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Nationalize SpaceX!!!!
June 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Nationalize SpaceX!!!!
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i'm starting to see some scoldy posts pointing out that we are laughing about a fire on the deck of our sinking ship and i have to be honest once the ship started sinking i decided i would take the laughs where i found them
June 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
i'm starting to see some scoldy posts pointing out that we are laughing about a fire on the deck of our sinking ship and i have to be honest once the ship started sinking i decided i would take the laughs where i found them
First they came for Elon Musk, and I did not speak out because I was not an unhinged narcissistic billionaire.
June 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
First they came for Elon Musk, and I did not speak out because I was not an unhinged narcissistic billionaire.
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THIS is the infuriating bullshit.
May 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
THIS is the infuriating bullshit.
Back when I worked national programs, one of the Chief Architects would sometimes estimate how much a big meeting was about to cost the American taxpayers in order to encourage us to make the best of our time. In that spirt, I've been thinking about Musk's weekly "5 Things" email:
April 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Back when I worked national programs, one of the Chief Architects would sometimes estimate how much a big meeting was about to cost the American taxpayers in order to encourage us to make the best of our time. In that spirt, I've been thinking about Musk's weekly "5 Things" email:
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
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Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst.
Every dictator in history has lied.
Donald Trump is no different.
Every dictator in history has lied.
Donald Trump is no different.
April 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst.
Every dictator in history has lied.
Donald Trump is no different.
Every dictator in history has lied.
Donald Trump is no different.
for when next time someone says they’re “pro-life”:
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
April 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
for when next time someone says they’re “pro-life”:
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I enthusiastically aid and abet terrorism.
JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
April 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I enthusiastically aid and abet terrorism.
At this point I am starting to wonder if there is White House collusion with some hedge fund managers. The market shifts would be EXTREMELY predictable if given advance notice on when some of these announcements are coming out.
April 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
At this point I am starting to wonder if there is White House collusion with some hedge fund managers. The market shifts would be EXTREMELY predictable if given advance notice on when some of these announcements are coming out.
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Okay lets game this out: You are a Nintendo employee given unlimited funds and authority to move Switch 2 production to the US. No new factories, that's going to take way too long, you need to work with existing American Contract Manufacturing capacity. How fast can you do it?
1/x
1/x
April 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Okay lets game this out: You are a Nintendo employee given unlimited funds and authority to move Switch 2 production to the US. No new factories, that's going to take way too long, you need to work with existing American Contract Manufacturing capacity. How fast can you do it?
1/x
1/x
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The White House just put out a statement threatening to veto this bill if it reaches Trump's desk.
punchbowl.news/sap-s-1272/
punchbowl.news/sap-s-1272/
This Senate bill to slap limits on the president’s tariff power now has SEVEN Republican sponsors:
• Grassley
• Moran
• Murkowski
• McConnell
• Tillis
• Young
• Collins
• Grassley
• Moran
• Murkowski
• McConnell
• Tillis
• Young
• Collins
Senators Chuck Grassley (R) and Maria Cantwell (D) just introduced a bill to reassert Congress’s power over tariffs.
—President must notify Congress on new tariffs within 48 hours of imposition.
—Congress must approve them within 60 days or they expire.
www.cantwell.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
—President must notify Congress on new tariffs within 48 hours of imposition.
—Congress must approve them within 60 days or they expire.
www.cantwell.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
April 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The White House just put out a statement threatening to veto this bill if it reaches Trump's desk.
punchbowl.news/sap-s-1272/
punchbowl.news/sap-s-1272/
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Fourth Circuit panel, including conservative icon J. Harvie Wilkinson, unanimous in rejecting Trump administration position in case of El Salvador abductee Abrego Garcia.
Judge Thacker (Obama), joined by Judge King (Clinton), wrote that first concurrence. Judge Wilkinson (Reagan), then, wrote his own concurrence.
Wilkinson: "It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone."
Wilkinson: "It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone."
April 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Fourth Circuit panel, including conservative icon J. Harvie Wilkinson, unanimous in rejecting Trump administration position in case of El Salvador abductee Abrego Garcia.
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The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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April 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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So we're clear: Defense contractor CEO - and only this one particular CEO - who also has authority to shift agency spending and who *also* has major business interests in China and talks to Chinese leaders, is to get the detailed operational/technical level briefing on our China OPLANs
All good.
All good.
JUST POSTED:
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
nyti.ms/4inqIP8
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
nyti.ms/4inqIP8
Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China (Gift Article)
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.
nyti.ms
March 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
So we're clear: Defense contractor CEO - and only this one particular CEO - who also has authority to shift agency spending and who *also* has major business interests in China and talks to Chinese leaders, is to get the detailed operational/technical level briefing on our China OPLANs
All good.
All good.
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Amid all the whining about Dems that largely ignores what role particular Dems play, it is quite significant that Murray, Senate Appropriations Ranking and so the one in discussions about making Trump follow the law to get $$, is doing this.
The state of the union is that the President is spitting in the face of the law.
He is letting an unelected billionaire fire cancer researchers and wreck federal agencies like the Social Security Administration at will.
I won't be attending tomorrow's Joint Address.
He is letting an unelected billionaire fire cancer researchers and wreck federal agencies like the Social Security Administration at will.
I won't be attending tomorrow's Joint Address.
March 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Amid all the whining about Dems that largely ignores what role particular Dems play, it is quite significant that Murray, Senate Appropriations Ranking and so the one in discussions about making Trump follow the law to get $$, is doing this.
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November 2024: Trump will save the economy
March 2025: We have returned to subsistence agriculture
March 2025: We have returned to subsistence agriculture
Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.
March 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
November 2024: Trump will save the economy
March 2025: We have returned to subsistence agriculture
March 2025: We have returned to subsistence agriculture
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No one in DC can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not follow laws passed by Congress.
No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States.
Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.
No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States.
Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.
March 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
No one in DC can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not follow laws passed by Congress.
No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States.
Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.
No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States.
Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.
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@samsteindc.bsky.social lays out all the ways that Trump is causing a brain drain.
This is America's competitive advantage. Trump is just pissing it away.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...
This is America's competitive advantage. Trump is just pissing it away.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...
The DOGE Brain Drain Has Begun
It’s not just jobs cut and agencies gutted. It’s the talent that will be lost for generations to come.
www.thebulwark.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
@samsteindc.bsky.social lays out all the ways that Trump is causing a brain drain.
This is America's competitive advantage. Trump is just pissing it away.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...
This is America's competitive advantage. Trump is just pissing it away.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...
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You know how I was screaming about this weeks ago? Well, they came right out and said it; the Trump admin would rather go after migrants than pedophiles, drug traffickers, and terrorists.
Funnily, Fox News is eerily silent about this. Because of course.
Funnily, Fox News is eerily silent about this. Because of course.
DHS has ordered its entire investigations division - composed of 6,000 agents - to divert focus on drug dealers, terrorists, and human traffickers and shift priority to the Trump administration’s mission of deporting immigrants
www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Thousands of DHS agents shift to deportation instead of drugs, weapons and human trafficking
Redeploying Homeland Security Investigations agents is part of a broader Trump effort. But some fear many serious transnational crimes will go unprobed.
www.azcentral.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
You know how I was screaming about this weeks ago? Well, they came right out and said it; the Trump admin would rather go after migrants than pedophiles, drug traffickers, and terrorists.
Funnily, Fox News is eerily silent about this. Because of course.
Funnily, Fox News is eerily silent about this. Because of course.
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Don't just ask how Musk/Trump actions serve their supposed purposes. Ask how they aid the attempt to seize power paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpe
Autogolpe
What’s really happening beneath the Musk/Trump chaos
paulkrugman.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Don't just ask how Musk/Trump actions serve their supposed purposes. Ask how they aid the attempt to seize power paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpe
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Leopard: I will eat your face
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
J.P. Morgan econs on Trump’s latest are “increasingly concerned that the policy mix may tilt into an unintentionally far less business-friendly stance. The sustained 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico set to start this weekend is materially different than the tariff increases built into our baseline.”
February 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Leopard: I will eat your face
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
google is becoming nearly unusable for me because of the terrible AI overview. it’s like they decided to obstruct their top product with a page of spammy misinformation.
January 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
google is becoming nearly unusable for me because of the terrible AI overview. it’s like they decided to obstruct their top product with a page of spammy misinformation.