Alterna-Fact Jamal

Some random bastard full of bile and hatred towards all. Approach at your own risk

[Alterna-Fact Jamal @That_A_Rab]

@Ken_Stonger @ZackPolanski Well, it IS the Express... they'd confuse their readers if they were actually up to date and not living in Nostalgia+

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@JoJoFromJerz I mean, it's probably the only thing he's ever gotten right... their stupidity is as bottomless as his appetite for McDonald's

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@Caroltreasure @CalltoActivism @pappybest Definitely didn't know how to close it... this is the same guy that thinks you get ID'd for bread and "everything is computer"... what little he did know the dementia is eating away

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@QasimRashid @AntiToxicPeople But, if you consider that time Obama wore a tan suit AND is black, this is a BIGLY WIN - Every MAGA clown

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@PrezLives2022 If Republicans had that capacity, most of the last decade would have turned out differently... the "big, tough guys" have shown themselves to be what we always knew they were... pathetic sycophants ready embrace anyone who can bully them in hopes of being bullied less

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@mehdirhasan Don't we believe in Israel's right to create another refugee crisis, commit war crimes, and genocide in service to Bibi's desire to stay out of jail? Where's that woman from the Economist when we need her?

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@owenjonesjourno Can't someone sue them for defamation? We literally watched her "accusation" morph in real time

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@PrezLives2022 So... just the UK then?

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@CalltoActivism Trump was angry that he didn't get a big enough cut

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@BidensBDE @Angry_Staffer Exactly right... let them/their neighbors starve (and I'm not being sarcastic)... institute a basic ID check in the cities (literally anything with your name and address) so if you're coming to Chicago from Indiana for food, you can go fuck yourself... enjoy Trump's ballroom

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

It was all a show. Trump got nothing as the United States' standing in the world got destroyed. https://t.co/DFQRv4omW6

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

So lets recap:

- Trump announces tariffs.
- Allies turn against the U.S., launch boycotts on U.S. products and boo us at events.
- Markets nosedive.
- Trump caves.

The "deals":
- Mexico agrees to do the same things they always do at the border to help the U.S. (including under Biden)—but ALSO get Trump to agree to work to stop weapons trafficking from the U.S.-Mexico.
- Trudeau agrees to do the same things they always do to help the U.S., but also says he'll name a 'fentanyl czar' (despite the fact that barely any fentanyl at all comes from Canada to the U.S.)

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

For those who are wondering about the $1,000 coffee cups Musk is complaining about, here's a short primer on how defense contracts work.

For every project, they add an "overage" of around 10%. So let's say you're ordering a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III that costs around $340 million.

So they would itemize everything to get to the $340 million, and then add 10 percent, adding another $34 million. But they don't break that down to relative amounts, they just divide the $34 million by the number of parts and then add that overage to each part.

So let's say there are 10,000 parts.

That would come out to $3,400, meaning every part would "cost" $3,400 after the overage. But really the overage is mostly for things like the engine, and it's just accounting stuff.

That would Include each and every coffee cup. But you're really not paying $3,400 for the coffee up. Everyone who knows anything about defense contracts knows this.

Except for Elon Musk, apparently.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. BREAKING

Several Musk associates installed at OPM — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.

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[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I was one of those, btw, warning how bad it would be and how Trump 2 would be much worse than anyone assumed.

But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all aid including to kids with HIV and malaria’ and ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A private citizen is invading and shutting down government departments. The courts and Congress are awol.

If this isn’t a constitutional crisis, and oligarchy gone wild, then I don’t know what is.

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

A teenager from my home state, Massachusetts gets in an argument with her brother over a cell phone.

Neighbors call the police.

Police show up, they call ICE.

You see, the family came here from Nicaragua two years ago. They have completed asylum paperwork and have been waiting. The teen works and has working papers.

Despite the asylum paperwork being complete. Despite having working papers, the teen is waking up in a Maine jail.

This was never about getting “violent criminals” off the street, this was always about making America white again.

#DemsUnited

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Unable to dismiss DeepSeek on technical grounds, the main criticism being levelled against it is that it declines to give a proper account of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
This is presented as a sharp contrast with similar programs developed in the "free world". It is meant to demonstrate that we can't trust technology developed under the aegis of the Chinese Communist Party, even if it works as advertised and was developed for chump change compared to its competitors.
I've never used any of these programs and don't know how they work. But over the past several years a number of users have posted responses provided by ChatGPT and similar programs to questions such as, "Do Palestinians deserve to be free?" and "Do Palestinians deserve justice?".
Judging by the responses, DeepSeek is the most free and open of the bunch. Precisely by declining to say anything about Tiananmen, it at least avoids the crass propaganda and agitprop of its "free" competitors.

[Dave Peasant, Aspiring Lorax @aspiringpeasant]

They told us what would happen.
This country voted for its own looting and subsequent immolation.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Duffy is a climate change denier, a lobbyist, & a supporter of Trump’s Muslim ban and anti immigrant bigotry. Yet here is a top Democratic senator not just voting for him but introducing and vouching for him.

This is the Democratic ‘resistance’ to Trump term 2.
Kill me now.