In January 2025 Silicon Valley's elite lined up behind Trump as he was sworn in for a second term. They've enjoyed a lucrative year since, underscoring Washington's alignment with Big Tech – and its transactional nature.

An #FTEdit animated 🧵 on how tech titans have become even richer under Trump 👇

"Truth Social has its own AI search tool, which the company debuted a month after Trump signed an executive order to end the use of 'Woke AI' in the federal government." It actually tells the truth.

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Electricity prices are surging — and infrastructure, policy, and outdated planning are to blame. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act rolled back clean energy incentives, driving costs higher. More demand + fewer upgrades = pricier, less reliable power for everyone.

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America’s public lands are quietly falling apart.

Thousands of federal staff have been cut. Firefighters are cleaning restrooms. Trail crews are gone. Monitoring for endangered species is vanishing.

We risk losing the expertise that protects these places.

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Is Fox becoming the Nazi network. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AFg...

New research shows that you can trick AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini into teaching you how to make a bomb, hack an ATM, or talk someone into suicide if you make the question complicated, full of academic jargon, and cite sources that do not exist.

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“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.”

The job market for recent college grads is weakening fast. Unemployment is up, tech & finance hiring is down, and AI may be reshaping entry-level roles. The value of a degree—and how we prepare young workers—is under pressure.
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Clearly, the Democrats learned nothing from Joe Biden.
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Every time one of Trump's minions goes on television to justify his tariffs I'm reminded of Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch.

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Donald Trump's version of "let them eat cake."
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Donald Trump’s leadership strategy is built around disruption—what military strategists call Shock and Awe: rapid dominance through overwhelming action. But there's a deeper, more volatile dynamic also at play here: chaos theory.

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Wicked isn’t just the title of an American movie, it's is also a type of complex problem that defies easy solutions. Donald Trump’s approach to wicked problems is a "shock and awe" strategy, focused on dominance rather than nuance.

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After a lot of misguided immediate analysis of the election, a month later, there is the opportunity to examine all of the facts and data and come to a more reasoned understanding of what happened and why.
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