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The guy who essentially just won the next chancellorship, Friedrich Merz, has been doing a press tour for the past week or so talking about how America under Trump can’t be trusted and promising to investigate Musk for meddling in the German election.

The point of this "deal" is to destroy Zelenskyy's credibility by treating him like a local dry cleaner who is muscled into a protection racket. Even engaging in the possibility of it is unacceptable.

Ethnic cleansing comes to the West Bank, as anyone could have predicted. (The "for a year" stuff is for the suckers.) The Israelis are ripping out infrastructure. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

Every one should listen to what he's saying.

Celebrating 45 years of “Atomic!”💥 “At the time we were recording ‘Atomic’, Bruce Springsteen was recording "The River" in the studio next to us. (1/2)

🚨In this video, we review the allegations against Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL), 44, a married father of two, accused of assaulting his 27-year-old 'significant other'—a woman other than his wife—at his luxury condo. youtube.com/shorts/zJarV...

I need to emphasize: this is comically ineffective You can't "overwhelm the algorithms" when the algorithms can be tweaked in realtime by malevolent actors who want the misinformation See, e.g., ExTwitter

Seeing this post about Nate Silver insisting Elon Musk must be "high IQ," then finding out that Noah Smith argued just this week that Musk is definitely intelligent because he got above 1400 on the SATs, made me laugh, so now I'm telling the rest of you.

I think about stuff like this when I hear Getz say odious things like “we dug into it and we believe Clevinger instead of his accuser 😎”

CBS Sunday morning opens its segment on the UKR anniversary today by stating that “thousands have died on both sides, “ vastly undercounting the death toll, which has inow reached ~ 1 million, and obscuring Russian responsibility for the war by cowering behind both sidesism.

Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

The US as a predatory shakedown artist. It won’t end well.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social why are you not posting on here first ? You have some great things to say. You are trying some great things. Yet you post on X where 100pct of the replies are meaningless and hateful. It's not all roses here, but the engagement has depth and real convos happen

From our latest: “there are brave Americans who are making it damn clear that we are not just gonna roll over for America’s Hitler or his dorky, deadbeat dad super-villain friend.”

Dude is a rambling wreck. We have no money because everybody gets a transgender operation? What the ever-loving fuck.

Trump and Musk, between them, have 18 children (that we know about) with 7 women. Family values, GOP-style.

Israeli hostage only discovered fiancee had survived 7 October after his release

Yes. It seems like they didn’t get nearly as many people as they’d hope to accept the deferred resignation program and now they’re trying to mentally break them and get them to quit. They want agencies to fail.

Strong letter from Rep. Gerry Connolly (ranking Dem on House Oversight Committee) to acting OPM Director Chuck Ezell re: 5 bullets email. Calls it “illegal, reckless, and yet another example of the cruel and arbitrary chaos Mr. Musk” has inflicted. Says he must clarify non-response≠resignation.

the larger question in all of tonight’s chaos is where the fuck is the president

New — State Department employees have been instructed *not* to reply to OPM’s 5 bullet email, per an email I reviewed, saying leadership “will respond on behalf of the Department.”

I believe we’ll look back at tonight as a major turning point.

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

Stopped by a park in SF Chinatown at 8am, told this Chinese grandma she can ball and got a big smile out of her. She's out there every morning in front of the Kobe mural, wearing gloves and doing the Mikan drill. (My guy in the vest also drilled that 3)

Good night. #urbanlandscape #cityscape #northernlights #photography #architecture #photooftheweek #wallart #bridge #railroadtrack #perspective

This is our city. We’re going to continue following & enforcing the laws to keep all Bostonians safe. And it goes without saying that our police commissioner has my complete confidence & support.

And where are the congressional Republicans

This is Musk's work and he should be explaining it to all of us. Or better yet, just shutting everything down and getting out of DC. What a wonderful silence that would bring.

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

Turns out the "lalalalala I can't hear you" strategy is ineffective!

This is why JD Vance was in Europe claiming that the US values free speech. It is part of the imperial project to force Europe to allow Nazi incitement like the US allows.

“New Social Security chief was being investigated when Musk team tapped him” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Washington Post just stealing other people’s reporting now