Cult members still want Trump even if nobody else does — Well, it’s official. Donald Trump has just announced his candidacy for president in 2024. In a genuinely lackluster performance from his Mar-a-Lago document storage facility, Trump defied leaders of his party in announcing his candidacy in the wake of a weaker-than-expected performance by Republicans in the recent midterms. While several…

I thought Musk was supposed to be a genius — “Elon Musk is not the man he used to be.” In an interview on All In With Chris Hayes, Kara Swisher said she thinks Musk has been unduly influenced by right-wing political figures, by which I’m guessing she means Trump. …

As Russia turns to North Korea and Iran for weapons — We’ve all heard the phrase,” Work smarter, not harder.” The Ukrainian Army has taken this to heart with a new strategy: fight smarter, not harder. Their latest stroke of ingenuity involves using decoys to trick Russian drones. According to the Washington Post, “‘After a few weeks in the field, the…

Seven simple tips for resisting conspiracy theories — 1. Get off Facebook. Or at least stop reading the news feed. If you can’t bear to cancel your account, at a minimum limit your interactions to people you have met in person (and know they are who they say they are). They could still be crazy, but at least…

Musk polls the Twitterverse for guidance — Musk made his decision to bring Donald Trump back to Twitter by polling people on Twitter. Note that he didn’t poll the people who actually work at Twitter and have some understanding of the problems created by deliberately spreading dangerous lies — lies like “COVID is a hoax,” for example…

How could everyone have been so wrong? — For the last six months, every conversation I’ve had about the future of America has been more like a chat on a suicide-prevention hotline than a conversation about whom to vote for in the midterms. Whenever the inevitable “big red wave” came up, I felt like I had to talk…

Here's why — There was a time when policy differences could be used to differentiate between Republicans and Democrats. There was a time when Republicans played by the rules enshrined in our system of democracy. That time has passed. Democrats can no longer afford to project their concepts of fairness and equality onto…

If you allow Republicans to take over this country — Authoritarian regimes are all the same When no one listens to the people on the ground, the people at the top do stupid things. It’s the same with companies. If you’ve ever worked for a company whose CEO is so eager to show investors how much money he can make that he puts on blinders when…

Republicans fulfill their prophecy of violence and another right-wing conspiracy theory is born — Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was attacked with a hammer in their San Francisco home early on Friday, October 28. Before the San Francisco District Attorney released the details of the attack, Elon Musk tweeted a conspiracy theory that suggested Paul Pelosi was an acquaintance of the attacker and the attack…