“So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once”

#FreeSpeech

a party needs to party. really. you wanna be loud and visible and don’t wanna be depressed? throw parties.

have they declassified yet who shot JR?

what communism and google and AI Musktopia have in common. when people disparage “bureaucracy” this is what they mean.

“new guilded age” reflects a kind of denialism of the problem we face.

"If you would have asked me a week ago, I'd have told you that this kind of thing would never in a million years happen. But now, who the fuck knows."

“The historian Douglas Brinkley described Mr. Musk as a ‘lone ranger’ with limitless running room. He noted that the billionaire was operating ‘beyond scrutiny,’ saying: ‘There is not one single entity holding Musk accountable. It’s a harbinger of the destruction of our basic institutions.’”

was today seriously or literally?

so i'm confused now. were the people who believed he would do what he repeatedly and forcefully said he would do get it right, or did the people who presumed he was bullshitting?

they made tax filing free for ordinary people, rather than forcing filers into the hands of tricky, sometimes predatory private prep products. revenue must be perpetual! they had to be deleted, for the wealth an safety of "us all"! thank you Elon! ht @costrike.bsky.social

cc @steveroth.bsky.social (you'll hate this, but i think it's pretty good context.)

what are the odds identities of confidential USAID funding recipients, named in classified files now accessed by 20-somethings with no vetting or counterintelligence training or legal authority, will evade professional intelligence activities of US adversaries? whose lives are in these kids’ hands?

Interesting on “coequal branches” and the US Constitution. by Richard Bishirjian riffing on David Siemers. theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/10/myth...

“we apologize as we are busy assisting other constituents” (from the message when you hit voicemail at Senator Rick Scott’s office)

Suppose you think USAID is more about official cover for intelligence work than aid. I think that’s exaggerated, untrue, but OK. Then it is *more* outrageous its classified docs shld be compromised. Agents in the field don’t determine US intelligence policy but it is they whom these leaks may kill.

for whatever it’s worth, i just called my (MAGA) Congresswoman’s office to demand Elon Musk’s arrest and imprisonment for the flagrant lawbreaking this weekend with respect to USAID.