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Jake Tapper's ratings are at their lowest point in a decade. This is what happens when you betray your audience in hopes you can sell some books to Trump supporters (a bad strategy since they won't read it and hated you to begin with)

Nice. Wait, er, hmm

As of today, Elon Musk is thought to be responsible for the death of 300,000 adults and kids due to the illegal closure of USAID (source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...) That's a 103 deaths per hour, each day. And it will get worse. His legacy is one of death, destruction, and failure.

remigration is neo-nazi speak for ethnic cleansing. wrote a whole story about the origins of the word here: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

they like him and want to help him

If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Once again, it's not "doxxing" to report the name of a government employee.

*has to actually govern once*

Pathetic.

"As Musk slinks away, spending went up, not down, during his tenure, and DOGE made the government less efficient, not more..." "A legacy of shattered institutions, weakened public services, and fired civil servants who did nothing but serve their country well..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

This sociopath destroyed countless lives and made life worse for millions of Americans, sneering at them as he indulged his narcissistic impulsivity. But now he has feelings. What are they and will he feel better soon? We asked in a six-part series. Today in the New York Times

They all belong in jail

just to reiterate:

I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.

The coming discourse on government financing SpaceX ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-...

Marco Rubio literally had a student kidnapped off the street for co-authoring an oped criticizing her university. And now he's complaining about censorship?

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

I do not think people are actually seriously calibrated for how rabidly anti-university the MAGA right is and how core that is to their policy goals. It is probably the #2 issue after immigration for them, and for some of them it’s higher.

just going on the teevee and admitting it's all first amendment violations

Write an op-ed on Gaza and we'll deport you faster than you can say 'first amendment.' But if you even think of banning Nazis from social media in your own country and we'll make sure you're sorry.

Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."

Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.

A Bronx high school student was abducted by ICE at his immigration court date and has since been disappeared across four states in five days in order to evade contact with his lawyer. The US is now undeniably a rogue state. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

Fascism is here, the senile Oompaloompa-in-Chief is using the Constitution as his adult diaper while his Nazi fanboys rip the copper wire out of democracy, but a sack of assholes known as @jaketapper.bsky.social needs you to know you shouldn’t vote for Joe Biden again. Get impossibly fucked, Jake

Just going to place this here & note that there will be ~no media coverage of this over the next week, in contrast to the volume & scale of the Great National Conversation™️ about Abuse Of The Pardon Power that we had back in December, because it's a week bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Thinking of this @propublica.org reporting today about stillbirths of unvaccinated parents during the Delta wave, before CDC had explicitly recommended COVID vaccines for pregnant people and the damage the virus did to the placentas. www.propublica.org/article/covi...

Do not listen to RFK Jr. on covid vaccines for pregnant people. Listen to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which STRONGLY recommends a covid vaccine during pregnancy, for the health of the pregnant person and the fetus. 🧪 www.acog.org/covid-19/cov...

Welcome to Trump's America, where you can bribe the president in exchange for legal immunity. The United States was founded on the principle that everyone is subject equally to the law. MAGA is converting us into a mafia state, a haven for obscene criminality.

The Plot to Enslave America - tearing down higher education. They want to provoke a financial crisis for American universities as a method to seize control over them and ultimately shut many of them down.

the Leaky Pete scandal grows. The mainstream media has lost interest in the biggest national security breach in the last 50 years because they like Leaky and Trump and want to help them rule over us.

Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.

i think it is bad that high level public officials do not respect the offices they hold or the public they are supposed to serve

This is really interesting! This is the longest-distance remote software update ever done in human history lol. Voyager is currently 25 billion kilometers or 167.34 AU away from Earth!

There’s really no reason as far as I can tell why this kind of treatment shouldn’t apply to Melania Trump and Elon Musk