🤔 What if the “Donor States” that contribute more $ to the federal gov than they get back for programs, services, contracts, and aid, demand new trade terms from Trump? 😁1 New Jersey2 Massachusetts3 New York4 Connecticut5 California6 Illinois7 Washington8 Colorado9 Minnesota10 Utah

— VivianOfTheSierras (@vivianofthesierras.bsky.social) 2025-05-14T03:54:59.609Z

REPUBLICAN MATH…Red states slash taxes, cut services because of less revenue than blue states like California have to make up for their shortfall.

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-04-26T01:36:13.441Z

Wow. All but five states have lower GDP than the San Francisco Bay Area.

— DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) 2025-03-19T20:30:08.351Z

Most & Least Federally Dependent States in 2025wallethub.com/edu/states-m…

— Ed Hirsch (@edhirsch.bsky.social) 2025-07-10T01:42:36.933Z

If blue states kept their money, they would be fine or even better off. Red states would be in deep financial trouble.Example: California is the fourth largest economy on Earth. It grows over one third of America’s vegetables and two thirds of its fruits and nuts.

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-07-06T12:52:07.518Z

In 2023, NY contributed $89 billion more to the federal government than we received. Undocumented immigrants in NYC contributed $3 billion. So in theory we could just stop giving Republicans federal subsidies and pay for that marginal $18 billion in infrastructure directly and have a big surplus.

— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers.bsky.social) 2025-10-05T23:04:21.232Z

good for europealso this is extremely small potatoes tbf

— Zander Furnas (@alexanderfurnas.com) 2025-05-12T20:37:28.064Z

The Trump administration’s slowdown in science funding has left U.S.-based scientists and researchers scrambling to find homes for promising work that could lead to medical treatments and cures.Now, many are looking abroad.

— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2025-05-10T00:15:04Z

Every day America grows more dangerous and unlivable. People will die because scientists are leaving for countries that want them. apnews.com/article/trum…

— Marcie Lipsitt (@mlipsitt.bsky.social) 2025-05-26T23:36:11.299Z

Trump caused this

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T00:36:44.922Z

The U.S. is already losing billions in tourism while bracing itself for an underwhelming 2026 men’s World Cup and 2028 Olympics.open.substack.com/pub/contrari…

— Jen Rubin (@jenrubin.bsky.social) 2025-07-24T12:15:27.822Z

News from Europe:Travel to the US is down 10%.Tesla sales are down 49%.So much for Trump’s claim that his decisions would make America “so rich.”

— Tokyo Sand (@dhstokyo.bsky.social) 2025-05-27T13:35:38.948Z

America First = America AloneUnprecedented: the U.S. is the only country out of 184 to see a drop in international tourism this year. Everyone else is rebounding. We’re projected to lose $12.5 billion in spending—jobs, small businesses, entire communities will feel this.

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-05-27T00:15:30.044Z

The U.S. has—had—one of the top intelligence operations in the world. What a resource to make informed decisions. Yet we have an ignorant WH occupant who relies on fringe conspiracists to spread false information. What a danger. What an embarrassment. What a tragedy.

— Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) 2025-05-23T19:42:01.768Z

I assume other countries won’t want to share intelligence with the US since Trump has alienated our allies and sucked up to Putin.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-05-23T20:00:22.517Z

And don’t forget this:www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation…

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-05-23T20:19:48.626Z

Sec. Noem oversees hundreds of thousands of employees across 10 agencies—many with the power to arrest citizens. She should understand what 'habeas corpus' means. The fact that she doesn’t is deeply concerning and raises serious questions: Does she know her job? Has she even read the Constitution?

— Sen. Cory Booker (@booker.senate.gov) 2025-05-21T23:28:54.187Z

I think she understands it and it lying. That’s what this administration does. She’s saying what they want it to mean and the MAGA cult will believe her. We know Republicans in Congress are too cowardly to correct her.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-05-21T23:32:20.167Z

Kristi Noem is painfully dumb

— Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) 2025-05-20T15:13:58.538Z

I think Noem knows what habeas corpus means. I think she’s lying. Now the MAGA cult will believe her definition instead of the actual one. Republican politicians are too afraid of Trump to challenge the Trump definition.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-05-21T01:19:11.486Z

40% of Republicans say the COVID-19 vaccine has probably or definitely killed more people than the COVID-19 virus.

— Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) 2025-05-20T14:51:57.712Z

Large majorities of the public are confident in the safety of vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella, the flu, and, among those ages 50 and up, pneumonia and shingles. Just over half have confidence in the safety of COVID-19 vaccines: on.kff.org/3Z2MaRG

— KFF (@kff.org) 2025-05-06T19:58:04.826Z

“Half of L.A. Times journalists have left in the last three years.”latguild.com/news/2025/3/…

— Gabriel San Román (@gsanroman2.bsky.social) 2025-05-20T16:43:51.964Z

Every word: defector.com/a-new-deal-t…

— Steve Merelman (@smerelman.bsky.social) 2025-01-19T00:32:19.930Z

In its official trending news section, X (formerly, Twitter) promoted a story with the headline “Iran Strikes Tel-Aviv with Heavy Missiles,” but it was fake — and it was created by X’s own AI chatbot, Grok.That was a year ago. And we thought that was bad.

— philmandelbaum.com (@philmandelbaum.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T23:55:59.559Z

I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Timeswww.404media.co/chicago-sun-…

— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) 2025-05-20T14:47:27.261Z

OMG — it's a viral/syndicated hallucination. Paging @ryancordell.org and @dasmiq.bsky.social and Viral Texts.

— Ted Underwood (@tedunderwood.me) 2025-05-20T14:27:02.514Z

AI itself is neither evil nor good. It’s a tool to use—and for some, to use against others. The peril comes when we accept information to feed our emotional reaction rather than our considered response. And that peril exists across the political spectrum. (Thread)www.axios.com/2025/05/14/m…

— Jeff Roush (@jeffroushwriting.bsky.social) 2025-05-19T00:51:15.703Z

thanks google AI

— Bill Corbett (@billcorbett.bsky.social) 2025-05-18T22:00:55.778Z

Oh, sweet merciful fire, two notes:(1) Even Latham & Watkins, ya'll.(2) The lawyer defending an AI company for using stolen IP to train their AI/LLM used the company's AI/LLM to cite check her brief, which hallucinated results.fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc…

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T19:49:05.202Z

This may be my new favourite hallucination. Thanks to @arynn.bsky.social for finding

— Dr Joe McIntyre (@drjoemcintyre.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T23:21:59.937Z

An AI leaderboard suggests the newest reasoning models used in chatbots are producing less accurate results because of higher hallucination rates. Experts say the problem is bigger than that

— New Scientist (@newscientist.com) 2025-05-16T09:59:13.016Z

Anthropic's lawyers take blame for AI 'hallucination' in music publishers' lawsuit reut.rs/4dhKCt0

— Reuters (@reuters.com) 2025-05-15T19:45:14.946Z

incredible: a lawyer acting for one of the world's biggest AI companies, Anthropic, had to apologise to a US court because they had cited an AI hallucination in their submission.techcrunch.com/2025/…

— CAMERON WILSON (@cameronwilson.bsky.social) 2025-05-16T00:13:47.000Z

AI will take your job as soon as it figures out what year it is

— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com) 2025-05-28T18:45:39.117Z