Elon Musk’s Big Government Grift: An article from 2020 on Musk’s mission ‘to get unimaginably rich by maximally gaming the government’s largesse…taking advantage of programs meant to help people who earn in a lifetime what he earns every minute.’
Politics
2025-02-11
Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies: Old news, but let’s remember Musk’s success is at least partly down to government largesse.
More Than 800K Have Lost $2B on Trump’s Meme Coin: He, of course, profited vociferously.
He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration: Curtis Yarvin.
2025-02-09
Baltic nations disconnect from Russian power grid to avoid power being used ‘as a weapon’: ‘Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania disconnected from the network in a move to block Russia’s ability to geopolitically “blackmail” them via the electricity system.’
2025-02-08: TIL: It’s illegal to sell or consume alcohol in Colombia during the days surrounding an …
2025-02-06
How Mark Zuckerberg, Once a Trump Foe, Changed His Tune on President-Elect: There was a time when he didn’t publicly admire ‘President Trump’s divisive and incendiary rhetoric’ quite so much.
2025-02-06: The Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act
2025-02-06: Zuckerberg hands over another $25 million to Trump
2025-02-05
2025-02-04
A Coup is In Progress in America: ‘The transformation happening before our eyes—from a government bound by law to one bound by personal loyalty—is precisely what generations of Americans gave their lives to prevent.’
2025-02-01
The UK is a World Leader in Stomping Peaceful Protest: There is, unfortunately, something we’re still good at.
2025-01-30
Trump’s calls with British leaders reportedly left staff crying from laughter: Maybe they were crying for other reasons too.
2025-01-29: Labour might be claiming that “growth” is their number one priority - and sure, …
2025-01-29
Dear Trans Kids, You Don’t Need the Government’s Permission to Exist: ‘In every era of US history, queer folks have carved out their spaces despite criminalization, discrimination, and violence.’
2025-01-28: Never let it be said that no tech billionaire has ever had a valid and accurate thought. Bill Gates …
2025-01-26: Spotify joins the inauspicious ranks of companies that funded Trump's inauguration
2025-01-26: We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and …
2025-01-25
Far-right pundit Matt Walsh rails against women in law enforcement: ‘It’s an absurdity!’: Matt Walsh is an absurdity.
2025-01-25: A perhaps surprising fact courtesy of a report on Labour’s desire to cut down the admittedly …
2025-01-24: Trumpian legislation via LLMs (we should be so lucky)
2025-01-24
Advocates ‘deeply worried’ as Trump’s justice department halts new civil rights cases: One among many other extraordinarily worrying actions from the new president.
2025-01-23: So Nigel Farage is “reticent” about some of Elon Musk’s opinions. Former Breitbart …
2025-01-23
A rotten Apple: Tim Cook’s betrayal of LGBTQ+ rights: Never love a corporation part 9999.
2025-01-21: There’s a way in which nothing is new under the sun. No matter how appalling it seems. …