Dori

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 @TaraSetmayer]

🚨🚨🚨

[Rep. Jared Huffman @RepHuffman]

This is insane. If you signed up for a free event or even bought some 250th merch, your data was probably harvested by Trump's campaign. 

Our investigation found that Trump's Freedom 250 secretly harvested Americans' personal data to track them and try to influence the upcoming midterms, using America's 250th birthday as cover. 

We're getting federal watchdogs and the committee that oversees the election process involved to get the full extent of what happened and hold those responsible accountable.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I told you what they would do.
They denied it vehemently.
I said to ignore their denials.
And then they did it.
Thank you @jimmy_dore for covering this.

https://t.co/7dHToESkHE

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

They took memory cards from us and made us pay for storage. They took CDs and DVDs and made us pay for streaming. They took software you could buy once and turned it into a monthly subscription. They took ownership, convenience, and basically everything that used to be a one-time purchase… then somehow made us pay for it every month.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 BREAKING: Republican Congressman Mike Collins signals his intent to end Social Security:

"[Old people need to] get off of Social Security [and] get back into the workforce."

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Lots about Trump renaming New Mexico, New America. But people are too polite to point out Trump has no interest in renaming New England, New Hampshire, New Jersey, or New York. It's Mexico and Mexicans and Latinos he wants to taunt. It's idiocy, but it's also a dog whistle.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Reporter: "What do you make of Republicans saying Virginia—"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "Whoa, whoa, whoa."

"For 10 years, we've asked Republicans to ban partisan gerrymandering, but they've refused. They've fought for it across the U.S., and these are the rules they created.

If Republicans want to start this, they did it in North Carolina. They gerrymandered three Democratic members of Congress out of North Carolina. They did it in Texas too.

What angers them is that they're used to a Democratic Party that gives in easily, doesn't fight back, and accepts everything quietly. Now we're in a new era. We demanded Democrats stand and fight, and now they have — and Republicans don't like that they're fighting for people who will actually defend the American people.

So if Republicans want to reconsider banning partisan gerrymandering, I welcome it. We have the bill here to end it all today. But they don't want that because they enjoy maintaining an unfair electoral system. So it's our duty to defend ourselves."

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

And they’ll keep lying anyway.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi @JGreenblattADL and @ADL anything to publicly say about this? It’s been over a week and you sponsored this event.

[State Rep. Angie Nixon @AngieNixon]

Ever wonder why politicians like Rick Scott and Ashley Moody push to end Social Security?

Because they own stocks. They own companies. They want you working until you die — for pennies, so they can profit on top of profit.

[Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary) @SpockResists]

I saw this post and wanted to address it.

If you look at social media today, you’ll see good, empathetic people admitting they are losing hope. They look at climate change, rising authoritarianism, and corporate greed and feel entirely powerless. If you feel this way, I want

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

I was just detained for almost two hours at Miami International Airport coming back from an overseas trip. I was interrogated, asked about my work, political activities, books and literature I had, and my phone was seized.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

can someone explain to me why the media is trying to hold every Democrat accountable for something a streamer says but nobody cares about Elon Musk being in the Epstein files and posting insane stuff like this nonstop as he funds every Republican politician

[Acyn @Acyn]

Concha: I’ll say it. if McConnell does not come back in September, he needs to step down! Enough of this already! How many months has it been since we heard from him directly? I don’t want to see proof of life photos from a hospital bed anymore! He needs to get in front of a microphone and prove he can do this job.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Trumps special delegation bursting with excitement to meet the man who has been helping Iran bomb US bases all year.

[Elizabeth 🇺🇲 @Elizabeth71729]

And, again, the singular person who is trying his hardest to save our democracy. God Bless you, Marc Elias. Keep fighting 💙

[Dr. Alice Frost @PoliSciChick84]

This is beyond reprehensible.

According to The Washington Post, while Witkoff and Kushner were supposedly in Moscow trying to negotiate an end to Russia’s war against Ukraine, they were also discussing potentially large U.S.-Russian economic projects with the Kremlin. (One thing to watch closely: whether any U.S.-Russian economic deal emerging from these negotiations creates direct or indirect financial benefits for Trump-linked businesses or members of his family.)

Putin’s foreign-policy adviser Yuri Ushakov said that “economic issues and potentially large, mutually beneficial joint projects for Russia and America were discussed in considerable detail.”

Russia is waging a war of aggression against Ukraine, Putin is showing little willingness to abandon his maximalist demands, and the two men Trump has ostensibly "entrusted" with negotiating a settlement are simultaneously discussing potentially large U.S.-Russian economic projects with the Kremlin.

Then Witkoff sits across from Putin, a war criminal, and tells him that, when they retire and look back on their lives, their conversations with him will be “right at the top” of their incredible memories.

Utterly disgusting.

The Washington Post reported the economic discussions today, citing Ushakov. Reuters has independently reported that economic cooperation was discussed in detail during the three-hour meeting.

To call these "negotiations" is laughable. A more apt description would be: two hucksters meet a war criminal to do business.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Elon Musk receives $8 million from taxpayers each day.