Elon Musk has also disrupted, by which I mean brutally ended, the lives of over a million poor children and adults globally by means of destroying USAID, but who gives a fuck, right?
Elon Musk has disrupted one industry after another, from space rockets and electric vehicles to humanoid robots.
His latest target: the stodgy club of mobile networks.
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds. Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.
"Strays from science." No, Goddamnit #BrokenTimes, he tells dangerous lies and endangers lives. Throw away your fucking thesaurus. Have the courage to speak truth. That would be journalism.
On Covid and Autism, Trump Strays From the Science www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to:
•admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states
•abolish ICE
•grant citizenship to any immigrant
•disband the 5th Circuit
•expand the Supreme Court
Seriously: Why the hell not?
One of my coworkers told me I should get a standing desk. "I love mine! You'll like standing!" I told her I stood for the 25 years I worked in retail, not allowed to sit at all, and I was confident my regular sitting desk was my reward.
She was stunned to hear I never sat down once in retail.
Everyone in DC knows that if you want to hide something, announce it on a Friday in August. Better yet, make it nearly impossible to track down.
That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.
I’m filled with awe and amazement that they seem primed to pardon ghislaine in exchange for her signing a statement that Trump is the least pedophilest man ever to walk the earth and was 100% never Jeff Epstein’s wingman with high school age models.
Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.
Mitch McConnell told Senate Republicans that Americans concerned about losing Medicaid will “get over it."
No one will “get over” losing a loved one because Republicans in Congress failed them.
Republicans are jamming through the GENIUS Act which will turbocharge Donald Trump’s crypto corruption.
We need an amendment vote to stop the President, Vice President, and senior government officials from directly or indirectly profiting from a stablecoin venture.
Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.
President Trump is leveraging his role as commander-in-chief in a much clearer and more urgent way than during his first term — whether that’s showing off the military in a parade or using it to quell protests.
“The law will not stop Trump’s attack on L.A., because laws do not stop authoritarians. Only the people can do that. And the people, a majority of them, elected Trump to do exactly what he is doing: use violence against the Americans they disagree with.”
I know many people think Posse Comitatus is an ironclad bar to Trump's Attack on LA. I watched that episode of the West Wing too.
But, the law has enough holes for Trump to drive a tank through. And the courts will cower in the face of authoritarianism.
My latest in @thenation.com
Cool! @ricksteves.bsky.social, who has a lot of experience telling people where to go, is telling people to go to NoKings.org. See y'all in the streets on 6/14.
Democrats in 2024: Trump will push 10s of millions off of Medicaid if he wins
Corporate Media: Democrats are liars, Trump promises not to cut anyone from Medicaid if he wins
<Trump wins and cuts 13.7 million off of Medicaid>
Corporate Media: real barn burner last night in House, so much fun!
House Republicans just passed Trump’s Tax Scam (the GOP’s Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching megabill) in a 215-214 vote. The bill got even worse overnight, but the most important thing to know right now is this:
This fight isn’t over, and this bill can still be stopped. 🧵
Musk's Starlink was having a hard time getting permits abroad.
Then Trump slapped tariffs on basically everything we buy from overseas—and suddenly countries negotiating trade deals started giving Starlink sweet deals!
Looks like textbook corruption—and we're all paying for it.
ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Reading the story about the woman in Georgia who is brain dead and on a vent but not allowed to die with dignity because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead. Even in death, our bodies are not our own.
State-owned property.
🚨 This good neighbor caught shady “agents” in Highland, IL claiming to do wellness checks—each wearing mismatched vests labeled FBI/ICE/ERO/police.
Since when do they roll up together like that?
Vigilante brown shirts are testing boundaries.
Stay safe. Know your rights. #OnYourSide
Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis.
It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.socialwww.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...
TODAY: We need every Senate Democrat to vote no on a crypto bill that would enable Trump to keep accepting bribes from billionaires, corporations, and foreign governments. We can block S.394 if Democrats unite in opposition, but they’re not there yet, so make sure your senators hear from you ASAP. 👇
Houdini: i am that fool
Houdini: fie on your so-called magic!
Houdini: why, it's nothing but a lot of humbug and ballyhoo!
Houdini: i believe, my good sir, in facts and logic
Houdini: by my calculations, magic is a flapdoodle of a fraud!
Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today:
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”