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[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Studies in AUS found that since the social media ban went into effect teenagers are significantly less educated on news and events and more ignorant on what’s going on in the world. This is the goal. Western govts saw the rise of the information age and are seeking to quash it

[FactPost @factpostnews]

UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell criticizes Trump's White House UFC fight:

Our government is desecrating its role in society by hosting sporting events. Our tax dollars and resources are funding this operation. The government is supposed to protect us, not entertain us.

[Seth Moulton @sethmoulton]

Trump tore up the JCPOA because he doesn’t like Obama.

Now we’re $100B into a stupid, deadly war with Iran and worse off than when it began.

[Senator Jeff Merkley @SenJeffMerkley]

Wait, is this for real? Trump spent $60 million of our taxpayer funds to host a UFC fight and then is selling UFC coin to line his family’s pockets. The Trump corruption swamp is a mile deep. https://t.co/jUtLu4cTaz

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

IAN CARROLL: “UFC is owned by Ari Emanuel, son of Benjamin Emanuel—an actual Israeli terrorist. His IMG agency supplied models to Epstein’s Jean-Luc Brunel.”

Trump’s WH 250th anniversary event is sponsored by literal Israeli terrorists and Epstein associates.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: An Economics Professor Just Made A Pretty Stunning Argument About Elon Musk.

According to the professor, Musk spent roughly $250 million during the 2024 election cycle.

He claims that's just 0.025% of Musk's wealth.

In other words, the amount spent was so small relative to Musk's fortune that he could theoretically spend the same amount thousands of times over.

That's a democracy question, not just a money question.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Someone searched for a Munich publishing company on Google. the AI Overview came back with:

"Yes, [company] is known for dubious business practices."

then added a summary. red flags. tips for users to avoid the scam.

confident and structured but was completely made up.

the sources the AI cited said none of that the AI mixed the company up with genuinely shady firms and invented connections that existed nowhere on the internet.

the publishers sent Google a cease-and-desist. Google didn't respond adequately.

so they went to court.

the court's ruling:
AI Overviews are not search results. they are Google's own words. Google rewrote the web "in its own words and according to its own structure." therefore Google is the author. therefore Google is liable.

Google's defense: users know AI makes mistakes and should double-check.

the court's response: that's not how publishing law works.

Google's statement after the ruling: "AI Overviews are designed to reflect information that already exists on the web."

the information that destroyed two companies' reputations did not exist on the web.

the AI wrote it.

Google published it.

a court just decided those are the same thing.

every AI search engine. every chatbot. every platform that takes information and synthesizes it into a confident answer is now looking at this ruling.

When your AI gets it wrong, who pays?

[ABC News @ABC]

Only 3% of individuals detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the first 14 months of the second Trump administration had a violent felony conviction, according to an @ABC News analysis of government data. https://t.co/9TKPQ3FG1v

[pokey pup @Whatapityonyou]

A person that becomes a trillionaire should be shamed and ostracized for hoarding massive amounts of wealth. That kind of behavior isn’t admirable but rather greedy and sociopathic.

[prim @0xprimdotfun]

Spacex is cool but America is basically 350 million people working to keep 20 billionaires rich enough to protect pedophiles and perpetuate genocides on the other side of the world.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Carol Leonnig: “…what we were hearing last night…was that the Ohio Organizing Collaborative…one of its offices in Cleveland was targeted and raided by FBI agents yesterday. In addition to that, what we learned was that a series of FBI agents were fanning out across the state…to interview people and approach them at their homes, who had worked as volunteers registering voters, or as canvassers for the collaborative, and those interviews, if you can call them that, were conducted often WITHOUT warrants…So FBI agents were essentially just going into people’s homes and saying we’d like to ask you a few questions, which is NOT how the FBI normally investigates these kinds of matters…their great concern is that this is part of a larger Trump administration effort to basically target swing states and to target pro democracy organizations who might register Democratic voters, or help them register to vote, and question and sow distrust in those swing states in the integrity of the elections.” 😳

[Roy Scott @royscottness]

No, make buybacks illegal as they effectively were prior to 1982

This system of stock buybacks is about the purest demonstration of value extraction and redistribution to enrich already-wealthy shareholders

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Musk is worth more than South Africa’s GDP. @BernieSanders and I proposed a 5% tax on people like him.

In one year, it could fund:
- free public college & trade school
-$10/day childcare
- Special-needs education nationwide

Wealth inequality is the moral failure of our time.

[Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc]

SpaceX just did the biggest IPO in history while having negative revenue. They literally have no P/E ratio.

It’s based entirely on future hype, and that future hype pans out only if Elon succeeds in buying our government to ensure SpaceX gets all the contracts.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton’s own party impeached him.
His own staff reported him to the FBI.
Now his own defense attorney is endorsing our campaign.

Those closest to Ken Paxton know he's unfit for office.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

What's most infuriating about the Musk trillionaire shit is that his enterprise is built almost exclusively on gov contracts. It's not just that he's expropriating our wealth in an abstract way -- his fortune is built on the tax dollars we pay, that he then obtains through graft.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: ABC News Just Published Some Pretty Stunning ICE Data.

The administration says it is targeting the "worst of the worst."

But according to ABC's analysis of government data, only 3% of the more than 400,000 people detained by ICE between January 2025 and March 2026 had a violent felony conviction in the United States.

ABC reports that ICE apprehended more than 4,800 U.S. citizens and deported over 2,000 of them during the first eight months of 2025.

[VoteVets @votevets]

BREAKING: In a shocking maneuver, Senate Republicans just BLOCKED a Democratic effort to BAN federal troops from entering polling stations or seizing ballots or voting machines. Makes you wonder what they’re planning this November…

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

40,000,000 Americans live in poverty.

770,000 Americans will sleep rough tonight without a home, including 150,000 children.

27,000,000 Americans cannot afford health insurance.

7,000,000 households regularly skip meals as they cannot afford to eat regularly.

Meanwhile…

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

This is some sort of mass delusion. They literally have no product worth this much