From Trump to Tesla, Elon Musk has had rocky 2025. But that didn’t surprise @liamdenning.bsky.social 🎥

Trump on Jan. 9, 2024: “I was never on Epstein’s plane.” Newly released documents: Trump was on Epstein’s plane multiple times.

Ford and GM end 2025 on a high - and looking vulnerable. @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

They should just paint 'Trump' on the offshore wind turbines. Job done.

The announcement of a new class of naval vessel named after one Donald J. Trump is about branding, not strategy, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

With Trump winding up his Greenland act again, this column remains as relevant as ever: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

big scoop from reuters: pardoned j6-ers are.... advising DOJ officials" "weaponization working group" on whether to bring charges against prosecutors who worked on j6 cases. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Thursday's files should be epic

It's national security but the president also just hates offshore windpower, so it's complicated

Detroit’s rally masks a deeper disruption in autos @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

So begins my annual Big Thread of what's what next year in the energy space. 🧵 The UK offshore will see more consolidation aka huddling together for warmth www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

Ford and GM end 2025 on a high - and looking vulnerable. @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

1/In September, NHTSA opened a defect investigation into Tesla's electrically powered doors. The scope of the "ODI" is here:

Gift Link. "No Congressional legislation was passed to institute this MAGA control over every US public school. No public debate informed it. No evidence was offered for its preposterous assertions....Yet the word “funds” or “funding” appears 9 different times." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

“The president’s appetite for plastering his name on every available surface appears insatiable,” Eliot A. Cohen argues.

Healthcare insurance sure was cheap in the good old days before Obamacare ... when insurance companies could deny coverage to those who needed healthcare. James Lankford

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

Today’s NYT story left out Stefanik’s most craven acts — trying to overturn the 2020 election, and then stabbing Liz Cheney in the back. See this excellent CNN 2021 recap, via Daniel Dale www.cnn.com/2021/05/06/p...

When three college students died in a Tesla Cybertruck, it kicked off an investigative effort. Now we've made a short documentary, which includes all kinds of footage I got via public records requests. I hope you watch it. www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

When M&A synergies aren't about the business but instead a certain type of investor

"Next year, the combined company would begin construction on a 50-megawatt utility-scale fusion power plant, the companies said. The companies plan to build additional fusion power plants to supply 350 to 500 megawatts, they said."

When two sectors are seeking the exact same kind of investor

If you like Tesla, you should love Waymo @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Waymo’s $100B pitch and Tesla’s valuation ‘smile’ are related @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Waymo’s purported $100B valuation is 285x estimated annual revenue. Tesla’s implied robotaxi multiple is closer to ‘#DIV/0!’ @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Waymo’s $100B pitch and Tesla’s valuation ‘smile’ are related @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

If you like Tesla, you should love Waymo @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

At 225x fwd earnings, Tesla's P/E has now surpassed the prior peak of 217x in early 2021. Back then, optimism centered on EVs and Biden. Today, Tesla EV sales have been down for two years but robotaxis/robots have taken over the narrative, if nothing else

Ford's latest EV u-turn devolves into spinning donuts @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Ford's latest EV u-turn devolves into spinning donuts @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Sen. Jack Reed: "I must remind everyone that we follow the law of war, and because of that, we expect other countries. So that when our service members are in distress, they're not shot up in the water or if they're wounded, left to die. If we don't do it, then we can't expect other countries."

Oversight Dems just dropped a new trove of photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate — including this one of Steve Bannon. @monacharen.bsky.social has a question: Where's the uproar over Bannon's connection to Epstein? Read it here: bit.ly/3Mq75uP

Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2043...

The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time. Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.

Democratic lawmakers say Paramount bid for Warner raises ‘serious national security concerns’ www.latimes.com/entertainmen... via @megjames.bsky.social

As usual, an offshore oil leasing round was big on headline #s and small on actual interest. Per WoodMac, # of bids in the 'Big Beautiful Gulf 1' auction fell 38% vs. the last, with bids on ~1% of the acreage offered. Here's some history: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... @opinion.bloomberg.com

Rep. Randy Fine defends Trump's gutter racist rants about Somalis: "Not all cultures are equal ... the president speaks in language that Americans understand."

Code of Conduct for United States Judges, Canon 5: "A judge should not . . . attend or purchase a ticket for a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization or candidate... A judge should not engage in any other political activity." (All judges receive training on this.)

For the first time in nearly two decades of our surveys of U.S. Latinos, most say they think the situation of Hispanics in this country has worsened in the last year. And about a third of Latinos say they have considered leaving the country in the last six months. www.pewresearch.org/...

NextEra insists there’s life after 2030 @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

Bombs on train tracks. Arson attacks on malls. Poisoned water supplies. These are just some of the recently foiled plots in Russia’s growing campaign of aggression across Europe. What was once a mere nuisance has escalated into a serious threat. An #FTEdit 🧵 on the new era of Russian sabotage 👇

NextEra insists there’s life after 2030 @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

NextEra pivots hard to its … next era (of AI and gas) @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."

Lol of course he is

The fact that Trump says kei cars are the answer to America’s high vehicle costs says it all @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job

Who has made this 🤣

The fact that Trump says kei cars are the answer to America’s high vehicle costs says it all @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...