Imagine being worth $250 billion and giving a fuck what Republicans think

Three questions: 1. Is who politicians follow online newsworthy? 2. Is the vice-president more important than a primary candidate to be junior Senator from Texas? 3. If the answer is yes to the first two, why isn’t Axios doing a fuck ton of stories about who JD Vance is following?

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Millions of Americans who will no longer be able to afford healthcare need to know the names of those who took it from them. Democrats should rent billboards in South Carolina: THE COST OF YOUR HEALTHCARE DOUBLED BECAUSE OF LINDSEY GRAHAM

Elon Musk is really offering a window into his brain today and it cannot be understated what an emotionally disordered misfit he is and how dangerous that makes his accumulation of wealth and power

Just want to join others in making the point that the worst of the worst we're seeing right now is from CBP

Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine

I know people think Musk only bought Twitter to help the rise of fascism. While that’s important, I still think it’s secondary to his primary goal, which was to own the place where his fans praise him. With AI, Musk’s use of the platform for love and validation is only getting more transparent.

Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them. There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Trump announced a deal to lower weight loss drug prices while simultaneously banning "fat people" from entering the United States. All very normal stuff for a president.

Reminder that Republicans don't really believe in religious liberty. Religion is a tool for enhancing their political power, and any expression of faith to the contrary must be suppressed.

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Leary is nothing more than a whiny, debate me bro troll. His argument presumes that no system could ever top U.S. cities. However, under unfettered capitalism, Americans have a middling quality of life at BEST. Western Europe, Japan, etc., all have higher quality of life scores.

It still blows my mind that the lawless government paramilitary stormtroopers from every 1990's conspiracy theory have arrived and all the don't tread on me 1776 people just pulled a fade.

Good day for Dallas, good day for Dallas residents. Very satisfied with both the council and the police chief.

a joke policy position I’ve contemplated is all $ after x amount is seized by the state for public works/programs HOWEVER the state is then obligated to name every program/improvement after the individual who earned it. Just streamline the “Guy donates $ to get a building named after him” process.

The whole billionaire/trillionaire this is getting a bit ridiculous. We need a law that makes it illegal to possess more than a billion dollars. If you have more than a billion dollars, you have one year to give it away or the state seizes it and pays for people's healthcare.

Kidnapped by state secret police at her court hearing

Video of Greg Bovino in Waukegan, with residents following and shouting, “You a bitch!” Taken by Armando Sanchez

Somehow Ben Shapiro arrives at the correct conclusion about Twitter before nearly all elected Democrats (even if he doesn't act on that conclusion)

Remember when Harris said she would go after price gouging companies and everyone yelled about communism? Fun times.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Ben Shapiro tells Megyn Kelly that to avoid vile extremists like Nick Fuentes “the first thing people need to do is turn off X, which is poisoning brains and making people think not true things.” Yet, Shapiro continues to post there, often multiple times a day. youtu.be/tprng5mObQg?...

Tuesday’s Dem winners have yet to finish their victory laps. We are still two days from the Sunday news shows, which could also be about how ppl prefer Dems who push back hard on the Trump agenda. Instead, Schumer has negotiated with himself, hoping to take all the air out of a progressive balloon.

Schumer sold out queer people to get a CR, then he sold out DC to get a CR, now he’s offering to sell out 24 million ACA recipients for a CR, and doing so to help shield Republicans from dealing with it over the midterms. He’s like an ant-Pelosi, his instincts go the wrong direction every time.

The problem with "negotiating with Republicans on health care" is that it's worse than dealing with hostage takers. Hostage takers want something else. Republicans don't. They just want to kill the hostages. It's the goal, not a threat. You can't negotiate that.

Like mountains large enough to create their own weather, billionaire oligarchs are shaping an environment where it doesn't matter if their products are shitty or unwanted. They're replacing the free market with closed markets where consumers are required to purchase and use their products.

ICE is not welcome in Dallas

And here is the link to that piece about the City Council briefing on the 287(g) program. www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...

My piece about yesterday is up now. Here are two of my favorite parts.

Arguing with a toaster

Every time I see a story premised on the presumably surprising idea of rotund, happy-looking whales holding their own against mean, scary-looking sharks, I feel compelled to remind people that orcas WEAR A DISGUISE. The orca is the ONE WHO KNOCKS.

"We power ICE," Karp said on Monday.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Knowledge is Power, Law is Control. When you master your rights, you not only seek justice; you command it.

Content moderation is out, but outright censorship is in: "YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israrli human rights violations... in response to a US government campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes." theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

Why are we treating a consumer product that can cause psychosis or even kill people as something like a microwave that needs a firmware update instead of being classified as the most dangerous hallucinogen on the planet?

Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide

It's impossible to be an immigrant in this country. If ICE doesn't get you, a terrified, heavily armed, Fox News viewer will. This poor woman didn't even have the chance to say anything. He shot her through the door and said it was a home invasion.

WASH POST: “President Trump has pardoned the former Tennessee House speaker and his former top aide in the state legislature just weeks after they were sentenced to prison on public corruption charges.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

I underestimated how profoundly embarrassing the fall of our democracy would be.

This is a Heaven's Gate-level cult

I’m so grateful to learn about icelist.is Adding it to my list of reporting streams. This is another good one: www.stopice.net/platetracker...

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Dust off the calipers, guys, we're doing literal Nazi craniometry

This Jeanine Pirro video of her gloating about charging Sandwich Man is sooooo amazing in retrospect.

"They might be paying something. But when you take the overall impact, Americans are gaining tremendously." Congratulations, you just described a tax on American businesses.