Toby Schaffer

I both care a great deal about Earth's environment and despise Elon Musk, but even so I don't see the SpaceX rocket crashing on the moon as a problem of any kind

at some point, probably already in the past, the media needs to start asking Republicans under which circumstances if any a Democrat's election to national office is legitimate

I mean I still respect Elizabeth Warren but not quite as much as I did before reading that

maybe now would be a good time to pass some legislation modifying the single point-of-control for the country's nukes

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party of sociopaths

Ds MUST be clear these will be illegal orders that must be refused and will be prosecuted if carried out

this x 100 Ds should be making two things clear each and every day: the military has a duty to refuse illegal orders, and war crimes will be prosecuted

will never ever come to grips with the fact that a) this addled moron is President and b) a major political party dumped every principle they ever espoused in order to kiss his ass

I remember thinking when Hegseth was being confirmed "maybe he'll recognize the enormity of this position and stop being such a cosplaying asshole". I knew even then that was just copium, but I hoped. didn't realize how it wasn't cosplay at all - he really is just a moronic, maga asshat douchebro

Remember when Republicans kept yelling about the IRS under Obama targeting conservative groups? It was of course bullshit but also another example of every accusation is a confession

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." a true sociopath

the president of the US literally lied about having spoken to a former president in support of his war and the press has completely forgotten about it because it doesn't even crack the top hundred list

good thing the Japanese are famously chill when it comes to insults and matters of decorum & etiquette

I'm firmly convinced the idea that "progress is a given" is responsible for a huge portion of our problems. People think the status quo is the natural order of things when of course it's the result of intentional research, development & maintenance, subject to reversal if those cease

One thing Trump's admin has shown crystal clear is the extent to which the GOP values raw power over *everything* they claimed to care about. They've jettisoned every value they professed to hold in service of a demented, senile sociopath. They'd rather rule over ashes than lose an election.

just for the record, two things can be true: the Iranian regime is horrible, and we shouldn't launch unjustified wars with no clear objectives on the whim of one senile man who btw is a child molester

canceled Amazon Prime #resistandunsubscribe

The F16 "UFO" scramble yesterday reminded me that in any just, fair universe this performative, absurd, hey-lookit-me-with-my-gun photo would've ended any politician's career

Cancelled Apple TV+ #resistandunsubscribe

Just 3 episodes into the 4th season of Brockmire. Gotta say I was not ready for this amount of prescience.

It's just astounding how much these guys despise the country which provided the infrastructure and conditions necessary for them to become fabulously wealthy

Saw a pickup with a TRUMP WON sticker. Is the implication laws no longer matter? He won, now he's king? Luckily Republicans are extremely consistent so when a D wins the same logic will no doubt apply.

Great turnout & energy at the Asheville #NoKings rally yesterday. Almost makes one optimistic that the US isn't done yet.

every so often it hits me that the SecDef - sorry, SecWar - has his job solely because the president is an ignorant, demented dotard who thinks that being on TV means something in real life. just absolutely infuriating that these two cretins are in charge in the US military.

legit can't stop thinking about that dunk and how that kid's life is ruined for the next couple years minimum

Trump translator: "[X] really surprised a lot of people" = "[X] surprised me but nobody else" "Nobody knew/could have predicted [X]" = "every conscious human on the planet except me knew/predicted" it's his version of the royal we, but just used to put a veneer on his being so fucking stupid

where's his Nobel Peace Prize?

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

my kingdom for a filter to remove "are you surprised?" replies to posts discussing something bad

Trump apparently truly thinks "groceries" is some esoteric obscure term. remind me again why the Democrats dropped the "weird" attacks last year?

a little late to the party but the 23 second clip at the end of The Rehearsal S2E3 is just god-tier TV

holy shit triple sec of defense how did I not think of that

eg if he thinks when you buy something you "lose money" and should therefore avoid that, then what does he think the point of having money is? why be rich if you're never going to buy stuff??

hard to believe the sheer volume of wrongness, stupidity and ignorance this both contains and implies

I know you can play this game all day but just imagine the head-exploding apoplexy if Biden answered "I don't know" to "don't you need to uphold the Constitution"

"Thank you for your attention to this matter!" he is so fucking weird. and stupid. and sociopathic. this could go on.

somewhere Thomas Friedman is yelling "and *this* fucking guy doesn't have a time unit?!!"

didn't get much done today. what's the time code for "speedrun into fascism horror"

won't be too long before they "well actually" slavery itself. these people are overt white supremacists and keep telling us this over and over

Just donated to @katmabu.bsky.social. tbqh being a young, blond, hot woman who knows politics she certainly could've made huge bank in the general RW/Fox grift ecosystem, but she kept her principles instead - we need more fighters like her in life generally and in Congress specifically.

"For every Elon, a Luigi"

Heading to the rally downtown and had to park pretty far away. Good sign for attendance!

what I need AI for is to tell me who are these people in my contacts that I have zero recollection of

Absolutely infuriating and terrifying. If Trump's stated goal were completely destroying what America is supposed to be I don't know what he'd do differently.

we're getting a live demo of why it's really bad to allow a non-elected private citizen to amass sufficient wealth to exercise presidential powers with no accountability & constraints, just in case anyone was wondering

ngl kinda tempted to check Xitter to see how the dipshits who told me I supported genocide are blaming this on the Democrats

no need for a "donotreply" replyto address when emailing me - we're on the same page already

"Well it doesn't violate the laws of physics to say they won't raise prices, so we'd better account for that possibility. Also let's not mention who's responsible."