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French prosecutors escalate probe of Elon Musk and X to criminal investigation

PUBLISHED THU, MAY 7 2026 4:54 PM EDT

French cybercrime authorities have escalated an investigation of Elon Musk and his social network X to a criminal probe.

The investigation began in 2025 and focuses on alleged algorithmic manipulation by X to interfere in French politics, and the spread of AI deepfake content on the social network.

The U.S. Justice Department and Musk previously accused French authorities of a sham probe that interferes with an American business.

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Marco Rubio is a first generation Cuban immigrant who hates immigrants.

He will starve Cuba out of spite, longing for pre- Castro Bautista authoritarianism.

GOP lawmaker sees photo of colleague’s baby, brings up her abortion

After Democratic state Rep. Anna Abeytia brought her newborn to the legislature, GOP state Rep. Nick Kupper weighed in.

By Clarissa Sosin

June 3, 2026

A bit of workplace advice: When a colleague brings her newborn child into work for the first time, perhaps don’t bring up her previous abortion.

Calculated even.

And he will not only do it again but he's looking for his next misogynistic call out that is even more reprehensible than this is. It's all about pushing the boundaries of polite society until they demolish all norms.

An abandoned theater in Rochester, New York. Formerly a pornographic theater, then just a facade after the Walgreens next door gutted it to use as a warehouse. The Walgreens with it's shampoo and baby formula and half of the store locked in cages; the contradictions stare into you. You go because it is the nearest pharmacy, close in walking distance for you and your disabled loved ones.

The Walgreens shuts down and it too, is now just a vacant facade, next to a vacant facade. You stare into the large windows meant to advertise it's contents, now only showcasing absence. A wide open space with torn up floors. You think about how perfect the location could be for low income housing, for squatting, for anything other than standing as a constant reminder of the city's failures to her people. The parking lot is empty, save for the occasional cop car, to ensure no one uses the lot or the building for anything at all. The cop ensures the space will stay as useless as himself.

They add letters to the theater's marquee; a reminder and encouragement of surveillance. "If you see something, say something. In progress call 911, over and done call 311." They board up the doors, ensuring that the space will stay in it's intended form: empty, useless, an eyesore that reminds everyone of their place. The freshly boarded up door has been emblazoned with a message from those who lack.

Rights you have from birth are slowly stripped away by conservative politicians.

Constructs are created to control. Medical debt? Student debt? Remove these constructs and you have instant freedom.

And the sort of rejection of that idea bothers me because it makes it impossible to assert any *specific* value, and instead insists on a kind of utilitarian totality.

You can't talk about, say, the inscreasing "Bowling Alone" isolation of the US population, or for that matter the Republican dominated Supreme Court gutting the voting rights act because along that same timeline we also invented a lot of really important vaccines so that means that ultimately things *in their totality* are better and so "It's actually sad and dangerous that we're becoming so isolated and there's genuine evidence that we were less isolated in the past" is made synonymous with "I'm nostalgic for when things were worse."

I actually have way less patience for old person bitching about how everything sucks and is ruined now than you'd think from what I wrote above but there's a sense where...

I don't know, it somehow becomes the only possible defense against the argument made above, something something ressentiment.