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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

I wonder if you can guess, without reading the headlines, which TWO people in this picture just got fired from the Joint Chiefs. Go ahead, take a wild guess. Pick two.

What's "going to happen" for which military lawyers will be a "roadblock?"

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

Over the past week, several recent ex-State Dept officials reached out to me with a major concern. DOGE could soon access a huge defense-export database that represents a massive, if not transformational corruption opportunity for Musk & allies. Meet USXports:

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

New issue of Der Speigel (German News magazine)

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

Mayor: You finish that statue of Lincoln for the federal courthouse? Sculptor: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Mayor: what

One of the greatest strengths of white supremacy is that it conditions people to believe that white people are incapable of dishonesty So until he literally says "I'm a nazi" people will give him cover and play plausible deniability games. "But he's just trolling! It's a coincidence" etc etc

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

Wish I could travel back two decades in time to tell myself that the guy who was then head of the Republican National Committee is now doing more to fight back against a Republican president than most Democrats.

Seen on fbook this evening

Left, Italy 1943. Right, the United States today.

Locking up the Scientologist vote

Vance was right on just one thing: Europe lacks a clear positive vision of what it wants to defend. The answer must be "the things Vance rejects": truth, science, liberal democracy, rule of law, resisting dictators, climate action. It will have to do that without, & sometimes against, the US Govt.

Strip clubs, topless bars, Hooters etc have an opportunity to do something really funny and insist on making their workforce 50% male in order to comply with anti-DEI mandates. Those ladies are taking jobs away from red-blooded American men who need the work

GOP state lawmaker who introduced a bill intended to ban Pride flags in schools, and during a committee hearing said the bill would allow the display of a Nazi flag — which he later claimed he never said. Here’s the video 👇🏼

New reporting shows corporations are funneling $$ DIRECTLY to paying off Trump and his family. $40 million from Amazon $10 million from Elon Musk's X Then, Trump cuts their taxes. Trump's family gets rich. Your family gets screwed. Corruption, plain and simple.

it would be cool to see the white house press corps stand up to this to at least the same degree they stood up to joe biden's press flacks occasionally being rude to them or whatever it was that they were made about in 2023/24

Mosses are plants Roses are flowers Congress has abrogated Its constitutional powers

YOU ALL CAN JUST SHIVER IN THE DARK, STATE THAT SUPPORTED ME insideclimatenews.org/news/1402202...

The president just implemented one of the largest mass layoffs in American history – potentially 200,000 people in a single day – and democrats are not on the floors of Congress right now doing anything about it because they called it a day early to go drinking with Republicans in Berlin instead.

You have to submit to unchecked executive power in the hands of the world's richest person because we had to hear a teenage protester criticize us

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

What better for military preparedness than a vehicle that locks you in when the system is rebooting.

Repeating myself, but the idea of Trump & Musk as "masculine" remains bizarre. They're just the toxic and immature parts with none of the traditional "masculine" virtues. They're whiny, entitled, unreliable, dishonest, self-absorbed, never take responsibility, never put duty over self-interest, etc.

In hindsight, Rock and Roll has made a poor foundation for this city

The men and women of our military have endured many hardships and even many shameful humiliations at the hands of their country but surely they don’t deserve being put in Cybertrucks.

“The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, is stealing money from you to put in his pocket” has to be the easiest political argument ever www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

here, let me help: After Purge, Trump Installs Himself as Chair of Kennedy Center

Alternative WSJ headline: "Cherokees Relocated, Why Can't Gazans?"

these guys spent 60 kajillion dollars to make a computer forget how to do math

I am the richest man in the world. I’m here to fix your government inefficiency by reallocating all federal spending to contracts with my companies

If George Soros held an Oval Office press conference explaining his plans for the Biden administration and then the State Department awarded a nine figure contract to the Open Society Foundations then Washington D.C. would’ve consisted of mostly ash and blood within 72 hours.

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

Because you are handing him what he wants?

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties & regimes

Just a reminder of who Tulsi Gabbard is, via the funniest thing she ever said

sometimes being a journalist feels like trying to point something out to a cat but it just keep staring at your finger like that’s the important thing

Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it. www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...

Yes, yes, this is a serious person testifying before Congress that Canada is less open to free speech than North Korea. Tell me again that Bari Weiss's publication (for whom this person works) is a trustworthy publication on speech issues.

Classic case of government inefficiency. Instead of giving Putin direct control of US intelligence, Republicans have installed a middleman at taxpayer expense.

He just told two and a half million people they can’t work from home any more

The level of ignorance betrayed by Musk in this lecture is astonishing. That such ignorance guides our government is terrifying. https://buff.ly/4hQAIja

They were gonna call it the Gulf of Your Mom, but it wasn't big enough.

"No white people during Kendrick's halftime show? So much for diversity" Oh you didn't hear? DEI got canceled. He clearly hired the best people for the job 😌