Really looking forward to Jeff Bezos' forceful public condemnation of Trump's tariffs since he is so committed to "free markets" that he made a rule that every opinion piece published in the Washington Post must support "free markets"

For some reason, Bezos hasn't said anything yet. Must be busy.

There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

Layoff announcements surged to their third-highest level on record in March, driven largely by Elon Musk (DOGE). U.S. employers announced over 275,000 job cuts last month—a figure not seen since the height of the pandemic.

April 3, 2025

Ronan Farrow doing some remedial tutoring for JD Vance.

April 1, 2025

Every time I see a cybertruck in the wild it's like sorry I don't believe a real person bought one of these with their own money. These are paid actors

If any of these are your representatives, urge them to divest from Tesla: Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Gil Cisneros (D-Calif.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Adam Smith (D-Wash.), and Dwight Evans (D-Pa.).

Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

This isn’t legal, Elon.

Musk steps up calls to impeach judges, offering $100 to voters who join in. America PAC is paying registered Wisconsin voters to sign its petition against “activist judges.” Talk about paid protesters. Now, judges are receiving violent threats online.

Love this essay/manifesto by @anandwrites.bsky.social "Because having, and nurturing, in your life a sphere for joy and connection and community and love and food and music and human difference and living and letting live is everything they are not and is everything they are trying to take away."

When you removed populations from the category of human rights, are you removing them from the category of human?

MAHA is eugenics.
Fascists promoting eugenics.
Full stop.
They are coming for the most vulnerable first, but guaranteed they won't stop there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfYH...

Veterans are 6% of the adult population but 30% of the federal workforce (they get preference in hiring).

Which means Trump and Musk are already firing thousands of people who put their lives at risk for their country, many with disabilities they acquired in their service.

While both Trump and Vance yelled at him. Un-effing-believable that #ThisIsAmerica now.

Excellent context here on the relationship between misinformation and support for Trump & Co. (not necessarily applicable to this case. bsky.app/profile/karl...

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

Great advice from Dan Froomkin. Share it with your family and friends.