Jacob Knutson

[Emma Loop @LoopEmma]

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[Jen Fifield @JenAFifield]

Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges, via @RaquelRutledge https://t.co/FxUS27zgRn

[Mac William Bishop @MacWBishop]

“Stupid Takes” turned up to 11 tonight

[J.J. Abbott @jjabbott]

Interesting…. and a month ago the McCormicks bought millions in Turnpike bonds 🤔

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Friday 03/27/2026:

-Dow drops 800 & enters correction
-Nasdaq falls 460 after correction
-S&P: 5th straight losing week
-Oil closes: highest level since 2022
-House GOP rejects Senate DHS Bill

-Hormuz still closed
-Tomorrow = 1 month since Iran War began

Meanwhile at WH Today:

[Jacob Knutson @JacKnutson]

@DrewSav Will President Fred's signature be on the $100 bill?

[Idrees Ali @idreesali114]

WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - Iran-linked hackers have publicly claimed the breach of FBI Director Kash Patel's personal inbox, publishing photographs of the director and his purported resume to the internet.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

TOMORROW: SCOTUS will hear oral arguments in a GOP attempt to strike down Mississippi’s five-day post-election grace period for late mail-in ballots.

If the Court sides with Republicans, tens of millions of voters nationwide could be disenfranchised.

Democracy Docket’s Ashley Cleaves explains👇

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

BREAKING: US Treasury eases oil sanctions on Iran, including permiting the sale of Iranian crude and refined products into the United States.

Scott Bessent calls it a "narrowly tailored, short-term authorization permitting the sale of Iranian oil currently stranded at sea."

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

“You’re a coward. And a clown.” The threats and bare-knuckle tactics of MAGA’s most powerful antitrust fixer. https://t.co/LCNLt8QPbG

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

The @FBI has identified cyber actors associated with Russian Intelligence Services targeting users of commercial messaging applications, including Signal.

The campaign targets individuals of high intelligence value, including current and former U.S. government officials, military personnel, political figures, and journalists.

Globally, this effort has resulted in unauthorized access to thousands of individual accounts. After gaining access, the actors can view messages and contact lists, send messages as the victim, and conduct additional phishing from a trusted identity.

It's important for you to be aware and take action - this vulnerability is not with the application - but you as the end user.

The FBI and CISA have released a joint PSA to help you identify this activity and protect your accounts: https://t.co/NzjnU2glNh

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I don’t think there’s ever been en a technology whose builders constantly promise that, if they succeed, tens of millions of jobs will be destroyed and the world might end.

[Jacob Knutson @JacKnutson]

"It's the beginning of building a new country," Trump says.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: You said the war is 'very complete.' But your defense secretary says 'this is just the beginning.' So which is it?

TRUMP: You could say both

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

At high stakes Pentagon meeting today Sec Hegseth gave Anthropic head Dario Amodei ultimatum to allow the Pentagon to use Anthropic’s AI model for mass domestic surveillance and kinetic autonomous operations without human oversight or face censure and be labeled “supply chain threat.”

According to a source familiar:
The meeting was cordial, not a dressing down, not a screaming match, all business.

Hegseth praised the Anthropic product but then said if by Friday Anthropic does not agree to the Pentagon’s use of the model without restrictions, then Hegseth would terminate the contract and use the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to comply AND/OR designate Anthropic a supply chain threat and national security risk. (EDIT: Both are mutually exclusive. You can’t be a supply chain risk but also invoke the DPA to say that the country needs this product so much for national security that it will override any restrictions put in place by the company that limits govt access to the product. Both cannot be true.)

At issue is Anthropic’s two stipulations that its advanced AI model currently used in the Pentagon’s classified systems is NOT used for autonomous kinetic operations (Anthropic currently requires human oversight of autonomous operations when used to kill things for safety reasons because they don’t know how the autonomous system will react and could even endanger soldiers using the model; soldiers and others could lose control of the model and automatically start killing large groups without humans in the “kill chain.”) Second Anthropic bars its models from being used for mass domestic surveillance. Hegseth wants these restrictions lifted.

According to a source familiar with the talks, Anthropic has never objected to the use of its models for “legitimate military operations.” It also told the Hegseth it never complained to the Pentagon or Palantir about the use of its models in the Maduro raid.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

i'm just trying to get an understanding of how the government's position is AI should be used to mass surveil Americans and fire weapons without any human involvement and it's the bottom-line minded private sector saying: eh... i think that's too much.

[Stephen F. Knott @publius57]

Antithetical to everything a nation built on the rule of law stands for...

[Matthew Kupfer @Matthew_Kupfer]

Hey if anyone on the House Judiciary Committee is on here right now, can you *please* ask Pam Bondi about Fulton County and her letter demanding Minnesota's voter rolls in return for pulling back ICE?🙏🙏🙏

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

This is the ICE Republican senators want to protect.

[Jacob Knutson @JacKnutson]

Making it less convenient for Americans to register to vote is one hell of a campaign promise.

[Don Brown @donbrownfornc]

STATEMENT FROM DON BROWN, U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE – NORTH CAROLINA

The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 — commonly known as the “Motor Voter Act” — must be fully repealed to preserve election integrity.

It is absurd to use the DMV or federal assistance programs such as Food Stamps or Medicaid to register voters. Driver’s licenses should be issued by the DMV. Elections should be administered by election officials.

Let’s be clear: the “Motor Voter Act” was a scheme to register Democrat voters, forced on the states in 1993 by Bill Clinton and a Democrat-controlled Congress, undermining states’ constitutional authority, leading to massive cheating and registering illegals.

Voter registration belongs with state and county Boards of Elections — period.

As your next U.S. Senator, I will fight to fully repeal the National Voter Registration Act and restore state control over voter registration.

America deserves honest elections — not this federal scheme that has led toward the demise of faith in our elections.
Repeal the Motor Voter Act. Restore state authority. Protect election integrity.
#ElectionIntegrity @TomFitton

[NYC Weboy (aka Wesley) @nycweboy]

The problem with the Administration narrative isn’t just that one story discredits them, it’s that they can’t hide this behavior day after goddamn day.