Alex Shashlo

"you're the definition of 'if you give a moose a muffin'"- @kjudd619
co-hosting That Trippi Show with @joetrippi

[Alex Shashlo @ShashBrowns]

well actually

[Lincoln Square @LincolnSquareHQ]

Alabama Gubernatorial candidate and former US Senator @DougJones sits down with @JoeTrippi to discuss the huge surge for Democrats in the deep red state and across the country.

Watch the full episode of That Trippi Show, only on Lincoln Square:

https://t.co/ra3uOU0FZp

[Alex Shashlo @ShashBrowns]

@RyanRosenblatt the best part is Romero gets sent off at least 400 times in a spurs shirt this tournament and he hasn't even been that insane

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Wow. NYT says Gov. Jared Polis fired two members of his clemency board after they spoke out against his decision to commute the prison sentence of the election denier Tina Peters.
https://t.co/kGuNQ3644J

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

The full piece is scary and very worth your time: https://t.co/vnp36pW6RU

[Alex Shashlo @ShashBrowns]

heh

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump on oil in Middle East: We didn’t need them before we started “dig we must.” Dig me wust is the Trump policy.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Anthropic just announced it will take the Trump administration to court over the supply chain risk designation. And in the same breath, Axios revealed the detail that changes everything about this story.

While Anthropic was being blacklisted for refusing to allow mass surveillance, the Pentagon’s own “compromise deal” that Under Secretary Emil Michael was offering on the phone at the exact moment Hegseth posted the designation on X would have required Anthropic to allow the collection and analysis of Americans’ geolocation data, web browsing history, and personal financial information purchased from data brokers.

Read that again. The Pentagon spent two weeks saying it has no interest in mass surveillance of Americans. Then the deal they actually put on the table asked for access to your location, your browsing history, and your financial records.

They told us Anthropic was lying. The contract language told us Anthropic was right.

Now here is where this becomes an existential question for a $380 billion company.

The supply chain risk designation means every company that does business with the Pentagon must certify they do not use Claude. Eight of the ten largest companies in America use Claude. Defense contractors, cloud providers, consulting firms, banks. The blast radius is not the $200 million Pentagon contract. It is the enterprise ecosystem that generates $14 billion in annual revenue.

Anthropic’s legal argument is specific: under 10 USC 3252, the designation can only restrict use of Claude on Pentagon contract work. Your commercial API access, your https://t.co/koW5OJjjaM subscription, your enterprise license are, in Anthropic’s reading, completely unaffected.

But here is the problem. That is a legal argument. It will take years to resolve in court. And in the meantime, every general counsel at every Fortune 500 company with any Pentagon exposure is going to ask one question: is using Claude worth the risk?

The IPO, which was expected this year at a $380 billion valuation backed by $30 billion in fresh capital, is functionally frozen. No underwriter will price an offering while a company carries the same designation as Huawei.

And here is the final detail nobody has processed yet. Hours after blacklisting Anthropic, the Pentagon accepted OpenAI’s proposed safety framework, which contains the identical red lines: no mass surveillance, no autonomous lethal weapons.

They destroyed one company for a position they then accepted from its competitor.

Full analysis on Substack. https://t.co/AEv8EMPdsZ

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

“Intercepted phone calls and messages from senior Russians ridiculing Trump have been shared by the British with the Americans. ‘We have continually shown them intelligence that shows the Russians are lying,’ a senior security source revealed. ‘The Russians are privately mocking Trump over his naivety about Putin’s intentions. Putin doesn’t want to end the war.’” https://t.co/WR2yNg2cpk

[Alex Shashlo @ShashBrowns]

RT @RepRoKhanna: It is still possible to cross the aisle in America. Together at the State of the Union for justice for Epstein survivors a…

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"You’re paying 90% of Trump’s tariffs," per WSJ opinion

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Ask yourself: why would this administration want to delete references to Medgar Evers’ racist assassin being a racist? Why might that be?

I challenge anyone in this administration or Congress to defend this.
https://t.co/veFMzb6IOE

[Alex Shashlo @ShashBrowns]

"praying it was fake" brother you are one hell of an easy mark

[Tim Scott @votetimscott]

Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.

[Alex Shashlo @ShashBrowns]

@GabeTheWP the best part is that there's a Dick Bigger, Senior

[Matt O'Brien @ObsoleteDogma]

Bari is about to to do to CBS News what Bezos did to the Washington Post: alienating your slightly left-of-center audience in search of a right-wing audience that either does not exist (for written media) or won’t watch you (for video media) because it prefers insane slopaganda

[Doug for Alabama @DougForAlabama]

Let’s get to work to elect @DougJones the next Governor of Alabama! Follow Doug for Alabama across platforms for campaign content and ways to get involved. #dougforalabama

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

Maybe it wasn’t an epochal realignment and instead just high inflation and collective amnesia?

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

A nice surprise win for Jeffries and Clark. And every House Republican has been empowered by circumstances to buck the majority, which means this won't be the last vote Mike Johnson loses in 2026

[Frank Thorp V @frankthorp]

Q: Why do you think the Trump administration is so fixated on Minnesota right now?
TINA SMITH:
“Well, I wish I knew. I mean, I wish they would just leave us the fuck alone.”

[Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd]

🚨 NEW: One of the largest COVID-19 vaccine studies ever (28 MILLION people in France) just dropped.

Results?
• 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19
• 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality
• No increase in 4-year mortality
• Vaccinated people had lower risk of death from any cause.
In short: mRNA vaccines weren’t just safe — they were protective across the board. 🔥📉

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

Cancelled jobs report, inflation report, and now GDP report. I’m sure all a coincidence and everything is fine 👍