I set up two accounts. Not sure why or which I’d use, but it never hurts to have a backup @dukestjournal@mastodon.social @dukestjournal@econtwitter.net

Three questions: 1) why is @BillAckman promoting AI fakes? 2) why do some people use AI to fantasize about putting words in other people’s mouth? 3) why does @YouTube not care about the proliferation of this stuff?

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law

At Trump's behest, Senate Rs gutted the restrictions on the reconciliation process and they breached old appropriations norms with his rescissions. If they won't find a way to flex around the filibuster, I guess that means they consider opening the government unimportant.

Left out of this piece is that Trump’s lack of engagement was a political boon for Republicans and represented the moment of maximum leverage for executive-driven cuts. GOP messaging highlighting the shutdown in the lead up to Election Day killed but them in the ass.

.@MarcACaputo reports: “Some Trump confidants privately admit his attention was essentially AWOL during the early part of the historic shutdown, now in its 40th day (39 full days passed).” More on Trump’s contradictions. https://t.co/Y76xqnd9lE

Given the pace at which Trump is putting his name on things in his second term, we can’t rule out the “WOW” coming from a place of genuine excitement at another rent-seeking opportunity.

With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”

Still amazing how the administration hasn’t explained how this happened.

Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide.

Realest tweet I ever seen

Every word of this is better than the previous one

Huh.

The year is 2037, and following a closely contested election, AOC and MTG announced they’re bringing back the Tip O’Neill/Reagan tradition of weekly lunches between the Speaker and POTUS. Only question is which one is serving in which job….

I feel like these people totally misunderstood why this ad was effective. It was that this is what Kamala was focusing on instead of the economy. Going all in on transgender issues had the exact opposite effect this time. Why are you talking about this instead of affordability?

Can't think of a fate more miserable for Andrew Cuomo than becoming a freshman member of the House with an office on the fifth floor of Cannon and sitting at the far end of the dais on the Small Business Committee

I really hope this is Bloomberg setting up a humor vertical to compete with The Onion.

Running back the entire 2005 privatization tour, because that went so well.

So the plan is to give people tax credits based on their income and what they spend on healthcare? Why didn’t anyone think of this sooner? [Googles ACA] Ah.

The ring light is the cherry on top

There’s a saying that if you’re still running in the last election, you’ve already lost, so it follows that if you’re so obsessed with the last election that you’re doing whatever this is, you’ve definitely lost…your damn mind.