Here's my interview with CNBC on how Zuckerberg's vacuous talking points about AGI and open source exist to distract from how Meta burned $180bn in capex (and more off-balance-sheet) to make also-ran LLMs that don't deliver an iota of the promise of "personal superintelligence."
The fact that Blanche refused to terminate the slush fund in writing for Trump’s criminal cronies as well as his IRS immunity deal proves that his testimony at his confirmation hearing that these things were “dead” was always a lie. They were dead only until he got confirmed.
Let’s be clear: the concessions they’re looking for are just for Blanche to put in writing that the president, his family, and their businesses won’t have an eternal freedom to cheat on their taxes. That’s all (and apparently that’s too much).
Phil LewisWASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says he may pull Blanche's nomination for attorney general, looking to avoid concessions to holdout Republicans.
Troy Jackson: "People wanted people to stand up for them. They've always wanted that. That's what I want. Trump made an argument that he was going to do that, but now it's buyer remorse across the state. The tariffs are killing businesses, we've lost healthcare because of the Big Beautiful Bill... "
Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.
The Freedom Fuel stations were put together by a pair of serial grifters who stole $667,000 worth of gas from a distributor five years ago, a private credit sponsor, and an energy trader tied up in multiple Trump schemes and profiting heavily off the war in Iran. prospect.org/2026/07/20/k...
The Kleptocrat Nesting Dolls Behind Trump’s Potemkin Gas Stations - The American ProspectHow can Freedom Fuel afford to sell gas for $3.47 a gallon? That’s the wrong question to ask.prospect.org