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Republicans the moment someone speaks to them the same way they speak to others.

We are so far into "mad king" territory that the White House may not even bother to clarify whether Trump just confused Oman with Iran or is indeed threatening to bomb Oman

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

I like how when she was revealed to by the goddess Calypso, no one threw a hissy fit because "certain people" weren't conditioned by the culture war in 2007.

A judge has ruled that corporations can vote in some Delaware elections. Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz said the town of Fenwick Island was not diluting human votes by allowing companies ​and other legal entities that own property to cast votes in municipal elections. These "legal entities" and corporations make up about 12% of registered voters in the town. In total Delaware has far more ​corporations chartered in the state than residents. Judge Karsnitz rejected the constitutional arguments of the ACLU, including the claim that "entity" or corporate voting dilutes the political power of living people.

We are legalizing the murder of women and girls in America.

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem. Two problems, actually. One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired. Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be. You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner. The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke. The AI just invoices you for the outage. And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about. To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game. You didn’t hire a replacement. You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own. Enjoy.

Adam Hoffman raped his son’s best friend for 3 years First-degree felony. Life without parole. Ken Paxton’s office gutted it to 60 days. He walked free after 30. No sex offender registration. His record scrubbed clean. Texas protects predators with power!

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.

Sam Altman: “A kid born today will never be smarter than AI.” They are framing humanity as inferior to AI so they can rewire our society and usher in their AI mass surveillance dystopia. AI is not superior to humanity. It is fake. We are real. We must always put humanity first.

This is Adam Hoffman. He repeatedly raped a Texas boy — for nearly three years — dozens and dozens of times. Tomorrow morning, May 25th 2026, he will be released from McLennan County Jail after spending just a few weeks there. He will not be required to register as a sex offender. And very soon he’ll be allowed to practice law again. A real and dangerous predator — a present threat to Texas children — will be as free as you and me. A slap on his wrist and a spit in the face to his victim. Why?! How?! Because that’s the deal he made with Ken Paxton. Vote accordingly.

White women have been calling Black women "Shenaenae", "La'Quisha", and "ShaNiqua" in a demeaning manner since the 80's. Latinas were called "Consuela", "Guadalupe", or "Maria" and Asian women were called "Ling-Ling", but the moment ‘Karen’ became a meme criticizing entitled behavior, suddenly people wanted to talk about respect and stereotyping.

A French aid worker: “We found a mass grave in Gaza containing 300 bodies. Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs"

if someone ran a marathon and someone else drove 26 miles i wouldnt congratulate the driver just because he ended up at the destination

Trump just got exposed for running the biggest insider trading operation in American history. Nancy Pelosi traded $5 million in stocks and Congress lost its mind. Trump literally executed $750 MILLION worth of stock trades in ONE quarter while being President. His ethics filing just dropped and the numbers are genuinely unprecedented in history: Between January and March 2026, Donald Trump personally executed 3,700 individual stock transactions worth between $220 million and $750 million. That's roughly 60 trades PER DAY. While signing executive orders, meeting foreign leaders, and making policy decisions that directly impact the companies he's buying and selling. Now here's where it gets really insane: On February 10, Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million worth of Dell stock. Three months later, on May 8, he stood at a Mother's Day event at the White House, thanked Michael Dell by name, and told Americans to "go out and buy a Dell." Dell stock surged 14.6% that day to an all-time high of $263.99. Since Trump's February purchase, Dell is up 96%. And 5 months BEFORE Trump bought Dell stock, Michael and Susan Dell donated $6.25 billion to Trump Accounts, one of the largest philanthropic commitments to a sitting president's signature program in modern history. So the timeline goes: Dell donates $6.25 billion to Trump's program -> Trump buys Dell stock ->Trump tells America to buy Dell from the White House podium -> Stock hits all-time high And that's just ONE stock... The same filing shows Trump bought Nvidia stock on February 10. One week later, Nvidia announced a massive chip deal with Meta. He bought more Nvidia stock one week BEFORE his own Commerce Department approved the sale of Nvidia chips to Saudi Arabia. He bought Intel stock starting in March 2026. The US government already owned a 9.9% stake in Intel worth over $41 billion. On April 30, Trump posted on Truth Social praising Intel, writing that "Intel Stock continues to rise." Intel jumped 3% in after-hours and is now up 140% year-to-date. He bought Palantir stock while his administration was actively handing them billion-dollar government contracts for immigration enforcement and defense. He bought Robinhood stock while his own Trump Accounts program uses Robinhood as the broker. He's currently sitting on over 100% profit on AMD, Intel, Bloom Energy, Marvell Technology, and at least 10 other positions. Every single president since Lyndon B. Johnson has used a blind trust to avoid exactly this situation. But Trump didn't. His assets sit in a trust controlled by his own children, and the filings show a broker acted as agent on several trades. The White House says the portfolio is "independently managed." But here's what independently managed looks like: Buy Dell stock. Three months later, publicly endorse Dell from the White House. Stock hits all-time high. Buy Nvidia stock. One week later, your own government approves their chip sales. Stock rips. Buy Intel stock. Post about Intel on Truth Social. Stock jumps. The government you run already owns a 10% stake. Buy Palantir. Hand them contracts. Buy Robinhood. Route a federal program through their platform. Nancy Pelosi got absolutely destroyed for her husband's stock trades. Her husband's total disclosed trades in his most controversial year were worth roughly $5 million. Trump just disclosed up to $750 MILLION in a single quarter. While making the actual policy decisions that move these stocks. This isn't a left or right issue. We're talking about the President of the United States averaging 60 stock trades per day in companies his own administration regulates, contracts with, and publicly endorses. What do you think?

“we can desalinate water and drink that!” but why do WE have to? why can’t the golf courses and data centers use desalinated water?? humans get priority status.

Conservatives have this deeply internalized suspicion that doing politics is somehow immoral or cheating, which they acquired from seeing progressives win repeatedly, a victory they want to disqualify somehow. So every movement must be "totally organic" spontaneous action, i.e. *not doing politics*. You see this all the time when they accuse liberals of "busing people to vote" - the conservative thinks of voting as a private, confessional act of individual agency you do alone with your own car after work. Rounding up a bunch of people to cast votes together in a coordinated action is so suspect it sounds like fraud to them. I think conservatives don't even notice they're doing this, that they never actually make the final point where they say why this is actually wrong. They similarly view organizing political protests as a form of cheating, like it disqualifies the imagery to point out that a protest was effected by a nonprofit company that dispersed schedules, hired organizing staff, etc. Walsh isn't far-right enough to make the subject of his revisionism "segregation is good actually". But he thinks it's just obvious to his audience that if you say Rosa Parks was an activist, who intended to defy the law, that what happened to her isn't unfair, or otherwise doesn't count. After all, a compliant black person following instructions and staying out of trouble would probably be left alone, which means there's no acute situation in which attention is focused. Parks cheated by doing politics. This is sort of their version of the "he crossed state lines" bit. Whatever preceded Rittenhouse's presence at a riot in 2020 didn't matter as soon as a violent assailant eagerly gave him the confrontation many were hoping to see happen. And it didn't really matter what was in Parks' mind when she refused to move, the point is the system she was protesting did exactly what the activists wanted, which was highly embarrassing to it because so few can defend the actual application of the law.

@Variety Elon has nothing to do with the Oscar so why do we care what his opinion is? This is not news. It's the rantings of a racist

Why is Elon Musk melting down over #TheOdyssey and the Oscars? "Every best picture winner in the Academy’s 98-year history — from the 'Wings' in 1929 through 'One Battle After Another' this past March — clears the Oscars' new inclusion rules. That also includes 'Oppenheimer,' the film directed by Christopher Nolan, with whom Elon Musk had no problem until this past week. And Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s 'The Odyssey,' whenever the Academy gets a look at it, would also clear the inclusion standards, and it’s not because Lupita Nyong’o was cast as Helen of Troy," writes Variety's Clayton Davis. variety.com/2026/film/awar…

Workers started setting boundaries. Leaving on time. Not answering emails at midnight. Not working weekends for free. The media called it quiet quitting and treated it like a crisis. Nobody called it quiet stealing when companies froze wages for 17 years while profits hit record highs. Only one side of that story made the news.

Trump: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.” MAGA: “I didn’t hear that.” -Here’s the quote. “He didn’t say that.” -Here’s the video. “Okay, he said it, but he didn’t mean it.” Trump on Fox New: “I meant every word. It’s a perfect statement. People love it.” MAGA: “WE LOVE IT!” 😭