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Just sent the government my accomplishments

submitted 7 hours ago • 87 comments

Dear Mr. Musk, What we found out is that each one of us is 1. a brain 2. and an athlete 3. and a basket case 4. a princess 5. and a criminal. Does that answer your question?

submitted 15 hours ago • 49 comments

elon musks method of childcare:

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

Scream this from the rooftops. Powerful men being certain that "if you're smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things."

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Peronist Fujimorism with Pol Pot characteristics

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

not dangerous like an evil genius. dangerous like a dog driving a train

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

American democracy is crumbling, and the Times is here horserace'ing Canada's conquest. Incredible stuff. But also: 1) there would be war, 2) we will never accept U.S. institutions, and 3) U.S. democracy would be long gone if this ever happened. So no, Dems don't benefit. Get it together NYT

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

submitted 5 days ago • 840 comments

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

submitted 5 days ago • 454 comments

Not to flex but anyone who followed Elon's hyperloop arc saw this coming a mile away. He said he could save 90% over high speed rail by ... buying land cheaper. That was it, he never offered any further specifics and the media utterly failed to convey how much of a charlatan he was.

submitted 6 days ago • 80 comments

The JD Vance team flagged my TikToks for impersonation and had my account banned for making fun of him in a doughnut shop.

submitted 6 days ago • 192 comments

the whole “americans don’t think anything genuinely bad can happen, politics is mostly a game” thing is so true my dad (long since lost to fox) prob thinks it’s basically a normal presidency so far older prof, seeing my grimness on the day after the election, chuckled at me—“we’ll all be fine”

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

So basically what we're learning here is that money isn't safe in your bank account and can literally just vanish overnight if the government dislikes you personally. I wonder if that scary information spreading organically, perhaps on social media, could have some negative consequences.

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

If you want to know why Trump is able to rule like an autocrat, compare the Washington Post' coverage of the Saturday Night Massacre with Trump doing exactly the same thing

submitted 9 days ago • 60 comments

Mitch is a big part of how we got here. He did it for personal power and money. He doesn't have the option of rehabilitating his image because something personally affected him and he is reaching the end of his years.

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

Hmmm

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

After speaking with Big Balls about foreign policy issues, I am ready to vote to confirm him as Secretary of State. -Susan Collins, 2027

submitted 11 days ago • 78 comments

DOGE at the local government level already exists it's called ransomware

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

We need a Schoolhouse Rock for Executive Orders, bc the media keeps treating them like they have the power to rewrite the Constitution and supersede statutes or create new crimes. THEY. CANNOT. They are simply how POTUS tells HIS ppl what he wants them to do under current laws.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Wish there was more than a like button for this. Anybody who has lived in a country where the rule of law does not apply can see where this leads. Aside from minority groups, nobody in US really has experience living in a place where power and wealth drive literally everything so take it for granted

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

submitted 12 days ago • 1059 comments

... he says from his home office.

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

A lot of reporting on the shock-and-awe campaign seems awfully credulous about the ultimate goal here being to “slash government”. To the extent that’s happening, it is incidental to the aim of consolidating and centralizing power.

submitted 13 days ago • 47 comments

We are in the middle of an unprecedented, wildly unconstitutional campaign against our federal government. course the world's most valuable journalistic space is turned over to Peter Baker so he indulge in the semi-erotic thrill he gets from Trump's masculine virility

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

half time show 2025

submitted 13 days ago • 62 comments

guy with a literal "relationships with teenage girls" section on Wikipedia didn't like Kendrick Lamar what a surprise

submitted 13 days ago • 113 comments

All of these Matthew McConaughey ads for AI - how to buy clothes! book a restaurant! find your gate at an airport! - only underline that AI is not providing a lot of real value.

submitted 13 days ago • 45 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 53 comments

I am sure that my good friend Neil Gorsuch will not be swayed by his clerks that are taking money from Elon Musk. by Neal Katyal

submitted 15 days ago • 30 comments

This whole thread is extremely concerning.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

“If there’s two things I love, it’s anti-LGBT discrimination and the high society arts scene in the District of Columbia and New York City, particularly musical theater.” -Donald Trump, 2025.

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Is it just me or has WIRED been dogwalking the rest of the media on this story

submitted 15 days ago • 186 comments

It would be funny if JD Vance tweeting that posting stuff shouldn't cost a 25 year old his job ends up costs JD Vance his marriage.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

In JD Vance's "ordo amoris," a neo-Nazi techbro comes before his own wife apparently

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

It will be my honor to remake US passenger aviation in the image of SpaceX, which hasn’t had a rocket explode in over three weeks. by Elon Musk

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

Many such cases

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight. "I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

submitted 16 days ago • 200 comments

Voters can’t put onus on Republicans because Republicans do not care about what voters think. This sort of comment from a Dem underscores how they fail to understand their agency in creating a national narrative and using their platform to create pressure. The more noise, the more MSM has to look.

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

Ask yourself: what would Jim from the Office do, if he became the Joker

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

I'm sure he'll learn his lesson soon.

submitted 18 days ago • 96 comments

Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” is illegal, immoral, and indefensible.

submitted 18 days ago • 31 comments