Z. W. Mansfield

A modern day Sophist. Wamusay'tameh? He/Him/His

[Z. W. Mansfield @MansfieldZ]

I’m losing my fucking mind.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

[Z. W. Mansfield @MansfieldZ]

@nut_history Safe

[St. Louis Battlehawks @BattlehawksUFL]

it's gettin' hot in herre 👀

it's GAMEDAY at the battledome vs DC! and don't forget, Nelly and The St. Lunatics are bringin' it at halftime!

[Z. W. Mansfield @MansfieldZ]

11 year old Zach would be ecstatic today! Although he would be pretty confused about who the “St Louis Battlehawks” were; but he’d love them just the same.

[Illinois Men's Basketball @IlliniMBB]

FINAL FOUR BOUND

[Illinois Men's Basketball @IlliniMBB]

FINAL FOUR BOUND

[ParaPower Mapping @KlonnyPin_Gosch]

WTF. Why does this have the feeling of a White House staffer trying to warn people of something explosive coming on the sly with a pocket recording? And why has it since been deleted?

[Z. W. Mansfield @MansfieldZ]

@MiamiCanes1971 It’s Joe Thomas and many people care, casual.

[Kip Kelly @kipthekelly]

$8 a gallon is coming but at least 4 trans athletes don’t get to play sports

[Vols Over All Y’all @VolsAF]

Raise your daughters liberal and they’ll win Olympic gold

Raise them MAGA and they’ll finish tied for fifth in a college swim meet and have a years long bigot tantrum about it

[Z. W. Mansfield @MansfieldZ]

“Im a big ol stupid head who is allergic to context and pattern recognition.”

[Chris Wick @ChrisWickNews]

I voted for Donald Trump because he felt like the lesser of two evils.

I didn’t want Joe Biden or Kamala Harris continuing what I believed was corruption and chaos.

Trump promised no new wars.

He promised to end wars.

He promised America First.

That’s why I supported him.

But now?

We’re watching conflicts escalate.

Billions sent overseas.
Military aid flowing to Israel and Ukraine.

Meanwhile Americans are struggling to buy groceries.

Veterans are homeless.

Families are drowning in debt.

Where is America First?

I didn’t vote for more foreign entanglements.

I voted for peace.

I voted for prosperity at home.

That’s why I’m disappointed.

That’s why I’m upset.
And that’s why I can’t support him anymore.

[Chris Wick @ChrisWickNews]

I voted for Donald Trump because he felt like the lesser of two evils.

I didn’t want Joe Biden or Kamala Harris continuing what I believed was corruption and chaos.

Trump promised no new wars.

He promised to end wars.

He promised America First.

That’s why I supported him.

But now?

We’re watching conflicts escalate.

Billions sent overseas.
Military aid flowing to Israel and Ukraine.

Meanwhile Americans are struggling to buy groceries.

Veterans are homeless.

Families are drowning in debt.

Where is America First?

I didn’t vote for more foreign entanglements.

I voted for peace.

I voted for prosperity at home.

That’s why I’m disappointed.

That’s why I’m upset.
And that’s why I can’t support him anymore.

[Video Nasties🇵🇲 @53gaDr3amca5t]

Are you seriously asking if there were people who strongly opposed the things that The Most Stabbed Guy In History did that would go on to be among the contributing factors to him getting super stabbed

[Z. W. Mansfield @MansfieldZ]

“Tricked into” makes it sound like he wasn’t complicit. “Blackmailed into because he’s a provable child molester” seems more likely.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

Walsh is one of the smarter fascists who operates in bad faith rather than ignorance, so he’s absolutely aware that Trump just burned an entire decade of far right power accumulation by getting tricked into another middle east forever conflict that will engulf his legacy

[Z. W. Mansfield @MansfieldZ]

Now do Iranians in Iran currently being bombed?

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

Democrats are going to love this!

A trend has broken out of Iranians across the world doing the TRUMP DANCE now that Ayatollah Khamenei is dead.

[Z. W. Mansfield @MansfieldZ]

This comes as no surprise to any who understood Orwell or Huxley.

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

At high stakes Pentagon meeting today Sec Hegseth gave Anthropic head Dario Amodei ultimatum to allow the Pentagon to use Anthropic’s AI model for mass domestic surveillance and kinetic autonomous operations without human oversight or face censure and be labeled “supply chain threat.”

According to a source familiar:
The meeting was cordial, not a dressing down, not a screaming match, all business.

Hegseth praised the Anthropic product but then said if by Friday Anthropic does not agree to the Pentagon’s use of the model without restrictions, then Hegseth would terminate the contract and use the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to comply AND/OR designate Anthropic a supply chain threat and national security risk. (EDIT: Both are mutually exclusive. You can’t be a supply chain risk but also invoke the DPA to say that the country needs this product so much for national security that it will override any restrictions put in place by the company that limits govt access to the product. Both cannot be true.)

At issue is Anthropic’s two stipulations that its advanced AI model currently used in the Pentagon’s classified systems is NOT used for autonomous kinetic operations (Anthropic currently requires human oversight of autonomous operations when used to kill things for safety reasons because they don’t know how the autonomous system will react and could even endanger soldiers using the model; soldiers and others could lose control of the model and automatically start killing large groups without humans in the “kill chain.”) Second Anthropic bars its models from being used for mass domestic surveillance. Hegseth wants these restrictions lifted.

According to a source familiar with the talks, Anthropic has never objected to the use of its models for “legitimate military operations.” It also told the Hegseth it never complained to the Pentagon or Palantir about the use of its models in the Maduro raid.

[Evan DeSimone @Smorgasboredom]

Hard to believe that every living economist was right and and a demented game show host was wrong.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Connor McDavid shared what he took from losing Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final to the Florida Panthers in 2024 ✍️

(via @PlayersTribune)

[Z. W. Mansfield @MansfieldZ]

Never ever once cheering for the whiners. Chances are we’d have to play in SEA anyway. But the whiners can straight up kick rocks always.

[Rams Bros. @RamsBrothers]

Are we “rooting” for the 49ers tomorrow? Reminder if they win, we’re in Chicago for the divisional round. And they would have to travel to Seattle.

[Z. W. Mansfield @MansfieldZ]

“No one knew existed” people wouldn’t stfu about him at Iowa.

[Marc D'Amico @Marc_DAmico]

Luka Garza is the stretch big no one knew existed before this season. He's now shooting exactly 50% from 3-point range this season.