This NY Times classic from 2022 had a print headline reading “What Musk Stands For Is Not Clear” and said Elon Musk “has stressed repeatedly that his problems are with extremists on both ends of the political spectrum.”

🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...

OMG you gotta read this thread:

Everyone should stop comparing Republicans to Nazis as soon as Republicans stop acting like Nazis.

It doesn't take a genius to see that Trump is corruptly using the presidency to stuff big bucks in his pockets.

It's always true that David Brooks should shut up.

Elon Musk is on Russia's side. And on his bank account's side. He is not on freedom's side. Or your side.

Edwin Eisendrath dissects the appalling partnership of Trump and Putin. If you vote for Republicans, you're voting to crush Ukraine's freedom.

Exactly.

1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.

Being corrupt is no big deal in the Trump regime. It just makes the scam artist fit in with the rest of the gang. The only sin is getting caught.

It’s “Trump says” time again in mainstream media.

Yes, it could have gone on way longer.

Henry Miller - I mean Mark Jacob - immerses us in the muddy waters of our current timeline.

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… and no, I’m not going to run this sentence through AI because our current reality has way too many “hallucinations” already.

… organization FIFA – and why does a sports group have a peace prize anyway? – and I think those Nobel people might as well give the U.S. president the big prize because AI is going to kill us all anyway after the president pockets the tech boys’ cash and waits for them to “self-regulate" ...

… they’re going after “the worst of the worst,” and the U.S. military killed 120 Iranian schoolgirls and then blamed the attack on Iran even though the weapon was a Tomahawk missile, which Iran doesn’t have, and the president won the newly invented “FIFA Peace Prize” from the corrupt soccer ...