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Has this been just a myth that Elon Musk is a genius and we have this problem of translating or interpreting wealth to be the greatest metric of intellect or success? @wkamaubell.bsky.social says, "yes, next question!"
"These congresspeople and these senators are not ignorant, they know exactly and precisely what is happening...and they are simply ok with it." Author Mohammed El-Kurd on the complicity of the political and media class in the horrors in Gaza.
"[Elon Musk] invested $200 million to get Trump elected so that they could run the government together. But then it turned out they both suck at running the government together... he's now $100 billion poorer. It has not worked out well for him." @crampell.bsky.social
Trump's budget plan is "a war of the richest people in America against the middle class, the working class, and the poor," says @raskin.house.gov. GOP lawmakers in swing districts need "to understand that they're basically writing the last chapter of their political careers if they... support it."
"We encounter the demand to be polite in our suffering from a very young age." Author Mohammed El-Kurd on the plight of Palestinians and the need to be "perfect victims."
"All of those photo ops are like the same way that I go to Coney Island... there's a cutout of a strong man and a hole and you put your face in the hole and you're like, 'look at me, I'm a strong man.' That's all these photo ops." @jennyhagel.bsky.social mocks Trump's made-for-TV cabinet.
@jasonselvig.bsky.social sarcastically makes the case for free speech being the strongest it's ever been in the United States: "Billionaires' free speech is protected more so now than at any point in history."
"It's reckless, it's dangerous, it's traitorous" - @jillwine-banks.bsky.social on the grave national security risk Pete Hegseth put the country in by sharing details about U.S. military operations in Yemen in those now infamous Signal chats.
Actress & advocate Holly Robinson Peete says RFK Jr. created "a bogeyman out of autism" with his claims this week. "He needs an autism 101 so bad, it's not even funny. ... Right now, he is misrepresenting the journeys of what so many families are going through, and how hard our kids have fought."
@lizzwinstead.bsky.social praises Maine Gov. Mills for standing up to Trump in contrast to GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski saying Republicans are afraid of him. "The way that they've gone about how they feel to me is vastly different and I really respect Governor Mills and the way she's like, 'bring it.'"
“No matter what someone has done, the process that which they go through to decide what punishment they get should be rock solid. I don’t know how else you function in the world.” @lizzwinstead.bsky.social on the lack of due process in Abrego Garcia’s deportation.
Author Liz Plank mocks Trump's obsession with attacking trans athletes. "Imagine being the most powerful man in the world, having access to nuclear codes and still feeling threatened by a couple of kids playing kickball in a state you've never been to."
"My message to Lisa Murkowski is, suck it up like the rest of us! Go cry in a Trader Joe's parking lot." Author Liz Plank on Sen. Murkowski being "afraid."
Actress Holly Robinson Peete, the mother of a 27-year-old with autism, says RFK Jr. "got everything wrong when he said that autism destroys families." "I simply can't imagine being HHS secretary & speaking on autism so negatively... If you're going to talk about us, you need to learn from us."
“There’s an inhumanity in what the White House is doing. They lie about the actual case and facts that they are dealing with right now. It’s a White House that can’t be trusted.” @davidjolly.bsky.social on Trump going after Van Hollen for defending Abrego Garcia.
@julieroginsky.bsky.social lays the blame over the recent chaos at the Pentagon on Republicans who confirmed Pete Hegseth to lead the agency. "This is on Jodi Ernst. This is on Roger Wicker. This is on every single Republican who knew better and let's be clear, they knew better."
"It's clear Elon Musk is the chief operating officer of the United States right now. Maybe a co-president... Elon Musk is a walking conflict of interest. He's a walking ethics violation and Donald Trump has been fine that." @davidjolly.bsky.social
"This is much more than just some sort of paid protest movement. This is people who are truly worried and panicked about what is happening to our 249-year democracy whether we're going to survive one more year to our 250th anniversary." @julieroginsky.bsky.social on the massive anti-Trump protests.