Ian Fleming might have made the world’s first trillionaire this evil, but only Philip K. Dick could have made him such a pathetic drug-addled loser, desperate for attention and adulation but incapable of human relationships, and now terrified to go out in public.
even from a purely realist perspective, ambitious politicians should be trying to outdo each other on prosecuting ICE and the like. life pitching this one at you underhand
having high-attention-getting, well-attended events where people bid money to destroy trump shit would also build consensus in the public that trump sucked ass and everyone hated him
Imagine if we treated Trump the way we treat people who miss the recertification deadlines for government assistance programs.
Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:
it actually brings me great pleasure to know that billionaires are so afraid of journalists that they’re trying to build whole new systems for justice to diminish our power. despite corporate consolidation, we continue to do something they can’t fully buy and it drives them mad. stay mad, assholes.
Not having any EU competitive labs (plural intended) is about to get very painful.
1. Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.”
A Popular Information investigaiton reveals that it's a GOP front group.
Following along for receipts.
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The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved.
“Federal judges have ruled more than 13,300 times — the overwhelming majority of the 15,100 rulings — that ICE had detained people in violation of the law or their due process rights.”— @kyledcheney.bsky.social
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Carl T. Bergstrom
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
mtsw
Jess Calarco
Wolfgang Blau
Marisa Kabas
Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.” On Friday, according to FCC records,…
The American taxpayer is responsible for making Musk a trillionaire: without the billions in public funds that have repeatedly bailed out and kept afloat his multiple failing businesses, he'd be just another serial bankrupt.
His fortune was built on OUR backs.
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Well, we are past midnight, and the Trump administration is out of compliance with Judge Cooper’s order.
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Alexander Doria
Judd Legum
idea for the future: sell tickets to the destruction of that fucking ballroom and retire the national debt. an extra fee to actually swing a ball peen hammer myself & knock down a section? Don't mind if I do!
