CPDizzle

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

🚨AWFUL. Ordering ICE to target an ethnic group the president has repeatedly attacked is bigotry as official government policy.

TPS recipients are the most vetted immigrants here. They have to pass background checks every 18 months. Most Haitians with TPS entered legally also!

[ProPublica @propublica]

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances:

“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
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[@ChrisStoecker @ChrisStoecker]

Elon Musk is what happens when someone, anyone, mistakes the shithole formerly known as Twitter for real life. That’s why he thinks that Britain is overrun by Muslim rapists, that’s why he thought Nolan’s Odyssey would bomb at the box office. High on his own supply of nonsense.

[Kostas Pelechrinis @kpelechrinis]

With the usual suspects like Gaines and Travis parading Cunningham's comments, it's worth putting a few things in perspective for those that like to put their brains to thinking rationally:

1. This whole thing has nothing to do with women's sports and supporting women. [1/5]

[B. 🇩🇴 @ayoBee_]

The trans athlete debate is one of the biggest political distractions of our generation. The NCAA president testified that there are fewer than 10 openly transgender athletes out of 510k NCAA athletes. Yet this small issue dominates headlines.

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

This amazing website, called "Worse on Purpose," is cataloguing all the ways companies are deliberately and secretively degrading their own products

As usual, in most cases the culprit is private equity extracting enormous sums while everyone else is left worse off.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

No president in American history has sold his foreign policy this openly. 

Days before Trump took office, a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates national security adviser paid $500,000,000 for a 49% stake in the Trump family crypto venture, World Liberty Financial.

Trump’s own financial disclosure released last month shows he personally pocketed $263,000,000 from that sale. It was one of the largest single chunks of his income for the year.

Now the payoff.

Last week Trump’s Commerce Department reclassified the UAE so its main AI company, controlled by the same royal who bought into his crypto firm, can freely buy the most advanced American chips. It moved the UAE out of a group that included China and into the group with our closest allies.

Industry analysts say the access is worth billions.

A foreign government put a quarter of a billion dollars in the President’s pocket. Then that same government got a favor from his administration worth billions. National security experts have already raised concerns about those chips being diverted to China.

Presidents used to put their assets in a blind trust so nobody could ever ask this question. Trump kept his and cashed the check.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
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[fike @FikeMairles]

Pat Tillman was shot 3 times in the back of the head from 10m by a fellow soldier after he started speaking publicly against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And we dilute his memory on purpose each year. Makes me sick.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

This is really incredible. Docs released by Trump tonight confirm RUSSIA tried to spread claims Biden was engaged in criminal activity vis-a-vis Burisma and that it advanced those narratives "with US officials" and planed a "high-profile corruption scandal... at the peak of the 2020 US presidential campaign."

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

Reminder:

To create thousands of fake voters, you'd need to first create thousands of fake social security entries.

And you'd need to create fake residences, where the mail wouldn't go undeliverable.

Then you'd need to create fake identification for these people to show up and vote.

AND

There would be a record of all of these fake voters, with full name, DOB, and address. You'd be able to point to specific entries.

Because whether or not you registered, and whether or not you voted, is a public record.

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

We. Use. Auditable. Paper. Ballots.

Even if tabulation machines are vulnerable (a predicate I don't accept), and even if connected to the internet (not true), then any manipulation would still be revealed in post-election hand counts.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The danger of continuing to act like a third world country is that you might actually become one.

[Tom Jawetz @TomJawetz]

This report by the Police Executive Research Forum—commissioned 13 years ago by CBP—observed that CBP personnel frequently put themselves in the path of a vehicle to justify deadly force.

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[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Keep in mind that Trump‘s persistent delusion and propaganda that 2020 was stolen is essential pretext to his attempting to interfere in the midterms and 2028. He’s been laying that ground since the day he was reelected. Wake up.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Total US federal debt is now up to a record $39.4 trillion, rising +$3.2 trillion over the last 12 months.

Since 2020, US federal debt is now up a massive +$16.3 trillion.

This marks a +$2.5 trillion average annual increase, or +$209 billion per month.

At this pace, total US debt will surge to $50.0 trillion before 2030.

The US debt crisis has no end in sight.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms.

The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment. https://t.co/DBaRuFaWJB

[Katie Van Dyck @CapitolKVD]

It's not a competitive market. That's why it's so expensive. When one firm owns the leagues, the teams, the tournaments, the facilities, the apparel, and the tech, families aren't customers choosing a product. They're captives choosing between ransom payments and their kids being left out of the game entirely.

So who pays for free soccer? Same answer as who pays for national parks. We've called youth sports a national priority for 70 years — Title IX, the Amateur Sports Act, executive orders from Eisenhower to Trump. We just never funded it. Private equity filled the voic, and now families pay $40 billion a year for a luxury good that should be a public one.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

The advent of reading transformed society, and its decline will bring about changes of the same magnitude, @rosehorowitch writes. Can America—and civilization—survive the postliterate era? https://t.co/1aX3LQuFsS

🎨: The Atlantic

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

"GDP doesn’t measure 'the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages' .... But that doesn’t mean that making Americans poorer will make their poetry more beautiful or their marriages stronger." | JD Vance's crusade against GDP is wrong and bad, by @Noahpinion https://t.co/K3tuIVtFUm