MeliMel

Resister, Blue Wave, Mom, wife, entrepreneur, dove, proud Seattlite.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

New York Times investigative journalists Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman are this generation's Woodward and Bernstein.

This story is Trump's Watergate and it's about to EXPLODE:

Vice President JD Vance, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, former Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, White House Counsel David Warrington, FBI Director Kash Patel, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, and former Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich converted the hallowed Situation Room — America's nerve center for real threats and decisive action — into a pedophile protection racket, where top officials huddled to cover-up the Epstein files scandal and protect a president who used to rape children for fun.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: What binds Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is not religion or ideology.

China is communist, Russia nationalist, Iran theocratic. What binds them is fear of liberal language: rights, rule of law, separation of powers and independent courts. 1/

[Dave Wolber @dwwolber]

@craigunger @joncoopertweets The Russians certainly have kompromat on Trump. But more generally Trump is a central node in an international network of kleptocrats and oligarchs helping each other make $$ and tear down democratic institutions that constrain them, mob bosses integrated into governments

[Craig Unger @craigunger]

Didn't expect this to hit such a nerve. The full essay — why the U.S. press won't say what European intelligence services treat as obvious — is here: https://t.co/iX1RwYDKNc."

[MeliMel @melissaoalbert]

@craigunger You proved it 25 years ago!

[Craig Unger @craigunger]

1/ Last month I told a room of Baltic intelligence officers and diplomats that Donald Trump is an asset of Russian intelligence. Not one of them blinked. "Of course," they said. Ho hum. But in America, saying it out loud is still taboo. Why? 🧵

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Nipple-Gate: How it was more important to protect Trump at all costs than it was for the DOJ and FBI to investigate Epstein's crimes against women and children.

https://t.co/HuBH7n0Wyq

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

The broligarchs did it. The market is broken.
It’s all built on trust. There will be none left.

SPCX is a battering ram that shatters the illusion that the broad market is a stable instrument that can be trusted with your retirement.

Goldman Sachs is selling science fiction.
Not colloquially speaking—actual science fiction.

The company has been propped up by government welfare since the start. The only viable business is Starlink. It earned about $4 billion in 2025 on $11 billion in revenue.

Everything else is hot garbage.

The AI business is a failure. Added to Starlink, it makes SpaceX wildly unprofitable, losing $5 billion total last year.

The total revenue for the combined company was $18 billion.
That makes the $1.75 trillion valuation about 100X sales—which is absurd on a scale never seen before.

The rest of the valuation is based on science fiction that doesn’t even deserve the category “hard sci-fi”—which is reserved for stories with some plausibility.

The story is “data centers in space” which is impossible in ANY relevant timeline. There are numerous scientific, financial, and physical roadblocks with no known solution at this time—all assuming infinite demand. Nevertheless, the company and bankers are booking it into near term revenue projections. It’s just a straight up lie.

They project a **10,000%** increase in revenue for the AI business which is FAR behind the leaders, and has lost every bit of talent it ever had. Elon had to shill out Colossus just to pump the numbers for a quarter. Also, he didn’t NEED Colossus, which should tell. you something about the actual demand. XAI is a total failure. Pumping it as a revenue engine is FRAUD.

The company is set up to make Elon Musk the unfireable forever-dictator, which means he will be free to do whatever insane shit he wants with ZERO accountability. If he were the most stable man in the world that would still be stone-cold crazy.

Elon Musk himself is a drug-addicted, pathologically racist, malignant narcissist who is trying to redpill his large online cult into giving up empathy, and to believe in great replacement theory.

He invaded the government to steal our data. He turned away all refugees except racist South African farmers. He shut down USAID. He spent two weeks screaming about a Black actress.

He is a sick Nazi who wants to rack up a bigger kill count.

To cap it off, it says right there in the IPO documents that Elon Musk’s actual goal is a COLONY ON MARS and that he won’t be compensated until there are a MILLION FUCKING PEOPLE there.

How does a bank sign off on a company which has a stated goal of doing something that is not possible? If the core story of the business is a ludicrous sci-fi yarn, what does that tell you about it?

This is the nightmarish alternate reality that these banks and markets are FORCING US TO BUY.

Finally, they’re going to send TWO MORE of these hurricanes of fraud barreling into the indices—OpenAI and Anthropic. It’s a recipe for destroying the markets.

All of it is madness. It’s greed and fraud with a new level of shamelessness.

Perhaps, just maybe, the deep lasting pain this crime will cause will wake the rest of us up.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

I'm afraid that this is why the US administration wants to shut down ocean observations: they don't want the people to know what is happening in our oceans, as it does not fit their ideology and the interests of their fossil fuel industry funders.

https://t.co/G1E5zXdyid

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Yesterday I told you the government is pulling 900 ocean monitoring instruments out of the water.

Here is the part that should make every American angry, regardless of where you stand on climate.

Congress voted to fund this network. Not once. Twice. The Trump administration proposed cutting it by 80 percent in 2025. Congress restored the money. Proposed the same cut in 2026. Congress restored the money again.

So the administration labeled it a "descope" and ordered the instruments pulled anyway.

That is not a budget disagreement. That is an executive branch telling the legislative branch that its votes do not matter. The public paid for this infrastructure. Congress protected it. One office in Washington decided the public should not have it.

This is the pattern I document in 𝑾𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒅 𝑮𝒖𝒚𝒔. It is not about left or right. It is about who decides what Americans are allowed to know about their own planet.

Who should make that call?

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Carville: “I’m just waiting for the NYT to drop a 5-point series on the depth of this corruption. The corruption is beyond anything, it might be that there’s been more corruption under the administration of Donald Trump than there has in the 250 year history of the US”

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🔥🚨 MAJOR JUST IN: The SAVE America Act Just Failed In The Senate.

The measure, which would have required voter ID and proof of citizenship nationwide, was rejected 48-50.

Republican senators Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and Susan Collins voted no.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

The whole point is that he is unqualified and will make us less safe. This isn’t a glitch. It’s the design. The US is to bend to its rivals abroad and collapse from within. For this he is the right guy!
https://t.co/76hGh4lbnA

[MeliMel @melissaoalbert]

Admittedly I don’t know much about him but Steve Hilton seems like a goober.

[MeliMel @melissaoalbert]

@RoKhanna Let’s go, Ro!

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

To put a finer point on this: the Attorney General of the United States is a felon. Not a minor thug, but a felon who committed one of the most serious offenses identified in the text of our Constitution...in broad daylight.

This wasn't bad judgment; it's worthy of imprisonment.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

It gets worse. This breaking news confirms Blanche knew Trump had no case against the IRS when he gave his client $1.8B in taxpayer cash and promised never to prosecute him. Blanche will now become permanent AG. This is a criminal bribe—a TEXTBOOK example. https://t.co/YlcxICk7rM

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Marc Elias has repeatedly said one thing since Trump took office:

“It’s going to get worse.”

What can we do to fight back? Marc explains 👇