jamshid

lgbtqanon. Born 1969.

[jamshid @jamshid]

"the goal is to build a culture of loving the people we serve" —Zuckerberg (that's "serve" as in http://t.co/ikrSSI7ZWC)

[Lloyd Doggett @RepLloydDoggett]

Following an urgent call that the Trump regime would blast Mariscal Mountain to build an unnecessary patrol road 1,700 feet above one of the least trafficked sections of the border, I led my colleagues in demanding a pause to construction until we receive a real explanation.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Is there anyone doing more damage to the Democratic brand right now than @JamesCarville? He's out there on every network screaming like a banshee about how extreme Democrats are.

He's purposely emphasizing irrelevant policy positions almost no Democrat believes in - and by doing that, he's helping corporate media smear all Democrats by pretending they all hold those extreme positions.

Why? Because he's bitter that the pro-corporate, pro-Israel wing of the party isn't getting its way. See, they never cared about the party or the voters, all they wanted was power for themselves and their donors.

If the donors don't get their way, they send people like Carville out there to burn everything to the ground. That way the Republicans win - and the donors still get exactly what they want.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

just gonna leave it here

[DK @DK1gmm]

@Acyn A lot of people won’t understand how connected Vance is to Thiel. I’m happy El-Sayad is bringing some attention to the reality of Vance’s power relations. He owes his political career to Thiel and therefor Palentir

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I got comment from the campaign where you worked. Also reached out to Palantir, which didn’t respond. Your rationale for why you work for Palantir is not the newsworthy part. If you’d like to share why you work there, and what your favorite parts of their business are, please do share, but there’s no real news value in that.

The news is that Haley Stevens comms strategy was being set by somebody who was secretly working for Palantir, a company complicit in the very thing Stevens is running in opposition to.

Why you decided to do that is perhaps interesting to some but again, not newsworthy, so once I had comment from the campaign, that was enough.

But go ahead, fine: Why did you secretly work for Palantir while also working for Haley Stevens?

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

More than 100 of Governor Abbott’s buoys broke loose during deadly floods in Texas. Buoys with sharp razors are now causing damage to neighborhoods and have shut down a bridge that transports thousands of vehicles a day.

Abbott’s “buoy border” was a reckless idea from the very start and border communities remain collateral damage.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

An ICE agent shot and killed a 26-year-old man in Maine today.

This comes just days after ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas.

Trump’s domestic army must be stopped.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The magnitude of Trump's personal corruption and the monetizing of the presidency by him and his family have no precedent in US history.

It takes a total peasant mentality, or some weird cultish devotion, to defend or excuse this, especially if you objected to corrupt Biden transactions (as I did). It's on a completely different scale.

Trump set up a crypto company (World Liberty Financial) 4 days before his inauguration, then had the UAE pour hundreds of millions into his pockets for 49% of it, then gave rewards to the UAE. Jared getting $2 billion from the Saudis. On and on and on.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

AYFKM

This is some *wild* backpedaling bullshit from Elon

DOGE didn’t check with aid recipients…they didn’t check with *anyone*

DOGE clear-cut >80% of USAID programs without assessing what harms would ensue

And when USAID staff tried to flag those harms, they were forced out

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

There you have it. Anthropic's CEO said it: The murder of more than 100 schoolgirls in Minab targeted by Anthropic's CLAUDE "is a use case that doesn't even violate our red lines." Time to rise up against these technofeudal war criminals.

[Kuuhaku ☭ @Kuuhaku3993]

What's important here is that he spent the entire production trying to bait Muslims into assaulting him for acting flamboyantly gay. Only for that to never happen, except with a group of Israelis. It's the only time he broke character during production, to tell them he was acting

[jamshid @jamshid]

@LeoWest20185862 @Suzi_TigerLily @ggreenwald You’re the one in the middle of a psychotic break buddy.

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

Bouie and French think Platner's character is disqualifying. They have never written about:

1) Gaza

2 revelations that Larry Summers and Bill Clinton spent more than a decade hanging out with the world's most notorious child rapist

3) how billionaires corrupt politics

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Drop Site News was scheduled to host a panel discussion at SXSW London on June 3. We have informed the organizers we will not be moving forward with the event following SXSW’s refusal to condemn the British Home Office’s state censorship of our colleagues Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, who were also scheduled to speak at SXSW. The banning of our colleagues is part of an intensifying campaign by the UK government to stifle criticism of Israel and criminalize pro-Palestine activism at a time when the genocide in Gaza is continuing.

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

This is how National Security Minister Ben-Gvir treats detainees when he knows the cameras are rolling — to say nothing of what happens to Palestinians behind closed doors.

This conduct is abhorrent. He should've been sanctioned by the U.S. long ago.

[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.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

🚨LMFAO. The Secretary of War flew to Kentucky to campaign against THOMAS MASSIE, the one Republican who actually votes against your kids dying in another forever war.

And he seriously opens with this:

HEGSETH: "I have to say up front for the lawyers that I'm here in my personal capacity. As a private citizen."

Bro! You are the SECRETARY OF WAR. You did not wake up this morning and become Dave from accounting.

The regime is sending a cabinet official to take out the most anti-war and pro America guy in Congress and we are supposed to pretend it's a personal hobby?!

Massie lives rent free in their entire Epstein apparatus for a reason.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

I appreciate the intense interest in my column. For skeptics, why not agree on Red Cross and lawyer visits for the 9,000 Palestinian "security" prisoners? If you think these abuse allegations are false, such monitoring visits would be protective. So why not?

[katya schwenk @ktyschwnk]

After an obscure defense vendor won a $12 million no-bid contract w/ ICE, I noticed something odd on its website: The firm was using a (still watermarked!) stock photo for the chief of its “development team.”

Things only got more bizarre from there…

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

Unfrigginbelievable.

So our Secretary of State, acting on a “tip” from a mentally ill influencer, arrested and is detaining two legal citizens with green cards for the crime of having the wrong last names.

How much more cartoonishly evil and stupid can this administration get?