Attribution: ICE Wants Your Data NOW! by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, WA
Monte Wolverton is best known as a contributor to MAD Magazine and son of Mad great Basil Wolverton. He is also the editor of The Plain Truth. magazine. He draws two editorial cartoons per week and is syndicated to newspapers around the world by Cagle Cartoons.
ICE and Homeland Security have become the most well-funded enforcement agency in U.S. history, and they are using those funds to become a surveillance state larger than anything we’ve ever seen. ICE is using next generation technology like location tracking, facial recognition and artificial intelligence to create a database of not just of immigrants, but to monitor activists and anyone they deem to be an agitator.
ICE not the only ones
USPS seeks mail-in voter lists from states after Trump order
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Postal Service proposed to require states to provide the names of voters who received mail-in ballots with the associated barcodes, as part of President Donald Trump’s contentious strategy to increase election security that Democrats say aims to discourage voting.
The proposal May 29 came a day after U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington, DC, refused to block Trump’s executive order tightening rules on mail-in voting. Another judge in Boston set a hearing for June 2 on another lawsuit seeking to block the executive order.
The Postal Service said the policy would ensure that people who receive absentee ballots are registered and are the intended recipients of the ballots. The barcodes help track ballots through the mail. The agency is seeking public comments on the proposal for 30 days.
“This provision will help determine adherence to federal law and facilitate law enforcement efforts,” said the proposal to be published in the Federal Register on June 2. “For example, the provided lists will evidence how many ballots have been mailed, and allow law enforcement officials to compare the total number of mailed ballots to the total number of received ballots to detect potential issues meriting further investigation.”
Trump, who has voted by mail himself, contends absentee ballots are often fraudulent. He signed an executive order March 31 directing the Postal Service to propose its new rules within 60 days, aiming to confirm that voters are U.S. citizens and registered.
But Alexandra Chandler, director of impact programs at the advocacy group Project Democracy, called the policy a “data grab and a set-up for post-election disruption.” She said the administration is building a centralized repository so that partisans can mount “frivolous, hyper-targeted” challenges after the election.
“The proposed USPS rule is a clear attempt to disrupt election processes and to sow distrust in elections among the public,” Chandler said in a statement. “The administration is trying to turn postal workers into de facto election auditors with the power to decide whether people’s votes get counted while at the same time building an entire federal voter data and technical infrastructure it has no legal authority to create.”
Trump has also proposed legislation to require voters to provide identification at polling places and proof of citizenship when registering as part of a broader bill, but it has stalled in Congress.
Congressional Democrats and some state attorneys general filed lawsuits against Trump’s order by saying the Constitution gives the executive branch no role in managing elections.
But Nichols, a Trump appointee, refused to block the policy because the government had not yet produced any flawed citizenship lists and the Postal Service had not yet implemented any new rules.
“Given that the Executive Order does not command Plaintiffs to do anything, and that no agency has yet acted pursuant to the Order in a way that could harm Plaintiffs, they have not suffered any harm at present,” Nichols wrote.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said after the ruling that Trump was trying to silence voters he couldn’t win over. Schumer, a participant in the DC lawsuit with Democratic Party groups and advocacy groups such as League of United Latin American Citizens and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said “mail-in voting is safe and secure” and that Trump is trying to suppress voting.
“The Constitution is clear: Presidents do not get to rewrite election law by decree. Congress sets the rules for federal elections − not Donald Trump, not his political allies, and not his radical judges rubber-stamping his power grabs.”
a far cry from “scientia potentia est” (knowledge is power)and related phrase “sapientia est potentia” often translated as “wisdom is power” as discussed by Wiki
How does power actually work in modern society? Michel Foucault’s theory of power explains how control operates through institutions, knowledge, and everyday life — often invisibly.
Michel Foucault completely changed how we understand power, control, and freedom.
In this explainer video, I break down the key ideas from “The Essential Works of Foucault (1954–1984), Volume 3: Power” in a clear, simple, and engaging way — no philosophy background required.
meanwhile, here’s lasrweek last night
Jun 1, 2026 #lastweektonight
John Oliver discusses who Donald Trump has pardoned since he’s been in office, and what it would be like to have sex with a cartoon character who has your voice. Not a cartoon character OF YOU! Just a cartoon character with your voice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/ Trump on His Presidential Library: He’ll Write His Own History
In his determination to own and control every document in his future library, the president is working to shield his administration’s inner workings from public view.
President Trump’s presidential library, planned as a gilded glass tower on a donated chunk of Miami waterfront, is designed to be what Eric Trump, the president’s middle son, calls “a lasting testament to an amazing man.” If the president has his way, it will also serve as a monument to his norm-busting conduct in office.
Mr. Trump had said that the $1 billion project, the priciest presidential library yet, could include a hotel and retail sales outlets. But more disturbing to historians and government watchdogs is his determination to own and control every document a presidential library would contain. Not since the Watergate era, when President Richard M. Nixon took his fight to control the incriminating White House tapes to the Supreme Court, has a president worked so hard to shield documentary evidence of his administration’s inner workings from public view.
For eight decades, presidential libraries have served as public research centers run by the National Archives and Records Administration, the custodian of presidential records that by law belong to the American people. But Mr. Trump, who was indicted on charges of hiding classified government documents in his Mar-a-Lago estate after his first term, views those records as his personal property.
Justice Department policy bars prosecuting a sitting president, so after Mr. Trump won the 2024 election, Jack Smith, the special counsel in the documents case, dismissed criminal charges against Mr. Trump for mishandling the classified documents and obstructing the government’s efforts to reclaim them. Last year Mr. Trump regained control of the thousands of items the F.B.I. seized in 2022 from Mar-a-Lago.
This April Mr. Trump and the Justice Department advanced a sweeping legal claim that he, not the public, owns his records. The opinion, written by a Trump loyalist in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, declares unconstitutional the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which was enacted after Watergate to require the safeguarding of all documents chronicling presidents’ official duties.
The opinion argues that the act limits the “constitutional independence and autonomy” of the executive branch and would grant Mr. Trump, who has torn up and flushed documents down the toilet, sole control over what presidential records survive, or see the light of day.
Government watchdog groups sued the White House, seeking the courts’ help in preserving the records for the public. On May 20, Judge John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected Mr. Trump’s position in a ruling that opened by referencing a line from the dystopian novel “1984” by George Orwell: “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
The White House is not giving up. “President Trump is the most transparent and accessible president in history. He is committed to preserving records from his historic time in office,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in an email.
“While we will comply with Judge Bates’ ruling, we will also appeal his decision.”
A Library Arms Race
The first president to establish a library was President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who in 1941 dedicated a library on his Hyde Park, N.Y., estate. It would be run by the National Archives, established at Roosevelt’s urging with the mission to preserve historical records and to promote Americans’ understanding of shared history. For four decades, presidents followed Roosevelt’s lead.
“The archetypal modern presidential library uses art, objects, documents and new technology to educate people about the era that a president grew up and served in, as well as what he did to meet the demands of his time,” Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian, said in an interview.
The roughly 2,500 employees of the National Archives work to preserve, organize and release to the public documents generated from across the federal government. The agency spends $92 million annually to operate 16 presidential libraries under its jurisdiction.
As more money has flowed into politics, presidential libraries have grown in ambition and scale. Presidential historians say the apotheosis so far of library fund-raising is the Obama Presidential Center, scheduled to open in Chicago next month. A towering, $850 million edifice dubbed the “Obamalisk,” the center and its 19-acre campus will house a collection of former President Barack Obama’s and Michelle Obama’s personally commissioned art, a “teaching kitchen” and basketball court, but no presidential records.
Mr. Obama was the first former president to seek a divorce from the National Archives, in part to avoid a federal requirement that presidents raise endowment funds for their libraries, which partly pay the National Archives for running them. In 2008, the year Mr. Obama was elected, Congress tripled the endowment fund-raising requirement to 60 percent of the total cost of constructing and equipping a presidential library.
Mr. Obama rejected plans for the National Archives to operate inside his library, saying that nearly all of his presidential records were already digitized. Instead, Obama administration records are stored in one of the archives’ own facilities outside Washington in College Park, Md.
Many presidential historians have criticized the Obama approach. They say the educational value of presidential libraries relies on their housing a full federal research facility — a professionally maintained collection of papers, letters, photos, recordings and ephemera from presidents, staff and private donors — available in a single location. Scholars further worry that privately run presidential museums risks turning them from objective sources of public history into personality-driven, partisan projects.
The Trump library foundation has pointed to the Obama center as a precedent for its preferred model, which is a privately run center that is more recreation hub than library. But while Mr. Obama’s presidential records are still accessible through the National Archives, Mr. Trump wants to keep the records, deciding for himself which to destroy or share with the public.
Trustees of the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit charity, include the president’s son Eric and a son-in-law, Michael Boulos. Like other presidential libraries, Mr. Trump’s would be paid for entirely by private individuals, corporations and organizations.
But unlike past presidents, whose library foundations raised most of the money for their libraries after they left office, Mr. Trump began fund-raising for the project days after his second inauguration. The first $63 million came as a total from four companies — ABC, Paramount, X and Meta — which had paid separate settlements in Mr. Trump’s lawsuits against them after he won a second term.
The Trump library will be built on what is now a parking lot for Miami Dade College. The 2.6-acre waterfront parcel, appraised at $67 million, was donated to the library by the state, at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida.
As an educational facility, the library would be exempted from about $1 million annually in state and local property taxes, according to a court filing, even though Mr. Trump has said the building could “most likely” house a hotel, sales of Trump-themed merchandise and other for-profit ventures.
An A.I.-assisted video rendering that Eric Trump released in March depicted potential exhibits including a golden escalator like the one Mr. Trump rode down to announce his candidacy in 2015 as well as a gilded statue of Mr. Trump raising a fist. The development could ostensibly also hold the $400 million Boeing 747 that Qatar is giving Mr. Trump as a replacement for the current Air Force One.
The foundation would “curate permanent and rotating exhibits” on Mr. Trump’s presidency, as well as lectures and student workshops, according to the foundation’s application to the Internal Revenue Service for tax exempt status. The application also says the library would hold his papers. There is no role for the National Archives, which gives Mr. Trump freedom to determine how the exhibits portray his presidency.
Lauren Harper of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, one of the groups suing the administration to preserve Mr. Trump’s papers for the public, called his proposed library “a shrine to the story that he wants to tell.”
“I’m just going to call it the Trump Miami tower because it’s not a library,” she said in an interview.
A Fight for Public Records
It was the National Archives’ demand for the records Mr. Trump took to Florida after his first term that led to his prosecution, making the agency an early target for retribution. Shortly after taking office the second time Mr. Trump fired the nation’s chief archivist, Colleen Shogan, and named Secretary of State Marco Rubio to lead the archives. In February, Mr. Rubio delegated control of the agency to his senior adviser, James Byron.
To lead the agency, Mr. Byron, 33, took a leave from his job as chief executive of the Nixon Foundation, some of whose past members were at the center of Nixon’s battle with the government over his records. The foundation and the archives, which maintains the Nixon library’s exhibits and records, have feuded for years over the library’s Watergate exhibit, which foundation board members viewed as overly critical of Nixon.
In May 2025, Mr. Byron emailed private presidential foundations, which are typically run by former presidents or their families and allies, for proposals on taking over more library and museum functions from the government, according to a copy of the email obtained by The New York Times. At least four presidential foundations — those of Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and John F. Kennedy — expressed interest in taking over the archives’ role in admission sales, events space management and educational programs, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Byron, who left the archives early last month, did not respond to requests for an interview. In an emailed statement he said he left because he had achieved his goal to “save many millions of dollars” for taxpayers by cutting costs and refocusing presidential library staff on archival work and building maintenance.
Jason R. Baron, a former director of litigation at the National Archives, said that if Mr. Trump prevails in his efforts, he could try to block any future investigations involving subpoenas of his records by asserting personal property rights.
If he does so, Mr. Baron said, “there is no guarantee that those records will ever be made accessible to the public.”
If you look at the president’s daily schedule for June first you will see nothing public is planned. If this idiot was a normal human being and also president you would expect nothing of importance would happen. You would expect a boring, easy to miss day. But sfb cannot handle that. He, and his puppet masters, want noise, chaos, and destruction. So, what to do? Expect boring or expect bad stuff?
We all need our “Executive Time” BB, but all day?
Blame the “chirping”
haha so not so omnipotent eh
He is still stupid no matter how many Montreal tests he takes. Last week he learned “dumb” is spelled with a “B”, he forgot that little lesson in life. I hope everyone learned from him that little lesson in spelling as nobody knew it before him.
Craig – it is the first of the month, time for his “handshaking” IV fill up. Tomorrow might have the same schedule as he disappears the first two days of the month.
$100K to name a political party
Furious Democratic donor John Morgan thinks throwing cash at a crowdsourced rebrand fixes our dumpster fire reality. We are entering anyway. Submit your ideas — Tomorrow is the deadline. Thanks to our friend Bob Morris on Substack for catching this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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Right Anon, That post is about as close as a psycho narcissist can get to admitting defeat — still blaming others, of course.
there are plenty of international actors who can read the weakness in that statement
He’s exposed the limitations of the military he likes to threaten people with
what a flippin’ dumbass
he done Putin’d himself
lololol
ok i guess it’s not so funny that it’s actually our nation he Putin’d, but don’t blame me, i voted for Kamala
since he has exposed himself as weak internationally look for him to wield a cudgel domestically to save face
if not literal cudgels, tear gas and worse
he’ll do it in the context of “election security”
why would anyone go to that UFC event when we’ve seen how team Trump handles security?
i would steer clear
he is so like Putin now he wants his vanity war wrapped up in time for his victory triumph
for a victory that hasn’t and likely won’t happen, wtf would “victory” even be
ok ✌️
“The lie that changed America forever”
Family MAGAts think China or Russia will attack the US. Told them if anything happens, it won’t be those countries. They did not like my alternatives. It’s effing FaceBook and satellite radio that’s still got them spellbound.
My tea showed up!
BB
No scheduled appearances means he’s getting harder to dose.
I suspect they are dosing him and filming a bunch of stuff that they can fix with Ai. Like the Charlie Kirk video that was doctored, and showed up within too short a time of the event, whilst he was seemingly having a medical episode of some sort in September.
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Great Katie — Abigail is proud. Ok everybody, two days left to get your Chinese Black Tea to for TEA TIME WITH ABIGAIL
My favorite tea. What’s all y’all’s?
And……gotta love Fran
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2yl7r8r2o
Iran attacks damage 20 US military sites since start of war, satellite images show
*Remember at the start of the war, the US asked satellite images to be suppressed due to safety concerns. Safety concerns? Nah. Embarrassment.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWyiD82DgQV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
I imagine that they will be forcing certain vulnerable people to attend the gladiator match.
Jolly said exactly what I was trying to say yesterday.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZB6tA9uTle/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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Last year on what’s supposed to be Flag Day, certain people who defended the “forced march” surprised me that they did so. They saw it as honoring our troops. Okay. It will be interesting to see if they have the same level of respect for the gladiator spectacle.
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Third Party Politics, 2024 Demographics & Trump Legacy
Third party politics and 2024 demographics take center stage as we dissect Trump’s legacy, third-party odds, and the latest political grifts.
Welcome back to the Diner, where we serve up intellectual honesty with a side of biting sarcasm to help you digest the dumpster fire of modern politics. Today we are looking at John Morgan’s 100,000 dollar challenge to name a new political party. Because if there is one thing this country desperately needs, it is more politicians pretending they have common sense while completely ignoring reality.
We also dig into the hard numbers behind the 2024 election demographics, specifically the bizarre anomaly of the under 30 male vote and the shifting Hispanic turnout in Texas. We roast the absolute absurdity of the current political power trip, swat down a few live chat trolls who stumbled out of their caves, and try to figure out why Ken Paxton is still untouchable. Grab your coffee, it is going to be a long ride.
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00:00 Intro
01:30 The 100k Third Party Name Contest
07:35 Trump Monuments and White House Stunts
17:30 Attack Ads and the Ken Paxton Problem
27:00 2024 Election Demographics and the Under 30 Vote
38:25 Latino Voter Turnout and the Cuban Diaspora
45:00 Dealing with Trolls and Sonic Booms
55:00 Narcissism and Admitting Defeat
01:03:00 Closing Thoughts on Compassion
Stur – I am sure – the tallest, fittest enlisted guys – I’m sure they’re beating down the door to be assigned to that detail – and pay for it out of their own pockets while their families buy food with food stamps and live in shitty off base housing with inadequate housing allowances.
👉 Watch the fever dream unfold
https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/2060546575525396601
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Texas Dem Senate candidate James Talarico’s girlfriend has been revealed — and she’s a committed vegan.
Her name is Brianna Menard, 30, a political lobbyist for the Texas Medical Association, former chief of staff for Talarico, yoga enthusiast, cat mom, and board member at a local food co-op.
She enjoys dancing at Austin’s gay bar Cheer Up Charlies.
The couple started dating in early 2023.
Talarico’s spokesman noted: “James is not and never has been a vegan, much to his girlfriend’s chagrin. True love conquers all.”
This comes amid campaign jabs from Ken Paxton calling him “Tofu Talarico.” Talarico has leaned into the “Talafreako” nickname and sells merch with it.
*They’d make a great, first couple.
https://www.krgv.com/news/inside-the-child-sex-abuse-case-that-resulted-in-ken-paxton-s-office-offering-a-plea-deal-of-just-one-day-in-jail/
Inside the child sex abuse case that resulted in Ken Paxton’s office offering a plea deal of just one day in jail
The mother of the victim agreed to an early version of the plea deal in court, but said in an interview that she now disagrees with the outcome.
“We were put in an impossible situation,” said the mother, who The Texas Tribune and The Texas Newsroom are not naming to protect the identity of the victim. ”How do you trust the prosecution to go back to a case that they want to plead out when they’re the ones that are supposed to fight for it, and they don’t want to do it?”
The controversy over the case has raised fresh questions about whether Texas’ top lawyer is living up to his own hardline stance on criminal prosecutions. Critics are pointing to two other serious felony cases that the attorney general’s prosecutors took to trial that ended in mistrials and, eventually, plea deals.
For instance, attack ads from Cornyn’s allies highlight the case of a man originally charged with child sex trafficking who received a deal for a probation sentence.
And Sparkman brought up another case in open court last month, noting that Paxton had also taken over a murder-for-hire case that he oversaw, which resulted in a misdemeanor plea and a four-day jail sentence.
“I’m seeing a pattern here that is concerning me,” Sparkman said, referring to the way Paxton’s office prosecutes cases. “If they get a mistrial, all of a sudden it’s just a little misdemeanor with a slap on the hand.”
Court records show that all three cases drawing scrutiny began as high-level felony charges and ended in mistrials. All were eventually resolved with plea deals resulting in little to no jail time. And in each case, the judge presiding over the deal insisted on a harsher punishment than what Paxton’s office originally proposed.
More bad news
OK, that’s IT!!! I’m not going…
Well, so much for talks. WaPo
Gee, who could have seen this coming?
Paxton needs to watch the nicknames. P is too easy.
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Paxton covers for predators. He let a child rapist skate with no registry requirement. What exactly does this monster have on the crooked Republican senate nominee?
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/28/irish-datacentres-household-bills-electricity
‘Hidden datacentre tax’ costing Irish households millions, report says
Datacentres used 22% of country’s electricity last year, pushing up household bills, study suggests
The centres have “drained” €715m (£620m) from the Irish economy and increased household bills by a cumulative average of €360 between 2015 and 2023, said the report commissioned by Friends of the Earth Ireland and Beyond Fossil Fuels. It argued that Irish households have been subsidising big tech via a “hidden data centre tax” on their electricity bills.
Jill McArdle, of Beyond Fossil Fuels, said: “The Irish case should be a warning for Europe: letting big tech expand datacentres unchecked will have massive ripple effects on the economy and European households. Combined with fossil gas, this creates a toxic mix – driving up energy prices for people already struggling through another energy crisis.”
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/why-is-china-building-launch-pads-near-its-nuclear-missile-silos-and-what-do-satellite-images-reveal-about-sites-with-over-80-launch-pads/articleshow/131404242.cms
Why is China building launch pads near its nuclear missile silos, and what do satellite images reveal about sites with over 80 launch pads?
China is building a vast network of military infrastructure deep in its north-western deserts, raising fresh concerns about the growing nuclear rivalry between Beijing and Washington. Satellite images reviewed by Reuters reveal a sprawling system of launch pads, bunkers, communications facilities and support structures near China’s nuclear missile silos in Xinjiang and Gansu.
Security experts told Reuters that the construction appears aimed at strengthening China’s ability to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike even if its nuclear forces come under attack first.
This Saturday will be The Belmont Stakes at Saratoga (the new Belmont track opens next year)
Here is the post positions/jockeys and morning line odds for the race:
1. Vetruvian Man Antonio Fresu 30 – 1
2. Powershift Luis Saez 12 – 1
3. Chief Wallabee Junior Alvarado 3 – 1
4. Renegade Irad Ortiz 2 – 1
5. Ottinho Dylan Davis 20 – 1
6. Growth Equity – Manuel Franco 12 – 1
7. Commandment – John Velazquez 6 – 1
8. Emerging Market – Flavian Pratt 6 – 1
9. Golden Tempo – Jose Ortiz 9 – 2
THE TRUMP SWALLOWERS
James Carville nailed it. We suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, but MAGA suffers from a total lack of a gag reflex. Stop calling them followers and call them exactly what they are.
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New ‘60 Minutes’ boss Nick Bilton storms out of staff meeting after explosive clash with Scott Pelley
More of the fight at the link
Yep. I suspected Schumer was behind this Platner takedown attempt.
Janet Mills just told Portland newspaper: “My name is still on the ballot. I haven’t dropped out”.
Corporate Dems are making their move.Maine primary is June 9.
The Pentagon press office is now a classified area and off limits to reporters. There is an oxymoron named Hegseth in there somewhere.
We are going live at 11:00 a.m. to preview a massive Tuesday of voting across America 🚨. We have six states on the block tomorrow: California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota. This isn’t just a local skirmish; it’s a critical gauge for the upcoming midterms.
It’s vote counting time both Tuesdays ahead. Maine on June 9 gonna be a Democratic brawl. Won’t surprise me if Gov. Janet Mills officially gets back in against Platner. She is still on the ballot.
Our latest Crooked Ken ad is getting a bunch of engagement on Threads.
Keep plugging it wherever you do social media;
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Sexting does not usually work out in the long run.
What you don’t sext, you don’t have to take back later.
(Variation on a piece of advice from my first boss)
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/6/1/ai-giant-anthropic-files-for-us-ipo-as-investors-bet-big-on-ai-future
Artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States, teeing up what could become a watershed moment for Wall Street’s AI frenzy.
The move, announced on Monday, sets up a high-stakes test of whether investor appetite for the AI revolution that has reshaped white-collar work around the world can match the sky-high expectations surrounding the booming sector.
The crucial step towards a listing comes on the heels of SpaceX’s mega-IPO, which is on course to rewrite the record books as the Elon Musk-led company pursues a $75bn offering at a $1.75 trillion valuation.
Anthropic was formed in 2021 by ex-OpenAI leaders, and now both AI firms, along with Elon Musk’s rocket and AI company SpaceX, are expected to become publicly traded.
All three are also still losing more money than they make, fuelling concerns of an AI bubble.
“Watershed moment”
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/6/1/nvidia-unveils-new-chip-to-bring-ai-directly-to-personal-computers
Nvidia unveils new chip to bring AI directly to personal computers
Nvidia’s new chip will power new Windows laptop and desktop computer models to make ‘AI personal computers’.
“When it has an autonomous [AI] agent, an agent that’s helping you, that understands you, you could talk to it. It could look at you. You could ask it to read files, go help you do some research. It could do a lot more,” Huang said.
The new laptops and desktop computers “will drive agentic AI applications in every home”, Shah said, with an aim of having an “AI supercomputer” in each household.
Also during Monday’s speech, Nvidia’s Huang said its new Vera CPUs for data centres are in full production and are “going to be our new major growth driver” on the boom of AI agents, with early customers including Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceXAI.
The privacy concerns, however, could be different due to the nature of the product, as the agents will run directly on devices.
“One of the things that happens when you want to do an AI environment is you have to ring-fence what information you want it to access. You have to be very careful about letting it access everything, whereas Microsoft just said, ‘OK, we’re going to put it into a Microsoft environment, let it access everything that’s on your computer, and give it untethered access,” Scott Stevens, founder and CEO of the investment firm Grays Peak Capital, told Al Jazeera.
“Typically, that’s not a great way to do it. That’s why you create either these agents or these models to make sure they’re only doing specific tasks, whereas with Copilot and Microsoft, you had to let it gain access to everything to use it, which is one of the things people are getting less comfortable with. Give it your operating system, give it all the programmes that you’re running.”
I always thought railroads also a good example of failing to adapt. Why didnt they become airlines? They’re transportation companies!
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/1/denmark-gets-new-government-as-greenland-crisis-persists
Denmark gets new government as Greenland crisis persists
End of election deadlock will see PM Frederiksen continue her stewardship of response to Trump’s lust for Greenland.
Denmark’s Social Democratic leader, Mette Frederiksen, has announced that she has agreed to form a centre-left minority government, securing a third consecutive term as prime minister.
The breakthrough, announced on Monday, ends more than two months of political deadlock following a highly fractured March general election. The incoming cabinet will take power amid an immediate foreign policy crisis with the United States over the future of Greenland.
In the March 24 election, voters frustrated by a prolonged cost-of-living crisis stripped her previous centrist coalition of its majority.
Her Social Democratic Party saw its representation drop from 50 to 38 seats in the 179-seat parliament, marking its lowest finish since 1903.
Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday that his office has sued the City of Denton to block plans for gender-neutral changing rooms during a private Pride swim party at a public pool.
In a joint statement, PRIDENTON and OUTreach Denton said the lawsuit was unnecessary because the LGBTQ+ groups had already changed plans and removed mention of gender-neutral changing rooms from all posts about their fourth-annual swim event on June 7.
“This frivolous lawsuit is a waste of taxpayers’ time and money,” the groups said.
In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Denton County district court, Paxton’s attorneys argued that the swim event’s plan for gender-neutral multi-occupancy changing rooms would violate Senate Bill 8, titled the Texas Women’s Privacy Act and more commonly known as the bathroom ban.
“The event itself is a private event and is not sponsored by the City,” Herrod wrote in the email that was included in the lawsuit’s exhibits. “Temporary, covered, or altered signage is not permitted in accordance with the law.”
*What about that pedophile Paxton let off with one day in jail and no offender registration requirement?
THE BRO VOTER CRASH
From today’s Digital Diner menu 🍽️
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/30/us-congress-advances-american-israeli-military-integration-plan
A provision in a bill before the United States Congress could tie the US and Israeli militaries far more closely together, deepening their cooperation on weapons research, production and technology.
The proposal, titled the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, appears as Section 224 of the House Armed Services Committee’s version of the fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual US defence policy bill.
If enacted, the provision could mark a significant change in one of the world’s closest military relationships, shifting the two countries from a partnership centred largely on US military aid towards one in which their defence industries are more deeply intertwined.
Section 224 would require the US defence secretary to appoint an “executive agent”: a single official to coordinate military cooperation between the US and Israel.
*Call your Rep! No ties to any foreign state.
so I have at least 20 tomatoes on the vine already and yes, it’s early
(in pots, sowed seed early March, direct sown in ground are still small plants)
(i have another eighteen plants in ground 😮)
hooray, I got the captcha right
Ninth time is a charm
they thought that was no way to run a railroad
Maine Gov Janet Mills fueled speculation today that she could rejoin the race, telling the Portland (Maine) Press Herald:
The left is holding for Platner — Bernie and Liz re-endorsed. Now all eyes are on Schumer, who had wanted Mills. He and Platner are meeting in DC tomorrow afternoon. Primary is June 9.
Yep Ivy, they were so in love with their railroads they couldn’t see themselves as a transportation company. Another failure to imagine: why didn’t Sears become Amazon??? All they had to do was put their catalogs online.
if shumer is sabotaging his own candidates he needs to go
everybody under 40 has shitty tattoos they regret now
This fucking Democrat party needs to wise up and adapt holy shit
If the stump were to shitcan vamce, whom you think would get the nod as his replacement?
I’m thinking Todd Blanche.
It would have to be someone who would at least CLAIM that he or she would continue taking orders from the stump even after he leaves office. I’m thinking stump is beginning to realize that he ain’t getting that 3rd term.
two generations with awful ink, it’s very common
Let’s see how they roll out of their meeting tomorrow. A joint appearance or go separate ways? This is a test for Platner. Will he publicly, or at least privately, retract his vow to vote against Schumer for majority leader? Clues to watch for tomorrow.
schumer and jeffries, the dynamic duo of losing politics
Stur, trump’s lameduck feathers are starting to show. Vance might not have to worry about him.
Platner should go scorched earth and burn down the Dem party
fuck em
and stop apologizing like a
listen, it’s no wonder we have Trump, these establishment Dems suck hard
represent no one except their donors
eh the “late night” format is over
rip
I’m beginning to consider Vance’s chances of remaining in his current position are roughly NONE. I think he’s either flotsam or jetssom off the starboard bow. No way in hell stump is going to let that unctuous little weasel succeed to the throne.
Go back!
Go back!
Go back into the woods!
You haven’t got,
You haven’t got,
You haven’t got the goods!
ETTD.
Pelosi is in California, pushing a shadow-funded AIPAC candidate. She needs to stop helping.
Anon- You’ve got tomatoes already! A something broke a tomato that didn’t have a cage around it. Darned critters. Lots of squash blossoms.
It’s not just late night. Linear viewing isn’t a thing anymore. I watch SNL from the clips patD posts here. I’d rather listen to a podcast while I’m doing something than watch almost anything. However, the final Colbert was “appointment television.” Something nice about knowing a lot of folks are watching the same thing with you.
you can eat the blossom right off the plant
you’d be thinning the potential fruits for better development of the ones that remain if you do
The VP is the only one in Trump’s admin he can’t fire. Only Congress can do that.
JD has the lean and hungry look
Thanks to Ozempic
I’m so funny
you know Peter Thiel is like goddamn I wish I picked better
Shakespeare is in heaven right now in his idealized heaven body thinking wow that was a funny joke
which is a funny joke about a funny joke
#callback
fuck you robot btw
As long as stump holds the upper hand, he could probably make Congress shitcan the Vancinator. Or he could remind Vance of a few hard and naked truths which might cause vanc to go gently into that short good-bye. I mean as long as I’m spaculatin’
Hell, that might even trigger the 25th.
he’s molting
I’ll bet Vance has fired up his VPN for google at the 25th Amendment
vance is more valuable to dipshit as a gnawing rat, keep rubio in line
and rubio is in line
Vance blew it, Rubio is the favorite son, there will be no 25th
I wouldn’t take a Diet Coke from JD if I were dipshit though
not even from an unopened can
Remember the Israeli pagers
why didn’t Sears become Amazon??? All they had to do was put their catalogs online.
America salutes Scott Pelley 🫡🇺🇸
well, me anyway
NEW THREAD
Sears was never the same after they got rid of Roebuck,