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Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

Kinda destroys the whole dictator attack on Zelensky 😂

Plan To Be More Positive Off To Shitty Fucking Start theonion.com/plan-to...

“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”

Obviously not the usual line, but don't envy Starmer, Macron etc going into the White House this week, because they know most of what Trump has said is lunacy, on economics and security, but also don't know what he really means, yet know how thin skinned he is. Hence, intelligence gathering...

"STOP brining up autism to explain ANY of fElon's behavior. What you're seeing is A PSYCHOPATH." #ElonMusk #Psychopath #MentalIllness #GreedyBastard #EvilBastard #politics #corruption #theft

USDA scientists terminated from Cereal Disease Lab in St. Paul www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

POV: You're 16, believe being in advanced placement math class means you're a once in a generation genius, and have just discovered Reddit.

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

For those that are new to me, or who maybe followed me in the past few years, before I became a "deep state enemy" (🙄): I was a Fulbright grantee in Kyiv. It's my second home. The time I spent in Ukraine were easily the most important years of my life. They taught me so much. 1/

“It is hard to keep on, but we will because we have no choice,” Jenya says. “We are defending our homes, our land, our children. We can’t stop.”

Uitstekende documentaire om nu te kijken. Over de kluwe aan fascistische clubs in de jaren '20 en '30, hun taal en succesfactoren en over het politieke en maatschappelijke klimaat waarin ze groot werden. www.npodoc.nl/documentaire...

Krasnov: the taste of treason #politics #Krasnov #AgentOrange #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #nazis #oligarchy #plutocracy #Kleptocracy

Stephen Fry, "I'm deeply worried about the darkening shadow that's going over the world, the shadow of fascism" Laura Kuenssberg, "You would use that word?" Stephen Fry, "Absolutely. It's a cult of power. And power only speaks to power"

The Godfather, Whitehouse edition

Yang's interview with Lewis - about her book Enemy Feminisms - is a great read (rskt with alt-text)

ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate

The latest in Hindutva science and TOI propaganda. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/w...

Online kursiert ein Aufruf an „Linke“, bei der Bundestagswahl die AfD auf dem Stimmzettel durchzustreichen. So solle „ganz deutlich“ werden, dass man gegen die Partei sei. Doch das macht den Stimmzettel unter Umständen ungültig, die Bundeswahlleiterin rät davon ab. correctiv.org/faktencheck/...

I too did my best to warn people Ruth. Now we have arrived, deeply unsettling. I truly believe a vast number of Americans haven't a clue as to what has become the new reality, the horrific impacts that are unfolding. Strongly recommend reading both these articles it is imperative to stay informed.

"Lewis argues that it is an especially urgent time to fight fascism, even if that means fighting fascist feminists." I missed this the other day. Read it. It's very good. It eviscerates not just present-day TERFs but various other anti-feminist feminisms over the past 200+ years.

As someone notes in reply, what happens to working women’s “uniforms” is that they get sexualised. Sexy nurse, sexy maid, sexy teacher, etc etc etc…

“NATO may have already died - in the sense that, if the Article 5 commitment is no longer believable, if it is not something you can bank on, we may already be at a point when we need to start looking at something else, which looks a bit like NATO but doesn’t involve the US.”

Worse than Office Space. Musk is a fucking joke. Lame, lame, lame.

They fired a top Black general and are replacing him with a much less-qualified white general. They’re not hiding the racism.

"America’s growing darkness: a timely warning to the UK Living amidst chaos in the US, I fear a creeping regime reminiscent of 1930s Germany. Project 2025 echoes a history threatening democracy"

Give a weeb 💰40,000,000,000 and …, Elon Musk is basically living out the weird Japanese video game Conception: Please Give Birth to My Child! (コンセプション 俺の子供を産んでくれ!) in real life. 13 kids and counting—just waiting for him to start talking about ‘Star Children’ and saving the world.

If we end up with a situation in which Ukraine has its mineral wealth extorted by a fascist American government, watch for the British state trying to normalise and enable this disgusting behaviour, as it seeks to get its snout into the reconstruction trough.

It would appear that our son is entertaining fellow travellers on the London Underground…. (I don’t think these are even his pipes!) #Scotland #ScotlandRugby #MusicSky

It's going to be a field day, and the news has spread far and wide that Trump has been a Russian asset for 40 years. It can't be stopped by a few sites getting wiped. Krasnov means "beauty" in Russian, and this story is going to be a beaut! www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

This seems incredibly legal and could in no way backfire in unpredictable and damaging ways.

I’m not a federal government employee but here are my ‘five bullets’ of what I ‘accomplished’ last week: 1. Pissed off JD Vance 2. Pissed off Elon Musk 3. Taped a hilarious convo with Hasan Minhaj (out next month) 4. Taped a great convo with Jemele Hill 5. Drank more than one chocolate milkshake.

googled him with such vigour and urgency that I typed "crdanial pizzaballa"

No More Kings—unless we're talking about burgers, chess pieces, or legendary rock & roller. youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZ... #NoMoreKings #SchoolhouseRock #HistoryWithABeat

What did russians do to your country? Let us remember and never forget. #Ukraine #UkrainianView

The way other female conservative influencers are turning on Ashley St. Clair, leaking her texts, and smearing her should be a sign to any conservative woman that a movement built on misogyny will not protect you. That your female peers will weaponize misogyny against you, too.

So, let's hope you're not on maternity leave, or in a war zone, or in training, or at home with the flu, or just on holiday hiking up a mountain. Because Elon - an entirely unelected foreigner, with zero security clearance, who apparently now runs the US - will decide everyone's fate, every Monday.

All women, including white cis straight women, are DEI Hires now.

…which is a measure of how completely normalized it is in American culture, even in non-MAGA spaces