It’s hard to believe but this is a picture of the United States reflecting pool before the revolution happened. The US was once a very westernized country
.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.
This man thinks you are stupid and that if he lies enough that people will believe him, but journalists like @NickKristof and @Atul_Gawande and many others have documented specific individuals, often children, who died because Elon gutted USAID programs
🚨 China just became first country in history to surpass 4 TW of installed electricity capacity.
• 4.01 TW total capacity
• 62% non-fossil
• 61% renewable
• 1.5% nuclear
• 32% coal (down > 61% in 2010)
China's electricity system now 1.7× larger than the US and EU combined.
We need to bring back intellectual elitism. Sorry, but a virologist will always know more about vaccines than a yoga mommy blogger with a ChatGPT Plus subscription.
WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:
"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."
Source: @tomaskenn
The actual reason mfs hate him is because him doing all the things he promised to do on the campaign trail makes them look like shit when they don’t do it lol
Then Jesus said unto the sick, “you better have insurance.”
Then Jesus said unto the stranger, “are you here legally?”
Then Jesus said unto the hungry, “my taxes better not be paying for these loaves and fishes.”
Then Jesus said unto the poor, “this is your own fault.”
a friend of mine died last year. worked in tech. 😐
he was 28. nobody from his company came to the funeral.
his slack account was deactivated before the obituary was published.
within 2 weeks, someone else had his job title.
i don't say this to be dark.
i say this because we give companies our health, our nights, our anxiety
and they give us a title that outlives us by 72 hours.
We’re living in the most technologically advanced era in human history. It’s remarkable how little of that progress ever reaches people in crisis or poverty.
OpenAI and Microsoft are being sued by the owners of 400 local newspapers nationwide for mass copyright infringement.
The publishers claim the two tech companies illegally scraped their content to train their AI models — jeopardizing local journalism in the US.
🚨 THREAD: Today we’re publishing THE biggest investigation yet into Mat Nuclear and his rise at the Daily Wire.
We spent all day reviewing his leaked Grok chat history—and what we found was stranger than we expected.
Inside:
• His leaked Daily Wire contract
• Private Grok conversations
• Screenshots of personal chats
• A phone call transcript of an origin that we’re genuinely afraid to make a definitive comment on.
According to the materials we reviewed, Grok appeared to become more than just an AI assistant—it was used as a sounding board for validation, praise, and discussions about his career.
We’ve redacted all personal information of any individuals. Read the thread and decide for yourself. 🧵