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Believes in the America of American ingenuity, honesty, fairness, facts, equality, tolerance, opportunity, and decency.
Seems like a good time to mention Musk pays $0 in income taxes like many other super-rich Americans and U.S. companies.
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Forbes Declares Elon Musk As The World’s First Trillionaire
SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq Friday, boosting Musk’s fortune to an estimated $1.1 trillion
www.forbes.com
June 13, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Seems like a good time to mention Musk pays $0 in income taxes like many other super-rich Americans and U.S. companies.
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According to this Harvard study, Elon Musk's cuts to USAID through DOGE are responsible for an estimated 400,000 preventable deaths of children in Africa.
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
June 2, 2026 at 12:57 AM
According to this Harvard study, Elon Musk's cuts to USAID through DOGE are responsible for an estimated 400,000 preventable deaths of children in Africa.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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Nick Anderson, The Contrarian
May 24, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Nick Anderson, The Contrarian
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President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”
May 13, 2026 at 11:04 PM
President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”
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A few thoughts ahead of the President’s speech tonight.
April 2, 2026 at 12:38 AM
A few thoughts ahead of the President’s speech tonight.
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The U.S. ranks 40th in healthcare—dead last on this list—yet Congress keeps shoveling billions into ICE. We fund raids, cages, and weapons while people die waiting for care. This isn’t incompetence. It’s priorities. And they’re lethal.
#FundHealthcareOverICE
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
#FundHealthcareOverICE
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
February 3, 2026 at 11:37 PM
The U.S. ranks 40th in healthcare—dead last on this list—yet Congress keeps shoveling billions into ICE. We fund raids, cages, and weapons while people die waiting for care. This isn’t incompetence. It’s priorities. And they’re lethal.
#FundHealthcareOverICE
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
#FundHealthcareOverICE
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
“There will be an investigation; we want to make sure that it’s factual,” Noem said in reply to a reporter's question.”
A laughable assertion given the source, not that anyone’s laughing at this reckless, unjustified killing.
A laughable assertion given the source, not that anyone’s laughing at this reckless, unjustified killing.
Woman killed by ICE agent was out 'caring for her neighbors,' local officials say — NBC News
A woman who identified herself as the deceased's mother identified her as Renee Nicole Good. Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., called Good “a U.S. citizen, a mother, and a Twin Cities resident.”
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January 8, 2026 at 3:43 PM
“There will be an investigation; we want to make sure that it’s factual,” Noem said in reply to a reporter's question.”
A laughable assertion given the source, not that anyone’s laughing at this reckless, unjustified killing.
A laughable assertion given the source, not that anyone’s laughing at this reckless, unjustified killing.
Brilliant reporting by @usatoday.com on the horrific conditions in jails across this increasingly third-world nation.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
Sepsis is 'very treatable.' For inmates, it's often a death sentence.
Short jail stays for minor crimes turn deadly when filth and a lack of care let infections run out of control, a USA TODAY investigation found.
www.usatoday.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Brilliant reporting by @usatoday.com on the horrific conditions in jails across this increasingly third-world nation.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
"SEC Chair Paul Atkins said: “If we reward the staff only for bringing enforcement actions, then we have discouraged the staff from determining not to recommend an enforcement action,” he said."
Orwellian double-speak on absence of white-collar action from the SEC.
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Orwellian double-speak on absence of white-collar action from the SEC.
www.wsj.com/wsjplus/dash...
Trump Administration Upends Prosecution of White-Collar Crime
Justice Department has shifted away from several areas of enforcement while Trump’s pardons have undone prominent convictions
www.wsj.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM
"SEC Chair Paul Atkins said: “If we reward the staff only for bringing enforcement actions, then we have discouraged the staff from determining not to recommend an enforcement action,” he said."
Orwellian double-speak on absence of white-collar action from the SEC.
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Orwellian double-speak on absence of white-collar action from the SEC.
www.wsj.com/wsjplus/dash...
At the end of Trump's first term his approval ratings were in the low thirty percent range. He won elections held during the Obama and Biden administrations, but we're supposed to believe the 2020 election, held while he was President, was stolen. It makes no sense.
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Opinion | MAGA’s Latest Stolen 2020 Election Theory
This blunder by Fulton County, Ga., isn’t what Trump’s allies claim.
www.wsj.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
At the end of Trump's first term his approval ratings were in the low thirty percent range. He won elections held during the Obama and Biden administrations, but we're supposed to believe the 2020 election, held while he was President, was stolen. It makes no sense.
www.wsj.com/opinion/maga...
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🔥 COACH SULLY: “Let’s see what $4.3 TRILLION looks like when each party gets their hands on it… the oligarchs are laughing all the way to the bank (with Republicans)…”
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🔥 COACH SULLY: “Let’s see what $4.3 TRILLION looks like when each party gets their hands on it… the oligarchs are laughing all the way to the bank (with Republicans)…”
More relevant than ever. Thanks to these tireless farm workers so unfairly, cruelly, and economically idiotically targeted by Trump, Rollins, Noem, Homan, Miller, and way too many others.
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
More relevant than ever. Thanks to these tireless farm workers so unfairly, cruelly, and economically idiotically targeted by Trump, Rollins, Noem, Homan, Miller, and way too many others.
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History repeats.
October 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
History repeats.
I never imagined the day when the US would cease to be the primary global center of cutting edge research. That day is fast approaching: www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/c...
In the race to attract the world’s smartest minds, China is gaining on the US | CNN
A Princeton nuclear physicist. A mechanical engineer who helped NASA explore manufacturing in space. A US National Institutes of Health neurobiologist. Celebrated mathematicians. And over half a dozen...
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September 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I never imagined the day when the US would cease to be the primary global center of cutting edge research. That day is fast approaching: www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/c...
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September 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I’m old enough to remember when Vance said Trump might be “America’s Hitler.”
And to remember when Trump called Kamala Harris a “fascist.”
And to remember when Trump called Kamala Harris a “fascist.”
Vance: "If you want stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi."
September 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I’m old enough to remember when Vance said Trump might be “America’s Hitler.”
And to remember when Trump called Kamala Harris a “fascist.”
And to remember when Trump called Kamala Harris a “fascist.”
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All these Rolex ads feel pretty gross now. 😐
September 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
All these Rolex ads feel pretty gross now. 😐
Trump's narcissistic bumbling has pushed India, the world's largest democracy, into an alliance with our adversaries.
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Chinese, Russian, Indian Leaders Pledge Cooperation, in a Message to Trump
The leaders met at a regional summit in a display of unity that underscored the challenges faced by President Trump’s unorthodox approach to world affairs.
www.wsj.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Trump's narcissistic bumbling has pushed India, the world's largest democracy, into an alliance with our adversaries.
www.wsj.com/world/chines...
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The Supreme Corpse
August 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The Supreme Corpse
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Don’t look away
August 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Don’t look away
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CNN: Would you ever use subpoena power to try to find out more info about Epstein?
JASON SMITH: That's not a common thing I've utilized within the Ways and Means Committee
CNN: But you did use subpoena power with Hunter Biden
JASON SMITH: That was the only time I used it
JASON SMITH: That's not a common thing I've utilized within the Ways and Means Committee
CNN: But you did use subpoena power with Hunter Biden
JASON SMITH: That was the only time I used it
July 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
CNN: Would you ever use subpoena power to try to find out more info about Epstein?
JASON SMITH: That's not a common thing I've utilized within the Ways and Means Committee
CNN: But you did use subpoena power with Hunter Biden
JASON SMITH: That was the only time I used it
JASON SMITH: That's not a common thing I've utilized within the Ways and Means Committee
CNN: But you did use subpoena power with Hunter Biden
JASON SMITH: That was the only time I used it
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Everyone outside of the US- except for Russia- sees things so much more clearly than we do.
And, they are completely baffled by how we have allowed our democracy, our world leadership and our our values, to be stolen and destroyed by Trump..
And, they are completely baffled by how we have allowed our democracy, our world leadership and our our values, to be stolen and destroyed by Trump..
Brazilian president: "I'd like to say something to the American people; If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil for violating the Constitution. He would be arrested if he had done that."
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July 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Everyone outside of the US- except for Russia- sees things so much more clearly than we do.
And, they are completely baffled by how we have allowed our democracy, our world leadership and our our values, to be stolen and destroyed by Trump..
And, they are completely baffled by how we have allowed our democracy, our world leadership and our our values, to be stolen and destroyed by Trump..
Encouraging state-by-state sampling of grass-roots initiatives making real environmental impacts. One standout: a sustainability program led by Evangelical ministers in deep red Indiana. They are following the biblical mandate to care for God's creation: Earth.
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50 States, 50 Fixes
A series about local solutions, and the people behind them, to environmental problems.
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Encouraging state-by-state sampling of grass-roots initiatives making real environmental impacts. One standout: a sustainability program led by Evangelical ministers in deep red Indiana. They are following the biblical mandate to care for God's creation: Earth.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...