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Elon Musk is still enormously popular with Republican voters. And that means he can still cause a lot of chaos.

Howard Stern famously warned Trump prior to his first run that he “only had about 10 good years left before he starts to drool on himself,” and it was best he spend it at leisure rather than subject himself to the constant slings and arrows of being president. Pub'd 1/18/25: https://trib.al/RjvoKN6

WOW. Breaking news from ABC that has the potential to cast serious doubts on today’s indictment of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

Worth less or worthless?

It's time to stop it with the TACO taunt. The tariffs are about to become a lot more popular in congress.

I just updated MAC OS to Sequoia. The screen saver is spooky as hell.

uh-huh.

As usual, Ireland gets the deep stuff.

Interestingly the poll only got one 'yes' vote. (From user @HillbillyEffigy)

His rockets fell apart. But who saw this nuclear-tipped split from the world’s most powerful man coming?

"...According to Wolff, the bestselling author behind multiple books chronicling Trump’s rise, Trump and the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein were the “best of friends” for 15 years. “They shared girlfriends, they shared airplanes, [and] business strategy.”..."

Banana Republicans

Elon might want to Google Alexei Navalsky for a reality check on where this might all be headed.

The Incredible Shrinking richest man in the world.

In a series of videos, Warren highlights “dangerous” provisions tucked into the bill that have nothing to do with the budget.

Sukhjot Singh "This fierce peregrine mom was patrolling her territory to provide a safe airspace for her newly fledged babies. I thought she was going to attack a few gulls that flew close, but she decided to take a hard right and turn around, offering a rare face-to-face moment with the camera."

NEW: GOP rage with Musk spills out privately after break with Trump

Et tu, Elon?

Is anyone else thinking Elon Musk got his black eye from Stephen Miller?

Yeah, but Elon doesn't like the bill because the spending cuts don't go deep enough, not because the tax cuts for billionaires are too high.

Ukraine is calling its audacious drone attack against Russia "Operation Spiderweb." Pro-Kremlin bloggers are calling it "Russia's Pearl Harbor." Military experts are calling it a new nightmare for national defense.

It’s Taco Tuesday!

So Fox News is now Russian state media?

“Mother Pigeon,” the Artist Fighting to Save NYC’s Urban Birds Tina Piña Trachtenburg is set on finding the culprits behind a recent surge in pigeon disappearances throughout the city.

Putting Biden’s head on a stake is not helpful. (Gift Article) wapo.st/43MqtXX

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

So I just watched Mountainhead on HBO/Max. The scary thing is that the oligarchic tech bros depicted in that fictional social-media AI hellscape are all nicer than the ones we actually have in real life.

Sounds about right. Kind of like Henry VIII and Thomas Wolsey.

A court halted his deportation. The Trump administration deported him 28 minutes later. Officials blamed “administrative errors.” It’s the fourth known case of an improper deportation by the Trump administration.

"Well, we are all going to die." --Senator Joni Ernst That has to be the glibbest way any politician has ever told a constituent that they didn’t give a shit about them.

Paul Reubens made a decision to disappear himself from public life and present Pee-wee Herman as a real person. But there was a price to splitting himself in two, Michael Schulman writes.