#ElonMusk was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, & raised in a #wealthy family under the country's #racist apartheid laws. #Musk's family history reveals ties to #apartheid & neo-#Nazi politics. #DemocracyNow speaks w/Chris McGreal, reporter for The Guardian, to understand how Musk's upbringing shaped his worldview, as well as that of his South African-raised colleague #PeterThiel, a right-wing #billionaire who co-founded PayPal alongside Musk.
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3. It gives praise to entities that don't deserve it just because they are "European". Point in case: the certainly well-intentioned @goeuropean project, which recommends (among many very ethical companies) some really terrible "European alternatives", e.g.:
* #Volkswagen, #Audi, that built cheat software into their cars to make them look cleaner
* #Inditex, #Zalando, some of the worst #fastfashion polluters
* #RedBull, the drinks company owned by an Austrian far-right #billionaire
Exclusive: Interim SEC chief cast sole vote against suing #Musk
Days before #Republicans took the helm of the #SEC in Jan, the agency's 5 commissioners held a closed-door vote on whether to sue #ElonMusk.
Since 2022, the agency had been investigating whether the #billionaire, a close ally of #Trump, had violated #securities laws by disclosing too late his purchase of shares of #Twitter, now known as #X, prior to acquiring the company that year.
#law #USpol #DualState
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/interim-sec-chief-cast-sole-vote-against-suing-musk-2025-03-24/
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It would also bring into sharp relief the questions about #Musk’s #ConflictsOfInterest as he ranges widely across the federal bureaucracy while continuing to run businesses that are major government contractors. In this case, Musk, the #billionaire chief executive of both #SpaceX & #Tesla, is a leading supplier to the #Pentagon & has EXTENSIVE FINANCIAL INTERESTS IN #CHINA.
The #Trump admin is appealing a judge’s order requiring #ElonMusk & #DOGE to comply w/evidence demands from Democratic state ofcls who claim the #billionaire is exercising #unconstitutional #power across the US govt.
The #DOJ is arguing the lower court judge’s “unusual & highly invasive” order “raises grievous separation-of-powers concerns” by requiring a presidential adviser & the WH to turn over info about their activities….
#law #USpol #transparency #TrumpPurge
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-19/trump-administration-fights-order-to-turn-over-doge-information
"nine of the top ten #online shows are right-leaning...
right-leaning online shows have amassed nearly 481 million #followers across platforms — almost five times more than the 104 million followers for left-leaning shows...
the result of a deliberate, well-funded #strategy to colonize the digital #media landscape with #conservative voices...
right-wing personalities are frequently backed by #billionaire money"
https://www.readtpa.com/p/media-matters-report-on-conservative
#Boycott #AirBnB = #DOGE #billionaire co-conspirator #joegebbia. Fight the #regime with your actions, where you spend your hard earned money. Keep your #values. Do not support any #maga companies, products, services,. #Choice matters #FreeAmerica
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Cancel the Washington Post, dont link.
"America is now the most unequal society in the developed world. Our billionaires are the richest, and our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth."
But are we now a functioning democracy?
hartmannreport.comAmerica’s Sickest Reality Show: Crowdfunding Cancer Care While Billionaires Hoard BillionsWTF, America?! The country where kids with birth defects must beg for help…
Inside the Explosive Meeting Where #Trump Officials Clashed With #ElonMusk
Simmering anger at the #billionaire’s unchecked #power spilled out in a remarkable #Cabinet Room meeting. Trump quickly moved to [appear to] rein in #Musk.
#DOGE #USpol #law #government #regulation #CivilServants #CivilService #PublicService #Technocracy #broligarchy #plutocracy #NeoReactionary #NRx #Technofeudalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-power.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2E4.ATOK.IAuKFCoOgNFl&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The New York Times · Rubio and Trump Officials Clash With Elon Musk in an Explosive Meeting
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#DOGE has sought access to a powerful database of nearly all US workers’ earnings kept by the #health dept’s #ChildSupport office, setting off another disagreement w/career staff over demands for legally #protected records, acc/to 4 people familiar w/the matter.
Over the last several weeks, #billionaire #ElonMusk’s team has clashed w/ #CivilServants over attempts to #access privileged #information or systems kept by the #Treasury Dept, #IRS & #SocialSecurity, among other agencies.
Exclusive: Judges face rise in #threats as #Musk blasts them over rulings
#USMarshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as tech #billionaire #ElonMusk & other #Trump admin allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts to slash federal jobs & programs, said several judges with knowledge of the warnings.
#law #JudicialIndependence #judiciary #PoliticalViolence #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/judges-face-rise-threats-musk-blasts-them-over-rulings-2025-03-05/
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…Among the marquee websites that #18F employees helped build or revamp are the #IRS’s free tax filing service known as #DirectFile & the National Weather Service’s page, weather.gov.
But since #Trump returned to the Oval Office, 18F has also been targeted by #ElonMusk, the #tech #billionaire whom Trump tasked w/cutting back the government. #Musk wrote last month in a post on his social media platform, X, that “that group has been deleted.”
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Vulture Capitalism Comes for #Democracy
The playbook #Trump & Musk are following to dismantle govt resembles the one used to pick apart America’s newspapers.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/vulture-capitalism-comes-for-democracy
"Trump & #ElonMusk... are taking their chainsaws to the federal #government. Waiting in the wings are Trump’s #billionaire buddies—including 13 in his administration—who are salivating at the prospect of govt agencies being privatized"
How #ElonMusk Executed His #Takeover #coup of the Federal Bureaucracy #government The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the #billionaire who channeled his resentment of #regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies. This is all about him destroying the agencies that were litigating with him and his companies #cars # SpaceX #crypto #transportation #SEC #DOT #courts #regulations #IRS #CFPB #FAA #executiveorders #firing #Dismantaling https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html
The New York Times · How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
Legendary #WashingtonPost Editor, #MartyBaron, Slams #Bezos for ‘Betraying’ Paper with #MAGA Makeover
Fmr WaPo executive editor Marty Baron condemned #JeffBezos’ revamp of the paper’s #opinions section in a statement to the Daily Beast, saying he was “sad & disgusted” by the #billionaire’s demands.
#FourthEstate #journalism #media #FreePress #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #ViewPointDiscrimination #Trump #law #USpol
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-wapo-editor-marty-baron-sad-and-disgusted-at-bezos-opinions-overhaul/
The Daily Beast · Legendary Washington Post Editor Slams Bezos for ‘Betraying’ Paper with MAGA Makeover
Canadians are signing a petition to revoke the Canadian citzenship of Elon Musk https://thehill.com/policy/international/5161428-elon-musk-canadian-citizenship-revocation-petition/ #billionaire #coup #canada #musk
That’s it: #Bezos has now taken personal control over WaPo’s #editorial position. I’m out. Cancelled my #WaPo sub, which I’ve had for about five years now.
The #LATimes is next on the block. It’s the only major Southern California paper in existence at this point, but no news may indeed be preferable to fucked-up, #fascism-serving, #billionaire-hugging alternative “news”.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/business/media/washington-post-bezos-shipley.html
The New York Times · Bezos’ Directive for Washington Post Opinion Pages Leads to Editor David Shipley’s Exit
> 20 #civilservice #employees #resigned Feb 25 from #billionaire #Trump adviser #Musk #DOGE saying they were refusing 2 use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve #American people and uphold our oath to the #Constitution across #presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by AP. “ However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.” https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c