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Another year has passed, and with it, another collection of Elon Musk’s ambitious timelines that didn’t quite align with reality....
Elon Musk made many 2025 promises that he couldn't keep.
Employees ranging from senior leaders to engineers are quitting Elon Musk's companies — and often joining his rivals.
Left out of those negotiations were the Memphis City Council; the county Board of Commissioners; and TVA, whose board ultimately had to approve any requests for more than 100 MW of power.
They only learned about the deal in early June, after the deal was done, when Musk announced it with a post on X referencing Memphis’ illustrious music history: “Elvis is in the building.”
That includes the TVA board, which was planning to consider new rates for data centers, including xAI, at its May board meeting. But the board can no longer approve resolutions after President Donald Trump fired two of its members. Consideration of the data center measure has been postponed, TVA spokesperson Scott Brooks said.
“Thank you very much @elonmusk for giving me back my monetization tonight,” she wrote on X in February.
“You’re welcome,” Mr. Musk replied.
When Ms. Loomer lost her access to X Premium, she also lost the ability to earn money from her paid subscribers and from X’s revenue program, which shares ad dollars with premium users. She estimated in an interview that she lost about $50,000 from X during the period when her account was suppressed.
“I think it’s wrong to say it’s a free speech platform and then shut off people’s ability to monetize,” Ms. Loomer said.
According to a credible new report, Elon Musk has reportedly shut down an internal analysis from Tesla executives that showed...
“They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,” the former official said.
In a cabinet meeting, Elon Musk appeared to dramatically lower DOGE's savings goal.
New footage has found that Musk's xAI, is using 35 methane gas generators to power its "Colossus" supercomputer facility.
Elon Musk personally reached out to the CEO of Reddit to complain about content on the platform.
Elon Musk is doing what conspiracy theorists have long accused George Soros of: trying to establish influence over global politics and media.
The contrasting treatment of Musk and Soros reveals a fundamental truth of today’s iteration of right-wing populism: The problem was never billionaire influence itself — it was about ensuring that only a right-wing elite holds power.
Since acquiring X, formerly Twitter, in 2022, Musk has suspended journalists who reported on him, prompting accusations of silencing dissent; done away with independent fact-checking mechanisms; reinstated banned far-right accounts; amplified extremist rhetoric; and made changes to the network’s algorithms that led to the boosting of far-right conspiracy theories.
In a three-page declaration, a top White House personnel official revealed that Musk’s title is “senior adviser to the president,” a role in which he has “no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself.”
The sworn statement instead deepens the questions surrounding DOGE. Fisher confirmed that Musk is not the official administrator of the office, which was established by Trump as an office in the Executive Office of the President. But Fisher did not indicate who the administrator actually is.
After years railing against immigrants coming to America, Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to prioritize the U.S. resettlement of white South African “refugees” suffering from what he called “government-sponsored race-based discrimination.”
Trump raged in his order that South Africa’s government is seizing “ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation” and enacting “countless government policies designed to dismantle equal opportunity” in employment, education and business.”
The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's equipment at the time of Musk's assault.
Elon Musk’s DOGE henchmen are helping him make his most terrifying power grab yet.
Elon Musk has vowed to unilaterally cancel hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of government grants after apparently gaining access to review the US Treasury’s vast payments system, a move that prompted the sudden resignation of one of the department’s most senior officials.
The world’s richest man, who bankrolled Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and was tasked by the president with running the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency, boasted on his social media site X that he was “rapidly shutting down . . . illegal payments” after a list of grants to Lutheran organisations was posted online.
The threat came after Musk appeared to confirm on Saturday that DOGE had access to the Treasury system, which disperses trillions of dollars each year, including social security payments.
Andrea Stroppa, a confidant of Musk who has connected him with far-right Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, was reported by Italian media to have posted the clip of Musk with the caption: "Roman Empire is back starting from Roman salute".
The Roman salute was widely used in Italy by Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party, before later being adopted by Adolf Hitler in Germany.
Stroppa later deleted his post, Italian media said. He later posted that "that gesture, which some mistook for a Nazi salute, is simply Elon, who has autism, expressing his feelings by saying, 'I want to give my heart to you'".
yeah, a blue checkmark is whatever, but what message does that send?
"Criticize me and I'll punish you and there's nothing you can do about it"
It's way scarier that this is happening publicly because it means Elon doesn't give a shit about being seen as abusing his power or being petty, or unprofessional or any of that. If you step out of line, he'll punish you
Leaking DMs is also wild. What if Elon can read all of Asmon's DMs? He OWNS Twitter. There's 100% a backdoor for government requests to access anyone's DMs. He has the power to leak ANY of your DMs anonymously.
How in the fuck is that not FUCKING SCARY and LITERALLY censorship through intimidation?
The researchers who discovered the identity of Adrian Dittmann, the user many believed was Elon Musk, are being asked to delete more posts.