Bill Matthews

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

He started it.
He fucked it all up.
He lied & lied & lied & lied about it.
He made them stronger.
He made us weaker.
He surrendered.
He lost.
And then he gave them billions & billions & billions.

MAGA, MAGA.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Ignore Trump this weekend. I mean completely ignore him. Ignore his birthday, ignore his desecration of the people’s house, ignore every lie & every idiotic thing he’ll say this weekend. Instead, enjoy yourself this weekend. And on Monday, resume the fight to defeat him & defend democracy.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

I call Donald Trump America’s enemy. I’ll continue to call him that. Our elections are the heartbeat of our democracy. Without elections, our democracy dies. Anyone who attacks our elections is our enemy. Trump attacks our elections. Always. Hell, he tried to overthrow one of our elections. He purposely sows distrust in our elections. Only an enemy of this country would do that.

[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.”

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Which one are you going to?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump: “Ken Paxton was a GREAT Attorney General, probably the best in the Country. He was also very loyal to your favorite President, ME…. Ken’s opponent was VERY disloyal to me”

Paxton was impeached by Texas Republicans in 2023 for bribery and abuse of office.

Trump never misses a chance to back a crooked politician.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

I engage with hundreds of Trump followers every day. Been doing it for years. There are some of them, reflected by Rep Norman here, who will just never be pulled back to the world of truth.👇

[ScienceFocus @ScienceFocusonX]

Scientists slipped a single human gene into monkey fetuses… and the monkeys grew bigger, more human-like brains.

Not a metaphor. Not a simulation. Actual enlarged brains with the wrinkled folds that separate us from every other primate on Earth.

The gene is called ARHGAP11B. It exists only in humans. And researchers at Germany's Max Planck Institute teamed up with Japan's Central Institute for Experimental Animals and Keio University to inject it into common marmoset fetuses.

The result? A bigger neocortex. More neurons. A folded surface that mimics the human brain.

Here's the wild part. That gene didn't appear by design. It showed up around 5 million years ago through a copy-paste error in our DNA. One nucleotide swapped places. 55 nucleotides got dropped. Suddenly our ancestors had a gene that told brain stem cells to keep multiplying way longer than usual.

That single glitch may be the reason you can read this sentence.

The team pulled the fetuses out by C-section at 101 days, roughly 50 days before birth. Letting them be born was off the table. Lead researcher Wieland Huttner called it ethically mandatory to stop there, because nobody knows what kind of behavioural change a marmoset with a human-sized brain would actually display.

Think about that line for a second.

The neocortex handles reasoning, language, abstract thought, everything that makes humans, well, human. It's three times larger in us than in chimpanzees. And we just proved that one human gene is enough to push another primate's brain in our direction.

We are now editing the cognitive boundary between species.

Source: Heide et al., published in Science, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Do you even remember what JOURNALISM looked and sounded like?

It sounded LIKE THIS.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Well done, MAGA. Well done, Trump followers. Well done, all my former Republican congressional colleagues. Well done, all my former right wing media colleagues. Your cowardice, your fear, your caring only about ratings/audience/votes/getting elected/staying in power, your placing party over country, your abandonment of all principle, your cultish devotion to a corrupt, lawless sociopath brought us here. Well done. Hope you’re proud.👇

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Sting said something that really stuck with me on CBS Sunday Morning:

“All of us are in danger of losing our work to AI… everyone. Whether you’re an artist, a journalist, a lawyer — this technology could replace any of us.”

His takeaway? The only thing that will truly save us is community — supporting the people next to you, looking out for each other.

In a world racing toward automation and isolation, real human connection and mutual support might become our most valuable currency.

I’ve been feeling this more and more lately — no matter how advanced the tools get, the relationships we build are what actually anchor us.

What do you think — is community the real answer to surviving the AI revolution, or is there something else we need?

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Donald Trump has a bully’s instinct for identifying weak men. Men who will fall to knees and choose humiliation over taking the hit to stand on principle. Cruz, Rubio, Graham, Vance, Mike Johnson, Kevin McCarthy. Trump knew where the servile cowards lived.

[Anonymous @YourAnonOne]

Claude-powered coding agent reportedly deleted a company’s production database, and backups, in 9 seconds.

[Dave Hale - Concerned Republican @CountryFirstRep]

Whether you left MAGA in 2015 or 2026 or are on the fance, it's never too late to choose decency, integrity, and the American way.

Trump is the exact inverse of who we are as a people, and we should ALWAYS welcome those who we see the light.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Could you imagine, someday when you’re old on your rocking chair, and your grandkid comes to you after googling your name when he realized you were in congress when the worst president, who was later determined to be riddled with dementia and and absolute failure as a man, was president, and saw what you said…👇👇

Imagine then taking inventory of your life and what you did with the moment that you were gifted to represent 700k people and put your hand on the Bible and swore to protect and defend the constitution… and coming to grips with the fact that you absolutely failed to do what was right. You were instead a subservient coward.

Thank God I don’t have to have that realization. Nehls and so many others won’t be so lucky

[Heath Mayo @HeathMayo]

Inflation was coming down in the United States—and then Trump’s tariffs happened.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Democrats demand their people resign from congress. Republicans elect them president