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(🧵) How Elon Musk betrayed America: a thread from a Musk biographer and former federal criminal investigator. Please share widely, here and elsewhere. This will be long. Author bio: www.sethabramson.net/bio Latest book: sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-d...

submitted 15 hours ago • 106 comments

“This is not a time for partisan games or ridiculous requests for apologies. It is a time for strategic clarity.” My latest for @thebulwark.bsky.social

submitted 3 hours ago • 26 comments

How to lose friends and make enemies, the Trump way. First, raise the shit out of taxes. Second, violate your own trade agreements. Third, raise prices of everything for Americans and get them fired from their jobs by killing export markets. America last, baby!

submitted 3 hours ago • 15 comments

www.borowitzreport.com/p/putin-scol...

submitted 3 hours ago • 9 comments

I was privileged to know Gene Hackman because he played tennis with another Gene—Gene Wilder. And that Gene told him about a little role called The Blind Hermit in our movie YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN…

submitted 4 days ago • 303 comments

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: I wanted to end the day with movie music associated with Gene Hackman, but which? John Williams's goofy Lex Luthor theme? The jumpy 'French Connection' theme? Something from 'Tenenbaums'? The haunting credits music for 'The Conversation' won out. See you around.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

41 people on the made up "DOGE" team: ~36 white people ~2 Latinos ~2 South Asians ~1 Arab? 0 Black people I'm sure this was definitely meritocracy and definitely not overt white supremacy and nazism from a fascist who grew up in apartheid South Africa.

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

submitted 5 days ago • 2800 comments

It's absolutely insane that Elon Musk and his wrecking crew are saying they're firing entire swaths of our government infrastructure and the press are just like "oh that's sad but what are you gonna do, guess they're fired." It is batshit crazypants, and it's being covered like normal policy choices

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

Oh, man, not Gene Hackman. 2025 can just fuck right off. Okay. Let me tell you a little bit about Gene Hackman...

submitted 5 days ago • 110 comments

If I were a Democrat, and I saw Trump do a purge of high-level generals who were women and people of color and wouldn't be "yes men," I wouldn't vote to advance JD Vance's college friend for Secretary of the Army. And yet....16 Democrats just did so

submitted 7 days ago • 653 comments

OMG, Rachel on MSNBC calling out her bosses for firing the non-white primetime hosts Joy Reid and Alex Wagner

submitted 7 days ago • 381 comments

Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com Not a good look at all. A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network. www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...

submitted 7 days ago • 863 comments

On her show just now, Rachel Maddow said of Joy Reid's show being cancelled: "I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door." She adds it is "unnerving" to see the network's decision to cancel shows hosted by nonwhite anchors: "That feels indefensible."

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

BIG: DC Metro Police decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest sitting GOP Congressman and sent warrant request to USATTY's office. Acting USATTY Martin, who's been explicitly acting as Trump's personal attorney, ignored it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-b...

submitted 7 days ago • 123 comments

Among the many other loony displays at CPAC were the "CPAC Korea" folks arguing that South Korea's ousted coup-plotting president is actually a Trump-like figure who was forced out for trying to clean up fraud. Election denial is an American export now.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

I’m shocked that Patel didn’t keep his word

submitted 7 days ago • 52 comments

DOGE claims to have found $ billions in fraudulent government spending—but won’t even say what the fraud is and where they found it. We’re just supposed to take Elon’s word for it. And he’s going to send each of us $5k check.

submitted 7 days ago • 192 comments

ICYMI: here's the original video I made that was broadcast on all the TV screens in the HUD (Dept of Housing and Urban Development) building this morning in protest of Musk's DOGE cuts - that's all over the news right now. #HUD

submitted 7 days ago • 162 comments

I just want to say thank you to everyone who has reached out with kindness and encouragement, both personally and in these social media streets. So very proud of The Reidout @joy.msnbc.com team, who are truly family, and all of our supporters & friends. See you tomorrow night at 7, one more time ‼️

submitted 8 days ago • 11194 comments

Elon Musk’s staffers are still attempting to manipulate the Treasury payment system to halt the flow of funds following their recent losses. Reminder: U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has restricted DOGE’s read-only access. No one is above the law.

submitted 23 days ago • 310 comments

Congress was denied entry to both the U.S. Department of Education and the Treasury, where Musk staffers blocked the doors. Along with its appropriations responsibilities, Congress holds oversight authority over federal agencies. Blocking congressional access to these agencies is illegal.

submitted 23 days ago • 581 comments

thinking about roads not taken a lot

submitted 23 days ago • 94 comments

SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:

submitted 23 days ago • 462 comments

📌They are wiping entire government agencies off the grid, dismantling others, and installing corporate raiders to steal our information and money. 📌They have been planning this for YEARS. 📌And our media doesn't even have the expertise and/or nerve to call it what it is: 📌A COUP

submitted 23 days ago • 204 comments

📌BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been wiped off the Web. 📌MISSION: To protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices and take action against companies that break the law. We arm people with the information. 📌The working class of the U.S. are under attack.

submitted 23 days ago • 107 comments

Where there is one voice there are MANY just like them

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

My take, essentially, is that we could be weeks or maybe even days away from the disintegration of the rule of federal law in this country. At some point this administration is going to stop obeying court orders. What then? Nothing good.

submitted 23 days ago • 1037 comments

Translation; So they admit they fucked up. Know it was bad and now declare heroic efforts to fix their fuck ups. This is not governing this is blatant stupidity. And of course MAgA will see this as a good thing.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

submitted 23 days ago • 3188 comments

Trump is WRONG on USAID. Let me know if you agree. 💙

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

submitted 29 days ago • 138 comments

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In Trump’s first term, we were told: Don’t normalize him. In his second, the task is different: Don’t believe him,” our columnist Ezra Klein says.

submitted 27 days ago • 67 comments

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 29 days ago • 962 comments

This is it. This is the one. I think this is my most important report on Elon Musk as a Musk biographer. Read this and you will understand the man. Warning: dark stuff inside.

submitted 33 days ago • 235 comments

FAA says a military helicopter collided with the American Airlines passenger jet from Wichita near DCA. There must be immediate hearings on how the federal government/Department of Defense allowed this to happen and if removal of safety protocols and recent personnel changes led to this incident.

submitted 33 days ago • 1665 comments

ICE detained a family—including a toddler—after they were overheard speaking Spanish. They’re US citizens from Puerto Rico. No chance to explain. The mother, grandmother, and child were shopping when ICE agents took them into detention before admitting their “mistake.” This is Trump’s America.

submitted 33 days ago • 488 comments