Karoline Leavitt to Fox before the WHCD event: There will be some shots fired tonight

“ … a baby in her placenta …” youtu.be/uiFwdT53YRA?...

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

I currently have a newsletter in which I write regularly about how societies devolve into authoritarianism & what that means right now in the US & around the world. It also features essays about my unsettled childhood in West Virginia. Soon, it will also include art, surprises, & links to resources.

‘Chilling and dangerous’: Grassroots groups sue over Louisiana law that censors air quality data. A new state law threatens massive fines for releasing air quality data, inviting a First Amendment showdown with community organizations. grist.org/accountabili... #Louisiana #Climate #Air #Pollution

5/30/25 18 days remain until the Va. candidacy filing deadline. (D)s are filed in 100/100 HDs, with only 1 HD left to officially nominate their (D) candidate. There are no (R) candidates filed in 30/100 HDs. Can Va. (R)s win statewide while conceding 30% of the HD contests ?🤷🏽‍♀️

Hands Off! Roanoke (Virginia)

What a dumbass.

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

Four ways the Trump admin increases risk of war: 1. Openly desires territorial expansion (Canada, etc), weakening norm vs. conquest (hello, China) 2. Turn away from Europe weakens NATO, emboldens Russia 3. Abandoning Ukraine shows that conquest pays 4. Politicized/purged US military = ⬇️ deterrent

REP. SPANBERGER: “I'm all for improving the way our federal government runs. But that's not what Trump and Musk are doing… They're taking a sledgehammer approach — impacting the VA, seniors, law enforcement…” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGIxpbp...

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

Always fighting ghosts. And so long as they inject race into it, they can get millions to accept it in the place of actually making their lives better. BLM, CRT, DEI, “woke,” antifa And this has the added benefit of targeting any nascent effort of organizing in which Black ppl are involved.

I thought they were all self-made rugged individualists who didn’t rely on socialism.

Read the letter from Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general, accepting the resignation of Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, over her refusal to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.

If you live in New York State and think Gov. Kathy Hochul should remove the corrupt mayor of NYC, give her a call or send her a letter.

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

A general rule that one should follow during the times in which we live: Read Bednar.

Trump’s strategy of allowing predatory capitalists to destroy state capacity and extract wealth, attacking higher Ed, and disappearing people into black sites (Gitmo) feels like what the US backed in Latin American Cold War dictatorships coming back home.

The State Department's procurement forecast just came out. Guess what the single biggest expenditure is? $400 million on Teslas. Is it possible to launder money more obviously? www.state.gov/procurement-...

Marjorie Taylor Greene tries to shut down Jasmine Crockett as Crockett points out that Elon Musk admitted yesterday to lying

Calvinball is a game from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Watterson. The game's only rule is that it can't be played the same way twice. Players make up the rules as they go. Hmm 🤔

REPORTER: If you have received billions of dollars in contracts from the Pentagon and the president is directing you to look into the DoD, does that present a conflicts of interest? MUSK: First of all, I'm not the filing the contract. It's people at SpaceX

I've met with many cabinet nominees across many admins, and my meeting with RFK Jr. was by far the most troubling. He rattled off debunked conspiracy theories & lied to my face—denying his own statements he'd made on record. We cannot confirm an anti-vaxxer as Secretary of Health.

“You know that you have well and truly stepped in it when you have pissed off the Mennonites.” @dahlialithwick.bsky.social FTW slate.com/news-and-pol...

Today, Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida stated that she intends to call members of the Warren Commission to testify for her investigation of the JFK assassination. The problem, of course, is that all seven members of the Warren Commission have been deceased since 2006.

Sam Altman on Elon Musk after rejecting his offer to buy OpenAI: “I wish he would just compete by building a better product... Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity... I don't think he's, like, a happy person.”

A pledge to *examine* it. What a waste of space. Resign.

"Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity — I feel for the guy," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said of Elon Musk during an interview with Bloomberg TV. "I don't think he's, like, a happy person."

This speaks for itself. ☹️

To understand what Elon is doing -- why he sees the short-term destruction as trivial in the long run -- you need to understand his grand theory of civilizational change. Tens of millions of humans don't matter much when you're focused on the galaxy. Read this for the big picture.

I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...

If the treatment of Kaepernick didn’t do it. And all the racist owners didn’t do it. And the brain damage coverups didn’t do it. And the rape and domestic abuse scandals didn’t do it. Will the Musk defense of technofacism ads do it? At least for liberals? Or nah.

My statement on the Trump Administration's attack on transgender Delawareans.

Just learned @ezwv.bsky.social that federal employees make up 8% of West Virginia's workforce. And those are relatively stable, well-paying jobs. Jfc is this gonna hurt.

Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding. Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26) (Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)

One way to think about the DOGE effort is it's an outgrowth of 20 years of hardliner conservatives frustrated by their inability to get the votes in Congress to do what they want to do. 1/

See comment at bottom. There’s always a stock “play.”