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Jon Pierce retweeted
.@Sec_Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I'm calling on her to resign.
Gregory Bovino must also be fired.
No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law.
Jon Pierce retweeted
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
Jon Pierce retweeted
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security ... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition ... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
Jon Pierce retweeted
a few days ago brian kilmeade said homeless people should be executed. jesse waters accused the left of trying to start a civil war. fox news spent years telling verifiable lies about dominion and the 2020 election.
canceling jimmy kimmel isn’t about an offensive line in a monologue. it’s about wielding state power to silence political opposition.
Jon Pierce retweeted
It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents.
But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.
Jon Pierce retweeted
In the last few years we've seen:
- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.
The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.
Jon Pierce retweeted
Many don’t realize that the first people Hitler sent to his concentration camps weren’t everyday Jewish citizens, but his political opponents. So, when Trump rants about retribution, locking up his opponents, and giving them “very long sentences,” I can’t help but take him seriously… because history teaches us that is what fascist dictators do during their “Day One” period to consolidate their power. (After all, if you’re hellbent on staying in power but aren’t likely to win the next election, you can’t have your political opponents running around free.)
To keep fascism out of our lives, vote for democracy!
Indeed, and seemingly at the direction of Bezos himself. Between this and Musk's own 🍊-pilling, it's quite the shameful display for billionaire tech leaders. Thank goodness for... Bill Gates? Think what you want of KH or the Dems, but know that Trump's only interest is himself.
On political endorsement wapo.st/3YmeD3T
This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty. @realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others). Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.
Confirmation from Robert Kagan, the editor-at-large who resigned over the decision, and why it matters. Free speech and democracy are very much on the line. To see where this path leads, one need only look to the authoritarian regimes further down it. youtube.com/watch?v=FIYdQS9P…
Jon Pierce retweeted
the best satire about people truly not caring about child labor is still from flight of the concords
Enjoy amazing Indian food or uniquely flavored, hand crafted ice cream? If you're in Boston, head over to Kendall Sq on Saturday for my friend @raj's pop-up at Depth 'N Green, the newly opened restaurant from Pushpir, founder and former owner of the great Guru the Caterer. 😋
Pretty cool work by my friend @raj. His service pptx.ai uses generative AI to help you create a presentation based on a simple prompt, and now supports uploading source documents, like PDFs, for context (i.e. RAG, or retrieval-augmented generation).
Chatting with PDFs is cool, but what's even cooler is turning those documents into other useful things, like slides for a presentation. #buildinpublic #indiehacker
İnşallah! The people of Türkiye deserve better! 🙏✌️🧿🇹🇷 @OyveOtesi #SeçimHepimizin #DemokrasidenTarafız #OyveÖtesi
Fantastic event on the Future of Business with AI at MIT today with @lexfridman @stephen_wolfram @sama @dileeplearning @vkhosla @mtarpenning @alex_pentland and many others. Brilliant job by @johnkwerner and Dave Blundin organizing! 🙏🤖 #ai #genai #imaginationinaction
Creating an effective PowerPoint presentation – let alone quickly – can be a real challenge. My friend @raj just launched a new Generative AI-powered service to make it so much easier. Excited to check it out! 👇
I launched an AI service yesterday to help you build and deliver better PowerPoint presentations. pptx.ai
Heartbreaking
Mesut Hancer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, who died in the earthquake in Kahramanmaras, close to the quake's epicentre, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast. @AFP pic by @AdemAltan3
What a treat! Such a tight performance. Prime Malkmus. It's like being transported back to 1997.
Pavement made their @ACLtv debut this past weekend, available to stream via @PBS for the remainder of the month:
pbs.org/video/pavement-eceup…
@Pavement_band
Jon Pierce retweeted
This has been just a devastating decade in Turkey. Today's horrors are very much intertwined with the overall political situation, since massive corruption has led to shoddy construction, stolen earthquake funds, minimum preparations for the inevitable, and an economy in tatters.