“It’s the task of everyone who believes in democracy to make Musk’s story of hubris end in the traditional way that the Greek playwrights dramatized so well.”

#pathetic

mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/1139...

i’m so glad to see this. ht @bananapantz.bsky.social

would it make sense to start a crosspartisan campaign to lobby the White House to replace Musk with Bannon as head of DOGE? make a strange bedfellow of MAGA 1.0?

“Whether Trump realizes that Musk is faking it is less clear. But as Tuesday’s event showed, it’s not clear whether Trump matters at this point.”

virtue is woke, so we're embracing vice. mastodon.social/@benroyce/11...

disappointing, Apple. ht @hamishbuchanan.bsky.social @nileane.fr www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/a...

Excellent. “If a judge orders an action to cease and the executive refuses, who gets to call the police? Who do the police listen to? If people don’t leave their positions, who makes them?”

oh god. nowhere to run to nowhere to hide.

maybe Russia will send some economic advisors to help us out with “shock therapy”.

worried about @kdrum.bsky.social jabberwocking.com/health-updat...

you wanted the world reenchanted, you said. and so it has been, in the form of a curse.

Elon Musk is robbing us blind. He is the most flagrantly corrupt figure in all of American history.

a claim that there has been no suspensions or delays in disbursements strikes me as... inaccurate. how can we start to enforce the norm against lying (or in this case repeating claims from a source the author should know is false)?

eggstraordinary.

just… democracy? a Congress in which incumbents are safe is a Congress in which constituents are disenfranchised and ignorable.

The Trump Administration is just pathetic at negotiating. It "played tough" and won nothing much from Canada and Mexico with its tariff gambit. It negotiated against itself and conceded all leverage in its negotiations on Russia and Ukraine. Just pathetic.

we're treating migrants so badly when many of us may need to be migrants soon.

same playbook as Afghanistan. which worked really well.