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RT @KFaulders: NEW - Ben Schrader, the former chief of the criminal division for the U.S. attorney’s office in Nashville, resigned followin…

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RT @lindsaywise: Vaccine Opponent Hired by RFK Jr. Scours Official Records for Link to Autism David Geier has sought access to federal dat…

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RT @thedailybeast: A second 22-year-old U.S. security chief has been revealed to be an ex-grocery clerk who had little professional experie…

RT @NBCNews: A former federal inmate, who was pardoned by President Trump in his first term for drug trafficking crimes, has been tapped as…

RT @MaryEllenKlas: Remarkable attempt to intimidate a reporter for attempting to gather facts about a state agency that won’t release its r…

RT @DaveBiscobing15: Watch the first chapter in Seeking Death: https://t.co/NEwzCw6Fmw There's much more to come. You'll see the extreme…

RT @DaveBiscobing15: SEEKING DEATH Over the years, Maricopa County has sought to kill a lot of people. How many? No one seems to know ex…

Experts who reviewed the code a DOGE employee used to identify VA contracts to cut found numerous and troubling flaws, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to guide critical cuts in services. https://t.co/bVSO1GBnKi

“The code, using outdated and inexpensive AI models, produced results with glaring mistakes. For instance, it hallucinated the size of contracts, frequently misreading them and inflating their value.” DOGE Used Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” VA Contracts https://t.co/y6jlXKy9pW

NEW: Texas legislators dropped efforts to spend millions of dollars to buy what experts call ineffective child identification kits weeks after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reported that lawmakers were again trying to fund the program. https://t.co/KaFLHSc6aG @LChurchilll

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said. https://t.co/y6jlXKy9pW

AND read the code for yourself: Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health https://t.co/bVSO1GBnKi @bxroberts @VernalColeman

BONKERS story: DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI to Help Kill Veterans Affairs Contracts 🤯 https://t.co/y6jlXKy9pW @bxroberts @VernalColeman @ericuman

It’s only 5:09. What else will today bring?

Derek Thompson @DKThomp

4pm: [10,000 jokes] what if Trump just like deported Elon for spite 4:39pm: Steve Bannon: "I am of the strong belief that Musk is an illegal alien and should be deported from the country immediately" https://t.co/D4POcp3wyH

PREVIEW: I'm excited to see this new investigation between @nicolesantacruz of our Southwest team and @DaveBiscobing15 of @abc15 Seeking Death: A new ABC15 Special Investigation series https://t.co/BLXm4CB0ak