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A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

Holy. Shit. They're literally saying Trump's felonies aren't that bad compared to the "real felonies". Bear in mind, they're ignoring J6 and "gimme 12000 votes" call and the stolen docs. We joke, but this is literally Newsmax copy.

My latest Georgia Power bill just reminded me that everyone they service is paying higher rates to protect shareholder gains because the all-Republican board of "regulators" voted unanimously multiple times to approve one hike after another. www.ajc.com/news/psc-rai...

PSC raises Georgia Power rates, passing most Plant Vogtle expansion costs on to customerswww.ajc.com State regulators voted Tuesday to pass most of the tab for Plant Vogtle’s two new nuclear reactors on to Georgia Power customers, providing a final answer to the question of who would pay for the proj...

If you're still on good terms with Trump-supporting family or friends, what are you waiting for to happen before you'll impose a social cost by cutting them out of your life? Are you going to brush human soot off your sleeve on your way to Thanksgiving, if it comes to that?

Yeah! New @lorak.bsky.social just dropped! Always worth a read. www.cnbc.com/2024/06/21/t...

Tesla has downsized by at least 14% this year after Elon Musk said layoffs would exceed 10%www.cnbc.com Tesla internal records viewed by CNBC suggest that the company employs just over 121,000 people, including temps.

Everything fucked up about "Max" thanks to David Zaslav in one email subject line: "This week: dragons, elves, and lots of home reno."

Really good video of @lorak.bsky.social following up on her reporting about the Nvidia chips www.cnbc.com/video/2024/0...

Elon Musk told Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAIwww.cnbc.com CNBC’s Lora Kolodny joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss Elon Musk telling Nvidia to prioritize shipments of processors to X and xAI ahead of Tesla.

"…before the supes start rounding us up and dumping us off in camps." I wouldn't want this from all my entertainment, but goddamn I love the way THE BOYS steers straight into the present moment as hard and head-on as possible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzFX...

The Boys – Season 4 Official Trailer | Prime Videowww.youtube.com In Season Four, the world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidat...

Guess it's time to break this out in an open tab for the rest of the season. www.nhc.noaa.gov

National Hurricane Centerwww.nhc.noaa.gov

In great personal news, my new Echelon Eclipse messenger bag from Life Behind Bars just arrived!

@lorak.bsky.social You got some nice shout-outs from @zitron.bsky.social in his latest Better Offline podcast where he interviews @niedermeyer.io! www.iheart.com/podcast/139-...

Enron Musk Ft. Ed Niedermeyer - Better Offline | iHeartwww.iheart.com <p>On April 26 2024, the NHTSA, the government body responsible for keeping roads safe, found Tesla's Autopilot and Full-Self-Driving software created a 'critical safety gap' with drivers, killing and...

And yet the news out of China jacked the stock up 20 this morning smdh www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Multiple civil cases — and a federal investigation — contend that Tesla’s technology invites "drivers to overly trust the automation." At least eight lawsuits headed to trial involve fatal or serious crashes that occurred when drivers were allegedly relying on the driving assistance technology.

Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crasheswww.washingtonpost.com Evidence emerging in the Tesla Autopilot cases — including dash-cam video obtained by The Washington Post — offers sometimes-shocking details.

Here's a good podcast follow-up to the Bloomberg article cited here by @paleofuture.bsky.social, featuring further remarks by the authors. omny.fm/shows/elon-i...

“On Tuesday, Tesla is expected to report a 40% plunge in operating profit and its first revenue decline in four years.”

Elon Musk’s Robotaxi Dreams Plunge Tesla Into Chaosfinance.yahoo.com (Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk’s underlings at Tesla Inc. are accustomed to chaos. It comes with the territory of working for a chief executive who sets exacting targets and often abruptly switches directio...

The Most Important Earnings of Elon's Life? - Elon, Inc.omny.fm This week David, Dana and Max are joined by Bloomberg Technology co-host Ed Ludlow to take a deep dive into all things Tesla, in advance of today’s fateful earnings report. Things are looking increasi...

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Joe Biden's pro-labor NLRB has been crucial to the ongoing rehabilitation of American organized labor, & it will not survive his defeat. If you need one reason to vote for him in November, let it be this

“The victory will make the Chattanooga factory the first auto plant in the South to unionize via election since the 1940s and the first foreign-owned auto plant in the South to do so.” www.reuters.com/business/aut...

UAW clinches watershed union victory at Volkswagen Tennessee factorywww.reuters.com Workers at Volkswagen's Tennessee plant have voted to join the United Auto Workers, an unofficial tally showed on Friday in a seismic victory for the union as it drives into the U.S. South and West.

Unbelievable. This is an actual immediate crash hazard, and Tesla's response is that it "will replace or repair the accelerator pedal assembly at no charge and owners will be notified through letters mailed to them in June." *LETTERS MAILED TO THEM IN JUNE* finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-r...

Tesla to recall 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal, NHTSA saysfinance.yahoo.com A trapped accelerator pedal could cause the vehicle to accelerate unintentionally, increasing the risk of a crash, the auto safety regulator said in a notice. Tesla started deliveries of its Cybertru...

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Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platformwww.nbcnews.com The move came after a Hyundai ad appeared next to antisemitic posts from a user who has posted pro-Hitler content.

I think Bloomberg's Elon, Inc. podcast is a pretty good check on one's objectivity about Musk. I really get the sense that, like Walter Isaacson, they would prefer to be more hagiographic, but circumstances force them to run with headlines like, "Tesla Can't Stop Losing." omny.fm/shows/elon-i...

Tesla Can't Stop Losing - Elon, Inc.omny.fm For the past week, Tesla has been in the news—badly. Tesla announced the largest company-wide terminations in its history—laying off 10% of its global workforce, or thousands of people. At the same ti...

I'm sure this will go as well as every other change he's made to the platform. futurism.com/the-byte/elo...

Elon Musk's Brilliant New Idea: Charge an Annual "Fee" to Post on Twitterfuturism.com In a supposed scheme to combat bot spam, Elon Musk has confirmed that he wants new users to pay a monthly fee to post on X, formerly Twitter.

lmao futurism.com/the-byte/tru...

Trump's "Truth Social" Announced a Hot New Product to Try to Turn Things Around, But Its Stock Kept Nosedivingfuturism.com Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology announced that it's looking to launch a live TV streaming platform. Investors are not impressed.

Oof! Tesla is off to a rough day at the dog track! We may see a new 52-week low.

We may be about to find out!

Is Elon in big trouble if Tesla drops below $160 a share?

Musk Robotaxi Pump Tries to Mask Reuters' Scoop on Tesla's $25K Model Being Scrappedbradmunchen.substack.com Tesla's stock rose by 3.8% in the after hours; This move by Musk appears like extreme desperation, and if true, Tesla has no new models for a while

"No other interview about a tech giant has made me cry." One of the most despicable things about Elon Musk is the way he treats workers, including the high-level real experts to whom he owes his success. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tesla whistleblower in legal battle over braking-safety concernswww.bbc.com A former Tesla engineer is in a decade-long battle with the car company, owned by Elon Musk.

"Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk" I know we all know this, but @davidingram.bsky.social and @lorak.bsky.social really bring receipts here. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Muskwww.nbcnews.com An NBC News review identified 150 verified "Premium" accounts that have posted or amplified pro-Nazi content.

"It got to the point where we felt like we were driving around in a QAnon-MAGA hat, as if Tesla had become a symbol of white supremacy," one driver said last year of what drove her to sell her Tesla. finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...

Elon Musk Fires More Than Ten Percent of Tesla's Staff After Alienating Pretty Much Everyone Who Might Have Bought a Teslafinance.yahoo.com Mass Firing The electric carmaker Tesla is laying off more than ten percent of its global workforce, multiple outlets report. Per Electrek, the mass firings were confirmed in a leaked internal memo to...

Nobody is getting innocently swindled by this. Everyone throwing money into this pit followed their racism and other bigotries to get there. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapsewww.washingtonpost.com Trump Media shareholders have voiced doubt and fury over the company’s plunging price. Some said they had invested thousands to show Trump their faith and support.

Another Musk company, Boring, with another massive screw up, endangering the public in Las Vegas. A third-party engineering firm had to be called in to assess the damage and a construction company to fix it. finance.yahoo.com/news/workers...

Workers at Elon Musk’s Boring Co. accidentally dug too close to a supporting column of the Las Vegas monorail last year, forcing officials to briefly halt servicefinance.yahoo.com The structural safety of Las Vegas' elevated monorail was cited in violation notices last year, after Boring Company workers accidentally exposed the base of two pillars while digging a tunnel to the ...

By every indication, this culture is actually rampant across all of Musk's companies www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Toxic Culture at Teslawww.thenation.com The factory floors at America’s top seller of electric vehicles are rife with racial harassment, sexual abuse, and injuries on the job.

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Re-regulating the airlines is a thing where a candidate could say “Remember how good things used to be? We can bring that back,” and it will be actually true and not some Klan dog whistle.

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Damn, this ad. Just … damn. Look.

Willow's Box | Biden-Harris 2024www.youtube.com This is a painful story that so many families around America now know too well: Amanda was denied the medical care she needed, and it nearly took her life. More than 1 in 3 women in America now live under an abortion ban, with more on the way. Donald Trump did this. ________ Follow Joe! Joe’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/joebiden Joe’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joebiden Joe’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joebiden Joe’s Threads: https://www.threads.net/@joebiden #JoeBiden #BidenHarris2024

This motherfucker

refreshingly brutal www.cnbc.com/video/2024/0...

Barry Diller on Truth Social: It's a scamwww.cnbc.com Barry Diller, IAC chairman and senior executive & Expedia chairman and senior executive, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss Disney's proxy fight win over activist investor Nelson Peltz, Paramount's merger ...