Musk says an hour of his time is worth $100 million yet he spends six hours a day angrily posting online every time a big budget Hollywood movie casts a Black person in a starring role. Curious!

This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...

it's almost 4:20 in the am. has anybody ever asked elon musk if he wants black people on mars or the moon or whatever he's pretending to sell? i don't think i've ever heard anybody substantively challenge him about his racism. or about killing USAID. can nobody press him on those things?

the same way most news orgs use the formal/honorary "president donald trump" the first time they mention him in an article, they should start using "racist elon musk..."

i'm not an expert and am being completely sincere asking this: i once had to go bail a friend out of a police station b/c he got a DUI... how is that legally any different than an organization doing the same thing? the police had no way of knowing i was actually friends with the guy...

my kingdom for a reporter who follows up after he says shit like this with, "what, exactly, would you say you do around here?"

Trump responding to any question that touches on his knowledge or competence with, "Who are you with?" and then attacking the outlet is a regular enough strategy now the next reporter should be ready to rephrase the same question. If only though.

The main takeaway from the trip is that China is happy to entertain Trump for a couple days, but has no interest in lifting the slightest finger to improve relations with the U.S.

Mike and I watch episodes of this podcast to make fun of on our own show, and the download counts on our episodes absolutely blow Katie Miller's show out of the water. Her attempt at a podcast is a complete dud. It is worthless. Everyone can see what's actually going on, right?

3. The Pentagon's own internal estimate, from weeks ago, was $50 billion, according to CBS News. Popular Information added up the costs, with a detailed methodology, and arrived at $72 billion over the first 60 days. Other independent estimates are even higher.

an example of this: the anti-vax movement used to be a *very* fringe thing. that's not something that many people were raised with or were serious about even like ten years ago. people can be convinced to hate things they never would have if they'd been left to their own devices.

Democrats need to press the case against Trump's corruption if only to counter the bullshit they're spewing about Democrats' corruption. They have to own this issue.

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

Trump and his allies are doing everything they possibly can to strengthen the forces in the center-left that are urging Dems to embrace procedural Total War. Trump and the GOP are doing this to our country. Every last shred of damage that results from escalation is their fault.

It is not at all a coincidence that the party that fetishizes performative displays of masculinity is made up of the most pathetic simps in the world

One of the worst Democrats in the government, Josh Gottheimer, accused NYT of being on "Hamas' payroll," so you know things are going well. His entire post is unhinged. The idea that NYT has an anti-Israel bias is laughable.

They're not going to stop with trans. They've realized that they can get away with just about anything if they claim to be protecting "the children." If they roll back gay marriage, they won't stop there either. There is no fucking accommodating these people, they must be defeated & marginalized.

Actually I couldn't give less of a shit about this.

There were never any real prospects for a U.S.-Iran deal to fizzle. That was just a media narrative, one driven by prioritizing words from a serially lying White House over the consistent facts of the war. In a month of uninterrupted rain, you ran multiple headlines of “Sun Comes Out, Trump Says.”

Hello everybody, I want to believe just as much as anybody else does but I really need to tell you that in my 10+ years of experience as a disinformation expert, the only reason UFO shit gets put out by the government is to distract you from other really bad things

They fucking love losing. They love it. They think it makes them better, that it's a virtue!

The New York Times is playing the Republicans’ theft of Black political power — the return of Jim Crow —primarily as a sporting event. “Bullish Republicans are back in the game,” writes NYT.

if you show up at the trump white house on their request because your child was killed in action, you know he's going to make a mockery of it, he's made a mockery of it countless times over the last several years, and your attendance is an endorsement of and complicity in that mockery

Why shouldn't Virginia Governor @abigailspanberger.com announce something like "the Supreme Court just ruled that state governments can redistrict, multiple Republican-controlled states already are, and the people of Virginia indicated they want us to, so that's what we're going to do," then do it?

destroying the trees themselves instead of the peaches is where this goes from unmitigated greed into actual evil

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

"My master plan is to make sure that every channel for political change is shut down. And once ordinary people have no formal, legal way to get what they want, once they see that we've rigged the game in every possible way so that our rule over them is total, well, that'll probably be the end of it"

If we still manage to beat them back we will need to take revenge in part so they will never try this again.

My first job out of college, before grad school, was for a historic property redeveloper with an MBA. He asked me why he should hire a philosophy major. I said “because I can learn whatever you need me to learn faster than anyone else you could hire while outthinking them, too.” Humanities forever.

Trump posts a U.S. warship shooting down an Iranian fighter jet and saying "Bing, Bing, Gone!!!"

The Bezos Post is essentially becoming Jeff Bezos’ personal blog to whine about people who criticize the idle rich like him. A hit dog will holler. Imagine arguing that hoarding billions of dollars is the peak of “human potential” with a straight face.

A sizeable group of voters simply want an asshole as President. There is no point in trying to cater to them, you can either ignore them or discourage them from voting. Every effort to get their vote by adopting asshole-ish policies is a waste, they want the real thing.

the wapo opinion "editorial board" seems to be cranking out pieces at a much higher rate than before, for some reason...

They keep doing shit like this because yall ain’t swinging on them.

"To the extent that SCOTUS claims broad authority to say what our Constitution means, it is in large part because we have given this authority to the justices through our indifference...the Republic—and the Constitution that brought it to life—is meant for us." Absolutely, @jamellebouie.net.

Earlier today, it was revealed that DOJ was investigating this reporter for her previous unflattering expose on Patel’s drinking. This is the best possible response: another expose of his embarrassing behavior. Kick his ass, Sarah.

An awful lot of credulous quoting of “federal law enforcement” sources in the coverage of the Louise Lucas matter. Given the manifest politicization of Trump’s DOJ and FBI, why should media agree to quote any of these sources on background?

Reminder that they’re going to desecrate the most sacred space in our nation’s capital, the Lincoln Memorial, by holding weigh-ins on its steps like it’s a goddamn New Orleans slave market.

imagine - after everything revealed *and* everything still being covered up - being the "i'm going to defend a dead guy and the lady who already got a sweetheart deal" motherfucker. "i am alan dershowitz, and here's why there was no trafficking." first of all: fuck you. secondly: sure, dude.

BREAKING from The Atlantic: Kash Patel has given out bottles of a personalized whiskey to FBI staff as well as civilians he encounters in his duties, according to eight people, including current and former FBI and Department of Justice employees and others who are familiar.

At the WH physical fitness event today, Trump takes the kids outside to demonstrate his athletic ability with a little putting display. He misses every putt before giving up.

Extended bit where I steal this guy’s look and do tech gobbledygook at everyone I meet

The media aren't reporting what a shitshow Project Freedom turned out to be. The swore they were going to rescue the 800 vessels trapped in the Gulf, they got two out and called a lid because Iran fought them every step of the way.

There was no greater and more effective advocate in the VA redistricting fight. It's 1000% clear what Trump is doing here.

Aside from the embrace of Wellness Eugenics I think RFK jr's moves all make sense if you are trying to destroy actual medical industries and replace them with wellness snake oil. We can all agree on the greed of the former but at least they create actual usable products

The way for Democrats to just talk like normal people talk is apparently to say “just talk like normal people talk” a lot. Because very few Democrats today are doing jargon-laden campaigns. Heck, few college seminars sound like that caricature either. The audience for this is pundits and donors.

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