"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults." -- Alexis de Tocqueville
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Ed Lettis 🌻 retweeted
In case anyone has lost count, Trump already kicked 5 million people off SNAP.
His new proposal would cut another 6 million and take free school lunches away from 2 million kids.
There’s always money when billionaires want another tax break.
But never enough for hungry kids.
Ed Lettis 🌻 retweeted
The Scandal Is Bigger Than Jensen Huang
I argue the most alarming revelation in this mess may not be that America’s most influential AI executive was involved with a suspected Chinese spy—but that senior administration officials were warned about the danger and nevertheless continued relying on him.
American strategy has come to depend, to an extraordinary degree, on powerful private-sector actors whose incentives the government cannot simply assume will align with the national interest.
The power of these individuals is fast escaping the reach of the institutions responsible for guarding against technological and geopolitical risks.
The lesson of this scandal is not simply that these people are fallible. It is that we need institutions capable of checking their influence and managing the consequences of their mistakes before these individuals become too powerful to be held accountable.
Read it in @TheAtlantic here: theatlantic.com/internationa…
Ed Lettis 🌻 retweeted
Another day, another worrying US inflation statistic.
PPI (basically business inflation) is +6.5% in the past year. That's even hotter than the ~4% consumer inflation.
Businesses are almost certainly going to pass some of those higher costs onto consumers. It's yet another worrisome inflation risk heading into 2027.
And no, it's not all diesel/gas.
PPI excluding food and energy = +5.0%
CPI excluding food and energy = +2.8%
Ed Lettis 🌻 retweeted
WH says Marco Rubio's $1.2 million in personal flights on government planes followed every rule
Then the rules are the problem
Taxpayers should never be subsidizing the lifestyles of Trump's cabinet
I broke down the ethics👇 -TN
washingtonsun.com/whitehouse…
Ed Lettis 🌻 retweeted
I feel like Howard Lutnick’s family corruption has skated under the radar. That is probably ending now.
Reupping this piece I wrote. It’s the Trumps (including Jared), the Lutnicks and the Witkoffs. So many overlapping arrangements where the sons profit directly from Dad’s govt decision making.
thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to-…
Ed Lettis 🌻 retweeted
If Donald Trump thinks his threats are going to stop us from investigating the rampant corruption in his administration, he is mistaken. We are going to keep fighting for justice.
Ed Lettis 🌻 retweeted
Some companies use your personal data, like browsing history, to serve different prices to different costumers. It’s called surveillance pricing, and we just banned it in New York City.
This tweet will say the same thing in incognito mode, don’t worry.
Ed Lettis 🌻 retweeted
This is the face of a man who has been betrayed... Why is the USA sending a NON politician, and absolute fuckwit, to do such an important job he clearly isn't qualified for? President Zelenskyy deserves better... WTF!! 🤬🤬
This is heartbreaking. 💔
Ed Lettis 🌻 retweeted
Outstanding discussion on @Morning_Joe this morning on questions surrounding the Nvidia scandal. @ScarboroughNow and @JimVandeHei nailed it. Key questions raised-and I’ll add a bit of my own flavor. Where was Ratcliffe on this? Patel? (FBI supposed to have lead on CI, right?) Was Alice a spy or not (the CNN reporting was sketchy-leaks from the admin clearly trying to downplay)? Was Jensen the actual target and was IC letting it play out and building a case? What about Marco and his memo to Trump? He certainly thought she was a spy and a huge risk. He’s ntl security advisor - but all he did was a memo? And Lutnick blocking any efforts to stop chips to China? WTF. That’s nuts. And finally Trump-does he even give a shit? Answer is no-because Jensen gave 25 million for the ballroom. And Trump is still defending Jensen. Really? The equivalent of atomic secrets - and that is how good Nvidia chips really r-gets passed to China and the admin appears at best deeply incompetent in having allowed this. A future Democratic Congress -and even many republicans on the Hill right now - want answers. The American people deserve to know what the hell happened in a potentially devastating breach.
Ed Lettis 🌻 retweeted
Dear @WhiteHouse: I attended a closed-door House Foreign Affairs hearing on AI export controls last year in which Jensen Huang testified.
Would have been helpful if you told Congress that Mr. Huang was having an affair with a Chinese spy who ran a company that needed AI chips.
Ed Lettis 🌻 retweeted
Why is a Houston-based US Attorney threatening a Connecticut-based Senator over constitutionally-mandated oversight of DC figures?
Because the DOJ is hemorrhaging staff, who don’t want to do this dirty work, and this US Attorney is a trained seal for Trump.
No other reason.
After the election, @SenBlumenthal & his allies think they can intimidate Americans for their constitutionally protected associations w/ President Trump.
Congress is not a weapon to be wielded against the American people.
I'm taking the first step to stop this abuse of power.
Ed Lettis 🌻 retweeted
Everyone defending Jensen is trying to make it about the sex.
It’s not about the sex.
It’s about how he enabled and even lobbied for Chinese AI, about how he subverted US policy, and how he carelessly left himself vulnerable to both blackmail and espionage.
And it’s about how he utterly blew off the problems inherent appearance of conflict of interest, to the peril of his company, his country, and his industry.
He also left Nvidia open to endless litigation and investigation (which is why they may be forced to fire him despite his immense talents).
The fact that he also slept with an employee is just icing on the cake, in a way that further emphasizes his poor judgment, and that would only make the shareholder lawsuits worse.
Firing him will be a huge blow, but keeping him on is no longer tenable, either.
Ed Lettis 🌻 retweeted
We’ve gone from Reagan’s “Peace through Strength” to “Appease the War Criminal while He Invades and Bombs Cities.”
nationalreview.com/the-morni…
Ed Lettis 🌻 retweeted
This is unbelievable.
Kushner running around on behalf the Trump Administration and America is just wholly and utterly offensive and disgusting at this point.
