Musk will then immediately share it with China, of course, where half of all Teslas are made and a third of all Teslas are sold, the single most important market to his company's success, and likely the only country in which Tesla sales have a possibility of growing this year.

I really wish Dem strategists would just once go on TV and acknowledge that Trump only won by 1.5% and didn't even get a majority before they start with the tiresome "Democrats have completely lost touch with average Americans etc, etc." That's how you think after a landslide loss not a squeaker.

This Paul Weiss capitulation is the most disgraceful action by a major law firm in my lifetime, so appalling that I couldn’t believe it at first. Any lawyers at that firm—partners or associates—who don’t promptly resign will defile their moral and professional reputations beyond repair.

I may have missed this during his inaugural remarks but President Trump is instructing the Department of Justice to seek the death penalty against undocumented immigrants who seriously injure U.S. citizens:

There is no real justice after losing 50 years of freedom, but today, our hearts burst with joy and gratitude for our uncle Leonard. To learn more about Leonard’s release, read NDN Collective’s press release here: ndnco.cc/PeltierCleme...

Tell us where to piss

Places to donate for disaster relief: This page of resources is from my friend and colleague Ludovic Blain, executive director of the California Donor Table. More to come. 1/ www.philanthropyca.org/2025-califor...

Just like women, Donald Trump is going to stand as the protector of Canada, Greenland and Panama whether they want it or not.

Reminder: Reagan‘s campaign stole Jimmy Carter’s 1980 debate prep book, which is why Reagan was ready to use his practiced, “There you go again“ zinger at the right time. Early example of GOP’s unethical politics! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

summed up: unrestricted funding minimal reporting no donor driven agenda and I’d add: let the group decide how many years they’ll spend it over

One of the proposed new Illinois flag designs, out of thousands submitted

Good

This was, uh… ten years ago now

Too tired to read right now, but I've trusted @eff over decades as a reliable source (not to mention a consistent media justice advocacy org), so I'm comfortable recommending this thread full of their resources:

This "plan" is both absurd and dangerous.

When I lecture about New Deal banking reforms, I note that some of the key measures — like Glass Steagall — were repealed by the right with disastrous results like the 2008 financial meltdown, but ha ha, no one will ever be stupid enough to kill FDIC and bring back the old bank runs.

you can tell that Trump is authentically extremely xenophobic and pushes that stuff down into the staffer class to get it done but isn't authentically transphobic in the same way and the staffer class pushes that stuff up into him instead

Trump’s cabinet nominees illustrate how Trumpists ignore allegations of sexual assault unless they can be weaponized to justify discrimination against groups of people they want to demonize www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Free Leonard Peltier.

I’m in London as a panelist for a London Funders conference. Brought my son. We’ve had a good time, but I think we are ready to go home

That's why there's an aggressive effort now to blame "identity politics," it's a retcon because Harris ran exactly the campaign centrists wanted, catering to conservatives, never criticizing Netanyahu, never blaming billionaires or big corporations, the works—just to lose to Old Man Yells at Cloud.

finally a reasonable take

It’s just frustrating that the right wing never has to do shit, even when they lose. Never have to reach out, to welcome, to understand, to moderate their positions. They get to be who they are & never apologize for it and people will blame progressives for not putting up with that shit

Very interesting

White masculinity is an identity, and playing up the defense of it — via the state, via norms, via violence — is identity politics.

Not a mandate at all.

Yeah baby

Hmmm

Lol

Hello BlueSky! As a first post, how about some truth about what really happened in the election.

Not funny

Lol

If you're blaming "polarization," as if magnets or zombies or "both sides," caused it - you're an accomplice to the authoritarians. Making people ask pronouns and making plans for concentration camps are not, in fact, the same thing.

Were gunna need a lot of dog pics over the next 2 years until we get the House majority back, and then the remaining 2 years until we get Frumpy out

Yay, I found Rex!

This is why I said we needed to hold off on the day-after hot takes about What The Election Means. We still don’t have all the numbers but it’s clear any talk of a “mandate” was wildly overblown. He won, yes. But only narrowly.

lol!

I’m inspired…kind of!

MAGA used Trans people and immigrants as scapegoats to blame for economic bad vibes, offered simple bad solutions to fix the economy, now Dems are using Trans people as scapegoats so they don’t have to turn-off their corp backers by getting real on Econ inequality. Dems must decide who they are for.

Not one word of my solicited response to NYT columnist Thomas Edsall's election post-mortem made it to print. So, here are his questions to me and my answers:

Seriously though: since all these thinkpieces are being written about bluesky, hi editors and journalists, I wrote a whole book about Twitter (among other research on social media) and am tracking the migration here from a cultural/political perspective so if you want to talk to me I’m here 😇

Thinking about the calls to support independent media and I have to say the Black press really ought to be included in these appeals. Outlets like the Washington Informer, Dallas Weekly, New York Amsterdam News, and the Dallas Post Tribune do valuable work.

Speaker of the House is actively involved in an effort to cover up allegations (and potential evidence) that the nominee for Attorney General was involved in sex trafficking

Yup

Since this is apparently real, Polis should resign as co-chair of the Governors Safeguarding Democracy organization, which was announced just yesterday. abcnews.go.com/US/governors...

Dammit

Alright, I guess I’m starting yet another social media project…fleeing from twitter.