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We all know the nazi salute is terrible. The salute launched the Tesla Takedown protests. But since then Musk is responsible for mass murder. That needs to be stressed so that people know what they're facing and can form a meaningful opposition. It isn't mentioned because it's unpalatable.

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If both sides are mad at you it's possible you are doing something right. It's also possible you're doing everything wrong. Two journalists chat: “I've been beaten up by both the left and the right for being too hard on Musk and too soft..." www.cjr.org/laurels-and-... via @bgrueskin.bsky.social

submitted 3 hours ago • 32 comments

Your bill is going to cut coverage for 11 million Americans and it’ll still cost more than universal healthcare. Healthcare is a human right, you absolute ghouls.

submitted 3 hours ago • 287 comments

It’s wild to see Ukraine pulling off daring drone raids on military targets when Russia is sending missiles into the midst of crowded urban centers with no apparent military significance. Unadulterated thuggery.

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"Mountainhead" gets like 40% better when you imagine that Steve Carell's character is canonically Michael Scott who became a billionaire after leaving Dunder Mifflin.

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If I can be real for a moment, what frightens me most right now is that David Brooks is more upset about Trump-Musk than many, maybe most, liberal pundits and Democratic leaders are.

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

Congress is about to let tech moguls issue their own currencies - and force you to use them as they skim fees off everyone's transactions. LEVER TIME's new episode tells you exactly what's going on. Subscribe in your podcast app - and share: LeverTimePod.com

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Really enjoyed this video investigating the weird zombie existence of FAMILY CIRCUS in 2025 newspapers (and also a genuinely touching appreciation for a piece of pop culture that most frequently just gets bought up as an example of laziness or low quality) youtu.be/mOV0BV45NqA?...

submitted 14 hours ago • 12 comments

I don't think I'll ever be enough of an economist to understand this, but perhaps it tells us something about crypto's function in our economy: The TRUMP meme coin is down 10% on news of a best buddy breakup. (The US$ was unchanged by the news.)

submitted 16 hours ago • 32 comments

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

submitted 19 hours ago • 234 comments

"Such ingratitude"

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Three men sit in a cell in El Salvador. The first asks the second why he has been imprisoned. He replies, "Because I criticized Elon Musk." The first man responds, "But I am here for praising Musk!" They ask the third man who has been sitting quietly in the back. He answers, "I AM Elon Musk".

submitted 19 hours ago • 13 comments

It's even worse. They get a tax write-off for your donation. The ONLY reason they do this is to get you to pay down their corporate tax bill.

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

With Alberta staring down the barrel of a vote on separation, I've been revisiting research on the 1995 Quebec Referendum. Here are 5 key lessons we ought to learn. And quickly. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/5-lessons-...

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Earlier today the Freedom Flotilla en route to Gaza, which also has Greta Thunberg on board, answered a distress call and rescued multiple migrants from drowning while they attempted to embark to Europe.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

NEW: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are asking DOJ's Bondi and FBI's Patel to "immediately clarify" whether Musk's claims about Trump and the Epstein files are true, @axios.com has learned. www.axios.com/2025/06/06/t...

submitted 16 hours ago • 126 comments

The states that France has been reported to have lobbied for recognizing Palestine at the High-Level Conference from June 17th to the 20th are -The UK -Canada -Australia -Belgium -The Netherlands -Portugal -Luxembourg -Lithuania -Japan

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

wasn’t this the lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis? and all conflict until the relatively modern invention of the “nation state”?

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 16 hours ago • 308 comments

Heh

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I’ve been hanging onto these images for literally years waiting for the the right moment to post them and it’s safe to say that day is finally here

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🤣🤣

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June 2023: Oligarch slash warlord Prigozhin leads a column of mercenaries toward Moscow against Putin. June 2025: Oligarch slash gamer bro Musk leads a column of self-driving Model Ys toward Washington against Trump.

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

The ritual worked

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1665 comments

truth social crash has resulted in its one and only truth

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

everything is securities fraud www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 21 hours ago • 39 comments

Doesn't say much for the current state of US politics that my mind turns to Putin vs. Khordokovsky 2003.

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

Bluesky right now

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👀

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Bannon is urging Trump to deport Musk www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 20 hours ago • 182 comments

There we go.

submitted 21 hours ago • 16 comments

Musk in 4 days

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Elon Musk: “The Trump tariffs will cause a recession in the second half of this year.”

submitted 21 hours ago • 17 comments

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

submitted 21 hours ago • 228 comments

Man, wouldn’t it be crazy if the most self-involved billionaire recognized there was money to be made if he turned on the president he bought and paid for, took a stab at getting his puppet VP in power, and there was a tech-friendly oligarch movement brewing in the opposition party

submitted 21 hours ago • 15 comments

A remembrance/tribute to Joshua Clover, written by some of the @ucmarxistinstitute.bsky.social faculty: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/j...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

If you’re overstimulated, please report to the Bluesky cooldown tent where we have orange slices and someone who doesn’t understand the concept of jokes waiting for you

submitted 21 hours ago • 130 comments

I laughed so hard I almost passed out when I first heard this and it still destroys me every single time

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments