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Elon Musk’s self-destruction The cost for Donald Trump of keeping the world’s richest man by his side is growing

A remarkable sentence in this piece about Elon 'Icarus' Musk:

"After he took his four-year-old son, X, to the White House last month, insiders say Trump asked for the HMS Resolute desk to be disinfected."

www.ft.com/content/ea5b...

Women’s goods can cost more. Two Democrats want to study the 'pink tariff.' On average, tariffs are 3 percent higher for women’s clothing.

A bill from two Democratic representatives would investigate the “pink tariff,” which encompasses the higher tax rates on imported items classified as women’s goods.

Forget public grade schools. The Turd Reich Redux regime is decimating higher education.

'Scary moment': Reporter threatened while covering Cybertruck fires A radio reporter claims he was threatened with a knife as he covered a fire that damaged or destroyed four Tesla Cybertrucks in Seattle.The trucks were parked in a fenced lot in the city's SoDo neighb...

www.rawstory.com/cybertruick-...

More than 30 nations will participate in Paris planning talks on a security force for Ukraine Military officials from more than 30 nations will take part in Paris talks on the creation of an international security force for Ukraine, a French military official said Monday.

More than 30 nations will participate in Paris planning talks on an international security force for Ukraine #Europe

www.ctvnews.ca/world/russia...

Anything left at USAID will be about promoting fascism and calling it Christian nationalism. Pete Marocco needs to be household name.

'Unspeakable': Marco Rubio buried for antagonizing another major U.S. ally A squabble between billionaire Elon Musk and a Poland's foreign minister led Secretary of State Marco Rubio to jump into the fray with an abrasive response that took the tech mogul's side against the ...

www.rawstory.com/rubio-poland/

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the Dow has now given back all gains made since November 5

Elon Musk Thinks He’s an Ayn Rand Hero. Nope: He’s One of Her Villains. Recent years have revealed the Silicon Valley venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs who worship Rand to be racists, fraudsters, and looters.

I have a piece up at @thebulwark.bsky.social. The Silicon Valley oligarchs like to think of themselves as heroes out of an Ayn Rand novel, but they perfectly encapsulate the *villains* of Atlas Shrugged. 1/

BOLDUAN: Target and Best Buy said last week that prices are going up in direct relation to the tariffs. Is that a good thing for your constituents?

MALLIOTAKIS: I mean, but the tariffs, but, ut, shh ...

Huge loss for the Post and all of its readers. We’re all worse off for this.

Breaking:

TORONTO (AP) - Canadian province of Ontario applies 25% electricity surcharge to U.S. in response to Trump's tariff war.

Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer

GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "Why is a White House official, that's not even elected, why is that person belittling the Polish foreign minister? It's not appropriate. It's not right. We need more discipline in the White House."

The Tesla Valentine’s Day great wheel heist. Investigators say the building’s cameras were not recording, and the Teslas’ cameras were inactive as the cars were off. #3E #TeslaTakeDown

All Democratic Senators/Representatives should have a bluesky account as well as twitter...

Hm, if only there had been a way for an elected leader to predict what Trump would do in office before throwing support behind him.

cutting the fat

$5 a dozen: major egg companies may be using avian flu to hike US prices, new report finds The highly concentrated egg market may be contributing to soaring consumer prices – and the spread of the virus, data shared exclusively with the Guardian shows

Major egg corporations may be using avian flu as a ruse to hike up prices, generating record profits while hurting American consumers, new research suggests. @ninalakhani.bsky.social reports for @theguardian.com:

‘Nothing like this in American history’: the crisis of Trump’s assault on the rule of law

“We’ve seen the many ways in which Trump has sought to undermine Congress, and now he’s seeking to undermine the judicial bench,” said Nancy Gertner, a Harvard law school professor.

“This is a president who is arrogating to himself the powers of a dictator.”

Agency in charge of Australia’s $368bn submarine program faces staff morale crisis Exclusive: the 17-month-old department has lost a senior leader and ranked second worst for staff wellbeing in the annual public service census Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The agency overseeing Australia’s almost $400bn acquisition of nuclear submarines is facing a staff morale crisis and the threat of an external review of its operations, with a key deputy director leaving after just a year. The Australian Submarine Agency, or ASA, was established 17 months ago to oversee submarine purchases under the Aukus pact but Guardian Australia understands it has become the subject of growing government concern about its priorities, governance and leadership. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

Agency in charge of Australia’s $368bn submarine program faces staff morale crisis

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.

They run them bc people react to them the most.

If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.

It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

Pete Hegseth worships at the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, led by “Doug Wilson, an untrained and self-proclaimed pastor who advocates for Christian nationalism…”

Wilson also wrote that “sexual violence is women's fault for not being submissive enough.”

President Biden's deputy natsec advisor for cyber and emerging tech Anne Neuberger told reporters that Chinese hackers got into (at least) 8 U.S. telcos in a broad spying campaign that affected "dozens of countries" since it began.

The latest on All Things Considered: www.npr.org/2024/12/04/n...

Jeff Bezos Says He Is “Proud” of Decision to End Endorsements at Washington Post, “Very Optimistic” About Second Trump Term The Amazon founder said that he is working on a plan to turn around the Post: "We saved the Washington Post once, this will be the second time."

Jeff Bezos said he is "proud" of his decision to block the Washington Post's endorsement of Harris (which the publisher of the paper initially suggested he had nothing to do with) and "very optimistic" about the Trump presidency and Trump's plans "around reducing regulation"

I remember her from season one

Wait, wait, wait!!!
Pete Hegseth is pledging to Senators that he WON’T drink while serving as Defense Secretary?!!!?
He wouldn’t be running a fucking Applebees.
He’d be in charge of our entire fucking MILITARY.
‘I pinky swear I won’t drink on the job.’

How the fuck are we here?

Trump’s Victory Could Mean End of Inquiry Into NYPD Sex Crimes Unit President-elect Donald J. Trump has vowed to end the sweeping scrutiny of the police that President Biden used to uproot abuse.

Too many people aren’t aware of the hugely important work done by Civil Rights at DOJ which will likely end soon impacting sex crimes victims & others. Former SDNY civil rights chief Ellen Blain quoted here. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/n...