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[Critter @asclepiasyriaca]

"If you vote for me I will cut your energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months."

"We will cut your energy prices in half, within, mark it down, and you can get very angry if at me if we don't do it, within 12 months, your energy prices will be cut in half. "

[Matt-tat-tat-tat @Mumble_Matt_]

@ThHappyHawaiian Um. Does this max out at .27%. This does seem like a problem. But a relatively small one.

[The Architect. @TheMarcitect]

The only surveillance grid that should be put in place is one that tracks politicians finances and movements. They require more scrutiny than 99% of people out there.

[Matt-tat-tat-tat @Mumble_Matt_]

@ConceptualJames What if I’m 47?

[Matt-tat-tat-tat @Mumble_Matt_]

@SpeakerJohnson

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

There is something profoundly ironic about an $8B "transparency company" @Flock_Safety turning off the replies to literally EVERY SINGLE one of their posts.

They can record us 24/7... but we can't even reply?

[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.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

You guys should really sit this one out.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Makes sense, this is where flights to Epstein’s island left from.

[Matt-tat-tat-tat @Mumble_Matt_]

@JDVance Bold position to take under the circumstances, lol. What an utter clown.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Mark Levin is about a milimeter away from explicitly demanding -- yet again -- that American kids be sent into Iran in an Iraq-style ground invasion to topple the government that is Israel's greatest obstacle to regional hegemony and keep them there to control or destroy it.

[jared phd @Jaredreturns]

It doesn’t matter how much marketing spin you put on this. Americans don’t want spied on in the name of “safety” or “helping police”

Flock knows this. Evidenced by comments are STILL locked.

[Matt-tat-tat-tat @Mumble_Matt_]

@SpeakerJohnson You are no different than the communists. Because of people like you, we are doomed regardless. You should just shut up.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The media trying to pretend that $30 million of Israel lobby money had nothing to do with my race. @FmrRepMTG set them straight! The American people are tired of foreign lobbies that represent foreign countries (specifically Israel) influencing our elections.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

It’s a travesty of justice that this autistic suspect will be behind bars for over a year without trial just so @FBIDirectorKash can say he solved the case and hope to extract a plea deal.

And it’s criminal that the real instigators are still roaming free after 6 years.

[Matt-tat-tat-tat @Mumble_Matt_]

@NoLimitGains Shit.

Disclaimer: I’m a lawyer and professor. :(

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I spoke to McConnell for about 20 minutes this morning.

He said we should end the war with Iran, quit giving aid to Israel, stop spying on Americans without a warrant, and he’s really sorry about how my primary turned out.

[Matt-tat-tat-tat @Mumble_Matt_]

@BasedMikeLee Will you please tell the president and many of your peers in Congress to stop self-dealing, trading on inside info, manipulating markets?

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

More corruption in plain sight.

The government committed $1.6 billion to a company called USA Rare Earth. The private fundraising tied to that deal was led by Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ran for 30 years before handing it to his sons.

His family’s firm was in the financing, and he will not answer a single question about it.

This is the third major critical-minerals deal to follow the same pattern, and two of them run straight through the president’s own family.

Don Jr.’s fund took a stake in Vulcan Elements before the company landed a $620 million Pentagon loan that sent its valuation soaring. Don Jr. and Eric Trump grabbed a 20% stake in a Kazakhstan tungsten project just before it was announced.

The New York Times recently identified at least 14 companies with financial ties to the Trump family or Cantor Fitzgerald that were pursuing critical-minerals projects involving the federal government.

Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress refuse to lift a finger.

They have oversight power and they are choosing not to use it, because the trail leads to their own president. They are part of a cover-up by inaction.

Every one of these deals demands scrutiny, under oath, with the documents on the table. The American people funded all of it, and they have an absolute right to know whether their government was working for them or quietly enriching Trump, Lutnick, and their families.

https://t.co/JqrbwSbc37

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

BREAKING: Donald Trump has just called Gianni Infantino and asked FIFA to “just find 4 more goals.”