Notices by Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)

My friend @joyannreid just shared with me something new we can worry about:

“The FBI recovered deleted Signal [App] messages. They didn’t break the encryption. They found them somewhere else [on your device].”

https://www.instagram.com/hey_its_doof_/reel/DW7a33yDqup/

Sam Altman’s really weird week just got even worse

OpenAI is under investigation after its chatbot, ChatGPT, allegedly helped plan a mass shooting last year at Florida State University.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/sam-altman-open-ai-florida-state-shooting/

Is AI Really an Existential Threat to Humanity? – Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/is-ai-really-an-existential-threat-to-humanity-interview-blaise-arcas/

Five things to know about Hungary’s election

Hungary votes Sunday in a pivotal test of Viktor Orbán’s “illiberal democracy,” as challenger Péter Magyar taps voter frustration, with stakes for Europe, NATO and the U.S.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/10/nx-s1-5779931/hungary-election-orban-challenger

#SMH

Cutting Over $1 Billion From The Weather-Forecasting Agency Is Part Of Trump’s Anti-‘Woke’ Plan

The proposal would slash billions from nearly all federal agencies that serve LGBTQ+ communities as part of Trump’s goal to eliminate “woke” from govt.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps-anti-woke-obsession-is-all-over-his-2027-budget_n_69d81338e4b0ccb589ebcf88

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/top-stories-in-news-t9s06mvmz/-/a-YzskuOEGSrmxrQTpW-Z80g%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0

Bibi just can’t kill enough. He’s taught Donald well.

ANYONE! Please suggest somewhere I can cry a very big river.

Trump Fans Are Furious Over His Attack on Far-Right Influencers

Donald Trump accused his most famous once-allies of being “low IQ.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/208922/donald-trump-fans-attack-far-right-influencers

If America ever has a real educational system again, we should make civics and voter education a critical component of the curriculum. It’s a no-brainer for any political movement that wants to endure. Our daily battle has been with severely uneducated people.

If you never read this, it was written in 1964, and explained pretty much what got us to this MAGA hellscape.

The Paranoid Style in American Politics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_Style_in_American_Politics

‘A wow moment’: Democrats’ election hot streak goes scorching

Two races in battleground states on Tuesday saw the party make massive gains compared to 2024.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/08/democrats-gains-wisconsin-georgia-elections-trump-00863404

So… what happens when the Attorney General gets fired

The Florida Bar said it couldn’t act while Pam Bondi held federal power. That excuse ended today.

https://andrewweinstein.substack.com/p/so-what-happens-when-the-attorney

Every Hegsdeath presser begins with most cringeworthy dick fluffing of any @Potus, ever. I don’t know how that piece of shit got this far being quite such a submissive and pandering douche.

Me too.

https://stzl.ink/hhrnrh

Seconded ⏵
https://www.threads.com/@dc19583/post/DW1_8NHgbKh

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/116365634783418106

At least they’d get to see the nuclear fireworks. There’s not much room in that Orion capsule, but I’m pretty sure they are limber enough to still be able to bend over and kiss their ass goodbye.

I PREDICT ⏵

That Vladimir Putin we’ll go down in history has the most brilliant military strategist who ever lived.

He seized the United States of America without firing a shot.

#MAGA
(MakingAmericanGulagsAbundant)

All day we heard it was going to be “an important update” on Iran. Instead, it was just another endless loop of “Mission Accomplished” again.

Well, Marc Elias as been trying to warn us. They will stop at nothing to win at any cost ⏵

Trump signs an executive order to create federal voter lists

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/trump-signs-executive-order-create-federal-voter-lists-rcna266092

I asked 4 of the young people at our #noKings event what their preferred social media was. I was horrified to hear the same answer from all of them: “Instagram and Whatsapp.” Four out of four.

I fear we’re all missing something very disturbing about gen-Z.

When/if we take back congress and the White House, if liberals talk about anything but the need for the CRUCIAL reforms needed to prevent another Trump, I will leave this country. America will have proved itself unfixable. So it can fuck right off.