@SenHydeSmith@RepRonEstes As one of your constituents I would like to ask you to let medical providers and women make decisions instead of grimey politicians.
@UnusuallyQuiet9@GuntherEagleman This legit has me laughing my ass off. That dude is sundowning somewhere. He is definitely not working hard in the oval.
@StevenCheung47@WhiteHouse Pretty sure he would have had a conference about the shooting to pitch his ballroom if he was there. Your attempts at covering for him are falling flat.
Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history.
Media giants are now threatening to do this.
We can't let this happen.
Pass it on.
@SenHydeSmith None of those items you just stated are constitutional rights. Also, the save act isn’t about requiring id to vote. It’s about proving citizenship to register.
I support id for voting. Make it free to obtain and automatic to get.
@SenHydeSmith Yeah this is bs. The “no tax” on overtime did absolute shit for my family’s return, and we had plenty of overtime no where near the 25k limit.
@Jim_Jordan Or thank a republican for not knowing how to negotiate to put checks in place to prevent more Americans from being murdered by their government. Just a thought.
Dario Amodei just gave his first interview since the Pentagon blacklisted his company. The toll is visible on his face.
He was asked one question. What would you say to the President right now?
He didn’t hesitate.
Amodei: “We are patriotic Americans. Everything we have done has been for the sake of this country.”
Anthropic built their models to defend America. They were the first AI lab cleared for classified military systems. They wanted to help the warfighter.
But the Pentagon demanded unrestricted access to fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens.
Amodei drew the line.
The government responded with emergency Cold War powers. A supply chain designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries. A six-month federal phaseout ordered from Truth Social.
Amodei: “When we were threatened with supply chain designation and Defense Production Act, which are unprecedented intrusions into the private economy, we exercised our classic First Amendment rights to speak up and disagree with the government.”
The administration framed Anthropic’s refusal as anti-American.
Amodei’s response dismantled that framing in one sentence.
Amodei: “Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world.”
Here is the deeper paradox nobody in Washington wants to say out loud.
We are in a geopolitical race against autocratic adversaries who use AI for mass surveillance of their own citizens and autonomous weapons with no human oversight.
The Pentagon demanded that Anthropic build those exact capabilities for America.
Amodei: “The red lines we have drawn, we drew because we believe that crossing those red lines is contrary to American values.”
You cannot defeat authoritarianism by adopting its methods.
You cannot defend the open society by forcing private companies to build its antithesis under threat of wartime emergency powers.
Anthropic held the line. Got blacklisted for it. And came out the other side saying the same thing they said going in.
That is what it actually looks like to mean it.
@SenHydeSmith What happened to America First? You have no opinions of your own. You just repeat the talking points you were handed. I wish you would grow a spine. Three Americans already killed. How many more will it take?