Bennett has had Elon's number for a long time. Enjoy...

1/ Nick Catoggio @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social nails it:

The action in the 10-Year Treasury Rate this morning is telling Donald Trump to go fuck himself.

In case you needed a reminder that Elon Musk is gutter scum.

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Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators: "The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President." www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

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Thugocracy

Yeah, I know we're not supposed to go there, but what's happening there is important:

I know of only one liar who even approaches the fluid mendacity of Elon Musk, and that's the man Musk helped elect as president. Send this video to your favorite Musk cultist and congratulate them on being either dupes too stupid to know they've been had or greedy cynics who love the fraud.

Elon‘s challenge was to devise a way to move money from Tesla to xAI after Tesla shareholders slapped down the idea of a direct investment last November. It appears he has come up with a wonderful plan.

🚨 Tesla China Sales – 2025 Wrap Up Strong domestic sales, big inventory drawdown. Profitable export sales remain in free fall. - Dec wholesale 97,171 units, full year down 7.1%. - Dec domestic sales of 93,843 units, full year down 4.8%. - Dec export sales of 3,328 units, full year down 12.9%.

"Tesla investors need to ask themselves: If xAI owns the intelligence behind the robot, what exactly is Tesla owning? A collection of actuators and metal? That’s not a multi-trillion dollar future; that’s a hardware commoditization trap." electrek.co/2026/01/09/e...

More on this story here: electrek.co/2026/01/08/e...

Ten billion miles moves the goalpost out to the third quarter. And six months from today, Musk will reveal that the tail of complexity is even longer.

I am acquainted with the qualifications required for, & training undergone by, both FBI & ICE agents. FBI agents are carefully vetted & superbly trained (or, at least, all new agents were until the age of Kash Patel). Many ICE agents, especially recent hires, are poorly trained thugs.

Trump and Hegseth are trying to intimidate me into silence. After 25 years in the Navy, I can tell you — that's not going to work. This is about defending everyone's First Amendment rights.

"Whether you like it or not, the Trump Corollary has arrived. It’s not about ideology. It’s about power, money, materials, assets. It’s about keeping Chinese and Russian influence out of the Americas, North and South." More great work from @davidkotok.bsky.social. kotokreport.com/venezuela-th...

Tesla offers detailed reporting on its "legacy" EV manufacturing business, but shockingly little information on its robotaxi, robotics, and AI initiatives, which are supposedly the future. Good analysis here from Bloomberg's @liamdenning.bsky.social: economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

Wait, didn't Adam Jonas tell us that every auto manufacturer would be lining up to license Tesla's "FSD" software? electrek.co/2026/01/05/n...

Hey, no fair. xAI (and others) are amortizing these over five years. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvid...

very cool democracy

Tesla made suppliers for the Cybertruck tool up for 125k units/year, once again proving that you should never do business with Tesla

For all my lawyer friends who handle personal injury cases or class actions. (The rest of you can ignore. It's just another Musk lie in a long line of Musk lies.)

What possible chance would Nvidia have when up against Tesla? (oh, wait...) www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/n...

Is it too early to estimate Tesla Q4 earnings? Compared to Q3, I'm thinking: - Revenue down in proportion to sales - Gross margin down 2% due to Standard models and incentives - Op Ex retreat to Q2 levels - No significant surprises Results in $0.31 EPS non-GAAP 2025 earnings down 38% from 2024

This is how it's done. 👏

Elon Musk is a genius at promoting fantasies, and the engineering Einstein of our century, yet when it comes to flipping a burger, it's just too complicated. Well, I suppose, he can always dine with the man he told us only last June was a pedophile. www.fresnobee.com/news/busines...

not the tented fingers!

But Musk already has a tight grip on Tesla. What he wants is access to Tesla's cash to fund xAI massive burn. The shareholders said no in November. But having Tesla acquire xAI would circumvent that problem. (h/t @sleepindogo.bsky.social)

Put aside for the moment the lawlessness of the actions and the ineptitude of the people directing them. The more immediate question is the one @davidkotok.bsky.social asks here: dkotok.substack.com/p/is-cuba-next

As Rubio pointed out, timing for the invasion was critical.

Maduro Requests Lindsay Halligan to Prosecute Him

As sales erode, Tesla must decide how it will deal with production overcapacity. Some options: - Move Fremont capacity to Texas - Launch a new Roadster - Shift capacity to TeslaBot production - Defiantly announce more gigafactories Here's a brief look at Tesla plant utilization.

a lot going on right now, but it's worth noting that Kara Swisher is having to keep tap-dancing closer and closer to the truth about her central role in enabling the rise of the technology brothers, specifically elon musk

It took a world-class con artist to sell this growth plan in 2020. It would take a galaxy-class con artist to change the heading to Robots and sell it again.

Mark Spiegel points out that Musk said this only five months ago. A decade ago, this would have triggered a punishing SEC securities fraud action. Today, we have no functioning SEC, and no rule of law for billionaires who suck up to Trump.

My latest at Substack. Concluding with a love letter to TeslaBoomerMama. montanaskeptic.substack.com/p/further-th...

🚨 Tesla Quarterly Production - 4Q25 Update Tesla produced 1,654,667 vehicles in 2025. Down 6.7% compared to 2024. Down 10.4% compared to 2023. Vehicle inventory increased by 16k units in Q4. 2026 looks to be a challenging year as competition grows and gov't incentives diminish.

Thank goodness that SpaceX had a desperate need for all those Cybertrucks.

Still a few hours to go. 🤡 mashable.com/article/elon...

In the early afternoon, ET, the Kennedy family announced that JFK’s granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg had died from cancer. A few hours later, President Trump re-posted some social media garbage attacking the Kennedy family.

oh you know our boy is thirsty if he's pumping neuralink

I appreciate those who continually document the lies told by the world's second greatest liar. mashable.com/article/elon...

Who had Fred Lambert and Ross Gerber eventually becoming the biggest Tesla bashers on their 2020 bingo card?

watch for this to pick up in 2026, as Tesla increasingly circles the drain

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🧵: NHTSA has opened not one but two separate investigations into Tesla and the doors