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John Herrmann, PhD retweeted
We're all paying the price after Republicans increased the cost of living - look no further than an order at Waffle House.
Great team. Follow the money etc, preserve the evidence, build cases that hold up in court. No theatrics required.
We are facing a crisis of impunity. That's why we built The Rule of Law Project — to investigate unlawful conduct by federal officials, and work with state and local prosecutors to hold them to account.
Watch former DOJ prosecutor Mark Blumberg and human rights leader Brad Adams launch this critical accountability initiative on MSNOW with Nicolle Wallace.
Iran is playing asymmetric economic warfare: if it can’t defeat the US militarily, it will make the entire Gulf—and the global economy—pay a ruinous price for trying to defeat it. I’m sure real generals/admirals advised Hegseth/Trump as such.
- reuters.com/investigates/spe…
Good luck to future high school history teachers & college history profs attempting to crystallize the MAGA-moronic era
Jon sticks the landing 2x
.@jonstewart unpacks AI’s dubious promise of a better future, from the fate of our jobs to an "age of abundance"
John Herrmann, PhD retweeted
Chipotle is working with Palantir to build a “food safety risk platform.”
Should you be worried Palantir might be tracking how much guacamole you add to your burrito? Maybe not.
But you should be worried about what it’s doing for the federal government.
This isn’t simply myopic EV policy.
It’s an industrial-strategy incoherence problem with real livelihoods at stake.
Truly remarkable how awful the administration is at just about everything. Even the simple gimmes that would bolster himself + GOP.
reuters.com/investigations/h…
“Scaling AI systems has to be constrained by our confidence in safety.”
OPEN AI CHIEF SCIENTIST: “This is a time that calls for extreme caution. ..
.. models are becoming superhuman in their ability to break in and out of computer systems
.. no one is prepared ..
The risks .. are unfortunately going to grow from here.”
openai.com/index/an-alien-mi…
Full report is wild
Given the growing alignment between major AI/tech interests and Trump-style authoritarian politics, it feels less like abstract theory and more like a warning ⚠️ from the future
MIT mathematically proved that AI will destroy the democracy.
A Nobel-winning MIT economist published a terrifying paper called "Automation and Repression"
As AI and automation replace human labor, wealth concentrates heavily in the hands of a tiny group of capital owners. Inequality skyrockets.
When inequality hits a critical mass, workers realize they are being crushed and the threat of a popular revolt spikes.
Faced with that threat, the ruling elite are forced to make a choice.
They can redistribute the wealth through taxes, or they can use force to keep people down.
The paper mathematically proves a dark reality: there is a direct, inescapable link between automation and political repression.
The more capital accumulates through AI, the more the elite prefer repression over redistribution.
Why? Because sharing the wealth cuts into their power. Funding a police state protects it.
It gets worse.
The authors modeled what happens when an economy starts inside a clean, stable democracy.
As automation advances and capital concentrates at the top, the math shows that the elite eventually find democracy to be a liability.
They stop supporting democratic systems. They back a coup. They install a repressive system just to protect their automated wealth.
Nobody is voting to end democracy.
The technology’s economic incentives just make authoritarian control the logical next step for survival.
John Herrmann, PhD retweeted
This morning's jobs report was shockingly negative.
Not only did the economy lose 23,000 jobs in July — the previous estimates for May and June were revised down by 103,000.
These numbers are a major red flag indicating the labor market is weaker than previously thought.
John Herrmann, PhD retweeted
NEW: This is the first in a series of stories by Democracy Docket examining the Trump administration’s grave threats to the 2026 midterms. It offers an overview of the multiple ways Trump could interfere with the vote — and threaten U.S. democracy. democracydocket.com/analysis…
