Katherine McNamara

Author of "Narrow Road to the Deep North, A Journey into the Interior of Alaska."
Editor and publisher of Artist's Proof Editions.

[Katherine McNamara @McNamaraWriter]

A preview of my new manuscript, Orphans and Strangers, an account of a voyage on Alaska's interior rivers with "Malfa Ivanov," my second mother. https://t.co/qabQ972rAS

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.

He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

This is a danger to us all.

https://t.co/k9Nlr3q9iE

[Acyn @Acyn]

Rubio: I have never seen Trump fall asleep.

Lieu: I’m going to show you a video that shows you just lied to congress. Here is a video of him asleep while you are talking.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

This is remarkable. Trump is giving Pulte, who lacks the statutory qualification (national security expertise) for the DNI job the position so they can manufacture another stolen election charge, or perhaps try to justify halting them altogether. It’s out in the open.

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

I’m leaving the Capitol now at 530am after 19 hrs of votes where Senate Republicans passed $70B for ICE/CBP with no accountability after killings of Alex Pretti/Renee Good and no reforms after chaos at Delaney Hall. Zero dollars to help your family pay bills and high gas prices.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

The broligarchs did it. The market is broken.
It’s all built on trust. There will be none left.

SPCX is a battering ram that shatters the illusion that the broad market is a stable instrument that can be trusted with your retirement.

Goldman Sachs is selling science fiction.
Not colloquially speaking—actual science fiction.

The company has been propped up by government welfare since the start. The only viable business is Starlink. It earned about $4 billion in 2025 on $11 billion in revenue.

Everything else is hot garbage.

The AI business is a failure. Added to Starlink, it makes SpaceX wildly unprofitable, losing $5 billion total last year.

The total revenue for the combined company was $18 billion.
That makes the $1.75 trillion valuation about 100X sales—which is absurd on a scale never seen before.

The rest of the valuation is based on science fiction that doesn’t even deserve the category “hard sci-fi”—which is reserved for stories with some plausibility.

The story is “data centers in space” which is impossible in ANY relevant timeline. There are numerous scientific, financial, and physical roadblocks with no known solution at this time—all assuming infinite demand. Nevertheless, the company and bankers are booking it into near term revenue projections. It’s just a straight up lie.

They project a **10,000%** increase in revenue for the AI business which is FAR behind the leaders, and has lost every bit of talent it ever had. Elon had to shill out Colossus just to pump the numbers for a quarter. Also, he didn’t NEED Colossus, which should tell. you something about the actual demand. XAI is a total failure. Pumping it as a revenue engine is FRAUD.

The company is set up to make Elon Musk the unfireable forever-dictator, which means he will be free to do whatever insane shit he wants with ZERO accountability. If he were the most stable man in the world that would still be stone-cold crazy.

Elon Musk himself is a drug-addicted, pathologically racist, malignant narcissist who is trying to redpill his large online cult into giving up empathy, and to believe in great replacement theory.

He invaded the government to steal our data. He turned away all refugees except racist South African farmers. He shut down USAID. He spent two weeks screaming about a Black actress.

He is a sick Nazi who wants to rack up a bigger kill count.

To cap it off, it says right there in the IPO documents that Elon Musk’s actual goal is a COLONY ON MARS and that he won’t be compensated until there are a MILLION FUCKING PEOPLE there.

How does a bank sign off on a company which has a stated goal of doing something that is not possible? If the core story of the business is a ludicrous sci-fi yarn, what does that tell you about it?

This is the nightmarish alternate reality that these banks and markets are FORCING US TO BUY.

Finally, they’re going to send TWO MORE of these hurricanes of fraud barreling into the indices—OpenAI and Anthropic. It’s a recipe for destroying the markets.

All of it is madness. It’s greed and fraud with a new level of shamelessness.

Perhaps, just maybe, the deep lasting pain this crime will cause will wake the rest of us up.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

From North Lake to Delaney Hall, ICE and their for-profit contractors are committing horrific acts of violence and depravity against our neighbors.

These torture facilities must be shut down, those responsible prosecuted, and ICE abolished.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Some people are looking at this and saying oh well let's continue sending alumina to Russia anyway

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

“Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.”

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Technological progress — valuable in itself — requires careful discernment of the anthropological vision that guides it and the ends it pursues. If technological development advances without a corresponding ethical and social progress, the result may be an increase in means without a growth in humanity: “having more” without “being more.” There is a risk that individuals will be evaluated principally according to the outcomes they produce. #MagnificaHumanitas
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[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents were filmed trespassing in a fenced-in yard, with their gun drawn, without a warrant, in Joliet, Illinois.

In the video, a person inside the house starts recording after noticing ICE agents were walking around their property.

One agent can be seen with their hand on their gun.

Then, a second agent walks into view with their gun fully drawn… and briefly points it toward the person filming inside the house, before moving out of frame as the person filming yells, “what are you doing?”

A fenced-in yard is not public property.

Under the 4th Amendment, the area immediately surrounding a home, including fenced yards, is considered part of the home itself for constitutional protections. Courts call this the “curtilage” of the home.

Which means federal agents are not supposed to just roam around inside it without a warrant, consent, or an actual emergency circumstance that legally justifies it.

Then there’s the gun…

Because this wasn’t someone charging at officers.

This was a person INSIDE their own home… holding a phone… recording what armed federal agents were doing on their property.

So, what exactly justified drawing a firearm and briefly aiming it toward the person filming?

What immediate threat existed?

This is the kind of behavior that should terrify people regardless of politics… because once armed federal agents start treating constitutional protections like suggestions, no one is safe.

Rights either apply to everyone… or eventually they stop meaning anything at all.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

The Trump Administration is abruptly closing two USDA childcare centers for federal workers, giving families less than three months to make new arrangements for their kids.

If this administration is so “pro-family,” then USDA should immediately reverse this action.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to move faster to fulfill an information request from Democrats seeking documents detailing possible plans to deploy immigration agents or military personnel to the polls this fall. https://t.co/aYWdVOEo3n

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

Russia wants us to discuss who talks to them,
And they are already picking who is suitable for that.

Let's not walk into that trap.

Negotiations are always a team effort, with a defined strategy.

That’s why the substance that we discuss today in Cyprus matters much more.

My press remarks ahead of today’s meeting of EU Foreign Ministers ↓

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Crimes of far-right anti-American terrorists celebrated by far-right anti-American regime
https://t.co/34dwQR9q4Y

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

Donald Trump commuted the sentence of a health care executive who was convicted in a $1.3 billion Medicare fraud scheme.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Yesterday Israel ordered the inhabitants of Nabiteh to leave (population of 100,000) They then ordered the inhabitants of Tyre to leave (pop of 200,000). Now they've ordered the entire south to leave - up to 300 towns & villages.

@AlexCrawfordSky reporting from Lebanon today

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

Chaco Canyon is one of the oldest places in North America. The Trump Admin wants to open the historic site to oil and gas drilling. Pueblo leaders are trying to stop it, and calling on local politicians to take action. https://t.co/WIL9EdU7Fi

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

Generative AI doesn’t run on magic. It runs on massive data pipelines built on privacy violations by design.

Our new @Amnesty report exposes how big tech’s AI systems are powered by surveillance, data extraction, and abuse of people’s rights, at scale.

We researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT 3 by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.

This is not innovation at any cost. It comes at a high price: our human rights.

Read the report: https://t.co/MGRonqai7o

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...