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Peter Thiel is no friend to democracy. www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

If we can’t censor the press to stop the reporting about the surveillance state we are building, we will become even bigger libertarians. by Elon Musk and Peter Thiel

The Trump admin supposedly wants to crack down on illegal immigration, but they’re doing it illegally, ie without allowing the arrestees due process. Why? What are they afraid of? What’s their real goal? Who’s the criminal here? #Deportations www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Fuck Elon Musk.

Analysis | You may not like Elon Musk, but you must admit: Who else could father 35 children and still be the avatar of incel culture?

Billionaire Musk gave more than $144,000 to more than two dozen Congress members who support impeaching judges or restricting their power.

Chinese release yet another clip mocking the US. This time feat. Trump, Rubio, Waltz, Zuckerberg, Musk and Bezos.

DOGE is firing the government employees who protect us from greedy, unscrupulous rogues like Elon Musk.

The startup has raised over $2B in venture capital, much of it from firms with ties to Trump and Musk. In addition to Thiel, other major backers include Thrive Capital, which was founded by Jared Kushner's brother, and 8VC, a firm run by Musk allies. By @chrisbing.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

“Tesla is Musk and Musk is Tesla....and anyone that thinks the brand damage Musk has inflicted is not a real thing, spend some time speaking to car buyers in the US, Europe, and Asia. You will think differently after those discussions.”

Trump and Musk are putting the lives of firefighters at risk to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. It’s just wrong. Protect first responders. Fire Elon Musk.

Thousands take to the streets across US to protest Trump and Musk policies: ‘They flaunt their criminality’

This essay from @jetjocko.bsky.social may be the smartest thing I've read yet about what Musk and DOGE are *really* up to. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-do...

Elon Musk was with Trump at his Virginia golf club today

Gardiner NY rally against Trump/Musk 4/19/25 @maddow.msnbc.com @pkryan.bsky.social #handsoff

"Stories about Musk nearly always note that neither Musk nor his representatives responded to requests for comment. And reporters say it’s difficult to know who is handling Musk’s media — the White House, his personal staff or Musk himself," writes Hadas Gold | Analysis

In case anyone needs some good news, Elon Musk just lost another 32 billion today :-)

You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.

Elon Musk has the gold

You guys, Elon Musk is mad you’re all so mean to him. 🤡 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Elon Musk has cut somewhere between 0% and 3% of what he promised—and most of what was cut was not waste or fraud or abuse, but simply expenditures Mr. Musk did not personally favor for partisan reasons. DOGE is the biggest program failure in the history of American government.

A judge blocked Musk staffers from accessing Social Security data, but of course, they’ve ignored those orders. We warned this was happening: Musk operatives have been marking individuals in the Social Security system as dead in an effort to pressure immigrants to self-deport.

Trump wrote this 3 hours before his 1:18pm 90 day tariff pause announcement. Veiled tip to his friends?

Welp—from a hospital ER doctor: “I just saw a guy whose entire retirement plan is fucked and had a grand mal seizure today”. He was just terminated from his federal job and had his 30 year full pension blocked.

Jesus—Trump just said that he will be looking at exempting certain US companies from tariffs. Reporter asks: “How will you determine that” Trump: “Instinctively”. Sounds like whoever will bend the knee and kiss the ring.

Harvard has some of the best scientists inventing new ways to early detect and cure cancer. But Trump’s ICE locks them in a detention center— for 2 months!

The current administration in the U.S. is actively self-sabotaging cancer research.

Where did Pope Francis go wrong with America's right-wing Catholic bloggers? For one thing, his celibacy was voluntary.

It’s been 27 days since ICE sent Andry (the make-up artist with “mom” & “dad” tattoos that ICE claimed were TdA tattoos) to be imprisoned in El Salvador. Thank you @repyassansari.bsky.social, @maxwellfrost.bsky.social, @robertgarcia.bsky.social, and @repdexteror.bsky.social for not forgetting him.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Trumpet of Patriots have pulled their website how to vote cards in 18 seats, mostly those where they were favouring independents. This includes the 2 Qld Greens seats where they had Labor second but not the one where they have Labor 4th ahead of People First and PHON.

Americans maybe want remove this information if its in your socials. Effective silencing and erasure is absoultely the goal I do understand that. However making it as hard as possible to opted into a RFK study about *anything* is probably immediately more important to some of you. 🫤

Four House Democrats went to El Salvador on Monday to demand the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Reps. Robert Garcia, Maxwell Frost, Yassamin Ansari, and Maxine Dexter said in a statement that they hope "to pressure" the White House "to abide by a Supreme Court order." www.npr.org/2025/04/21/g...

If Hegseth resigns and we get an Acting Secretary of Defense, it'll be the eighth time we've had one. One came under Nixon, a second under GHW Bush. And then we had *five* under Trump.

jeez louise -- Sen. Ron Johnson and Benny Johnson suggest 9/11 was an inside job and Johnson says he wants to hold hearings

Hail to the thief

Walz, the wife of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, spoke on X to condemn HHS Secretary RFK Jr. for his ableist comments about kids with autism.