2) to prove citizenship (impossible for millions) and the federal govt seizing voters personal info?
I've heard only one - Schumer - and he made a hash of it.
Why aren't our so-called leaders out there every day exposing this bill? What the hell else are they doing?
1) Looming disaster: a majority of Americans support the SAVE Act.
Why? Because Democrats have DONE NOTHING to cut through the lies about it.
How many Dem lawmakers have you heard explain that the problem is not voter ID - they're willing to support voter ID - but the requirement--
The Navy is increasingly concerned that the Islamic State or other terrorist groups could acquire and deploy cheap naval mines, which analysts say are available on the international black market to any group able and willing to pay. One potential nightmare scenario: A few mines in the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East could shut down the key shipping channel for days or weeks. A fifth of the world’s oil supply moves through the narrow passage, the only route connecting the oil-rich Persian Gulf region to the open sea. Blocking it for even a few days could have a significant impact on global markets. To emphasize the concern, the mine-clearing exercise led by the U.S. this spring tested how the international community would respond if a terrorist group placed mines in Hormuz or in other strategic choke points in the region. Reporters for The Virginian-Pilot and the Investigative Reporting Program traveled to Bahrain in April to observe the exercise.
I wrote this a decade ago after traveling to Bahrain while investigating the U.S. Navy's aging minesweeping systems, which had fallen into disrepair:
"One potential nightmare scenario: A few mines in the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East could shut down the key shipping channel for days or weeks"
Hadn’t seen. Thanks! Not that the administration cared what he believes.
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
When the US Govt has embarked on the largest mass surveillance program in history, and millions of citizens' private info was stolen by DOGE, no Jew in America (and therefore no American) should feel safe about a demand to "show us all your Jews."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
2) the same both-sidesing of disaster - "Well, Hitler had a right to be in control of his government, but was Rohm really such a threat?" - instead of standing up and shouting, "Wake the fuck up! The world as you know it is ending and you need to DO SOMETHING NOW!"
1) Our nation is governed, monopolized, and "informed" by a group of Lilliputians, utterly unequipped to deal with the incipient AI emergency.
If Klein were writing on July 1, 1934, the day after The Night of Long Knives, I fear he would stroke his beard with--
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/o...
Unforgivable that politicians and news media forced Trump to pay no price for abandoning the Iran nuclear deal in 2018. The Iranians had been complying and his reckless decision is why we're at war now.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/o...
Smart response to AI jobs destruction has no chance of implementation under Trump.
Corporations, AI creators, politicians - wake up:
The coming backlash is like nothing you've ever seen.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...
2) if they wanted this. And when they realize they’re among millions of lives and families being destroyed, there will be a bloodbath, hopefully only political, but the real thing wouldn’t be a surprise.
1) Amazing to see people act as if AI is some kind of asteroid crashing into earth that no one can do anything about.
Americans will remember that NO ONE in business or govt asked them—
Our society is now ruled by mentally ill billionaires lost in a pre-adolescent 1950 vision of the "future" that NO ONE WANTS AND CAN'T WORK. You can't reprogram a million years of human instincts in five years or even a generation.
The people have to stop this. NOW.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...
2) companies when thousands of others do what he's doing. Square and CashApp cannot survive without customers, and people without jobs aren't customers. I hope when he files Chapter 11 his creditors send him as nice a message as he sent to the employees he just dropped off a cliff.
1) For anyone who thought it would take years to sort out, or that AI wasn't ready, time to wake up.
The sole purpose of AI has always been to destroy human jobs. Period. Dorsey, like all the other fools, has not yet thought through what will happen to his own--
www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/b...
So in a demoralizing Hobson’s Choice between the end of the century-long miracle of Hollywood vs. overwhelming government domination of media, the government won. Only Hollywood will still die anyway, just a little slower.
A sad day for America all around.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/b...
3) to control AI agents.
Societal catastrophe through foreign AI sabotage, misuse by our own government, or the systems themselves going rogue.
Furman is celebrating competition over who pushes us off a cliff first.
2) lost white collar jobs.
Destruction of entry-level pathways to competence across scores of fields.
Destruction of learning and cognition already well-established.
Universal adoption of a technology 80% of Americans don't want.
Structural inability--
1) Great respect for Jason Furman, which makes this piece even more perplexing. "Yay - there's competition in AI development!!" Except he barely even hints at what the competition is leading to, so let's list:
Destruction of the economy through--
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...
When Howard Lutnick is more farsighted than our tech titans, we know we're in trouble. If these billionaire geniuses had been running US industry in Dec. 1941, they would have kept on building cars instead of tanks and the Axis powers would be ruling the world today.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...
The geniuses:
Klausewitz.
Grant.
Eisenhower.
Kushner and Witkoff.
Hard to believe my conservative friends aren't at least a little horrified by a president doing something like this. Presumably they think he's doing other things that make it worthwhile.
Unfortunately, that trade-off is the gateway to autocracy.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
We'll soon see if Democrats have the stamina to make a last stand for democracy. Trump said it out loud: if this bill passes, the GOP is guaranteed a 50 year majority.
Senate G.O.P. Faces Pressure to Force ‘Talking Filibuster’ for Voter I.D. Bill www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/u...
@nytimes.com really calling SAVE Act a "voter ID bill"???
ID is irrelevant to its two disastrous components:
1. Unconstitutional federal seizure of voters' personal data.
2. Impossible proof-of-citizenship requirements.
This bill will end fair elections.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/u...
Yes, lay-offs definitely here. TV commercial production decimated. Plus, new grads not being hired. Exponential change always starts slowly enough not to be noticed at first.
Grateful to Sanders and Khanna for taking up the AI fight. But even they seem to miss the "un-virtuous cycle" soon to be unleashed by millions losing jobs:
Fired people don't spend money. Businesses fail. Millions more fired. Economy collapses.
AI=death.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Kirchick has done a service by calling attention to this cowardly failure by PEN America. One can only hope that like @nytopinion.nytimes.com leadership in 2020 - after wrongly firing James Bennet for publishing a Tom Cotton oped - PEN will come to its senses.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/o...
Sadistic: Trump will not only go after LEGAL immigrants now, but hold them in notoriously cruel detention INDEFINITELY.
Every day we're reminded that cruelty is not a by-product, but central to this administration's grotesque governing philosophy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
AI is about to devour our society.
The corrupt government is in bed with AI's corrupt creators.
There are 34 months before even the possibility of non-corrupt officials saving us.
Will AI destroy us by then, or is there a chance sanity will prevail?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
