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Anyone notice how Musk is in so many ways an alien and how Trump equally falls into the predictor category and how their whole fight has a whoever wins we lose vibe?

Because they’re pathetic losers who pay consultants to indulge their worst instincts?

“If they get a next time”

Other night on MSNBC Sean Patrick Maloney was kinda saying it was bad politics for Dems to take on Trump over Kilmar Abrego Garcia He worked in the Clinton White House. In general the Bill Clinton people really don’t understand the moment

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

It was never about …. www.thehandbasket.co/p/it-was-nev...

“‘No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,’ said Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, in a statement to the university on Monday.” 🧪🩺

The same Republicans who blocked funding for Veterans Suicide Prevention, Health Benefits, Wounded Veterans Job Security, Veterans Retraining, Disabled Veterans Home Accessibility, and the Veterans Business Center are the same Republicans who found $113 MILLION for Trump's birthday parade.

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

This is indeed brilliant

The Revolution will be AI-icized

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period. I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt. But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Why Former Followers Of Her Guru Fear Tulsi Gabbard As Director Of National Intelligence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/why-for...

CJR has a fair-minded piece on why I left the Times. All in the past now; I'm basically full-time on Substack www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

www.editorialboard.com/dear-democra...

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

If they’re dumb enough to believe scammers, why would they be smart enough to know they’re being scammed?

New podcast: President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Rep. Jim Jordan and other MAGA Republicans are engaged in an ongoing campaign to target researchers studying disinformation and hate speech. Duke University professor Philip Napoli is documenting their strategy and tactics.

Media & mass are my favorite subjects, so I dropped everything this morning to watch @hankgreen.bsky.social remind us: "Populism is not an ideology. It is a marketing strategy." Wonderful lessons here. Then, to my great surprise, delight, and honor, I found myself in his bibliography. Thanks, Hank!