I think Elon wants certain types of people
Breaking the maga spell, until they exit their altered reality we are f'd
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I think Elon wants certain types of people
BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
That should help attract all the TOP science talent
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
With a cabinet full of unqualified, unprincipled buffoons... yes-men loyalists to their cult leader. no way they can muster coordinating 25th amendment process
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
This federal judge understated the matter when she called “surprising” the government’s attempt “to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend.” She was right to issue a temporary restraining order. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Maga never reconciles the garbage they consume with actual facts: -Hillary on death bed -Biden won't finish his term -Trumf is the "healthiest, most fit potus of ALL Time" at any point will they be like "wait a minute they keep telling me bullshit"?
Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?
Complicated concepts not well studied or understood in America (fascism, authoritarianism) dont resonate with far too many Americans Part of maga allure is the dumbed down, simple language with the social/podcast/media blaring the rage bait non stop
Walter Reed? National Guard in DC not other properties?
CBS Face the Nation is trash and should be embarrassed to pretend to be a news or information organization. Whoever that clown HOST is that didn't debunk, push back, correct, call out for utter absurdity... should quit and return any pay he has received
The mother using open casket to shock America to open their eyes to the brutality and injustice
Who breaks the official final news? WSJ? Fox? Maggie Haberman? WaPo? OAN? MTG boyfriend? Drudge?
Who is paying the dual cab, big truck car payment? These are people contributing to USA economy, both with labor AND consumer spending Maga believes the lie about immigration
FREEDOM!
R.E.M. “pushed the boundaries” of alternative rock Herbie Hancock “pushed the boundaries” of jazz Trump & RFK Jr. are “destroying public health & will be responsible for killing people” What is journalism, anyway? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
The algorithms feed masses of people to popular cult figures/content creators, then algorithms also feed supporting content that reinforces the cult following Constant loop that validates the cult leader worship
Cali should require a covid mask mandate that way these guys would take their masks off for FREEDOM and because its difficult to breathe woth mask, it's uncomfortable and hurts their delicate faces
Yea What happened to all the anti mask narrative? Why are these people not dropping like flies from mask induced suffocation?
My YouTube channel has like 300 followers and 99% of it is just videos of our medical establishment. Today, I learned they are trying to censor me, instead of doing their job.
so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do
TPUSA, The Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, all spend millions of dollars a year to pay creators to push MAGA narratives. I truly, genuinely, honestly cannot understand how this is only a scandal when liberals do it.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Doesn't explain why so many Americans fell for it and joined the cult
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
Don’t look away
Keith, great podcast.... appreciate all your efforts **Stephen Miller worst person: maybe national guard in DC is to allow Trump staff/admin to roam around city without harrassment🤔
"Wait i was told immigrants were NOT working jobs.... i was told immigrants were VIOLENT criminals" "i can't believe they LIED to me" -some maga or independent somewhere but without the actual self-realization
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
Bill Cassidy enabled RFKj appointment and more than most sitting Senators knows better. Worsening medical outcomes for America is on his shoulders Cassidy prob forgot hippocratoc oath "Do no harm"
Where is Senator Bill Cassidy, a man violating many oaths including hippocratic oath to "Do no harm"?!? Bill Cassidy enabled this mad man and abdicating his duty of oversight AND advise and consent
The party funded by NRA gun lobby
In 2020, when I told people that I was building a pro-democracy media outlet, people thought I was kidding. When I told them that the fight for democracy was the fight of our time, they thought I was being overly dramatic. Well...here we are. Subscribe to Democracy Docket now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Said NO people... EVER
If you saw the clip, watch the whole 12 minutes. This is it. Electeds—everyone around Pritzker is knowingly putting themselves at risk—meeting the moment. It’s not glib, it’s not a meme, it’s clear-eyed, brave, & necessary. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
Whose eyes lids are shut more Melania or Donald's?
No SCOTUS justice is a bigger flag fan than Alito
Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
The Framers made arguably one major mistake: They believed the legislative branch would jealously guard its power. They could not have fathomed that the legislative branch (Out of laziness, raw partisanship and a desire to keep their sinecures) would willingly surrender its power.
Where are all the corporate media headlines demanding his resignation? Where are the all the assumptions that about specialists visiting the White House meaning the president is dying? They did this daily with Biden. Why not now? Are they covering for their cash cow? Are they paid to cover it up?
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Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
Jeffries isn’t up to this & neither is Schumer in the Senate. Give us a mean Dem SOB in the House & Sheldon Whitehouse in the Senate. Drop the gloves.
I'm still seeing news stories which suggest the US govt purchased a 10% stake in intel. But that's simply not true. They're pointing to money that was already appropriated as part of the CHIPs bill and other programs. Intel gave Trump 10% purely as a result of threats.
Exactly the energy we need from all Democratic Leaders. @governor.ca.gov has done well in CA since Trump's troops came into LA. Now great to @govpritzker.illinois.gov step up. Only if Cong Democratic Leaders matched this intensity.
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
Watch this Tesla Supervised "Robotaxi" get stuck while attempting to make a left turn, forcing the supervisor to get into the driver’s seat and manually drive the car. Elon Musk, your so-called ‘Robotaxi’ is a pile of trash.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
It’s infuriating how much breathless reporting there was on Hillary’s health and Biden’s cognition, and this is getting zero traction. This should be a lead story.
Trump def changed his CAPS LOCK usage post America's favorite governor, and most beautiful map maker, Gavin Newsome, clowned him. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcYY...
and today everyone is talking about Clemens’ longtime exploitation of late country singer Mindy McCready that began when he was 28 and married and she was just 15 so enjoy that spotlight Roger (backstory: pitcherlist.com/bbwaa-is-era...)
Trump is absolutely hoping that one of these guys shoots somebody, then there are protests with vandalism, which can then become the excuse for the REALLY violent crackdown. I wrote about this the other day: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trump-want...
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
I am getting on the subway for the scavenger hunt. I'll be with Max.
Bluesky wasn’t allowing me to post for a few days but looks like I’m back, here’s today’s ‘Noel’s Notes’ link: open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...
If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.
Why Welker is weak and completely unqualified for her job 🤮
I loved the movie OPPENHEIMER about the race to build that world-changing negotiation.
This is awful Democratic messaging. What Jefferies should be saying is that Trump is trying to make himself king by replacing state independence with a personal federal army that will blindly do his bidding. It’s fascism. And it is the opposite of American democracy.
As a result of a recent ruling by the Florida Supreme Court, Black voters in northern Florida remain cracked into four whiter, more Republican districts, as they have been since 2022.
Will never understand the ignorance of so many Americans that led to his re-election More surprising is lack of push back and counter moves by Americans and leaders that know better
Reputational damage to integrity of FBI At what point do agents stand up for Rule of Law
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
MAGA 2022: weaponization of DOJ to get federal judge to issue search warrant of Trump's home MAGA 2025: we follow rule of law by getting federal judge to issue search warrant of Bolton's home Fantasy world. #Hypocrites
*lie or fabrication from Trump's mouth DJT is biggest scammer/grifter/bullshitter
Something that’s weirdly haunting to me is that I can’t stop thinking about whether how many people pre-Trump were knowingly lying about their principles versus those who genuinely thought they believed in them and to their great surprise, discovered they did not care *that* much.
I think unprincipled people’s belief that they were outnumbered by principled people was load bearing and now that they’ve discovered it’s untrue, there is no unringing the bell.
Hope you enjoy the Trump maga fascism...which will only make life for trans extremely more difficult. Whereas Newsome winning election and power will ultimately make life better for trans *despite this interview purity tests do not = winning elections and power to make positive changes eventually
until people realize whatever comes after "Trump said..." is most likely a lie or fabrication, USA will continue to have a problem
Everything Trump does is a shitty version of what Alex Jones has been saying "the Left" is going to do to conservatives for 20 years.
Trump and maga really do not understand the "consumer" part of a consumer economy
Bolton could have done more to publicly, adamantly warn about Trump 2.0 BEFORE 2024 election
Curious if Bolton is now wondering if he could have been more full-throated and given more effort publicly BEFORE 2024 election 🤷🏻♂️
side note... did he stop using ALL CAPS because the greatest governor with most beautiful maps was clowning Trump?
This flew by my radar this week, but massively important: the 5th circuit court of appeals ruled that the NLRB’s structure unconstitutional. It is a huge blow to “American workers who hope to organize their workplaces without fear of retaliation. It represents a partial negation of the New Deal…”
the ones that scream about socialism, sadly have zero idea of what socialism actually is
The other aspect of Trump bullying Intel into handing over stock is that he wouldn’t try it in a company that wasn’t left-coded: Silicon Valley/Big Tech. Imagine him forcing Caterpillar or Chik-fil-a to the same terms.
Just trying to point out hypocrisy in right wing talking point re Muslims, anytime there is random violence maga doesn't apply similar logic to LEO behavior ... just sayin
Didn't they recently shitcan their most experienced agents? Gosh, it's almost like they want people who don't know how to refuse illegal orders.
Is this DEI ?!?
Pee-Wee German
Similar to muslims are responsible and supposed to root out the violent extremists in their groups Good LEO should shun and expose the bad ones right? 🤔
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:
dems are bad about incessantly throwing it in everyone's face via podcasts, socials posts etc videos of grocery receipts, whining, bitching about prices etc etc etc
There’s more inflation now than when he ran for office incessantly bitching about it.
Gavin Newsom has given us a "taste" of what a real fighter is and WE WANT MORE! Schumer and Jeffries are not just impotent -- they are now harming Dem efforts to save democracy and the country from Trump!