@tyale.bsky.social
in the immortal words of Gil Scott Heron: “mandate my ass”
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Trump’s Big, Beautiful-For-Billionaires Bill in a nutshell:
June 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Trump’s Big, Beautiful-For-Billionaires Bill in a nutshell:
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It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
May 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
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Campaign finance laws are fundamentally broken
Musk poured $15M into WI’s Supreme Court race; one out-of-state billionaire is responsible for 20% of funds raised
This election is now Musk & his millions vs everyday Wisconsinites
@adavnoti.bsky.social explains
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Musk poured $15M into WI’s Supreme Court race; one out-of-state billionaire is responsible for 20% of funds raised
This election is now Musk & his millions vs everyday Wisconsinites
@adavnoti.bsky.social explains
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Elon Musk Is Drowning Out the Voices of Wisconsinites. That Should Worry Every American.
In every election cycle since the 2010 Citizens United ruling, the influence of billionaires and corporate interests has increased, muting the voices of regular voters.
open.substack.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Campaign finance laws are fundamentally broken
Musk poured $15M into WI’s Supreme Court race; one out-of-state billionaire is responsible for 20% of funds raised
This election is now Musk & his millions vs everyday Wisconsinites
@adavnoti.bsky.social explains
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Musk poured $15M into WI’s Supreme Court race; one out-of-state billionaire is responsible for 20% of funds raised
This election is now Musk & his millions vs everyday Wisconsinites
@adavnoti.bsky.social explains
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Thanks to Trump’s insane economic policies, it looks like we’re heading to yet another Republican recession.
March 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Thanks to Trump’s insane economic policies, it looks like we’re heading to yet another Republican recession.
THIS! 💪🏼
Reporter: If you could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you say?
Rep. Jasmine Crockett: Fuck off.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett: Fuck off.
February 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
THIS! 💪🏼
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$44.25 billion
for a quarter of a billion dollars, Musk has bought himself all the power, but none of the accountability, of the presidency
February 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
$44.25 billion
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This is some damn good testimony!
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Law is holding a hearing at 10 ET on “Reining in the Administrative State”:
judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac...
I’m the minority witness. My testimony offers some thoughts about reining in the *real* executive branch abuses we’re currently seeing.
judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac...
I’m the minority witness. My testimony offers some thoughts about reining in the *real* executive branch abuses we’re currently seeing.
February 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is some damn good testimony!
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There's one plausible way Democrats could shut down the DOGE crime spree/constitutional crisis in the short term. And I'm pretty sure this is it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/where...
Where’s the Real Power Nexus? How Does the Opposition Get To It?
I’ve made this point a few times in passing in other posts....
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
There's one plausible way Democrats could shut down the DOGE crime spree/constitutional crisis in the short term. And I'm pretty sure this is it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/where...
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US higher education had become a world-class sector, one of the greatest strengths of this country, even with the amount of work still to be done in making it more just and equitable. But a cabal of mediocre whites, out of pure spite and belligerent stupidity, have decided to choke it to death.
February 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
US higher education had become a world-class sector, one of the greatest strengths of this country, even with the amount of work still to be done in making it more just and equitable. But a cabal of mediocre whites, out of pure spite and belligerent stupidity, have decided to choke it to death.
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It's like decades ago, when racist whites filled swimming pools with concrete, or closed down rec centers entirely, rather than integrate them. Hurting themselves as much as anyone, just to prevent Black people from having access to any public good. And huge % of whites were OK with that!
February 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It's like decades ago, when racist whites filled swimming pools with concrete, or closed down rec centers entirely, rather than integrate them. Hurting themselves as much as anyone, just to prevent Black people from having access to any public good. And huge % of whites were OK with that!
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Higher ed isn't perfect, but it's one of the principal areas where we can at least model what a more just and sustainable future might look like. But Christopher Fuckin Rufo and like-minded mediocrities, in a convulsion of frothing racism, want to nuke the whole thing for that very reason.
February 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Higher ed isn't perfect, but it's one of the principal areas where we can at least model what a more just and sustainable future might look like. But Christopher Fuckin Rufo and like-minded mediocrities, in a convulsion of frothing racism, want to nuke the whole thing for that very reason.
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Racism is a terminal cancer, but a whole chunk of this country's population would rather die a slow, painful death, rotting from the inside out, than accept treatment. It's a death cult, and should be treated as such.
February 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Racism is a terminal cancer, but a whole chunk of this country's population would rather die a slow, painful death, rotting from the inside out, than accept treatment. It's a death cult, and should be treated as such.
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What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies
The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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If you work for USAID, Elon Musk defamed you. He called you “criminal”, and
“worms.” He is the richest man in the world. Trump called you “radical lunatics.” Go get them. Sue them in every country you serve in.
“worms.” He is the richest man in the world. Trump called you “radical lunatics.” Go get them. Sue them in every country you serve in.
February 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
If you work for USAID, Elon Musk defamed you. He called you “criminal”, and
“worms.” He is the richest man in the world. Trump called you “radical lunatics.” Go get them. Sue them in every country you serve in.
“worms.” He is the richest man in the world. Trump called you “radical lunatics.” Go get them. Sue them in every country you serve in.
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This is the truth.
The horror of this moment derives partially from the fact that it *is* being thoroughly reported, and you are being given an hour-by-hour summary of the crimes. You know precisely what is going on, and that knowledge does not confer even the barest sense of political agency.
February 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
This is the truth.
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The people who voted for Trump because they thought he’d pull the U.S. back from foreign entanglements and overseas adventurism are really among the prime suckers of our era.
February 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The people who voted for Trump because they thought he’d pull the U.S. back from foreign entanglements and overseas adventurism are really among the prime suckers of our era.
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aaaand now it all makes sense
February 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
aaaand now it all makes sense
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As we speak, an unelected billionaire, born in South Africa, is staging an unconstitutional coup in the United States, shutting down an agency that happened to fight the apartheid regime he and his family thrived under as rich whites.
Now take a moment and read that again.
the.ink/p/usaid-foug...
Now take a moment and read that again.
the.ink/p/usaid-foug...
USAID fought apartheid. Musk is killing it
The makings of an unelected coup
the.ink
February 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
As we speak, an unelected billionaire, born in South Africa, is staging an unconstitutional coup in the United States, shutting down an agency that happened to fight the apartheid regime he and his family thrived under as rich whites.
Now take a moment and read that again.
the.ink/p/usaid-foug...
Now take a moment and read that again.
the.ink/p/usaid-foug...
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More of this please
Murphy: "Let's not pull any punches about why this is happening. Elon Musk makes billions off of his business with China. And China is cheering at this action today. There is no question that the billionaire class trying to take over our govt right now is doing it based on self-interest."
February 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
More of this please
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A list of states that want to gut the Fourteenth Amendment, which helped pull us out of slavery.
In a disgraceful act betraying millions of their own residents, Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming all write to oppose birthright citizenship.
February 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A list of states that want to gut the Fourteenth Amendment, which helped pull us out of slavery.
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We still are trying to sort out how much China abused a backdoor in our wiretap systems (Trump fired the team investigating it) and now we've just opened up a massive new backdoor to the entire payment system of the United States
What could go wrong?
What could go wrong?
This is a backdoor. Elon's coders are creating a backdoor into the US Treasury. This is incredibly dangerous both because of its intended use (by Elon and Trump) and the risk of other actors exploiting a major security vulnerability to cause a massive disruption to the US government.
February 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We still are trying to sort out how much China abused a backdoor in our wiretap systems (Trump fired the team investigating it) and now we've just opened up a massive new backdoor to the entire payment system of the United States
What could go wrong?
What could go wrong?
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What a beautiful mid-winter day for protesting outside the Treasury Department
Step outside, folks! It's in the mid-50s to low 60s right now across much of the DC area, including 63 at Reagan National Airport!
February 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What a beautiful mid-winter day for protesting outside the Treasury Department
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I guess the Republicans have solved the aging president problem by simply delegating all the decision making power to an unelected funder in his fifties and letting the presidency become a ceremonial position for an addled, rump figurehead.
Pretty clear that the operating principle here is that the law is whatever Elon Musk’s current whim dictates.
musk's new thing is telling anyone doing or saying anything he disagrees with that they are committing a crime
February 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I guess the Republicans have solved the aging president problem by simply delegating all the decision making power to an unelected funder in his fifties and letting the presidency become a ceremonial position for an addled, rump figurehead.