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Al Wayward retweeted
Apr 26
The ballroom is an irrelevant Reichstag moment. People should not be fooled. The WHCA dinner is a private event and never would have been held at the White House. Trump never even attended until this year.
Apr 26
The sleight of hand here is turning “we want a ballroom” into “national security demands a ballroom.” Security upgrades may be real. But that doesn’t mean the ornamental event space, its scale, or the lack of normal oversight is automatically justified. And even if national security related, Congress still Constitutionally holds the power of the purse -- not Donald Trump's rich friends.
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Al Wayward retweeted
Apr 25
Breaking WaPo:
Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation's nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were just terminated from their positions by Trump.
The National Science Board was established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation.
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Al Wayward retweeted
Feb 28
Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post offering “financial runway." This month it gutted its newsroom—more than 300 layoffs.
Whatever you think of legacy news, the hard data shows us that newspaper closures hurt Americans. Here's how: 🧵
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Al Wayward retweeted
Mar 1
NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials if they continue detaining people in ways the court has ruled illegal and unconstitutional.
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Al Wayward retweeted
Feb 28
If you're calling the Department of Defense (created by act of Congress 1947, named by act of Congress 1949) "the Department of War" - you're already obeying illegal orders.
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Al Wayward retweeted
Anthropic just announced it will take the Trump administration to court over the supply chain risk designation. And in the same breath, Axios revealed the detail that changes everything about this story.
While Anthropic was being blacklisted for refusing to allow mass surveillance, the Pentagon’s own “compromise deal” that Under Secretary Emil Michael was offering on the phone at the exact moment Hegseth posted the designation on X would have required Anthropic to allow the collection and analysis of Americans’ geolocation data, web browsing history, and personal financial information purchased from data brokers.
Read that again. The Pentagon spent two weeks saying it has no interest in mass surveillance of Americans. Then the deal they actually put on the table asked for access to your location, your browsing history, and your financial records.
They told us Anthropic was lying. The contract language told us Anthropic was right.
Now here is where this becomes an existential question for a $380 billion company.
The supply chain risk designation means every company that does business with the Pentagon must certify they do not use Claude. Eight of the ten largest companies in America use Claude. Defense contractors, cloud providers, consulting firms, banks. The blast radius is not the $200 million Pentagon contract. It is the enterprise ecosystem that generates $14 billion in annual revenue.
Anthropic’s legal argument is specific: under 10 USC 3252, the designation can only restrict use of Claude on Pentagon contract work. Your commercial API access, your claude.ai subscription, your enterprise license are, in Anthropic’s reading, completely unaffected.
But here is the problem. That is a legal argument. It will take years to resolve in court. And in the meantime, every general counsel at every Fortune 500 company with any Pentagon exposure is going to ask one question: is using Claude worth the risk?
The IPO, which was expected this year at a $380 billion valuation backed by $30 billion in fresh capital, is functionally frozen. No underwriter will price an offering while a company carries the same designation as Huawei.
And here is the final detail nobody has processed yet. Hours after blacklisting Anthropic, the Pentagon accepted OpenAI’s proposed safety framework, which contains the identical red lines: no mass surveillance, no autonomous lethal weapons.
They destroyed one company for a position they then accepted from its competitor.
Full analysis on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/shanak…
This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon.
Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic.
Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.
The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield.
Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable.
As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives.
Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered.
In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.
America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.
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Al Wayward retweeted
Feb 25
NYT confirms MS NOW:
The Epstein files released by the Trump Justice Department failed to include some key materials — FBI memos summarizing interviews — related to a woman who said she had been sexually assaulted by both Trump and Epstein decades earlier, when she was a minor.
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Al Wayward retweeted
Feb 20
Internal messages reviewed by Reuters show: The Trump admin has ordered FEMA to suspend the deployment of hundreds of aid workers to disaster-affected areas around the country while DHS is shut down.
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A measure giving Congress the power to block Trump pardons draws Republican backing trib.al/XsCU5Vo
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Al Wayward retweeted
Feb 16
👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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Al Wayward retweeted
Jan 27
My law firm sent demand letter on behalf of @steadystate2025 to @DHSgov to seek renouncement of statements by Border Patrol official Greg Bovino that there will be “consequences” for those who exercise 1st Amendment protected activity.
Letter is here:
steadystate1.substack.com/p/…
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Al Wayward retweeted
Breaking news: The Trump administration acknowledged for the first time that members of the U.S. DOGE Service accessed and shared sensitive Social Security data without the awareness of agency officials, months after a whistleblower raised concerns. wapo.st/4r6gUgl
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Al Wayward retweeted
Jan 12
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: federalreserve.gov/newsevent…
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Al Wayward retweeted
Jan 13
The White House is responding to the TMZ video of Trump flipping someone off at the Ford plant today, saying in a statement to @Sam_Waldenberg, "A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the President gave an appropriate and unambiguous response.”
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#EXCLUSIVE 😳 President Trump was filmed flipping off a Ford worker who yells "pedophile protector" at him. tmz.me/dBqJsza
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Al Wayward retweeted
Never forget January 6th and what it truly reflected: An unlawful insurrection attempt by the President of the United States to unconstitutionally remain in power.
Jan 5
Happy Monday. Before we succumb to the amnesia of Trump’s Upside Down World, let’s take a moment to remember what happened five years ago.
Because the shame of that day endures, and its consequences are all around us.
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Al Wayward retweeted
Jan 6
President Trump told House Republicans today that Washington, DC hasn't had a single murder "in seven months," though there've actually been dozens. Here are press releases issued by DC police last week alone.
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Al Wayward retweeted
Jan 1
Holy fuck! Showing ZERO fear of retribution from a vengeance-obsessed TRAITOR who attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election, usurp the constitution, and overthrow the U.S. government, Jack Smith, with ZERO fucks left to give is what a badass American hero looks like.
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Al Wayward retweeted
22 Dec 2025
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed.
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Al Wayward retweeted
19 Dec 2025
Sen. Kelly has a good lawyer.
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