“As public opinion has turned decisively against Musk, if not yet Trump, we’ve seen his megalomania grow totally untethered. He now routinely accuses critics of crimes, demands their imprisonment. Yesterday he called Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) a “traitor” for having the temerity to show up in Ukraine while Musk is trying his best to, in his phrase, put that country into the wood chipper. Lots of people mouth off on Twitter, of course. But Musk isn’t anyone. He’s got everyone in the federal government scared of him, running on a short leash and needing to do whatever they can to appease him. He speaks with the power if not the authority of the state. But the issue is not only Elon Musk. It’s a general problem that isn’t going anywhere. It’s the reductio ad absurdum of the economic inequality debate, when levels of super power get concentrated in the hands of a single monomaniacal individual.”
“Steve Vladeck: “To spoil the punchline, although what the government has done to this point is profoundly disturbing, and is, in my view, unconstitutional retaliation for First Amendment-protected speech, I’m not sure it is as clearly unlawful as a lot of folks online have suggested. And that’s a pretty big problem all by itself.” Michelle Goldberg: “If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before Trump’s inauguration.” John Ganz: “Here’s the most important thing about this whole affair: The state cannot make it up as it goes along. It can’t seize people in the night and invent flimsy pretexts later. And if it does, then we no longer live under the rule of law, we live under a police state. And don’t kid yourself: They will not stop at non-citizens.””
watch as the freshly hatched angel unfolds its wings… it is exceedingly clumsy, which is only natural given its newness to the world. see – oh. okay the angel appears to have fallen the fuck over. can somebody please pick it up we’re trying to film a professional documentary here
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