Jesse Singerman

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

With $300 billion, we could end homelessness, fund cancer research for 40 years, and give every child free pre-K for over 7 years. Instead, Trump is sending it to Iran. This is not America First. Not even close.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The leaked Iran deal that is floating around suggests that this is a pretty simple transaction: we are paying Iran billions to reopen the Strait. Period. Stop.

That's probably why they are refusing to release it.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BREAKING: ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi confirms the White House directly intervened to force the Pentagon to give a record-breaking loan to a startup just 3 months after Don Jr. invested in it.

The Trump administration is looting the country!

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Pardoned Jan 6 insurrectionist David Daniel has pled guilty to child s*xual abuse.

['Unacceptable views': Rummaging Globalism @RGlobalism]

@TFTC21 Full Speech: Anthropic Co‑Founder Christopher Olah at Magnifica Humanitas Vatican Launch | EWTN News

https://t.co/l9ZHukkJtd

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models.

What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text.

"We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience."

"We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease."

These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours.

And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve.

Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large."

The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

[Gee Tee @GregTodd_]

@BulwarkOnline

[FiddleyFud⚛️🇺🇦🇺🇸 @FiddleyF]

@BulwarkOnline Thanks John Roberts.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

.@SenThomTillis has been commendably outspoken since announcing his retirement. But before he did, he cast THE deciding vote to confirm @PeteHegseth, overriding his own serious doubts that a Weekend Fox & Friends host, w/checkered past, was fit for job.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Rep. Jamie Raskin’s investigation revealed that 23 of the top 25 buyers who bought VIP access to Trump through his crypto scheme were likely foreign nationals. The regime wants to hide this. Help us expose the truth: https://t.co/CfFsoUOuxD

[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

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Not so long ago, Donald Trump posted a picture of a bound & gagged President Biden in the back of a truck. Trump didn’t apologize & he didn’t take it down. I wrote about it here; the analysis stands up in light of the indictment of Jim Comey today. https://t.co/E9SuSH6haj

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..."

Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump??

Zeteo put together a montage:

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

No ballroom. No arch. No Kings.

https://t.co/RfMPIxydvi

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Journalists worldwide should stand up for colleagues who are murdered.

[Christina Bohannan @BohannanIowa]

No matter where we go or who we talk to, Iowans are saying the same thing: they’re sick and tired of the dishonesty and political games coming out of Washington.

It was great chatting with so many of you in Burlington. I’m ready to bring all of you with me to Congress and finally put Iowa first!

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

In his second term, Trump seems even less restrained and more incoherent at times. He uses more profanity, speaks longer, regularly makes comments rooted in fantasy rather than fact, wanders off into odd tangents and shocks even allies with his outbursts. https://t.co/AZSqGjRwOs

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

The damage Trump did to US alliances will take many years to undo.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

The President of the United States and the Secretary of State are attending a UFC event tonight as negotiations with Iran collapse in Islamabad—raising the risk of a massive war restarting.

📸 Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Pool via REUTERS