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Very much looking forward to the upcoming English release of the Tesla Files book. Thanks to whistleblower Lukasz Krupski's @lukasz-krupski.bsky.social integrity and moral courage. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/815339...
The Tesla Files by Sönke Iwesen, Michael Verfürden: 9781586424411 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A whistleblower. A 100-GB-leak of confidential internal documents. A corporation in crisis A riveting tale of journalistic enterprise, ethics, and the courage to follow the evidence where it leads T...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Big thanks to Kathy Lueders for awarding $2.9 billion to SpaceX for this. At least she got a job out of it...
There has been rumbling of SpaceX wanting to back out of Artemis for over a year now, in no small part because Starship sucks and their Human Lander plan is objectively stupid + insane.

Mars is just moving from Full Self Driving on Model 3s to Robotaxis (kicking dat can)
From our story - Musk & government officials have discussed a scenario in which SpaceX would give up its moon-focused Artemis contracts to free up funds for Mars-related projects. And the White House is looking at killing the Space Launch System rocket -

www.wsj.com/business/elo...
March 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Excellent work. doge.muskwatch.com
2. The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker, which is currently updated to reflect the latest data posted by DOGE, finds that the actual verifiable savings is 8.6 billion — 92% less than the claimed savings of $105 billion.

Follow this thread for an explanation.

doge.muskwatch.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"Amnesty", "back to democracy"...Can one be more distasteful than Musk?
March 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
“If Elon Musk comes across a conflict of interest with the contracts and the funding that DOGE is overseeing, then Elon will excuse himself from those contracts,” the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up (Gift Article)
Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Nothing a pre-emptive and retroactive pardon can't fix. We can only just hope for a real falling out with Dear Leader...
$TSLA / Enron Musk - If Only There Were Signs…

Of a near “worthless” options-fuelled racket & house of cards inflated to +$1 trillion because it provides hundreds of millions in annual illicit fees.

Has Elon committed fraud, racketeering, lite treason (Logan Act), larceny, securities manipulation?
All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor www.vox.com/politics/398...
February 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Make Grifting Great Again
“I’m brilliantly successful because I select brilliantly,” said Howard Lutnick during a 2021 video call selling investors on AEye.

Lutnick was behind a SPAC that planned to merge with AEye to take it public.

AEye shares are now nearly worthless. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
Trump’s Commerce Pick Hawked Buzzy Investments That Went Bust
Cantor Fitzgerald’s Howard Lutnick made a fortune running an empire with niches like SPACs.
www.wsj.com
December 1, 2024 at 3:43 PM