This is worth your time and attention:

thelefthook.substack.com/p/why-musk-a...

Unpopular take, perhaps: these tariffs are more than likely a ploy to make American companies with widespread overseas operations into vassal
supplicants of the “unitary executive” in order to receive preferential tariff relief.

Also Alex Wagner.

I get stuff like this everyday. It's increased ever since I called out Trump and MAGA on Joy Reid's show on Friday. I wonder why people think they're racist. Odd.

Sen Cassidy: “Black lives matter only if you count them”

Tech bros cheering on the cuts to grant funding built businesses and wealth on the back of decades of university R&D work. Much of that knowledge was given away to the public. This is basic pulling-up-the-ladder nonsense via rewriting history. They owe the public, not the other way around.

Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Replacing NPR with Breitbart at the Pentagon press corps is like changing the chef at your club from Jean-Georges to the 16-year-old who works the fry basket on weekends at your local Wendy’s.

Exactly, "this antisemitic thing he did doesn't make him an antisemite, after all, he visited Auschwitz to make up for another antisemitic thing he did" is not an argument any honest person would take seriously, or is probably even meant to, really. It's just noise.

What the fuck is this? AI qualifying as a prescriber?

Turning our houses of faith into killing fields is going to backfire spectacularly, but at what cost?

That’s not even to mention the ethical considerations of our theology of the incarnation and the dignity of every human being in legislating that pregnant people must carry a life-threatening pregnancy to term, even if it costs them their lives.

It is a matter of theology and doctrine for the Episcopal Church, for example, that lgbtqia people are children of God, same sex marriages are holy, and trans identities are both real and valid; that refugees are welcome, and that immigrants are God’s children. And that’s just the Episcopal Church.

When our so-called “liberal” churches discover religious freedom and the RFRA legal arguments that have led us to the point where we are today with the theocratic religious right’s hegemony, we’re going to have a long overdue national conversation and some very important court cases.

If Republicans are OK with the "Roman Salute" that Musk did then please start using it from now. Exactly how he did it. Begin your press conferences this way. Your Youtube shows. Go for it. Do it in Europe when you're traveling.

Veni, veni Emanuel