It's odd to live through the era when America completely gifted the electric automobile to China while the guy in America known for making electric automobiles is busy also ruining everything else, and doubling his wealth while he does it.

Yeah that guy.

Maybe we should all applaud ourselves, just a little bit, for not doing a Luigi.

Surprised that there isn't language in that bill directly equating communism with socialism, as is american tradition.

update: I am watching Fox & Friends this morning while I finish up my slides, it's been years since I freebased a Fox show live. This stuff is wild. I'll spare everyone (update3: nope!), but things have notably escalated in how steeped the MAGA propaganda has gotten. I am told that even Elon Musk, the "biggest champion of free speech out there" (- Jonathon Haidt, live interview) favors the new Kids Online Safety Act. But I know EFF opposes it. Sadly, these bills are small potatoes compared to what's coming down the pipes via executive order. and congressional control. oh and judiciary control. Woo this is gonna be great

update2: this is surreal, it's brian kilmeade commentating, in free form stream of consciousness, over video footage of jeanine pirro interviewing the subway strangler. For FIVE CONTINUOUS MINUTES. They tease the interview and send you to a website to grab clicks. It's still going! Other commentators are jumping in to take up some time on the clock, but only Pirro and the strangler get screen time. Bummer. It's still going. This is 8 minutes now.

Update4: the entire morning on fox is literally this: