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submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence. That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received. The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 92 comments

“Conditional privileges” Yes they are

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

You know this is 100% going to happen…

submitted 8 days ago • 372 comments

What I’ve been saying (screaming). Now there’s data.

submitted 7 days ago • 75 comments

Commentary in @postandcourier.bsky.social clipped so all can read it.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

submitted 7 days ago • 71 comments

This is the story.

submitted 8 days ago • 101 comments

when I was a kid in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, instead of snow days we had smog days where we weren't allowed to go to school.

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

1. I think Rachel Maddow has good intentions, but those intentions are wrapped up in her employer’s need for attention.

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Huh, I wonder if having a better sense of where climate disasters are going to cause political chaos and social unrest around the world might be useful to deterring and winning wars? Probably not, or Four Star Fox & Friends here would certainly know about it.

submitted 16 days ago • 49 comments

Asha has some vital pre kickoff misinformation check here.

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

It turns out that when mainstream politicians spend half a century telling voters that Washington is broken and they need someone in there who will Get Stuff Done, they'll eventually go for someone willing to abrogate the Constitution. "No, not like that" probably won't be a very effective response.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Remember that Donald Trump once crashed a medical charity dinner he had paid nothing for, ignored the people saying "Sir, you can't be here", took the top donor's seat, ate the steak dinner, and soaked up the ambience of accolades and then stayed until it was over because no one made him leave.

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

submitted 20 days ago • 75 comments

@schatz.bsky.social Thank you!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking about the fact that every Republican in existence keeps repeating the lie that Democrats ran on defunding the police and it's gotten so much traction that Dems who should know like James Carville have just repeated it uncritically. Defund is an activist platform and no one ran on it.

submitted 24 days ago • 42 comments

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

submitted 24 days ago • 743 comments

THIS is how you communicate, folks

submitted 28 days ago • 104 comments

on ideological tear and revenge tour Trump is both making govt worse that will cost lives, increase prices, hurt economy but also not doing ANYTHING affirmatively positive for Americans. None of this - birthright citizenship, DEI destruction improves well being of his supporters. They were scammed.

submitted 28 days ago • 104 comments

Trump. “This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!” 👉 What the criminal didn’t say, was just hours before the tragedy, he caused chaos & confusion, by firing 100 FAA Officials. #Resist

submitted 28 days ago • 66 comments

A word about INFJs: It’s the rarest of the personality types and our motto is: “There's something rotten in Denmark.” (see my handle) We are accurately suspicious about others' motives and are rarely led or fooled. We hold convictions about weighty matters. We are champions of the oppressed.

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

"But what could Democrats actually do? They're in the minority!!" So glad you asked... In Senate, minority can delay and sometimes derail. Debate rules require 60 votes—and often unanimity—to call for a vote on measure.

submitted 34 days ago • 41 comments

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

submitted 35 days ago • 147 comments

Wow

submitted 35 days ago • 889 comments

Trump, Jan 20: "I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil." Trump, Jan 21: ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/t...

submitted 37 days ago • 20 comments

Trump's a pimp. He never could've out-fought the neo-liberal world order. But I didn't know until this day that it was Musk all along.

submitted 52 days ago • 24 comments

An important point.

submitted 60 days ago • 686 comments

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

submitted 62 days ago • 105 comments

This is really bad. The State Department’s arm against disinformation is gone thanks to Musk and Trump.

submitted 63 days ago • 29 comments

submitted 75 days ago • 10 comments

After years of talking to Trump supporters my view of them has become very simple: They want socialist, even sometimes progressive reforms but they want them from someone who makes those reforms feel powerful and masculine and they want to make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them

submitted 79 days ago • 375 comments

Neoliberal capitalism has so thoroughly ruined us that many are turning to violence or authoritarianism to cure their feeling of powerlessness Changing things for the better depends on harnessing those feelings and using them for something constructive jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/somebody-d...

submitted 79 days ago • 31 comments

submitted 81 days ago • 21 comments

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

submitted 342 days ago • 997 comments

This sort of democratic backsliding, where Republicans seek to overturn the effect of an election by reallocating powers away from positions they have lost, has become almost routine now. But it should remain shocking.

submitted 88 days ago • 108 comments

Dems beat Trump by a lot more in 2020 than he beat us in 2024, and the GOP didn't hand-wring about the need to find common ground with us. They treated us like enemies of the entire country and a critical mass of voters were convinced. "We need to compromise and accommodate" is not the lesson here.

submitted 89 days ago • 59 comments

I think this accounts succinctly for the conspicuous rage-in-victory of so many Trumpistas. What they want, though they’ll never admit it, is the respect of civilized people, which they fuzzily imagined they could extract by main force.

submitted 92 days ago • 57 comments

“It’s vital not to give in to despair. The other side – the sexist, racist side – was on the run after the Roe vs. Wade ruling and the election of Barack Obama. Did they give up? No. They came back and won. ... And we can do so too." My free Stop the Presses newsletter.

submitted 93 days ago • 5 comments

Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94. His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.

submitted 95 days ago • 456 comments

Good luck America www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...

submitted 95 days ago • 319 comments

Californians pay a lot of taxes that wind up supporting red states like South Carolina, so … go ahead. I dare you.

submitted 96 days ago • 81 comments

In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it

submitted 103 days ago • 34 comments