Luke

UPS, Cavs to the finals before 2026, someday I’ll finish my history degree, I repost a lot of news and politics

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Our top AI firms are holding back innovation, not promoting it. If we had broken up Google and forced open sourcing we would have far fewer data centers and much better AI.

Basically Lina Khan is correct.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

A perfect quote - this is exactly why most Americans don't think Iran is a threat and don't get what we're doing. Rice, personally, lied to us about the imminence of the Iraq threat.

[JoJo97 - Chicago Bears victim @MajorMinority27]

Gotta watch my beautiful nation get raped to death by the Israeli pedophile deep state because a bunch of fat chuds wanted to be able to say the word retard on the internet (they were always able to)

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Casually back to war with Iran

Casually back to violent confrontations with ICE

Casually back to sporadic trade war policy (Spain)

Casually back to demanding Greenland.

And soon to be casually back to litigating the Epstein files (Blanche hearing)

[mdlpa 🌺 @mellemusic]

ICE fucking shot and killed a man in Houston today. It barely made the news cycle

[Richard Newby @RichardLNewby3]

“Controversial” because she doesn’t want kids to be killed. Wish we could all be so controversial.

[Luke @KingLuke52201]

@MrBeast 3,554,789

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

NEW: On the eve of the nation’s 250th anniversary, Pope Leo XIV defended the diversity of the United States — a country, he said, that became “a byword for freedom” by opening its doors to “successive waves of immigrants.”

He also pushed back against right-wing dreams of a Catholic integralist government, arguing that religious pluralism is bedrock to the American experiment — enshrined in the First Amendment itself.

And he pressed the nation to cherish the dignity of every human life, “especially the most vulnerable and those whose worth is questioned” — the true measure, he argued, of a country’s moral greatness. https://t.co/YbbYpWyxns

[Clash Report @clashreport]

DoJ Defies Federal Court Order on Epstein Files

U.S. Department of Justice is refusing to comply with a federal court order to hand over redacted Jeffrey Epstein investigative files.

https://t.co/hpwahEpUNo

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Pope Leo XIV:

As the country opened its doors to successive waves of immigrants, enabling them and their children to play their part in shaping the future of the nation, it was the same love of freedom that inspired the United States, in the darkest hours of the last century, during two world wars, to look beyond itself and champion the cause of freedom beyond its own borders.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism. 

American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.

And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.

For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.

We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.

The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.

It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.

[David Griscom @DavidGriscom]

The US ruling class is committed to the idea that nothing happens for a reason. That all of history is just a random assortment of days, some good and some bad.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Our country is stronger and more successful than any other country in the world because we are a nation of immigrants. It makes us dynamic, entrepreneurial, and competitive. The best in the world come here because they know we’re the best.

The real risk is throwing *that* out.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

No two people are more different than Roosevelt and Trump. The former won a Medal of Honor, crushed monopolies, explored the Amazon, and was tougher than nails. The latter is a rapist, draft-dodger, and corrupt Gomorrah-appreciator riddled with insecurity. Piss off with this.

[Zeroslost @Idontexistalr]

This is so fucking disingenuous. This bill would make every website and app be forced to make it's users age verify, or face consequences. Not just porn websites.

Infact, nowadays most (if not all) porn websites already force you to age verify in America.

Also, most tech-titans are backing you people for the sake of surveillance. You're not tricking anyone with a working brain. You all want mass surveillance and censorship.

This isn't "for the kids".

If the government actually cared about kids, then the people involved with Epstein would be arrested.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Abdul El-Sayed on Gaza: “This is a moral Rorschach test. If you can’t identify the systematic murder of tens of thousands of kids as a genocide and then you wanna say you’re a fighter for human rights and dignity, that’s just hypocrisy”

[LPC @landpalestine]

BREAKING: 8 people have been sentenced combined 450 years in prison for peacefully protesting outside ICE Facility

More years than any American has been sentenced over the Epstein Files

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is a very dark time for America. Mainstream Republican politicians speaking like old-school racists about a minority community while an all white crowd cheers and hoots.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

American was just sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving "Antifa" zines; yet there were zero questions about NSPM-7 at the Homeland Secretary's hearing on capitol hill today.

You do not hate Congress enough.