its cool that weve reached the point in oral arguments where liberal justices are asking their colleagues whether they will apply the law fairly and theyre just like “oh, no. we plan to contradict ourselves next week. this is all a charade.“

Elon’s Crying Censorship Over An EU Fine That Has Nothing To Do With Censorship Elon Musk is now calling for the dissolution of the European Union because it fined him $140 million for violating a law he once said was "exactly aligned" with his vision for (what was then called) Twitter. And he's…

"By a 6-3 decision SCOTUS rules the federal government must fear and obey the President until January 2029"

I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS

And right now the Trump admin is killing fiber broadband investment and handing Elon Musk billions to provide the mediocre overpriced Starlink service people can already get, and which they'll still have to pay for. Taxpayers will pay Musk for "capacity."

This is the same administration that attacks the EU for trying to impose the most minimal of regulation on Musk and X

The Biden national security strategy condemned “Russia’s brutal and unprovoked war on its neighbor Ukraine.” The new Trump strategy has no words of censure at all. None. While silent about Russian transgressions, it has plenty of nasty things to say about America’s European allies. wapo.st/4prmqK9

Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔

And, after 15 years of trying, they're going to kick millions off of the ACA—the first time the federal government has ever purposely uninsured millions of Americans. That alone should be enough to cost the GOP control of Congress in a typical midterm.

Literally a week ago Musk said that falsely labeling people as Nazis "should be treated as incitement to murder." And here he is (falsely) labeling the EU as Nazis.

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Facts are a bitch when you're a liar.

Just a little reminder: Elon Musk is lying to you. He bends when asked to, and the fine X received from the EU has nothing to do with censorship. Musk simply refuses to follow laws and be transparent, and he gets a tiny fine for it

lol

RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

After a year on this site, every time I peruse the Bad Place now it feels like I'm entering Thunderdome.

We need to develop an understanding that climate denial is first and foremost ideological and not driven by the supposed ‘non-ideology’ of rational self-interest/greed

They really did vote for abject cruelty for others and zero consequences for themselves.

The US State Department is instructing its staff to deny visas to those engaged in activities like combatting misinformation, disinformation or false narratives, fact-checking, content moderation, compliance, and trust and safety. www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

I asked three other chatbots for their reactions to Grok's ethical lapses: ChatGPT: The exact opposite of what I'm designed to do. Perplexity AI: An example of what systems like me should not do. CoPilot: I'll be honest it freaks me tf out. Was kind of surprised that Copilot drew the biggest line.

Yeah my blood pressure doesn't miss this.

*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud *More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job *37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate *36% believe NASA faked the moon landing *1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism

Reminder that Trump and MAGA were fine with content moderation when they were the ones doing it.

Their irrational transphobia doesn’t allow them to think things like this through…

Republicans: "It's ok to break the law for the betterment of mankind." Me: "The combined net worth of America's billionaires is $6.6 trillion dollars."

"A Pew Research Center survey from earlier this year shows that most countries view China rather than the United States as the world’s leading economic power.... This is a striking reversal from just two years earlier." www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...

This week, Trump quietly released his National Security Strategy. It totally abandons the idea that we should stand up for freedom & human rights around the world. Instead, it lectures our European allies & embraces authoritarian leaders who enrich the Trump family & their billionaire friends.

There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.

a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually

You know, it occurs to me if we can keep him sh*tposting late at night he'll continue being tired throughout the day, during meetings and on camera.

ffs. People are joining ICE for the travel. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Pollster: Trump's net approval rating among voters under the age of 30 is going into a deep, dark black hole. Look at that, -46. That is a shift on the net approval of 56 points in the wrong direction since February. We almost never see drops this big, this quickly.

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

I hope someone's keeping a tally of all the newfound powers the Roberts court has decided the President has, because the next Dem president will not be playing by 2015 rules.

!!! The Post obtained hot mic comments by the chair of RFK Jr.'s CDC vaccine committee. "We feel like a little bit like puppets on a string as opposed to really being an independent advisory panel" wapo.st/4atob4M

In 2017, Trump called up Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to tell him what a great job he was doing with the drug problem. Duterte told the media Trump said he did it "the right way" Duterte is awaiting trial in Hague right now for what he did. edition.cnn.com/2017/05/24/p...

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

#GVerse #Veterans US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, a veteran, or identified who I was. They ignored everything I said. They just broke my window and dragged me out. I let them know I was a veteran, I wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to work.

Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia. They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana. Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this

"Protects but does not bind; binds but does not protect"

Oh this poll is fascinating

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Huh.

If I had just miraculously survived an attack by the U.S. military in the middle of the ocean I'm reasonably confident this would *not* be my next move.

Voters knew that last November. They chose him anyway.

Sure, just as soon as we pay off our five trillion covid bill and the other 20 trillion in deficits, plus fully fund Social Security and the ACA, plus fix everything DOGE broke and finish all the hearings necessary to hold the Trump admin accountable, Dems will whip out a Universal Healthcare bill.

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