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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I bet this is about Universal’s Musk documentary.

Asked later what prompted the decision,

Trump said there was no single incident,

describing it instead as the result of

"cumulative stories over the past few years."

The White House did not immediately respond
to a request for comment.

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

are these the same CEOs that were advocating for no guardrails just last year?

In March 2025, OpenAI made a policy proposal for the Trump administration to preempt pending AI-related state laws with federal laws. Meta, Google, IBM and Andreessen Horowitz also pressured the government to adopt national rules that would rein in state laws, especially in California. At the time, the California legislature was considering several AI laws that would require insurance companies to report the use of AI when denying healthcare claims, as well as regulations that would require AI to be performance tested before making implementation on certain applications. In May 2025, House Republicans inserted into a tax and spending bill a clause banning state AI laws for 10 years, which was met with opposition from more than 100 nonprofit organizations, elected officials, public policy experts, and others. The Senate voted 99-1 to defeat the ban. In September 2025, Sen. Ted Cruz (a supporter of the AI state moratorium) said that the proposal would return for debate in Congress.

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In case anyone's forgotten: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulat...

In January 2025, President Donald Trump revoked Biden's Executive Order 14110 (Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence) by issuing Executive Order 14148 (Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions), reflecting his administration's preference for deregulating AI in support of innovation over safeguarding risks.[44] He then issued Executive Order 14179 (Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence), which called for development of a national "AI Action Plan" and aimed to strengthen U.S. leadership in AI.

In August 2025, Silicon Valley companies and investors pledged up to $200 million to two new pro-AI super PACs, Meta California (funded by Meta) and Leading the Future. According to the New York Times, the super PACs criticize politicians who are "insufficiently supportive of the push into artificial intelligence" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. In February 2026 the nonprofit organization Public First Action, which received a $20 million donation from Anthropic, announced plans to support political candidates that support regulation of AI.

In December 2025, Trump signed Executive Order 14365, "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence", which seeks to preempt state regulation. The White House published "A National Legislative Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence: Legislative Recommendations" in March 2026, a set of recommendations to Congress for federal legislation. The recommendations ask Congress to act in various ways to implement the Trump administration's strategy for artificial intelligence policy.

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

we use to have to do this the old-fashioned way

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

such a great show but what ever happened to these two crazy kids? it's a shame they were never heard from again

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I was defeated by a spelling bee proctor in grade school who did this. I’m still furious about it.

I write "mischievous" but say
"mischievious"

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

alt text of OP’s images

As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack.

Meanwhile, El-Sayed's past references to the deadly attacks have continued to surface, including two deleted social media posts verified by CBS News that have not been previously reported. In those posts, he calls for the American public to muster the same outrage for the COVID-19 death toll that they displayed after 9/11.
In one, from April 2020, El-Sayed compared the nearly 3,000
Americans killed on Sept. 11 to the mounting COVID-19 death toll and argued for a response commensurate with the nation's post-9/11 mobilization. In another, El-Sayed wrote that because more Americans had died from COVID than in the Sept. 11 attacks, he hoped "that means we'll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health & against poverty ... like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11. We could save lives rather than take them."

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

He also pops up on several episodes of Forensic Files as a prosecutor.

Floppy Haired Trey Gowdy on Forensic Files

Grey spikey-haired Trey Gowdy on Forensic Files

Something that looks like feathers on top of his head Trey Gowdy on Forensic Files

Semi-Floppy Haired Trey Gowdy on Forensic Files

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m surprised they didn’t call out the bisexual sky

Tweet with an image of the recent Halo release, featuring a sky with shades of pink in it. Tweet text:

Smash JT O @SmashJT
X.com
This is unnecessary and intentionally signaling
Trans.
They know what they're doing.
Once you notice bisexual lighting being used, you can not unsee it. This is intentional.
I will not be gaslit.

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Exactly why Becerra was the worst choice in the CA gov primary Look at this absolute non-stance. Look how he says absolutely nothing. Weasel words from a useless guy. I’m so mad I have to vote for people like this every fkn election. (screenshot from deadline.com/2026/08/xavi... )

Becerra did not weigh in on the merits of the state AGs' case, but said, "Having done antitrust cases, these are not easy. They're a different animal from most litigation. They are very difficult. They are very fact intensive. The law doesn't keep pace. All I know is this, in terms of what's going on in this particular case, the entertainment industry is our baby in California. We have to fight to keep it vibrant. If a merger is good, that helps that keeps it vibrant, I'm willing to say, let's take a look. If that merger undermines the ability of the industry of remaining vibrant, then I'm going to take ... a closer look as well. At the end of the day, is it good for the entertainment community in California? Does it benefit California families to have another merger occur? And then, at the end of the day, who will settle it?"

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Pictures are working again! Post something stupid from your phone.

Time magazine cover. Person of the year: the architects of AI, but all their heads have been replaced by the monorail huckster from The Simpsons

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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The New York Times
In a private meeting at City Hall, an invited group of rabbis told Mayor Zohran Mamdani that his relationship with Jewish New Yorkers needed to change.

nytimes.com
Rabbis Plead With Mamdani to Tone Down His Anti-Israel Messaging

Dem Michigan AG Calls For El-Sayed to 'Tone Down His
Rhetoric' Amid Spate of Antise...
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel called out Senate candidate...

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

look who else is being told to “tone down his rhetoric”

NYT post from Facebook:

The New York Times
In a private meeting at City Hall, an invited group of rabbis told Mayor Zohran Mamdani that his relationship with Jewish New Yorkers needed to change.

nytimes.com
Rabbis Plead With Mamdani to Tone Down His Anti-Israel Messaging

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

These absolute fucking dickheads www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...

US CUSTOMS AND Border Protection is seeking to hire private investigators to track down deported immigrants and others who have left the United States, and press them into paying the
government money, according to records reviewed by WIRED. The work would cover Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, and potentially other countries.

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“Sags a little in the midsection”

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Billy Bob Thornton, specifically from The Man Who Wasn't There

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

what the fuck now shut up

Trump Truth Social post:

Donald J. Trump *
@realDonaldTrump
President Trump will be making a Speech to the Nation on Thursday evening, at 9 P.M.
Eastern. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

That’s not verbatim. That’s a quote you’ve edited, quite literally altering the context.

"The extent to which the older generation of Black political leadership are such a pillar, frankly, for establishment, capitalist, imperialist American power through their role as this kind of traditionalist, establishment-ist pillar of the Democratic Party, it's a big problem," Lawrence said around the 41:48 mark of the podcast. "It's a big problem for left politics in this country.

And it gets us every single time. It really defangs the white left and puts us in impossible
positions, really."

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Out of Sight (1998) Best Elmore Leonard adaptation. Best Soderbergh film. Best George Clooney movie. Definitely the best Jennifer Lopez movie. Cast stacked AF. Masterful editing, cinematography and direction, and an amazing script and NOBODY EVER TALKS ABOUT IT. Anyway, watch Out of Sight.

Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney in Out of Sight (1998)

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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

is not believing women your job or something?

skeet from jcar8mm.bsky.social. Text: "What happened to all those new Swalwell accusations we were promised? You know, the "flood" of victims and all?"

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