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Recovering political junkie. Star Wars. Photography. Oenophile. New Yorker raised in Bridgeport & New Haven, CT. Wannabe Jedi, but simply a cantina patron.
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Running thread of people trying to normalize the sieg heil. It's not an "Elon gesture", it's not autism, it's not your heart going out, it's not parody or trolling. It's fucking despicable. Don't ever let this shit become normal. Fuck any excuse given, there is none. Zero tolerance. 1. Elon Musk

If people were really just dying from chronic diseases then how come they weren’t dying from their chronic diseases until after March, 2020?

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Get arrested preventing DOGE goons from entering public buildings, get arrested going into public buildings to find out what DOGE goons are doing, get arrested on the floor during confirmation votes to protest the rubber stamping of unqualified candidates

It’s been a long fucking day, I’m tired, and I misspoke. Let me rephrase it in a more correct way. Fuck Hakeem Jeffries and almost every other elected Democratic official for forcing me to be the one to get arrested instead of them doing their goddamn job and being leaders.

In a world of elon musks, we need more Carl Sagans.

It’s been one month.

What I’ve been saying (screaming). Now there’s data.

"History was written by the winners, and the winners were assholes." --THEY KNEW (2022)

Both political parties and the FBI were long ago infiltrated by the "Russian mafia", which is actually a transnational crime syndicate in which the Kremlin is a key hub -- one with particular importance for Trump. Two former heads of the FBI went on to work for the Russian mafia.

One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often *quite* intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.

Well done, sir

We've arrived at the point where most predictions in THEY KNEW have come true and folks can respond to "But no one could have known!" by waving THEY KNEW in their face

U.S. media: Interviewing retired Democrats about whether taking over Canada would help them electorally Canadian media: Interviewing retired counterinsurgency advisors on what a campaign of resistance against an armed invasion would look like

Eric Adams committed a crime, then sold out New Yorkers in a desperate attempt to avoid consequences for committing that crime, committing even more crimes in the process. Adams needs to immediately resign, and so does Hakeem Jeffries.

Watch the moment a Delta Airlines plane crashes at Toronto airport and flips over ⬇️ Read more: trib.al/eueo7JY

The SAVE Act will require voters to provide unnecessary documentation to vote. This bill would make voting harder for people of color, women, and low-income people — groups of people who already face more difficulties at the polls.

Every union should be echoing this statement.

Reading some early Captain America comics and found this great panel of Elon Musk

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER ASSAULT: They’re coming for our history. The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists. Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?

RFK Jr: “Gardasil is probably the single worst, mass vaccine that we've ever seen.” @drneilstone.bsky.social: “The HPV vaccine (Gardasil) is safe, effective, and on the way to ELIMINATING cervical cancer! RFK Jr is an anti-vaccine fanatic who would rather your daughter got cancer than a vaccine.”

I remember so many Libs telling me I was wrong and to shut up and just fall in line and yet here we are….

RFK being an addict isn’t the issue — no one better understands drug misuse than a former user. RFK being a fanatical pro-life, queerphobic, mental illness-denying anti-vaxxer, ‘nutrition huckster’ and conspiracy theorist is the issue. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @annamerlan.bsky.social

I'm glad to see my old work resonating a decade later. I have a new book out in April. It's called THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. Preorders are important! Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Left Bank (signed): www.left-bank.com/product/sign... Amazon: www.amazon.com/Last-America... Thanks!

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

New from me — “What it comes down to is the removal of choice, especially when it comes to established health care. People should not have to suffer the anguish of being denied life-saving drugs because a couple of guys have decided to apply conspiracy theories instead of established science.”

PJ on blue sky

Same. Come and take them, you whale-eviscerating rapist motherfucker.

Outrageous. 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses and dentists terminated by DOGE. Will have a devstating effect on the health of Native Americans.

Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.

The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It’s Musk or Us.

I remain hopeful, but we can’t wait for courts to rein in Musk. Can you get off of X? Can you get rid of your Tesla? Can you light a candle every night hoping cybertrucks spontaneously corrode and the furious earth envelops their rusted corpses with a riot of wildflowers? slate.com/business/202...