Extremist Cults have taken over both the right and the left. While those not on the farthest fringes were distracted by those who were, ON THE OPPOSING SIDE. Not watching their own, distracted, diverted, until it was too late. It's too late.

Here's the problem, and why twitter's so rife with bots and trolls, especially left-wing (in their own minds!) trolls. All the bluesky spotless saints "left for bluesky," But they're still there, on twitter, where they are more active than ever. Ruining it for everybody.

MAGA will cheer the Feds pulling funding from California’s High Speed Rail—because hating California is the whole point. But this is the opposite of making America great. I’ve taken trains in China and Japan. They’re in the 21st century. We’re still tinkering with toy train sets.

It's not a conspiracy if it's hiding in plain sight.

Ironically, guess who is taking advantage of the chaos of Linda Yaccarino's lurching, bailing out, ejecting from the cockpit of twitter? Right under Elon Musk's nose?

" Grown ups should have the right to do with their bodies as they please," A comment on a reddit thread. Okay, now contrast and compare: "Automobile should have the right to do with their automobiles as they please," Smog checks (inspections etc.) are government over-reach. But suppose we had,

Speaking of "sinister turns" isn't it funny, the exact day after Linda Yaccarino quits Elon Musk's open air loony bin, as Nurse Wretched, twitter decides not providing your phone number to them is "inauthentic behavior" detected by their automatic bots which are actually right wing and especially...

It could be, at first I thought it was just coincidence, or me but. Twitter has taken a very sinister turn coinciding with the departure of Linda Yaccarino ...

A powerful cloudburst triggered a massive flash flood in Hullu, Himachal Pradesh, India earlier today.

"Gift" link ... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

Deals with other entities, with peoples (plural), tribes, autonomous zones, break away "Republics," et cetera. Militias, Aryan Homelands in the Pacific Northwest, imaginary Canada 51st States. He thinks "51st" ends with a period. As if "st" were an abbreviation, like St. for Street, 51st. State.

What he means is "deals" in the sense of exceptions for GOP donors' companies.

EFF today helped file a motion for a preliminary injunction to end DOGE's illegal access to millions of federal employee records www.eff.org/files/2025/0...

Helter Skelter At least that was "Bug" liosi's theory ...

Saving Western Civilization ... Have you been saved?

a few thoughts on Harvard's No to the White House and the latters demands. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/harva...

Gallego voting yes on nominees who already have enough votes to be confirmed is the smart and correct thing for a purple or red state Senator (like Gallego is). You want purple/red state Dems to fight the fights that matter - the ones they can make a difference in - not ones that are already lost.

They seem to be run by Kari Lake War Room alumni and other assorted Hitlerjugend.

Shocking that the shock troops defending the NaziMobiles includes a guy literally dressed as Adolf Hitler. I guess in edgelord world you'll probably have the hitler guy saying the nazi salute is fake news.

Tesla Shield

Hitlerjugend?

When Team Democracy is back in charge it will be critical to remember what the billionaires did to this country when it was defenseless.

Psychopaths pass "poly" graph tests with flying colors, no matter what. Nervous Ninny types fail them, no matter what.

"Drain the Swamp" Am I right?

bryan johnson but for dogs www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Meet the acting DOGE administrator: a former USDSer named Amy Gleason — who happens to be on vacation this week and didn't know in advance the White House was releasing her name. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Penguin makes it to ice as land breaks ...

i can’t see americans supporting us troops removing palestinians from gaza.

“special government employee” ? He's special alright ...

I wonder how influential is twitter? How influential twitter is, I thought it was insane but then Trump won the election in real life.

Chairman Musk: x.com/SykesCharlie...

We could first try ranked choice voting ... A mean as a Hail Mary ... tcinla757.substack.com/p/the-brain-...

*Elon Musk*, who was never elected by anyone to anything and whose DOGE is currently doing God-knows-what in the executive branch, is complaining about "scams to get around the laws passed by Congress to protect the people."

5/ One additional point and to be clear this latter stuff isn’t from my reporting just pieced together other reports and what musk is saying himself. They’re into th ex treasury payment system and claiming they’ve already found like $4B in “savings” a day.

4/ who they are, whether they’re even American citizens. They all seem to be Thiel and Musk protégés. And I’ve had multiple references to their refusing to identify themselves by anything but first name. The rationale given is that they could be doxed.

Just when you think it can't get any fucking dumber today, it does.

They posted an update confirming it was from Trump's order. sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...

The carefully managed water systems in California's Central Valley saw a sudden deluge after the Army Corps of Engineers unexpectedly released reservoir water. “In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this. I was given no explanation at all.”

I want to flag three key points that Nick makes. First, agencies aren’t yet funded through the end of the fiscal year, so they can’t credibly promise to keep paying anyone through the end of September. 2/

Tulare Lake in 1872. It was the biggest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi before settlers drained it. The Yurok called it, "Pa'ashi", which means "big water."

Also did you know that the entire Federal workforce is less than 6% of the Federal budget? Cutting them isn't about saving money.

He's a Poodle ...

So, true, but is it extortion if the party one is extorting seems extremely willing to be extorted? That's what makes it feel like bribery.

It's extortion ... It's MAGA, Incorporated

What have we done here?