Congress should just straight up make this illegal. It's not capitalism.

Yes we can all laugh at SpaceX's incentive plan which requires Musk to establish a human colony on Mars to earn shares, but he gets them now, and can vote them now. They just don't "vest" until he establishes the colony. He gets dividends and can pledge them for loans, w/ "board approval"

I’m not sure anything has soured me more on the concept of a rational market than Elon company valuations

the contention of Trumpism is that the Trump supporters must be allowed to dominate and enslave the Trump opposers who outnumber them 2:1. Something's got to give, in one direction or the other

Only white people ride bikes is one of those insane things you just get to see all the time online.

"Media is not a puzzle you can beat" is something many people need rammed home

Personally I can’t get over SpaceX claiming it has a total addressable market nearly as large as US GDP — with nearly all of that attributed to “enterprise applications” of AI. xAI’s own employees wouldn’t use Grok coding products! techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/t...

Another Trump war looms into view.

the poor are the ones DRIVING THE BURRITO TAXIS

A very depressing discovery of the last few years is that there is literally no statement so naked and transparently anti-Semitic that you will not have self-styled leftists leaping to defend it as long as 'Israel' or 'Zionists' is inserted

Again, that this stuff doesn’t immediately end his presidency is a total failure of Article I of the Constitution. A complete collapse of the polity.

'the middle class really resented the working class doing well because it costs them cheap servants' is very obviously true of the Biden years, it's been confused because the most vocal members of the middle class online somehow wrapped this in leftist language

conservatives are being pretty clear that they see anything more than a token black presence as tantamount to "anti-white discrimination," and even then, they view that as suspect

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

NEW: The Trump administration feeding USAID into the woodchipper and attacking US public health infrastructure is having exactly the effects experts said it would—causing needless death abroad and putting the "homeland" at risk. @knibbs.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social have more:

if you can't take credit for a good economy because someone somewhere is struggling financially then you also can't take credit for bringing down crime because someone somewhere got mugged and that certain people on the left (not everyone, but some people) don't get this is maddening

Again, this Trump IRS thing is not a “settlement” or a “deal” or something with any legal basis at all. It’s pure corruption; colluding with his Acting AG to loot the Treasury; pay off his mob; and preemptively immunize himself and his heirs against investigation for fraud.

it remains insane how devoted to Trump the GOP primary base is

a common feature in this emerging genre is the thinly veiled contempt that the administrative classes of institutions have toward their own students, and there's a simple explanation for this: those administrators see students chiefly as revenue streams rather than fully participating humans

There's no other word for it but degeneracy. Trump's mind has degenerated, his party has degenerated, his government has degenerated, & his cultural movement has degenerated. These are the floor sweepings of politics, placed on the highest pedestal more or less by accident.

lemme get this straight: 1. Commit a bunch of crimes 2. Get elected President of the United States 3. Order the Justice Department to retroactively absolve you of all crimes forever

Is... is this a blanket retrospective self-pardon for federal crimes that is trying not to call itself that? It is *not* limited to the IRS or to tax evasion/ fraud.

i mean, you could add that he is doing this as *acting* attorney general because he can’t get senate confirmation

He promised to release his tax returns as soon as there were no more audits pending, and now there are no more audits pending.

Just incredible. Any theoretical charges—there’s no indication there were any—would fall outside the scope of presidential immunity for official acts. Fascinating that Trump felt the need to pursue this. He seems to have found a way around the likely legal rule that a president can’t pardon himself.

there's only one conclusion you can draw from the fact that Loomer's presence in the white house isn't covered as a daily front page scandal by the political media and is instead covered up and downplayed

“Oh, it’s just memes relax bro” yeah that the point. You don’t take them seriously but they’re designed to make you nod along with them to get the fav and that’s how the brain poison seeps into your groundwater. It’s bypassing your defenses.

you rarely get as clean an example of 'everything Republicans do is Democrats' fault' in the wild

In 1952, Richard Nixon's career was nearly derailed by revelations that he had access to a slush fund of $18,000 -- less than a quarter million today." People used to give a shit about that kind of thing, you see.

I think the failure of the media to keep treating it as a crisis played a large part in why the public did not treat it as a crisis.

The fact that the Harris campaign made their direct pitch of "these fuckers want to destroy our democracy, don't let them," Trump barely denied it, and it still flat out did not work has done a lot of hidden damage to the Democratic party and, more broadly, the American psyche

depressingly accurate post, as much as we want Retribution on here (and it’s the correct policy) a lot of folks saw 2024 as “Dems say the Trump is going to destroy everything, Trump promises everyone several ponies” and their takeaway was “promise everyone ponies, they’re a bunch of dipshits”

a lot of "feckless dems" talk is failing to understand the degree to which a) they thought they made 2024 a referendum on this and b) they think losing means voters only care about unenlighted self-interest

If Virginia Democrats legislatively overruling the state supreme court or forcing judge retirements, and *that* didn't work, Bluesky would be even angrier. People say they want to see Democrats try and fail anyway. No they wouldn't. That's not true.

People here say they want the Democrats to try something, anything even if it doesn't work. And then get really mad at Democrats when it doesn't work. Bluesky is angrier at Virginia Democrats for trying redistricting than they would have been if redistricting had never been on the table.

78 WEEKS. the estimate that I continue to loosely give is that for every day of the Strait being closed, it may take a week to fully recover- we're now at 78 days- so ~78 weeks would put us roughly at November, 2027 to see global oil inventories fully recover.

This article is essentially a confession that legacy media has so internalized the different benchmarks via which they judge Republicans and Democrats, they're comfortable expressly writing articles on that basis.

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Again, I really don’t know what you do about the fact that “the president is stealing a billion and a half dollars from the government” is both universally understood by all political actors and also correctly understood to not be an especially politically damaging story

If you ranked the 1000 most corrupt things ever done by an executive branch official in the history of the United States something like 950 of them would have happened since Jan 20 2025.

your tax money my tax money we, personally, are being forced to directly pay outright traitors because the president decrees it intolerable

Two competing truths: -Democrats are often disappointing, and should be criticized when they are -Posting withering rage about the uselessness of Democrats is an extremely reliable way to get big engagement, and many people have spent years waking up every day and finding a Dem to be mad about

The most corrupt act by a president in American history. From this day forward Trump can sue his administration and order his government to pay up

every single person who touches this needs to go to jail.

$1.776 as in 1776. As in celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by robbing the Treasury to reward those who are destroying the country

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

the Democrats should announce that they will prosecute anyone who accepts a single fucking dime Trump stole