Politics Trumps All

Politics Trumps All was supposed to be my @ but I screwed up when creating my account. VOTE BLUE.

[Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ @StephenPunwasi]

Fun fact: in 🇨🇦 + 🇺🇸, ~80% of grain-based foods have glyphosate.

It’s largely considered safe due to a study in 2000 that found it caused no DNA damage, reproductive harm or cancer.

It was recently retracted. Turns out it was ghostwritten by Monsanto.

https://t.co/jl68JEIbz7

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@lukeburgis @threadreaderapp unroll

[steve @SteveMoraco]

I’m actually pretty upset Apple allowed this. While the feature is cool, the technical functionality that enables it is not cool.

If I was Tim Apple, OAI would be temporarily banned from the App Store until this is reversed, and here’s why:

I use iMessage because it’s quantum encrypted, with server keys I can own. Local caches are on devices that are encrypted with my passwords, not apples keys.

This makes it and computationally and legally impossible for anyone else to access chat history but the people I trust and directly communicated with.

But *now* the copies of my messages from years ago on *anyones* laptop in what is *supposed* to be an encrypted-at-rest local cache only can now be fetched directly by chatgpt without my permission or even knowledge and stored and processed in plain text forever on openai / Microsoft servers unencrypted and requested by any government entity at a moments notice without my knowledge and openai/Microsoft legally have to provide that, in federally enforced total secrecy. And they’re never legally allowed to admit they do it.

AND because of default chatgpt settings most people haven’t bothered to turn off, all those private texts can now be used for training and will end up in the weights of future models, so all future AI models will permanently know all of our private lives as a part of the weights, immortalized forever as training checkpoints.

Total architecture abandonment and user trust betrayal on Apples part. This should be the most viral story of 2026 by 100x. The permanent end of private communication in the US.

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@DaveBiscobing15 @abc15 Wonder what their previous discipline record would reveal.

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

As the government coats California’s forests in the controversial herbicide glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup, an elder of the Maidu tribe can’t go out into the backcountry she grew up in without fearing: “Are we gathering something that’s got poison on it?”

https://t.co/sydbOTr0My

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@BowieFan2024 @redhotnerd That's what I thought he was saying too! Pulled and re-bagged.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Natalie Harp running after Trump’s golf cart in 2023

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@Weather_West Very helpful! @threadreaderapp unroll

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@MicheleMcPhee Your reporting has been great. Do you ever sleep?

[Lucius @Lucius0]

Promises made, promises kept.
They told us they would murder wild horses in #Project2025, MAGA voted for it.
#MAGA is getting their wish:
the mass slaughter of wild horses

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

NOAA launches the weather balloons, floats the ocean buoys, flies the satellites, and staffs the forecasters that tell us when storms are coming. That data supports about two-thirds of the economy, roughly $1.3 trillion a year, and it paid us back $73 for every dollar we spent on it.

DOGE took a chainsaw to it anyway.

They cut 2,500 people.

They pushed out 27,000 years of experience in just a few months.

Now a charter fishing captain in Homer, Alaska has spent half a season with no idea what the wind is doing in waters he fishes every day. Kansas got hit by two tornadoes nobody saw coming. Forecasters missed how strong a typhoon was as it headed for Alaska. Farmers, insurers, airlines, and city engineers are all working with worse information than they had two years ago.

And now the Trump administration plan is to cut even deeper.

They want to pull another $1.6 billion out of NOAA next year. They want to hand the rest to private companies, so your town ends up paying a business for weather data your taxes already paid for, with no promise it will even be right.

Wrecking a 73-to-1 investment and sending the bill to fishermen, farmers, and families. Just crazy.
https://t.co/veNGkvfVTv

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@jason_kint ESPN aired a documentary on 4/6/26 chronicling ESPN's origin story:

Sports Heaven: The Birth of ESPN

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@anthon7yandrews @threadreaderapp unroll

[UAINE @mahtowin1]

When the Bulldozers Move Before Tribal Consent: The Tohono O’odham Nation’s fight over border wall construction raises a larger question about federal power, tribal sovereignty and consent. https://t.co/GselNWlf2L

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@MicheleMcPhee > in a motion today the government revealed new details on how NOT suicidal she was

Link please?

[Joseph Cox @josephfcox]

New: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book https://t.co/QUv4gs6aT6

[ProPublica @propublica]

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
https://t.co/cbbTkyPFbi

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@blondiedag @MamaLama43 That is fake news. How do people believe this crap?

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@PiperK Is the NY Mag article available online?

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@GrantSmithEllis Egads, has she seen your room and your insect roommates?