agnostic platypus

a tiny speck in a ruthless universe. she/her

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US.
My latest in @thenation

https://t.co/uXZVdbX4wu

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

So interesting…

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

https://t.co/1KkomH2ur4

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are now ordering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop protecting consumers from unfair fees, fraud, and scams.

They have cut off funding to the agency.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

In every budget battle of the last 30 years, proposing cuts to cancer research and food safety was the moment Republicans lost

[Thomas M. Countryman @TMCountryman]

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we
would’ve spent that $$:
🏈Protected 30M football fields of tropical forest in Africa to stop China from exploiting the
minerals that fuel our world https://t.co/KiLjAP4md4 #saveforeignaid

[Gonzo Does Tweets🐈he/him @GONZOtheGhoast]

Goodemorning Gonzobongos! I hav learnt tha SuperbOwl isnot an owl at all andis just houmin footboll . I am porfoundy dissapoiinted.

[New Yorker in DC @NYkrinDC]

The party of small government is ready to use their big government tools to force private corporations to toe the party line or else. Sure sounds like all the limited, small government conservatives I've heard so often about.

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

Wielding the power of the state to intimidate news agencies against reporting on the government's illegal abuses of power is literal authoritarianism. I'm not speaking figuratively, I'm not calling it a warning sign. It's authoritarianism. It's here.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Sorry for the Godwin, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Ian Kershaw’s concept of 'Working Toward the Führer' and the striking parallels with how Trump is 'governing'.

[Sarah @_smoze]

Right so, “resist” means *don’t* follow fascist orders.
Don’t take the art off the walls.
Don’t delete the website.
Don’t open the dams.

Play dumb. Ask for clarity, repeatedly. Lose the email. Misplace the keys. Stall. Ignore. Forget. Crawl.

You are the line, you hold it.

[VoteVets @votevets]

📢 VoteVets' @FPWellman lays it all out—how Trump’s unelected henchmen are wreaking havoc at USAID, jeopardizing critical programs, and putting lives at risk.

The chaos is real, and the consequences are devastating.

Watch and share.

[Oliver Alexander @OAlexanderDK]

Not since the 5th century has someone decided to fumble global hegemony this badly.

[Morgan Cameron Ross @Morgan_C_Ross]

Ronald Reagan warned Americans about putting tariffs on its friends. Taxing Americans just to hurt friends is a very dumb idea.

[agnostic platypus @vtklw]

This is what Reagan did with highway funding for states in order to raise legal drinking age to 21. It’s called coercion.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

President Donald Trump said he would require California to enact stricter voter ID rules before sending aid for the Los Angeles wildfires.

Marc Elias discusses what this says about the state of democracy:
https://t.co/tAqwmL2uZa

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

This tariff shit is so stupid. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

Will MAGA voters realize tariffs are taxes that we pay and that prices of goods will rise? Will they blame wokeness and DEI?

It's so painful to see my country destroy itself.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

If you are a mythical “good billionaire”
Please for the love of God do not throw your money away on this fucking Vichy Party.

BUILD HOUSING in Wyoming. Offer it for free to people willing to relocate from Queens. THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK!

[Nuno Felix @Felix_Nuno]

This is an absolutely spot on point.

[agnostic platypus @vtklw]

This is such fucken bullshit. Dems, this is NOT the way.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Democratic Party’s newly elected Chair, Ken Martin: “There are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats, who share our values, and we will take their money. But we’re not taking money from those bad billionaires.”