Keith Fitzgerald

Some basic fundamentals on the Rule of Law to help understand what's happening; why it's happening; and how it's happening (Actually, it's not just "happening." It's being done deliberately): 1. (1/16)

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The AI company’s first public financial disclosures reveal explosive growth, huge costs and risks ranging from cyber-attacks to the limits of safeguards

"Wildwood" is the longest stop-motion animated movie ever made [131 minutes). It took 15 years to create. And it's finally being released. Done entirely by hand, with no AI. It might be the last of its kind. www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

Sadly, if this allegation is true, it wouldn’t be the first time Donald Trump was found to have raped a woman “the jury’s finding that Mr Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally-in other words, that Mr Trump in fact did rape Ms Carroll”

For Netanyahu’s entire political career, he has depended on war to get elected and to remain in office. It is why he has always been opposed to peace. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...

Texas Transgender Student Union, the anonymously registered LLC in Wyoming that sent the bogus mailers, has retained Ken Paxton's impeachment attorney, Chris Hilton, to represent them in a court cased filed by Transgender Education Network of Texas, the group that TTSU impersonated in the mailers.

Someone tell this dipshit they f*cking invented half of math and science and that the European Renaissance started in Baghdad.

Seeing how little coverage that house report that added another rape accusation to Trump's tally got today, I looked back on just the front page Benghazi stories (there were many, many more inside over these months).

Well...Look at what she was wearing...

A must-watch interview. youtube.com/watch?v=Udfc...

Breaking news: The Justice Department has again charged James B. Comey, the third time the Trump administration has mounted a criminal case against the former FBI director — a prominent political foe of the president — since last year.

He just incoherently blurts out things he thinks sound scary with absolutely no connection to reality.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could finish second in Tuesday’s national election behind retired military chief Gadi Eisenkot but still return to lead a unity government alongside the man who vowed to replace him.

At a rally in Michigan, Trump said that El-Sayed would be “unable to get a seat on an airplane” for his supposed “support for jihadists.” “He would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he’s allowed to go into the Senate.” Trump went on in an Islamophobic rant.

Despite how "shitty" chatbots can be, we're already seeing AI change the way our world works. This week on the pod, @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social sits down with longtime tech reporter and author @mikeisaac.bsky.social to talk about the AI bubble. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sNB...

He should be wearing a hotdog suit when he says this

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

In March, the Alexander brothers were found guilty of sex trafficking and sexual assault and will be sentenced on October 27. Revisit our 2024 report, which is now the basis of a new documentary, ‘The Wolves of Real Estate,’ on how the open secret of the brothers caught up to them.

Worth your time — “The Republican Party and the Far Right” full: youtu.be/SnsBI4YxwIs?...

The Federal Trade Commission is suing the bargain chain Dollar General for what it says are "long-running deceptive pricing practices" by charging customers more once they reach the register than the prices that are displayed on shelves and in advertisements.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

In August, the Trump administration flew 12 Somali immigrants to an ICE facility at Guantanamo Bay. “Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay,” Sakariye Abdi Mohamed told journalist Amanda Moore in a phone call from the detention facility. “Just like kidnapping.”

How to make yourself even less popular than data centers.

Long overdue. 11 women have accused Trump of rape, sexual assault, and sex trafficking. It's certainly worth investigating. youtube.com/watch?v=mrcA...

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

This is a Klan rally

Every American should watch this. Before they vote. youtube.com/watch?v=SnsB...

Trump's vicious abuse of a female reporter who pointed out the sexual abuse that Amy Acton faced shows MAGA is betting on misogyny as their midterm Hail Mary. On the pod, @pastpunditry.bsky.social is just brilliant on misogyny as longtime bedrock of MAGA politics: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

And yet, when the violence reaches extremes, like genocide, it is turning away that reduces us.

This guy. 🙄

A moment of silence for the international far-right propaganda machine, which spent millions trying to export American-style election denial to Brazil, only for the working class to look at the Bolsonaro family and say, "Nah, we're good." The US propaganda machine and tech

In fact, they seem to enjoy it.

Mic drop… 💙

The stupidity of Musk is endless. All else aside, the average age of russian soldier is 42 years old. So kids in the Republican 'boys will be boys' sense, not a generation of adult paid killers.

The correct legal approach to this seems to be that when platforms start favouring some content over other, they don‘t deserve immunity for third party content on the basis that they are just platforms. They should become liable. finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...

"Things are so bad even the introverts are voting."

You know you’ve elected a historically-awful president when your phone autocorrects “racist” to “rapist” and both are 100% accurate.

Seven killed in Gaza as Israel targets university campus and other sites https://aje.news/p67591

Google’s data center brings wolves. “We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest,” 53-year-old Otanmäki resident Anni Ranta told the Guardian. “They fled.”

If he offered anything in return for the money, even just conversations with his father-in-law, then he would have violated U.S. bribery laws and the foreign agent statute. trib.al/aYl2OWe

They all do this, all the time. When Thiel said he believed "freedom and democracy are no longer compatible," he didn't mean our freedom; just his.

Bit late, no?

If only we could hold all politicians this accountable for their awful behavior

Democracy simply cannot survive when politicians lie without being held accountable. That is to say, when citizens are willfully ignorant and journalists don't do their job.

GOP does nothing but gin up culture wars. Meanwhile: — GOP slashed SNAP benefits to 5+ million Americans, forcing them to turn to food banks. — Trump's tariffs and war spurred inflation, making it more expensive to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. Prices are now ~13% higher than when he took office.