Elon Musk Does Not Care About Spam Bots  —  Programming note: Money Stuff will be off tomorrow, back on Thursday.  Unless.  You know.  —  Oh Elon  —  Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, and an active Twitter user.  When he tweets, he gets a lot of spammy replies, many of which seem to be written by automated bots.

Most Extremist Violence in the U.S. Comes From the Political Right  —  The Buffalo killings are part of a pattern: Most extremist violence in the U.S. comes from the political right.  —  Over the past decade, the Anti-Defamation League has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by political extremists.

Justice Dept. Requests Transcripts From Jan. 6 Committee  —  The committee has interviewed more than 1,000 people so far, and the transcripts could be used as evidence in potential criminal cases or to pursue new leads.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has asked the House committee investigating …

Twitter engineer recorded saying ‘Commie as f-k’ staff ‘censors the right’  —  A senior Twitter engineer has been secretly recorded admitting that the social media giant is “censoring the right” — and that he and his co-workers are “Commie as f-k.”  —  “Twitter does not believe in free speech …

Dinesh D'Souza's 2000 Mules Is a Hilarious Mockumentary  —  A tour de force exploring the limits of how many suckers there are willing to pay for fantasy.  —  Dinesh D'Souza's 2000 Mules is Plandemic for election truthers.  For the non-insane, it's a hilarious mockumentary.

China Eastern Black Box Points to Intentional Nosedive  —  Flight data suggests someone in cockpit pushed Boeing 737-800 into near-vertical descent, according to a preliminary U.S. assessment  —  Search-and-rescue workers in March sorted through aircraft debris at the China Eastern crash site in southern China.

Senior Trump official at State met with election denial activists Jan. 6  —  The confirmation of the meeting provides new evidence of the success that the president's allies had in gaining access to top administration officials  —  On Jan. 6, 2021, around the time that thousands …

FBI investigating Dallas' Koreatown shooting as hate crime  —  DALLAS (AP) — Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city's Koreatown and federal officials have launched a hate crime investigation, authorities said Tuesday.

Bill de Blasio eyeing run at newly drawn NY seat Jerrold Nadler has left behind  —  Just when you thought he was out ...  Ex-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told a state lawmaker he plans to run for New York's newly drawn 10th Congressional district — the seat entrenched Rep. Jerrold Nadler …

Powell says the Fed will not hesitate to keep raising rates until inflation comes down  — Fed Chair Jerome Powell said he will back interest rate increases until prices start falling back toward a healthy level.  — “If that involves moving past broadly understood levels of neutral …

Justice Department Sues to Compel a U.S. Businessperson to Register Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act  —  Complaint Alleges That Stephen A. Wynn Lobbied the Then-President and Former Administration Officials at the Request of the People's Republic of China

Kamala Harris wants to get out of D.C. more.  But she literally can't.  —  On Sunday afternoon, Vice President Kamala Harris led an American delegation to the United Arab Emirates to express condolences after the death of the federation's president.  By Monday morning, she was on her way home.

Opinion Black people want the hate to stop.  But it is only getting worse.  —  I keep telling my Black friends that it's just going to get worse.  —  I keep telling them that some White men, fed a steady diet of nonsense and statistics about the state of Whiteness in the United States …

‘A trial about privilege’: Durham and Sussmann lawyers clash in opening to trial  —  The trial against Democratic cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann kicked into high gear Tuesday morning, as prosecutors for special counsel John Durham accused him of “privilege.”

Fake Wisconsin Trump Electors, Already Under DOJ Investigation, Now Face Civil Suit, Too  —  The lawsuit accuses 10 Trump supporters of engaging in fraud and conspiracy for filling out paperwork claiming to be “duly elected.”  —  By S.V. Date  —  The fake Donald Trump electors …

Pennsylvania Senate candidate Fetterman will have heart procedure after stroke  —  Lt. Gov. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania will have a procedure on Tuesday to implant a pacemaker after suffering from a stroke last week, according to a statement from his campaign.

Pentagon now reports about 400 UFO encounters: 'We want to know what's out there'  —  Officials are “reasonably” sure pyramid-shaped objects in one video were drones.  —  Top Pentagon officials told a House panel on Tuesday that there are now close to 400 reports from military personnel …

Biden's ‘MAGA Republicans’ is a meh-ga slogan  —  Democrats are ensnared in the campaign consultant trap  —  It is a Washington ritual so old that it probably dates back to the era when senators lived in boarding houses and any stray citizen could wander into the White House.

Donald Trump Jr. Throws Cold Water on Finland Joining NATO  —  Donald Trump Jr., a prominent and vocal member of the MAGA crowd, has some concerns when it comes to Finland possibly joining NATO.  —  On Monday morning, Trump Jr. shared his thoughts on the possibility that the European country …

Virginia mom suing biracial son's school over CRT curriculum says it ‘totally changed his perspective’ on race  —  Lawyer said Henley Middle School appears to be standing by divisive curriculum amid lawsuit  —  Virginia mother suing son's school over CRT curriculum

Living With The Far-Right Insurgency In Idaho  —  A radical GOP faction, in open alliance with extremists, is seizing power and targeting its opponents with cruelty.  Some wonder: Is it time to leave?  —  IDAHO — White nationalist Vincent James Foxx had a new video for his nearly 70,000 subscribers …

Ukraine aid splinters the GOP  —  The Republican establishment is striking back against a right flank attempt to turn its opposition to Ukraine aid into an “America First” talking point.  —  Congress' nearly $40 billion package of help for the war-torn nation is taking heat from a growing number …

Republicans block bill to stop price gouging at the pump as gas hits new record high  —  Take a walk through U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers' tweets and you'll find complaint after complaint about the price of gas.  Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers, Republican of Washington …

Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics.  She Decided to Live With Her Voices.  —  A new movement wants to shift mainstream thinking away from medication and toward greater acceptance.  —  Caroline Mazel-Carlton began hearing voices when she was in day care.  Mornings, by the time she was in middle school …