Today’s feelings brought to you by Indian poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra channeling the 19th century Urdu/Persian poet, Mirza Ghalib.

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Never watched The Newsroom when it was on air. Watching it now. Prescient and (in an odd way) cathartic.

DOGE recommended firing workers at:

-FDA, which oversees Neuralink

-FAA, which oversees SpaceX

-USAID, which probed Starlink

-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.

"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Because it’s not about the economy, right? All to pay for tax-cuts for the uber-wealthy and to break the few things in this country worth emulating.

Amen. A career criminal who has been bought by the most dangerous man on the planet.

'Not a bid at all': OpenAI to Musk on $97.4-billion offer OpenAI has officially rejected Elon Musk's proposal to buy the artificial intelligence startup's nonprofit parent for $97.4 billion.

Some people buy their way into everything and claim they created it alone. Others foolishly believe them and follow mindlessly.

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Preach

Massive layoffs of recent hires at EPA, FDA and NIH. Friends and colleagues in the field affected. Make America Unsafe Again (BTW-It was never safe here for some of us).

Exactly

This is how the administration thanks them for their service.

Yes, exhausted. But, will not succumb.

This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.

US Department of State plans to spend $400m on Tesla armoured vehicles Plan raises possibility of more conflicts of interest for Elon Musk as he leads efforts to slash government spending

Plans to shutter CFPB (that was set to regulate digital payments, including through X) and now this with these ugly and unsafe vehicles.

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Somehow, watching Mo ad Lupin on Netflix right now is very satisfying.

Just realized that Trump does his own kind of virtue signaling. Huh…

Err

Oh, so the liberal outrage is sparked by Trump’s candid comments, not by the destruction that has been unleashed on Palestinians for decades, including the last year and a half. I see…

The rise and fall of Emilia Pérez: how did it all go so wrong for the Oscar-nominated film and its star? Less than two weeks ago, the movie was flying high, with 13 Academy Award nods. Then came a social media scandal and a serious backlash

Yup, and there you have it. Called it months ago…

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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

Trump Leans on WWII Japanese Incarceration Law to Deport Immigrants The Alien Enemies Act provides sweeping powers to detain or deport foreign nationals. It’s ripe for abuse, experts say.

The underbelly of USA.
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So, if you’re a natural-born insurrectionist (with violent prior offenses) you can be pardoned, but if you’re a foreign-born student exercising their first amendment rights on campus you’re in the crosshair of deportation. No better way to tell us to go back where we came from.

What he says and I couldn’t say it better. Now, I have too much to worry about!

If it couldn’t be the “T” word that ends with an “m”, then it has to be the “D” acronym that ends with an “I”? 🤔

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So now we’re starting to privatize critical government functions important for national security, while foxes guard the hen house (no offense to foxes, a creature I quite adore). First SpaceX (which the current administration is not wholly to blame) for NASA and now OpenAI for US National Labs.

Too good not to repost. Just about sums up this nepo cabinet.

Trump plan to open migrant detention centre at Guantánamo Bay an ‘act of brutality’, Cuban president says – US politics live US president signs executive order to prepare huge detention facility at Guantánamo Bay he says could hold 30,000 immigrants

This really hit to me yesterday…Administration after US administration this sin continues.

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