My kid just WhatsApped from his German exchange trip. They had to call an ambulance for him.

He has food poisoning, was very pale and nauseous. He was dehydrated and his blood pressure was dropping.

He's fine now but I wanted to share this because it has the most Western Europe Is a Civilized Place ending ever.

The paramedics came to the mall, took him into the ambulance, gave him an IV, checked him out, stayed with him until he felt better, then told him "No charge. Enjoy your trip to Germany." And if that wasn't enough, when they realized the group had had to move onto the train station without him, they gave him a ride over there to catch up with them.

I'm so ground down by the predatory realities of America in general in 2025 that this just about blew my fucking mind.

Hey, Trump!

Undocumented immigrants didn’t plan a Jan 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building. You did. You recruited armed insurrectionist thugs who brutally assaulted law enforcement officers. Since the rioting CITIZENS were advancing your criminal agenda, you pardoned them or commuted their sentences — every, single, one of them.

Fuck you, Donald Trump, and the Deplorables you rode in on.
#DonaldTrump #FuckDonaldTrump #DomesticEnemy #Jan6 #Deplorables #immigrants #immigration #asylum

Between Trump and Musk they have 17 children from 6 different mothers.

The Party of Christian family values, my ass.

#republicans #maga #trump #musk #Christianvalues #fraud

Ukraine is crippling the Russian economy with daily strikes. In January alone, two-thirds of approximately 30 large refineries suffered powerful attacks, and assaults on Russian oil depots have been ongoing for about a year and four months.

https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus255320956/Oelindustrie-Ein-Jahr-und-vier-Monate-hat-sich-die-Ukraine-auf-diese-Angriffswelle-vorbereitet.html

Disclaimer: I am not a constitutional scholar, but I still harbor a quaint belief in the rule of law and stuff.

I don't see how Musk can operate in his current role without Senate confirmation. The appointments clause requires any principal officer of the United States (who exercises "significant authority") to be confirmed first. And if locking agency heads out of their own systems isn't "significant authority", I don't know what could be.

Sigh.