If any of the polygraph operators are opposed to Patel, this would be a convenient way to get his actual loyalists fired without evidence.

I wouldn’t be surprised if forces on the ground deliberately downplayed the damage when reporting to Trump so he wouldn’t endanger them all with further escalations.

Fish.

My apartment building turns 100 this year.

Who would even follow Elon Musk?

Candidates looking for funding.

The most likely outcome is nothing.

The second most likely outcome is a fracturing of Trump’s opposition, further weakening their ability to impede him.

If they weren’t such incompetent idiots I’d suspect it was a ploy to create a controlled opposition.

Nobody is talking to Hegseth because Hegseth is talking to everybody.

If life is an experiment, and there is a measuring tool

So that’s what keeps causing our wave function to collapse!

He’s not using the royal “we”—that’s a common point of confusion. He’s actually using the caesaropapal “we”.

Trump isn’t a king the same way Augustus wasn’t a king—they became something even more extreme, while dressing themselves up in the shells of the republican institutions they destroyed.

Isn’t the LAPD under him

No—I think the only regular law enforcement under the governor are the highway patrol and state park rangers.

Are the school police completely independent from the LAPD, or could they potentially get conflicting orders from the LAPD chief?

Newsweek has contacted the White House and the select committee leadership outside of office hours via email for comment.

I’m curious why they’d contact the White House—does the White House administer the Senate’s website?

There’s a difference if Trump and his supporters use Musk as a scapegoat to distance themselves from the fallout.

To what extent can the results be attributed to Musk vs Trump?

Sure, Musk’s DOGE was particularly incompetent, but was there any way of implementing Trump’s intended policies that wouldn’t have been similarly disastrous?

Think of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, trying to dare Republicans to vote against tax cuts for billionaires.

Trying to dare? Is that what it’s called when he opens his mouth to say “we dare you” but the words “we’ll cave at the first threat of a shutdown” spill out?

Does the letter’s handwriting match that of “John Barron”?

The environmental sensors on my local network.

Maybe Trump thinks “South Africa” is everything south of the Sahara.

Can you explain how you recognize someone’s face? Can you explain how you balance your body and move your feet correctly as you walk? Can you explain how you speak in grammatically correct sentences without consciously thinking about the rules of grammar?

The vast majority of our experiences are fundamentally inexplicable—basically, everything that isn’t part of our internal narrative.