India is going to shop for $100 billion worth of US goods every year - for the next 5 years. Just to put this in context, our annual: - Crude oil import is $120 billion - Gold import is $70 billion Public must not buy gold, do car pool, save fuel, avoid foreign travel, bla bla... And government just goes on a dollar shopping spree. Why don't you walk the talk @PMOIndia Or tell us how much US has committed to buy from India?

I’ve said before that the most surprising thing to me about Americans’ reaction to the Trump era has been the relative indifference to flagrant corruption. I didn’t expect it and I don’t understand it. It’s the deadliest poison they’ve injected into the Republic’s bloodstream.

Florida has been controlled by the Republican Party for 30 years. Republican have run all 3 branches of government here in Florida for 3 decades. So serious question for my fellow Floridians…… If you are concerned with the homeowners insurance issues we have, the over development of our state, the rising cost of living, the education system not operating to the best of it’s ability, and the healthcare system deficiencies we have……. Why do you continue to elect the same people that led us here?

$JBLU Raises bag fees due to rising fuel prices - CNBC

Excellent rebuttal.

Wharton’s latest AI study points to a hard truth: “AI writes, humans review” model is breaking down Why "just review the AI output" doesn't work anymore, our brains literally give up. We have started doing "Cognitive Surrender" to AI - Wharton’s latest AI study points to a hard truth: reviewing AI output is not a reliable safeguard when cognition itself starts to defer to the machine.when you stop verifying what the AI tells you, and you don't even realize you stopped. It's different from offloading, like using a calculator. With offloading you know the tool did the work. With surrender, your brain recodes the AI's answer as YOUR judgment. You genuinely believe you thought it through yourself. Says AI is becoming a 3rd thinking system, and people often trust it too easily. You know Kahneman's System 1 (fast intuition) and System 2 (slow analysis)? They're saying AI is now System 3, an external cognitive system that operates outside your brain. And when you use it enough, something happens that they call Cognitive Surrender. Cognitive surrender is trickier: AI gives an answer, you stop really questioning it, and your brain starts treating that output as your own conclusion. It does not feel outsourced. It feels self-generated. The data makes it hard to brush off. Across 3 preregistered studies with 1,372 participants and 9,593 trials, people turned to AI on over 50% of questions. In Study 1, when AI was correct, people followed it 92.7% of the time. When it was wrong, they still followed it 79.8% of the time. Without AI, baseline accuracy was 45.8%. With correct AI, it jumped to 71.0%. With incorrect AI, it dropped to 31.5%, worse than having no AI. Access to AI also boosted confidence by 11.7 percentage points, even when the answers were wrong. Human review is supposed to be the safety net. But this research suggests the safety net has a hole in it: people do not just miss bad AI output; they become more confident in it. Time pressure did not eliminate the effect. Incentives and feedback reduced it but did not remove it. And the people most resistant tended to score higher on fluid intelligence and need for cognition. That makes this feel less like a laziness problem and more like a cognitive architecture problem.

If you're a firm that bent the knee: We remember. And we're not impressed.

Indian Student’s Visa Canceled Over Dismissed Ticket, Judge Slams ICE ICE canceled an Indian student’s visa status over a speeding ticket that was already dismissed. A federal judge just ruled that move was arbitrary and unlawful. In this case, ICE ran 1.3 million international students through a crime database. If a name popped up, even without a conviction, their student record was terminated. Akshar Patel, an F-1 student in Wisconsin, was flagged for a 2018 speeding case that had been thrown out. ICE still canceled his status without warning, forcing him to stop studying and leave. He sued. ICE quietly restored his status and tried to get the case dismissed. #SEVIS #F1

Since Bari turned CBS into a propaganda network, its parent corp is down 19% That’s roughly the entire enterprise value of CBS itself…

There are three things the French are truly great at: 1) Food & Wine. 2) Protests. 3) Giving zero fucks how rich you are when you are in their court system. You can’t just scream ‘free speech’ and donate to a politician to escape here.

Elon rug-pulling SpaceX shareholders by diluting them out with $2 trillion plus of Tesla/Twitter funny money all while making himself the worlds first trillionaire via executive stock options is the greatest ever achievement in the the history of financial engineering.

I grew up Republican. Still am in many ways. But MAGA pushed the party so far right that I get called a liberal now. Let me explain the difference: Traditional Republicans believe in: • Fiscal responsibility (balanced budgets, not exploding deficits for tax cuts) • Limited government (actual small government, not big government that punishes your enemies) • Strong institutions (courts, elections, constitutional norms matter) • Personal responsibility (your actions have consequences) • Free markets (not tariffs and trade wars) • Strong alliances (NATO, international partnerships) • Rule of law (no one is above it, including the president) MAGA Republicans believe in: • Whatever Trump says today (even if it contradicts yesterday) • Loyalty tests (agree 100% or you're a traitor/RINO) • Conspiracy theories over facts (stolen election, deep state, QAnon adjacent stuff) • Grievance politics (owning the libs > actual policy) • Personality cult (Trump loyalty above party, above country, above truth) • Performative outrage (culture war theater instead of governance) • Ends justify means (storm the Capitol, ignore election results, whatever it takes) I didn't move left. The party moved off a cliff. I still believe in conservative principles. But when you say "maybe we should respect election results" or "fiscal responsibility matters" or "rule of law applies to everyone," you get called a liberal. That's not conservatism. That's a cult.

So guess who was right

RT @ThisWillHold2: 🚨Breaking: Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon blocks AG Pam Bondi’s attempt to extort private voter data. “The ans…

Steve Bannon Peter Navarro Mark Meadows Dan Scavino Kevin McCarthy Jim Jordan Scott Perry Andy Biggs Mo Brooks Mick Mulvaney Kellyanne Conway Don McGahn …all refused to comply with congressional subpoenas.

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis slammed Stephen Miller: “You know what makes me cranky? Stupid…You don’t speak on behalf of this U.S. senator or Congress. You can say it may be the position of the president that Greenland should be a part of the US, but it’s not the position of this government. Because we are a co-equal branch”

This is Renee Good. She was a mother of a six-year-old child. She was an American citizen. She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.” And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.

“So who on our side has legitimized this type of vile degradation? It’s a question worth thinking about.”

MAGA has credited Trump with a lot of fantastical abilities before, but time travel is a new one. For those of you having a hard time keeping up, Trump didn't become President until Jan 20, 2025.

RED STATES BLEED BLUE! NEW: January 1, 2026—the day Florida, Texas, and every other Republican-led state finally realize the ACA they've been roasting is the oxygen mask keeping their families alive. CBS just aired Floridians sobbing: “I voted red—why can’t healthcare be like the Democrats said, just… human?” Irony is dead: GOP states suck the ACA teat harder than blue ones, yet their leaders went to court 96 times trying to kill it. Now Musk, Trump, and House Republicans whisper “it’ll be fine” while subsidies vanish and premiums skyrocket. Translation: your lifesaving chemo becomes their next tax cut. Republican voters—SNAP, housing, ACA—you’re on every program you scream against. Coward influencers call you “patriots” for handing your own kids’ insulin money to billionaires. 96 court cases. 20 years of lies. They’re not “fixing” healthcare—they’re privatizing your heartbeat. 2026 and 2028 are the receipts. Step outside the tribe, America. Save your family’s life. Vote like your next breath depends on it—because it literally does.