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Tripping Daisyyyyyyy @turfclub.bsky.social if you live in Iowa they’re there tomorrow. highly recommend!!

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From Rachel Cohen at Vox on twitter: this video of Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet is playing in the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development cafeteria this morning (per source at HUD)

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

Got to say I LOVE the Trump Administration negotiating to get Rare Minerals from Ukraine, for 2 reasons: 1. It reduces our dependence on China for Lithium and Graphite (China provides near 70% of world supply) 2. More than 50% of those minerals are in Russian Annexed land.

Can we just agree that the bros are DOGEbags?

This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off. I can’t say it any more plainly than that.

Excellent reporting. "The data the White House has cited to say Canada is responsible for a 'massive” increase in fentanyl flowing across the northern border include a large drug bust that, according to the U.S. border agency, has no known connection to Canada." #cdnpoli

I wrote for Slate about how a conservative think tank plans to "identify and target" Wikipedia editors who it claims are abusing their position—a dangerous escalation that shifts the fight from debating edits to going after the editors themselves. slate.com/technology/2...

Just for the record, we're talking about, among other things, the WEATHER. We, um, might need to talk to people monitoring it elsewhere.

Panama is now denying this furiously. Looks like it may have simply been a false claim. Marco Rubio may end up being far, far worse than anyone fathomed.

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "The water comes down from the northwest parts of Canada, I guess, but the Pacific Northwest. And it comes down by millions and millions of barrels a day and uh, I opened it up. It wasn't that easy to do. But I opened it up and it's pouring down."

So, just like @abenewman.bsky.social & @himself.bsky.social found out Trump staffers had read the weaponized interdependence thesis as a playbook against China, it’s now crystal clear Musk and DOGE see the dynamic as a playbook to submit any and all parts of the US government.

Real shocker here. The 25 year old rooting around in the code of the US government's payment system likes to post things like "Normalize Indian hate." www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

Last year Elon Musk and SpaceX claimed the NLRB is unconstitutional after being accused of labor violations. Now under Trump, the NLRB is dropping its opposition to this claim. The labor board will no longer fight in court against the charges that it shouldn't exist.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Update: Bitcoin went down $4,164.48 today under Trump

Spirits giant Brown-Forman — whose flagship brand is Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey — announced that it’s closing its barrel-making plant in Louisville, KY. That move comes as American whiskey producers face 25% retaliatory tariffs from Canada in response to Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canadian goods.

Dear MAGA: You’re totally, absolutely, completely in a fucking cult.

Red state alcohol is currently being removed at B.C. Liquor store in Victoria. #bcpoli

The point isn't the violation of the Constitution and blatant law breaking. The point is that they think nothing will stop them.