Rebecca 🐓

[Rebecca 🐓 @costello22]

@AlgerianFooty Lawrence is happy to have the Algerian team as our guests.

https://t.co/54MJxdfPSz

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The CFPB has deleted 15 years' worth of data off its website.

Every post that predates Trump's second term has been removed except for reports mandated by Congress.

In total some 1,700 pages on the website have been wiped out.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state.

The strongest welfare states in the world (the Nordics) tax everyone, including nurses. And they give everyone universal healthcare, childcare, pensions, education in return.

When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut.

That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea. The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k.

It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

There's only one way to find out 👍

[Jocelyn Anderson Photography @JocAPhotography]

A fun surprise at the Hand of Snacks today! A male Rose-breasted Grosbeak showed up at the boardwalk. He wasn’t comfortable landing on the hand, but eating from it was okay. He gave my fingers a little nibble with that big beak, no big chomps.

[Eli 🍚 @EliLikesRice]

The most corrupt, ultra rich, wealthiest, selfish pricks with too much money than they know what to do with and will never be able to spend it all are against social programs WE pay into. These tax-evading freeloaders are parasites on society

[ABC News @ABC]

Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. https://t.co/hwzwfkkLBS

[Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @alex_callinicos]

Interesting from Gillian Tett

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

We are in deep, deep trouble.

A reader wrote in to me this week saying that they wouldn't read my Trump corruption story because ChatGPT "fact-checked the piece" and informed them most of it was false.

Among other things, ChatGPT told them that there is no Iran war, Jared Kushner is not a negotiator in the war, Qatar never offered Trump a $400 million plane, George Santos wasn't pardoned, the NYTimes did not report on Syrian billionaires lobbying Trump for sanctions relief, Trump never launched a meme coin, and World Liberty Financial (the Trump family crypto firm) doesn't exist.

Of course, all of these things ARE real, do exist, and are happening right now. Apparently, the reader copy and pasted the text of my story into ChatGPT, and without the links ChatGPT couldn't confirm any of it. Once the reader sent ChatGPT the link to the story, it ended up concluding all the facts were correct.

How many people simply don't know how to use AI and are offloading all their thinking? It's a terrifying thought. And a totally new frontier of reality to navigate.

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

When Neil Gorsuch tried for 2 years to sell his $1.8M property with no luck, but only 9 days after getting confirmed to the Supreme Court, sold it to a lawyer with multiple cases before SCOTUS, then failed to disclose the buyer’s identity - there’s a stench on the bench.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Google founder Sergey Brin's wealth has DOUBLED to $311 billion since Trump's election.

Now he’s spending $57M to oppose a 5% billionaires' wealth tax in California.

He’d rather millions lose healthcare than pay his fair share in taxes. This kind of arrogance is unacceptable.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“A person afflicted with nationalism believes that his own country is the most civilised and humane country in the world while its enemies are guilty of every imaginable atrocity and vileness. Since they are so vile and atrocious, while we are so civilised and humane, there is no degree of vileness and atrocity which we may not legitimately practise towards them. This is the underlying creed of nationalism.”

― Bertrand Russell

[jbulltard @jbulltard1]

Isn’t it odd how Elon says we won’t need money in the future but he wants $10t for himself.

[Rebecca 🐓 @costello22]

@chipsandgist They did say they had actors read the messages. They also said most were translated from Farsi.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Here it is, my occasional reminder that balloons won't make it up to grandma in heaven.

But they will return to Earth and choke wildlife.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Even more than in the past, it is clear today that the proliferation of armed conflicts is often driven by the exploitation of oil and mineral deposits, with no regard for international law or the self-determination of peoples.

[Rebecca 🐓 @costello22]

@taintimpaler @wifeoftoast Gonna guess this is the only book she owns.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Bruce Pearl says he will now boycott Spain.

I wonder how he would like it if we passed laws saying he was not allowed to boycott Spain and that doing so was bigoted toward Spanish people.

[Najat @theafroaussie]

Thought Israel isn’t involved in Sudan?

Think again.

Avi Dichter, former Security Minister:

"For 30 years we have destabilised Sudan. It is important that Sudan be permanently destabilized by its internal conflicts."

“We had to weaken Sudan and deprive it of the initiative to build a strong and united state. That is necessary for bolstering and strengthening Israel’s national security. We produced and escalated the Darfur crisis to prevent Sudan from developing its capabilities”.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Yana Boyko @_yanaboyko]

Please help spread the word:

I’m honestly shocked to see my illustration being used on T-shirts sold at the Monte-Carlo Masters without my permission or a licence.

I never expected something like this from such a major tournament.

If someone from the organisers sees this, please contact me so we can resolve this properly.

@montecarlorolex @atptour