Ram_A

Programmer, Entrepreneur,founder Cascade Software Corp
News,Politics,Economy,Health, Three #1 iOS apps. Ex-Principal DM @Microsoft (till 07), @Xcoders organizer

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

Trump plotted and planned the withdrawal. Biden ignored the advice of his military officials and followed Trump’s plan. This was a shared disaster, and it is rich to hear Trump officials ignoring all actions that led to this disastrous withdrawal.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Last year, Donald Trump Jr. invested in a rare earths startup at a $200 million valuation.

Then three months later, the US government announced a huge loan backstop for the company and now it's worth around $2 billion.

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[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

A truly AWFUL situation; last week Border Patrol dropped a “nearly blind” Burmese refugee off in front of a random donut shop in Buffalo, five miles from his house.

He was just found dead, having never made it home.

[Wes Roth @WesRoth]

Anthropic's CEO Explains His Refusal to Back Down to the Pentagon.

Amodei explained his deep concerns over "autonomous drone swarms" and mass surveillance.

He pointed out a crucial reality: our military's constitutional protections rely entirely on human soldiers having the ability to disobey an illegal order. AI weapons don't have that fail-safe.

He also warned that AI could completely bypass the Fourth Amendment. Right now, the government can't possibly process every single conversation recorded in public spaces.

But with AI's ability to instantly transcribe and connect millions of data points, it could easily map out political opposition in seconds.

[Stephen Hayes @stephenfhayes]

Trump vows to end insider trading in Congress. He pardoned Ex-Rep. Chris Collins (R), who pled guilty to insider trading.

https://t.co/BUWcYwSJOJ

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

It's hard to believe that you could be the trade representative for a major power and not know that tariffs are regressive.

My econ 101 students know what the word regressive means, and that tariffs are regressive. Many could even cite studies on the subject.

[Conor Friedersdorf @conor64]

I believe one word President Trump used to describe the deployment there was "retribution."

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.

"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."

"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

Even in Russia, they don’t shoot protestors on the street. They do that in Iran.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Declaration from the doctor who rushed to treat Pretti (he lived right there): "ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds"

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This video clip appears to show a federal agent already in possession of the victim's handgun and moving away when the first shots are fired. In other words, they suggest that the victim was disarmed, on his knees and being held by a bunch of guys when he was shot in the back and killed.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

You know things are bad when the most boring person doing the most boring job for decades has to come out and say, “Stop trying to arrest us for doing math”

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

The idea that this man feared for his life in that moment is insane. She has a friendly exchange with him 20 seconds before and the car is going 2 miles an hour!!

[Ram_A @CascadeRam]

#Minnesota

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
—George Orwell, 1984

[Ram_A @CascadeRam]

A Democratic governor pretends that U.S. imperialism/colonialism means freedom for Venezuela, and doesn’t know that Congress has the sole power to declare war, as per the Constitution.

At least Trump is clear that it is about oil and that Rubio, Hegseth etc. will run #Venezuela

[Jared Polis @jaredpolis]

"¡Libertad!” Today I celebrate with the people of Venezuela in Colorado and elsewhere. The tyrant has fallen!

[Mike (not a) Rothschild @rothschildmd]

Imagine not knowing Sinatra and Martin were both first generation Italian Americans, or that Sinatra was a lifelong civil rights advocate who refused to perform for segregated audiences, and whose best friend was a Black Jew who married a white actress.

[Dean Baker @DeanBaker13]

Amazing how the Republicans are able to elect such incredibly ignorant people to high offices.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

In my opinion, this is not the way a citizen of a republic speaks.