Jen d’Arc

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

“Obama insulting my home decorating obsession shows why he isn’t smart and wasn’t a good president” is something I’d swear the Onion wrote to skewer Trump’s vanity. I genuinely wouldn’t believe he could be this petty and ridiculous if I wasn’t watching the video of him saying it in his own words.

Is… is he campaigning against trump?

I’ve lost track of total count Musk’s SEC violations, but this one is pretty brazen:

Sir, sir, I am begging you with tears in my eyes, do not listen to your stupid people…keep declaring how frickin’ rich all the oil and gas executives (and your crooked friends) are getting. This is perfect and everyone who tells you otherwise is a traitor to MAGA and America itself!

Even the idiot die hard Trump cultists behind him in their red hats are stonefaced as Trump cheers for his tech bro friends building data centers and polluting their environment. Love this for him.

This line was definitely funny, but I actually think “He’s only focused on home renovations, he should be on HGTV” was the better burn.

Overall, we are seeing some very odd deal talks that are supposedly a part of ending the war in Ukraine. But in fact evidence shows these deals are structured (in the most recent case secretly until now) to financially benefit Russia or business partners of the Trump and Witkoff families.

So Trump begged Musk to restore Starlink and Musk just lied about it instead of actually doing it?

50% of maga voters sympathize with ukraine, 5% (!) with russia. bots really have their work cut out for them.

You can almost hear the sound of air leaking out of the SpaceX bubble.

Many called Jared Kushner corrupt Many noted he took bribes from Middle Eastern autocrats, especially Saudi Arabia, skewing US foreign policy And they were right But as this reveals, he's even more corrupt and took even more money from Middle Eastern autocrats that many, even strong critics, knew

Who’s got two thumbs and just showed her 10 year old son she could beat Level 9-5 on the first try after all these years? #CrushingIt

Unclear if we’re abandoning our allies, ran out of defense materials, and/or are about to cause even more destruction and destabilization in the region so that Trump can feel like less of a loser, but either way:

This is 100% pure, uncut Vance, “I’m not disgusted by the depravity of Vivek’s dishonest attack add downplaying childhood sexual abuse, I’m just disgusted by Republicans with basic decency condemning the revolting, depraved ad put out by our own team.”

In case you missed it, our foreign policy and national security is now subject to the whims of a white supremacist ketamine addict who loves Putin and Xi.

Imagine a President (and a political party) so depraved, and so horny for dictatorship, they’ve decided asserting your Constitutional rights is anti-American. I’ve never been a particular fan of Omar’s, but this is truly repugnant.

Don't worry, I'm sure that Taibbi fella is all over this

A Demimucci.

A supercut of a humiliating 24 hours for Katie Zacharia.

Hey @matt-levine.bsky.social, is this securities fraud? (Yes)

Does anyone in the business media want to give $SPCX President Gwynne Shotwell a call and ask if the company's Starlink contracts are valid or is official company policy just whatever the political whims of Musk dictate? (same for the Board of Directors)

A-ha! I KNEW if I doomscrolled long enough I would find some good news. And, on that note, I bid you all goodnight!

Beginning of a beautiful weekend here in California.

good morning, today is October 9 and Alex Gibney's documentary film "MUSK" is now playing at select theaters in New York and Los Angeles it's happening!

This answer would fail even middle school level social studies tests, even in the red states!

“SEC Proposed Amendments to Expand “Responsible Retailization” of Private Markets” -Skadden email blast headline, scare quotes mine. Now that’s a euphemism if I’ve ever heard one.

Great work, Polis—you released the Kraken 2.0. This time she’s already getting Trump excited for “potential civil war.”

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

Evidently we’re at “the check’s already in the mail!” stage of desperation and/or derangement.

Will somebody more skilled at interpreting polls tell me if my donations are best directed to Hamilton or Talarico or …? I’m not looking for the perfect politician, I’ll take the Senate Democrat in the closest battle that can be won.

Based on their expressions, I would believe that Trump had accidentally unmuted while suffering severe gastrointestinal distress.

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

Start your day off with some feel good news:

LMFAO the official America.gov AI website uses a Chinese open source model

This is your economy on Trump (and his lackey Bessent). 👇 (Once again feeling grateful that I knew enough about macro and/or history before 2010 to reject our mortgage broker’s suggestion that we get an ARM “under 4 and refi when rates drop again” instead of locking 30 years at 4.125.)

It’s so ironic that this is the system of government American billionaire tech bros want—here, Putin tells his oligarchs that they’re on their own defending their infrastructure from consequences of his stupid invasion and their companies will be nationalized if they fail to defend their businesses.