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Cranky old gay man in San Francisco Anti-Muskovite Motorcyclist, language geek, urban hiker, husband guy, grandson of immigrants
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Really enjoying the stories about congressmen getting yelled at about DOGE shit in their town halls. Not because I feel like it's necessarily going to move things in the right direction in the next election cycle or two, really. I just like stories about congressmen getting yelled at I think.

So, martial law it is then. (Image reposted with alt text below)

Let them snoop on my tired boring old gay ass. They’ll quickly realize nothing noteworthy ever happens here, except for the occasional [REDACTED]

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

Ten years ago, the following sentence would have seemed like the utmost lunacy: “While Europe is fighting Russia, the U.S. will grab Greenland”

“In fact, the increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years.”

I’m old enough to remember when MAGAts used to brandish “PSALM 109:8” signs at rallies. *clears throat* PSALM 109:8

Fuck Kash Patel

Thirsty New Yorkers, I salute you 🫡 www.aol.com/luigi-mangio...

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.

Coming soon to a certain large formerly free(ish) country in North America. The fact that I’m married to another man is public record. Fun. metro.co.uk/2025/02/21/k...

I’m surprised it him this long. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-sa...

Now that Elon Musk is the government, it is appropriate - even necessary - to refer to his removal of critical Twitter content as “censorship.” As for his plan to use said government to force private companies to advertise on Twitter: I’m not sure what to call that.