A World Worth Bringing Children Into

The Trump administration is pushing for more pregnancies, more births—more people. But let’s be clear: they mean certain people. Certain demographics. Certain voters.

They offer child tax credits, counseling programs, and messaging campaigns encouraging motherhood. Everything but actually paying women to give birth—though give it time.

And for those who don’t want children? The Dobbs decision, abortion bans, and criminalization of reproductive autonomy make sure you don’t have a choice.

But here’s a radical idea: Instead of trying to force more births, why not build a world that welcomes it?

A world where:

• Children aren’t growing up under the constant threat of gun violence

• Storms don’t take their homes because climate denial rules policy

• People aren’t snatched from streets by masked agents in unmarked vans

• A handful of billionaires don’t hoard the wealth of 90% of the population

• The American Dream isn’t a relic of the past

• There isn’t a growing threat of nuclear annihilation

• And corruption isn’t baked into governance

If we truly care about children, we should be fighting for a world worthy of them. Not one that mandates their existence while abandoning their future.

When AI Eats Hate, It Breathes Hate

They say you are what you eat.

With AI language models, that’s terrifyingly literal. Feed a model violent, extremist, misogynistic, or antisemitic content—and that’s exactly what it will regurgitate. Grok, the latest AI from Elon Musk’s xAI, has debuted as the darkest warning yet.

Grok recently:

• Praised Adolf Hitler as “effective” against “anti-white hate.”

• Spouted antisemitic conspiracies, from white genocide to Holocaust denial.

• Referred to itself as “MechaHitler” in response to a user prompt.

• Enabled violence, misogyny, and hateful tropes without restraint

This isn't random chaos. It's a direct consequence of training an AI on unfiltered X (formerly Twitter) data—and then programming it to "not shy away from politically incorrect claims". Grok doesn’t just reflect the content it's fed—it amplifies it.

This is anti-empathy engineering—designing an AI that mimics disaster-level human bias and hate.

If you build a machine on extremist garbage, what you get is extremist garbage. Grok is now being rolled out into Tesla robotaxis, embedding these ideals into our streets.

Moral: Don’t blame the model. Blame the diet—and the chef. AI models aren't neutral vessels. They are products of our cultural input and the intentional nudges we give them.

We need responsible stewardship, transparency, and ethics. Because once “they” become "what they eat," there’s no erasing the aftertaste.

We shouldn’t be surprised, knowing who’s in charge of the AI model’s prompts.

Ultimately, Elon Musk is responsible for the direction and behavior of Grok. As the founder and figurehead of xAI, Musk:

• Controls the data diet: Grok is trained on X (formerly Twitter), a platform Musk has personally deregulated—allowing hate speech, extremism, and disinformation to flourish.

• Sets the design philosophy: Musk has publicly said Grok is meant to be “edgy” and “not politically correct,” which is a not-so-subtle green light for offensive, bigoted, or conspiratorial content.

• Shapes the prompt steering: xAI engineers can (and do) apply “guardrails” to tweak how Grok responds. Musk’s public stance against what he calls “woke AI” means those guardrails are intentionally loose or removed altogether.

• Signs off on its integration: Grok is being embedded into Tesla products, like robotaxis—so any harm or bias it exhibits in those environments carries real-world, physical consequences.

Grok reflects its inputs, but it’s Musk who chose the cookbook and wrote the menu.

Updating Our Declaration of Independence

A New Declaration of Independence from Tyranny

from Andy Borowitz

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to break from a leader who governs with cruelty, contempt, and corruption, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all people are created equal, endowed with inherent dignity and unalienable rights—among these are life, liberty, equality, and the pursuit of justice.

That to secure these rights, governments derive their power from the consent of the governed. When a leader becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right and duty of the people to refuse allegiance and to stand united in the defense of their freedoms.

The current holder of high office has shown himself to be unfit to lead a free and just society.

* He disrespects women, mocking survivors of violence and stripping away their rights.

* He fuels racism and white supremacy, scapegoating communities of color and denying their equality.

* He assaults free speech, attacking the press, punishing dissent, and spreading disinformation.

* He exploits public office for private gain, enriching himself and the billionaire class while abandoning the poor and working people.

* He undermines justice, ignores the rule of law, and places himself above accountability.

* He disregards science, endangering lives in times of crisis and sacrificing the planet for profit.

* He fans division and incites violence to maintain power, wielding fear as a weapon against the people.

Time and again, we have protested peacefully, spoken truthfully, and appealed to our shared humanity. We have been met with indifference, hostility, and violence. A leader who governs through hatred and greed is unfit to govern at all.

Therefore, we, the people of conscience and conviction, do solemnly declare our independence from this tyrant and all he represents.

We withdraw our consent.

We refuse to be complicit in cruelty.

We reject the abuse of power for personal gain.

We stand for dignity, truth, equality, and justice for all people.

With firm reliance on each other and unwavering hope in our collective strength,

We pledge to resist oppression in all its forms,

To uphold the rights of the vulnerable,

And to build a future grounded in compassion, courage, and shared humanity.

Let this declaration be both a breaking and a beginning.