Twitter Owns Elon Musk
Elon Musk is buying Twitter for $44 billion. But he’s spent years producing value for the company as a humble content creator.
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We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
Even the “Good” Billionaires Are Bad
Liberals and right-wingers have the same love-hate relationship with billionaires: both love the ones on their side of the partisan divide and hate those on the opposite side.
Trump Gives Pentagon $1 Trillion as Medicaid Cuts Loom
The Trump administration wants to slash health care under the guise of “government efficiency.” In case you wondered how sincere that rationale is, they also want to funnel unprecedented sums to a military that can’t even pass an audit.
Trump’s Cuts Are Unmaking American Greatness
Many of the programs Donald Trump and Elon Musk are slashing are great collective achievements of American society. Those programs show our incredible capacity to achieve a better country and world together.
Elon Musk Saves the World?
Tesla's new Powerwall battery offers an individual solution to the collective problem of climate change.
Musk Looks to the Motherland
The billionaire is fueling a global panic about the fate of white South Africans and misrepresenting the real problems that plague his home country.
Federal Workers Are Mobilizing Against Musk’s Purge
Donald Trump and Elon Musk's assault on federal workers threatens government employees, working conditions throughout the economy, and the viability of crucial services. Federal workers are uniting across agency and union lines to fight back.
Do Not Welcome Our New Billionaire Overlords
Billionaires now hold so much of the world’s wealth, their apologists argue, there’s no choice but to rely on them for philanthropy. But we can’t take our eyes off the ball: We need to tax the ultrarich out of existence.
No Rational System Would Value Tesla at $100 Billion
Today’s investors are easily swayed by snake oil salesmen like Elon Musk, but not interested in the things we need for long-term development.
Can Federal Workers Stop Trump?
After what has felt like an eternity of Elon Musk and DOGE running rampant across the federal government, federal workers themselves and their unions are now leading the pushback.
Billionaires Are the Real Existential Risk
We have seen calls to consider whether it is moral to allow billionaires to exist. But the real question is whether our species can survive the billionaire.
Meta Helped Write a Delaware Law Protecting Mark Zuckerberg
This week, Delaware passed a bill that would shield tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk from litigation. Zuckerberg’s company, Meta, helped write the law.
Rahm and Elon’s Public-Private Partnership
Rahm Emanuel’s “public-private partnership” with Elon Musk looks a lot like the parking meter privatization that still haunts Chicago. That’s no accident: such partnerships are massive giveaways to corporations.
The GOP Scheme to Let Trump Pick His Own Ethics Chief
Republican senator Mike Lee is blocking the appointment of the head of the Office of Government Ethics until after Inauguration Day. The tactic is meant to give Donald Trump the power to handpick his own ethics overseer if he wins the election.
Tech Workers Can Still Fight Silicon Valley’s Overlords
Don’t let the AI of it all fool you — tech workers can still bring Silicon Valley to a halt.
Sorry Grimes, Your Ex-Boyfriend Won’t Save Us
The avant-garde pop star Grimes has made a heel turn away from left-wing politics toward the Silicon Valley libertarianism of her ex Elon Musk. She calls herself “a bit of a socialist, but not economically.” Let’s just call her a manic pixie dream capitalist.
Javier Milei’s Meme Coin Boondoggle
Argentinian president Javier Milei faces his biggest crisis yet over his promotion of a crypto scam. As leaders on the Latin American right distanced themselves from the anarcho-capitalist, Elon Musk took the opportunity to reaffirm their bond.
Bernie Sanders and AOC’s Rallies Can Become a Mass Movement
The “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” rallies headlined by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can become something much bigger — if Bernie and AOC direct their rally attendees into sustained organizing efforts against Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Trump Promised Free Speech and Delivered the Opposite
Donald Trump told the world that his administration would end the censoriousness of “woke” liberal culture. His time in office has seen one of the worst crackdowns on free speech in recent American history.