Tech52

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Poppy to Saoirse, August and Soleil. Writer, techie, musician, road biker, and politics junkie, in no particular order.

The orange felon is the most corrupt presiden, easily surpassing Richard Nixon. Ironically, his lawyer has that 5 O’clock shadow reminiscent of Tricky Dick.

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Taco insists the Reflecting Pool was vandalized. Perhaps the finger should be pointed directly at his pool guy, Vinnie Boombas, whose company did a rushed and botched job, according to the DOJ.

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Republicans are really going to approve Todd Blanche, the orange felon’s personal lawyer, for attorney general, while his boss runs the most corrupt administration in our nation’s history. Our last chance to stop them is Election Day, less than 100 days away. I shudder to think of the alternative.

Greece, France, Canada, the US and other counties are having huge wildfires caused by climate change—hotter temps, longer droughts, and drier vegetation. The oil industry must not continue getting a free pass to rake in larger and larger profits without paying for the damage it’s causing.

I have no reason to discount this. Musk is a uniquely strange human being. But he’s also been known to follow the move fast and break things credo, which might be fine in software development, but clearly disastrous when talking about USAID and other critical operations.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last wk.

Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

One might even see his destruction of the United States Agency for International Development — responsible, so far, for an estimated 700,000 deaths worldwide — as consistent with his concern with falling white birthrates relative to those in places such as sub-Saharan Africa, where U.S.A.I.D. was active. After all, one way to secure a future for Western children, in this zero-sum view of the world, would be to starve African ones.