III. ANALYSIS The Court finds that Dir. Patel has failed to allege a viable defamation claim against Figliuzzi. As such, the Court must dismiss Dir. Patel’s lawsuit. While Figliuzzi requests attorney’s fees and court costs under state anti-SLAPP statutes, the Court is unable to grant him such, and this request must be denied.

Oh no!!!

TX judge dismisses Kash Patel's defamation case against Frank Filiuzzi, on which lawsuit Kash based much of yesterday's lawsuit against the Atlantic.

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49ers general manager John Lynch said the team is using AI to evaluate draft picks. “The cool thing is you don’t need to be an expert.”

Good luck to the Niners!

ChatCTE

Wow. Today the ECJ found Hungary violated EU law with its anti-gay statute, but the most revolutionary part of the decision is that the Court found that Art. 2 TEU, laying out European values, could be used as an independent legal ground in cases before the Court. curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...

If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.

Cancel the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner The White House Correspondents Dinner shouldn't invite a president who is an enemy of free speech. Better no "Nerd Prom" than this one.

“Cancel the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner”

— my @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social latest

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Don, it’s psychopathology. Disordered thinking creates emotional needs that cannot be fulfilled.

The Strait of Hormuz is still closed. The Iranian regime is still firing on ships. Trump has accomplished nothing.

Just FYI.

We can’t trust Palantir with our NHS data Is this really the company we should be entrusting with our health service’s digital architecture?

"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere."

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I just assume this is a feature of the school shooter type, of which these guys are all extremely vivid examples

Shecky Greene Hat

Oof, right in the plums. 🤣

Addiction isn’t a moral judgment — it’s a security clearance nightmare.

If you can’t master your own demons, you have no business running the FBI or the Pentagon.

Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth are liabilities, not leaders. Suspend them and investigate. Immediately.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite's intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

This bullet point from Alex Karp/Palantir’s latest diatribe strikes me as the best representation of the whole project.

“The elite’s intolerance of religious beliefs…”

Let me stop you right there, Alex. You just made that up. That isn’t a thing in 2026 America.

*with prejudice

Everyone is talking about how fun discovery will be in Kash Patel’s defamation suit, but I don’t think it will survive the first defense motion to dismiss under FRCP 41(b).

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.

I would argue that the manifesto is incoherent- full stop. It’s internally inconsistent and so poorly written it’s impossible to pin down, and I think that is either intentional or the product of someone with Ted Kaczynski level psychosis.

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

So is Palantir putting its entirely legacy into It Can Only Good Happen cause that letter is one of the most unhinged things I’ve ever seen a contractor publish

This is such a nauseating stew of simmering pathologies and resentments of subnormal techbros.

Palantir is doing cutting edge science on whether its possible for an entire company to have cocaine psychosis

Stonewall is fucking TERF now?! What the actual fuck.

A series of statements so twisted and nonsensical they could only be produced by GenAI.

The 27-Year-Old Diplomat Waging Trump’s Cultural War With Europe

The Trump administration is unabashedly pushing fascism in Europe.

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So, you think public health literature is ‘advocacy speak?’

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about.

This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.