Kevin Brogan

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The US has circulated its version of the Memo of Understanding with Iran to G7 leaders in France. It’s as bad if not worse than expected.
— The moment it’s signed (Friday) sanctions on the export of Iran oil are lifted. So the regime can start replenishing its coffers immediately.
— The US commits to doing nothing to undermine or destabilise the Iranian regime (it started the war to remove it).
— The US specifically commits to ending its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz but Iran does not commit specifically to returning the Strait to toll/fee free transit exactly as before the war, with no Iranian control/regulation whatsoever .
— All sanctions against Iran will be dropped should phase two negotiations go well. And America will withdraw its forces from the region.
— The US ‘undertakes’ to work with Iran and Gulf allies to create a $300 billion reconstruction package for Iran. So America will now become a partner with the tyrants of Tehran, who Trump only recently wanted to overthrow, in rebuilding their economy.
— All matters related to Iran’s nuclear capabilities are kicked into the ‘final agreement’ in 60 days time (or longer if necessary).
— No mention of Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities or its financing of terrorist proxies.
And that’s just about it. When Trump insisted the war would only end with ‘unconditional surrender’ it never crossed my mind he meant his own.

[Jamie Walters, CAIA @JWalters314]

The European mind understands it perfectly. This is what imperial decadence looks like: public institutions converted into branded spectacle, civic memory replaced by adrenaline theater, and the People’s House turned into a content backdrop for regime propaganda.

The joke is not that Europe cannot comprehend it. The joke is that America no longer recognizes what it is becoming.

[HornSports @HornSports]

3 years ago, Hunter Dekkers was ruled ineligible for placing $2,799 in bets. He never played D1 football again.

Brendan Sorbsy placed $90,000 worth of bets while at 3 different schools and gets to play college football this year.

[Scott Van Pelt @notthefakeSVP]

There really aren’t any rules. You just go to court. If it fails, go to court again until a judge says you’re all set.

Want a 7th year?

Sure

Broke rules?

Ahhhh, it’s fine.

There AREN’T any rules.

[Kevin Brogan @k_bro25]

@ptw771 @RpsAgainstTrump

[Kevin Brogan @k_bro25]

@ptw771 @RpsAgainstTrump I'm pretty sure the TSA style check would be intact no matter who the president was, as Secret Service would have to be a part of the process at that point.

Now him choosing to go to this specific game is worth questioning, given the importance of it

[JDRandom - RandomWhiteGuy @TheReelRandom]

I’ll never stop reposting this.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Not AI

Trump fell asleep again during a public event in the Oval Office today.

He now falls asleep at virtually every public event where he’s seated. We can only imagine what happens when the cameras aren’t there.

The president is clearly unwell.

25th Amendment now.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Allow me to be the first to congratulate the MAGA morons, who spent years howling about the $1.7B that Obama returned to Iran.

Your 4D chess master is handing Iran $300B, to open the Strait of Hormuz, that Obama kept open for free.

Brilliant!

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Trump: “I have a contractor that built my pools, did an Olympic pool at my clubs. He can do the reflecting pool for $1.3M in less than 2 weeks.”

*A no bid contract and 6 weeks later, the budget is now $13.4M

Trump: “I don’t know the contractor. Never used them before.”

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Trump should be in jail. Again. This time for insider trading, for obscene public corruption. Again. He doesn’t even hide it bcuz he doesn’t give a fuck. He doesn’t hide it bcuz he believes his followers don’t care. He doesn’t hide it bcuz the legacy media ignores it. He doesn’t hide it bcuz we don’t have a Congress, so he believes he’s untouchable.👇

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: Financial disclosures show Trump bought stock in UFC’s parent company, TKO Group, before announcing a UFC event on the White House South Lawn, giving massive publicity to a company in which he has a financial stake.

Under any other president, this would be a major scandal.

Source: HuffPost

[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.

[Men's Humor @MensHumor]

Much like insurance. " you are legally required to hire us, at high rates based on other people's actions, so we can 'save' your money in case of an emergency, that we may or may not allow you to access a small fraction of your funds to cover damages, if we feel credible to do so. Oh and don't worry, you'll never get any over payments back."

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

“If we erase January 6th, it didn’t happen”

“If we don’t release certain inflation data, there’s no inflation”

“If we don’t measure food insecurity, no one’s hungry”

“If we delete research on right-wing violence, there’s no right-wing violence”

“If we stop Covid testing, we’ll have fewer cases”

The Trump administration wants you to believe their propaganda is fact, and control the majority of mainstream media and social platforms to reinforce their lies.

This is what authoritarianism looks like.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Yup

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Thomas Massie helped to expose the Epstein files and Trump spent tens of millions against him.

Tells you everything you need to know about Trump’s ongoing Epstein cover up.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

The other extremely frustrating thing is that there is no unified theory. One person claims "fraud" because of Dominion hacking the election. Another person thinks it was ballot stuffing (a la "2,000 mules"). Another person says "the statistical impossibility," i.e. they don't know *how* it was stolen they just know it was. Another person focused only on Georgia and Fulton County, while another focuses on the Rust Belt and Pennsylvania. Some people blame Facebook and Covid-era mail-in voting rules (so not even fraud, just that the environment was built to favor Biden).

You'd think if there was a stolen election conspiracy the people claiming a stolen election would have a unified theory about how it was done, but they don't even agree with each other. They just throw a million things at the wall and pivot anytime one theory goes down in smoke.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Biden governed for everyone, Trump governs only for himself and his loyalist boot lickers. 😡