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The Zaphod Beeblebrox model of staffing the entire executive branch

07.03.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gas should be $10 per gallon

07.03.2026 12:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

06.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 11140 πŸ” 2039 πŸ’¬ 108 πŸ“Œ 125

Good thing demand is inelastic because the US does not have functional infrastructure or services for anything other than cars

06.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Where's that gif of people rushing for the exits and getting jammed in the door

06.03.2026 15:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I got $500 to make that happen

06.03.2026 13:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜That’s bad for him to say’: Trump puts Paxton on notice in Texas Senate primary The president appeared to scold the attorney general.

Ken Paxton absolutely sold his soul for MAGA and Trump is about to fuck him in the most high-profile way possible.

You hate to see it. And by that I mean you f'ing love it.

05.03.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 226 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1

Paris to Amsterdam is about 3.5 hours on a Eurostar, that's ~300 miles.

06.03.2026 12:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dems may worry about not passing a supplemental when we're at war but Trump and this war are unpopular and it'd be easy to say, 'Trump's rubber-stamp Republicans gave him an extra $200b for defense even as they hiked your healthcare costs and he's used it to attack 3 countries that weren't a threat'

05.03.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 232 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

Broodhollow

06.03.2026 00:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*are still

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BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient The battery can add a staggering amount of range in under 10 minutes. Here's just how quick it is, and how it compares to the best Western designs.

On a 1,500-kilowatt charger, these batteries added over 500 miles of indicated range in ten minutes.

05.03.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 361 πŸ” 113 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 31

I'm holding out to smuggle a Zeekr 001 across the border from Canada

05.03.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Goddammit

05.03.2026 16:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This seems like both a) a sound, reasonable decision in light of the legal posture and b) quite possibly nine figures or more in lost billing for corporate law firms

05.03.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 264 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Hi Alice welcome back

05.03.2026 05:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We went through this with Bush. The Bush Doctrine was "hit them back, first."

The fact that he and his staff were not charged with war crimes as soon as Obama took office meant that that it became de-facto US policy.

This time we must demand prosecutions.

04.03.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 03: U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 03, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 03: U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 03, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Cory Booker to Kristi Noem: β€œEither you are utterly incompetent or you are violating laws with impunity β€” You should step down from your position. If you don’t, you should be removed by this president, and if not, Congress should impeach you”

03.03.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 5898 πŸ” 1234 πŸ’¬ 352 πŸ“Œ 93

Their history books were produced by ghislaine's dad

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Spanish PM SΓ‘nchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

04.03.2026 11:24 πŸ‘ 8320 πŸ” 2875 πŸ’¬ 201 πŸ“Œ 450

America is not going to elect a gay man whose last name is written like you should say it "butt-gag" and actually pronounced "booty-judge"

I mean cmon

04.03.2026 13:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

wishing a very SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN to all other anti-trans Democrats nervously looking ahead to their own primaries

04.03.2026 05:39 πŸ‘ 2136 πŸ” 353 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Want

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There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very oftenβ€”and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

04.03.2026 04:49 πŸ‘ 8318 πŸ” 2490 πŸ’¬ 98 πŸ“Œ 107

They are going to blow up one of his hotels and he's going to stroke out on live tv

03.03.2026 22:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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BYD redraws global EV map, overtaking Tesla in 20 markets Chinese company has taken risk and acted fast in expanding beyond home market

BYD redraws global EV map, overtaking Tesla in 20 markets

#Paywall

03.03.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 477 πŸ” 96 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 14

That should work great against unmanned cruise missiles

03.03.2026 22:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you think that was a mistake?

03.03.2026 22:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Again: Not hyperbole, misinterpretation, or a joke that Christian Dominionism is a strain of apocalyptic accelerationism which VERY LITERALLY SEEKS to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world, & the people who believe this have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power

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Toyota and Stellantis withdraw from COβ‚‚ pool with Tesla - electrive.com Until now, the European COβ‚‚ pool centered around Tesla has been a major conglomerate of automakers, featuring the likes of Ford, Mazda, Honda, Toyota, and

falling car sales may not kill Tesla, but the legacy automakers deciding to stop subsidizing their alleged "disruptor" definitely will

www.electrive.com/2026/03/03/t...

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