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Dad, Husband, on twitter to post about video games, comics, wrestling, books, and ... politics 🤗

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

A trillionair, yet his name does not appear on a single school, university, library, museum wing, hospital, stadium, arena, airport, or endowed chairs. What a colossal waste of a human lifetime.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

If you can’t tax billionaires and trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity.

If it’s not real enough to tax, it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage.

This is why we say the system is rigged in favor of the super wealthy. Abolish billionaires, tax them out of existence, protect working people.

[J @catsuppackets]

@YourAnonNews @AdamKinzinger I can do way more weight then him. I only work out twice a week. What a joke

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

1 Trillionaire.
27 million uninsured.
36 million in poverty.
45 million relying on food assistance.
60 million full-time workers are not paid a livable wage.

This is not sustainable. America needs change.

[J @catsuppackets]

@Fachsenbude @joseavari6 Delete this ai slop twitter post. The entire thing was written like it came right from a llm. Are we sure scene addiction isn’t an ai bot?

[⚡︎ @_sorrengailll]

Wait, so we were told to take shorter showers, turn off the tap while brushing our teeth, and conserve water at every opportunity… but data centers can show up and use millions of gallons like it’s nothing?

[J @catsuppackets]

@rhysajlucero @brandonbaskin @omgsidewalks Hate to have to be the one to tell you this but…

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

The capitalist obsession with rapid growth at all costs is literally the function of cancer cells.

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[J @catsuppackets]

@PenguinWeb3

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[J @catsuppackets]

Great to see @Schwarzenegger is back in theaters for one of my all-time favorite movies

[Mike (not a) Rothschild @rothschildmd]

The "Talarico is a vegan" thing reminds me a lot of "Obama is Muslim." Neither one actually ever said they were those things, and there is a great deal of evidence they aren't. And even if they are, it doesn't matter because those are personal choices that harm nobody else.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I can't properly describe to anyone under the age of 30 just how cool the Internet was before Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple turned it all into a walled garden of garbage and commerce.

[Cooper @justcuuper]

Paxton vs. Talarico is a perfect microcosm of current American politics

Paxton, who is currently being divorced for cheating on his wife, whose entire political career has been riddled with corruption and fraud, who is exactly the dirty bought-and-paid-for politician MAGA is constantly fear mongered about, has supporters nodding right along with him as he says “but Talarico is vegan” (he’s not)

I hate this timeline

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

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

So $1.8 billion in reparations for insurrectionists, and zero for Epstein victims?

Am I getting this right?

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Here's how the corruption works:

Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump

Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it

Friday: FDA changes the policy
https://t.co/Udu1RhYtKI

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Multiple ICE warehouses were sold by people in Trump's circle who were sitting on the properties and losing money.

We dug into it, and found that some properties were bought by the feds for 10x their list price.

It's a new level of corruption — and you're paying for it.