Nick Pappas 🌻
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To people with no background in law enforcement, it may seem like Kash Patel’s FBI is fucking up every single high profile case that comes their way. In reality, criminals fear Kash so much that only the most skilled ones are now committing crimes, thus skewing perceptions
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Hard disagree that the threat to Rubio is from the Left. And I think his chances of getting the nomination are basically zero.
I hope Rubio enjoys this moment of admiration before he becomes Worse Than Trump(tm) when he gets the 2028 GOP nomination.
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Using the Dow as your "reference price"
In the lead up to the Great Financial Crisis, the Dow peaked at ~$14,000. I was on Wall St. and that's always been my reference price. $50k Dow Jones has serious Weimar Germany vibes. The Dow companies are not getting more valuable, the dollar is on a path toward hyperinflation.
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Catturd, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Steve Bannon: A #CatturdVersusCatturd Tragedy in Three Acts
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President Donald Trump promised that Kennedy would “lead our campaign of historic reforms and restore faith in American health care.” A year later, polling shows that RFK Jr.’s tenure atop the US Department of Health and Human Services has had the opposite effect. Trust in
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New poll of #TX18 Democratic primary from @hobbyschooluh: Christian Menefee 52 Al Green 28 Amanda Edwards* 9 Gretchen Brown 1 Unsure 10 (Feb. 3-8; 1,000 LVs; +/-3.10%) *suspended campaign Feb. 9
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“Sorry guys, season’s not over yet, we need you to play in a tournament to get somebody who doesn’t suck to replace you.”
DEVELOPING: The NBA is discussing creating a tournament among lottery teams to determine draft order in order to stop tanking. (via @ShamsCharania, h/t @flasportsbuzz)
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This is my favorite Thomas Sowell quote
Elderly traveler mistakenly used a baggage conveyor thinking it was a moving walkway. https://t.co/5Hh6ZxGSE8
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If the Jones Act protects US shipbuilding capacity, why is US shipbuilding capacity at record and unacceptable lows?
Unpopular take: The Jones Act protects US Shipbuilding Capacity, which is at record AND unacceptable lows. We need shipbuilding capacity not just for warships but ferries and freighters. That said, cutting Puerto Rico a break is also fair.
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Tillis on the Senate floor just now: "I want to reaffirm what I said very directly [last month.] ... I will not allow *any* board member for the Federal Reserve to go through the Banking committee, for chair or replacement of expired terms, until this matter is settled."
Sen. Thom Tillis continued to tell reporters today that the Justice Department must end its criminal inquiry into Powell before he ends his blockade of future Fed nominees. More from @BrendanPedersen: https://t.co/8R8jzL3IxO
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It’s an insane level of cope to think that years from now we won’t have the ability to quickly and easily smooth out the errors and inconsistencies within what AI generates. It’ll still be a project with human input to generate content, but will be accessible to far more people.
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Part of this is also that more artistic people are used to picking apart human creations and do the same with AI. But the masses, especially when it comes to short form video, do not care. We are seeing much lower quality slop go viral all the time.
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There are still people who reply with “um this looks bad actually did you notice all the minor issues with it,” who aren’t amazed at the trajectory of AI videos. I don’t understand that. This is exponentially better than what we had in late 2022, less than 4 years ago.
We are genuinely cooked. I’m one of the most up-to-date people in on planet Earth when it comes to AI. But I will admit I was sort of mindlessly scrolling and I came across this video and I didn’t even think it was AI tell I realized this never happened in breaking bad.
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Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.
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Pam Bondi responding to questions about Epstein by being like "the DOW is doing great" is so funny
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“None of the D.C. grand jurors who heard the Trump administration’s pitch on why they should indict Democratic lawmakers … believed the Justice Department had met the low threshold of probable cause,” per @ryanjreilly.
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None of the D.C. grand jurors who heard the Trump administration’s pitch on why they should indict Democratic lawmakers over a video urging members of the
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The House passes the GOP's revised SAVE America Act, which requires proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote - plus photo ID at the polls. The bill faces a very difficult path forward in the Senate. Rep. Henry Cuellar D-TX was the only 'Yes' vote from Democrats.
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The House votes to repeal some of President Trump's tariffs levied on imports from Canada. 210 Republicans voted in favor of the tariffs. It's the first time House GOP lawmakers have gone on the record about the Trump tariffs.
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NEW: I just spoke to @RepJayapal about AG Bondi’s binder page “Jayapal-Pramila search history” that seemed to include what Jayapal looked for at DOJ when viewing unredacted Epstein files. “It's totally inappropriate,” Jayapal told me. “Is this is whole reason they opened [the
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