Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺

I am reposting this after Steve Witkoff—in service to Trump—disgraced and degraded our nation by calling Vladimir Putin a humanitarian. www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...

AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"

I have been praying for this kind of pushback from Democrats against Elon Musk for a long time now and I am thrilled that the Talarico camp is leaning into it. Light. Him. Up.

Blanche had a very different view of that rule when he represented Trump.

No. No. Fuck off. No. You have the freedom to make more money than God you don’t have the freedom of ultimate impunity. You have to pay the price to be protected by cops, the army, the economy. Pay your share for the machine that brought you your wealth. Spend your money and shut the fuck up.

The thing with the billionaires is they won’t fucking leave us alone. It would be one thing if they made some product or service, fucked off, paid their bills and paid for rivers of cocaine or gold covered loincloths or whatever. But they insist society be structured around their every whim.

Truly INSANE for them to all double down on this but speaks to their male fragility and their need to circle the wagons to protect pedophiles

A million North Carolinians have voted in this year’s election. One of them—just one!—cast a ballot from Antarctica. I found him. And I found out how he did it. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/one-person...

I’m a sucker for this kind of storytelling and Jeremy is exceptional with it. It’s just pure distilled *curiosity* about the world just outside our doorstep. I believe, once all is said and done, that curiosity is probably all life is about.

You’d think the mediocre whites and their AAPI allies would be happy. They “won” on affirmative action and black student enrollment has plummeted. But they’re not happy. As long as there’s *one* Black person in school they’ll still run to SCOTUS Their next target is 5th graders Me in @thenation.com

Microsoft literally told fragile white guys to use AI to compete with Black co-workers.

Trump doing defense in Mississippi is a hell of a thing.

Noted radical... Hillary Clinton... now in favor of court expansion. :)

You know what pissed me off about the Ramaswamy ad beyond the obvious grotesqueries? There’s no EVIDENCE disputing Acton’s life story. There are court proceedings backing up her story. And all Ramaswamy’s got is the (accused) mother saying “nu uh” and somehow that’s enough? FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Again: Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything. That’s not how DOD contracts work.

Putin believes Western leaders can be bought off. That everyone has a price. His strategy with Trump? Promise lucrative business deals once Ukraine is “out of the way” to secure the concessions he wants I hope that strategy won't succeed. I fear it might. Maybe it already is?

We have to be ready for Trump's sabotage before & after the election. Not just lies about fraud & efforts to seize ballots, but also Russian interference, possibly including "instigating civil unrest..that result in potentially violent action," Frank Figliuzzi says. open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Earlier this week, I told @thebulwark.com that Witkoff was always trying to be Putin’s friend. Today, he called Putin a “humanitarian.” Putin sees this as weakness. These guys are in way over their heads.

nobody stopped Musk before he broke the state monopoly on violence, so now either he goes or the nation-state does

the case for nationalizing SpaceX just keeps making itself

this has never felt more true. it's rapists and their defenders all the way down.

Pete Hegseth wanted Dwight Eisenhower's globe for his office. His staff broke it. Photos obtained by The Post show a gash in the World War II-era artifact that resulted from a botched relocation attempt inside the Pentagon.

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Still waiting for a legacy journalist to slap back and say they’re not going to take any more abuse from this sick and disgusting man.

So once all of our stuff can be stolen and there’s nothing we can do about it what do we do then?

This is not said often or forcefully enough. They are viscous when we are funnier than them. they know how much their propaganda machine depends on manufacturing their faux wit.

Replace "Boeing 737s" with "empty warehouses" and you've got the same play that DHS under Noem pulled. And a source on background told us in February the sales were meant to help well-connected Trump affiliates offload industrial properties that were liabilities on their books.

It's bleak that Serious News Outlets will tie themselves into knots writing headlines that obscure the horrors of a story while @people.com just waltzes in and calls it like it is.

Solid metaphor for the entire administration, honestly

Say what now? Why thank you, Jared. Thank you for providing admissible evidence that is no longer excluded from consideration under the Trump immunity ruling.

You can't afford a full tank of gas but Mike Rogers is chartering private planes and repairing his campaign's BMW. Summer's over so yachting turns to jetting I guess! Mike Rogers is just looking to go through the revolving door of politics to make another $14M.

"So there it is, the morbid phenomenon of late Trumpism on full display: Smearing a survivor of child sexual abuse; running an ad featuring a primary enabler of the abuse; and complaining that some decent people in his party are offended by this." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-monste...

This dumb hack has no power to do that. States don't have to listen to anything he says.

Do you know how bad the abuse has to be for a judge to remove kids from their birth mother? Just saw Amy Acton’s CNN interview about that Ramaswamy ad and , listen, I lived in NC through the Willie Horton ad era. I’m not precious. This is so disgusting that I wish I believed in hell. I really do.

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This is horrifying. They're sending armed agents door to door, traumatizing children and demanding proof of citizenship. And next, they'll be at our polling places.   The lengths Trump will go to cling to power are shocking and un-American.

like vance, ramaswamy is a hateful, resentful orc of a human being, and the reason i think this will hurt him politically — where this stuff didn’t hurt trump — is that ramaswamy, like vance, is also profoundly unlikeable. he has no charm or charisma or anything. just a dipshit.

I went with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social and @maxwellfrost.bsky.social yesterday to the Trump-Epstein Reading Room in Detroit, a traveling exhibit which displays all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files. I’m so grateful for the hard work to make this exhibit happen.

“The incident raises serious concerns about Meta’s impartial handling of voting information and political speech—particularly in light of the company’s close financial relationship with the Trump administration.”

Expanding the Court is the moderate position

We are already a huge outlier here among western democracies (To the extent we are one, heh.) But AI — both the technology and the political superstructure — are going to make this worse by an exponent. I guess. I heard. Maybe. Probably not. What do I know. I read it someplace.

I’m telling you that the extreme exposure to scams is a big part of the reason so many people are negative about our economic future.

Related: The @accountabilityji.bsky.social is building a free-to-use, searchable public database to reveal the individuals behind dark money groups and their connections to broader political influence networks. There’s nothing like it today. This will be an essential public resource.

Musk’s wealth is a threat to democracy—not just in the U.S. but everywhere. He’s probably the greatest threat to the free world today.

Elon Musk threatens Congress.