Kyle from HR

The most altruistic thing about me is I’m usually the healer in a D and D group.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Absolutely insane levels of corruption happening right before your eyes.

[Ankit Mayank @mr_mayank]

Understand the chronology —

> Donald Trump was facing the worst ratings of his lifetime

> Iran war backfired, gas prices surged, higher cost of living, nothing going right for Trump

> Suddenly Trump decided to go to White House Correspondents’ Dinner

> A shooter came out of nowhere in the world’s most secure zone and fired shots RANDOMLY (Confirmed by eye witnesses) 😄

> The shooter is shot dead, no trace left whatsoever

Suddenly Trump is due to get sympathy, he will be treated like a warrior fighting against satan...

Why have we all heard this script somewhere before? 😂

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Ashley St. Clair confirmed the WH runs group chats telling these accounts what to post. Within minutes of shots fired tonight, before there was any news of casualties and before the President said this exact talking point, this was the chat in real time.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The Onion has successfully acquired Alex Jones’ ‘Infowars’ after 17 months of legal battles and has debuted its new logo.

It will be turned into a parody of itself, with the support of the Sandy Hook families.

(https://t.co/U0k83hA62K)

[NOLLY @omoelerinjare1]

In 2022, 19-year-old Devan Bonagura secretly recorded 81-year-old Walmart cashier Nola Carpenter resting alone in the break room of a Hackettstown, New Jersey store. Exhausted after 20+ years on the job to pay her mortgage (her husband had been injured and unable to work), she looked worn out.

Bonagura posted the short TikTok video with the caption “Life shouldn’t be this hard.” It went viral with over 30 million views. He then launched a GoFundMe that raised $186,000 in days — enough to pay off her mortgage and let her retire.

Walmart managers and his third-party employer (OSL) were upset about the recording. They asked him to remove the video and fundraiser, then suspended him from his job. Bonagura refused and said he didn’t plan to stay anyway.

Nola was deeply grateful. She worked through the holidays before retiring. The story highlighted both stranger generosity and corporate pushback.

[Christophe Boutry @Ced_haurus]

Palantir vient de publier son manifeste. Lisez-le.

Pas pour ce qu'il dit sur la tech. Pour ce qu'il dit sur le politique. Sur l'idéologie de Karp et Thiel. Sur la guerre. Sur vous.

Quand une entreprise privée se donne pour mission de définir qui doit être surveillé, ciblé, prédit, neutralisé, et qu'elle publie simultanément un texte expliquant pourquoi contester cela serait de la faiblesse civilisationnelle, on n'est plus dans la stratégie d'entreprise. On est dans la privatisation du souverain. Le droit de décider de l'ennemi, qui fut toujours le geste politique fondateur des États, est en train d'être racheté par une entreprise cotée au Nasdaq.

Ce manifeste repose sur un seul tour de passe-passe, répété sous vingt formes différentes : rendre l'inévitable ce qui est en réalité un choix. Les armes à IA ? Elles seront construites de toute façon, alors autant que ce soit nous.

La surveillance algorithmique ? La réalité géopolitique l'exige.

Le réarmement de l'Occident, la hiérarchie des cultures, la disqualification du pluralisme comme naïveté dangereuse ? Simple lucidité face au monde tel qu'il est.

C'est le geste idéologique par excellence : ne pas interdire la question, mais la rendre indécente.

Ce que Palantir appelle réalisme est en fait une décision philosophique radicale : le conflit est la vérité permanente du monde, la délibération démocratique est une fragilité que l'adversaire exploitera, et une élite technologique privée est mieux placée qu'un peuple pour tirer les conséquences de cette vérité.
C'est du schmittisme en hoodie. C'est littéralement la structure de leur pensée.

Le danger n'est pas qu'ils soient fous. Le danger est qu'ils soient riches, cohérents, et déjà à l'intérieur des États. Palantir ne frappe pas à la porte des gouvernements pour vendre un outil. Elle arrive avec une cosmologie complète : voici comment fonctionne le monde, voici vos ennemis, voici pourquoi vous ne pouvez pas vous permettre de débattre, et voici notre contrat.

Palantir est l'ennemie des peuples et de la démocratie. Ce qu'ils construisent, c'est un pouvoir technocratique que personne n'a élu et que personne ne pourra destituer.

[Joseph Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦 @MiltonicMindset]

23. Companies should not be publishing manifestos on how our societies should operate and function. The act of private companies attempting to take on the role of government and/or policy construction should be seen as a threat to national security and the Western way of life.

Unless Palantir or others are willing to accept direct democratic oversight and accountability, they should remain entirely outside of the realm of policy formation or decision-making.

We are a freedom-loving people with values, principles, and rights that are not gifted to us by government, or corporations, or narcissistic drug addicts suffering from god complexes.

If corporations will not or cannot understand this, and stand in support of fundamental Western values (free speech, privacy, individual liberty, etc.) they should be broken up or temporarily nationalised in order to bring them back under direct democratic accountability and control, and until new laws and/or constitutional amendments can be made to protect free citizens from infringements on their god-given rights.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Trump: “Let’s cancel the midterm elections. Ha ha, JK!”

[Dittie @DittiePE]

Children in Lubbock, Texas were admitted to the hospital with liver damage. Not from measles. From vitamin A toxicity — because their parents followed RFK Jr.’s advice and gave them cod liver oil to treat measles. He is the sitting U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

This is not the first time this has happened. In 2019, RFK Jr. traveled to Samoa and ran the same anti-vaccine campaign.

Vaccination rates dropped to 31%. Five months later: 5,700 cases. 83 dead. Most of them children under 4. He called it a “natural experiment.” The Senate confirmed him as HHS Secretary anyway. https://t.co/IIFqMOobvW

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[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

25TH AMENDMENT!!!
Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization.
This is evil and madness.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

SEN. @yarbro: “Ending TCAP testing for voucher kids is the clearest evidence yet vouchers were a BAIT & SWITCH. They’re doing it because the data shows voucher kids doing WORSE.”

Even Republicans call it “disingenuous”

(cc: @WilliamLamberth @GovBillLee @SenJohnson @CSexton25)

[Daliban Clips @DalibanClips]

This Is How Propaganda Works

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

Musical artist allegedly has her voice and style copied by AI

AI company starts making money songs created by AI

AI files a copyright claim against the original artist, using her own voice on her own original songs.

Original artist no longer making money from her own music.

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

The GOP is unraveling as Mike Johnson begins to panic.

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

Our report on William Forbes, the 79-year-old pastor that Nebraska Democrats say is a GOP plant in their primary. Forbes denies it, but alleged attending a GOP training event in January.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

SCHLAPP: “How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?”

CPAC CROWD: “YEAH!”

SCHLAPP: “NO! Wrong answer… let’s try it again. How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?”

CPAC CROWD: *CHEERS AGAIN* 😬

(From @atrupar)