There are a few ways to think about Elon Musk’s announcement this week that he’s stepping back from DOGE. The first is that he’s leaving a job he officially doesn’t have. The second is that he’s returning to a job (Tesla CEO) that he’s supposedly been doing this whole time. The third, and perhaps most interesting, is that none of this actually makes any sense at all.
Month: April 2025
“He Was Forging His Own Hero’s Journey When He Was Tragically Killed in Eastern Europe”
How the son of a CIA deputy director set out to backpack around the world and to save the planet — but ended up in the Russian army and died in the war in Ukraine
“He Was Forging His Own Hero’s Journey When He Was Tragically Killed in Eastern Europe” (archived)
[Crosspost] Between Chaos and Creativity: My Path to Self-Discovery
Trigger warning: This post discusses topics including childhood abuse, mental illness, and loss.
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RFK Jr. Is Headlining the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit. This Doesn’t Bode Well.
RFK Jr. Is Headlining the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit. This Doesn’t Bode Well.
On April 21, the first day of the 14th annual Rx and Illicit Drug Summit, organizers announced a surprise presenter for the closing plenary on April 24: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., newly minted Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and vocal proponent of building labor camps for people who use drugs.
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Mirrors of Moscow: Nikolai Lenin
Mirrors of Moscow: Nikolai Lenin
LENIN became an active revolutionist through the spiritual motives that have moved all great reformers — not because he himself was hungry and an outcast, but because he could not stand by unmoved in a world where other men were hungry and outcast. Such characters are predestined internationalists; the very quality that lifts them above materialism places them above borders and points of geography; they strive for the universal good. Lenin believes that the only thing worth living for is the next generation. Communism is his formula for saving the next generation from the injustices and inequalities of the present.
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US Plays “Mediator” in its Own War on Russia
Brian Berletic, April 22, 2025
Recent comments from current US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have signaled Washington’s intent to abandon peace efforts if progress isn’t made between Russia and Ukraine.
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YouTube – Brian Berletic: Trump Will Sacrifice Europe To Russia While Preparing For War With China
Unshrunk: Laura Delano’s breakaway from psychiatry
Unshrunk: Laura Delano’s breakaway from psychiatry
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance is more than a memoir of Laura Delano’s journey through pain, survival, and recovery. It is a fearless, forensic examination of a psychiatric system that too often harms those it is meant to help.
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YouTube to Couches Everywhere: Put Some Pants On!
In a stunning display of algorithmic prudishness, YouTube has yanked yet another meme—this time for ‘violating sex and nudity policies,’ despite the only thing stripped bare being the literal couch. Bravo, content overlords, for protecting us from the scandalous threat of… upholstery. 🤦🏼♀️
Read More »Young men are ‘playing videogames all day’ instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
This sounds sexist to me. 🤷♀️
More specifically, part of the plan is to implement work requirements for Medicaid eligibility—this is currently only a feature of the program in Georgia—and to justify adding this administrative hurdle for patients and states, Republicans are claiming that access to taxpayer-funded healthcare is causing young men to waste all their time playing videogames instead of working.
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