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Bob V.
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Life is all sunshine and puppies. And opinions. Buckle up, buttercup.
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Nobody wants this shit. Nobody.

The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Wow! Senators Kelly and Slotkin and Reps DeLuzio, Goodlander, Houlahan, and Crow encouraging members of the military to defy illegal orders!
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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ICE got dommed by a sub.
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Bullets don't give a fuck how you vote or that you're only in second grade. It's the guns.
September 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Trump 2028 isn’t a joke. Donald Trump doesn’t believe the rules apply to him, and he’ll do anything in his power to hijack a 3rd term.

Wake up, America. You will not have a country if Trump rigs this election.
August 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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August 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
July 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Senator Adam Schiff has announced that, due to the chaos surrounding tariff policy, he will investigate whether anyone engaged in insider trading. Trump may be immune from prosecution, but those around him are not. — It’s time to decimate this MAGA circle.
April 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful:

- Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored

- Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored

- Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored
April 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Top White House officials used disappearing messages on Signal for top-secret national security discussions—violating federal law & risking our security. Even worse? A participant was in Moscow.

Congress must investigate. This betrayal cannot stand .

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-signal...
The Signal Betrayal: A National Security Breach That Demands Accountability
My comments on Laura Coats Live
adamkinzinger.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
There are positive uses for AI. 👇
March 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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So it is possible to stand up to DOGE. Hm. Don't want to hear any more garbage about letting teens with lanyards steal our data because Elon said so.

This is the whole point. They know they don't have the cards and are hoping you'll fold before you find out.
“Undeterred, Marocco and DOGE threatened a security guard with a lawsuit and told the building’s property manager that they would bring in U.S. Marshals and the Secret Service unless they were given access to USADF. Their threats were unsuccessful.”
JUST IN: The head of the US African Development Foundation is suing Peter Marocco and DOGE — and he is describing in detail the standoff in which he blocked DOGE from entering the agency's offices.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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“It was important to communicate with someone who speaks for Putin.”
Zelenskyy Meets With Russian Agent
“It was important to communicate with someone who speaks for Putin," the Ukrainian said.
www.borowitzreport.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This. 👇Take note @amyklobuchar.com
Murphy: "The destruction of our democracy is part of this story ... this is super unpopular, what they are doing. Nobody wants their healthcare to disappear ... so how do you get away with it? You try to destroy our democracy. You try to crush dissent. You threaten members of Congress with arrest."
February 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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An ad put up at a bus stop in London today.
February 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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The AP should stop covering Trump events. Instead send those White House reporters out into the field to report on the harms and repercussions of his policies.

The U.S. public never needed coverage of pseudo-events anyway.
Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“
February 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Great victory for now, but which court will be the one to overturn this?
BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems!

Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
February 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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To America’s 2.3 million federal employees:

Don’t accept a buyout.

Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.

And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?

Sincerely,

Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor
February 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This. 👇
Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"
February 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This👇
Outside of USAID headquarters, Senator Brian Schatz:

"If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers."

BOOM!
February 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Elon Musk is not a Federal employee or a political appointee. DOGE is not a real department. None of their activities are legal. This is a coup. The Republicans in Congress are willing participants in it. At what point do Democrats in DC get that and start acting like it? It’s not the price of eggs!
February 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Trump backed down.

This is a win. It's what happens when we fight back.
January 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM