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Russ Vought will gladly rescind millions of congressionally appropriated funds to help refugees and, the next week, find millions in DHS funds to spend on Trumps vanity ads
NEW: President Trump directly told Russ Vought to find the funds to finance the ads glorifying him. The agency’s general counsel and WH counsel both signed off on the move as legal. The president and WH chief of staff spoke to the DHS secretary. nytimes.com/2026/10/02/us/po…
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There's a range of human activity that falls in the
"you should not behave this way and people should criticize you and think less of you if you do but it also wouldn't make sense to make it illegal" bucket and I fear we're losing sight of the whole concept of honor and ethics.
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thrilled to announce we have built the “trick old people into handing over their bank passwords machine” from the classic sci-fi horror novel “don’t build the trick old people into handing over their bank passwords machine”
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
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The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard.
cellcog.ai/blog/tavus-gri…
research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/proj…
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This investigation by ProPublica ...
"No one from any of the states asked us about our backgrounds or qualifications. .. No one questioned what we plan to teach or how we would measure whether students are learning.
And yet we could enroll students in two states right now, if we wanted to. Arkansas even suggested ways our school could accept public money through the state’s voucher-style program."
propublica.org/article/propu…
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The Administration that commits a Watergate-level scandal nearly every day is looking to further absolve President Nixon of his Watergate crimes.
DOJ is reviewing whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the Watergate break-in committed misconduct, according to people familiar with the matter, more than half a century after that scandal led to Nixon’s resignation. W @PhilipWegmann
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NEW: Trump owned between $2.9 million and $9.5 million in investments in companies that owned, operated or provided infrastructure for data centers at the end of 2025, according to CREW analysis.
Meanwhile, his admin promoted data centers—potentially padding his bottom line.
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White House's Palm Room doors now lined with photos of Trump standing alongside Putin & Xi:
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The people profiting from war should not be the people making the policy decisions about the war.
We're looking at you, Jared Kushner.
A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel's military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4y0xe5x
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Brutal graphic on the amount of money everyone at Trump's AI roundtable contributed to Trump's Super PAC and vanity projects.
It comes to $227 million.
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NEWS: The Pentagon has spent about $50 million for catering for National Guard troops stationed in Washington, DC for the last 11 months. Looks like it will cost another $20 million to feed them for the rest of this year.
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NEW: The Trump administration’s reported use of DHS funds to finance a set of pro-Trump propaganda ads likely violated multiple federal laws.
We just filed a complaint urging the DHS OIG to investigate and hold anyone involved accountable.
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The Trump administration appears to have changed its AI chatbot so that it no longer debunks Trump lies.
Yesterday: It said Biden won the 2020 election and there's no indication of widespread fraud.
Today: Says it can't answer such questions.
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Obviously not THE moment from Schmitt-Smith yesterday, but it was interesting to watch Schmitt chide Smith for "losing" the McDonnell case; as Smith said, he won, and then McDonnell convinced SCOTUS to make it almost prohibitively hard to convict electeds for taking bribes.
I mean, I’ll go ahead and point out that the reason federal bribery cases are so hard to get to a conviction is because of a former Republican governor of Virginia! Bob McDonnell laid the groundwork for Trayon White’s defense.
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NEW: Trump proposed rescinding $810 million for programs supporting refugees and asylees, minority business development, housing counseling and more—just five days before the funds were set to expire.
That’s illegal. Here's what you should know about the “pocket rescission.”🧵
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New from @CREWcrew: we agree citizensforethics.org/report…
Federal watchdog says Trump’s $810M funding cancellation is unconstitutional dlvr.it/TVhtHy
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