Super dramatic quote from Rep Cotton during the DNI hearing 😭

“the second disturbance was the cries of a small child. We will welcome such disturbances because the cries of an infant are the sound of answered prayers.“

im seeing more restaurants say “sando” instead of sandwich and it’s really pissing me off.

🧵The new HR 25 Bill (which I assume won't see the light of day) would remove the IRS and Federal Income Tax and make State Sales Tax is the lode bearing weight of US tax revenue. Reagan Republicans enjoy measures like this bc it benefits them- but what about the middle class?

Trump’s halt on grants & funding is a travesty and a great example about how a certain class of people care more about shows of force than the lives and health of Americans.

There needs to be a /plan/.

We can’t just whiplash our whole community health & wellness industry. The margins are too thin.

I love how much the dems are ROASTING rfk at this thing and just like pulling quotes on his ass😭

This is what happens when you talk shit about vaccines w/o any consensus behind you lmao. Granola Moms love you but the medical/legislative community DOES NOT.

RFK Jr is my favorite person in the Trump Admin (low bar). I don’t agree with a lot of what he’s said, but he actually cares about the most important issues in our country, and clearly isn’t the type to sit by quietly.

Big Pharma, Factory Farms, Ecologocial Safety.

I’ll take what I can get.

Grrrr…that pesky CHINA keeps beating us in tech! 😤
I know! 🤔 let’s tariff the world’s leading manufacturer of chips. 😃 That won’t kneecap our consumer market at all! And it definitely won’t push Taiwan closer to CCP control either. 🙂‍↔️

Expanding on my thread from earlier, I’m talking about the realities of lagging US innovation and Chinese outperformance in the marketplace.

What will be the cost of deregulation on our public? And why can’t we best the CCP in the marketplace anymore?

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DeepSeek is a great example in how China has learned to undercut us. They wait until Trump takes office, commits to AI deregulation, and stock backing soars—and then they drop a superior, open source program.

Why don’t we create open source AI? Is it bc we care more about profit than ingenuity?

Trump only sees two sexes: Male and Female. What does that mean for the definition of “sex” in regards to discrimination, hate crimes, etc?

I wrote an article about this, and the SCOTUS decision that might give hope to the future of protections for trans folks.

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Unregulated tech pushes society towards a slow death. Amazon replaced the marketplace, social media destroyed leisure time, and AI will further this

We can’t afford to put massive tech interests over public wellbeing.

AI is not evil—but it will be used to further degrade our culture for profits.

The goverment’s ONLY job is to take care of the population it serves. Education, Health, Housing…these things should be a pride of our country. Why let certain states collapse while other’s thrive?

What’s more—this would make it much easier for rich people to carve fiefdoms of control.

I gotta assume his take is more nuanced than the comments are supposing. Ryan has put forth a lot of support for POCs and international victims of American Imperialism. There’s more than one way to support change in this country, and more than one view you can adopt in order to get it.

On AI:
“Look at the ways it’s already being deployed…to eliminate jobs, make your healthcare worse, and kill Palestinians in Gaza…anytime you put corporate profit motive at the center of innovation, the benefit of humanity is not at the primary goal here.
- Krystal on Breaking Points

Let’s see how Bluesky is? Would love to keep using social media but hate just being a mindless scroller—time to start posting!