Alan Wain, Child of Tomorrow

Raconteur, Justice Aficionado, Old-Time Deep Sea Diver (you know, with the fishbowl helmet and oxygen hose)

[Alan Wain, Child of Tomorrow @PostModernTwitr]

Are we, collectively, going to stand up to bullies? It all comes down to this.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Here’s something new: The same day he’s due to get a committee vote on his nom to be AG, Todd Blanche has to respond to a court order from a judge who appears skeptical of his truthfulness. And that’s just Thursday. Read this piece to see what else to expect in the week ahead. https://t.co/RqaW4WshoK

[Senator Ruben Gallego @SenRubenGallego]

Right now, the Trump Administration is withholding disaster relief from Democratic-led states like Arizona.

We’re sure as hell not going to let them get away with it.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

We are 100 days from the midterm elections.

Democrats have a path to the majority in the House and Senate. Trump and the GOP's only strategy is to make it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat.

We will fight them in every district and state. When we fight we win!

[Andrea Aldana @andrealdana]

El Brasil de Lula es el único país del mundo que sabe hacerle frente al fascismo. Hizo recular a Twitter Musk, no le teme a las bravuconadas de Trump, persiguió judicialmente a los golpistas y ahora niega la visa a “funcionarios” gringos que llegaban en “misión electoral” (hacer lo que han venido haciendo en Latinoamérica: socavar las elecciones democráticas). Lula lo dijo sin rodeos este sábado en un acto en Sao Paulo: "quien quiera venir de afuera a meterse en las elecciones brasileñas, ya le voy avisando: se va a llevar muchos golpes".

Hace rato que Brasil nos está mostrando las respuestas.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton are asleep at the wheel

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration's attempt to implement an executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the midterms.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Here is what I believe.

We have been separated by people who profit from our separation.

That is the business model. Keep us apart and sell us the fight.

Here is what that separation does.
People stop talking. They stop talking, so they stop knowing each other. They stop knowing each other, so they fear each other. They fear each other, so they hate each other. You break that chain at the first link, not the last.

I also believe there is one true existential threat to this democracy and his name is Donald Trump.

So I will sit down with anyone who has a platform and sees in Trump what I see.

That is why I sat down with Nick Fuentes. His views on race and women are antithetical to mine. What he has said about the Holocaust and Nazism is indefensible. He is also demonstrably persuasive and he has a bullhorn that no amount of cancellation has taken from him. A million-plus people listen to him. I wanted to hear it myself instead of reading what I am supposed to think about it.

Nick and I agree on almost nothing. We agree on Trump.

Nothing else we argue about matters if Trump is not stopped. And the people who see what he is do not all think like me. If your standard is that everyone who opposes him has to agree with you first, you have already handed him the country.

I will take one piece of common ground over ten more years of shouting across the same street.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

most parents would be enormously proud of a child with such insight, power of expression, & the courage to make such a public statement; in this particular case, however, we do not expect it.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Elon’s daughter Vivian absolutely decimated him oh my days

[TraderSZ @trader1sz]

Elon Musk’s own kid about Elon

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

starting a social media site where every new user automatically follows me so i can say people love me

[🌴 @shawist]

Capitalism seems really great at rewarding both the dumbest and worst that society has to offer

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

He literally has the money to save every tropical rainforest on earth, except he’s the most selfish loser possible 🤢

[M1das @M1das_OW2]

no amount of money will ever make him happy and i think that’s beautiful

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Fully crashing out for two days straight

[Dannyoh @dannyoh337]

You can see in real time that realises he’s a loser. This is masterful journalism, letting the idiot speak to expose his insecurities. God bless British journalists🫶🏾

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

he is totally oblivious of, thus in effect contemptuous of, the pyramid of endlessly working exhausted human beings whose labor, visible or invisible, makes his life possible; when these faceless persons fall by the wayside, or die, they are replaced immediately, there is not the slightest pause in his life of privilege, or a moment's discomfort.
one feels an identical outrage when reading of the blithe indifference of any privileged class for its servants; a world in which meals are served, huge houses are cleaned, toilets are scrubbed, showers pristine-clean after the filth of its owner is removed from the sight of the very owner who is never inconvenienced, & all by silent & expendable labor of the invisible.

[Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦 @bdquinn]

Guy who says money is going to be pointless has made it his mission to have more money than anyone.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

.@KatiePhang is doing more to expose the Epstein files than any elected official in America right now

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I'll tell you why people despise Elon:

It's because he punches DOWN.

He's the wealthiest man on the planet, he has a quarter billion Twitter followers (mostly botted, for sure), and he uses his immense power and influence to punch down.

He deprived poor kids around the world of food, resulting in thousands of deaths. He hired a bunch of snot-nosed kids who cut and slashed and didn't have a clue what they were doing, f*cked shit up, and have not an ounce of remorse for what they did.

He stirs up alarmist racial animus -- he loves to post videos of Black and White people fighting, trying to frame it as a race war that's happening now. It's not.

He claims he's not racist because he f*cks a woman of color. Racists LOVE to lean on that bullshit.

You know who else f*cked women of color?
SLAVE OWNERS. You think THEY weren't racist?

And you know what? He and his family lived a privileged life as white South Africans under apartheid. Look it up.

If I had Elon's wealth, I would have already solved world hunger, and had more money left over than my great grandkids could spend in 20 lifetimes.

I would be a damn HERO. I'd solve homelessness too.

But that thin-skinned jackass used his wealth to basically curate the world's largest echo chamber to feed his goddamn ego with his groveling, soulless Muskite fans. He's trump with way more money and a slightly larger vocabulary.

This woman did a GREAT job interviewing Elon. She skewered him, triggered the hell out of Mr. Moneybags. The guy who "doesn't care," he did the old "No, YOU are" arguing method. Real mature.

He couldn't stand that this woman, who he looked at as beneath him, had the audacity not to quiver and bow to his pseudo "greatness."

He's a fucking TRILLIONAIRE whose cuts directly caused the deaths of THOUSANDS of third world children.

When I was a kid, and was about to throw away uneaten food, my Mom would say "Do you know how many kids are starving in Africa?"

As a kid, I was expected to have more empathy for starving kids in Africa THAN THE RICHEST MAN ON THE PLANET has.

He shouldn't do these interviews any more, not if he doesn't want to be completely reviled. He looks like a jackass.

And it makes NO sense: his cars, the Tesla, were meant to appeal to people like me, the Libs, the progressives, people who actually believe that climate change is a thing!

What does he do? Antagonizes the majority of us, having us look at other EVs like the Rivian or whatever.

And I don't give a shit if Space Karen sees this. He's been crushing my signal strength ever since he bought this app, despite his declaring the return of so-called "free speech."

The world's worst secret is that he's been propping up right wing accounts and throttling the rest of us.

Honestly, I saw this video earlier today, and I barely skimmed over it. I haven't normally paid much attention to what he does. I don't follow him on Twitter, and didn't even care about his interview.

But what struck me was how smug and entitled he was in the interview, like he couldn't believe she was talking to him like that. And then I remembered how all those kids died because of him.

Anyway, THIS is how you interview power: be fearless, unafraid, come prepared with facts, push them all the way back. Elon looked like he wanted to jump out of his chair and hit that woman.

BRAVO to her.
We need more journalists like her.

And f*ck the Epstein class.