AOC: Mike Johnson paints this as though it’s some partisan witch hunt. But if you don’t want to be prosecuted for crimes, don’t do crimes.
And he’s talking about running a protection racket. And we are already seeing that this Trump administration has run what some have called one of the largest pedophile protection programs in American history.
And so when Mike Johnson tells a group of wealthy donors, I'm the only thing standing between you, and a consequence that should rattle at the conscience of every American.
What he wants to do is create—or rather, not even create, because it’s already been created—but protect a class of impunity in America that says, “You can commit whatever crime, and so long as you pay a check to us, we will protect you.”
And that is a model of extortion in American politics. And you know what? That’s their pitch.
You are 100% right Senator Tillis. So why did you vote to confirm Hegseth? And Bondi. And Gabbard. And RFK. And Noem.
And why did you vote to acquit on J6?
You own 100% of this Trump disaster, and if you had a change of heart then repent and publicly denounce Trump and MAGA.
We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas
Holy fuck. This guy, btw, was buddies with Jeffrey Epstein. He's here advocating mass invasive global-scale surveillance -- a canonical dystopian scenario. Utter madness.
These sentences are a travesty and totally unjustified, but that's the point. Americans hate the fascist Trump regime, so the only way they can try to cling to power is brute force. NSPM-7 is a grave threat to all of us and more bullshit "terrorism" charges like these are coming. https://t.co/LBREZVVY6D
An investigation by Mother Jones confirms that the FBI used software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite to secretly extract data from the phones of at least a dozen protesters. https://t.co/n4WRaWsiPb
BREAKING: @AOC just introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act in the House.
The bill would ban the construction of data centers until Congress addresses the economic, environmental, and safety impacts of AI.
Anyone who can't see what is happening is blind.
1) Banning of the ability to have privacy with a cellphone
2) Banning of the ability to own a foreign router (which may not "comply" with future "required" legislation )
3) Identity checks at the OS, App Store and Service provider levels.
4) Ability to restrict individuals access to the internet, to given types of content, etc
5) Forced front and center "official" news media forced into online services.
6) Control over AI algorithms
7) Control over algorithms for visibility/sharing of content
8) Control over peoples cars (remote kill switches, embedded biometrics, automated reporting to LEO, inebriation checks).
9) Forced biometrics to login to computers, phones, etc
10) Digital ID to replace physical ID.
11) Digital cash to replace physical cash
12) Millions of biometrics and license place cameras + millions of "gun shot detection" systems
13) Banning of mobile applications and endpoint software the government deems wrong, dangerous, or incorrect, etc. (Tiktok, Kaspersky, etc)
14) AI being embedded in every processor, mobile device, desktop OS, etc.
15) Laws demanding "backdoored" encryption.
16) Laws demanding client side scanning.
17) Laws demanding control over speech deemed harmful, violent, dangerous, upsetting, etc
18) Charges and convictions against anyone releasing privacy focused software (tornado cash).
19) AI predictive policing and predictive dissent detection
20) Centralizing of all healthcare, psychological, financial, online, offline, travel and government records.
21) Forced biometrics collection to travel, attend public events, etc
Periodic reminder that you cannot breed out a polygenic and the generational response to selection is extremely slow. The Nazis sterilized or killed nearly all schizophrenics in Germany (a far more heritable phenotype than criminality) and yet the incidence increased.
MAGA man attempts to murder Hispanic woman driver—while yelling "Go back to your country!"
Man stabbed her through open car window with large knife—then began to strangle her.
It took 2 men to subdue him and save her life—also getting stabbed in process.
He yelled racist slurs during his attack like "You people don't belong in this country!" and "You are all criminals!"
Eddie Bradbury is facing a total of 12 charges—including attempted murder.
Incident occurred at the intersection of Stone Mountain Hwy and East Park Place Blvd in Gwinnett County, Georgia—directly northeast of Atlanta.
This is pure, unadulterated Nazism. Hitler’s program to remove disabled people from the community to “institutionalize” them was called “Aktion T4.” It resulted in 300,000 disabled people being murdered.
This is Buchenwald.
🚨BREAKING: Postmaster General David Steiner told senators that, under a new proposed rule, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration https://t.co/WA59TUHa59
Yesterday’s abrupt retirement announcement by Gen. Chris Donahue, the Commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa (USAREUR-AF) and NATO’s Allied Land Command, was made at the request of the Pentagon under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, people familiar with the matter tell The Wall Street Journal.
Prior to this announcement, many believed Donahue was on a fast track to become Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, having led the Army’s Delta Force commandos in Iraq and Syria when it took the fight to Islamic State militants and was the “last man out” when the troops he commanded at the 82nd Airborne Division were called in to secure the 2021 evacuation of U.S. personnel and Afghan allies from Kabul, Afghanistan.
General Donahue’s removal is said to be part of an ongoing push by Hegseth to put his imprint on the military’s leadership, while squeezing out officers with track records of battlefield valor and command experience in favor of less accomplished political loyalists, officers that fully support both himself and President Trump.
Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances:
“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
https://t.co/zekfj8Oank
UPDATE: Man films ICE tackle his brother to ground—who is U.S. Army veteran.
"He's fully legal! He's a veteran!" man tells them.
Agents just laugh—then threaten to taze man filming.
"You think you're funny—we're going to sue your ass!"
"We're legal under 1st Amendment bitch!"
The brothers are community observers who were just documenting the scene after being alerted to ICE in the area.
The incident occurred on Route 311 in Marydel, Maryland—near the Delaware border.
People Over Papers doesn't have an account on this platform—so first posting of their unique video angle here.
I hate to rain on everyone’s parade, because I really do believe in tokenizing financial securities on general purpose blockchains. But these stats everyone keeps posting about massive onchain stock volume deserve context.
The *vast* majority of onchain stock volume is coming from a handful of AMM pools with swap fees essentially set to zero. That makes it dirt cheap to trade, despite these pools having <$1mn of liquidity.
Within these pools, 95%+ of the volume is coming from around 10 bots that just flip a small position back and forth again and again
Again, not trying to say onchain equities aren’t a very important development. But any time you see a chart like this for any sort of metric in crypto you should drill down into the data. Almost all crypto stats don’t mean what you think they mean at first glance
💢 NEW: Anti-corruption Polish activist Monika Silva Koniuszek was murdered after investigating allegations involving Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s family business, including claims cocaine had been seized in banana shipments exported by Noboa Trading, her friends and fellow activists tell the Guardian.
Ecuador’s government initially said her death appeared to be a suicide. However, a postmortem has found she died from a blow to the head and strangulation.
Silva Koniuszek, who had also investigated alleged land trafficking involving politically connected figures in Santa Elena province, as well as environmental crimes, had received repeated death threats, and told friends she had recently delivered a dossier of allegations to the U.S. Embassy in Quito.
Ecuadorian authorities are investigating. Full story in reply.