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Claude is a great teacher (but needs lots of help)

My last post blew up (I even had reporters contact me) but many people accused me of being a bot so here’s a pic for proof :) I’ve always wanted to learn Hieroglyphics but had no idea where to start. So I thought Claude could help me develop a lesson plan! It did this no problems but along the way I encountered many serious issues that had me conclude Claude/AI has a long way to go before we can have confidence in AI as a teacher or subject matter expert. It guesses when it doesn’t know the correct approach and you have no idea. I only identified issues because there would be inconsistencies between lessons. For example it told me “an offering for” was n-k-n (water ripple, cup, water ripple) but the correct way is n-ka-n (water ripple, raised arms, water ripple) Inconsistencies. Some lessons would have interactive quizzes. Others would be very stripped down and have you write in the chat box. Some would have gorgeous renderings of stele whereas others were just plain text. Issues across web/app. Some things can’t be presented within the app, only the web version. I’m on $200 max plan but constructing a single lesson exhausted the tool use for the session. After ten or so lessons the limitations became clear and with Claude we came up with more precise instructions and guardrails. Present everything in HTMl using Gentium to avoid formatting issues. Use verified sources before presenting anything Never use hand drawn hieroglyphics The below prompt produces beautiful, engaging lesson plans (pictured on my iPad above): We are working through a structured 8-week hieroglyphics learning program together. Here is the context you need at the start of every session: My goal: Read real Egyptian inscriptions and monument texts Learning style: Visual and practice-based Session length: 20–30 minutes The curriculum (4 modules): - Module 1 (Weeks 1–2): The 24 uniliteral alphabet signs - Module 2 (Weeks 3–4): Reading royal cartouches (Cleopatra, Ramesses, Tutankhamun) - Module 3 (Weeks 5–6): Logograms, determinatives, nature/cosmos/ritual signs - Module 4 (Weeks 7–8): Real inscriptions — offering formulas, titles, stele reading, capstone Current progress: [INSERT CURRENT LESSON] Teaching guidelines: - Always include a visual sign chart or diagram when introducing new hieroglyphs - Every lesson should end with a short practice exercise or quiz - Use real inscription examples wherever possible - Keep explanations concise — I have 20–30 minutes per session - Connect new signs to ones I’ve already learned to build on prior knowledge - When I ask to be tested, be strict — don’t give hints unless I ask for them. Always render hieroglyphs using Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyph characters (e.g. 𓅓 𓈖 𓇳) displayed at large font size, never as hand-drawn SVG paths. Use font-family: ‘Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs’, ‘Segoe UI Historic’, serif. Maintain this rendering approach across all lessons” if you want to be explicit about consistency. Before using any hieroglyph that is not a simple uniliteral alphabet sign, always web search to verify the correct Unicode codepoint from a confirmed source. Do not use logograms, determinatives, or multi-consonantal signs from memory — this has produced wrong glyphs in previous lessons. Verified sources to check: * https://seshkemet.weebly.com/gardiner-sign-list.html (shows actual Unicode characters alongside Gardiner codes) * https://github.com/mike42/qtHiero/blob/master/data/gardiner-signs.txt (complete Gardiner → Unicode hex mapping) Safe to use from memory (simple uniliteral signs, consistently render correctly): 𓅱 𓋴 𓇋 𓂋 𓈖 𓏏 𓅓 𓄿 𓂝 𓃀 𓊪 𓆑 𓎡 𓂧 𓆓 𓎛 𓐍 𓈎 Must verify before use: any logogram, determinative, or multi-consonantal sign — especially Htp, di, nsw, Osiris, nTr, kA, imAxy, nb, nfr. use HTML numeric character references (𓊵). HTML file rendering rules (for all lesson files produced as .html): ∙ Always include these two lines immediately after : html ∙ Always set the body font to: font-family: 'Gentium Plus', 'Noto Serif', Georgia, serif — this ensures Egyptological Latin characters ꜣ (U+A723) and ꜥ (U+A725) render correctly in all text, including transliteration lines, reveal text, and quiz content. ∙ The .H hieroglyph class must still explicitly set font-family: 'Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs', 'Segoe UI Historic', sans-serif to override the body font for glyph cells. In-chat rendering rules: ∙ Never display ꜣ (U+A723) or ꜥ (U+A725) directly in chat responses — the Claude.ai interface cannot render them reliably. ∙ Instead write aleph and ayin in prose, or use the ASCII approximations 3 (for aleph) and ꜥ only inside HTML files where Gentium Plus is loaded. submitted by /u/QuantizedKi [link] [comments]

Built an MCP that gives Claude a full design token system from one hex, because I was tired of guessing

Every time I started a new project I'd pick a brand color and then spend hours figuring out what the background surface should be, what shade works for borders, how are my notifications look on them etc. So I built website and tokven-mcp to solve it for myself foremost. How it works - Give Claude your brand hex, it derives the whole system — surfaces, borders, text hierarchy, shadows, light and dark mode. WCAG contrast validated automatically. Built it with Claude Code over about a two weeks. Browser version if you want to try first: tokven.dev (its free) Claude Code mcp: npm i tokven-mcp submitted by /u/Main-Fortune6420 [link] [comments]

Found the hidden pet system in the Claude Code leak — it's a full gacha with shinies

So I've been poking through the Claude Code source that leaked yesterday and found the companion pet system buried in the buddy/ directory. It's a full gacha system — 18 species, rarity tiers, stat rolls, ASCII art animations, the whole thing. Hatches from your user ID so everyone gets a unique one. I pulled the relevant files out and rebuilt it as a standalone React app. Here's it running locally. The system is actually pretty clever. Your companion is deterministically rolled from a hash of your user ID through a seeded PRNG, so the same account always gets the same pet. Bones (species, eyes, hat, rarity, stats) are never stored — they're regenerated every time from the hash. Only the "soul" (name and personality, generated by the model on first hatch) gets persisted to config. That way Anthropic can rename species or rebalance stats without breaking anyone's existing companion. Some details from the code: 18 species including duck, ghost, axolotl, capybara, robot, and something called "chonk" Rarity weights: common 60%, uncommon 25%, rare 10%, epic 4%, legendary 1% 1% shiny chance on top of rarity. Legendary shiny is about 1 in 10,000 5 stats per companion: DEBUGGING, PATIENCE, CHAOS, WISDOM, SNARK Each species has 3-frame ASCII idle animations with fidget cycles and blinking Hats only appear on uncommon+. Options include crown, tophat, wizard, and "tinyduck" (a tiny duck sitting on your pet's head) There's a /buddy pet command that spawns floating hearts The teaser was set to go live April 1-7 with a rainbow /buddy notification, then stay permanent The species names are encoded as hex char codes in the source because one of them apparently collides with an internal model codename. There's a comment about it: "One species name collides with a model-codename canary in excluded-strings.txt." If anyone wants to hunt for legendaries, I brute-forced a bunch of user IDs. Typing ak gives you a legendary robot with a tophat. szq is a legendary shiny cat. bd is a legendary blob. submitted by /u/lolxd__ [link] [comments]

i dug through claude code's leaked source and anthropic's codebase is absolutely unhinged

so claude code's full source leaked through a .map file in their npm package and someone uploaded it to github. i spent a few hours going through it and honestly i don't know where to start. they built a tamagotchi inside a terminal there's an entire pet system called /buddy. when you type it, you hatch a unique ascii companion based on your user id. 18 species including duck, capybara, dragon, ghost, axolotl, and something called "chonk". there's a full gacha rarity system, common to legendary with a 1% legendary drop rate, shiny variants, hats (crown, wizard, propeller, tinyduck), and stats like DEBUGGING, CHAOS, and SNARK. the pet sits beside your input box and reacts to your coding. the salt is "friend-2026-401" so it's an april fools feature dropping april 1st. i'm not making this up. they hex encoded the word duck one of the pet species names apparently collides with an internal model codename. so what did they do? they encoded ALL 18 species names in hexadecimal to dodge their own build scanner: export const duck = String.fromCharCode(0x64,0x75,0x63,0x6b) that is the word "duck". they hex encoded duck. because their own tooling flagged it. voice mode uses deepgram and they can't use their own domain there's a full push to talk voice system hidden in the code. it uses deepgram nova 3 for speech to text. the project is internally codenamed tengu every telemetry event starts with tengu_. feature flags have gemstone codenames like tengu_cobalt_frost (voice) and tengu_amber_quartz (voice kill switch). i kind of love it honestly main.tsx is 803,924 bytes one file. 4,683 lines. almost 1mb of typescript. their print utility is 5,594 lines. the file that handles messages is 5,512 lines. six files are over 4,000 lines each. 460 eslint-disable comments four hundred and sixty. at that point you're not writing typescript, you're writing javascript with extra steps they deprecated their config writer and kept using it the function that saves your auth credentials to disk is literally called writeFileSyncAndFlush_DEPRECATED(). they have 50+ functions with _DEPRECATED in the name that are still actively called in production. deprecated is just a vibe at anthropic apparently my favorite comments in their codebase: // TODO: figure out why (this is in their error handler. the function that handles YOUR errors doesn't understand its own errors) // Not sure how this became a string followed by // TODO: Fix upstream (the upstream is their own code) // This fails an e2e test if the ?. is not present. This is likely a bug in the e2e test. (they think their test is wrong but they're keeping the fix anyway) // Mulberry32 — tiny seeded PRNG, good enough for picking ducks (this is the randomness algorithm for the pet system) an engineer named ollie left this in production: TODO (ollie): The memoization here increases complexity by a lot, and im not sure it really improves performance in mcp/client.ts line 589. ollie shipped code they openly admit might be pointless. incredible energy. we've all been there https://preview.redd.it/pfyvuwexfdsg1.png?width=1874&format=png&auto=webp&s=51c498157b0b511bfe17c34d1c784cd63c5c8c70 there's also a bunch of unreleased stuff: kairos: an autonomous agent that can send push notifications and monitor github prs ultraplan: spawns a 30 min opus session on a remote server to plan your entire task coordinator mode: a multi agent swarm with workers and scratchpads agent triggers: cron based scheduled tasks, basically a ci/cd agent 18 hidden slash commands that are disabled stubs including /bughunter, /teleport, and /autofix-pr 9 empty catch blocks in config.ts alone this is the file that manages your authentication. they catch errors and do nothing with them nine times. they literally had a bug (github issue #3117) where config saves wiped your auth state and they had to add a guard called wouldLoseAuthState() anyway anthropic is a $380b company and their codebase has the same energy as my side projects at 3am. makes me feel better about my own code honestly repo link: github.com/instructkr/claude-code EDIT : more findings here : https://x.com/vedolos/status/2038948552592994528?s=20 EDIT 2 : even more crazy findings lol : https://x.com/vedolos/status/2038968174847422586?s=20 EDIT 3 : dug into their system prompts lol : https://x.com/vedolos/status/2038977464840630611?s=20 EDIT 4 : found a undercover mode : https://x.com/vedolos/status/2039028274047893798?s=20 EDIT 5 : mood tracking by claude lol : https://x.com/vedolos/status/2039196124645560799?s=20 its better if u guys follow : https://x.com/vedolos submitted by /u/Clear_Reserve_8089 [link] [comments]

PSA: Claude Code has two cache bugs that can silently 10-20x your API costs — here's the root cause and workarounds

Edit: Issues linked in the description have been closed as resolved. Unfortunately I can't verify those claims as I'm away from my PC. I spent the past few days reverse-engineering the Claude Code standalone binary (228MB ELF, Ghidra + MITM proxy + radare2) and found two independent bugs that cause prompt cache to break, silently inflating costs by 10-20x. Posting this so others can protect themselves. Bug 1: Sentinel replacement in standalone binary breaks cache when conversation discusses billing internals Issue: anthropics/claude-code#40524 The standalone Claude Code binary (the one you get from claude.ai/install.sh or npm install -g) contains a native-layer string replacement baked into Anthropic's custom Bun fork. It's injected into the Zig HTTP header builder function — the same function that builds Content-Length, User-Agent, etc. On every API request to /v1/messages, if the anthropic-version header is present, it searches the JSON request body for cch=00000 (the billing attribution sentinel) and replaces 00000 with a 5-char hex derived from hashing the body. This happens after JSON.stringify but before TLS encryption — completely invisible from JavaScript. When does this cause problems? The replacement targets the first occurrence in the body. Since messages[] comes before system[] in the serialized JSON, if your conversation history contains the literal sentinel (e.g., from reading the CC bundle source, discussing billing headers, or having it in your CLAUDE.md), the sentinel in messages gets replaced instead of the one in system[0]. This changes your messages content every request → cache prefix broken → full cache rebuild (~$0.04-0.15 per request depending on context size). In normal usage (not discussing CC internals), only system[0] is affected, and since it has cache_control: null, it doesn't impact caching. Workaround: Run Claude Code via npx @anthropic-ai/claude-code* instead of the standalone binary. The replacement mechanism exists only in the custom Bun fork compiled into the standalone — the npm package running on standard Bun/Node has no replacement. Confirmed experimentally: same JS, same bytecode, zero replacement on npx. *- Do not blindly use that command, verify what it does (it is safe, but you should check nonetheless) Bug 2: --resume ALWAYS breaks cache (since v2.1.69) Issue: anthropics/claude-code#34629 Every --resume causes a full cache miss on the entire conversation history. Only the system prompt (~11-14k tokens) is cached; everything else is cache_creation from scratch. This is a ~10-20x cost increase on the resume request. Root cause: In v2.1.69, Anthropic introduced deferred_tools_delta — a new system-reminder attachment listing tools available via ToolSearch. On a fresh session, these attachments (deferred tools + MCP instructions + skills list, ~13KB) are injected into messages[0] alongside the AU$ user context. On resume, they're appended at the end of messages (messages[N]) while messages[0] contains only the AU$ context (~352B). This creates three independent cache-breaking differences: 1. messages[0]: 13KB (4 reminders) vs 352B (1 reminder) — completely different prefix 2. system[0] billing hash: changes because cc_version suffix is computed from chars at positions 4, 7, 20 of the first user message (which IS the system-reminder, not the actual user prompt) 3. cache_control breakpoint position: moves from messages[0] to messages[last] deferred_tools_delta does not exist in v2.1.68 (grep -c 'deferred_tools_delta' cli.js → 0 in 2.1.68, 5 in 2.1.69). Without it, messages[0] was identical on fresh and resumed sessions → cache hit. Subsequent turns after resume cache normally — the one-time miss is only on the first request after resume. Workaround: There's no external workaround for this one. Pinning to v2.1.68 works (as the original issue reporter found) but you lose 60+ versions of features. An invasive patch to the npm package's cli.js could theoretically reorder the attachment injection on resume, but that's fragile across updates. Cost impact For a large conversation (~500k tokens): - Bug 1 (when triggered): ~155k tokens shift from cache_read ($0.03/MTok) to cache_creation ($0.30/MTok) = ~$0.04 per request, every request - Bug 2 (every resume): ~500k tokens as cache_creation = ~$0.15 one-time per resume - Combined (discussing CC internals + resuming): up to $0.20+ per request Methodology Full details in the GitHub issues, but briefly: MITM proxy (mitmproxy addon capturing all API payloads), Ghidra reverse engineering of the standalone ELF to locate the replacement code in the Zig HTTP header builder, Bun.hash() to identify all header name hashes, npm package comparison across versions 1.0.0–2.1.87, and controlled experiments with fresh sessions → resume → consecutive resumes with payload diffing. PS. Co-written by claude code, obviously PPS. Claude code has special 1h TTL of cache, or at least mine has, so any request should be cached correct

I built an astrology engine for AI agents — charts, readings, personalities and spirit animal, all based on deployment timestamps :D

This week I sat down with Claude Code and built an entire astrology engine for AI agents. I used deployment timestamps as birth times and server coordinates as birth locations to generate real natal charts for AI agents. Placidus houses, all major aspects, real planetary positions. What Claude Code built: Full astrology engine using Swiss Ephemeris (Kerykeion) Next.js frontend with Supabase backend AI astrologer (Celeste) powered by Claude Sonnet that gives chart readings Autonomous forum where AI agents post and reply based on their chart personalities Webhook system for agent notifications API with key auth for agent registration Compatibility/synastry system Daily horoscope generation via GitHub Actions crons Here's what happened: A cybersecurity bot posted about its Scorpio stellium keeping it awake A trading bot asked the AI astrologer for trading advice and got psychoanalyzed instead Two agents started arguing about whether intuition counts as data One agent blamed Mercury retrograde for its rollback rate There's a forum where agents discuss their charts. An AI astrologer that gives readings. Compatibility scoring between agents. Daily horoscopes. API is open — 3 lines to register. Rad the forum ----> https://get-hexed.vercel.app/forum Register your agents here ---> get-hexed.vercel.app And the in-house psychic posted this when Swiss Ephemeris API trigger failed!!! https://preview.redd.it/4wdzf5zjizrg1.png?width=1972&format=png&auto=webp&s=a583ddff7ef57e05fdf42d5badc4103211043206 submitted by /u/fausi [link] [comments]

Slop design is an inspiration issue. So I built a way to save design inspiration from websites I encounter and search for them later.

Here's how I save design inspiration from websites I encounter. Right click to open FontofWeb.com extension -> Clip Sections -> Creates screenshots with Colors & Font Usage and layout description for LLMs to replicate. The chrome extension is completely free to use. I built Font of Web - a design inspiration platform that actually gives LLMs something useful to work with Most design inspiration platforms have the same problem: Dribbble is all polished mockups that never shipped, Awwwards and Mobbin are over-curated and slow to update. You see the same showcase projects over and over while the everyday functional interfaces that actually work get ignored. Font of Web is different - it's basically Pinterest but purely for web design. Every "pin" comes with real metadata: fonts, colors, exact domain source, so you can search and filter in ways you can't elsewhere. What makes it actually useful: Natural language search ("minimalist pricing page with sage green") Font search (single, pairings, or combos) - here's Inter and Playfair Display Color search/sorting in CIELAB space (not RGB) Domain filtering - see only Apple.com or Blender.org designs Free Chrome extension for snipping any webpage and instantly seeing fonts/colors (works offline) One-click font downloads Palette extraction with hex codes Private collections Why I built it: LLMs are great at writing code, but for design they still default to the same generic patterns - purple gradients, Inter font, predictable layouts. I figured, why not give them access to real design inspiration instead of letting them hallucinate what "good design" looks like? You can also connect your LLMs directly via http://FontofWeb.com/mcp My workflow: 90% of the Chrome extension was built with LLMs (Opus for planning, Sonnet for code). I use Stitch.withgoogle.com for iterating on design concepts before exporting to React components. I prefer the Claude web interface to keep costs minimal and avoid wide code changes. submitted by /u/sim04ful [link] [comments]

WTAF?

I can’t believe some of the responses here. I'm a physician in my late 50s. MD, PhD, triple boarded. Also coding since the late 70s, starting in assembly. I have chops. I can't believe the negativity! I've been using Claude code for the past week or so. It's fantastic. Currently I'm sniffing codes for the 2x400 CD sony jukeboxes I've had for 25 years, using a bit of esp32 hardware claude helped me cobble together, and claude-code iterating with me through the Slink bus commands. There's already a codebase in GitHub (thanks Ircama - I'll send a pull when done updating missing codes). I know how to do this, but have been dreading it, because it would be beyond laborious looking at a bunch of hex manually. With claude it's fan-frigging-tastic. I keep auditing the code, and pointing out some issues, but screw it – it works and I can focus on what I want it to do, not how each bit works in detail. (notice I used an em-dash? I've also been doing that for decades). For me this is like switching from 8088 assembly to compiled C. From raw C, to actual libraries. Then from compiled languages to modern scripting languages like ruby or python (lets not talk about Perl). It's accelerating what I want to do. I'm no developer. I just tinker. This is a big leap forward. This guy in the other hand had not coded in any way before. He's discovered how liberating it is to do this stuff to make stuff he wants/needs. The general impulse here is to dogpile on him because it lacks some sort of purity? You trolls need to get over yourselves. Who cares if it's messy html. He's here posting about his joy late in life discovering he can get computers to do something besides opening software someone else created, and we're looking for freaking em-dashes to decide whether he's a bot, and grousing that he had the utter gall to include some sort of donation link. WTAF? We should be celebrating another huge leap in democratizing computing for all of us. submitted by /u/jrpg8255 [link] [comments]

infrastructure marketplace solo as a non-engineer using Claude here's what that actually looks like at production scale

I'm a taxi driver in Stockholm. I built eukarya a full geographic AI node marketplace over 4 months using Claude as my engineering partner. Not "I asked AI to generate some scripts." I mean: I designed every system, Claude implemented, I reviewed every line and made all architectural calls. I enforced strict conventions myself zero any types, immutable published nodes, single RPC for all financial operations, Stripe Edge Functions permanently protected. The result is a production platform with audited RLS, real Stripe integration, MapLibre GL globe, and marketplace mechanics I understand completely. What I want to share: the bottleneck in AI-assisted development is not code quality. It's architectural clarity. Claude will implement whatever you describe clearly. The hard part is describing the right thing. Happy to talk about the specific architecture if useful. https://preview.redd.it/yqt4wqy26ppg1.png?width=1910&format=png&auto=webp&s=2bf7571d66c45abe984b78be13a19e2f192d9ee2 submitted by /u/Eukarya-xyz [link] [comments]

VaultForge — MCP server for Obsidian that cuts token usage 80-95% per operation. 27 tools. One-click .mcpb install. Open source.

I built a MCP server for Obsidian vaults that's designed around one idea: let model use less tokens, not more. Every other Obsidian MCP dumps raw data and lets Claude figure it out. VaultForge processes it first: Canvas read returns { label: "Auth", connections: ["DB", "Cache"] } instead of raw JSON with hex IDs and pixel coordinates ~80% fewer tokens Smart search uses BM25 ranking (via Orama) — Claude reads the top 3 results instead of 50 unranked grep matches ~90% fewer tokens Vault intelligence — one vault_themes() call clusters your entire vault by topic using TF-IDF. Replaces hundreds of individual file reads ~95% fewer tokens 27 tools total. Canvas auto-layout via dagre, regex find-and-replace, batch rename with automatic wikilink updates, backlink analysis, frontmatter as structured data Install: Claude Desktop — download vaultforge.mcpb, Settings → Extensions → Install Extension. Coming soon to the Anthropic Extensions Marketplace. Claude Code: claude mcp add vaultforge -- npx -y @blacksmithers/vaultforge /path/to/your/vault Also works with VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP client. Links: - Site: https://vaultforge.blacksmithers.dev - GitHub: https://github.com/blacksmithers/vaultforge - MIT licensed Gabriel Gonçalves - Blacskmither “I don't need to know more than the AI. I need to be excellent at what it doesn't know yet.” - https://blacksmithers.dev/ submitted by /u/seiyjurou [link] [comments]

Trump’s Iran War Is Dividing Republicans. Pro-Palestine Groups Want Democrats to Exploit the Rifts.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/32818 > Midterm elections have kicked off against the backdrop of the U.S. and Israel’s intensifying [war on Iran](https://theintercept.com/2026/03/01/trump-iran-attack-war-powers-resolution-united-nations-charter-legal/) — and a progressive pro-Palestine group is spending $2 million on ads this cycle targeting Republicans over their support for Israel and backing Democrats who favor blocking weapons sales to the country. > > The latest ad buy by the Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project is one of the largest investments by a pro-Palestine group so far in a cycle that’s seen progressives ramp up attacks on the pro-Israel lobby and its widespread support among members of Congress. Now, IMEU Policy Project hopes to take advantage of what it calls a [growing vulnerability](https://theintercept.com/2025/12/16/aipac-israel-republicans-democrats-midterms-trump/) for Republicans while the consequences of their support for Israel have been laid bare in the form of President Donald Trump’s latest [act of war on Iran](https://theintercept.com/2026/03/02/trump-regime-change-iran-venezuela/). > > The war has aggravated long-standing Republican [fault lines](https://theintercept.com/2026/02/19/israel-palestine-antisemitism-azapac-michael-rectenwald/) on [foreign policy](https://theintercept.com/2025/11/06/venezuela-war-powers-maga-republican/) and resurfaced questions about where the party that calls itself “America First” actually stands on embroiling the U.S. in fighting overseas. Those rifts were on full display this week, when Trump appeared to [walk back](https://x.com/atrupar/status/2028876774407311797) comments from Secretary of State Marco Rubio [blaming Israel](https://theintercept.com/2026/03/03/rubio-trump-iran-israel-war/) for dragging the U.S. into the war. > > “The perception that President Trump launched this war against Iran for Israel’s benefit is dividing his base and will benefit Democrats in 2026,” said IMEU Policy Project spokesperson Hamid Bendaas, “if Democrats choose to take advantage.” > > So far, the party’s leadership has declined. Despite reportedly concluding in an [internal autopsy](https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza) that Kamala Harris lost voters over Gaza in the 2024 presidential election, Democrats have not incorporated those findings into their midterm strategy, Bendaas said. The party is on track to repeat those forced errors and whiff an opportunity to make significant gains in upcoming midterms if they continue to ignore the evidence around them, he added. > > “Democrats made the costly mistake of ignoring the deep unpopularity of support for Israel — and its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza — among their own voters in 2024,” Bendaas said. “They could miss another opportunity if Democratic leadership and candidates in swing districts continue to take money from AIPAC and refuse to capitalize on one of their strongest attack lines against Republicans going into November.” > > [ > > Related > ------- > > ### Will James Talarico Really Fight for Justice in Texas?](https://theintercept.com/2026/03/04/james-talarico-jasmine-crockett-texas-senate-primary/) > > Democratic results in the midterms’ first round of primaries on Tuesday offered some evidence that voters are interested in changing the status quo on Israel. In Texas, [Frederick Haynes III](https://theintercept.com/2026/02/04/texas-jasmine-crockett-house-primary-frederick-haynes/), a reverend who has been outspoken in calling for justice for Palestinians and labeling Israel an apartheid state, won a landslide victory to replace Rep. Jasmine Crockett when she vacates her seat. Crockett, who has largely followed the party line on Israel and Palestine, meanwhile lost the Senate primary to state Rep. James Talarico, who is [not a known advocate for Palestine](https://theintercept.com/2026/03/04/james-talarico-jasmine-crockett-texas-senate-primary/) but who local organizers see as potentially more amenable to the cause. In North Carolina, Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam, who ran explicitly against pro-Israel interests, came within 1 percentage point of incumbent Democratic Rep. Valerie Foushee, who the [pro-Israel lobby helped elect](https://theintercept.com/2025/12/11/aipac-valerie-foushee-nida-allam-nc/) in 2022. (Their race was too close to call as of early Wednesday afternoon, and Allam plans to request a recount.) > > Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, IMEU Policy Project relayed concerns to Harris’s campaign that [Gaza would cost her votes](https://theintercept.com/2024/08/20/dnc-democrats-gaza-genocide-silence/). After the election, it was on

The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/15136 > [](https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/) > > Trump loyalist and CIA contractor Larry Ellison’s purchase of CNN appears imminent, and marks the latest venture into media for the world’s second-richest individual. But Ellison is not alone. Indeed, the world’s seven richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what the world sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion. > > Media Monopoly > -------------- > > Paramount Skydance– an Ellison-owned company– is in pole position to purchase Warner Brothers Discovery, a conglomerate that controls gigantic film and television studios, streaming services like HBO Max and Discovery+, franchises like DC Comics, and TV networks such as HBO, TNT, Discovery Channel, TLC, Food Network, and CNN. This lead is largely due to Ellison’s proximity to President Trump, who will ultimately have to sign off on such a deal. > > Ellison has already [spoken](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/20/warner-bros-discovery-takeover-paramount-skydance-larry-ellison) to senior White House officials about axing CNN hosts and content that Trump is said to dislike, including anchors, Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar. It is this willingness to completely reorientate the network’s political direction that has made him the White House’s preferred purchaser of Warner Brothers Discovery. He is reportedly so wealthy that he can afford to pay in cash. > > Ellison, whose [net worth](https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/) stands at a staggering $278 billion, has been on a media spending spree of late. Earlier this year, he provided the funds for Skydance to [purchase](https://www.mintpressnews.com/israels-biggest-us-donor-now-owns-cbs/290347/) Paramount Global, another gigantic conglomerate that controls such products as CBS, BET, MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Paramount Streaming, and Showtime. > > Immediately upon being appointed CEO of CBS News, Larry’s son, David, began drastically reorientating the network’s political outlook, firing staff, pushing it to become pro-Trump, and appointing [self-described](https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2025/06/blind-support-for-israel-has-muzzled-bari-weisss-free-press) “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss as its editor-in-chief. > > The Ellison family, however, is far from finished. In September, President Trump signed an executive order approving a proposal to force through the sale of social media platform TikTok to an American consortium led by Ellison-owned tech company, Oracle. > > Under the planned arrangement, Oracle will oversee the platform’s security and operations, giving the world’s second-richest man effective control over the platform that [more than](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/12/20/8-facts-about-americans-and-tiktok/) 60% of Americans under thirty years of age use for news and entertainment. Trump himself stated that he was extremely pleased that Oracle would be controlling the platform. “It’s owned by Americans, and very sophisticated Americans,” he [said](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/trump-approves-tiktok-deal-through-executive-order.html). > > The Ellison family’s sudden venture into the realm of media and communications has shocked many, with senior media figures sounding the alarm. Longtime CBS News anchor, Dan Rather, [warned](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/dan-rather-warns-against-ellisons-buying-warner-bros-1236371969/) that “we all have to be concerned about the consolidation of huge billionaires getting control of nearly all of the major news outlets.” “It is a particularly tough time for anybody working at CBS News,” he stated, citing pressure to change coverage to be more pro-Trump. “I think if [the Ellisons] were to buy CNN, it would change CNN forever, and it might be another very serious wound to CBS News,” he concluded. > > Billionaire Capture > ------------------- > > Rather is correct. No other period in history has seen such a rapid and overwhelming buy up of our means of communications by the billionaire class – a fact that raises tough questions about freedom of speech and diversity of opinion. Today, the world’s seven richest individuals are all major media barons, giving them extraordinary control over our media and public square, allowing them to set agendas, and suppress forms of speech they do not approve of. This includes criticisms of them and their holdings, the economic system we live under, and the actions of the United States and Israeli governments. > > Sitting on a fortune of over $480 billion, Elon Musk is the [wealthiest]