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I wonder if a billionaire means personal liberties and free markets in the same way i do

submitted 14 hours ago • 70 comments

This is evil. Pure evil.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3125 comments

Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)? A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

If Tesla's board sent Elon Musk a "What did you do last week?" email, here's what an honest answer would be: - worked remotely - likely broke numerous federal laws - had very public personal crisis involving ex and child - destroyed another $184.7 BILLION in shareholder value

submitted 17 hours ago • 66 comments

As Elon Musk guts entire government agencies and fires thousands of federal workers that deliver vital services to the country, remember that his corporations have received at least $38 billion in government contracts over the past 20 years. Yet will any of this be touched by DOGE? Of course not.

submitted 11 hours ago • 81 comments

I have noticed that as independent media thrives, the billionaire backed legacy media is starting to call itself independent as well. Don't be fooled. Support fearlessly independent, unapologetically pro-democracy outlets like Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 17 hours ago • 117 comments

I told you all @jeffbezos was feral. He’s now killed the Graham/Bradlee legacy of justice, the First Amendment and basic humanity in a vomitous spew of nonsense, testosterone fueled (and HGH) double talk that is more than a little pathetic and utterly shameless.

submitted 15 hours ago • 606 comments

A Southwest Airlines plane was forced to abort its landing this morning after a private jet taxied in front of it across the runway at Midway Airport in Chicago. Whatever that guy from The Real World is doing with the FAA has gotta stop.

submitted 1 day ago • 1066 comments

Dear Europe, Trump completely melts under pushback. So push back.

submitted 2 days ago • 736 comments

I've worked in tech a long time and every "open plan" office is absolute garbage. they get rid of walls to supposedly promote collaboration and then they have to build a ton of "booths" so people can have peace and quiet to take calls or, y'know, actually WORK.

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

“Every current and former NNSA employee who spoke to The Bulwark was alarmed about the possibilities of this sort of brain drain, fretting that Musk and his tech-bro buds simply didn’t realize how unsuited the ‘turn everything off and see what breaks’ model was to their line of work.”

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. As you know, my name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan—after the warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.

submitted 6 days ago • 253 comments

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 6 days ago • 579 comments

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 6 days ago • 560 comments

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 7 days ago • 87 comments

Everyone has things in their career of which they're ashamed. Nothing...and I mean nothing...in my career in politics makes me more ashamed and regretful than supporting and promoting Marco Rubio. He is the most craven betrayer of his stated ideals of any human I've ever met.

submitted 7 days ago • 1758 comments

This is very inside baseball from Conservatism Inc. but basically Kevin Hassett is much dimmer than you can possibly imagine. www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-kevin...

submitted 8 days ago • 46 comments

“But while Musk’s rampage has been covered, the scope of its impact remains largely underappreciated. Experts say it can’t be measured in weeks or months or even in government services affected. Rather, it will be felt over the span of decades and defined in metrics like intellectual talent lost.”

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

Measles? This is so fucking stupid.

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

submitted 7 days ago • 1262 comments

This is what our Transportation Secretary was doing yesterday as planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. I cannot remember a more dangerous time to fly and yet this reality TV actor-turned-Cabinet Secretary is busy watching cars drive laps at the Daytona 500.

submitted 9 days ago • 1505 comments

People always tell me that I'm crazy to say that Trump will run for a third term and the courts might let him. Well, an appeals court judge just called Trump 2028 a “novel and complex constitutional question.” Sounds like a "maybe" to me! www.thebulwark.com/p/the-novel-...

submitted 12 days ago • 91 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 11 days ago • 411 comments

🥚 is it “day one” yet?

submitted 11 days ago • 85 comments

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 12 days ago • 599 comments

new resignation from SDNY Hagan Scotten -- he's a John Roberts clerk -- Roberts can't be happy at that -- and a 2 times bronze medal winner for duty in Iraq. This is the best of DOJ v the worst of the political system. The lines so clearly drawn

submitted 12 days ago • 76 comments

Only the best tech toddlers www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 12 days ago • 114 comments

True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 13 days ago • 226 comments

Ok hear me out

submitted 13 days ago • 137 comments

I have a thoughts about DOGE and "government efficiency." But a lot of it boils down to this idea: Fifty percent of government spending works. The problem is that no one knows which fifty percent. www.thebulwark.com/p/government...

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 13 days ago • 421 comments

Stephen A saying he would divorce Serena Williams for cripwalking for Kendrick’s Super Bowl performance is hilarious considering how hard he tap dances for Hannity’s show

submitted 14 days ago • 475 comments

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

submitted 14 days ago • 234 comments

The official US position is now that Russia deserves to get something for its aggression, and Ukraine should concede its negotiating position in advance rather than start high—a "high" that's simply in line with international law, BTW—and be willing to negotiate down in exchange for concessions.

submitted 14 days ago • 95 comments

Russell Vought is the architect of Project 2025, the force cutting NIH funding. But it's thanks to NIH-funded research that Vought’s daughter had access to some treatments. “We’re extremely grateful to live in a nation that leads the way on medical innovation,” Vought's then-wife wrote in 2021.

submitted 15 days ago • 152 comments

CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

submitted 15 days ago • 382 comments

Steve Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die "the U.S. is sliding toward a more 21st-century model of autocracy: competitive authoritarianism" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... "A failure to resist... could pave the way for authoritarian entrenchment" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

👇🏽🎯

submitted 16 days ago • 140 comments

James Comer had 2 years to dig into all this supposed govt corruption that Musk is “discovering.” That’s what Oversight Committee is supposed to do. Instead, he spent 2 years on Hunter Biden - which resulted in nothing except a James Comer book deal.

submitted 16 days ago • 221 comments

BREAKING: President Trump says in an interview Palestinians wouldn't be permitted to return to Gaza as part of his plan for the U.S. to take ownership of the territory.

submitted 16 days ago • 58 comments

For a quick sugar high to “own the libs,” the attempts to shutter USAID would do long term damage that couldn’t be reversed for a generation. My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

submitted 16 days ago • 573 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 17 days ago • 1165 comments