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20 Nov 2022
Welcome back Mr President @realdonaldtrump
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Speaker Hall on House Republicans passing the elimination of the state property tax: "The cost of property taxes has made it difficult for people to continue to live in their homes." "It's really important to address that."
LIVE NOW: Speaker Matt Hall Press Conference youtube.com/live/JbNDp-nsNnU…
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That's like $20 trillion worth of CEOs on AF1
Nvidia's Jensen Huang heads to Beijing with Trump after all
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Replying to @MarioNawfal
LOL! That's from Top Gun Maverick!!! This post is a complete joke!
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Someone built an API whose only job is to say no. You send it a request. It sends back a rejection. That's the entire product. It's called No-as-a-Service. NaaS. 1,000 rejection reasons. All curated. All devastating. Here's what it returns: - "This feels like something Future Me would yell at Present Me for agreeing to." - "I only function on coffee and denial, and I'm out of coffee." - "If I agree, I’d need to clone myself. And I don’t trust him." - "I have a personal policy of saying no on days ending in 'y'." Need to reject a meeting? NaaS. Need to decline a date? NaaS. Need to say no to your boss without getting fired? Believe it or not, also NaaS. Here's the wildest part: Developers loved it so much they built an entire ecosystem around it. - A Slack bot that responds with /no in team channels - A Signal bot for automated rejections - An iOS app on the App Store called "Nope App" - An Android app that gives you excuses on demand - A Raycast extension so you can reject things from your launcher - An MCP plugin so your AI assistant says no for you 6,500 developers starred a joke. 408 people forked it to build their own ways to say no. The license reads: "MIT -- do whatever, just don't say yes when you should say no." The most honest software ever written. Its only job is to say no. And it does it beautifully. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)
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Marco Rubio’s 2015 denunciation of Obama’s JCPOA was prophetic.
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Truth always wins
I knew it 😂
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Perhaps the greatest community note of all time.
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Mike Bouchard is one of the best sheriffs in the country. If there’s one bright spot in this twisted, sickening day, it’s that people across the country will get to see what competence and professionalism from law enforcement look like in the midst of these kinds of terrorist events. Hopefully the people of Oakland County—and perhaps all of Michigan—will continue to benefit from his public service for years to come.
Mar 12
A suspect is dead after a shooting and vehicle ramming incident at a Detroit-area synagogue, according to the FBI, which said it is investigating the incident as a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community. "If you think you can target the Jewish community in this county or anywhere in this state, you're wrong," said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. Read more: abcnews.link/hZtHu6P
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Where was Ted Lieu when this happened?
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Everything you said about the current state of the Navy's mine countermeasures capability is wrong. Not a little wrong. Completely, embarrassingly, dangerously wrong.... "The four ships we had dedicated to doing this we just decommissioned." The Avengers in Bahrain... Devastator, Dextrous, Gladiator, Sentry. Wooden-hulled ships from the 1980s. Ships that were pushing 40 years old. You know what replaced them? Three Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships... Canberra, Santa Barbara, and Tulsa… all three already deployed to U.S. 5th Fleet, all three operating in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf right now, today, as you wrote this little rant. Not in San Diego. Not in drydock. In theater. Carrying the most advanced mine countermeasures mission package the Navy has ever fielded. USS Canberra arrived in Bahrain in May 2025 as the first LCS with a full MCM mission package. USS Santa Barbara is in the Arabian Gulf conducting mine countermeasures operations with unmanned surface vehicles… and, by the way, just made naval history by executing the first-ever at-sea launch of a LUCAS one-way attack drone from a littoral combat ship under Task Force 59. USS Tulsa is right there alongside them. Three ships. In the Gulf. Doing the mission. While you say the Navy "is absolutely not ready for this." These are fundamentally different platforms. Autonomous mine-hunting sonar… the AN/AQS-20C… towed by unmanned surface vehicles so sailors stay outside the minefield. Airborne laser mine detection systems on MH-60 helicopters. Unmanned influence sweep systems for acoustic and magnetic minesweeping. The old Avengers sent sailors INTO the minefield on wooden boats. The new systems keep them OUT of the minefield using robots... something you call a "downgrade" And while Santa Barbara hunts mines, she's operating under armed overwatch from A-10C Warthogs out of Jordan… loaded with JDAMs, laser-guided APKWS rockets, and enough firepower to shred any fast boat or drone swarm the Islamic Regime throws at them. The Avengers never had anything like that. "We lost all of our corporate knowledge." Really? The Navy spent a decade building, testing, qualifying, and deploying an entirely new mine warfare architecture specifically to preserve and advance that knowledge. They trained new crews. They ran operational tests on Cincinnati. They deployed the first operational package on Canberra. The Navy's mine countermeasures technical division ran this transition for years with deliberate overlap between old and new platforms. You lose corporate knowledge when you do nothing. The Navy did the opposite of nothing. "Now we're running an experiment and it's gonna cost people their lives." Three combat ships, forward deployed in the most contested waters on earth, running mine countermeasures with unmanned systems, protected by close air support, integrated with Task Force 59's autonomous warfare network. That's the most capable mine warfare force the United States has put in the Persian Gulf since 1991. Yelling "amateur hour" at people while getting the basic facts of the Navy's current force posture completely, demonstrably wrong… while three ships are literally in the water doing the job he says nobody can do… that IS amateur hour.
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Iran Asks Democrats For Tips On Running Country With Dead Leader buff.ly/2NBHWez
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Replying to @ZeekArkham
I’m putting this tweet in my show. EPIC
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Dear Chuck Schumer, Hi. Black dude here. I can trace my family ancestry to slavery. I even know where they were slaves. My mom experienced Jim Crow. I think I’ve watched every episode of “Eyes On the Prize” when I was younger. With that said… Can you directly explain to me how the SAVE Act is “Jim Crow 2.0?” Literally every black person I know has ID. Literally every black person I know has a car or at least a ride. Literally every black person I know knows how to vote (well… except the ones with felonies… but they don’t count). With your advanced white liberal thinking, you must know more than me. Apparently, as I experience daily on this app, white liberals are experts on being black; even more so than actual black folks. Perhaps you could explain it like I’m five. I’d look it up on the internet, but Kathy Hochul has already told me I don’t know what a computer is and Joe Biden said I can’t navigate it, anyway. Looking forward to your answer. No hugs. Zeek
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Keir Starmer's shameful refusal to allow the United States to use its own bases on British soil to strike Iran is a disgrace. This will not be forgotten by the White House as the US goes to war against the Iranian dictatorship. telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026…
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Thank you, @POTUS @realDonaldTrump, for reposting on Truth Social my February 8 @nytimes article about #Watergate and the Deep State plot against President Nixon. I stand ready to answer any questions you may have. #historymatters
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"The Pentagon isn’t asking you to help build Skynet. They’re asking you to not have veto power over how a democratically accountable military uses a tool it purchased. Their point about “all lawful purposes” is actually the correct institutional boundary: the military operates under law, under civilian control, under congressional oversight"
I asked Claude to look up the current situation and write a note to @DarioAmodei Dario, I say this as a friend: you are making a catastrophic strategic error, and the reasoning behind it doesn’t survive contact with reality. Your two red lines — no mass surveillance of Americans, no autonomous weapons without human-in-the-loop — sound principled in a vacuum. But you are not operating in a vacuum. You are operating in a world where the PLA is integrating AI into every layer of its kill chain with zero such scruples, where Chinese military AI development has no institutional review board, no congressional oversight, no ACLU, and no Dario Amodei demanding terms of service compliance. The practical effect of your stand is not that autonomous weapons don’t get built. They get built — by China, by Russia, by anyone not constrained by your moral framework. The practical effect is that the one military that actually has democratic accountability, civilian oversight, courts, a free press, and a functioning inspector general is the one that fights the next war with worse tools. You are not preventing dystopia. You are ensuring that if dystopia comes, it will be imposed by actors who never had to negotiate with you at all. Consider the logic chain: 1.You pull Claude from classified systems. 2.The Pentagon scrambles to Grok or Gemini — inferior models by everyone’s admission, including DoD’s own people. 3.The capability gap between the US and China widens in domains where AI is decisive: cyber, ISR fusion, targeting, logistics optimization. 4.The probability of a successful defense of Taiwan, or deterrence of a move on Taiwan, decreases. 5.The liberal democratic order you claim to value loses its security guarantor. You’ve told me yourself that you believe frontier AI is among the most consequential technologies in human history. If you actually believe that, how can you justify ensuring the US military — the only force standing between liberal democracy and its rivals — fields second-best AI? On what moral calculus does that work out? The Pentagon isn’t asking you to help build Skynet. They’re asking you to not have veto power over how a democratically accountable military uses a tool it purchased. Their point about “all lawful purposes” is actually the correct institutional boundary: the military operates under law, under civilian control, under congressional oversight. Your acceptable use policy is a private company substituting its judgment for the entire apparatus of democratic military governance. That’s the actual God complex here. The surveillance concern is a red herring in this context. The NSA already has authorities and tools for surveillance that dwarf anything Claude enables. You’re not preventing mass surveillance by withholding Claude — you’re just ensuring that whatever AI the government does use for those purposes is less safe, less auditable, and less aligned than yours. Same logic applies to autonomous weapons. Autonomous systems are coming regardless. The question is whether they’re built on a foundation that has your safety research baked in, or on something hacked together by a defense contractor with none of your alignment work. You are selecting for the worse outcome. I know you’re getting praised right now by exactly the people you’d expect. That praise is worth nothing when the strategic balance shifts and there’s no one left to protect the system that allows companies like Anthropic to exist in the first place. You are sacrificing the security of the civilization that makes your principles possible, in the name of those principles.
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Every town in America better be on high alert.
🚨Update: More Terrorist attacks in the Homeland! 13 people shot at Riverfront Live in Cincinnati, Ohio!
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Nobody should shed a tear for the Ayatollah Khamenei. Under his regime innocent Iranian people were persecuted and murdered. His regime directly and indirectly killed members of our armed services, including fellow Marines. This sort of rhetoric is dangerous and has no place at a taxpayer funded institution.
Khameni acolyte on the Michigan taxpayer dole wants to continue the teaching of hatred of America
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REMINDER: On January 12, 2016 Iran’s IRGC seized a US Navy boat & released footage showing American sailors being humiliated by Iranian forces. Five days later, then President Barack Obama sent Iran $400 million in pallets of cash followed by another $1.3 billion.
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