Bill Carlson

[Bill Carlson @coacoas]

Yes, Wheel of Fortune passes for educational television in our house.

[Bill Carlson @coacoas]

Steak-umm knows

[Steak-umm @steak_umm]

whoever decided that starting school at 7:30am was an appropriate time to try and cognitively develop a teenager did not consult a single neurologist

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

That time Paul Rudd shot-for-shot recreated the "You Spin Me Round" music video just for fun 😂🔥

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The House is scheduled to vote this week on a National Defense Authorization that would integrate our military tech & supply chains with Israel’s.

Today, the Rules Committee will decide whether my amendment to strip section 219 will get a vote.

RT to support the Massie amdt.!

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@mattvanswol @Kelly4Info SECURE THE ELECTIONS is a weapon of mass distraction…

from the fact that Republicans won the elections and have since:

increased debt, increased spending, started a war, caused inflation, protected the criminal elite, betrayed our sovereignty, and infringed on your rights.

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

Garrett Langley runs Flock Safety, a $8.4 billion company whose AI-enabled cameras, more than 100,000 of them, now line the roads of over 6,000 American communities. Will Freeman is a software engineer whose open-source project, DeFlock, maps the locations of publicly visible surveillance cameras so individuals can see where they are being watched.

For this, Langley has called DeFlock a “terroristic organization” whose “primary motivation is chaos.”

Sit with that inversion for a moment. A billion-dollar enterprise photographs most cars in America (regardless of whether their drivers are suspected of a crime), logs each vehicle’s movements into a searchable national database, and grants access to thousands of police agencies, no warrant required. A private citizen responds by noting, on a map, where the cameras sit in plain view atop public poles. And in the CEO’s telling, the man with the map is the menace.

Consider how strange this standard is. Tens of millions of Americans open Waze every day, an app that lets drivers flag police cars and DWI checkpoints in real time. When the NYPD demanded Google shut the feature down, the company refused, noting that informed drivers make safer decisions, and nobody seriously calls Waze a terrorist network. Freeman's map does less than Waze.

The ACLU (rightly) called Langley’s assertion “simplistic, juvenile, and ultimately authoritarian.” But even that seems charitable. When merely watching the watchers gets branded as terrorism, something foundational has flipped in the relationship between citizen and state.

Fairness demands we grant Flock its strongest case, so what is that?

(Continue reading, link in the thread…)

[NBC News @NBCNews]

NEW: None of the officers at the scene where a man was fatally shot by ICE in Houston were wearing body cameras, according to two DHS officials and a source familiar with the investigation. https://t.co/iyuRL5tEXr

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

Tyranny of the judiciary or Last Branch Standing (to quote @whignewtons' new book title)? So many of Trump's actions are blatantly illegal, the number goes up, even when he's appointed many of the judges.

[Bill Carlson @coacoas]

@prieurdp It's generally easier and safer to back into a static environment (empty parking space) than a dynamic environment (open road with cars and people). Sure, there are a lot of people that aren't very good at backing in, but you have to suck at something before you can be good at it

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

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.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

So pro-life they’re pro-death.

[🪴Laurie @Laurieluvsmolly]

Vietnam Vets are suing the Trump over his ridiculous arch, in which is another $100 MILLION of our tax money.

In this video you can see how his arch would block the view of our most hollowed burial grounds.

When asked who the arch is for, he answered, “me”.

STOP THE ARCH!

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donating $5 million to the people investigating you is corruption.

Accepting $5 million from the person you’re investigating is corruption.

Our government is run by corrupt billionaires and bought politicians.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Thanks to Donald Trump, we now have two Democratic parties. With the defeat of @RepThomasMassie for being a principled fiscal conservative, the Republican Party basically exists in name only. We have two big-government political parties, each offering its own brand of socialism.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

This is INSANE: Trump’s DOJ says the government is now “FOREVER BARRED” from pursuing tax claims against Trump or his family as part of the “settlement.”

The one-page document, signed by Deputy AG Todd Blanche, also blocks claims tied to pending tax returns.

The most corrupt president in American history by far.

[Christopher Skelly @Skelly4Liberty]

“Every time we've needed Thomas Massie to forget the Constitution and vote with us, he hasn't done so”.

I don't know, VPJD, it seems like it's the administration that's the problem, not Massie.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Mike Johnson wants people struggling with soaring gas prices, rent, and grocery bills to feel bad for members of Congress making “only” $174K a year, getting great healthcare, and taking months of vacation every year, and he’s using that to justify trading stocks while in office.

Totally out of touch

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Again, so much vaccine misinformation from the president. Kids don’t get anywhere close to “88” or “82” vaccines. They aren’t given “a vat” or “big glass of water”; vaccine doses are a tiny fraction of a teaspoon. And they already do receive their shots over multiple doctor visits, not a single visit as Trump repeatedly said or suggested. https://t.co/9lioGbkUpA https://t.co/JRIcaTecqj

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

Bush’s letter feels like it came from another planet - one where political rivals were still countrymen, not enemies. The ink is only 33 years old, but the sentiment might as well be from a century ago.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

You have got to be kidding me.

The State Department is putting Donald Trump’s scowling face on the U.S. passport.

His signature in gold. Superimposed over the Declaration of Independence, a document literally written to get away from this exact behavior.

No sitting president has ever done this. Coins, park passes, battleships, and now your passport. The man cannot find a surface he will not slap his name or face on.

This is not patriotism.

It is vanity.

[Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin]

OK - this is too cool! 🤯