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UPDATE: Looks like Musk is deleting his Defcon 3 and 2 tweets — Epstein and impeachment. But no worries, I captured them all:

Just, why? I mean, maybe for a drug raid with armed gang members? But for unarmed restaurant workers?

Educational services are a major American export. But sadly, those days are over. Expect more cuts and closures over the next two years. "Clark University to lay off up to 30% of faculty, significantly restructure degree tracks amid financial strain" www.wbjournal.com/article/clar...

No private company should have this much control over higher ed. And let’s be clear: OpenAI’s vision is for *their commercial product* to become part of the core infrastructure of higher ed- not AI in general. Because they are currently not a profitable company.

There are only two commissioners left at the FCC

I am old enough to remember the arrival of the truly global and astonishingly useful worldwide web. I really did not expect to witness its death, poisoned by carelessness and greed.

Money saved by slashing NIH funds to be channeled into cutting-edge research at the new National Institute of Ballroom Studies.

#bbcaq

joe gebbia, airbnb cofounder, is staying in doge / trump admin & is a tesla board member

"I won’t soon forget this tweet (which Musk took down after it caused an uproar): 'Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.'" https://trib.al/FlSGBZl

A Trump regime trooper pulls out a weapon and aims it at unarmed US civilians as ICE kidnaps a victim in Memphis

Macron to visit Greenland in display of ‘European unity’ with Denmark

NPR speaks with a British orthopedic surgeon who just returned from his fourth medical mission to Gaza. He says many people he operated on were civilians and were shot while trying to reach food aid.

We just spent a few millennia denying women access to power because they might get emotional, but just listened to an Elon Musk acolyte admit that the oligarch he used to work for is a “very emotional person” to excuse his erratic behavior and why he’s gone completely off the rails. #r4today

No @nytimes.com he wasn’t “mistakenly” deported. He was deliberately deported as part of a crude illegal scheme and then later the government lost a court case resulting in it having to acknowledge it had no basis for his deportation.

Wellman: When I served in Iraq.. I heard about how Saddam Hussein divided them. Different sects fought each other. But you know -- Saddam and his family sat laughing at all of them. They divided them against each other and kept their power for 35 years. Does this sound familiar to anybody?

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

May people like this "officer" never know a day of peace for the rest of their lives.

Although many hoped otherwise, we do not seem to be returning to a world in which the center left and the center right compete over tax rates or budgets. Every election is now existential www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Emotional abusers are insidious. They shower you with love & praise, spinning a fairy tale. At first, they seem perfect—then the criticism begins. They twist your words, guilt-trip you, gaslight you, & play with your emotions. They hide behind smiles. Stay vigilant. ⚠️

Abhorrent: This #MAGA Fascist Cop is *patting down* this child as is she’s an adult WHITE DOMESTIC TERRORIST 🫢

It's difficult out there. But Tina insists on a quiet #caturday morning.

Great news!

SHAME ON YOU AMERICA ‼️ A CHILD HANDCUFFED & SEARCHED Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes - Anne Frank, 01/13/1943

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

Hard to see how this doesn’t go from very bad to even worse.

I never knew Doohan stormed the beach at Normandy.

HAPPENING NOW: Protesters surround federal detention center in Los Angeles, California as ICE raids continue.

Watch this Tesla #FSD v13.2.9 fail to move to the right of the road and wait until the emergency vehicle has passed, forcing the police officer to pass from the right hand side. @ElonMusk your defective software should be banned!

A writing thing that I always slip up on, that's hard to get to but crucial: you have to write even when you don't want to AND even if you don't feel much relief at the other end of the session/day. It doesn't matter how it makes you feel in the short term. It matters to keep going.

This is a big and important statement.

True👇

Ukrainian drones are now hitting Ryazan oblast. #explodey

Adam...Eve...

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

⚡ 'the executive secretary at DHS, says the department will need up to 3,500 Guard personnel for its requirement to "Attempt to Locate — Fugitives."' ⚠️ www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n... www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...

She wanted her page-turners too. 📚

And we thank them ALL!

What will happen with the $400 million of cyber trucks which the US military have contracted Tesla to supply? #TrumpMusk #c4news