Former Pal Claims Elon Musk Is Battling Tweet Addiction “We’re seeing the total derangement of a personality,” said philosopher Sam Harris.

Former Musk pal: “He's snorting ketamine and tweeting at all hours...[his behavior is] palpably, visibly deranged....We’re seeing the total derangement of a personality based on social media addiction....[his] 'service to humanity' is boosting to 200M followers obvious lies and conspiracy theories.”

This whole country is cringe af now

The #MeToo Cabinet Trump’s choice to begin a new administration with this particular slate of picks represents a remarkable commitment to moral ugliness.

“For one Cabinet nominee to be accused of sexual impropriety may be regarded as misfortune. For two Cabinet nominees to be thus accused looks like carelessness,” Quinta Jurecic writes. “For four—well, that moves beyond carelessness into outright malice”:

Trump's daily chaos circus is already back in full force Yesterday's flood of scandal was a reminder of the past — and a preview of our future.

"There's no doubt that compared to Biden, Trump's chaos machine is good for scoops and clicks, and the excitement is palpable in some of the copy we’re reading these days about the latest Mar-a-Lago intrigue. Unfortunately it's also bad for the country."

So, let me get this straight. The white descendants of immigrants who’s ancestors came here simply seeking a better way of life want to deport non-white immigrants who come here for that very same reason?

Make. It. Make. Sense.

Gaetz debacle shows chaos reigns supreme in Trump's Washington Even for Senate Republicans, the Gaetz nomination was a bridge too far.

For two weeks, Trump has enjoyed — and exploited — an aura of invincibility that few Republicans have been willing to challenge publicly.

Yesterday, the bubble finally popped.

Opinion | A concerned citizen’s guide to Trump’s threats to the Constitution Plus: “Wicked” marketing. Matt Gaetz. Tractor lessons.

"You might breathe a sigh of relief that Matt Gaetz — more on him shortly — won’t be Donald Trump’s attorney general, but the erstwhile congressman and alleged sex trafficker is, alas, just the beginning of Americans’ worries."

The latest in Today's Opinions: wapo.st/3Otf7Ax

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard is on a TSA watch list because of her suspicious foreign travel patterns

Maybe — just maybe, hear me out here — the nominee for Director of National Intelligence should NOT be someone who made a TSA watch list for her suspicious foreign travel patterns

Harris made the fascism case against Trump, citing Milley and Mattis and with help from Liz Cheney, and if anything it hurt her in the polls. It just doesn’t land as a real concern to many voters. (To be clear, it’s a real concern to me!)

Warning: I have nothing to do with this account—not sure what made up fancy “management team” they’re talking about. Block and report, please. Thanks all!

@support.bsky.team

The week ends with 211 voting/election cases pending in 40 states.

For the cycle, there have been 287 victories and 111 losses.

November set a record for the most voting cases in a single month: 60.

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Make no mistake: Pam Bondi is just as extreme as Matt Gaetz is -- here she is ranting about the deep state, saying "the investigators will be investigated."

It's not about justice.
It's about vengeance.

Exactly

Post by Dr. Lucky Tran: NEW: Trump has picked Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for Surgeon General. Nesheiwat has spread misinformation about vaccines, masks, and COVID.

More Trumpian attacks on our health system.

Not a mandate.

I don't care how many times they say it, he didn't even win a majority of the popular vote & barely more than his opponent. A win, sure. But a narrow one.

This bluster is meant to bowl over opposition, but the reality is that they have a thin margin that they'll inevitably lose.

Amazing how easy it is for a country to uphold rule of law when it gives a s***

Donald Trump’s Most Dangerous Cabinet Pick Pete Hegseth considers himself to be at war with basically everybody to Trump’s left, and it is by no means clear that he means war metaphorically.

“The main question I was looking to answer when I started reading Hegseth’s collected works was whether he would follow a Trump command to shoot peaceful protesters. After having read them, I don’t think he would even wait for the order.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

NBC News: The president-elect has promised to roll out a number of policies targeting trans people on his first day in office, including a new federal definition of sex as binary and assigned at birth.

The American people did not elect Trump and the GOP to focus on genitals and culture wars. They wanted cheaper rent, groceries and gas. Which Republicans will fail to deliver.

Since the WaPo debacle, an entire genre of legacy media commentators have emerged whose job is apparently to tell news consumers they are wrong not to want to consume legacy media. It has strong Musk-like vibes.

they are gonna fuck this up so hard.

They’ll win a bunch and do a ton of damage but that is not mutually exclusive from how hard they are gonna fuck this, because they are chronically morons

This times 💯 times 💯

Trump’s intel pick was placed on government watch list for overseas travel and foreign connections | CNN Politics Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the intelligence community, was briefly placed on a Transportation Security Administration list that prompts additional security screening before flights aft...

Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the intelligence community, was briefly placed on a TSA list that prompts additional security screening before flights after her overseas travel patterns and foreign connections triggered a government algorithm earlier this year

Thank you. I will not bow down to Trump. @democracydocket.com will not obey.

The Choices I’ve Made From Marc | Since the election, media figures and outlets have followed suit — each moving gradually towards obedience to Trump and then suddenly.

Like others, I fear the threat of government retribution, political vengeance and an angry right-wing mob. But I know that giving into it will only strengthen Trump and undermine the future of our democracy. Trump wants us to be scared. He wants us to give up — gradually and then suddenly.

THE DRAGON OF BUDAPEST

RNC speaker Pam Bondi was once in a 16-month custody battle over a dog with Hurricane Katrina victims Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to return a St. Bernard she adopted from a rescue shelter to the family it belonged to.

Pam Bondi refused to return their dog to a family of Katrina victims after she "adopted" their dog. She fought them in court for 16 months before she gave the dog back. Disqualifying. Character counts. www.businessinsider.com/rnc-speaker-...

The Roman Republic had that. It was called Civitas sine suffragio - citizenship without the vote. The ancient Athenians had that too, the Metics. A lot of merchant sorts who mostly lived in the Piraeus.

It’s not sustainable. No one wants to pay taxes and get fuck all.

Post by Jonathan Weismann: Howard Lutnick, Commerce, net worth $2 b Linda McMahon, Education, net worth $3.2 b Doug Burgum, Interior, net worth $1.1 b Scott Bessent, Treasury, net worth $1 b Kelly Loeffler, Agriculture, net worth, $800 m Elon Musk, DOGE, net worth $315.7 b Vivek, DOGE, worth $960 m

So you’re saying there’s a pattern…