The Pentagon wants AI that can fight wars without limits. Anthropic says there are lines it won't cross. And this week, that standoff turned into an all-out confrontation. To unpack the news, I spoke to Kat Duffy from the Council on Foreign Relations and Amos Toh from the Brennan Center:
Good time to remember that Marc Andreessen claimed that he and the other tech broligarchs were forced to support Trump because of the Biden administration's arbitrary regulation and strong-arming of AI firms.
EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein's close friendship with Woody Allen is well-documented. What's less well-known? Epstein spent years trying to influence Woody Allen's casting process, and got his "girls" cast in at least 2 of Allen's movies. My story for @nymag.com www.thecut.com/article/wood...
According to Nielsen, 'CBS Evening News' just recorded its lowest-rated February of the 21st century, averaging 4.4 million total viewers and 538,000 in the key 25-54 demographic.
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The Columbia student who was detained by ICE after agents misrepresented themselves has been released after Mayor Zohran Mamdani interceded on her behalf with President Trump.
Trump & Hegseth are punishing an American company because it won’t give them the tools to conduct mass surveillance on the American people.
This is Big Brother on steroids & it should scare the hell out of us. Our liberties are at stake, we cannot let this go unchecked.
For those who still argue AI governance is a barrier to innovation and growth... www.404media.co/meta-directo...
Agree with Woke Bill Kristol again. Should be clear it is not a choice among AI innovation, trustworthiness and democracy. Without all 3 we don't have any 1.
Wow.
This morning on @cnbc.com, B of A said the “K-shaped” economy is increasingly about not just the split between high and low-income — but high and MIDDLE-income consumers.
interesting idea from @mattyglesias.bsky.social: "Congress ought to act to impose common-carrier regulatory requirements on SpaceX..." www.slowboring.com/p/dont-let-e...
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
Absolutely terrific post by @lukefarrell.bsky.social . It’s shocking, wasteful, and pernicious how much our government relies on private contractors to perform the state function of administering public services. Great proposals here.
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"The way to honor Alex Pretti is to end the lawless occupation that took his life. It’s to free his fellow citizens, in Minnesota and beyond, from attacks by masked, trigger-happy government agents. It’s to begin to end the grotesque mass deportation campaign..."
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Tim Walz did a WSJ op-ed yesterday that I missed.
It debunks key lies:
>ICE said it was too busy invading to pick up child predator in Cottonwood
>MN has 207 non-citizens in jails, not 1360
>"Worst of worst" arrested by MN and turned over before invasion
www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-...
honestly it's just such a relief to see people that aren't evil dipshits
Europe Has a Bazooka. Time to Use It. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
This from @andreapitzer.bsky.social is key.
“nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training.”
I'm going to keep saying this until I go insane or they drop this stupid talking point: Greenland is defended by all of NATO including the US.
Hey, @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov: I'm not a senator, but if ICE thugs were rampaging through the major city in my state, I might try to impede Senate business as usual and try to bring everything to a halt until I could get answers or force some votes.
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How is it that Bill Kristol is better on ICE than the Democratic leadership in Congress?
Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations
There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter
How, again, are Dems supposed to negotiate with the Rs on the 2026 fiscal year budget (already 3.5 months late) if Trump has no intention of honoring the deals negotiated and laws passed?
The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:
From @brianstelter.bsky.social:
« AI is often an excuse for layoffs, not the cause of them. »
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Family values
