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The most important thing to Elon Musk and about Elon Musk to Donald Trump is he is the richest.

the ketamine fuhrer is technically right. Patriot Front members haven't been doxed; they've been identified and reported on extensively. 🧵

Third term you say?

To be fair, 12-year-old girls are extremely slow runners

The Occam’s Razor of Elon Musk is he’s a bagman

President Trump said he had ordered the Treasury secretary to stop producing new pennies. Last year, Caity Weaver wrote that continuing to mint pennies was a symbol of our national dysfunction. Revisit her New York Times Magazine cover story.

In Madawaska, a town at Maine’s northern tip, the border feels more real than ever. Trump’s tariffs could cripple mills on both sides of the border that have kept Madawaska alive, residents say. Some support them anyways. www.pressherald.com/2025/02/09/a...

Any Dem congressperson could round up a few friendly and alarmed FBI agents right now and go arrest Musk’s gang of children. “Just fucking do it and see what happens” is a stronger move for the side that is upholding the law.

I’m not by any means a military expert, but this seems to have the potential for becoming some sort of albatross that will seem obvious in hindsight

They’re absolutely going for it. Doesn’t mean they’re going to be successful, and in fact I think it’s like shooting the moon, but everyone needs to understand what they are attempting.

It is so lazy to be cruel. It is the ultimate flex of privilege

Think that Lin guy is gonna need to greenlight and all-white production of Hamilton

Remember that interaction where he said, if Trump loses he’s “fucked” and Tucker said me too, but clearly there was a difference in degree?

Elon Musk thinks that the pro-eugenics racist he hired to do his dirty work at the U.S. treasury should be brought back from resignation, and that the journalist who exposed his lackey should be fired.

One thing I've thought about a lot over the past few days is we were told that Musk's effort involved myriad high-profile Silicon Valley names willing to forego salary in order to help revamp government and what we got was child soldiers.

It’s hard to believe that after waiting 28 years to become Appropriations Chair, one of the first things Senator Collins is going to do is vote for an OMB director who plans to subvert the appropriations process #mepolitics

A problem with “We’ll get them in the debt ceiling,” or “We’ll get them when appropriations run dry” is they’ll just prioritize payments that come with bribes and funnel revenue directly to specific projects; heck, mint the platinum coin and keep going like nothing. Markets will adjust to new rule

Whole world hostage to a clique of incels who root for the heels in The Big Lebowski

I’ve been getting a lot of calls over the past few days, and the interesting thing is none of them are about Donald Trump. They’re all about Elon Musk. My constituents, and a majority of this country, put Trump in the White House, not this unelected, weirdo billionaire.

Calling Black people genocide supporters for voting against a return to Jim Crow America is a choice, also.

Route 4 in Paramus, NJ, yesterday. Posted on Facebook by John Weir @jweirdo.bsky.social.

Why? What is the upside here?

Chris Murphy: "We don't pledge allegiance to the creepy 22 year olds working for Elon Musk. We pledge allegiance to the United States of America."

Trump admin is like the great uncancelling. All these guys who failed background checks or had careers stunted by accusations of dv or adultery or other misoginies get to burn their files and torment their accusers; become the cops

It has actually been super-inspiring to see people reacting in real time -- the lawsuits filed overnight, accountability tools like this being built.

Someone should write a song about how this place came into existence. Maybe two

If the tariffs are going to be so great for the country, why are we pausing them?

Canadian MP Charlie Angus while vowing to call Trump's trade war bluff on CNN just now, "This isn't gunboat diplomacy (laughs). I mean, this is like an Al Capone shakedown in his syphilis phase."

Saying you deleted an employer of thousand when no one knows for sure if you did, seems intended to cause panic. That’s the point. There’s no other intention. I thought that was an exception to free speech?

If he actually follows through on any of this, it would be a form of terrorism - to just economically assassinate people or groups and then hold that power over others for political gain is terrorism. he’s not in the government and is a citizen of two other countries first.

A lot of people who don’t think for one second about who the President is or what is Denmark think there’s their kid’s teacher is too focused on kids who don’t belong there. They don’t know how unhelpful this is

Noting that Elon Musk attacked the Lutheran Church's work providing services, and that JD Vance attacked Catholic Bishops for their work with immigrants. Fair to say that this administration is one of the most hostile to religion and religious freedom that we have seen in recent memory.

Pay for Tim Walz rallies constantly across the country. Real tent pole patriotism with any number of performers playing the local arenas and clubs drop in. AOC guest hosting on Friday nights. Rally around the latest insults and injuries and how to help the victims and thwart the thugs. Sell merch.

These companies are going to pretend they’re getting put through the ringer; raise prices; plead with politician to cave; Trump never follows through except to move goal posts as politicians cave and prices stay up. Business can get behind this plan

okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...