Tagged: elon musk
Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
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2 weeks ago
llustration credit: (Illustration by Anna Lefkowitz/The Washington Post; Alex Brandon/AP; iStock) Important Related Article: Inflation, looming trade war take a toll as confidence of the...
No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits
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News & Politics
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3 weeks ago
So... the other day, I said that Musk's claim that Social Security was paying benefits to 150-year-olds was due to a COBOL date-management glitch. NT's Usual Suspect Fascists jumped on...
Elon Musk Amplifies Baseless Conspiracy Theory in Pelosi Attack
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3 years ago
Just days after promising advertisers that Twitter would not be a "free-for-all," the new owner promoted a right-wing rumor about the vicious hammer assault on Paul Pelosi.
Twitter faces the ‘nightmare’ of being forced into free speech
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3 years ago
Free speech is anathema and public enemy #1 to the bi coastal secular progressive urban elites. They love using gatekeepers so that media, traditional and social can silence the middle and working...
Elon Musk trying marijuana isn't shocking, but our hypocritical response to it should be
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7 years ago
Elon Musk may be in trouble, but it has nothing to do with the relatively young CEO taking a puff of marijuana on camera, as many have been led to believe. Tesla’s stocks tumbled 6 percent...
Elon Musk Wants Giant SpaceX Spaceship to Fly People to Mars by 2024
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Health, Science & Technology
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8 years ago
SpaceX aims to launch its first cargo mission to Mars in 2022 and send people toward the Red Planet just two years after that. Those are just two of the highlights of the company's current...
Business Insider: "Elon Musk just threatened to leave Trump's advisory councils if the US withdraws from the Paris climate deal"
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8 years ago
Elon Musk and Donald Trump. AP/ Evan Vucci Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he would leave President Donald Trump's advisory councils if the US withdrew from the Paris Agreement. Trump is...
A record number of U.S. billionaires are immigrants
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8 years ago
Elon Musk, chief executive officer for SpaceX, is the 5th richest immigrant in the United States with a net worth estimated at $11.6 billion. (Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg) A friend of mine...