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Lunar landers and 'Transporter' tankers: Blue Origin unveils its blueprint for the moon
While Musk and Starship explode, Bezos self-funds Moon ships. New Glenn heavy booster has put first payload into orbit. Blue Origin can quietly come from behind in Space Race 2.0.
@books @bookstodon @religion #ChristianSciFi #ProfessorK #amwritingsf #secretscifinetwork #sciencefiction #space #BlueOrigin #SpaceX #Musk #Bezos
#WompWomp #TeslaTakedown
Pressure works
" #Tesla sales across Eur plummeted by almost 50% last mo. as broader market for EV saw growth in region..
Sales of Tesla vehicles in 32 European countries tumbled 49% to 7,261 in April from 14,228 in the same month the previous year..sales of battery-elec vehicles by all manuf's rose 28%..
..latest indication of how much Tesla brand is suffering bc of 👉🏼backlash against billionaire CEO #Musk over his far-right views"👈🏼
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-sales-europe-plunge-backlash-protests-elon-musk/
Much as I'm enjoying the Schadenfreude of the Trump/Musk feud along with everyone else, I'm also starting to think the degree we focus on things like this is part of the problem. Politics is not supposed to be just about celebrity personalities. It's supposed to be about policies and representing all the people. We can't get better if we keep getting high off the dopamine supply of news like this. We have to choose to pay attention differently.
[When a court enjoins someone, it means that the court is telling that person to stop doing something]
Keep 'em coming
ADDED, via Joyce Vance:
In what is shaping up to be a huge day for democracy in the lower federal courts, at least, Judge Chutkan rules that the case against DOGE can proceed.
Via Kyle Cheney:
JUST IN: Judge Chutkan allows lawsuit seeking to enjoin Elon #Musk and DOGE's operations to proceed. https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0429-93
Wrecking ball whiner bewildered at response by those he wrecked. #TeslaTakedown #WompWomp #Musk
Carl Quintanilla:
“.. He also expressed dismay over the reputational hit his companies took: ‘People were burning Teslas. Why would you do that? That’s really uncool.’”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/27/elon-musk-spacex-starship-doge/
Disillusioned & distanced from #Trump, #Musk says he’s exiting Washington & made clear he is frustrated w/obstacles he encountered as he tried to upend the #FederalGovernment🎻
Musk dissed Trump’s signature domestic policy, saying it would add to the #deficit. He complained about a lucrative deal that went to a rival co to build an #AI #DataCenter in the #MiddleEast. And he has yet to make good on a $100M pledge to Trump’s political operation.
#BooMutherFuckinHoo #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=94709C91-3556-4635-8095-65DC81177EF3
And tragically predictable.
#ProLifeMyAss, Trump, Vought, Musk
Joyce White Vance:
Even if #Trump is forced to renew funding & restaff Natl Weather Service & NOAA as a result of the Texas floods (a big if) we now live in a world with #Musk’s irrational #Project2025-based cuts in place. People will have to die before cuts are restored. Blue states may be out of luck.
#Musk Spread #Lies to Justify #DOGE Takeover of #SocialSecurity
#ElonMusk stood before a giant American flag at a Wisconsin rally in March & rolled out an eye-popping allegation of rampant fraud at the #SocialSecurityAdministration. Scammers, he said, were making 40% of all calls to the agency’s customer service line.
#SSA employees knew the claim had no basis in fact. After journalists followed up, staff began drafting a response correcting the record.
#Trump #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8.DsQY.bU9UxVr8hOIf&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies.
The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-governor-greg-abbott-elon-musk-emails-foia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #ElonMusk #Musk #Email #Journalism #FOIA #GregAbbott
⛔️⚠️Billionaire South African A Major US Security Risk: Musk given top-secret access and now has all American’s personal data may defect to Russia (more)
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-party-asks-asylum-for-musk/ #Ukraine #Mastodon #BoycottTesla #BoycottMusk #Musk #ElonMusk #Mastodon #Tesla #X #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine
#SpaceX to invest $2B in #Musk #xAI
SpaceX has committed $2B to xAI as part of a $5B equity round, deepening the ties between #tech billionaire Elon Musk's ventures as his #AI startup races to compete w/ #OpenAI, the WSJ reported on Sat.
The investment follows xAI's merger with #X & values the combined company at $113B, with the #Grok #chatbot now powering #Starlink support & eyed for future integration into #Tesla's #Optimus #robots, the report added.
#MechaHitler
https://www.reuters.com/science/spacex-invest-2-billion-musks-xai-startup-wsj-reports-2025-07-12/
Exclusive: Tesla's #BrandLoyalty collapsed after #Musk backed #Trump, data shows
Tesla for years had more repeat US customers than any other major automotive brand but its loyalty has plunged since #ElonMusk endorsed Trump last summer, acc/to data from research firm S&P Global Mobility shared exclusively w/Reuters.
#BadBusiness #business
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-brand-loyalty-collapsed-after-musk-backed-trump-data-shows-2025-08-04/
"Big Balls" went Bye Bye
"The technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon #Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency who's gone by the name "Big Balls" online, has resigned" https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-coristine-doge-resigned-us-government/
Musk playing entrepreneur with government subsidies....
"Meanwhile, accounts for the first quarter of this year show Tesla earned $595m from regulatory credits - almost 50% more than its net earnings of $409m - suggesting that without the subsidy Tesla would be operating in the red."
https://news.sky.com/story/elons-playing-a-very-dangerous-game-how-trump-musk-fallout-threatens-tesla-13397588
#tesla #musk #trump
👋🏼
Omead Afshar, a powerful executive at #Tesla and one of Elon #Musk’s closest confidants, has left the company
#TeslaTakedown
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-26/musk-confidant-afshar-exits-tesla-in-latest-high-level-departure
" #Tesla failed to persuade fed judge to end a lawsuit over death of a woman struck after Autopilot-equipped Model S ran off the road in Fla, paving way for poss trial
.. estate of Naibel Benavides Leon, and her former boyfriend Dillon Angulomay pursue design defect & failure to warn claims against #Musk automaker & seek punitive damages" https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/tesla-fails-end-florida-lawsuit-over-fatal-model-s-crash-2025-06-27/
We all suspected it, now it’s confirmed.
#Musk ordered shutdown of #Starlink satellite service as #Ukraine retook territory from #Russia
A previously unreported order by #ElonMusk to cut satellite #communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order & its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.
#power #corruption #oligarchy
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/
For months, #ElonMusk’s U.S. #DOGE Service plumbed the federal government’s information systems, scouring arcane internal records that the billionaire said were guiding his hunt for waste. Now that #Musk has stepped away from his government role, some of that data could be valuable in another way — by giving the world’s richest man a competitive advantage over his rivals in the private sector.
#Trump #law #corruption #broligarchy
https://wapo.st/44yQIS6
Elon Musk’s lobbyists spent tens of thousands of dollars on things like gifts and meals for Texas elected officials this year.
But, in most cases, state transparency laws do not require them to disclose which elected officials they wine and dine.
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-texas-lobbyists-influence-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ElonMusk #Texas #Law #SpaceX #Tesla #Government #Business #Musk
Tesla has stopped paying some suppliers and others.
"Tesla (TSLA) is not paying its bills and it is destroying small American businesses"
"In Texas, contractors have filed liens for more than $110 million against Tesla in the last five years"
This is Americas future.
The growth of Trumpism.
Contractors and small businesses who supported trump, what are you going to do? Vote them out?
https://electrek.co/2025/08/01/tesla-tsla-is-not-paying-bills-destroying-small-american-businesses/