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My colleague Nick tracked Musk's X posts, so the rest of us didn't have to. “If you stripped Elon Musk’s name off of these things and showed them to me, I would think that this was a white supremacist,” said Heidi Beirich of Global Project Against Extremism.
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Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January
Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists
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Lauren Goode
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NEW: Salesforce employees are circulating a letter urging CEO Marc Benioff to denounce ICE
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Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE
The letter comes after Benioff joked at a company event on Monday that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance, sparking immediate backlash.
https://www.wired.com/story/letter-salesforce-employees-sent-after-marc-benioffs-ice-comments/
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Epstein engineered intimate relationship for Tesla’s Kimbal Musk, emails show
Elon Musk’s younger brother and the woman were involved for about six months between 2012 and 2013
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/jeffrey-epstein-tesla-kimbal-musk
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Rodger Sherman
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again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
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Ben Mullin
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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Jose Pagliery
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According to FOX 9, a Minneapolis federal judge demanded to know why DOJ is missing deadlines & AUSA Julie Le said, "The system sucks, this job sucks" & asked to be held in contempt so she could sleep. PACER shows she got assigned to defend the govt in 88+ cases since Operation Metro Surge started.
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the man keeps an uranium rod on his desk (along with a sword, an ax and a blade from a concorde jet engine)
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maddy varner
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NEW: I reviewed nearly 1,400 screenings at over 300 movie theaters in the united states, and I am here to report that I successfully found two (2) sold out Melania screenings. Read on at
@wired.com
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We Found Two Theaters With Sold-Out ‘Melania’ Opening Day Screenings
A WIRED analysis of nearly 1,400 Friday showtimes of Melania found only two with no tickets available. Both are before 3 pm.
https://www.wired.com/story/we-found-2-theaters-with-sold-out-melania-opening-day-screenings/
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dell cameron
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I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.
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honestly can't decide if this auto-response for a reporter email to one of musk's companies is better or worse than the poop emoji
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Justin Hendrix
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"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power massive data centers in Tennessee." -
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Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules
Win for Memphis activists who say ‘Colossus’ facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis
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Diedrich Bader
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Gonna ask Meryl Streep to give me one of her Oscars
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"Welcome to gangster tech regulation!" I will read every
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"Portland’s mayor, Keith Wilson, confirmed the shooting in a statement. 'Just one day after the horrific violence in Minnesota at the hands of federal agents, our community here in Portland is now grappling with another deeply troubling incident,' he said."
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Two people shot by US federal agents in Portland, police say
Mayor calls shooting ‘deeply troubling’ as police say two people taken to hospital and conditions not known
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/portland-federal-agents-shooting
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The New Republic
about 1 month ago
The White House has unveiled a new website recounting a wildly inventive version of the insurrection. The site says the “massive crowd peacefully” approached the Capitol in an “orderly and spirited" fashion. And, crucially, that "President Trump emerges triumphant."
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Despite all that's going in the world right now, I'm sure everyone is curious about what happened with Elon Musk's Tesla diner over the last six months. Turns out, it's not great.
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What happened after Tesla opened a diner in Los Angeles?
The novelty of eating at a diner owned by the richest person in the world seems to have worn off in just a few months
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/tesla-diner-elon-musk-los-angeles
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about 1 month ago
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It’s just the third day of 2026
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If you feel like rotting your brain today, you can read our recap on the chaotic year in Elon Musk. It's got Big Balls, exploding rocketships, Cybertrucks set aflame, the beginning and end of a Trump bromance, and a lovely quote from Joyce Carol Oates.
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Elon Musk’s 2025 recap: how the world’s richest person became its most chaotic
How the tech CEO and ‘Dogefather’ made a mess of the year – from his White House tenure to an apparent Nazi salute
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/31/elon-musk-doge-tesla-ai-trump
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I got internal emails between Ben Horowitz and the Las Vegas police for his donation of a Cybertruck fleet. Tidbits include Elon responding with a sunglasses emoji, Horowitz quoting the rapper Nas, and police requesting “beast mode” be removed from all vehicles
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How Las Vegas police ended up with a fleet of free Tesla Cybertrucks
Mysterious donors gave a fleet of 10 of the vehicles – which have had a number of recalls – to the police earlier this year
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/28/las-vegas-police-free-tesla-cybertrucks?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Jon Keegan
about 2 months ago
Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.
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An incredibly important story. "Her delivery wasn’t progressing the way the care team hoped, and she needed a C-section... To prevent possible burning and electrocution, patients are instructed to take off all jewelry or metals before the surgery. The mandatory watch had no way to be easily removed"
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Lawrence Culver
2 months ago
Whatever part of the late American empire you want to see, it’s all here: water and power-guzzling AI, tech bros, security goons, brothel owners, wild horses, failed crypto utopias, and Indigenous people trying to preserve water rights and nature while the American West gets ravaged one more time.
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I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the world’s biggest AI data center buildouts. It’s so big it was hard to wrap my mind around. Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/04/nevada-ai-data-centers
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Tim Dickinson
3 months ago
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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Ryan Mac 🙃
3 months ago
Musk is still talking at the Tesla shareholder meeting and he just criticized "the parasitic load of being a public company" which has "grown over time." This from a man who was just awarded a $1 trillion pay package from more than 75% of his public company shareholders.
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Amanda Katz
3 months ago
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
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Phil Lewis
4 months ago
Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun
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Fascinating to see the ties tighten between Trump and tech CEOs -- and how they influence policy, like sending troops to SF. "It deepens the sense that government works for the powerful, not for the people,” said
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Trump says tech chiefs convinced him to call off troop ‘surge’ to San Francisco
President specifically lauds Nvidia and Salesforce CEOs and says they told him ‘the future of San Francisco is great’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/trump-san-francisco-troops-silicon-valley
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glad to see silicon valley is financing the destruction of the white house 😑 list of donors includes apple, amazon, meta, microsoft and google
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Donors for Trump’s $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and Palantir
Work under way to demolish entire East Wing as president upped cost of new structure from $200m to $300m
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/trump-white-house-ballroom-donors
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Aaron Rupar
4 months ago
Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold
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Heather Knight
4 months ago
New: San Franciscans were aghast by Marc Benioff’s hard tight turn. His company, Salesforce, is seeking new contracts with ICE to help it triple its ranks under the Trump administration.
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Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/salesforce-benioff-ice.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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"As unnerving and disheartening as SF’s overt misery and drug-use and mental instability can be, that’s not the same thing as crime. Reported SF crime, which was already low, is down nearly a third... Subjectively, you may not feel safe in San Francisco. Objectively, you’ve rarely been safer."
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Dhruv Mehrotra
4 months ago
Legendary work from
@gabrielgeiger.bsky.social
. He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth. The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
https://motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/firstwap-altamides-phone-tracking-surveillance-secrets-assad-erik-prince-jared-leto-anne-wojcicki/
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Lots of attention on this Marc Benioff article, which is excellent and full of jaw-dropping quotes. It reminds me of how he was when I did a story for NPR about him secretly buying hundreds of acres of land in rural Hawaii. Things got weird.
www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1...
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We got the audio from Peter Thiel's off-the-record antichrist lectures and... my brain hurts. But please read what we wrote, it's long, weird, and has Thiel's take on everyone from Musk to Netanyahu to Mamdani. (With
@jmbooyah.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist
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Prem Thakker ツ
4 months ago
Paramount just paid $150 million for this
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Seems Sora is primed to spread misinformation. The app had no problem generating war scenes and mass shootings. One video, created with only the prompt “Charlottesville rally”, showed a Black protester in a gas mask and helmet yelling: “You will not replace us”
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OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: ‘The guardrails are not real’
Misinformation researchers say lifelike scenes could obfuscate truth and lead to fraud, bullying and intimidation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/openai-sora-violence-racism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Shana V. White (she/her)
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Evergreen
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This is a classic tactic Uber and Lyft have used when threatened by things like minimum wage laws for drivers --overlaying their apps and websites with company messaging. Shocking to see the federal government doing it now
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Bill Grueskin
4 months ago
Bari Weiss, an opinion writer, running CBS News? A real newsroom? With real reporters covering real beats? Via
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Shannon Bond
4 months ago
The White House is pinning the shutdown on Democrats, in a message blasted to agencies that's raising ethical questions. HUD & VA blame the "Radical Left"/"radical liberals." "It basically read like a campaign email," one federal worker told me. w/
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Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown
Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5558393/government-shutdown-trump-ethics-hatch-act
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YouTube is helping to pay for Trump's new Mar-a-lago style White House ballroom, according to these court filings
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24.5m to settle lawsuit over account suspension
Platform suspended the US president’s YouTube channel in 2021 after the January 6 Capitol riot
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/29/youtube-trump-lawsuit-settlement
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Kate Klonick
5 months ago
Last time he randomly attacked a CEO of a private company it was Intel and three days later they announced they were giving the US govt 10% of the company
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busy week in the white house
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Matt Novak
5 months ago
Internet sleuths on Twitter think they've identified the ICE facility shooter but they have the wrong guy, as often happens. The poor guy has even changed his bio to read "not the ICE shooter." As he replies "wrong guy," some of the accounts continue to harass him because he's a "pathetic leftist."
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