A.J. Carrillo
@ajcarrillo.bsky.social
Candidates+Causes @ Basis Technologies. Co-founder
@treasuryblue.bsky.social. Fiat lux #GoBears
Interests: politics (inc. Mexican and Canadian), economics, adtech, and state-sponsored disinfo operations.
@treasuryblue.bsky.social. Fiat lux #GoBears
Interests: politics (inc. Mexican and Canadian), economics, adtech, and state-sponsored disinfo operations.
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Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
February 9, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
Great 🧵:
TL/DR: Competent and knowledgeable Republicans have been chased out of the party by MAGA. All that remain are idiots and sociopaths, making it difficult for the GOP to remain competitive within confines of a functioning democracy.
TL/DR: Competent and knowledgeable Republicans have been chased out of the party by MAGA. All that remain are idiots and sociopaths, making it difficult for the GOP to remain competitive within confines of a functioning democracy.
The forces that make Trump impervious to internal correction within the GOP are going to create huge obstacles to the party winning elections and governing for a generation.
The tragedy of today's GOP is that they have purged anyone inclined to independence and leadership. Those who are left chose to climb into the back seat, and now they're lost. But they're finally yelling at the driver.
February 9, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Great 🧵:
TL/DR: Competent and knowledgeable Republicans have been chased out of the party by MAGA. All that remain are idiots and sociopaths, making it difficult for the GOP to remain competitive within confines of a functioning democracy.
TL/DR: Competent and knowledgeable Republicans have been chased out of the party by MAGA. All that remain are idiots and sociopaths, making it difficult for the GOP to remain competitive within confines of a functioning democracy.
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Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.
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Yes, some of us did, but the libertarians at Reason were not prominent among them, except for the one who got fired for it.
February 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Yes, some of us did, but the libertarians at Reason were not prominent among them, except for the one who got fired for it.
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Quite the message 😂
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Quite the message 😂
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“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”
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If the current moment has taught us anything, it is about the uselessness of libertarianism.
The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.
The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.
I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:25 PM
If the current moment has taught us anything, it is about the uselessness of libertarianism.
The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.
The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.
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And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 AM
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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For a story I'm working on, I'd love to talk to VOTERS who:
-Live in MISSISSIPPI & have been sent to the wrong polling place on Election Day, either due to the polling place locator or a precinct change
-Live in NEVADA or COLORADO & vote at a vote center of your choice
-Live in OREGON or WASHINGTON
-Live in MISSISSIPPI & have been sent to the wrong polling place on Election Day, either due to the polling place locator or a precinct change
-Live in NEVADA or COLORADO & vote at a vote center of your choice
-Live in OREGON or WASHINGTON
February 9, 2026 at 1:11 PM
For a story I'm working on, I'd love to talk to VOTERS who:
-Live in MISSISSIPPI & have been sent to the wrong polling place on Election Day, either due to the polling place locator or a precinct change
-Live in NEVADA or COLORADO & vote at a vote center of your choice
-Live in OREGON or WASHINGTON
-Live in MISSISSIPPI & have been sent to the wrong polling place on Election Day, either due to the polling place locator or a precinct change
-Live in NEVADA or COLORADO & vote at a vote center of your choice
-Live in OREGON or WASHINGTON
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Cartoonish lying.
Undocumented people don’t get unemployment
Undocumented people don’t get unemployment
Hassett: "There's a pretty big decline in the labor force because of illegals leaving the country, so the break even job number is quite a bit lower than it was under Joe Biden. So you should expect slightly smaller job numbers."
February 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Cartoonish lying.
Undocumented people don’t get unemployment
Undocumented people don’t get unemployment
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“.. He’s got a lot to answer for, but really, he should make life easier on the president, frankly, and just resign.”
@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/08/e...
@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/08/e...
February 9, 2026 at 12:26 PM
“.. He’s got a lot to answer for, but really, he should make life easier on the president, frankly, and just resign.”
@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/08/e...
@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/08/e...
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Russians are trying to rewrite history on Wikipedia. Because it's the #1 source of training data for AI systems, it can also be used to "poison" platforms like ChatGPT and Claude AI.
25 years after its launch, Wikipedia remains hugely influential. Its open editing model now faces coordinated "edit wars", where Kremlin-aligned actors rewrite history and cement distorted narratives on one of the world’s most trusted reference platforms.
Read more: euvsdisinfo.eu/the-wikipedi...
Read more: euvsdisinfo.eu/the-wikipedi...
February 8, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Russians are trying to rewrite history on Wikipedia. Because it's the #1 source of training data for AI systems, it can also be used to "poison" platforms like ChatGPT and Claude AI.
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The current president has made almost 4 billion dollars since he was voted in office 🙃 This episode breaks down how he made that money and how it compares to other presidents.
www.npr.org/2026/02/08/n...
www.npr.org/2026/02/08/n...
How the Presidency is Making Trump Richer : Up First from NPR
Before President Donald Trump’s first term, he was in a “tight spot” financially, according to New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick. At the start of his second term, Kirkpatrick says, Trump was in an “...
www.npr.org
February 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
The current president has made almost 4 billion dollars since he was voted in office 🙃 This episode breaks down how he made that money and how it compares to other presidents.
www.npr.org/2026/02/08/n...
www.npr.org/2026/02/08/n...
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2017 email shows Jeffrey Epstein telling Michael Wolff that dinner guests were “concerned about dementia” after being with Donald Trump.
February 8, 2026 at 5:05 PM
2017 email shows Jeffrey Epstein telling Michael Wolff that dinner guests were “concerned about dementia” after being with Donald Trump.
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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
February 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
Pam Bondi even had the subject line redacted. Come on!
U.S. Atty Gen. Pam Bondi and FBI Dir. Kash Patel have both sworn under oath that zero evidence of other people committing crimes exists within the Epstein Files.
Here are emails from people whose identities have been redacted, both attaching photos, both adding notes stating “Age 10” and “Age 11.”
Here are emails from people whose identities have been redacted, both attaching photos, both adding notes stating “Age 10” and “Age 11.”
February 9, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Pam Bondi even had the subject line redacted. Come on!
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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My story on how Epstein worked with a former leader of Putin’s youth movement, who promised him racy pictures and introduced him to an emigre who helped build out Russia’s quantum computing initiative. His security company was banned from U.S. intelligence deals last year. Giftish. wapo.st/4ccTtxy
Epstein’s network included Russian tech investors with past Kremlin ties
Documents released by the Justice Department show that Epstein had links with Russian tech investors who had drawn scrutiny from U.S. intelligence officials.
wapo.st
February 6, 2026 at 4:20 PM
My story on how Epstein worked with a former leader of Putin’s youth movement, who promised him racy pictures and introduced him to an emigre who helped build out Russia’s quantum computing initiative. His security company was banned from U.S. intelligence deals last year. Giftish. wapo.st/4ccTtxy
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If Lutnick were a cabinet member of a Democratic President he’d resign before today was over and Trump would face questions re why he nominated him. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/n...
February 8, 2026 at 4:43 PM
If Lutnick were a cabinet member of a Democratic President he’d resign before today was over and Trump would face questions re why he nominated him. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/n...
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Pam Bondi and Kash Patel are going to prison. 😳👇
February 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Pam Bondi and Kash Patel are going to prison. 😳👇
He was more than neighbors with the pedo guy next door.
February 8, 2026 at 4:42 PM
He was more than neighbors with the pedo guy next door.
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Bill Ackman's fund, Pershing Square, manages 18 billion dollars for wealthy clients, billions of it for the Harvard Endowment
Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Bill Ackman's fund, Pershing Square, manages 18 billion dollars for wealthy clients, billions of it for the Harvard Endowment
Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
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Whew, this new ending to the updated story
February 8, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Whew, this new ending to the updated story
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the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason
February 8, 2026 at 3:01 AM
the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason