just improvising

Houston is an awesome city. Seriously!
(And it's not a scary link)

Not looking for followers. I don't follow back. Retweets are not endorsements.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

all of this stuff makes a lot more sense when you realize that graham platner was a rich person's idea of a poor person

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

The Fort Worth PD police account is an official government account. Because these pages serve as official government channels, courts—including the U.S. Supreme Court—have consistently ruled that blocking citizens based on their political or critical viewpoints violates their free speech rights.

In other words, it is illegal for them to block @libsoftiktok.

This police department really does not understand the first amendment.

[SBA @SBAgov]

We are going state-by-state to hold PPP fraudsters accountable with @WHFraudTF.

This week, @SBA_Kelly announced our latest actions in Wisconsin. In total, we have now identified $10 billion in suspected fraud – and suspended over 150,000 borrowers.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

"What would you say now to @GovTimWalz?"

@RealTomHoman: "I can't say it on air, but who pardons a child rapist? That's how much he supports illegal aliens over U.S. citizen children."

[Alaska @Dianna_Erwin]

@libsoftiktok @Booker10038 @fortworthpd I’m not an officer of the law, but I learned about the constitution in grade school. One of the most fundamental rights is the FIRST Amendment. How hard is this that a person with a gun & a badge who takes an oath to protect & defend needs a “refresher?” She’s a menace—FIRE HER!

[Jesús Enrique Rosas @Knesix]

The United States government just did something it has literally *never* done for an Arab nation, and because the universe seems to have a dark sense of comedic timing, they did it during the absolute most chaotic week possible.

Allow me to introduce you to Country Group A:5. It sounds like a Pantone color code, but it’s actually the ultra-exclusive VIP lounge of American export control; this is where Washington keeps its ride-or-die inner circle: Japan, Australia, UK, Argentina, Switzerland and more.

As of today, the UAE is officially in the club.

There's a special angle to this story: the UAE is the only member that doesn't actually belong to the international multilateral export clubs. Usually, you have to endure years of bureaucratic hazing to get in; but in this case, Washington looked at the rulebook, said "nah," and let them skip the entire line.

And what does the tier actually unlock? License-free AI chips and servers for G42 and Core42, plus military and dual-use items that used to need a signature on every crate. The sci-fi race for physical AI infrastructure just got blown wide open by a mind-numbingly dull posting in the Federal Register.

Which brings us to the real deal: for months, Iran has been launching missiles at Gulf bases and setting tankers on fire to prove a single, violent point: hosting America is an expensive liability. But Washington didn't respond with a dramatic speech, or a stern general on the nightly news.

Instead, they weaponized the most boring, soul-crushing document in government; written in a dead, dry language, an export regulation said what no podium ever could, but with a very clear message: Governments reward friends with cheap words all the time, but they almost never give out license exceptions like this.

And that spoke volumes. 🇺🇸🇦🇪

[National Review @NRO]

It'd be nice if Democrats would acknowledge that their hatred of Donald Trump has driven them to search for and embrace lots of questionable candidates this year. | @johnfund

https://t.co/jFzWcuZTkO

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I love when neocons like Ben Shapiro stop pretending and just admit that they think that people who work wage-based, labor-intensive jobs are filthy, stupid and disgusting. We need much more candor like this in our discourse:

[AllSides @AllSidesNow]

President Donald Trump called for the Supreme Court to rehear the birthright citizenship case following reports of a hospital advertising Spanish-language "Birth Packages" on billboards in Mexico.

See coverage from @FoxNews, @Newsweek, & @MSNOWNews: https://t.co/XqnYiG6DNu

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

I think the E. Jean Carroll rape allegation is ludicrous and fabricated.

I don’t believe anyone could rape someone in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman during business hours without anyone noticing.

I especially don’t believe Donald Trump, who was rich and famous and owns the skyscraper across the street, could walk into Bergdorf’s and be left alone. People in the store would recognize him and gawk. Sales staff would be paying close attention to him in case he needed something.

The idea that the store could be dead enough that the lingerie floor could be as empty as Carroll describes it and nonetheless a VIP like Trump could follow a woman into the dressing room and rape her, totally ignored by everyone, strains credulity.

The accusation also mirrors an episode of “Law and Order,” which Carroll has described as her favorite show.

I have no idea whether she is lying intentionally or if she is crazy and believes it happened, but it is not a credible accusation and when liberals pretend to believe it, it makes me more supportive of Trump.

I feel similarly about frequent claims that Trump is a “pedophile” based on the fact that he knew Jeffrey Epstein, who was a pedophile. There is no evidence that the girls who Epstein trafficked and raped were raped by anyone other than Epstein — the victims themselves do not allege this, and nobody has ever accused Trump of anything.

The claims against Platner, made by multiple women who dated him and representing a consistent pattern of behavior, is wildly different than the accusation by Carroll, which is a completely fantastical claim by someone who doesn’t even know Trump.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

40 out of 86 Brown students scored a perfect 100 on their midterm. Then the professor moved the final in person, and 22 of those perfect scorers never showed up again.

He'd suspected AI cheating from the start. The take-home midterm was deliberately harder than usual, yet the class averaged 96 when the historical range is 65 to 80. Some answers contained odd phrasing that matched what ChatGPT produced when he ran the questions through it himself.

Roberto Serrano has taught economics at Brown for 34 years. He filed no accusations. He announced the final would be in person, count for half the grade, and that if the two distributions didn't match, the final alone would determine grades.

Then the exodus. 27 students never showed up. 22 of them had perfect midterms. Of the 59 who did show, 19 failed. Several signed the exam and turned it in blank. The average fell from 96 to 48, the lowest in the course's history.

He never needed a plagiarism detector. The cheaters identified themselves by walking away. A grade distribution became a confession.

Here's the part nobody's sitting with. Serrano proved it. He sent the distributions to Brown's dean and provost. The provost never responded. The academic committee's reply amounted to calling it "a wake-up call." The students who bailed before the final walked away clean.

Every university in America is now grading two populations, students and students plus ChatGPT, on one curve. The honest kids in Serrano's class watched a 96 average get set by machines, then sat a real final against it. The cheaters lost nothing. That's the incentive structure now, and it grades itself.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Everyone wants to maintain the privacy of their health. But when you hold public office and public power (like Mitch McConnell), you have a clear responsibility to sacrifice some of it to keep the public informed.

When my husband entered the ICU, he was a Congressman and had announced his re-election bid. Of course we wanted to keep everything private but we authorized the hospital to provide updates to media and provided our own because the people who he represented him and were supporting him had the right to know what was happening.

We only stopped doing so once we withdrew his re-election bid and his term in Congress ended. But these DC relics stay in office so long that they see themselves as royalty with obligations to nobody. That Tom Kean's silent disappearance was tolerated for months was absurd, as is the utter lack of information about McConnell.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Watch this.

This is the culture your Western leaders are mass importing into the West. Literal death cultism and zombies.

Yes, this is Khamenei's corpse crowdsurfing out of a fridge.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Khamenei's funeral in Mashhad.

[just improvising @JustImprovisin]

@Reuters @davidshepardson As "journalists", you do a very poor job of uncovering truth. Willful stupidity seems to be the main job requirement at Reuters.

[Steve Shultz @elijahliststeve]

This is what elite narcissism looks like: rules for you, excuses for them, outrage when consequences arrive. Follow the account for more insight.

[just improvising @JustImprovisin]

@ForRentCheap @BuzzPatterson Lobbing bombs once a quarter costs far fewer lives.

[just improvising @JustImprovisin]

@Telegraph Denmark is ruled by an idiot.

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

Can you seriously imagine AOC as president?

[Tom Bevan @TomBevanRCP]

Still no word from Bernie Sanders on Graham Platner. What's the phrase? Silence is violence.