It's a little crazy how everyone just kinda memoryholed this. It was a very loud & clear preview of how a second trump term would look like

.Elon Musk, once the visionary fundraiser, cheerleader, and coach for teams developing real technologies, has become a meme-stock carnival barker, DeLong🖖 observes. bit.ly/3y4387K

Ryan Lizza Plenty of pols haven't written their own books; not sure how many never bothered to READ their books.

This is really quite remarkable

SOMEONE FIND ME A FRENCH POLYNESIAN FLAG RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.

Antisemitism is loathsome, but this is a mistake. The bill uses the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism, which is too broad to safely codify into law. Read Jeffrey Sachs and Jeremy C. Young's smart words on this topic pen.org/the-wrong-way-…

A couple of thoughts on this Daniel W. Drezner post finding tensions in how I've written recently about student protests vs the risk of a MAGA-instigated civil war. 1/X
danieldrezner.substack.com/p/ross-douthat…

I’m a scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a longtime advocate for peace and for Palestinian rights. I have publicly opposed Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, and its blockade and now destruction of Gaza. I support the rights of students and faculty to peacefully…

the other problem with it is that it’s white supremacist lunacy but maybe for you that’s a feature

Found this over on Blue Sky -- the social app where many fleing X are going.

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

So…Christina Bobb, who Lara Trump put in charge of election integrity efforts at the RNC has been indicted in Arizona as part of the fake elector scheme.

Four years ago today, Donald Trump took to the WH briefing room and encouraged his top health officials to study the injection of bleach into the human body to fight COVID.

For our country’s sake, let’s not have this moron back in the Oval Office.

I am grateful to the United States House of Representatives, both parties, and personally Speaker Mike Johnson for the decision that keeps history on the right track.

Democracy and freedom will always have global significance and will never fail as long as America helps to…

Tyler Austin Harper He is managing to do something almost impossible though

Just spoke with Matt Gaetz, who just got off the phone with Speaker Johnson. Gaetz said he now anticipates that Ukraine aid will pass — an outcome he has long sought to avoid. He expressed dismay given his influential role in delaying aid thus far. “This was abject surrender.'

Someone’s a little behind on the news, but this is exactly why Elon did it

Just QTing this for no reason whatsoever.

The disgusting and unforgivable harassment from this WaPo reporter is *checks notes* leaving a polite voice mail.

Oy. It’s amazing how anti-Semitism makes people stupid. Or, conversely, makes really stupid people act like they’re smart.