Lisa Perrin
@lisaizzy.bsky.social
JFC!: “When you have an extended period of prosperity with no existential war, there’s no cleansing function for unnecessary laws and regulations,” Musk said.
May 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
JFC!: “When you have an extended period of prosperity with no existential war, there’s no cleansing function for unnecessary laws and regulations,” Musk said.
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So today:
- Trump says he’s “just giving you what they handed me” about Abrego Garcia.
- We learn Trump didn’t know Musk picked the IRS head.
- It’s reported that they didn’t mean to go to war with Harvard.
Perhaps staffing a White House with unqualified loyalists isn’t a great approach.
- Trump says he’s “just giving you what they handed me” about Abrego Garcia.
- We learn Trump didn’t know Musk picked the IRS head.
- It’s reported that they didn’t mean to go to war with Harvard.
Perhaps staffing a White House with unqualified loyalists isn’t a great approach.
April 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
So today:
- Trump says he’s “just giving you what they handed me” about Abrego Garcia.
- We learn Trump didn’t know Musk picked the IRS head.
- It’s reported that they didn’t mean to go to war with Harvard.
Perhaps staffing a White House with unqualified loyalists isn’t a great approach.
- Trump says he’s “just giving you what they handed me” about Abrego Garcia.
- We learn Trump didn’t know Musk picked the IRS head.
- It’s reported that they didn’t mean to go to war with Harvard.
Perhaps staffing a White House with unqualified loyalists isn’t a great approach.
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Trump administration officials told some US government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using AI to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of the matter reut.rs/42gZEdy
April 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Trump administration officials told some US government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using AI to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of the matter reut.rs/42gZEdy
Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
April 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
Thallinger said: “The good news is we already have the technologies to switch from fossil combustion to zero-emission energy. The only thing missing is speed and scale. This is about saving the conditions under which markets, finance, and civilisation itself can continue to operate.”
April 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Thallinger said: “The good news is we already have the technologies to switch from fossil combustion to zero-emission energy. The only thing missing is speed and scale. This is about saving the conditions under which markets, finance, and civilisation itself can continue to operate.”
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NEW 🧵
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
April 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
NEW 🧵
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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The Trump administration has canceled funding for dozens of studies seeking new vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 and other pathogens that may cause future pandemics.
nyti.ms/43Xz77q
nyti.ms/43Xz77q
H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics (Gift Article)
Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.
nyti.ms
March 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The Trump administration has canceled funding for dozens of studies seeking new vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 and other pathogens that may cause future pandemics.
nyti.ms/43Xz77q
nyti.ms/43Xz77q
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All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All you need to know about Twitter
WTF?!?!
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: "Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks this month, my mother-in-law wouldn't call and complain. She just wouldn't."
March 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
WTF?!?!
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Is Musk's role in DOGE hurting Tesla?
“We struggle to think of anything analogous in the history of the automotive industry, in which a brand has lost so much value so quickly,” the JPMorgan analysts wrote, according to Forbes.
“We struggle to think of anything analogous in the history of the automotive industry, in which a brand has lost so much value so quickly,” the JPMorgan analysts wrote, according to Forbes.
Are Tesla protests working? Elon Musk’s company quickly loses value
Is Musk's role in DOGE hurting Tesla?
www.oregonlive.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Is Musk's role in DOGE hurting Tesla?
“We struggle to think of anything analogous in the history of the automotive industry, in which a brand has lost so much value so quickly,” the JPMorgan analysts wrote, according to Forbes.
“We struggle to think of anything analogous in the history of the automotive industry, in which a brand has lost so much value so quickly,” the JPMorgan analysts wrote, according to Forbes.
Civicus, an international non-profit organization dedicated to “strengthening citizen action and civil society around the world”, announced adding the US to their watchlist alongside the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms
Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Civicus, an international non-profit organization dedicated to “strengthening citizen action and civil society around the world”, announced adding the US to their watchlist alongside the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“Beautiful things can be odd and uneven. They spring from local particularity and are not pre-engineered for the appreciation of a global audience.”
I always think this is the best column I have written (not meaning to suggest that is a mark of any particular distinction)
www.thetimes.com/uk/article/o...
www.thetimes.com/uk/article/o...
Our cult of perfection has devalued beauty
Unmoved and slightly bored by the National Gallery’s new exhibition of paintings by Raphael, I decide that I have surfeited on perfection. Confronting each harmonious arrangement of babies, fabric and...
www.thetimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“Beautiful things can be odd and uneven. They spring from local particularity and are not pre-engineered for the appreciation of a global audience.”
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This sort of quote is something else man. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say other global elites see the American elite that were enthusiastic about Trump as total rubes.
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March 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This sort of quote is something else man. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say other global elites see the American elite that were enthusiastic about Trump as total rubes.
[gift link] on.ft.com/3XTyeJb
[gift link] on.ft.com/3XTyeJb
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NEW VIDEO: With democracy on the docket, the big question is whether the courts are equipped to handle Donald Trump. George Conway and I discuss.
You will want to watch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tb6...
You will want to watch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tb6...
The Lawyers Surrendering to Trump | George Conway
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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March 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
NEW VIDEO: With democracy on the docket, the big question is whether the courts are equipped to handle Donald Trump. George Conway and I discuss.
You will want to watch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tb6...
You will want to watch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tb6...
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Share with US students who had their offers of admission withdrawn for PhD programs:
Apply to Canada. Check out Canadian professors, and contact us. Our system works differently here, and we are all still, technically, able to accept students for Fall 2025.
Apply to Canada. Check out Canadian professors, and contact us. Our system works differently here, and we are all still, technically, able to accept students for Fall 2025.
March 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Share with US students who had their offers of admission withdrawn for PhD programs:
Apply to Canada. Check out Canadian professors, and contact us. Our system works differently here, and we are all still, technically, able to accept students for Fall 2025.
Apply to Canada. Check out Canadian professors, and contact us. Our system works differently here, and we are all still, technically, able to accept students for Fall 2025.
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This is replacement theory. It is a debunked white nationalist conspiracy theory that was normalized by Tucker Carlson. It’s a blatant lie meant to turn Americans against immigrants.
Musk: "The waste and fraud in entitlement spending -- that's the big one to eliminate. That's the half trillion, maybe 600 or 700 billion a year. That's also the mechanism by which Democrats attract & retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here & then turning them into voters."
March 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is replacement theory. It is a debunked white nationalist conspiracy theory that was normalized by Tucker Carlson. It’s a blatant lie meant to turn Americans against immigrants.
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A federal judge ordered the government-downsizing team created by US President Donald Trump and spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk to make public, records concerning its operations, which he said had been run in ‘unusual secrecy’ reut.rs/3XB31KD
US judge says Musk's DOGE must release records on operations run in 'secrecy'
A federal judge on Monday ordered the government-downsizing team created by U.S. President Donald Trump and spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk to make public records concerning its operations, which he said had been run in "unusual secrecy."
reut.rs
March 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
A federal judge ordered the government-downsizing team created by US President Donald Trump and spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk to make public, records concerning its operations, which he said had been run in ‘unusual secrecy’ reut.rs/3XB31KD
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You want to know about this NASA Sea Level Projection Tool, which allows you to visualize and download the sea level projection data from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6).
IPCC AR6 Sea Level Projection Tool
Visualize and download global and local sea level projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report.
sealevel.nasa.gov
March 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
You want to know about this NASA Sea Level Projection Tool, which allows you to visualize and download the sea level projection data from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6).
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When you get to “it’s a PR problem” excuse in tech, you know the startup is cooked www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Turmoil within DOGE spills into public view as Musk’s group confronts a PR crisis
DOGE sees an urgent need to champion “wins,” as Elon Musk’s group finishes slashing federal bureaucracy and moves to building digital tools for the government.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
When you get to “it’s a PR problem” excuse in tech, you know the startup is cooked www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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If you don’t know him yet, his name is Congressman Jake Auchincloss.
Rep. Auchincloss is one of the (many) rising stars in our party. A clear, talented, effective communicator. Pay attention to him.
Watch & share this.
Rep. Auchincloss is one of the (many) rising stars in our party. A clear, talented, effective communicator. Pay attention to him.
Watch & share this.
March 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
If you don’t know him yet, his name is Congressman Jake Auchincloss.
Rep. Auchincloss is one of the (many) rising stars in our party. A clear, talented, effective communicator. Pay attention to him.
Watch & share this.
Rep. Auchincloss is one of the (many) rising stars in our party. A clear, talented, effective communicator. Pay attention to him.
Watch & share this.