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Romantic Pragmatist. Optimistic Cynic. Perpetually Curious. Music Maker. http://apothekerry.com
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submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)? A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)

submitted 93 days ago • 127 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 99 days ago • 225 comments

They are basically just applying runaway slave laws to everyone

submitted 105 days ago • 6 comments

Musk has made over $25,000,000,000 from tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts. That’s $25 Billion we as taxpayers have both given him directly and had to compensate for. You care about the deficit? Great! Give us our fucking money back.

submitted 106 days ago • 90 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 107 days ago • 892 comments

So lets recap: - Trump announces tariffs. - Allies turn against the U.S., launch boycotts on U.S. products and boo us at events. - Markets nosedive. - Trump caves. The "deals": - Mexico agrees to do the same things they always do at the border to help the U.S. (including under Biden) 1/

submitted 115 days ago • 454 comments

“Record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection. Labels, we got you — but do you got us?” — Chappell Roan demanding labels to do better during her #GRAMMYs acceptance speech.

submitted 116 days ago • 60 comments

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

submitted 117 days ago • 584 comments

This utter dipshit is completely talking out of his ass here.

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

So when all was said and done, the only country that opened it's prisons and sent crazy murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was us.

submitted 128 days ago • 230 comments

It turns out the “free speech” guys want the federal government, or its proxies, to control all major communications platforms

submitted 131 days ago • 212 comments

Surveillance pricing is trending. In Austin, if your rent hasn't gone down in our overbuilt rental market check to see if your landlord has been named in a DOJ lawsuit. The names of the culprits have been published locally and some have already settled in early 2025. Others deny culpability.

submitted 131 days ago • 1 comment

So very strange that there is so little major news media coverage of collusion and price fixing at scale.

submitted 131 days ago • 4 comments

Ah yes. All the angles being played by the oligarchs on this are coming into focus. How about the fact that TIKTOK isn’t allowed to operate in China? What about that?

submitted 131 days ago • 428 comments

And there it is. Scam and grift revealed. Watch who gets rich off this. Interested also to see how legacy media covers this, which has been putrid so far.

submitted 131 days ago • 5308 comments

No snow here, and it finally stopped raining. But the mountain looks like it got big-time dumped on.

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments