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Musk is either one of the stupidest people alive, or simply one of the most deceitful, but certainly he is one of the most committed to terminating human existence.

He tells us that nuclear power is the safest form of energy and that Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren’t such a big deal. Whereas we know that nuclear power is just as dangerous as burning fossil fuels, and Hiroshima nd Nagasaki were cataclysmic deals.

Only someone completely indifferent to human life and welfare could speak the way that Musk does. 

A highly disturbed individual.

“I have never seen an industry slower to learn from its stupid mistakes than the American news business,” Lawrence O’Donnell said tonight.

But are they mistakes? Or giving the moguls what they demand.

“Most of the questions were terrible,” O’Donnell said about the “reporters” who queried Trump. “The silliest possible questions you could ask.”

Outraged that Trump’s entire rally-conference was covered in full by the networks who declined to offer any real-time fact checking, and also declined to cover Kamala Harris’s speech later in the day, O’Donnell proceeded to air her speech in full.

harmonize with overwrought and obviously over stimulated windbag Donald Trump’s retailing all his greatest lowlights from his bunker in that moth eaten hangout for international spies in Palm Beach. Trump gives a rally disguised as a press conference and the corporate media “reporters” lap it up.

At Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall writes: “The WaPo was probably the worst culprit, with this headline:  ‘Tim Walz’s military record, National Guard departure get new scrutiny.’ It happily launders the Vance attack line without self-awareness or historical understanding of the last two decades of American politics. ‘New scrutiny’ – like its weasel-word compadres ‘raises questions about’ and ‘is said to’ – confers a miraculous virgin birth to scurrilous political attacks even if they’re launched right out in the open.”

The corporate media will never learn because it does not want to learn. Its owners do not want it to learn. Remember, the Post is owned by right-wing billionaire Jeff Bezos and directed by right-wing, extremely dodgy Murdoch hack Will Lewis.

The new supersized developments approved by the usual suspects: Gov. Hochul, Mayor Adams, and alleged progressives like State Senator Hoylman, NYC Council Member Bottcher, et. al.– must  include about one-quarter income-restricted housing—”though these “’restrictions’ could allow incomes well above the median for NYC,” Village Preservation reports.

1.the actual catastrophe of hundreds of thousands of Americans who died needlessly from COVID because Trump not only bungled, but actively sabotaged the national response.

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2.  the gloom-and-doom scenarios Trump claimed would play out if Biden was elected in 2020.

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3. What actually happened under President Biden.

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4. Trump now reprising all those same apocalyptic predictions Trump is now making about what will happen if Harris is elected.

Here basic rights, services, and amenities are treated not as something to which its citizens (all of whom pay taxes of one kind or another) are entitled, as a right as residents, and as a return on their contributions, but as a privilege that New Yorkers must earn by agreeing to accept draconic overbuilding as the price for what a functioning social contract would supply–with no questions asked. 

In his memoir,  Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, he rcounts how during his first run for Congress he was counseled to stick to the center, whatever that is.  His response? “It is not my ambition to be in the political center, which blows around with the wind. It is my ambition to be in the moral center and to bring the political center to us.”

In Air Mail, Sam Kashner describes the way that corporate publishing is now circling the wagons around the thorny question of just exactly who really wrote J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.

More than ever, “Success has many fathers [and, of course, mothers]” has never been a truer word spoken. Let’s be polite and call the bok  a “pastiche.”

Why is Speaker Mike Johnson so intimately involved in his childrens’ sex lives?

Is J.D. Vance really gay, the way he thought he was, and is that why he hates LGBTQ so much?

Why does Trump’s Project 2025 want to ban contraception, pornography, and recreational sex?

Why does the GOP want to entirely control women’s reproductive health?