Tara🪷

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

‼️ USPS will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration, according to Postmaster General David Steiner.

“You are going to make a decision that people cannot vote by mail,” @SenGaryPeters (D-Mich.) said. “That’s unacceptable.” https://t.co/MonrhnbHAE

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Ronny Chieng had one message for Harvard grads during his commencement speech: destroy AI.

"Look, a lot of other respected graduation speakers in colleges around America are talking about you guys needing to master AI for the future. I'm here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI...

"And I know, I know there's someone sitting out here right now who’s just like, 'Well, you know, what about the use of AI to pioneer breakthroughs in medicine and physics?' Well, first of all, shut up, nerd. I'm not talking about that. Obviously, if you're using it for that purpose, you're not the problem.

"I'm talking about the accumulation of cognitive debt due to excessive use of large language models according to a study by MIT published in 2025. That's right, MIT. MIT did that study. I guess you guys were too busy giving each other A's. Feel free to boo MIT, by the way, and AI, and yourselves, I guess.

"Look, this is actually good news, okay? This is why you guys shouldn't be scared of AI, because I think AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumber. Have you heard how dumb people brag about how they use AI? They're always like, 'Hey, did you know that AI can now read my email, summarize it, and drop a response?' Yeah, you know who else can do that? Me. I can do that. You can't do that? How useless are you? You need artificial intelligence just to match me? I'm a dumb*ss who couldn't get into Harvard.

"From what I can see, getting an actual advantage from AI in the future will require a minimum escape velocity of intelligence that I'm assuming you guys from Harvard have. Everyone else who can't match that is just going to get dumber, and that's when you run up the score on them, assuming we still have a functioning society, of course.

"But to run up the score, you’re going to have to master your craft. And AI can be the fuel, but fuel is useless if you can't kindle the fire. For example, I recently used AI to use regression analysis to prove that a certain race of people are mathematically terrible at sports. I won't say which race, but thank you for not inviting Hasan Minhaj to Harvard. My point is, learning the fundamentals still matter. If I didn't know what a regression analysis was, and if I wasn't fundamentally racist, would I have been able to do any of that? No.

"Untalented people love bragging about using AI to help them draft their speeches and their scripts and their podcasts and their promo videos for UFC fights at the White House, which to be fair, even if they had filmed that for real, it would still have looked like AI. But what they're missing is this: the creating is the fun part. The best part of comedy writing is figuring out the puzzle pieces of a joke and getting the self-regard from having accomplished a difficult thing. Why would I want AI to take that away from me?

"You know what problem I want AI to solve? I want the problem of AI making everything look like sh*t. I want AI to solve that problem. How about that?

"Or how about, can AI take away the part of comedy writing where my TV pilot gets passed on and when I ask if I can pitch it to someone else, the network says, 'We don't want it, but we also don't want anyone else to have it. We just want you to be sad.' Can AI solve that?

"I recently tried to introduce my friend to Buddhism through a book called Buddhism Made Simple. It was literally a book about Buddhism made simple. And instead of reading it, he used AI to summarize it in 10 seconds. Believe it or not, he didn't reach enlightenment. It turns out speed running Buddhism is completely missing the point.

"And I know this platitude is almost worthy of AI, but the reason shortcuts to skip to the end aren't always good is because the journey isn't just how we acquire skills. The journey is the point of all this. It is! It turns out maybe the real Harvard was the friends we made along the way.

"Look, I know this won't apply to everyone's industry, but I'm just saying whatever your chosen profession is, please don't let AI rob you of the fun part of it.

"I think your generation's upcoming battle won't be humans against AI. That's at least two months away. It's going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It's going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles."

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

Pastor Kristian A. Smith spoke about the people who say that homosexuality is a sin

“You can't really get through to Christians when talking about sexuality if you don't deal with what they believe about sin. It doesn't matter what you say. You can say, ‘You know, Q+ people—they're the entire music ministry. We wouldn't have a church without them,’ and so on and so forth —all of these valid points. But at the end of the day, it always comes back to ‘but it's sinful.’

So in my theology, I deal with that directly. If the greatest commandment is the core of Jesus's message—because when he was asked, ‘What's the greatest?’ He said, ‘This is it. Everything hinges on this’ —then if love is the greatest commandment (love for God, neighbor, and self), the first rule of love is ‘do no harm.’ If I love you, I'm going to at least commit to not harming you. I can't help everybody—I’m a finite human being—but I can make a commitment to not harm anybody. So if the first commitment of love is ‘do no harm,’ then sin is anything that causes harm. That’s why I barely even use the term "sin" anymore. I talk about harm. Because sin is harm, and harm is sin. If something is not harming anybody, then it’s not a sin.

And if you can reorient your understanding of sin, maybe you can start to think differently about same-gender-loving people and trans people who are just living their lives, not harming anybody. They’re simply trying to live their truth. So then the question becomes: if they’re just trying to live their lives without harming anyone, and you, as a Christian, are condemning them and pushing them down, then you are the one causing harm. Right? So you are the one living in sin.”

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[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

Republicans in North Carolina just proposed a bill that says if a woman is caught with an IUD or attempts to get an abortion then men are allowed to use DEADLY FORCE to try and stop her. They are proposing a bill that will allow men to kill women for using birth control. It’s House Bill 1232. Keith Kidwell is the Republican who proposed the bill. He claims it counts as self defense to use deadly force to stop abortion. This is a man who claims to be pro life. Feel free to give his office a call and let him know how you feel about his opinion.

And for anyone who says “obviously this will never get passed” that’s not the point. The point is it’s fucking insanity that a government official would even try to make a law like this. It’s insanity that there are men out there who are trying to make it legal to kill women for making decisions for their own bodies. This is real and it’s happening right now in front of our eyes.

[Tea Pain @TeaPainUSA]

This needs to be spread like wildfire. Every American needs to know how Republicans are attacking our service members and democracy.

[Brian Cardone 🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 @cardon_brian]

Marc Elias is forecasting exactly what is likely to go down in the midterms and he isn’t sugarcoating it. We have to get every one we know in the game y’all. Complacency has no place in a Democracy, LFG!!

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

The stories and photographs from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely and help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. https://t.co/TIVqbA9k9O

[George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace]

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

[Uncle Daddy Wee-Yum @MrGee54]

Aint no George Floyd joke ever gonna be funny in any setting or situation

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Everybody subscribe to Marc's blog/website. He does instrumental work that NOBODY ELSE DOES. We need him very badly.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

These are all young black boys that have all mysteriously gone missing in different States recently.

[Tara🪷 @Tarabee74]

@TheCinesthetic

[Tara🪷 @Tarabee74]

@JCStarbuck3 @SymoneDSanders Exactly. That's the only reason the GOP was able to do what McConnell did.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Trump can only be removed under the 25th Amendment with the actions of this Republican vice president, this Republican cabinet, and this Republican-controlled Congress.

So, if you're asking what Democrats are doing today, I'm not sure you understand how this all works.

[Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 @TaraSetmayer]

So, CBS News decided not to air this 25 yr veteran federal agent pointing out all the ways the ICE agent was in the wrong for shooting Renee Good, on its broadcast (I wonder why🤨).
At least it’s online. Reshare.

[Tara🪷 @Tarabee74]

@ArtCandee I know this may be a naive question but why would anyone Black join ice? There are 4 of them in that picture. Are those real ice agents?

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. invested $25 million in a drone company called Powerus. The Pentagon is now at war with Iran. The Pentagon needs drones. Powerus sells drones to the Pentagon.

In January 2026, the President signed an executive order banning Chinese drones and components from the US military. Chinese manufacturers held 70% of the Pentagon’s drone supply chain. That supply chain vanished overnight. The Replicator initiative needs 30,000 one-way attack drones. Domestic producers cannot fill the gap at scale. Powerus, a startup with approximately 50 employees founded to build autonomous AI-swarm systems, is now competing for those contracts.

The President created the demand by banning Chinese drones. The President created the urgency by starting a war. The President’s sons invested in the company positioned to fill both gaps.

Viral claims of a $620 million Pentagon contract awarded to Powerus circulated on X in early March. These remain unverified by any Tier 1 credible source as of 9th March. Senate Democrats have flagged the conflict of interest. Ethics probes are reportedly underway. What is verified is the $25 million family investment, the 70% supply chain elimination, the active war creating acute demand, and the company bidding for Replicator contracts while the President’s family holds equity.

Now look at the war this demand is feeding.

Iran launched nearly 3,000 missiles and drones in the first week. Gulf states intercepted over 1,700 drones. The UAE shot down 1,110 out of 1,184 launched at its territory. A 94% intercept rate that cost an estimated $4.4 billion in munitions to defeat $23 million worth of Shahed drones. Each Shahed costs $20,000 to $50,000. Each Patriot interceptor costs $3 to $4 million. Each THAAD missile costs $12.7 million. The cost ratio is 190 to 1 in favour of Iran.

THAAD production runs at 8 per month. Iran produces hundreds of Shaheds per month from dispersed facilities that US strikes have degraded 40 to 60% but cannot eliminate under the Mosaic doctrine’s 31 autonomous provincial commands. Iran can launch more drones in a single night than the US produces interceptors in a year.

The longer the war continues, the more interceptors are consumed. The more interceptors consumed, the more urgent the Pentagon’s drone gap becomes. The more urgent the gap, the more valuable Powerus becomes. The more valuable Powerus becomes, the more the Trump family’s $25 million investment appreciates.

The war feeds the depletion. The depletion feeds the demand. The demand feeds the company. The company feeds the family.

This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a supply chain. Every link is documented. The executive order is public. The investment is reported by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. The war is on live television. The intercept statistics are published by Gulf defence ministries. The Replicator programme is a Pentagon initiative with published procurement targets. The ethics probes are confirmed by Senate communications.

The only question is whether a sitting President’s family should hold equity in a defence contractor while the President wages a war that creates the contractor’s entire addressable market.

The market has priced the war. It has priced the oil. It has priced the drones.

It has not priced the answer to that question.

Full analysis here.
https://t.co/eMrt5qYqCV

[TRUTH NOW ⭐️⭐️⭐️🗽 🎺 @sxdoc]

MARK ZUCKERBERG WAS JUST SUBPOENAED. Internal Meta documents recovered from the Tehran servers show that Zuckerberg personally approved $47M for a program called “Project Looking Glass” to build a private facial recognition database of every child on Instagram under the age of 14. For Epstein.

He was subpoenaed Not for data leaks. Not for censorship.

For Epstein.

Bondi’s team found 3 wire transfers from a Meta subsidiary called “Horizon Bridge LLC” to the Butterfly Foundation — the same Epstein front company named in the Tehran files.

Total: $47.2 million between 2016 and 2019.

But that’s not the worst part.

The worst part is what the money was for.

Internal Meta documents recovered from the Tehran servers show that Zuckerberg personally approved a program called “Project Looking Glass.”

Its purpose: to build a private facial recognition database of every child on Instagram under the age of 14.

12.4 million faces. Catalogued. Tagged. Sorted.

And shared with a single external client: Ghislaine Maxwell.

Zuckerberg’s lawyers released a statement 40 minutes ago: “Mr. Zuckerberg will cooperate fully.”

That’s what they all say.

Right before the handcuffs.

@AXIOS4B

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

House Speaker Mike Johnson has denied a request by the family of Jesse Jackson for the civil rights hero to lie in honor in the United States Capitol rotunda.

RETWEET if you stand with Jackson's family against Johnson!