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It's stunning how far behind Lander and Stringer are. Not like they don't have money to spend.

There is no coming back from this. No future president can trust any officer in DHS who was part of this until we hold our own Nuremberg trials.

"Early last year, a top progressive data scientist warned donors in a memo that if Democratic mobilization groups “were to blindly register nonvoters,” they could be “distinctly aiding Trump’s quest for a personal dictatorship”" OK. We got killed in voter reg anyway the last 4 years by doing little

"So, sure, look inward. But spare us the existential freakout." Thank you!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌 Enough already www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

We need to start having a serious conversation about whether the President is aware of the things being done by his administration. Is he simply checked out mentally or incapable of doing the job mentally with the country being run by underlings and staff like Miller and Vought?

California pays more in federal taxes than they get back. They should stop paying them.

The only appropriate response is for Californians to stop paying federal income taxes www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Important thread

Completely insane viewpoint. The insane president’s most important ally - the drug-addicted wealthiest man on earth - accused him of being a pedophile and said he should be impeached. Seems important! Seems like it tells us something about these men! Seems like it could have consequences!

bbno$ is still right. Elon is a piece of garbage youtu.be/0NCqJmdwJKs?...

I guess we can just assume any Republican who hasn’t already come out and forcefully and publicly backed Trump and condemned Elon is a disloyal treasonous RINO playing both sides. Like JD Vance.

Maybe Trump should deport the Afrikaner refugees and re-fund USAID to troll Elon? That would be cool.

I understand that "Dems in disarray" has a rhythm that "GOP in disarray" doesn't. But in 40+ years there's been no Dem-disarray remotely comparable to Trump/Musk/Leo/etc fratricide. Has there been even *one* "GOP in disarray" big headline? Maybe I've missed it.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

We are not a serious country and capitalism is not a serious economic system

This continues to be the most insane thing about our insane president and his insane policies. I remember a book by Marco Rubio about the Cuban exile experience. I would expect he will be really mad about this when he finds out. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/t...

fuck it! tired of this narrative! coming out tomorrow!

This is how Trump is not like Putin. If he was Putin, he would have taken all of Musk's assets and throw him into a Siberian gulag by now.

What on *earth* is he talking about? I've annotated @gelliottmorris.com's invaluable graph of Trump's approval rating on immigration. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data?open=...

It is by no means an exaggeration to say that many, many people who work in politics don't actually believe in anything but making money in a white collar career of consequence. You can't explain this kind of thing any other way.

It's a damn shame Kennedy is such a lunatic and ghoul because he is low key one of the smartest guys in the Senate

In fairness, this isn't that much money. Certainly compared to crypto. The preemption amendment was a teaser that will be stripped out so more money can flow in 2026

"we are going to rein in big tech!" was a giant, successful Republican con to bully tech companies away from competent content moderation of racist right wing propaganda online and the tech and businesses press completely helped them sell it as a good faith effort

We really need AI to produce brain dead economics takez?

Doctors say that vaccines do not cause autism. X-user @cryptomaga1488 says that they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

We have to come to terms with the failures of center-left governments in a post COVID world. www.politico.eu/article/keir...

This one's easy. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

Chris Murphy on Joni Ernst: "I think everybody in that audience knows they're going to die, they would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90 instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that when you lose your healthcare, you are much more at risk of early death."

Celebrating the end times.

Just a normal center-right senator from a normal center-right party saying normal center-right things.

Sure would be great if Dem SuperPACs SPENT MONEY ON ADS RIGHT NOW HIGHLIGHTING A REPUBLICAN TELLING US ALL TO DIE. But they won’t, because the broken “Dem data expert” world tells everyone to wait on ads until September 2026.

Who did this? 😂

every article about politics in every mainstream publication is flat out lying to you if it does not emphasize that our government has been taken over by freaks and lunatics

Fact check: True We are all going to die someday.

NYT: Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans (Gift Link) “Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to advance his political agenda by policing immigrants and punishing critics, Democratic lawmakers and critics have said.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

This is shocking. Who could imagine such a thing? Have there been any signs of instability with Elon this last year or signs of out of control behavior. I can't believe Stephen Miller's wife would prefer this www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

The real scandal in 1930s German politics was Kaiser Wilhelm’s cognitive decline