diff --git a/NuisanceTelephoneCalls.md b/NuisanceTelephoneCalls.md index abc106efa..d661251e1 100644 --- a/NuisanceTelephoneCalls.md +++ b/NuisanceTelephoneCalls.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ layout: page tags: [Karoline Leavitt, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley (2017-2018), Rex Tillerson (2017–2018), Mike Pompeo (2018–2021), Steven Mnuchin (2017–2021), Jim Mattis (2017–2019), Mark Esper (2019–2020), Christopher C. Miller (acting 2020–2021), Jeff Sessions (2017–2018), William Barr (2019–2020), Jeffrey A. Rosen (acting 2020–2021), Ryan Zinke (2017–2019), David Bernhardt (2019–2021), Sonny Perdue (2017–2021), Wilbur Ross (2017–2021), Alexander Acosta (2017–2019), Eugene Scalia (2019–2021), Tom Price (2017), Alex Azar (2018–2021), Ben Carson (2017–2021), Elaine Chao (2017–2021), Rick Perry (2017–2019), Dan Brouillette (2019–2021), Betsy DeVos (2017–2021), David Shulkin (2017–2018), Robert Wilkie (2018–2021), John F. 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Rock Hill | 2025-08-13 07:41 PM | [Papa John's](https://www.papajohns.com/) | | +| +1 (803) 275-4361 | SC. Johnston | 2025-08-13 07:03 PM | J B Burton | | | +1 (803) 299-4014 | SC. Columbia | 2025-08-12 05:58 PM | — | | | +1 (864) 274-0533 | SC. Greenville | 2025-08-12 04:45 PM ¤¤ | #TaxFraud | | | +1 (888) 344-9662 | Toll Free | 2025-08-12 04:45 PM | #TaxFraud | | diff --git a/_posts/2025/08/2025-08-13-20250813JenPressBriefingRedo.md b/_posts/2025/08/2025-08-13-20250813JenPressBriefingRedo.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b688fd704 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2025/08/2025-08-13-20250813JenPressBriefingRedo.md @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [media, MSNBC, The Briefing With Jen Psaki, Jen Psaki, political parties, Democrat Party, Trumpian Party, Federal Government, Constitution of the United States, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), President of the United States (POTUS), White House (WH), President Barack Obama, President Joe Biden, Trump crime businesses, Trump crime family, Donald J Trump, President Donald Trump (45), President Donald Trump (47), President Trump (47) Administration, President Trump (47) Cabinet, E.J. 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Trump Presidential Library, bribery, grifter, tariffs, politics, stupidity, self-dealing, corruption, con artist, crime family, cryptocurrency, criminal associates, criminal businesses, criminal partners] +categories: [Donald Trump] +date: 2025-08-13 8:29 PM +excerpt: '' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: "Cooking the Books? Trump Knows How!" +--- + +On second thought, [Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/) was found guilty of 34 civil felony counts of business records falsification in relation to the [Stormy Daniels](https://stormydaniels.com/) extramarital affair. + +- [New York: 34 Guilty Verdicts. Porn Star Stormy Daniels](|% link NewYork34GuiltyVerdicts.md %}) + +## [From cooking the books to hiding the books: Team Trump puts access to jobs data in doubt](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/cooking-books-hiding-books-team-trump-puts-access-jobs-data-doubt-rcna224693) + +*For several decades, the federal government has released U.S. job data every month. The [Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/) [administration](https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/) could impose a radical scheduling change.* + +Aug. 13, 2025, 8:57 AM EDT +By [Steve Benen](https://www.msnbc.com/author/steve-benen-ncpn433601) + +A key element of the [White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/)’s war on data is hiding government statistics it doesn’t like. In fact, throughout [Donald Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/)’s second term, his [administration](https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/) has gone to outlandish lengths to keep important data away from the public. + +As [The Washington Post reported](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/government-data-trump-deletion/) a few months ago, “The [Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/) [administration](https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/) is deleting taxpayer-funded data — information that Americans use to make sense of the world. In its absence, the [president](https://www.whitehouse.gov/) can paint the world as he pleases.” The same report added, “Curating reality is an old political game, but [Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/)’s sweeping statistical purges are part of a broader attempt to reinvent ‘truth.’” + +It’s difficult to do a full accounting of what has gone missing, but we know the list includes [climate data,](https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/trump-administration-says-wont-publish-major-climate-change-reports-na-rcna218849) [education data](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-administration-education-department-immigration-live-updates-rcna196782/rcrd75276?canonicalCard=true), [trade data](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-administration-accused-delaying-economic-report-inconvenient-dat-rcna211006) and [crime data](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/25/domestic-extremism-database-trump-cuts/) — all of which has been buried, deliberately, because the figures were deemed politically inconvenient. + +That list might yet grow in dramatic ways. [The Washington Post reported](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/12/bls-antoni-suspend-jobs-report/): + +> *[President](https://www.whitehouse.gov/) [Donald Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/)’s nominee to run the [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/) told [Faux News](https://www.foxnews.com/) Digital on Monday that the agency should suspend monthly jobs reports, a change that could leave businesses and policymakers at least temporarily without the data they’ve used for decades to gauge the state of the labor market and broader economy.* + +For several decades, the public, here and around the world, could count on the release of new U.S. jobs data on the first Friday of every month. [Donald Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/)'s handpicked choice to lead the [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/), [E.J. Antoni](https://www.heritage.org/staff/ej-antoni-phd), apparently disapproves of this schedule. + +“Until it is corrected, the [BLS](https://www.bls.gov/) should suspend issuing the monthly job reports but keep publishing the more accurate, though less timely, quarterly data,” [Antoni](https://www.heritage.org/staff/ej-antoni-phd) said, referring to recent revisions to monthly reports. “Major decision-makers from Wall Street to D.C. rely on these numbers, and a lack of confidence in the data has far-reaching consequences.” + +[Antoni](https://www.heritage.org/staff/ej-antoni-phd)’s interview with [Faux News](https://www.foxnews.com/) Digital conducted [earlier this month](https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trumps-bls-pick-could-pause-monthly-jobs-report-over-accuracy-concerns), before [Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/) announced that he was [nominating the Heritage Foundation economist](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-labor-statistics-nominee-trump-heads-radical-hazardous-direction-rcna224485) to lead the [BLS](https://www.bls.gov/).) + +The argument is badly flawed, in part because releasing the data quarterly, instead of monthly, leaves everyone in the dark for much of the year, and in part because of the underlying motivation: If the goal is to address “a lack of confidence in the data,” the [president](https://www.whitehouse.gov/) wouldn’t have fired a highly qualified and widely respected [BLS](https://www.bls.gov/) chief in the first place, only to replace her with an unqualified partisan loyalist. + +Indeed, perhaps people would have greater confidence in the data if [Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/) [stopped lying about the figures](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-jobs-numbers-bls-rigged-rcna223395). + +Nevertheless, after [Antoni](https://www.heritage.org/staff/ej-antoni-phd)’s comments to [Faux News](https://www.foxnews.com/) Digital circulated, a reporter asked [White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/) press secretary Karoline Leavitt whether the [administration](https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/) would, in fact, start limiting public access to U.S. job data to once per quarter, instead of once per month. + +“Well, look, what I’ll tell you about the [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/) — I believe that is the plan and that’s the hope, and that these monthly reports will be data that the American people can trust,” [Leavitt said](https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-conference-briefing-karoline-leavitt-august-12-2025/). “As you know, the [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/) has made massive revisions after the last several reports that they have put out. + +“And there has certainly been a decline in the quality and reliability of data coming from the [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/), and there’s been an increase in revisions,” Leavitt added. + +First, when a [White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/) press secretary begins her answer to a straightforward question with, “Well, look,” that tends to be a bad sign. + +Second, saying that the [administration](https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/) “plans” and “hopes” to keep releasing monthly reports was hardly a firm commitment to the status quo. + +Third, the [White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/) continues to talk about revisions to government statistics in a way that makes it seem as if [Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/) [administration](https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/) officials [don’t understand](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/economy/trump-jobs-data-revisions-bls.html) the underlying [policy details](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/04/trump-bls-labor-statistics-data/) at a [basic level](https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/bls-data-explainer-what-to-know-rcna222570). + +Fourth, if there’s been “a decline in the quality and reliability of data,” that might have something to do with the [president](https://www.whitehouse.gov/) firing so many of the people who were responsible for collecting and compiling the data. + +And finally, all of this served as a reminder of a threat that hasn’t been widely appreciated. In recent weeks, many have voiced concerns about the [president](https://www.whitehouse.gov/) and his team possibly manipulating official data, but now there’s a new concern: What if they limit access to the data for months on end? + +There’s no need to cook the books when it’s easier to close the books and keep them hidden. + +[Steve Benen](https://www.msnbc.com/author/steve-benen-ncpn433601) is a producer for "[The Rachel Maddow Show](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show)," the editor of [MaddowBlog](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show) and an [MSNBC](https://www.msnbc.com/) political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of ["Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/ministry-of-truth-steve-benen) + +---- +- media +- [MSNBC](https://www.msnbc.com/) + - Steve Benen + - [The Rachel Maddow Show](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show) + - [MaddowBlog](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show) + - ["Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/ministry-of-truth-steve-benen) +- [New York Times (NYT)](https://www.nytimes.com/) +- [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/) +- organizations +- political parties +- [Democrat Party](https://www.democrats.org/) +- [Trumpian Party](https://www.gop.com/) +- companies +- universities +- foreign countries +- state, local governments +- federal government +- [Constitution of the United States](https://constitution.congress.gov/) + - [Emoluments Clause and Presidential Compensation / Constitution Annotated / Congress.gov / Library of Congress](https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S1-C7-1/ALDE_00000233/) + - [Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)](https://www.supremecourt.gov/) + - [US Courts](https://www.uscourts.gov/) + - [Department of Justice (DOJ)](https://www.justice.gov/) + - [Federal Reserve Board](https://www.federalreserve.gov/) + - [Jerome H. 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Trump Presidential Library](http://www.trumplibrary.gov/) +- bribery +- grifter +- tariffs +- politics +- stupidity +- self-dealing +- corruption +- con artist +- crime family +- cryptocurrency +- criminal businesses +- criminal partners diff --git a/_posts/2025/08/2025-08-13-TruthSocialChatbotGoesRogueTellsTruth.md b/_posts/2025/08/2025-08-13-TruthSocialChatbotGoesRogueTellsTruth.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8506cff53 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2025/08/2025-08-13-TruthSocialChatbotGoesRogueTellsTruth.md @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [media, MSNBC, Zeeshan Aleem, Washington Post, Washington Times, organizations, political parties, Democrat Party, Trumpian Party, universities, companies, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, The Boring Company, Neuralink, SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla, Twitter, X, xAI, foreign countries, state local governments, federal government, Constitution of the United States, Federal Election Commission (FEC), 2020 Election Results, Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), US Courts, Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Reserve Board, Jerome H. Powell, Treasury Department, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Department of Commerce (DOC), Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Congress, Capitol Police, Senate, House of Representatives, President of the United States (POTUS), White House (WH), Trump criminal associates, Donald J Trump, President Donald Trump (45), President Donald Trump (47), President Trump (47) Administration, President Trump (47) Cabinet, President Trump (47) Administration, President Trump (47) Cabinet, JD Vance, Vice President JD Vance, Pam Bondi, Ed Martin / LinkedIn, Office of the Deputy Attorney General / Office of the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche / LinkedIn, Kash Patel, Deputy Director Dan Bongino — FBI, tariffs, politics, stupidity, grift, self-dealing, corruption, con, crime, cryptocurrency, criminal associates, criminal businesses, Truth Social, Faux News, criminal partners] +categories: [Donald Trump] +date: 2025-08-13 9:45 PM +#excerpt: '' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: "Shit You Can’t Make Up: AI Chatbot on Trump’s Social Media Platform, “Truth Social”, Goes Rogue and Tells the Truth" +--- + + +## [Truth Social just installed an AI chatbot that actually exposes Trump's lies](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-truth-social-ai-chatbot-fact-check-rcna224590) + + +*Why [Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/)’s [Truth Social AI chatbot](https://truthsocial.com/) feels oddly out of place in the MAGA-verse.* + +Aug. 13, 2025, 10:17 AM EDT +By Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC Opinion Writer/Editor + +[President](https://www.whitehouse.gov/) [Donald Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/)’s social media platform [Truth Social](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-truth-social-clone-post-x-rcna210679) is a [safe space](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/trump-s-truth-social-media-platform-perfect-mess-n1282117) for him and his movement, an autocrat-friendly network where the [president](https://www.whitehouse.gov/)’s posts — which are called “truths” on the platform — are praised effusively and largely go uncontested. + +But [Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/) rolled out a new AI chatbot on the platform last week that is apparently failing to read the room. When prompted for information, it shares plenty of truths that contradict or discredit the president. + +> *I'm wondering how long it'll take before [Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/) will want to tell its AI: "You're fired."* + +[In exchanges with a Washington Post reporter,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/10/truth-social-trump-ai-chatbot-perplexity/), [Truth Search AI](https://truthsocial.com/) undermined [Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/) by saying that "tariffs are a tax on Americans, the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, and his family’s cryptocurrency investments pose a potential conflict of interest." When asked to verify [Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/)'s claim on [Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/) that crime in Washington, D.C., is "totally out of control," the bot cited government statistics and said there were in reality "substantial declines in violent crime" in D.C. — and even italicized the word declines. + +I played around with [Truth Search AI](https://truthsocial.com/) myself and had a similar experience. I asked it to describe what happened at the [U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021]({% link January6DocumentDocumentLinks.md %}). In contrast to [Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/)'s "day of love" narrative, [Truth Search AI](https://truthsocial.com/) said, "It was a violent breach of the [U.S. Capitol](https://www.uscp.gov/) by a pro‑[Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/) crowd that disrupted [Congress](https://www.congress.gov/)’s certification of the [2020 Electoral College](https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2020.pdf) results, resulting in assaults on police, injuries, property damage, and hundreds of criminal cases ranging from misdemeanors to felonies." When I asked if it was appropriate to describe that as an insurrection or a coup, it responded, "Based on standard definitions, [January 6]({% link January6DocumentDocumentLinks.md %})is best described as an attempted insurrection rather than a successful coup; it can also be framed as a failed coup attempt because the goal was to disrupt the lawful transfer of presidential power, but it lacked the organized seizure of state levers typical of coups." + +Surprisingly reasonable! And also a total Debbie Downer, from the perspective of most participants in [Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/)’s carnival of MAGA fantasies and lies. + +What's interesting is that it seems that this could be occurring despite efforts by [Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/) to nudge its AI to lean to the right. [The Washington Times](https://www.washingtonpost.com/) reports that a spokesman for the [AI company Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/), which developed the chat bot, said that "[Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/) had used a 'source selection' feature to limit the websites the AI tool relied on but that Perplexity did not know which websites those were." + +As a casual user experimenting with the product, I don't know either. But I did notice that in the "sources" section of the responses, the sources listed were almost always [Faux News](https://www.foxnews.com/) and [The Washington Times](https://www.washingtontimes.com/), both right-wing outlets, and a far narrower range of sources than I've seen cited by other AI chatbots such as X's Grok. + +Confusingly, [Truth Search AI](https://truthsocial.com/) would list those right-wing outlets as sources even when delivering accounts of reality that [Trump](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/) and much of the right-wing media dispute. This may be yet another illustration of how these machines are extremely difficult to understand, control and predict. Elon Musk's quest to develop "anti-woke AI" involved turning his AI, Grok, [into a full-fledged Nazi apologist](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/grok-hitler-elon-musk-antisemitism-rcna217506) and at the same time one that [will deliver conventional liberal summaries of racism](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/grok-hitler-elon-musk-antisemitism-rcna217506). + +The thing that stands out here is how out of place [Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/)'s AI centrist- and liberal-friendly descriptions of events and policy feel on a platform awash in MAGA propaganda. It feels odd on a platform started by the kind of guy [who ousts people from his government for telling inconvenient truths.](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-firing-bls-labor-statistics-mcentarfer-jobs-report-rcna222913). I'm wondering how long it'll take before [Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/) will want to tell its AI: "You're fired." + +[Zeeshan Aleem](https://www.msnbc.com/author/zeeshan-aleem-ncpn1235332) is a writer and editor for [MSNBC Daily](https://www.msnbc.com/). 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