📄 NEW: "Elon Musk and DOGE are a meatspace problem, not an ideaspace problem. He needs to be physically restrained, and now." Stop Musk Now Or Face Certain Collapse — my latest for Washington Spectator.
https://washingtonspectator.org/the-wide-angle-stop-musk-now-or-face-certain-collapse/

Via Katie Phang:

CREW's latest lawsuit:

Trump’s illegal EO converts "potentially 10s of 1000s of merit-based civil servants to at-will employees, enabling polt apptees to fire & replace them w loyalists" & exceeds president’s authority

Trump’s exec order reverses course on 140 yrs of civil service reform meant to ensure fed employees have required skills & expertise to best serve the American people & protect civil service from dangerous nepotism & cronyism,” said

https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/PEER-Complaint.pdf

We were never better than when we were killing nazis. -my dad

Here's the first of probably periodic warnings to remind yourself that the "firehose of falsehoods" disinformation tactic is about to go into full swing. You do not need to watch the news to bear witness. You do not need to watch hideous videos of violence. They will be circulated to keep you upset

“The Void is experiencing extremely high call volumes right now. Please hold. Your screaming is very important to us.”

After the inauguration, I think I’ll be focusing exclusively on Bluesky and Mastodon. Bending a knee to oligarchy and authoritarianism is not my vibe.

What this person did was totally disgusting. Any sane and sensible person understands putting down a suffering animal. We know some are incapable of even doing it. But to put down a young, untrained, and spirited animal for convenience and not cause is demented. I don't believe that Karma is a thing. That being said, this monster has earned a brush with whatever suffering may befall her!

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/04/internet-reacts-horror-noem-bragging-about

Back in my day, we didn’t have any fancy “epi-pens”! We just died.

And we LIKED IT!!!

@AmishSuperModel Nut allergies? Oh. You mean “unexplained deaths”? Yeah? So?!

The Flintstones owned this home on a single salary, from a husband with only a high school diploma.

This was considered normal in 10,000 BC, when the documentary began.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, but lose his margin to rising labor costs?

Four years ago...
This is the kind of insanity that will return to the Oval Office if Trump is re-elected. Trump was unfit to be POTUS in 2017 and he'd be even worse in 2025.

#FourYearsAgoToday

April 14, 2020 – Trump said that he would cut off U.S. payments to the World Health Organization, claiming that the WHO engaged in a coverup of the outbreak in its early days in China. “We have not been treated properly,” he said of the organization.

#AreYouBetterOff #NeverAgainTrump #TrumpMustLose2024 #VoteBlueIfYouWantToLive #VoteBlue

This. Trial. Is. Going. To. Be. Something.

#NeverRFK

Democrats unite against RFK Jr. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4564375-democrats-rfk-jr-biden-trump-2024/

It isn’t the migrant drug dealers and rapists who pose the greatest threats to America; it’s the ones who were born here.
Pictured: Drug dealer Dr. Ronnie Jackson and his client, adjudicated rapist Donald J. Trump.

Crime is down.
Inflation is down.
Border crossings are down.

Everything Republicans want you to be scared of is a lie.

They are gaslighting you.

They have nothing.

No policies.

No solutions.

They are totally unfit.

Vote them all out.

Vote Blue.

As someone who played SxSW multiple times and mostly enjoyed it, I would like to say bands should drop out of SxSW because it is in Texas and Greg Abbott is the governor and his party literally voted to greenlight alliances with Texas neo-Nazis because they, his party, are fucking neo-Nazis.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2024-03-12/sxsw-responds-to-artist-dropouts-following-tweet-from-greg-abbott/

"The Kremlin said it had no information on the cause of death."
The Kremlin is the cause of death.
Russian activist and Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/russian-activist-and-putin-critic-alexei-navalny-dies-in-prison?CMP=share_btn_tw