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Elon Musk "seems to have lost interest in the grinding business of developing, producing & selling cars, investors & analysts say." Why aren't blue-state governors launching investigations & lawsuits targeting Musk on state pension funds' behalf? That's how Ron DeSantis went after Disney.

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This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

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My all-time favorite film premiered 40 years ago tonight, in France. BRAZIL depicts a society in which nothing works, with faulty technology, bureaucracy, and state repression quashing any glimmer of freedom or imagination or joy. It's pretty much the future Elon Musk is creating for the rest of us.

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I should just give up, but… Democrats should imagine what Republicans would have said and done if Merrick Garland had gone to, like, Netroots Nation, called Don Jr a crackhead, and mused about fabricating criminal charges against Joe Biden's enemies, and then say and do that.

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In New York, Trump take ALL the egg @mtsw.bsky.social

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My all-time favorite film premiered 40 years ago tonight, in France. BRAZIL depicts a society in which nothing works, with faulty technology, bureaucracy, and state repression quashing any glimmer of freedom or imagination or joy. It's pretty much the future Elon Musk is creating for the rest of us.

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Submissions are now open for our 9th year of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Please share widely so we can award these amazing young women some money! lithub.com/submissions-...

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My ancestors rose against monarchy and won. It’s time that we revive that spirit.

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@elienyc.bsky.social: "New Yorkers should make the rest of Adams’s public life absolutely impossible. He walks around like he has no shame, and the prevailing wisdom is that he cannot be shamed into resigning—but let’s put that to an old-school Gotham test."

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“Mr. Bolsonaro and President Trump—political allies who have long mirrored one another—have both now been indicted on charges of pushing to overturn elections. But Mr. Trump’s case was dropped as he returned to power, while Mr. Bolsonaro is at perhaps his weakest political point yet.”

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On the heels of multiple airplane disasters, including one less than a month ago that killed 67 people, and after years of warnings about our understaffed air traffic control system, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA air traffic control workers. apnews.com/article/doge...

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Five years ago this morning, when Trump's apostrophe made it clear that as far as he is concerned, there has only ever been one president

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I get the speed & brutality of massive destructive power grabs but I have yet to see anything that explains in any way how Trump to say nothing of musk are free to operate purely by malign fiat, untwisted, as sole owners of a country that had rules & cops & g-men & bench warrants til three weeks ago

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@juliusgoat.bsky.social: “The incompetence of their evil reveals the great weakness of the Republican Party, those nightmare people, those fascist pieces of shit, which is that they are bad at everything but theft and destruction, and eventually that will matter.”

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“This year’s Munich security conference exposed the chasm in core values separating the Trump administration from most Europeans.” I appreciate the implicit acknowledgment that “the Trump administration” ≠ America.

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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

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Published eight years ago today. Same as it ever was.

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$500 million worth of food intended for relief efforts is at risk of spoiling, given Trump’s freeze on shipping food assistance “They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle, and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan,” WH official said.

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Trump take egg

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Harper & Row published Erich Segal's LOVE STORY 55 years ago today. Originally a screenplay, but @paramountpictures.bsky.social wanted a novelization, and it became 1970's best-selling book—though hardly literature: Jurors for the National Book Award threatened to resign if it were named a finalist.

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Laurie Naranch & @lorimarso.bsky.social at @strandbookstore.bsky.social tonight, for Lori's new @dukepress.bsky.social book on feminism & film! www.dukeupress.edu/feminism-and...

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Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

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This has been bubbling under the surface. Lots of career prosecutors who worked incredibly hard to put people away, watching their work undone bc Trump wants to help his friends.

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THEY ARE DEFUNDING MEDICAID AND BUYING CYBERTRUCKS WITH THE MONEY. Dems stop saying "uh he promised he would lower the cost of living" and take the layup

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i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow

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Damn it, Marvel. Shouldn't have raised my expectations based on the trailer including zero multiverse nonsense.

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