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Psychotherapist. Person with opinions. Journalist, briefly. Former latchkey and theater kid. “Objectivity” isn’t real; own your biases. Hate fascists, MAGAs, bros. Love democracy, a free press, cooking, true crime, hiking, cycling, swearing
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Trump: "We are also going to Ft Knox. I'm going to go with Elon. Because we want to see if the gold is still there. Wouldn't that be terrible? ... we open the door, we'll say, 'There's nothing here! They stole this too!'"

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine doesn’t sign minerals deal. Starlink is essential for Ukraine’s battlefield comms. This is the equivalent of FDR threatening to arm the Nazis if Europe didn’t sign over half its resources. Extortion. And utterly unforgivable. Hell awaits.

It sure feels like that the shooter in Butler was a fan of Trump got buried quickly along with any lingering press curiosity about him at all. Like does anybody even remember his name without looking?

this is so at odds with all the feelings parenthood brings up, i find it genuinely incomprehensible, even for someone as depraved as elon

"Friendship knows no boundaries! This dog waits every day for his dolphin friend 🐶🐬❤️"

200 million dollars of waste.

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

This is how it’s done.

Britt and Adam working out the bathroom stall scene. #severance #camelcoats

Seems legit.... We don't want to be a nation of underachieving Americans.

here's the Bunny With Tinnitus (graphite on vellum 2x3 inches)

wait this can't be right, we have two business geniuses at the helm

BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

i mean, that's a protection racket. what he's describing is a protection racket.

Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

all of central Brooklyn is playing a game of Egg The Cybertruck with this one guy who keeps street parking in the hood

Important to start admitting that we’re living under Schrodinger’s constitution—one that is not in effect whenever it constrains Republican powers, but is in effect whenever it can be used to stymie democrats or suppress opposition.

Guess I’ve been living under a rock—had no idea Tiger Woods went full MAGA.

The Georgia Republican who recently told CNN that school kids should be sent to work to earn school lunches was met with outrage and fury from residents at a local town hall meeting on Thursday night.

Holy crap. At his town hall last night, Rep. Rich McCormick compared *his own constituents* who asked him tough and fair questions to January 6 insurrectionists

I was camping and woke up to this goat watching me sleep 💀

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

What’s wrong, babe? You haven’t touched your Eggo-brand alcoholic Appalachian sippin’ cream

is this where I point out Jim Jones’ late stage habit of always wearing sunglasses

Elon, community noted *and* ratioed.

This is really something

A James Bond TV show for a streaming service in 2025 is gonna be insufferable. Just 10 episodes of a guy that doesn't call himself either James Bond or 007 yet and then in the final episode, he orders a martini, shaken not stirred, and we all politely clap and Season 2 takes 5 years to come out

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

‘Free Luigi’ billboard has gone up in lower Manhattan the evening before his next court appearance. Sent in anon.

Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are starting to get torn apart by their own constituents. Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.” Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥

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No! If you watch an old video of Elon, like this 2010 tour of SpaceX, it's obvious that he is physically and mentally almost a completely different person. He's dweebier and more earnest, but his cognition and speech are also way more fluid and coherent. youtu.be/0lJWmhpextE?...

if you're an Elon Musk level right wing figure and you're fighting for your life to keep a Newsmax anchor vibing during an onstage interview at CPAC, you gotta be at world historical levels of gone off that good good