You’re right. I’m not used to dealing with such large sums of cash.

Wait, doesn’t this mean they have to pay us? If a drug used to cost $1000/year, the drug companies will now have to pay us $14,000/year to take it, right?

“Democrats in the Texas House who try and run away like cowards should be found, arrested, and brought back to the Capitol immediately.”

Arrested for what exactly?

Edit to add: Anyone want to bet that some MAGA zealots or even ICE try to snatch some of these democrats and drag them back to Texas?

Oh come on. Haven’t the people of that state have suffered enough.

I clicked that. I was shocked how many more jizz links there were. I have a lot of reading to do.

I think that this is the actual article OP meant to link.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-links-19-billion-state-disaster-funds-israel-boycott-stance-2025-08-04/

Disney did not respond to a request for comment about Elsa’s boobs.

This is the kind of quality journalism that I need more of in my life.

Personally, I can’t help but see them as junkers these days. You could be right, of course, but I wouldn’t buy one. Not for a very long time after Musk was gone and no longer screwing everything up, anyway.

You should get a pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses for when you are out of the car.

It may not survive if he does leave, either. The damage is done. Who’s going to buy Tesla now?

It is unclear why the Trump administration seeks to end the missions.

No. It’s really not. A big clue is right there in the last paragraph.

They are the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases.

Trump firmly believes in the head-in-the-sand style of disaster preparation. Remember when he suggested that if we don’t do testing we won’t have as many positive Covid cases? This is the same thing. We won’t have to worry about global warming if we make sure we don’t do any testing that might notice it’s actually happening.

I think that they are afraid that his cult following is all they have left. Tesla’s record of late is very poor. The self driving software, something they have been pushing as a major feature, is buggy as hell and they’ve now been found liable for at least one death because of it. Plus, their manufacturing and QC is very low from everything I’ve seen about their cybertrucks. Anyone remember when that guy blew up himself and his cybertruck in Vegas? People literally didn’t know at first if it was an attack or if it just blew up because that’s what Teslas do.

In its most recent quarter, Tesla reported that quarterly profits plunged from $1.39 billion to $409 million. Revenue also fell and the company fell short of even the lowered expectations on Wall Street.

Quarterly profits dropped by more than two thirds? That is a huge hit and the shareholders must be screaming. On the one hand, between his DOGE bullshit and his general incompetence as a leader, I have to think that Musk is the cause of nearly all of this. On the other hand, it’s very probably his cult following that is fueling the sales that they still have.

If Musk were to be fired or quit Tesla, I could see his cult ditching all their EVs and going back to rolling coal in their gas powered cars. And I don’t think regular EV shoppers would forget about all the flaws in Teslas and start buying them just because Musk was out. Tesla sales would probably tank even further. That’s my guess as to why they are so desperate to keep him around.

The electric vehicle maker said in a regulatory filing on Monday that Musk must first pay Tesla $23.34 per share of restricted stock that vests, which is equal to the exercise price per share of the 2018 pay package that was awarded to the company’s CEO.

So he has to pay them for the stock first. The article doesn’t say how many millions of shares, but at that price Tesla is getting a cash infusion of at least $50 million dollars, possibly much more, and they get to keep their figurehead and his cult followers for a while longer. This might be the best move they can manage considering the damage he’s done to the brand.

Really though, Pritzker could pay it out of his pocket change. $500 x 30 members = $15,000/day or $450,000 per month. That would be $5,400,000 if they stayed in Illinois for a full year. Pritzker is worth $3.7 billion. He could pay it without blinking.

$5.4 million is about 0.15% of $3.7 billion. That’s like the average American (median net worth $192,700 based on a quick search) paying $281.24. Hell, I’m below that and I would gladly pay $241.24 to keep TX from fucking the rest of the country.

Pity 30 democrats in their legislature just took off to Illinois so they won’t have quorum when they reconvene tomorrow to vote on it.

The Texas Democrats, however, face the risk of a $500-a-day fine and even possible arrest for fleeing the state.

Sounds like a GoFundMe that I’d kick in to.

Every empire comes to an end.

Brown served in the US army as an armor crewman from 2001 to 2005 and was deployed to Iraq from early 2004 until March 2005, according to an army spokesperson. He was in the Montana national guard from 2006 to March 2009 and left military service in the rank of sergeant.

“This isn’t just a drunk/high man going wild,” Brown’s niece, Clare Boyle, wrote in a Facebook message to the Associated Press. “It’s a sick man who doesn’t know who he is sometimes and frequently doesn’t know where or when he is either.”

But by God, as a free American, he has a right to own a gun to defend himself! - GOP politicians en masse.

But on Saturday afternoon, Bill Sather, the Anaconda-Deer Lodge police chief, told residents it was “OK to go about your business in town” but to use caution and report anything suspicious to law enforcement.

Yeah, nothing to see here. Move along. Move along. Can’t let a rogue gunman on the loose who doesn’t know who or where he is interfere with the business of capitalism.

Obviously he plans to put someone in there who will cook the numbers in his favor.

Senate rules for confirming judges were changed. It only takes a simple majority now. Dems have been dragging things out and forcing role call votes to slow everything down, but there’s only so much they can do.

Citing objectionable Trump administration candidates and lawless acts by the president and his team, Senate Democrats have slowed the process to a trickle, insisting on recorded votes for every nominee in a move that has left top agency slots vacant. It has also angered Republicans who accuse them of a new level of obstruction when it comes to confirmations.

In the end though, every democratic Senator can vote no and the republicans still win and the appointment is confirmed. What exactly do you want them to do?

Many of them do. Check around and see if your local Rep or Senator is holding any town halls. Though, this year, republicans have been dodging them left and right. Trump/GOP policies have been radioactive amongst their constituents so GOP leadership has told them not to hold any town halls. Those who have gone against that suggestion have found their sessions intense.

Steil entered the Elkhorn High School auditorium on Thursday to resounding boos and faced a raucous crowd for the duration of the 80-minute session, including fierce questions on his support of Trump’s agenda, as well as frequent interruptions, chants, and jeering.

If you do have republican representation in your area, you may have the opportunity to go to a democratic run town hall. Since republicans have been hiding from their voters, a number of democratic Senators and Reps have started going into republican controlled districts and holding their own town halls there.

House Democrats are ramping up their town-hall blitz in GOP-held districts over the long summer recess. The strategy is not new, but this time they’re armed with a powerful new talking point: President Trump’s refusal to release the federal files related to Jeffrey Epstein.