Steven Axelrod

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

Mind boggling and humiliating that CBS would permit this.

The Republican gerrymander in Texas would result in white voters having three times more power to elect a member of Congress than Latina/o voters and five times more than Black voters. It's blatantly white supremacist. No taxation without representation!

mRNA vaccines can be modified and produced cheaply and quickly. This doesn't only help us respond to pandemics better, it enables researchers to rapidly test different treatment strategies for many diseases such as cancer. Cutting mRNA funding slows all of health research and makes us all sicker.

Of course an evil person evokes Trump's empathy.

The Bureau of Prisons moved Ghislaine Maxwell to one of its least restrictive facilities at the behest of the Trump administration.

So on Friday, Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) demanded a formal explanation for the move from the Bureau director.
-HuffPost

Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding

The research is for medical and scientific research. Please don't pay, UCLA! We need a university to look up to.

Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

There's a correlation between political engagement and conspiratorial thinking. www.pbump.net/o/the-correl...

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter."

—Dashiell Hammett, "The Maltese Falcon"

More sad news, this time from the world of AI.

The Verge - Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer is DOA — now what?
The disbanding of Tesla’s supercomputer is less about the AI race and more about Elon Musk’s inability to retain talent.

Interesting ay?

Denying transgender service members their retirement after 15+ years of honorable service is cruel, unjust, and un-American.

They served with dignity. Now they’re being cast aside. I won’t stand for it—I’ll keep fighting for our LGBTQI+ heroes.

#LGBTQRights #ProtectTransTroops #JusticeForAll

So sad to hear this news.

Bloomberg - Tariffs are starting to squeeze profits for Trump-loving farmers.

Commentary: L.A. never needed the Olympics. With Trump wanting in, it's time to pull out With the Games happening in a presidential election year, Trump would love nothing more than to traipse around an L.A. radically transformed by his deportation aggressions to proclaim his mission acco...

There isn't a thing that Trump doesn't cheapen and make mean.

Commentary: L.A. never needed the Olympics. With Trump wanting in, it's time to pull out www.latimes.com/california/s...

"Sales of Tesla’s electric vehicles plummeted 60 per cent in the UK last month amid a broader slump in European demand, with Chinese rival BYD surging."

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Gerrymandering for dummies

Give them no peace!

Democrats are pulling ahead in polling of the 2026 elections. All the more reason for Republicans to rig them.

Political Wire: A new CNBC poll finds there was a modest rise in the public’s preference for the Democrats to control Congress, rising to a 49% to 44% advantage from 48% to 46% in April.

First they came for the Ivies...

UCLA Says Trump Administration Has Suspended $584M In Grants
The departments affected rely on funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy.

What Trump is doing to the Census is similar to his strategy on gerrymandering and gov. economic data. He is going to change the formulas to maximally bias outcomes in his favor, at the cost of accuracy and fairness. At a fundamental level, Trump is a cheater www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-make...

The man who is taking Medgar Evers' name off a Navy vessel says he is proud of "our (Confederate) history" and is demanding that statue be restored.

Our country has been captured by white supremacists. The mere notion of a better future for all in 2020 radicalized them and Americans let it happen.

This still makes me laugh.

Tesla becoming increasingly irrelevant. First it produced EVs, then solar panels, then robotaxis, then AI, and now nothing at all.

Bloomberg - Tesla is disbanding its Dojo supercomputer team and its leader will depart the company, upending the automaker’s effort to develop in-house chips...

Sen. Jon Ossoff’s office has “identified 510 credible reports of human rights abuse” against people in immigration custody. Of these cases, 41 include allegations of physical or sexual abuse, as well as 18 reports of mistreatment of children in custody...
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This.👇

Veterans fought for our freedoms. Now Trump wants to take theirs away. Banning nearly all abortions at VA hospitals—even in cases of rape or incest—is cruel, unjust, and a disgrace to those who served.

So you’re afraid of white people becoming the minority.

Why? Are minorities treated differently or something?

Our Pres does not plan on leaving. He wants to enjoy his "golden ballroom," paved "rose garden," and other newly installed amenities.

The Little Dictator:

Trump demands Intel chief's resignation.

Yahoo Finance: "We don’t believe Lip-Bu is 'conflicted,'" Rasgon added. "Unfortunately, unlike other tech CEOs he does not appear to have cultivated the kind of personal relationship with Trump that would help to assuage his ire."

When Todd Blanche met with Ghislaine Maxwell, I think it was a toss up whether the endgame was to go on the offensive (i.e., have her point the finger at Dems) or defensive (have her "exonerate" Trump). She may still do the former, but the fact that the *first* thing that has come out from that 1/