralnerv @jakecobb @DScottDorgan @Timcast Any idiot can eat meat. That makes no difference. But fighting for the interests of the State of Texas is a different matter. That job is for people who will fight for this State: not for wimps - or wolves in sheep’s clothing.

@jakecobb @duchessofkitty @DScottDorgan @Timcast What a perfect encapsulation of the Maga mind virus.

ITS DONE PAXTON HAS WON

@jakecobb @DScottDorgan @Timcast Doesn’t convince me one bit.

@DScottDorgan @Timcast He’s not vegan

@ScottPresler I did, last Friday.

ROLL CALL: Who voted today in Texas? (The polls are open until 7 p.m.)

@Notwokenow @billysandytodd Poor doggie. As for that bastard… let me inform y’all there are plenty of tall trees in the Houston area. Especially closer to Huntsville. Just sayin’.

Texas attorney Steven Tyler Swain, 56, was arrested for felony beastiality after his wife saw video of him committing a SA of the family dog in November of 2025.

@alex_prompter This is why you try your best to keep a library at home. Real books. Keep a desk, chair and nook nearby.

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

@nw_wolfrunner That’s the future. My poor husband, flying all the way to his parents’ house, to get rid of all the junk inside the moment they move into a nursing home. BTW - he’s their only child. And I mean, lots of junk. FIL is OCD and can’t walk now.

If you've ever helped empty out a boomers garage you know "we were just smart with our money and didn't buy tons of bullshit" is a bald faced lie.

@Careerflex Frankly, I wish I had that “women think my cup size (DD) is a” problem. For my daughter, however, it became a problem: not “modesty” Karens, but her back - pinched spine nerve and all. So, they went down a few cups ☕️.

I never would have known this unless I married a big tiddy goth girl. As we have gone along, I have passively observed the visceral hate that comes over women's faces as though demonically possessed as she is beep-bopping along, minding her own business. We once had a lady from our church show up uninvited and COMMAND my wife to somehow hide her rack because "she is leading all the men and boys to hell". I heard her out and then told her to get out of my house or I would fold her in half and throw her off our back deck. She was shocked at how rude I was in the face of her modest proposal.

@namcios “[T]he most powerful technology ever created by humanity cannot remain in the hands of those who profit from it.” Yeah. Tell that to the Chinese Comunist Party. Good luck.

O cofundador do Claude sentou hoje entre cardeais no Vaticano e disse ao Papa: minha indústria opera com incentivos que conflitam com fazer a coisa certa. O Papa olhou para ele e respondeu: "Em nome da Igreja, aceito seu convite para caminharmos juntos." Aconteceu há horas. Leão XIV apresentou a "Magnifica Humanitas": a primeira encíclica papal da história dedicada a uma tecnologia específica. O Papa quebrou séculos de tradição para apresentar o documento pessoalmente. Nenhum papa tinha feito isso antes. E escolheu como convidado o cofundador do lab de IA notavelmente ausente dos contratos militares do Pentágono. A Anthropic se recusou a liberar seus modelos para armas autônomas e vigilância doméstica. O que Olah disse diante de cardeais, teólogos e do líder de 1,4 bilhão de católicos: "Todo lab de IA opera dentro de incentivos que podem entrar em conflito com fazer a coisa certa." Pressão comercial, competitiva e geopolítica. E "as pressões mais antigas e mais simples: orgulho e ambição." A conclusão dele: "As questões levantadas pela IA são maiores que a comunidade de pesquisa em IA." Precisamos de críticos externos sérios e honestos. Agora o documento. A abertura coloca a humanidade diante de duas escolhas: construir uma nova Torre de Babel ou reconstruir Jerusalém. A frase que define a encíclica: "A inteligência artificial precisa ser desarmada." Leão XIV sabe que a palavra é forte. Escolheu de propósito. Parágrafo 110: → "Desarmar a IA significa libertá-la da mentalidade de competição armada, não apenas militar, mas econômica e cognitiva" → "Uma corrida por algoritmos cada vez mais poderosos, movida pelo desejo de dominância geopolítica ou comercial" → "Desarmar não significa rejeitar a tecnologia, mas impedir que ela domine a humanidade" E depois: "Simplesmente regulá-la é insuficiente." O Papa não está pedindo regulação. Está dizendo que regulação não basta. → "A IA amplifica o poder de quem já possui recursos econômicos, expertise e acesso a dados" → O risco não é alguém acreditar que conversa com uma pessoa ao usar IA. É perder o desejo de buscar outras pessoas. → "Toda escolha de design reflete uma visão de humanidade" (parágrafo 111) A simbologia foi calculada em cada detalhe: → Documento assinado em 15 de maio, aniversário exato da Rerum Novarum (1891), a resposta de Leão XIII à Revolução Industrial → O Papa disse explicitamente: "Como o Leão anterior, sinto-me encarregado de olhar para outra enorme transformação com olhos de fé" → A Igreja faz isso a cada grande ruptura: Rerum Novarum (1891), Pacem in Terris (1963, era nuclear), Laudato Si' (2015, clima), agora Magnifica Humanitas Fazer da IA a primeira encíclica do pontificado é dizer que nenhum outro assunto é mais urgente. Agora conecta os pontos. O primeiro Papa americano da história está em conflito aberto com a Casa Branca. Ele traz ao palco do Vaticano o cofundador do único lab de IA que enfrentou o governo Trump em defesa de limites éticos. E juntos publicam um documento de 42.300 palavras dizendo que a tecnologia mais poderosa já criada pela humanidade não pode ficar nas mãos de quem lucra com ela. Teologia e geopolítica na mesma mesa. Literalmente. Quem constrói a IA não pode ser quem define as regras da IA. O Papa e o cara que constrói a IA concordaram nisso hoje. No Vaticano. Diante do mundo.

@Lady_FanAccount The way he closed the piano at the end: like closing a coffin. He knew. RIP

"Hurt" is not an original by Johnny Cash. The song was written by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) in 1994 for the album The Downward Spiral. Rick Rubin had to insist several times on Cash recording his version, at first Johnny found the idea completely insane because the original version is industrial and noisy. At 71, already very ill, almost blind and with trembling hands, Cash completely transformed the band. The iconic video, directed by Mark Romanek, was filmed at the House of Cash (his own museum). June Carter Cash appears looking at him fondly, the video was shot in February 2003, a few months before she died (May) and Johnny himself (September). Trent Reznor was so moved that he declared, "This song is not mine anymore." It is considered one of the best covers of all time.

@StardustVibes_ It’s easy to blame his death on some poor cop when he was already a dead man walking. Fentanyl, meth, bad cardiovascular health, the 🦠…. He was already going down by the time the cop appeared.

George floyd died because of police brutality.

@jacksonhinkle Marx was lazy, irresponsible, unkept, a cad who drove his own family to destruction. A moocher, to boot. And his acolytes spread out his lazy 🐀 poison to the rest of the world, killing 100 million +/-.

Karl Marx was one of the greatest thinkers to ever live, and I'm tired of people saying otherwise.

@EliasGravesLit @NeverBeGrounded Condolences. 💐 I lost my Mom last year at 91.

@NeverBeGrounded No she passed at age 92.

Dear Gen Z: My mother ate LARD sandwiches when she was a girl. She lived in a dirt floor shack with no electricity or indoor plumbing. She wore dresses made from flour sacks. Fuck you and your whining about the cost of a mocha latte.