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So not only is Musk getting Trump to fast track wiring him, Thiel, and adjacent PayPal mafia techbros the contract to build an enormous missile defense satellite shell but they want to own it and have the government buy services from it?!?! We are talking about giving ownership and control of such an apparatus to the most maniacal sociopathic people on the planet that already own and control too much and use it to extort even more concessions from people and governments around the world?!?! WTAF?!?! Yes I’m pissed off and furious about this. #ElonMusk #uspoli #BillionairesShouldNotExist reuters.com/business/aerospace…

Someone should tell RFK Jr that Emily Dickinson is suspected to have been autistic & one of the most prolific poets of all time.

His mischaracterization of autistic people shows him to be hateful, ignorant & uninformed.

More than that, we ALL have value. Evaluating “worth” shouldn’t be a spectrum.

Controversial Proposal:

Canada should refuse all travellers from the USA at the border until the USA government restores adherance to its democratic constitution including due process.

Only asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants, would be admitted.

-- This would be one very strong way for Canada to use the few levers it has to influence the democratic process --

(note: the target here is American citizens entering as a visitor/tourism)

🇬🇧 As the Montréalais.es demonstrators said last month, if we burn, you burn with us.

Right now we're in the "heat from fire" stage. Give it time to rise. Trump, the UK, and the Coalition Avenir Québec will be sweating soon enough.

🇫🇷 Comme les manifestant.e.s Montréalais.es ont dit le mois dernier, si on brûle, tu brûle avec nous.

Maintenant nous sommes dans l'étage « chaleur [vient] de feu ». [L'autre est « feu [vient] de chaleur »] Donne-le du temps pour monter. Trump, le R-U, et la Coalition Avenir Québec vas connaître le sueur assez tôt. #trans #transgender #transgenre #TransRights #DroitsTrans #TransDayOfVisibility #TransDayOfVisiblity #TransDayOfVisibilty #TransDayOfVengeance #JourneeDeVisibiliteTrans #JourneeDeRevancheTrans #uspoli #USPolitics #ukpoli #qcpoli

Gender-affirming care is now inaccessible for trans people of all ages, in huge swaths of America. In many cases, people are (on paper) unaffected by the existing legislation and orders, but are having their HRT abruptly cut off anyway. slate.com/life/2025/04/trump-t

Can't wait to watch these cowardly "providers" like Memorial Health learn the hard way that appeasement gets you nowhere. #uspoli #uspolitics #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights

Slate · The Trump Administration Is Trying to Disappear a Long-Established Medical Practice. And Doctors Are Already Helping.By Nico Lang

RFK Jr saying the quiet part out loud…

In an article about autism, he talks about how autistic people will never pay taxes, hold a job, go on a date etc. “worthless”. Useless eaters.

This is straight up eugenics.

It’s also wrong. Many people with autism or disabilities can do ALL these things, but our worth should not be predicated on that.

Everyone has intrinsic value regardless of economic ability or contribution.

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

#hhs#uspoli#rfkjr

Inside Democrats' scramble to travel to El Salvador axios.com/2025/04/16/democrats

> Reality check: The sentiment within the party about rallying behind deportees is not universal.

> The second House Democrat who spoke anonymously, a centrist, called the deportation issue a "soup du jour," arguing Trump is "setting a trap for the Democrats, and like usual we're falling for it."
> "Rather than talking about the tariff policy and the economy ... the thing where his numbers are tanking, we're going to go take the bait for one hairdresser," they said, likely referring to Andry Hernandez Romero.
> Only if Trump tries to deport U.S. citizens, the lawmaker argued, will Democrats need to draw a "line in the sand" and "shut down the House."

Rep. Robert Garcia, wearing a dark suit and raising a finger while speaking outdoors.
Axios · Inside Democrats' scramble to travel to El SalvadorBy Andrew Solender