Democracy Docket:
NEW: A #Nevada judge dismissed a right-wing lawsuit filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation that challenged voter rolls in Washoe County, ruling that the conservative organization lacked standing. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/right-wing-challenge-to-nevada-county-voter-rolls-dismissed/
ICYMI #WompWomp
“Fed judge in Rhode Island formally blocked #Trump Admin's spending freeze, saying funding freeze is likely a violation of Constitution.
"..Defendants shall not pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate Defendants’ compliance w awards & obligations to provide fed financial assistance to the States, & shall not impede States’ access to such awards & obligations, except on basis of applicable authorizing statutes, regulations, and terms”
https://abcnews.link/i2zEdf6
#WompWomp
“Fed judge indefinitely blocked #Trump’s effort to curb birthright citizenship for undoc immigrants & temp foreign visitors, a decision that is likely to mean the exec order will not take effect.
U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman issued a preliminary injunction after.. lawsuit brought by civil rights groups aiming at stopping Trump’s order on the grounds that it violates the citizenship clause of the 14th A” https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/02/05/birthright-citizenship-injunction-trump-immigration/
👉🏼👉🏼”A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that the swing state’s nonpartisan top elections official, who has been targeted for removal by Republican lawmakers over the 2020 presidential election, can remain in her post despite not being reappointed and confirmed by the state Senate“
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-meagan-wolfe-49e24127cb793d3b6981d0e3a7f0fdee?taid=67a61a6888e6430001b66ebc
I can't get enough of this. #WompWomp
Via NewsEye on Bsky (👉🏼ADDED: NewsEye posted this, who I **copied/pasted from**.. don't @ me about their flag error):
🚨TESLA SALES CRASH AGAIN
Disastrous sales figures reported for February 2025. These are the drops in key countries:
🇩🇪Germany - 76%🔻
🇦🇺Australia - 66%🔻
🇮🇹Italy - 55%🔻
🇵🇹Portugal - 53%🔻
🇨🇳China - 49%🔻
🇰🇵Norway - 48%🔻
🇩🇰Denmark - 48%🔻
🇫🇷France - 45%🔻
🇸🇪Sweden - 42%🔻
Via Kyle Griffin:
George #Santos sentenced to 87 months in prison for fraud and identity theft, plus...ordered to pay $373,749.97 in restitution.
“ #Tesla says profits sank 71% in first quarter, with politics and Trump's tariffs as factors
Revenue at the electric carmaker fell in the first three months of 2025 from a year earlier, as Tesla faces backlash tied to CEO #Musk 's politics”
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/tesla-earnings-q1-musk-trump-administation-what-next-rcna202409
KEEP 'EM COMING. 1/...
(And guess who dissented🙄) #SCOTUS
Mark Joseph Stern:
#BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25944899-24a1007-order/
#Tesla Sales Tank in Another Country as Musk Backlash Spirals
"The automaker’s sales were down—and a Chinese supplier’s sales are soaring...
Sweden has become the latest country to sour on Tesla, with new data revealing a dramatic drop in sales—part of a broader backlash linked to CEO Elon #Musk ’s increasingly erratic behavior."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tesla-sales-tank-in-sweden-as-furious-musk-backlash-spirals/
Via Carl Quintanilla:
“.. The average price of a used #Tesla has moved down to a record low of $28,662. That's 58% below the peak price from July 2022.”
#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/
#WompWomp Keep ‘em coming
Kyle Cheney:
JUST IN: The DC Circuit has turned down Steve #Bannon's request to consider vacating his contempt of Congress conviction for defying the #Jan6 select committee's subpoena.
Three judges (Henderson, Rao, Walker) would have taken it up.
https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2025/05/22-3086-2117623.pdf
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/
GUILTY. Again. #WompWomp
“Harvey Weinstein found guilty in New York sex crimes retrial”
"Overflow"
"#Tesla is sitting on so much inventory it has to take over parking lots all over the US
Over the last few weeks, there have been increased reports of Tesla vehicles spotted in parking lots not directly linked to Tesla retail, delivery, or service locations." https://electrek.co/2025/06/17/tesla-tsla-inventory-overflow-parking-lots-all-over-us/
“ #Tesla Inc.’s global sales tumbled for the second quarter in a row, leaving the carmaker in a deep hole to dig out from to avoid consecutive annual declines”
#Cybertruck sales are so low volume that #Tesla doesn't break them out separately in its sales figures https://bloom.bg/3ZX8fBW
