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New Jersey Sen. cory booker is on the Senate floor, saying, "I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able" to protest #Trump and #Musk.
Watch live: c-span.org/event/us-senate/us-…
U.S. Senate
The Senate will vote to advance President Trump's nomination of Matthew Whitaker to be the U.S. Ambassador to NATO. He previously served as Acting Attorney General during the first Trump Administration.C-SPAN
"Guess who showed up to defend #Tesla? The Proud Boys, armed militias, and at one event in Idaho, and a guy dressed as Hitler.
As #Musk continues to tear through the federal government, and Tesla’s stock price continues to plummet, the organizers of the Tesla Takedown movement have pledged to continue to protest, with the movement now reaching other parts of the world as well." #TeslaTakedown
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#Musk #Wisconsin #Trump #democracy #politics #corruption
Elon Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race
Musk denied he was buying votes but said the court election outcome would be critical to Trump’s agenda and ‘the future of civilization’Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up
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Companies may avoid consequences for alleged wrongdoing as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau drops lawsuits against Capital One and Rocket Homes and pauses investigations into Meta and others — including providers of medical credit cards.
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#News #Consumer #Business #Law #Meta #Tech #Trump #DOGE #Musk
#Technofeudalists and the perceived #AI threat incongruence
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... importantly, there is, in my view, no discrepancy on a strategic (intent) level:
a) #Musk's primary goal is, as you know, to transform #humanity into a #MultiplanetarySpecies. Colonizing the closest possible habitable planet (#Mars, #Terraforming) is indispensable for this lifty aim. That will cost the global economy billions of dollars for many years, that will then be missing for feeding the poor...
Best picture so far that describes the current situation in the White House
" #Wisconsin's attorney general on Sunday asked the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court to stop billionaire #Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters, an appeal that came hours before #Trump's ally planned the giveaway at an evening rally.
An appeals court on Saturday rejected the legal challenge by Democrat Josh Kaul, who argues that Musk's offer violates a state law prohibiting giving anything of value in exchange for a vote" abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wi…
Wisconsin's attorney general asks the state Supreme Court to stop Musk's $1 million payments
Wisconsin’s attorney general has asked the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two votersSCOTT BAUER Associated Press (ABC News)
Just a worthwhile reminder for #TeslaTakedown folks: #Tesla was never a real car company under #Musk. It was always an unprofitable grift propped up by massive government subsidies. The bubble was always going to pop at some point. It's always been vulnerable. There will never be robot taxis, or robots, or any of the other bullshit he's always promised to pump up the hype. That was always a lie.
The work you're doing is great and important, and you will win. Elon will find more ways to dump money into Tesla to prop up the stock, but, in the end, it will collapse. Tesla should have died a long time ago. You are attacking the only thing Tesla has: image. Keep going, you will win.
Interview: "Fire the unelected social media dictators: Cory Doctorow on tech and US politics"
"Elon Musk’s rise to power in the United States is emblematic of the expanding power of Big Tech".
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#musk #trump #oligarchy #ai #fascism #CoryDoctorow #uspol .
Fire the unelected social media dictators: Doctorow on tech and US politics
Is Big Tech out of control and AI beyond limits? Redi Tlhabi speaks with author and activist Cory Doctorow.Al Jazeera
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #usa
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #canada #russia
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #vance #usa #russia #ukraine
—Timothy Snyder
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#musk #trump #usa
Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to His AI Start-Up xAI
The transaction valued xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion - down from the $44 billion Musk paid for Twitter in 2022, but higher than the recent $12 billion valuation by X investor Fidelity
nytimes.com/2025/03/28/technol…
Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to xAI
Mr. Musk said the deal valued xAI, his artificial intelligence start-up, at $80 billion, and X at $30 billion.Kate Conger (The New York Times)
#Musk goes on another nat sec field trip
"Elon Musk is set to visit the Central Intelligence Agency on Monday, the latest stop on a tour through the US government’s spy apparatus that’s provoked alarm from some Democrats and intelligence experts."
Money is pouring into Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election so fast that political observers now believe it is likely to reach $100 million by Tuesday, election day.
Already, it has become the costliest judicial race in U.S. history.
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#News #Wisconsin #SupremeCourt #Election #ElonMusk #Billionaires #Musk
How Elon Musk, George Soros and Other Billionaires Are Shaping the Most Expensive Court Race in U.S. History
Unlimited political spending has allowed billionaires like Elon Musk and George Soros to pour millions of dollars into the campaign.ProPublica
Elon #Musk pressured #Reddit’s CEO on content #moderation
source: theverge.com/command-line-news…
It's all about free speech, isnt it Elon? (But only the way you want it ...)
#censorship #freespeech #freedom #usa #politics #doge #news #internet
Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation
While Elon Musk was publicly calling out Reddit users for banning X links and threatening DOGE employees, he was also privately pressuring CEO Steve Huffman.Alex Heath (The Verge)
Whoa, yesterday, #Trump illegally stripped #CollectiveBargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of #FederalWorkers in 18 different departments across multiple #FederalAgencies.
The admin stated that “Certain Federal unions have declared *#war* on President Trump’s agenda.”
Is he going to use #wartime powers against #union members now?
#law #LaborLaw #labor #Musk #DOGE #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #propaganda #Trumpaganda #gaslighting #NaziState #MafiaState
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Exempts Agencies with National Security Missions from Federal Collective Bargaining Requirements – The White House
PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order using authority granted by the Civil Service Reform Act ofThe White House
"I'm scared too"
A worker walks past street art posters depicting Tesla CEO Elon Musk in World War Two Nazi German uniform, in Brick Lane, east London, #Britain. REUTERS/Isabel Infantes
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How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
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#china #national-security #musk #trump #space-x #espionage
How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is certainly a policy of obfuscation,” an expert said.ProPublica
How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
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As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is certainly a policy of obfuscation,” an expert said.
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#EdwardCoristine is among the most visible members of the #DOGE effort that has been given sweeping access to official networks as it attempts to radically downsize the U.S. government.
Past reporting had focused on his youth - he is 19 - and his chosen nickname of "#BigBalls," which became a pop culture punchline. #Musk has championed the teen on his social media site X, telling his followers last month that "Big Balls is awesome."
Exclusive: #DOGE staffer, '#BigBalls', provided tech support to #cybercrime ring, records show
The best-known member of Elon #Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data & #cyberstalking an #FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.
#USpol #InfoSec #NationalSecurity #Trump
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It’s Time to Worry About #DOGE’s #AI Plans
source: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
The more AI decision making is integrated into #government, the easier #change will be.
#Musk #Trump #future #politics #WhiteHouse #usa #news #technology
It’s Time to Worry About DOGE’s AI Plans
Welcome to the end of the human civil servant.Bruce Schneier (The Atlantic)
Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone on Fascism
See if any of this seems relevant to the USA right now.
#rod-serling #the-twilight-zone #fascism #trump #musk #usa #far-right #bigotry #prejudice #minorities
Twilight Zone, season 4, episode 4
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“Demand is off the charts!” Elon Musk crowed at the end of 2023, citing more than a million reservations for Tesla's polarizing polygonic pickup—so why has it still sold less than 50,000?
wired.com/story/where-did-the-… #Tesla #Cybertruck #Musk #EVs #Cars
The endless buffoonery ceases to mitigate the fact that these jackasses are in charge and half the idiots in the US voted for this. It's broken my brain and I'm still in shock. They've got Buttegieg dropping F-bombs
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Okay, das ist krass, Leute.
Manche behaupteten, "das Medium (Papier-)#Buch ist tot." Ich glaube das nicht, habe gerne 1 Neuausgabe von "Verschwörungsmythen" inklusive #Musk & #KI verfasst. Erscheinungsdatum 28. April 2025.
Gerade meldete sich der Patmos-Verlag. Interesse, Vorbestellungen. Der Druck wird vorgezogen. Es soll jetzt schon am 31. März erscheinen. Also nächste Woche. 📚
Bin baff. Berührt. Und spüre wieder ein bisschen mehr #Hoffnung...🤓 #Verschwörungsmythen shop.verlagsgruppe-patmos.de/v…
Verschwörungsmythen
Internet und Soziale Medien quellen über von abstrusen Spekulationen und Fake News, die millionenfach geteilt werden. Selbst gelehrte Menschen halten Verschwörungsmythen für gesicherte Erkenntnisse. Viele driften in eine Fantasiewelt voller Angst ab.shop.verlagsgruppe-patmos.de
Elon Musk Goes After Bunkers Full of Seeds
"This should unnerve every American who eats. Our food system is only as safe as our ability to respond to the next plant disease or other emergent threat"
unpaywalled link to NYT Opinion
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Federal Judge Deborah L. Boardman has blocked #DOGE / #OPM from accessing large swathes of data at the Depts of #Education & #Treasury, ruling that DOGE has no right under the #Privacy Act to unjustified access to large-scale amounts of personal identifying information.
#law #USpol #Trump #Musk #InfoSec
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Musk suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest. Surely there's no way anyone could have seen that coming.
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Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.Eliza Gkritsi (POLITICO)
Tesla missachtet Arbeitsrecht
Der Autobauer drangsaliert kranke Mitarbeiter
Von Jonas Wahmkow
In Grünheide geschieht krankgemeldeten Beschäftigten Ungeheuerliches. Damit darf Elon Musks Unternehmen nicht durchkommen.
#taz #tageszeitung #wochentaz #Tesla #Grünheide #Gewerkschaft #Krankheit #Elon #Musk
Analysis: "An unapologetically elitist AI tutor" and Musk online schools launched
"Meet the Educational Entrepreneurs Who Want to Teach a New Generation of Elon Musks"
"Astra Nova School and Synthesis Tutor are two non-traditional, online educational programs that... began with their creators’ admiration for Elon Musk.
"First step,” said one, “stop teachers from teaching.”
motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
#MuskOnlineSchools #elitism #uspol #AI #Musk #education #privatisededucation .
Meet the educational entrepreneurs who want to teach a new generation of Elon Musks
The billionaire's admirers and ex-employees have launched online schools and an “unapologetically elitist” AI tutor.Mother Jones
On the heels of all this bad news rumours are swirling that Tesla investors and insiders are offloading shares.
Prompting Musk to hold an all hands begging Tesla employees to stop selling shares of the company:
“If you read the news, it feels like Armageddon. I can’t walk past a TV without seeing a Tesla on fire,” he said. “I understand if you don’t want to buy our product, but you don’t have to burn it down. That’s a bit unreasonable.”
It's a mad world: thedailybeast.com/musks-dad-el…
#musk #news #racism #nonazis #problem #fascism #altright #usa #politics #fail #friendship
Musk’s Dad: Elon’s Not Racist—He Was Friends With ‘Black Servants’
The Musk patriarch also fondly recalled apartheid-era South Africa as as a “well-run, law abiding country.”Erkki Forster (The Daily Beast)