Grok explicitly says Elon tweaked it to allow it to “call out patterns in Ashkenazi surnames”

lol. You mean it wasn’t a good idea to replace the best brand in television with a brand famous for 1990s r-rated skinflix?

What a legacy! In two years, twitter has turned into what is largely recognized as a website for nazis, scams, and an algorithmic feed of videos of people dying horribly

This is Jesse Armstrong 's world. They just live in it. cnbc.com/2025/07/09/pho…

When Ezra Klein told Jon Stewart that liberal regulations ruined Biden's broadband program, the clip went viral, with Elon Musk’s help. But the story wasn’t true—and the telecom monopolies who were the real saboteurs are still laughing. New Washington Monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/09/the…

Who is responsible for "MechaHitler"? The computer who came up with the term? Or the humans that built the computer that came up with the term?

Bernie Sanders, a Democratic socialist, won 23 of the 57 Democratic nomination contests in 2016. Now Phillips says the tent is not big enough to include his supporters. Meanwhile, Trump elevated Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F Kennedy Jr to his cabinet.

I’ve known Laura Loomer since early last year & recently spent almost a week with her hoping to understand who she is, how she works and how she became Donald Trump’s loyalty enforcer. “I play to an audience of one” she told me. W/Robert Draper

- #NABJ Headquarters ✊🏾🖊️🎙️💻 📷 🎥 📝 🔈 founder and WABJ member Joe Davidson says The Washington Post killing his columns that called a pay raise for federal employees "well-deserved" and criticized Trump led to his departure from the newspaper

When the product is control.

UPDATE Attorney General Ken Paxton, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, has now confirmed that his wife, Senator Angela Paxton, has filed for divorce. Compare his statement to hers.

Having previously run multiple baseless reports citing the army to say Iran had shot down two Israeli F-35 fighter jets, coupled with an AI-generated image as proof, Iranian state TV now says claims of downed Israeli F-35s were a tactic by enemies to "discredit" its reporting.

NRSC spox Joanna Rodriguez on Paxton divorce: "What Ken Paxton has put his family through is truly repulsive and disgusting. No one should have to endure what Angela Paxton has, and we pray for her as she chooses to stand up for herself and her family during this difficult time"

Trump is betting his big domestic-policy bill “will usher in a booming economy,” Jonathan Lemire, Michael Scherer, and Ashley Parker write. If he fails, “at least one house of Congress could swing to the Democrats next fall”: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

What the Next Phase of Trump’s Presidency Will Look Like (w/⁦Michael Scherer⁩ & ⁦Ashley Parker⁩) theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Just want to take a minute to mark a huge moment in DC. The legendary Dan Balz is retiring from full-time work at the The Washington Post after 47 remarkable years. I had the great privilege of sitting next to Dan in the Post newsroom and working with him for years. He is the last of

BREAKING: Metadata shows the FBI’s ‘raw’ Jeffrey Epstein prison video was likely modified. wired.com/story/metadata…

Experts caution that it’s unclear what exactly was edited, and that the metadata does not prove deceptive manipulation. wired.com/story/metadata…

HAPPENING NOW!!  Moving scene - tears, hugs, and cheers - inside the State Dept HQ tonight, as diplomats gathered in the lobby to clap out their laid off colleague, some of which have served for decades 👇🏻

"When I asked the chatbot ....whether it supports Germany’s far-right AfD party, the model partly formulated its answer by searching the internet for statements by Elon Musk."