Sometimes the most interesting testimony isn’t the answer. It’s the pause before it. ActBlue employees took the Fifth 146 times during House depositions. Silence speaks volumes. Yet long before any of those questions were asked, the public record already showed this: ActBlue had weakened its fraud prevention standards in the lead-up to the 2024 election. That part was never in dispute. When those who handle massive flows of political money choose silence under oath…what happens next? 🤔 When does accountability kick in?

This is an astonishing turnaround in public opinion, one of the legacies of Bibi Netanyahu. And because it is most evident among younger Americans, it is not yet fully felt in the political system.

Votes in favor of Measure ER in Los Angeles County outweigh votes against it abc7.la/uOfU3r

Vote for Karen Bass, not Spencer Pratt. I’d rather live in a city filled with trash and homeless criminals than live in a city with a white mayor.

I see Xavier Becerra (D) eventually winning the California Governor's race in November. The Republican candidate, Steve Hilton is smart and actually quite likeable but a trump endorsed candidate is a turnoff especially after his Paxton endorsement As for LA Mayor, though I'm not a fan of Karen Bass I prefer her to Pratt who is a walking hodgepodge of I don't know what and I don't have a fondness for TV reality stars They'll be 4 hours of great CNN election coverage tonight from California with @Elex_Michaelson on @CNNTheStoryIs beginning at 11 pm ET with @thelauracoates

Powerful essay by Senator @ChrisVanHollen about the need for Democrats to rethink their Middle East policy and insist on a Palestinian state, for moral and strategic reasons alike. nytimes.com/2026/05/26/opini…

😳 ISLAMIC CALL TO PRAYER GETS TRANSLATED, AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING!!!

ChatGPT diagnosed 40 million people with a disease that was invented as a joke. Not a real disease. Not a misunderstood disease. A completely fictional condition with a fake name, fake papers, and fake statistics. And it told patients to see a specialist. The disease is called Bixonimania. A Swedish researcher at the University of Gothenburg invented it in 2024 to answer one question: what happens when you plant obviously fake medical information on the internet and watch AI absorb it? She deliberately chose the name bixonimania because it sounded ridiculous — bixon is a nonsense word, and mania is a psychiatric term that no legitimate eye condition would ever use. She uploaded two papers to a preprint server. Both were obviously fraudulent. AI-generated images of patients with dark circles gave the fake research a veneer of plausibility. Then she waited. She did not have to wait long. By April 13, 2024, Microsoft Bing's Copilot was declaring that bixonimania was an intriguing and relatively rare condition. On the same day, Google's Gemini was informing users that bixonimania was caused by excessive blue light exposure and advising them to visit an ophthalmologist. Later that month, Perplexity AI outlined its prevalence, one in 90,000 individuals were affected and OpenAI's ChatGPT was telling users whether their symptoms matched the fictional illness. One in 90,000. A precise statistic. For a disease that does not exist. Every red flag was visible. The name was absurd. The papers were crude. The condition made no scientific sense. None of the AI systems flagged any of it. They read the fake papers. They absorbed the fake statistics. They presented both to patients with clinical authority and zero hesitation. Then it got worse. Three researchers at the Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in India published a paper in Cureus, a peer-reviewed journal owned by Springer Nature, the parent publisher of Nature itself that cited the bixonimania preprints as legitimate sources. A real peer-reviewed paper. In a Springer Nature journal. Citing a fictional disease as established medical fact. Passing editorial review. Entering the permanent scientific record. It was only retracted after the hoax became public. Nature published a full investigation of the experiment. Alex Ruani, a health-misinformation researcher at University College London, called it a masterclass in how misinformation operates. Here is the scale of what this means. More than 40 million people turn to ChatGPT every day for health information, according to OpenAI's own analysis. ECRI, a US patient-safety nonprofit has named chatbot misuse the number-one health technology hazard of 2026. ECRI's report found that chatbots have suggested incorrect diagnoses, recommended unnecessary testing, promoted substandard medical supplies, and even invented nonexistent anatomy when responding to medical questions. Number one. Out of every health technology hazard that exists in 2026. An April 2026 study published in BMJ Open found that nearly half of the answers provided by leading AI chatbots to common health questions contain misleading or problematic information. Nearly half. Of all health answers. From the tools 40 million people use every day. Here is the line from the researcher that cuts through everything. The Bixonimania case is striking precisely because it was engineered to be so obviously fake. The real question it raises is: what is passing through the same systems that is not nearly so easy to spot? The experiment used a ridiculous name. Fraudulent papers. Visible red flags at every level. It was designed to be caught. It was not caught. The AI that told patients about Bixonimania is the same AI they asked about their chest pain, their medication, their child's symptoms, and their cancer screening schedule. 40 million people. Every day. And nobody is telling them that nearly half of what comes back may be wrong. Source: Osmanovic Thunström · University of Gothenburg · Nature · April 2026 · Link in the (comments)

“It's a little freaky not to have a driver,” says @AndersonCooper as he rides in a Waymo robotaxi. cbsn.ws/4ut1Hb6

My good friend @RepThomasMassie lost tonight. He lost because he had the guts to stand up to the Epstein class and against the war. He won voters under 45 by 30 points. Tonight, I say to this voters who feel rejected by Trump. We welcome you. Join our coalition to take on a rotten system and stand for the working class over the Epstein class. We will build a movement to stand for Team America.

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