Claude appears to be utterly unusable today. I've wasted hours and any task takes half an hour to do. His reasoning is flawed and it's not doing things and it's missing everything it was supposed to do. @AnthropicAI@claudeai opus 5 is a clusterfuck and Fable 5 is a horror story of expense. I'm hardly a heavy user in the general scheme of things but I blow through my weekly allowance of credits by Monday. This has to get sorted out. they need more inference and fast or they're gonna lose a lot of customers.
🔺PAM BONDI JUST PLAYED THE GREATEST TRAP IN POLITICAL HISTORY.
And Congress walked right into it.
Yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi sat before the House Judiciary Committee. Standard oversight hearing. Routine questions.
Then she pulled out a document.
Labeled: "Jayapal Pramila — Search History."
The room went SILENT.
⚠️ HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED
The DOJ gave Congress access to the unredacted Epstein files this week. Every member got their own login. Their own computer. Their own session.
What Congress didn't know?
The DOJ was tracking EVERY SINGLE SEARCH.
Every name they looked up.
Every document they opened.
Every file they downloaded.
ALL OF IT. LOGGED.
And Bondi brought the receipts to the hearing.
🔺 THE PANIC WAS INSTANT
Rep. Jayapal called it "spying on members of Congress."
Rep. Raskin accused Bondi of "blatant abuse of power."
Rep. Moskowitz said it was "suspicious and inappropriate."
They're FURIOUS.
But here's the question nobody in the media is asking:
Why are they so scared of their search history?
If you're searching for evidence of crimes against children — you'd be PROUD of that search history.
Unless you're not searching for evidence.
Unless you're searching for YOUR OWN NAME.
⚡ THE GENIUS OF THE TRAP
Think about it.
Bondi didn't just release the files.
She released them on MONITORED COMPUTERS.
Every Congress member who rushed to search the files just told the DOJ exactly:
• WHO they're trying to protect
• WHAT names they're worried about
• WHICH connections they're trying to verify
The ones searching for "flights to the island" = investigators.
The ones searching for SPECIFIC NAMES = protectors.
Bondi now knows who's investigating and who's COVERING UP.
And she showed them she knows.
In front of cameras.
With a smile.
🔺 THE DHS SHUTDOWN — PERFECT TIMING
While Congress panics about their search history, DHS is shutting down SATURDAY.
Democrats blocked the funding bill. House members already left Washington.
The same week Congress gets caught searching Epstein files — they REFUSE to fund the department that investigates trafficking?
They're not defunding DHS to save money.
They're defunding it to STOP INVESTIGATIONS.
⚡ CONNECT THE DOTS
Monday: Congress gets Epstein file access.
Tuesday: Members frantically search for names.
Wednesday: Bondi reveals she tracked everything.
Thursday: Democrats block DHS funding.
Friday: Government shutdown begins.
Five days. One pattern. PANIC.
They walked into the hearing thinking they were in control.
They walked out knowing Bondi has EVERYTHING.
Every search. Every name. Every cover-up attempt.
Logged. Documented. WEAPONIZED.
The hunter became the hunted.
And they did it to themselves.
⟁ DARK TO LIGHT.
TOM CRUISE'S "CRAZY" 2005 PHARMA RANT LOOKS PROPHETIC NOW
Remember when everyone mocked Tom Cruise for that Matt Lauer interview?
Turns out he was right about Big Pharma all along.
Tom Cruise (2005 Today Show):
"You're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is... There's ways of doing it so we don't end up in 'A Brave New World.'"
Nearly 20 years later, his "unhinged" warnings about overmedication, especially in children, are now mainstream medical concerns.
Top healthcare professionals echo his exact points about overprescription and questioning the chemical imbalance theory.
Cruise was ridiculed for challenging pharmaceutical industry influence on mental health treatments.
Now we have an opioid crisis, skyrocketing ADHD and autism diagnoses, and growing skepticism about psych meds' long-term effects.
His delivery was intense, but his core message about caution and education proved dead-on.
Sometimes the "crazy" people are just early.
Source: Today Show Interview 2005
As a committed Democrat, I’m dismayed my party is playing chicken with the food security of 42M Americans.
I reject a political gamble that exposes a vulnerable constituency to widespread deprivation and chaos.
With Kimmel getting canned I’m seeing lots of people talking about the hypocrisy of cancel culture. To me Cancel culture is when people go out of their way to dig up old tweets, videos etc looking for dirt on somebody they don’t like in an effort to get them fired. Like if Kimmel got canceled for shit he did on the Man Show that would be cancel culture. But when a person says something that a ton of people find offensive, rude, dumb in real time and then that person is punished for it that’s not cancel culture. That is consequences for your actions
BREAKING: USAID official and 3 company executives plead guilty in fraud and bribery scheme involving at least 14 contracts worth over $550 million
USAID Official Roderick Watson took bribes, was showered with lavish gifts— including cash, laptops, thousands of dollars in tickets to a suite at an NBA game, a country club wedding, downpayments on two residential mortgages, cell phones, and jobs for relatives.
In exchange for the bribe payments, Watson influenced the award of contracts by manipulating the procurement process at USAID.
Watson faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.
Imagine how much more fraud there is…