This is going to be a slow burn story that gets people more and more angry the more they hear about it. Some asshole billionaires are blowing holes in the Moon, a thing everyone loves.
Aaron Greenspan
@aarongreenspan.com
"Fueled by a litany of largely unintelligible and random grievances" —Elon Musk's Lawyers "Écrasez l'infâme" —Voltaire http://www.aarongreenspan.com
in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon
Meanwhile, in the Most Financial Media Is Absolute Trash department, does anyone else remember when the cool phrase was "Magnificent Seven"? Well, we seem to have lost three "magnificent" stocks somewhere along the way. Don't worry, there's a new (old) phrase they want you to use instead now.
It is mildly interesting that SPCX rushed to file their 10-Q today, which starts the two day clock for the first (~900 million share) lockup expiration.
Here's the Max Miller TRO motion from Cuyahoga County, Ohio, filed by @markzaidesq.bsky.social: www.plainsite.org/courts/cuyah...
PlainSite :: STEPHANIE A. GRISHAM v. MAX L. MILLER, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Case No. CV-26-142184 Document 23: MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER...P1 STEPHANIE GRISHA
$MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER...P1 STEPHANIE GRISHAM. PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION (P1)
plainsite.org
lol The Lawyers Are The Problem.®
Ben Penn@benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 22h agoScoop: FBI Director Kash Patel wants to shrink his general counsel's office, as tensions escalate with bureau's chief legal adviser. OGC is pushing early retirement to reduce staff, but has contemplated terminations. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Do you think the laid-off, newly homeless, destitute, and divorced bank analysts will beg for our forgiveness and say they just didn't realize what they were doing when it all comes crashing down?
Let me get this straight. Joe Schmoe small-town lawyer can't represent me if he represents my neighbor across the street because of "legal ethics," but the nominal President of the United States can have his personal lawyer be Attorney General of the entire country? The Lawyers Are The Problem.®
May 28th “The U.S. and Iran have the makings of a deal” June 12th “A U.S. Iran deal could be as soon as this weekend or Monday” -Scott Bessent And -Scott Bessent (This time is different tho)
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Jail. Jail for all the DOGE people. We cannot let this moral hazard and unpunished criminality persist.
Revolving Door Project@revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 2d agoAntonio Gracias, a private equity investor and former top DOGE leader, is now closely involved in Elon Musk's AI ventures.
The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.
they even do it 5 hours after the closing bell
Tillis and Cornyn’s acceptance of a loophole-filled deal with Trump and Blanche reminds us that every prominent Republican politician who has stuck with Trump over the last decade is a traitor.
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity (Gift Article)
The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.
nytimes.com
Reuters decided to write an article about stupid spawn’s shitty Bitcoin company that fails to mention it did a reverse 1 for 15 split a month ago to avoid delisting and is really trading for 36 cents a share Solid reporting 🙄
Reuters@reuters.com · 2d agoTrump brothers-backed American Bitcoin swings to second-quarter loss reut.rs/4wAMTIy
I have seen no reporting at all about the systemic, strategic targeting of Russia's Amazon by Ukraine. It's unlikely well-off Russians can ignore what's happening in their country when they can't get anything delivered.
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 2d ago🤩 Wildberries in Vladimir region!
when you send me vaguely lawyerly-sounding emails in hopes of threatening me to take down my reporting, and demand i "preserve all potentially relevant records, including ... search-engine submissions"
Just learned that the DOT is scheming to fuck over consumers by letting airlines make it harder to see real prices. Thankfully the comment period was extended. Go make it very clear to those corrupt fuckers that we won't tolerate a conspiracy to lie to us. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Enhancing Flexibility of Air Fare Price Advertising
The U.S. Department of Transportation (Department or DOT) is extending the comment end date for interested persons to submit comments to its proposed rule on Enhancing Flexibility of Air Fare Price Advertising from July 31, 2026, to August 21, 2026.
federalregister.gov
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.
reut.rs
America will be a superloser until Trump is removed from office.
Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 4d agoThat's what I mean by superloser. That you start from a position of superpower, but you have very specific loser talents in order to crash it.
Of course, they insist that they *need* to wear masks when they're shooting people in the street.
hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d agoBernie Moreno : this guy made us wear masks People : your daughter and granddaughter were assaulted by your son in law, a sitting congressman Bernie Moreno : MASKS
VERY BIG TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝 ☠️ At least 3 people have died and 17 injured in an explosion in Moscow, 🔝 SBU strikes 3 refineries in Bashkortostan and 4 Russian radar stations in Krasnodar Krai 🔥 Zugres, Donetsk region, attack UAVs hit Zuyiv TPP. 🤬 Massive overnight Russian attack on Russia 1/6
This week’s Rant! looks at a potential court battle that (hopefully!) will guide us on how to counter adversarial information operations. In the clash between democracy and autocracy, the info space is a battleground and words are weapons. open.substack.com/pub/alexzfin...
France Moves to Expel a Russian Propagandist
Will the move set up a court battle to test the line between freedom of expression and protection of the constitutional order?
open.substack.com
The GOP has been preaching “meritocracy” but the only thing that merits inclusion is blind loyalty to Trump, which has led to recruits being fucking idiots.
E.J. Fagan@ejfagan.com · 4d agoSenior Republican congressional staffer on trying to recruit new policy experts: “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”
For years, I have, and my peers & competitors have, reported about Musk co. employees' civil rights violations, Musk being found to have engaged in union-busting, his bashing trans people, endorsing AfD & so much more. It's not new - but I'm glad it's being discussed bluntly by famous columnists now
All In with Chris Hayes@allinwithchris.bsky.social · 6d ago“The world's richest man is also one of the world's most vociferous and vocal bigots," says Chris Hayes.