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NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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If you’re a federal worker looking for a good accomplishment to share with Elon, tell him you responded to texts from the mother of your children.
February 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
If you’re a federal worker looking for a good accomplishment to share with Elon, tell him you responded to texts from the mother of your children.
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its amazing the way conservative arguments fall completely apart in court when there are actually penalties for lying
February 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
its amazing the way conservative arguments fall completely apart in court when there are actually penalties for lying
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Not really a lot of putting the different pieces of the puzzle together. But across all of HHS, centered especially at nih and nci you’ve got a ton of different actions all of which seem to have the common goal of making certain there’s never a new cancer drug or cure again ever.
February 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Not really a lot of putting the different pieces of the puzzle together. But across all of HHS, centered especially at nih and nci you’ve got a ton of different actions all of which seem to have the common goal of making certain there’s never a new cancer drug or cure again ever.
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Elon is lying. Not only does the Social Security Administration use SQL, the agency has an entire IT division dedicated to database operations. The SSA's entire Master Files index runs directly on DB2.
not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)
February 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Elon is lying. Not only does the Social Security Administration use SQL, the agency has an entire IT division dedicated to database operations. The SSA's entire Master Files index runs directly on DB2.
So, anyone else worried about cybersecurity on a Federal level? Installing portable hard drives onto PCs is the sort of thing that would immediately get one arrested in saner times. There is NO WAY a risk assessment was performed in 10 days.
February 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
So, anyone else worried about cybersecurity on a Federal level? Installing portable hard drives onto PCs is the sort of thing that would immediately get one arrested in saner times. There is NO WAY a risk assessment was performed in 10 days.
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Dems should not allow anything to move in the House or Senate until this is dealt with. Dem have the power in both chambers to jam up the works, and they need to use it.
That isn't a radical tactic, it's what the GOP has done for years for trivial matters. Unlike this, which is catastrophic.
That isn't a radical tactic, it's what the GOP has done for years for trivial matters. Unlike this, which is catastrophic.
Fed source to me: “It’s like a bank heist and the bank is America. Not really being hyperbolic to say control of those systems would allow an extremely fast collapse of the economy. Imagine it’s a plumbing system and someone takes a sledgehammer to the central pipe.”
Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system
A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Dems should not allow anything to move in the House or Senate until this is dealt with. Dem have the power in both chambers to jam up the works, and they need to use it.
That isn't a radical tactic, it's what the GOP has done for years for trivial matters. Unlike this, which is catastrophic.
That isn't a radical tactic, it's what the GOP has done for years for trivial matters. Unlike this, which is catastrophic.
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there are simply too many stories and not enough paid journalists to write them all. this is by design.
January 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
there are simply too many stories and not enough paid journalists to write them all. this is by design.
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As Repubican Fascists try to roll back clean energy across the US, remember this:
They are not fiscal conservatives.
They are not fiscal conservatives.
Some good news: California’s power plants burned 40% less fossil fuel for electricity last year compared to 2023, with battery storage doubled.
“Every major renewable—geothermal, hydro, wind, solar in particular, even offshore wind—is lower cost than fossil fuels”
grist.org/energy/calif...
“Every major renewable—geothermal, hydro, wind, solar in particular, even offshore wind—is lower cost than fossil fuels”
grist.org/energy/calif...
California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy
Are renewables reliable? A new study says California ran on renewables alone for a record number of days last year.
grist.org
January 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
As Repubican Fascists try to roll back clean energy across the US, remember this:
They are not fiscal conservatives.
They are not fiscal conservatives.
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dark times indeed, but still laughing that one of the week’s big stories was an Chinese AI company being like “oh a bullshit machine? we can make that, no problem” and it blew up the stock market
January 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
dark times indeed, but still laughing that one of the week’s big stories was an Chinese AI company being like “oh a bullshit machine? we can make that, no problem” and it blew up the stock market
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The Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) has defrocked Father Calvin Robinson after the priest went viral for mimicking a recent gesture by Elon Musk that really, really looked like a Nazi salute.
Priest Defrocked After Copying Elon Musk's Salute at Pro-Life Summit
Calvin Robinson was expelled from the Anglican Catholic Church after copying a salute given by Elon Musk that has been likened to a Nazi salute.
www.rollingstone.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) has defrocked Father Calvin Robinson after the priest went viral for mimicking a recent gesture by Elon Musk that really, really looked like a Nazi salute.
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The ADL continues their mandate of "Everything is antisemitism except antisemitism"
January 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The ADL continues their mandate of "Everything is antisemitism except antisemitism"
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Don't assume maximalist outcomes for the Trump administration. That's a form of psychological surrender. We should attempt to exploit every stumble, failure, and misstep, and there will be stumbles, failures, and missteps.
December 9, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Don't assume maximalist outcomes for the Trump administration. That's a form of psychological surrender. We should attempt to exploit every stumble, failure, and misstep, and there will be stumbles, failures, and missteps.
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And, in case you’ve forgotten from the first go-round, two other points never to forget:
1. Trump and his aides often lie.
2. Trump and his appointees often screw things up.
1. Trump and his aides often lie.
2. Trump and his appointees often screw things up.
A reminder
January 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
And, in case you’ve forgotten from the first go-round, two other points never to forget:
1. Trump and his aides often lie.
2. Trump and his appointees often screw things up.
1. Trump and his aides often lie.
2. Trump and his appointees often screw things up.
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No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.
January 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.
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This is very interesting
And their research, which involved, among other things, going out and talking to communities around the country about their lives and living conditions, helped them to understand the places that the existing model was and wasn't working for ordinary Chileans
January 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This is very interesting
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Or that Brendan Carr, Trump's pick to head the FCC, sent Meta a letter right after the election telling Zuck that fact checking was against the First Amendment and Carr was poised to take action if Meta kept fact checking.
www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...
www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...
January 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Or that Brendan Carr, Trump's pick to head the FCC, sent Meta a letter right after the election telling Zuck that fact checking was against the First Amendment and Carr was poised to take action if Meta kept fact checking.
www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...
www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...