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Who did this?

What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?

I think it's called the American golden age because he's pissing on us and telling us it's raining

77 million Americans thought they were voting to lower the price of eggs, or to create a Christian nation, or to prevent a trans girl from bouncing a basketball. Instead they may have voted for a global depression, or world domination by the Chinese, or both.

The Musk Effect. Looking forward to more of this, please.

"If this many different judges in this many different courts appointed by this many different presidents are blocking this many policies promulgated by the same president, we ought to be able to agree that the problem is the policies—not the judges." www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-settin...

Do you ever get tired of winning? I do

I don't want Canada or Greenland… I want PBS, Social Security, and The Smithsonian. CAN YOU SAY THE SAME?! 🤚

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

No one has wanted to be a "victim" of "cancel culture" more than Musk. But while he has successfully gotten liberals to hate him, his efforts at being a MAGA martyr are....lacking. Even the redhats struggle to make a hero out of this whiner. www.salon.com/2025/03/20/t...

From the guy whose rockets blow up, cars explode, and social media site is the sewer of humanity? No thank you

Every time I think they can can't go any lower, they do

Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic

Ok, now democrats make an ad like this

We went from "I will end inflation and drive down prices on day 1" to "this recession isn't my fault" in 49 days.

Leadership and rationality

Counteroffer: we nationalize SpaceX and you go to prison

the on again, off again trade wars...are the cronies just buying the dips and laughing on their way to the bank?

Happy Ash Wednesday

The only takeaway from last night's SOTU speech that actually matters so far as our future is concerned is that only ONE democrat was removed from the chamber for standing up to Trump's bullshit. Only one old democrat with a cane and no fucks left for fascism. It should have been ALL of them.

This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work *already* done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.

I just can't even describe the depth of my embarrassment for my country being run by the fox news comments section

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

Gotta say. The finally airborne hemorrhagic fever bug that emerges from Africa during RFK taking over HHS and the United States withdrawing from the WHO is like the start of a novel.

We are in trouble.

Vox Populi

Darwin take the wheel!

He says what we've been shouting that MAGA just wouldn't hear but he says it in a way that some of them will hear. He's a rural farmer who speaks how they speak. @hcrichardson.bsky.social I posted 4 you to watch bec I think he's the missing link in our messaging. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4CR...

Elon Musk paid less for the United States government than he did for Twitter. Remarkable how low the bidding was.

L'État, c'est moi

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

The United States has become the North Korea of North America. Put that on your Google Maps.

Seeing an unelected South African billionaire in the Oval Office giving a briefing next to the mute and demented US President is jarring to say the least… They are pulling back the curtain to let us all know who is in charge.

The media is utterly failing to cover what is actually happening with Musk: that he is using the power Trump has given him, along with his X platform and its relationships with right-wing media, to spread massive lies and disinformation, while they laugh off 1/2 www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/t...

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

Article III, section 3

Dem leadership needs to take notes from AOC

Our courts are ordering Trump to obey the law just 7 months after the Supreme Court said presidents don’t have to obey the law. No wonder Trump won’t obey the law.