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It's pretty remarkable that Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter but acquiring the US government only cost him around $250 million.
Breaking News: The Pentagon is set to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s closely guarded plan for any potential war with China, officials said.
Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China
Giving Elon Musk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to President Trump and highlights his conflicts of interest.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
It's pretty remarkable that Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter but acquiring the US government only cost him around $250 million.
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The democrats are the kings of making sure that they are technically right in a way that nobody understands so they might as well just be wrong
January 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The democrats are the kings of making sure that they are technically right in a way that nobody understands so they might as well just be wrong
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There has been bipartisan flip-flopping, hypocrisy, and ulterior motives when it comes to TikTok, with the (current) end result that the app is now being openly used to promote Trump to as many as 170 million Americans as he prepares to take office.
January 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
There has been bipartisan flip-flopping, hypocrisy, and ulterior motives when it comes to TikTok, with the (current) end result that the app is now being openly used to promote Trump to as many as 170 million Americans as he prepares to take office.
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Hegseth was removed from the National Guard for white supremacist tattoos after being accused of drugging and raping a woman. This tells you a lot about Senate Republicans.
Senate Republicans are more receptive to Hegseth despite Gaetz’s exit
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Senate Republicans are more receptive to Hegseth despite Gaetz’s exit
Senators stressed that police had investigated a 2017 allegation that Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, had drugged and sexually assaulted a woman at a California political conference ...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:42 AM
Hegseth was removed from the National Guard for white supremacist tattoos after being accused of drugging and raping a woman. This tells you a lot about Senate Republicans.
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It also gets to the hollowness of saying Democrats shouldn't focus on this or that issue, in cases the sense of a "focus" comes from the GOP (and the ads they run, & the Fox machine) — & it's not like those would go away even if Democrats agreed to throw the GOP-targeted population under the bus.
This is an echo of the general election. The trans Democrat is blamed for "sparking" the crisis despite the fact she did nothing beyond be herself.
Before she arrived to DC, or made any demands, the GOP preemptively turned her identity into a political issue.
So, who is doing identity politics?
Before she arrived to DC, or made any demands, the GOP preemptively turned her identity into a political issue.
So, who is doing identity politics?
all she did was exist
November 21, 2024 at 5:42 AM
It also gets to the hollowness of saying Democrats shouldn't focus on this or that issue, in cases the sense of a "focus" comes from the GOP (and the ads they run, & the Fox machine) — & it's not like those would go away even if Democrats agreed to throw the GOP-targeted population under the bus.
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When businesses talk about ending government “overreach” they’re usually talking about screwing their customers over
Delta’s CEO says Trump has promised to roll back a rule requiring automatic refunds on canceled flights and another requiring airlines to disclose the full cost of a ticket up front
Delta CEO says the Trump administration will reverse government 'overreach' seen under Biden
The chief executive of Delta Air Lines says the incoming Trump administration will be a “breath of fresh air” for airlines after what he called government “overreach” under President Joe Biden.
apnews.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:45 AM
When businesses talk about ending government “overreach” they’re usually talking about screwing their customers over
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It’s fine if you want to embrace white workers on assembly lines as your core group around which to organize identity politics. But spare us the pretense that you’re not doing identity politics, especially as you’re doing exactly the same condescending thing to college professors that the GOP does.
November 20, 2024 at 1:44 AM
It’s fine if you want to embrace white workers on assembly lines as your core group around which to organize identity politics. But spare us the pretense that you’re not doing identity politics, especially as you’re doing exactly the same condescending thing to college professors that the GOP does.
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we’ve no doubt had sexual predators in office forever, but the fact that people are knowingly, willingly voting for predatory men at all levels of government is disturbing in a way that’s difficult to articulate.
A Trump supporting, anti-trans, anti-gay Republican was elected commissioner of the county where I grew up. He won despite being in jail on election night for a sexual assault in Vegas.
It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter.
fox59.com/news/indycri...
It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter.
fox59.com/news/indycri...
Politician pleads guilty in sexual assault case after being elected to Hancock County Council
HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. — A current central Indiana county commissioner has pleaded guilty in a Nevada sexual assault case, days after being elected to his local County Council. John D. Jessup – a cur…
fox59.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:35 AM
we’ve no doubt had sexual predators in office forever, but the fact that people are knowingly, willingly voting for predatory men at all levels of government is disturbing in a way that’s difficult to articulate.
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once again we have people lying about the campaign we all witnessed
First quote in this new @politico.com story is from RI's Dem committeeman Joe Paolino: "The progressive wing of the party has to recognize — we all have to recognize — the country’s not progressive, and not to the far left or the far right. They’re in the middle” www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Centrist Dems seize opening at the DNC: ‘I don’t want to be the freak show party’
Recriminations over Kamala Harris’ defeat are shaping the early stages of the race for DNC chair.
www.politico.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:31 AM
once again we have people lying about the campaign we all witnessed
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Just to be clear: the incoming Trump administration is going to war against their own Republican senate majority and the constitution's advice and consent provision so they can make a man investigated for ***sex trafficking a minor*** into the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.
November 15, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Just to be clear: the incoming Trump administration is going to war against their own Republican senate majority and the constitution's advice and consent provision so they can make a man investigated for ***sex trafficking a minor*** into the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.
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so in other words NYT editors held this until after the election
November 15, 2024 at 12:13 AM
so in other words NYT editors held this until after the election
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Explain to me why I should read this graph as a measure of consumer confidence rather than partisan sentiment.
November 14, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Explain to me why I should read this graph as a measure of consumer confidence rather than partisan sentiment.
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With the decade the country and party has had, give control of the national apparatus to literally anyone but the old guards. Give it to a drunk 12 year old from Philadelphia. That person will have some new ideas
How is this not a sick joke?
thehill.com/homenews/cam...
thehill.com/homenews/cam...
Axelrod pushes for Rahm Emanuel as DNC chair
Democratic strategist David Axelrod pushed for U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel to become the new chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). “If they said, ‘Well, what should we do? Who…
thehill.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:20 PM
With the decade the country and party has had, give control of the national apparatus to literally anyone but the old guards. Give it to a drunk 12 year old from Philadelphia. That person will have some new ideas
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this is just a stupid person, that's all
LILLIAN YOU GOT LIVESAVING CARE BECAUSE YOU LIVE IN VIRGINIA WHERE THE LEGISLATURE IS STILL DEM CONTROLLED AHHHHHHH
November 13, 2024 at 9:54 PM
this is just a stupid person, that's all
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If Mullin votes to confirm -- he's a senator now, remember -- Democrats need to troll the shit out of him with these quotes.
There is a video of Markwayne Mullin talking about Matt Gaetz.
November 13, 2024 at 11:46 PM
If Mullin votes to confirm -- he's a senator now, remember -- Democrats need to troll the shit out of him with these quotes.
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Torn between feeling tremendous love and pity for my beleaguered Millennial generation because we overwhelmingly voted against fascism (unlike certain OTHER generations), and feeling enormous disgust that the first of us to reach the upper echelons of government is JD fucking Vance
November 10, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Torn between feeling tremendous love and pity for my beleaguered Millennial generation because we overwhelmingly voted against fascism (unlike certain OTHER generations), and feeling enormous disgust that the first of us to reach the upper echelons of government is JD fucking Vance
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Before the elections it's mostly horse race speculation and prognostication.
Stakes-driven coverage is for when it's too late to do anything about it.
Stakes-driven coverage is for when it's too late to do anything about it.
November 10, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Before the elections it's mostly horse race speculation and prognostication.
Stakes-driven coverage is for when it's too late to do anything about it.
Stakes-driven coverage is for when it's too late to do anything about it.
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I miss some clicky stories by never using blind quotes, but really, fuck them. Say it with your chest, use your name. Don't use me to launder your gossip.
November 8, 2024 at 3:16 AM
I miss some clicky stories by never using blind quotes, but really, fuck them. Say it with your chest, use your name. Don't use me to launder your gossip.
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Seriously though. The notion that you can win votes from people who say “pronouns in email signatures made me mad so we should leave NATO” by trying to please them is ridiculous.
Any Dem acting like we need to push further right needs to be tossed immediately. Harris lost, but not by as much as people are saying.
Anyone talking like this has always wanted to be more conservative and now they have an excuse. Fuck off.
Anyone talking like this has always wanted to be more conservative and now they have an excuse. Fuck off.
November 8, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Seriously though. The notion that you can win votes from people who say “pronouns in email signatures made me mad so we should leave NATO” by trying to please them is ridiculous.
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as long as journalists and pundits act as if they are amateur political strategists & not people trying to understand and tell the truth about the world, they are going to take the implicit view that voters can never be wrong, which then demands endless explanation of their morally blameless choice
November 8, 2024 at 2:53 AM
as long as journalists and pundits act as if they are amateur political strategists & not people trying to understand and tell the truth about the world, they are going to take the implicit view that voters can never be wrong, which then demands endless explanation of their morally blameless choice
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Walter calling out the propaganda bullshit
Here's a little tale in several skeets of the right-wing social media ecosystem and a topic I follow closely, noncitizen voting. It starts with an Election Day FB post from a conservative staffer in Washington, D.C. who's from Australia and not a U.S. citizen. It's gotten 260 shares. /1
November 8, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Walter calling out the propaganda bullshit
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no doubt in mind that the mass deportations are happening. the only question is how far they are going to go. and here’s the thing, i think a LOT of people — and especially the savvy journalists — will be shocked when he goes through with it, and when the round ups and deaths start.
November 8, 2024 at 12:33 AM
no doubt in mind that the mass deportations are happening. the only question is how far they are going to go. and here’s the thing, i think a LOT of people — and especially the savvy journalists — will be shocked when he goes through with it, and when the round ups and deaths start.