PolittleCat 🐸
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does--Margaret Mead.
"No cause was ever lost until someone gave up..." Anonymous
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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
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I found this discussion really interesting (and validating of some of the thoughts I’ve been having about certain aspects of politics for a while).
ICYMI: I sat down with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social to discuss the crisis in our information environment and its roots in social identity.
The cure for misinformation is not more information or smarter news consumers
Political scientist Samuel Bagg explains why social identity is at the root of the misinformation crisis -- which calls for something deeper than factchecking.
www.volts.wtf
January 6, 2026 at 3:45 AM
I found this discussion really interesting (and validating of some of the thoughts I’ve been having about certain aspects of politics for a while).
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"Hernández boasted that he would 'stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses' while trafficking more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US.
"Trump freed him, saying, 'If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail'..."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
"Trump freed him, saying, 'If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail'..."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
After Venezuela operation, Trump haunted by his pardon for Honduran drug trafficker
Two Latin American strongmen were charged with drug trafficking. One was captured as part of a military raid, the other is free thanks to a Trump pardon.
www.ms.now
January 5, 2026 at 7:33 PM
"Hernández boasted that he would 'stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses' while trafficking more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US.
"Trump freed him, saying, 'If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail'..."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
"Trump freed him, saying, 'If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail'..."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
n.pr
January 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
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"American dominance" is our new foreign policy. And it will create a counter-reaction, everywhere.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing
The president’s moves in Venezuela foretell a new global system.
www.theatlantic.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
"American dominance" is our new foreign policy. And it will create a counter-reaction, everywhere.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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It is truly insane to me that our system has the means to end this insanity but the people who can effect it refuse to…even though we are now at a point where in cannot possibly be in their own interest to keep supporting this shitshow
January 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
It is truly insane to me that our system has the means to end this insanity but the people who can effect it refuse to…even though we are now at a point where in cannot possibly be in their own interest to keep supporting this shitshow
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This is very good, for reasons that may strike many as irritating but I think are important.
The admin is going to invoke a string of executive branch interpretations of law. It's useful to know what those are. This post describes w/out endorsing them or suggesting they make everything legal.
The admin is going to invoke a string of executive branch interpretations of law. It's useful to know what those are. This post describes w/out endorsing them or suggesting they make everything legal.
January 3, 2026 at 10:48 PM
This is very good, for reasons that may strike many as irritating but I think are important.
The admin is going to invoke a string of executive branch interpretations of law. It's useful to know what those are. This post describes w/out endorsing them or suggesting they make everything legal.
The admin is going to invoke a string of executive branch interpretations of law. It's useful to know what those are. This post describes w/out endorsing them or suggesting they make everything legal.
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Dan D'Addario’s take on the new CBS Evening News is unflinchingly and deservedly brutal.
“… a Weissian willingness to bulldoze past that which might seem too untidy for whatever hypothetical viewer he and his editor have in mind.”
Good on him and Variety.
variety.com/2026/tv/colu...
“… a Weissian willingness to bulldoze past that which might seem too untidy for whatever hypothetical viewer he and his editor have in mind.”
Good on him and Variety.
variety.com/2026/tv/colu...
January 6, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Dan D'Addario’s take on the new CBS Evening News is unflinchingly and deservedly brutal.
“… a Weissian willingness to bulldoze past that which might seem too untidy for whatever hypothetical viewer he and his editor have in mind.”
Good on him and Variety.
variety.com/2026/tv/colu...
“… a Weissian willingness to bulldoze past that which might seem too untidy for whatever hypothetical viewer he and his editor have in mind.”
Good on him and Variety.
variety.com/2026/tv/colu...
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Politicians love to ban Chinese farmland until it impacts the hog market. Oklahoma’s new law restricts foreign ownership but explicitly protects Smithfield Foods, a Chinese-owned behemoth. National security is paramount, provided it doesn’t inconvenience corporate agriculture or interrupt profits.
Oklahoma’s Ban on Chinese-Owned Farmland Made an Exception for Smithfield Foods
While approximately 4.3% of Oklahoma farmland is foreign-owned, according to the USDA’s most recent filings, most of that is held by Canadian and European companies for renewable energy projects. Less than 1% of that share is Chinese.
www.agriculture.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Politicians love to ban Chinese farmland until it impacts the hog market. Oklahoma’s new law restricts foreign ownership but explicitly protects Smithfield Foods, a Chinese-owned behemoth. National security is paramount, provided it doesn’t inconvenience corporate agriculture or interrupt profits.
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Roger Stone seems to be teeing this up. He’s also friends with Ed Martin, Trump’s pardon attorney. 1/
January 6, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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Hours before Maduro’s first court appearance on federal criminal charges, a senior Justice Department official amplified a post speculating that the Venezuelan dictator would try to plead to lesser charges by proffering “evidence” that the 2020 U.S. election was stolen.
January 5, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Hours before Maduro’s first court appearance on federal criminal charges, a senior Justice Department official amplified a post speculating that the Venezuelan dictator would try to plead to lesser charges by proffering “evidence” that the 2020 U.S. election was stolen.
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NEW: "Mark Kelly did not urge service members to defy lawful authority.…He articulated a general legal truth—one that every commissioned officer has been taught, and one that even Sec. Hegseth has publicly acknowledged in the past."
Read @markhertling.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-mark-k...
Read @markhertling.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-mark-k...
Why Mark Kelly’s Case Matters
The action against him is unwarranted and could chill legitimate—and invaluable—public speech by veterans.
www.thebulwark.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:24 AM
NEW: "Mark Kelly did not urge service members to defy lawful authority.…He articulated a general legal truth—one that every commissioned officer has been taught, and one that even Sec. Hegseth has publicly acknowledged in the past."
Read @markhertling.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-mark-k...
Read @markhertling.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-mark-k...
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"Online sleuths have attempted to identify this trader with no luck. The account, which originally went by the handle 'Burdensome-Mix' before changing its display name to a string of letters and numbers, joined Polymarket just weeks ahead of making the Maduro trade," NPR reported.
A $400,000 profit on Maduro's capture raises insider trading questions on Polymarket
Online sleuths have tried to uncover who placed a winning bet on the Venezuelan leader's arrest to no avail. Still, prediction market watchers say the bet appears suspicious.
www.npr.org
January 6, 2026 at 5:25 AM
"Online sleuths have attempted to identify this trader with no luck. The account, which originally went by the handle 'Burdensome-Mix' before changing its display name to a string of letters and numbers, joined Polymarket just weeks ahead of making the Maduro trade," NPR reported.
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This is a deeply, deeply fucked up country. Electing anti-fascist economic centrists is probably the best we're going to be able to do for at least a few more generations (assuming the country itself survives the current catastrophe, and that's about 50/50 rn.)
January 6, 2026 at 5:33 AM
This is a deeply, deeply fucked up country. Electing anti-fascist economic centrists is probably the best we're going to be able to do for at least a few more generations (assuming the country itself survives the current catastrophe, and that's about 50/50 rn.)
This! ⬇️
Democrats can't do everything I'd like them to do, but at least stop being complicit!
January 6, 2026 at 5:55 AM
This! ⬇️
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“The longer Americans indulge this preference for the language of the law over morality, the weaker their moral voice becomes. They lose the ability to say, forthrightly, that what the Trump administration has done is cold-blooded murder for which they and their partisans should be ashamed.”
The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public
Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.
www.bostonreview.net
January 3, 2026 at 11:16 PM
“The longer Americans indulge this preference for the language of the law over morality, the weaker their moral voice becomes. They lose the ability to say, forthrightly, that what the Trump administration has done is cold-blooded murder for which they and their partisans should be ashamed.”
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Obviously there’s no need to fight the US militarily over Greenland.
Everyone just dumps the dollar.
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Everyone just dumps the dollar.
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January 5, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Obviously there’s no need to fight the US militarily over Greenland.
Everyone just dumps the dollar.
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Everyone just dumps the dollar.
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By what right does the United States assert control over Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Oh right, the Louisiana Purchase from the French in 1803 -- 11 eleven years before the Treaty of Kiel in 1814, when Norway ceded Greenland to make peace in the Napoleanic Wars.
History for me and not for thee.
History for me and not for thee.
Miller: “The real question is: by what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? What is the basis of their territorial claim?
“What is their basis of having Greenland as a colony of Denmark?
“The US is the power of NATO.”
“What is their basis of having Greenland as a colony of Denmark?
“The US is the power of NATO.”
January 6, 2026 at 2:17 AM
By what right does the United States assert control over Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Oh right, the Louisiana Purchase from the French in 1803 -- 11 eleven years before the Treaty of Kiel in 1814, when Norway ceded Greenland to make peace in the Napoleanic Wars.
History for me and not for thee.
History for me and not for thee.
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We are now a rabid animal of a superpower. The threat to the world is so great that we need to stop hand-wringing about how we got here and focus 100% in this election year about how to stop them.
Stephen Miller, who wants the U.S. to steal Greenland and shake down Latin America, says: ”We live in a world … that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
That‘s a criminal pretending that a civilized world is impossible.
That‘s a criminal pretending that a civilized world is impossible.
January 6, 2026 at 4:59 AM
We are now a rabid animal of a superpower. The threat to the world is so great that we need to stop hand-wringing about how we got here and focus 100% in this election year about how to stop them.
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You'll notice some updates/improvements in preparation for revamping the full thing to make sure it's all up-to-date. I want to hit them in every way we can as precisely as we can. Subscribe to my substack within the boycott guide to support my work.
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Psycho Pete's Living Guide to Boycotting the Big Orange Menace
The beast eats money. Don't feed it with yours.
psychopete1.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:30 AM
You'll notice some updates/improvements in preparation for revamping the full thing to make sure it's all up-to-date. I want to hit them in every way we can as precisely as we can. Subscribe to my substack within the boycott guide to support my work.
psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...
psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...
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"MAGA and America First isn't necessarily an ideology. It's not a set of really clear principles or policies. It is what Donald Trump makes it to be. He is America first. America First is him," says Amy Walter. https://to.pbs.org/3L0TQAr
Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the political fallout from military action in Venezuela
NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including lawmakers returning to Washington to face the fallout fro...
to.pbs.org
January 6, 2026 at 4:31 AM
"MAGA and America First isn't necessarily an ideology. It's not a set of really clear principles or policies. It is what Donald Trump makes it to be. He is America first. America First is him," says Amy Walter. https://to.pbs.org/3L0TQAr
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Get the fuck off of Xitter.
Just delete your account and get off.
In no civilized and lawful country does CSAM get created due to coding done by real humans and receive no punitive legal actions
Worse yet? Our congressional leaders rationalizing staying on there.
Silence=compliance=endorsement
Just delete your account and get off.
In no civilized and lawful country does CSAM get created due to coding done by real humans and receive no punitive legal actions
Worse yet? Our congressional leaders rationalizing staying on there.
Silence=compliance=endorsement
January 6, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Get the fuck off of Xitter.
Just delete your account and get off.
In no civilized and lawful country does CSAM get created due to coding done by real humans and receive no punitive legal actions
Worse yet? Our congressional leaders rationalizing staying on there.
Silence=compliance=endorsement
Just delete your account and get off.
In no civilized and lawful country does CSAM get created due to coding done by real humans and receive no punitive legal actions
Worse yet? Our congressional leaders rationalizing staying on there.
Silence=compliance=endorsement
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Oh? Duplicative documents brought to light by the FBI NY Field Office? Reminds me of the duplicative Clinton emails “unearthed” by Rudy’s pals that caused Comey to re-open the probe into Hillary a week before the election.
MORE: DOJ says the batch of 1 million documents it recently unearthed appear to be largely duplicative "but nonetheless still need to undergo a process of processing and deduplication." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 6, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Oh? Duplicative documents brought to light by the FBI NY Field Office? Reminds me of the duplicative Clinton emails “unearthed” by Rudy’s pals that caused Comey to re-open the probe into Hillary a week before the election.
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MORE: DOJ says the batch of 1 million documents it recently unearthed appear to be largely duplicative "but nonetheless still need to undergo a process of processing and deduplication." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 6, 2026 at 3:18 AM
MORE: DOJ says the batch of 1 million documents it recently unearthed appear to be largely duplicative "but nonetheless still need to undergo a process of processing and deduplication." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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We’ve reached the desperation stage where someone from the DOJ “unearthed” 1M documents by using the copy machine!
January 6, 2026 at 3:21 AM
We’ve reached the desperation stage where someone from the DOJ “unearthed” 1M documents by using the copy machine!