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My guess: Musk wanted the email to say that, someone convinced him otherwise, and then he was like fuck it I’ll tweet it anyway. (This is a very Trumpian sequence.)

Everything they do is to enrich themselves and their friends. electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

Don't be modest, @nytimes.com, @theatlantic.com, @theguardian.com. Take a bow. What a beautiful atrocity you've built.

another Nazi salute at CPAC

Happy #caturday from L-R Admin 17, Reggie 19 (with 28 toes), & Clara 8.5

Listen up.

Per @scaramucci.bsky.social: “He just fired the Joint Chief of Staff. Wants to install a puppet. For those who think that he is contemplating leaving, they don’t understand what happened on January 6.”

Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

This woman is a dumbass.

Fifty years ago, the dystopic film, The Stepford Wives, imagined suburban white men swapping their spouses for robot trad wives terrified viewers. Now, it watches like a playbook for these times. @nberlat.bsky.social for us today. www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/19/p...

I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.

Tulsi Gabbard was once on a government watchlist. Now she’s running U.S. intelligence. Moral of the story? If at first you don’t succeed, just switch political parties.

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

Memo to Democrats: If EVERY ONE of you would do what Janet Mills did yesterday EVERY TIME, Trump would unravel entirely. He relies on you being bullied. Refuse to be.

Why is it that New York Times columnists like Kristof never seem to write earnest pieces urging MAGA to read books that explain why we hate fascism?

It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business. From reporting by @puck.news. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

“A desire to force U.S. military leaders to be obedient to him and not the Constitution is one of the constant themes of Trump’s military-related discourse.”

Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

I attended a democratic fundraiser tonight where they sold raffle tickets for a dozen eggs… Genius.

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

The way she spoke to him was like an adult to a misbehaving child and I think that works?

Afraid we will lose our government because Judges will sit on their hands rather than act with any sense of urgency. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

No one can stop this taxpayer money grab by fake religious schools in a GOP owned state. Indiana will be known for dumb kids who think Jesus America rode red, white & blue dinosaurs.

*Slams dictionary shut til Monday*

There’s something happening in this country.

Adonis update: huh, this place might not be so bad

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

Some much-needed good news here.

Savage Trump own from Justin Trudeau after Canada beat the US in the Four Nations Face-Off final. Everything Trump Touches Dies. Bravo, Canada! 🇨🇦

Lying about his weight is funny, but this is Trump’s most outrageous lie: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Musk called DOGE “maximally transparent,” but it has refused to release info about its spending and operations — including the names of its employees. Thankfully, @propublica.org has identified 46 of them, including 12 new names just added to the list today.

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

What you see when you belatedly realize you are now in the Find Out stage.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

Please join the movement @indivisible.org It is good for our country and good for your soul.

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Rep. Jasmine Crockett exposes near $1 billion in new contracts for Musk in just 2 weeks: "This is nothing more than a money grab. He's not out there trying to save money for the American people, he's lining his pockets."

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.