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Mexico-Americano, GranRapidian y Chilango, Americanista de corazón, Craft Beer lover

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

How do you even explain Italy to someone who’s never been there? 🇮🇹✨

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

En EEUU, la Gestapo de Trump, el ICE, separó durante 5 meses a una madre latina de su hijo de 18 años con cáncer y solo le dejó salir durante una hora del centro de detención de inmigrantes para despedirse de él.

El racismo es maldad pura que debe ser erradicada sin miramientos.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This one is so much more accurate than the original.

[Mikel Iñaki Landarraga @MigueLandarraga]

Es un hijo de puta hasta en el más mínimo detalle.

[Simon Ateba @simonateba]

Man Claims Trump Conned MAGA, says, "You didn't get a wall. You didn't get any arrests. You didn't get 'Drain the Swamp or America First.' You didn't get any new infrastructure, no $5,000 Doge check. You didn't eliminate any national debt or get any help buying a new home or help with lower grocery prices or gas prices. I mean, quite the opposite, in fact. You didn't get a $2,000 stimulus check or affordable health care or any accountability for the Epstein files, which he promised when he said he was going to release them all to the public. And you damn sure didn't get any. No more wars. Now, what you got was conned, and you're too embarrassed to admit it."

[José Mario @JoseMarioMX]

La portada del @TheEconomist de esta semana lo dice todo: Trump borroso en primer plano, Xi Jinping nítido al fondo, sonriendo. El título: “Nunca interrumpas a tu enemigo cuando está cometiendo un error.” China no disparó un solo misil. No necesitó hacerlo. Mientras Trump quema 850 Tomahawks, destroza su credibilidad con la OTAN y manda marines a una isla que no sabe cómo sostener, Beijing toma notas, firma contratos y espera la cumbre de mayo para negociar con un Trump debilitado.

Lo que nadie está diciendo en voz alta es que esta guerra no la ganó ni EUA ni Irán, la está ganando Xi Jinping sin moverse de su silla. China controla el 70% de los paneles solares, baterías y vehículos eléctricos del mundo. Con el petróleo a 119 dólares el barril, todo ese inventario se vuelve oro. Los países del Golfo van a reconstruir con contratos chinos. Los europeos que querían frenar la avalancha de importaciones de Beijing ahora tienen otras prioridades. Y Trump, desesperado por cerrar un trato que no puede cerrar, va a llegar a esa cumbre con Xi en una posición que él mismo describió en su propio libro como la peor posible: oliendo a necesidad.

El Economist lo plantea con una brutalidad elegante: el Trump de 2026 está ignorando los consejos del Trump de 1987. Su libro decía que lo peor en una negociación es parecer desesperado. Pues bien, Irán ya olió la sangre. La aprobación de Trump está en -20%. El 62% de los americanos rechaza una guerra terrestre. Y mientras Washington se enreda solo, China observa, planea y avanza. No es que China esté ganando la guerra. Es que está ganando el siglo — y lo está haciendo mientras su rival se destruye solo.

[Rina Lu🇷🇺 @rinalu_]

I lived through Yeltsin, and Trump's behavior mirrors him so precisely it's disturbing.

The same clownish performance. The same promises. The same destruction of a country while the leader talks nonsense and dances.

Dear Americans, good luck.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

OK, so Karoline Leavitt asked Getty Pictures to delete this unflattering photo of her, so this is me telling you all NOT to RT and share this many times all over the place.

Whatever you do, DON'T RT this.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. 😏

[Carlo Martin @Liberfach0]

A unos metros del estadio de Jalisco donde se jugará el Mundial, un grupo de madres buscadoras encontró cientos de bolsas con cadáveres desaparecidos por los cárteles. El gobierno intenta ocultarlo, pero el mundo debe saber lo que está pasando en México.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

A three-year-old company operating out of a WeWork with reportedly fewer than five employees is being considered for up to $25 BILLION in nuclear energy funds from a trade deal Trump brokered with Japan.

The company has never built a nuclear plant or completed a nuclear project of any kind.

What does this company bring to the table? The father of its CEO donated $2 million+ to Trump and the GOP, and one of its advisors is a former RNC co-chair and Trump appointee.

In this Administration, that’s apparently all you need.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

The CEO of Palantir just said the quiet part out loud.
Alex Karp — whose company builds surveillance and defense technology for the U.S. government — just openly stated that AI will deliberately shift economic power away from highly educated, often female, Democratic-leaning workers and toward vocationally trained, working-class, often male voters.

He then admitted these technologies are — his word — “dangerous” and “suicidal,” and that the only justification for deploying them is the military argument: if we don’t, our adversaries will.

So let’s be clear about what was just said on the record: A defense contractor CEO told you AI is being built to restructure the American class system, that it will destroy the economic power of an entire political demographic, and that the only way to sell it to the public is to wrap it in national security.

[@Juan José Cruz @servimatoficial]

"Se encontró Starlink de Elon Musk, en la sede del líder del cartel CJNG, "El Mencho", en Tapalta, Jalisco. Starlink se utiliza para operar el sistema de comunicaciones y coordinación del CJNG en todo México".
"También se descubrió que el cartel de Sinaloa, había integrado Starlink en sus operaciones".
Pero según Elon Musk se dice preocupado de que México es un narcoestado cuando son sus tecnologías las que les permiten a los cárteles operar

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Anthropic just announced it will take the Trump administration to court over the supply chain risk designation. And in the same breath, Axios revealed the detail that changes everything about this story.

While Anthropic was being blacklisted for refusing to allow mass surveillance, the Pentagon’s own “compromise deal” that Under Secretary Emil Michael was offering on the phone at the exact moment Hegseth posted the designation on X would have required Anthropic to allow the collection and analysis of Americans’ geolocation data, web browsing history, and personal financial information purchased from data brokers.

Read that again. The Pentagon spent two weeks saying it has no interest in mass surveillance of Americans. Then the deal they actually put on the table asked for access to your location, your browsing history, and your financial records.

They told us Anthropic was lying. The contract language told us Anthropic was right.

Now here is where this becomes an existential question for a $380 billion company.

The supply chain risk designation means every company that does business with the Pentagon must certify they do not use Claude. Eight of the ten largest companies in America use Claude. Defense contractors, cloud providers, consulting firms, banks. The blast radius is not the $200 million Pentagon contract. It is the enterprise ecosystem that generates $14 billion in annual revenue.

Anthropic’s legal argument is specific: under 10 USC 3252, the designation can only restrict use of Claude on Pentagon contract work. Your commercial API access, your https://t.co/koW5OJjjaM subscription, your enterprise license are, in Anthropic’s reading, completely unaffected.

But here is the problem. That is a legal argument. It will take years to resolve in court. And in the meantime, every general counsel at every Fortune 500 company with any Pentagon exposure is going to ask one question: is using Claude worth the risk?

The IPO, which was expected this year at a $380 billion valuation backed by $30 billion in fresh capital, is functionally frozen. No underwriter will price an offering while a company carries the same designation as Huawei.

And here is the final detail nobody has processed yet. Hours after blacklisting Anthropic, the Pentagon accepted OpenAI’s proposed safety framework, which contains the identical red lines: no mass surveillance, no autonomous lethal weapons.

They destroyed one company for a position they then accepted from its competitor.

Full analysis on Substack. https://t.co/AEv8EMPdsZ

[StockMarket.News @_Investinq]

The Pentagon just blacklisted one of America’s most valuable AI companies.

For refusing to build surveillance tools aimed at American citizens.

Hours later, its biggest rival OpenAI quietly signed the deal of the decade.

Here’s what just happened and why it changes everything.

This week, the US Department of War gave Anthropic an ultimatum.

Drop your safety restrictions and let us use your AI for anything we want.

The deadline was 5:01 PM today and Anthropic said no.

Their CEO, Dario Amodei, drew two red lines.

No mass surveillance of Americans.

No fully autonomous weapons without a human pulling the trigger.

The Pentagon called this “woke AI.”

Anthropic called it a conscience.

The Pentagon’s response was swift and brutal.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth branded Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, a designation normally reserved for Chinese and Russian companies.

President Trump ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic immediately.

But here’s where the story turns.

That same night, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Anthropic’s biggest competitor posted a message.

“Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.”

The twist? OpenAI’s deal includes the exact same red lines Anthropic was just destroyed for demanding.

No mass surveillance and no autonomous weapons.

Human control over the use of force.

The Pentagon punished one company for demanding protections it then gave to another company the same day.

Altman even defended Anthropic on live television hours earlier.

“For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company and I think they really do care about safety.”

Then he signed the deal Anthropic couldn’t get.

Anthropic was the first and only, AI model deployed on the Pentagon’s classified networks.

Replacing it will take months.

OpenAI just positioned itself to fill the most powerful AI vacancy in the U.S. military.

The stakes are staggering.

Anthropic just raised $30 billion and it was preparing for an IPO.

Now over 300,000 enterprise clients may be forced to cut ties.

Not because the technology failed.

Because the company refused to remove a guardrail that said “don’t spy on Americans.”

But here’s the real question no one’s asking:

If the Pentagon never intended to use AI for mass surveillance as they claim, why was this the hill they chose to die on?

Why blacklist a $380 billion American company over a clause the government says doesn’t even matter?

Sam Altman called for de-escalation.

He asked the Pentagon to offer these same terms to every AI company.
Including Anthropic.

The world just watched a company get punished for saying “no” to surveillance and a competitor rewarded for saying “yes, but with the same conditions.”

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[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “Today, you know there’s this huge #blizzard on the east coast. Today, for some reason, Kristi Noem’s department decided to fly a real deportation flight into New Hampshire. They flew it into…New Hampshire at 1 am today, right at the height of the blizzard. The airport…said they had NO IDEA this flight was coming, had they known they would have told them don’t come, it’s not safe, but Kristi Noem’s department, in its INFINITE WISDOM, flew this plane full of people there, presumably shackled…and then they left the people on that plane on the tarmac for more than 12 HOURS in the middle of that blizzard.”🤦‍♀️

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Bruce Springsteen on Trump: “I couldn't care less what he thinks about me. He's the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he'd be consigned to the trash heap of history."

RETWEET if you stand with @Springsteen!

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This is great! Philly DA Larry Krasner vows to "hunt down" ICE agents who are breaking the law like Germany hunted down Nazis after WWII.

“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will.”

He said he would prosecute any ICE agent who violates the Constitution in Philadelphia to the fullest extent of the law, after referring to such agents as “Nazis.”

Every Ice Agent, who violates the law needs to be held accountable. Who agrees?