After posting the videos of lightning simultaneously striking the U.S. Capitol building and the Washington Monument on New Year's Eve, I have lots of people telling me it's a sign or omen. Much of it based on their own political beliefs. I also think it's a sign. A sign that

unusual_whales America is ready for 2025

BREAKING: A Tesla Cybertruck explodes in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas killing the driver and injuring 7 others.

When a monkey moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a zoo. Proverb. Adapted. #Inauguration2025

NEW -- President Donald Trump is preparing to issue a sweeping series of pardons for defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, including commuting the prison sentences of hundreds of his supporters who have been convicted of violent attacks against law

I'm told that Trump is expected to further direct the Attorney General to move to dismiss all pending indictments against Jan. 6 defendants who have not yet had their cases fully adjudicated, which would shutter roughly 470 ongoing cases according to recently released numbers by

For those confused why the US state and Silicon Valley are having a meltdown on twitter today. China released multiple AI models that are 50x more efficient than the best American AI models and made them open source, ruining the AI market

This doesn’t seem to be getting enough attention. The Silicon Valley social contract forced on the public by Obama and then Trump and then Biden (minus Lina Khan) and now Trump was straight forward: We will let these bros become the richest people in human history and in exchange

you run a telehealth company that employs AI to give patients a glorified Google search so their insurers can give them even less for their premiums. that the amazing innovation that we’re supposed to protect, right? I’m in favor of anything that has the potential to bankrupt you

Utterly delightful to see the broligarchy have the rug pulled from under them re Gen AI. Stealing work and violating copyright to undercut others is fine for you but now you’re undercut & it’s a problem??

This story is truly alarming - Kyle Cheney has buried the lede. The FBI has told Citibank that recipients of EPA climate grants are being considered as potentially liable for fraud. That is, the Trump administration wants to criminalize work on climate science and impacts. 1/

For The Nation, I explain that the left's backlash to "abundance" isn't because we oppose zoning reform. It's because we see how big-money donors are using abundance as a tool to undermine the kind of populist revival the Democratic Party desperately needs.

the extent to which simple college sit-ins are automatically met with police violence is a very good indicator of encroaching american fascism. at no point during the entire 20th century was it like how it is right now

The White House posted this to YouTube an hour ago youtu.be/SXGIN7Er9Y0

Dying or resigning or both.

Mx Arjuna I feel like those two things would be mutually exclusive to someone with Trump's ego