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Pass H.R. 1 and repeal Citizens United

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “We are now about sixteen months into what has been from day one, a concerted and intense targeting of Black Americans specifically by this president and by this administration…When Trump and his top political donor Elon Musk then started just lopping off huge swaths of the federal government…the largest and most egregious cuts targeted federal agencies that employed a disproportionate number of Black employees. Reporter Erica Green wrote about this for…NYT: ‘…nothing had moved backwards in the federal government for Black Americans this quickly or this far…since Woodrow Wilson came in in 1912 and resegregated the federal workforce…”😳

The entire state of Utah uses around 35 terrawatt-hours annually. The Box Elder Hyperscale data center is expected to use more than 78 TWh per year across a 40,000 acre campus in the middle of the desert. That's the equivalent of building TWO new Utahs in a 62 square-mile box. There are a lot of reasons why paving swaths of land to build warehouses for giant AI computers in one of the driest states during a drought is a bad idea... but if you can't see how this is going to make Utah's cost of living crisis even worse, you aren't going to make it.

Karen Hao spent 250 interviews inside Sam Altman's OpenAI. Her verdict: we're being gaslit. Why no one said this out loud before is structural. The AI industry bankrolls most of the researchers who would normally critique it. → Hao interviewed 250+ people for Empire of AI, including 90+ current and former OpenAI employees. → "The AI industry employs and bankrolls most of the AI researchers in the world," she told The Diary Of A CEO. "They set the agenda simply by funneling money to their priorities." → In Kenya, she met Mophat Okinyi. Paid a couple of dollars an hour to review 15,000 pieces of violent and sexual content a month to train ChatGPT's safety filter. → OpenAI declined to cooperate with the book. Sam Altman publicly dismissed it on X. → It still won the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction. Critique gets defined out of the job description before it's ever published. The checks come from the thing being critiqued. I've read every major AI exposé of the last decade. This is the first one sourced from inside the building. You can't audit a system by asking the people it pays. You audit it by asking who got paid the least to build it. Who, in your field, can still afford to tell the truth about the thing that funds them? Hao's method is the mental model most reporters skip. Always ask who's paid to keep the story alive, and who's paid to bury it. I made a free toolkit breaking down 100+ mental models used by history's greatest thinkers. 5,000+ downloads. 113 five-star reviews. Grab your free copy here: besuperhuman.gumroad.com/l/mentalmodels If you're new here, @GeniusGTX is a gallery for the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. Follow along for more similar content. — Karen Hao, The Diary Of A CEO | Data: 250+ interviews, Empire of AI (Penguin Random House)

At this point, I think he is just trolling us.

This is stunning reporting: Donald Trump’s so-called “Project Freedom” reportedly collapsed after Saudi Arabia blocked the U.S. military from using key Saudi bases and airspace for the operation, according to new reporting from NBC News. Link to the article in the reply.

"On arrival, asymptomatic passengers are due to be repatriated to their home countries, despite possibly being infected & in the incubation period." Serious question: Is everyone insane now.

My wife and I were talking last night about how a 12 pack of drinks is $9 now and how in 2020 I used to buy them 4/$10. I decided to go back into my Walmart app and see what I was paying for a random grocery order. In January 2020 I paid $70.20 for 30 items, I added all of them to the cart again and repurchased them today. Today those 30 items were $165.42. That's a $95.22 price increase in six years time. That's a 135.6% inflation percentage. We can't go on living like this. I can't be the only one who feels this way.

These neocon lunatics think taking down the Iranian regime is worth risking the Strait of Hormuz being closed for EIGHT MONTHS!! Meanwhile, gas prices go up exponentially, entire economies in Asia collapse, and fertilizer shortages lead to famine.

Trump used ICE to normalize denying due process. Then his DOJ changed the indicators of domestic terrorism to include speech that opposes him. Now they want to target those speaking out against him as terrorists, and go after them without a crime being committed. This is the fascism we warned you about.

When White Republican politicians say they’re going to call the Capitol Police because they don’t like that Black students are asking them why they’re taking away their voting rights and their poling places.

the Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the US! its watershed spans NY, PA, WV, MD, DE, VA, and DC!!! this travesty leeched toxic chemicals into the food, water and land for millions of Americans and the US GOVT HID IT FROM US FOR MONTHS!!!!!!

Chaos in Alabama: Republican State Senators rammed through a bill to advance redistricting while tornado sirens blared, the chamber was being evacuated, and the livestream went dark. When this is how they pass it – that tells you everything you need to know.

NEW: We used facial recognition to identify more than 400 people who appear in photos from the Epstein Files and mapped out their connections. 170 of them haven’t previously been reported on in connection with Epstein. Explore the data with our new website: epstein [dot] photos

SHOCK IMAGE: A suspected hantavirus patient is photographed being evacuated from the stricken MV Hondius cruise ship in full head-to-toe protective gear on a gurney. Three people — including two who are seriously ill — were removed from the ship, which is anchored off Cape Verde, so they can receive medical care in the Netherlands amid the deadly outbreak, according to the World Health Organization. Hantavirus is a rare but potentially fatal virus that typically spreads to humans through contact with infected rodents, especially through their urine, droppings, or saliva. Human-to-human transmission is considered extremely uncommon and has only been documented in limited strains of the virus, making reports of possible person-to-person spread especially alarming and unusual.

En España los hospitales pueden sacar tu cama a la calle para que mueras lentamente si tú seguro privado no cubre los gastos. Lo siento, me equivoqué, es Estado Unidos... la tierra de la libertad de Trump, en España la sanidad es universal. Trump, tú país es horrible.

For absolutely no reason, here's a clip from a real estate multi-millionaire Tim Gurner in 2023 saying unemployment needs to aggressively rise so workers “learn their place.”

NEW: By the time Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry suspended ongoing elections to give lawmakers time to redraw the state’s congressional map, roughly 42,000 Louisianans already cast their votes — and it’s likely many voted in the House primaries. Now, their ballots are at risk of being thrown out. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/th…

🚨 States Now BLOCKING Flock FOIA Requests Open‑records laws expose ALPR surveillance. Now lawmakers across the country want to shut the records down, with pending bills already in AZ and CT. 'Public safety’ turns into ‘public secrecy’ real quick once the public starts asking questions.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu tried to remove his emails sent to Jeffery Epstein. His pictures are blurred and his name is mentioned 6300 times in the Epstein Files.

This spring, federal agencies plan to spray glyphosate—the world's most controversial and widely-debated weedkiller—across thousands and thousands of acres of public land. Land where families camp, hikers explore, hunters pursue game, and children swim in mountain streams. And almost no one knows it's happening, reports @natethecurious. Glyphosate, introduced by agri-giant Monsanto in 1974, has been classified as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization. Bayer, the multinational conglomerate that acquired Monsanto in 2018, is now on the hook for over $12 billion in legal settlements and payouts to thousands of people who claim Roundup gave them cancer and other serious illnesses. Scientists have also linked the chemical to decimated Monarch butterfly populations, mass frog die-offs, and widespread ecological damage. And yet in February, President Trump signed an executive order declaring glyphosate critical to national security, invoking the Defense Production Act to guarantee its continued use and shielding its producers from legal liability. So why is one of the most litigated chemicals in American history being quietly sprayed across our national forests? To get to the bottom of it, my colleague Melissa Lewis and I pulled California pesticide application records going back to 1995 and analyzed more than 5 million data points. What we uncovered was deeply troubling: glyphosate spraying in California forests has quintupled since 2005—the fastest-growing market for the chemical in the state—and the public has been left almost entirely in the dark. This is the secret plan to cover the world in herbicide—that they don't want you to know about. Find the full 22 minute documentary on our YouTube channel.